The first episode of Nigel Kneale’s revived science fiction series Quatermass airs on London Weekend Television, starring John Mills and Simon MacCorkindale (Manimal). This is the character’s first color television adventure (his 19th TV appearance overall), as well as the first Quatermass TV project to be broadcast somewhere other than the BBC.
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NBC airs the sixth episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible) guest stars.
The 514th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Myra Frances and Geoffrey Bayldon guest star.
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ITV airs the 11th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. Long-delayed by an ITV technicians’ strike, this episode follows a series of repeats of the previous four parts of the story.
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Ballantine Books publishes the second book in a trilogy of original novels based on the Star Wars characters Han Solo and Chewbacca, Han Solo’s Revenge by Brian Daley. All three books chronicle the misadventures of everyone’s favorite Corellian smuggler and his Wookiee sidekick – and avoids clashing with the upcoming sequel The Empire Strikes Back by setting these events before Star Wars itself.
The second episode of Nigel Kneale’s revived science fiction series Quatermass airs on London Weekend Television, starring John Mills and Simon MacCorkindale (Manimal). Toyah Willcox guest stars.
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ITV airs the 12th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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NBC airs the seventh episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) guest stars.
The 515th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Myra Frances and Geoffrey Bayldon guest star.
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The 14th episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, and Trish Stewart. Bert Freed (Hang ‘Em High) and Heather McAdam (Sisters) guest star in the second season premiere.
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ITV airs the 13th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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Disneyland Records releases an LP with selections from John Barry’s soundtrack for the movie The Black Hole, the first movie soundtrack ever recorded digitally. If anything, the music proves to be more enduring than the film it was meant to accompany, though Disney allows it to go out of print, never re-releasing it in any other format. A complete version will finally arrive on CD in 2011.
The third episode of Nigel Kneale’s revived science fiction series Quatermass airs on London Weekend Television, starring John Mills and Simon MacCorkindale (Manimal). Kevin Stoney and Toyah Willcox guest star.
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ITV airs the 14th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. This episode concludes the first season; due to scheduling conflicts with the series’ two stars, the series will not resume until 1981.
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The 516th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Myra Frances and Geoffrey Bayldon guest star.
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The 15th episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, and Trish Stewart. Bert Freed (Hang ‘Em High) and Heather McAdam (Sisters) guest star. Due to underwhelming ratings for the two-part season premiere, ABC cancels the show after this episode, leaving a further four episodes unaired; they will surface later as the show reappears in cable reruns in the 1990s.
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Mushroom Records releases the Split Enz compilation album, Beginning Of The Enz. Rather than a straightforward “greatest hits” album, this LP gathers nearly all of the band’s early singles and B-sides recorded and released in the early ’70s prior to their first album. At the same time this album hits stores, Split Enz is back in the recording studio working on their next album, True Colours.
The fourth episode of Nigel Kneale’s revived science fiction series Quatermass airs on London Weekend Television, starring John Mills and Simon MacCorkindale (Manimal). Toyah Willcox guest stars in the series finale.
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The first episode of the English-dubbed Japanese action series Monkey premieres on BBC2, starring Masaaki Sakai. The series is a translation and dub of a fancifully satirical Japanese adaptation of the Chinese novel “Journey To The West”, and quickly gains a cult following in the UK.
The 517th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Myra Frances and Geoffrey Bayldon guest star.
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NBC airs the ninth episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Gary Coleman (Diff’rent Strokes) and Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) guest star.
The TV movie-of-the-week Captain America II: Death Too Soon airs on CBS, starring Reb Brown, Len Birman, and Connie Sellecca. Christopher Lee guest stars. The ratings for this second Captain America TV outing are not strong enough for CBS to greenlight a series.
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The second episode of the English-dubbed Japanese action series Monkey premieres on BBC2, starring Masaaki Sakai. The series is a translation and dub of a fancifully satirical Japanese adaptation of the Chinese novel “Journey To The West”, guest starring Eishin Tono (Ultraman Taro) and Akihiko Hirata (Godzilla, Fugitive Alien, Atragon).
The 518th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. David Daker and Peter Craze guest star in a strangely-timed (just before Christmas?) anti-drug story.
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Air New Zealand Flight 901, a sightseeing flight making a round trip to Antarctica and then back to Auckland without landing, is lost with all hands when it crashes into the slopes of Mt. Erebus in Antarctica. Later investigations reveal that the flight crew and passengers were doomed by a typo made during autopilot data entry, switching the plane’s course from a low-altitude flyover of MacMurdo Sound to a low-altitude collision course with the mountain. (Also uncovered are the great lengths taken by Air New Zealand to accuse the crew of incompetence.) The steps taken to uncover the truth mark the birth of modern air disaster investigation, and the end of Antarctic sightseeing flights for at least a decade.
NBC airs the tenth episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Pamela Hensley and Michael Ansara guest star, reprising their roles from the pilot movie.
The third episode of the English-dubbed Japanese action series Monkey airs on BBC2. The series is a translation and dub of a fancifully satirical Japanese adaptation of the Chinese novel “Journey To The West”, starring Masaaki Sakai.
CBS Records releases an LP of selections from Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, one of the earliest fully-digitally-recorded albums of any kind, soundtrack or otherwise. Thanks mainly to Goldsmith’s energetic main title, the album becomes a best-seller; many fans start to regard the music as the best part of the movie. Two reissues follow, culminating in a fan-pleasing 2012 release of the complete score.
Pocket Books releases the movie novelization “Star Trek: The Motion Picture“, written by Gene Roddenberry. This is Roddenberry’s only piece of Star Trek prose fiction.
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