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Mated to its Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, Space Shuttle Enterprise goes airborne for the first time in the first of a series of “captive-inert” test flights. During these flights, there is no crew aboard Enterprise, nor are any of the test shuttle’s systems powered up; the flights are intended to make sure that the combination of the 747 and the Enterprise is capable of being flown safely. Further “captive-inert” flights are carried out over a ten-day period.
The 447th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Russell Hunter, David Bailie and Pamela Salem guest star.
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The 76th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Ian Abercrombie guest stars.
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UK regional broadcaster HTV premieres the seventh and final episode of children’s paranormal series Children Of The Stones, starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7). The series is filmed on location near the real stone circle at Avebury. 
The 31st episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Robert Loggia (T.H.E. Cat, Mancuso FBI) guest stars.
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NBC airs the fourth episode of Quinn Martin’s horror/sci-fi anthology Tales Of The Unexpected. (This series is not to be confused with the longer-lived British series of the same name, created by acclaimed author Roald Dahl.) David Birney (Serpico) and William Campbell (Star Trek) guest star.
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The fourth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. The travelers find a futuristic city where orphaned children have taken over and gone mad with their newfound power.
Charisma Records releases Peter Gabriel‘s first self-titled solo album, featuring the single “Solsbury Hill”. This is Gabriel’s first album after departing Genesis.
The 448th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Bennett, Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
The 77th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Paul Mantee guest stars; future CBS president Les Moonves makes an early appearance in his brief acting career.
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The science fiction TV movie-of-the-week Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Created by Mayo Simon and classic Star Trek veteran Herbert F. Solow, Man From Atlantis centers around a mysterious man from the ocean (Duffy) discovered by humans, who find he is willing to live among them and coexist for peaceful purposes. Three more TV movies will follow, each successful enough for NBC to greenlight a weekly series in the 1977-78 season. 
The first weekly episode of Future Cop airs on ABC, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times), based on a successful pilot movie aired in May 1976.
At Anvil Studios in Denham, England, John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra convene for the first recording session for the Star Wars soundtrack. Over the course of the next 11 days, and with director George Lucas in attendance in the recording booth, all of the music for Lucas’ movie is rehearsed and recorded. Williams and Lucas had been introduced by their mutual friend Steven Spielberg, with whom Williams had worked on 1975’s Jaws (whose score had gone on to win Williams his second Oscar); Lucas’ original plan was to “score” Star Wars entirely with classical pieces. The first scene scored by Williams and the LSO is the rapid-fire chase through the Death Star, culminating in Luke and Princess Leia swinging across a chasm; other pieces recorded on the first day include the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the iconic theme music.
The 449th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Bennett, Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
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The 78th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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NASA Administrator James Fletcher announces that the ambitious twin Mariner Jupiter/Saturn ’77 space probes, due to be launched later in the year, have been christened with new names: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The name change has been initiated by recently-promoted Voyager program manager John Casani, who thinks the spacecraft need a name that’s less of a mouthful (the name “Discoverer” was also considered). For the first time, NASA openly admits that one of the vehicles – Voyager 2 – may continue on to Uranus and Neptune should its Saturn flyby go well in 1981, depending on the spacecraft’s health.
Marvel Comics begins shipping the first issue of its six-issue adaptation of George Lucas’ upcoming film Star Wars, with Lucas reaping the rewards of the licensing arrangement directly since 20th Century Fox has allowed him to keep all merchandising rights to the yet-to-premiere movie. Adapted from the screenplay and edited by Roy Thomas, with artwork by Howard Chaykin, lettering by Jim Novak and colors by Marie Severin, the first six issues offer an interesting visual take on a universe whose visuals were not finished enough for the artist to view ahead of time. After the six issue movie tie-in, Thomas and Chaykin would begin concocting the budding franchise’s first-ever non-film storylines.
The 32nd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Sam Groom (Police Surgeon, Otherworld) guest stars.
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NBC airs the fifth episode of Quinn Martin’s horror/sci-fi anthology Tales Of The Unexpected. (This series is not to be confused with the longer-lived British series of the same name, created by acclaimed author Roald Dahl.) Ricky Nelson and Carl Weathers (Rocky, The Mandalorian) guest star.
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A team of MIT astronomers, flying in a plane modified to serve as an airborne high-altitude telescope, plans to observe the planet Uranus as it eclipses, or “occults”, a star. But the team observes more occultations than expected both before and after the planet itself passes in front of the star. The inevitable conclusion is that Uranus has rings, made of material too dark to be detected by existing Earthbound telescopes. Further observations are given top priority: NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe, due to lift off later in 1977, may last long enough to reach Uranus, and the newly discovered rings must be taken into account when planning its flyby trajectory.
The fifth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. John Saxon guest stars, and a model of the space shuttle with its external tank and solid rocket boosters is referred to as a spaceship from the distant future.
The 450th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Bennett, Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
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NBC airs the sixth episode of Quinn Martin’s horror/sci-fi anthology Tales Of The Unexpected. (This series is not to be confused with the longer-lived British series of the same name, created by acclaimed author Roald Dahl.) Lloyd Bridges guest stars.
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The 33rd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Rene Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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Toho releases the 14th Godzilla movie, Godzilla Vs. MechaGodzilla.
Bally introduces the Bally Professional Arcade home video game system, based on some of the same technology that Bally and its Midway division have been using in arcade games. This means the Bally Professional Arcade is perfectly suited to home versions of such Midway coin-ops as Space Zap and Wizard Of Wor – possibly the earliest instance of real arcade fidelity in a home game system. Its tiny keypad also allows Bally to claim that the Professional Arcade is a home computer waiting to happen.
The 451st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Bennett, Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
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The 34th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Jeff Corey (Star Trek, Babylon 5) and Gary Lockwood (The Lieutenant, 2001: a space odyssey) guest star.
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The sixth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. Varian hangs up his traveling shoes to get married; his bride, naturally, doesn’t survive to the end of the episode.
ABC airs both parts of a two-part episode of Future Cop as its Friday night movie, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times). Albert Salmi and Gerrit Graham guest star.