The tenth episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Guest starring in this episode is Paul Jones, one of the founding members of Manfred Mann. 
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The tenth episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Guest starring in this episode is Paul Jones, one of the founding members of Manfred Mann.
CBS Records releases Chicago’s Greatest Hits (also known as Chicago IX), the first compilation of hit singles from the group, covering their most popular songs from 1969 through 1974.
The TV movie-of-the-week The New Original Wonder Woman airs on ABC, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Red Buttons, Chloris Leachman and Eric Braeden guest star. This is ABC’s second attempt to bring the comic book heroine to the small screen (following a 1974 pilot movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby). Ratings and reviews are impressive enough to merit two more one-hour specials, followed by a series pickup.
ABC airs the tenth episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In).
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The 412th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back) and Gabriel Woolf guest star in an episode regarded by many fans as one of the series’ all-time classics.
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The tenth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC. This episode is a “clip show” built around highlights from earlier episodes.
The 45th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Monte Markham and Donald Moffat (Logan’s Run) guest star.
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Ballantine Books releases the Star Trek book Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual, written and illustrated by Franz Joseph Schnaubelt. The book ushers in an obsession with science fiction blueprints and design manuals, both Star Trek and otherwise, and will be reprinted and referred to (including on the Enterprise’s own displays in 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture) for decades to come.
The 11th episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s Far-Out Space Nuts airs on CBS, starring Bob Denver (Gillgan’s Island) and Chuck McCann (Herbie Rides Again).
The 11th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Guest starring in this episode is Catherine Schell, but not in the role of Maya she plays throughout the second season.
ABC airs the 11th episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In).
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The 413th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back) and Gabriel Woolf guest star in an episode regarded by many fans as one of the series’ all-time classics.
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The 46th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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The 12th episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s Far-Out Space Nuts airs on CBS, starring Bob Denver (Gillgan’s Island) and Chuck McCann (Herbie Rides Again).
The 12th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV.
Construction begins on Space Shuttle Structural Test Article 099 (STA-099), a full-sized structural model of the shuttle built for stress and thermal testing. Four years later, NASA decides to abandon plans to refit the test shuttle Enterprise for space duty at great expense, instead opting to upgrade the STA-099 airframe into a spaceworthy vehicle, which will eventually be named Challenger. While the refit will still be expensive, it takes less time and money than a complete teardown and rebuild of Enterprise’s airframe, which was never intended for flight outside the atmosphere.
ABC airs the 12th episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In).
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The 414th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Ian Marter and John Levene guest star.
The 47th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Ben Hammer and Katherine Helmond (Who’s The Boss?) guest star.
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BBC1 broadcasts the first episode of The Legend of Robin Hood, the BBC’s latest live-action adaptation of the perennial British folk hero, starring Martin Potter, Diane Keen, John Abineri, and Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7). Beginning with the character’s origin story in the first episode, the all-star series aims to condense the Robin Hood legend into six episodes.
NBC airs the eighth episode of The Invisible Man, starring David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Colditz), Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens. Roger C. Carmel (Star Trek’s Harry Mudd) guest stars.
The 1972 Space Cooperation Agreement, whose most obvious effect is the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project earlier in the year, bears more fruit in the form of the first unmanned international research mission. American experiments are launched aboard a Soviet Cosmos satellite for the first time, along with experiment packages prepared by French, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian scientists. Cosmos 782, the third “Biocosmos” flight, ends after 19 days, with the experiments landed safely in Siberia at the conclusion of the flight.
NBC airs the made-for-TV movie Alien Lover as that week’s NBC Mystery Movie, starring Pernell Roberts and, in one of her earliest TV appearances, Kate Mulgrew.
The 13th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV.
ABC airs the 13th episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In). R.G. Brown guest stars.
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The 415th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Ian Marter and John Levene guest star.
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The 48th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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NBC airs the ninth episode of The Invisible Man, starring David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Colditz), Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens.
The 14th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Christopher Lee and Roy Dotrice guest star.
ABC airs the 14th episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In). Carole Mallory guest stars.
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