The 465th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star.
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At a distance of nearly 60,000,000 miles from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft cross the orbit of Mars as the twin space probes continue their outbound race toward Jupiter. Moving at 13 miles per second, Voyager 1 will overtake its identical twin, Voyager 2, at the end of 1977, with both spacecraft expected to reach Jupiter in 1979. From here, they will plunge through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, though fears of damage occurring in this part of space have been allayed by the successful asteroid belt passage of Pioneers 10 and 11 in the early 1970s.
The seventh episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) and Rene Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
The 12th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. An old flame of Commander Gampu has to save his space cadets, much to his chagrin.
The 466th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Keating (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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The 45th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Peter Mark Richman guest stars.
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The movie-length second episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk premieres on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. William Daniels (Knight Rider, Boy Meets World) and Gerald McRaney guest star. This movie will later be split into two one-hour episodes for syndicated reruns under the title Death In The Family.
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The 89th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Lynnette Mettey guest stars.
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A series of story conferences begin between Star Wars writer/director George Lucas and science fiction writer Leigh Brackett, the first work toward shaping the storyline for an anticipated (but still untitled) Star Wars sequel film. Lucas has brought Brackett on board to contribute new ideas, but she will only submit a first draft before succumbing to cancer. The conferences continue through early December; the eventual product of these early story meetings will be 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back.
Caught completely off-guard by the seemingly unstoppable runaway success of Star Wars, whose toy license it signed on for earlier in the year, toy manufacturer Kenner does something desperate and unprecedented: it sells a mostly-empty box (contents: the Force?) called the Star Wars Early Bird Kit, containing stickers, pictures, and a card to mail off to receive four figures – Luke, Princess Leia, R2-D2 and Chewbacca – by mail sometime between “February and May 1978.” The delay is needed to ramp up production on the figures, which will also be available at retail in 1978. To the surprise of everyone, including Kenner executive Bernard Loomis, who devised the Early Bird Kit, the result is a runaway sales success story.
The 23rd episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Dack Rambo (Dallas) guest stars.
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The 13th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. In space, everyone can hear you cut class, especially if you’re possessed by alien beings.
The 467th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Keating (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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The 46th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC.
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The eighth episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. John Shea (Lois & Clark) and Ahna Capri (Enter The Dragon) guest star.
The 24th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Dack Rambo (Dallas) guest stars.
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The 14th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. The Academy crew sets out to debunk tales of an interstellar Flying Dutchman, only to find there’s more to it than just the legend.
The 468th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Keating (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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A two-man crew – cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko – is launched aboard Soyuz 26 by the Soviet Union. The Soyuz capsule docks with the recently-launched Salyut 6 space station, and the crew takes up residence for over three months, setting a new space endurance record at 96 days. The Soyuz 27 crew visits in January and swaps vehicles with the station occupants, meaning that Romanenko and Grechko technically return to Earth aboard Soyuz 27 in March 1978. Ten days into the mission, the first Soviet spacewalk since 1969 is undertaken to examine the forward docking hatch of Salyut 6, with which the previous mission failed to connect. This spacewalk was the first outing of the Soviet-made Orlan spacesuit, a design still in use on the International Space Station in the 21st century.
The pilot episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. The remaining five episodes are to be aired in 1978.
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The 15th and final episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS, as Commander Gampu’s brother arrives on a mission to shut down the Academy. With Star Wars mania in full swing, Filmation decides to keep the Space Academy sets and costumes around, but reformat the show with new characters, actors and plotlines to cash in on the current sci-fi craze.
The 469th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Keating (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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The 47th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Richard Erdman (Tora! Tora! Tora!, Community) guest stars.
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The 90th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Suzanne Somers (Three’s Company) guest stars.
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CBS airs the ninth episode of the TV adaptation of Logan’s Run. Lance Le Gault and Morgan Woodward guest star.
The 25th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Frank Gorshin (Batman) guest stars.
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