NBC airs the second episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Buster Crabbe, Jack Palance and Roddy McDowall guest star. 
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NBC airs the second episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Buster Crabbe, Jack Palance and Roddy McDowall guest star.
The 20th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 37th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Nicolas Coster guest stars.
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The 510th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Co-written by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and producer Graham Williams under a pseudonym, this time-twisting story guest stars Julian Glover, Catherine Schell (Space: 1999) and Tom Chadbon, and features extensive location filming in Paris, a first for the series.
Magnavox releases the video game cartridge War Of Nerves for the Odyssey² video game system, designed and programmed by Ed and Linda Averett. With an emphasis on giving orders to a robot army not directly under the player’s micro-managed control, this may be the earliest example of a real-time strategy video game.
Fed up with Atari’s refusal to grant them bylines on the best-selling games they’ve been designing and programming for the Atari VCS, Atari employees Alan Miller, David Crane, Larry Kaplan and Bob Whitehead quit their jobs and form the first third-party video game software house, Activision, with former music executive Jim Levy aboard as the new company’s CEO. Infuriated, Atari files a raft of lawsuits alleging theft of trade secrets, but is ultimately unable to get an injunction preventing Activision from releasing games for the VCS.
The 21st episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 22nd episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 23rd episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 24th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
NBC airs the third episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Cesar Romero (Batman) guest stars.
A&M Records releases the The Police’s second album, Reggatta de Blanc, featuring the single “Message In A Bottle”.
The 25th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 38th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. June Allyson guest stars.
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The 511th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Co-written by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and producer Graham Williams under a pseudonym, this time-twisting story guest stars Julian Glover, Catherine Schell (Space: 1999) and Tom Chadbon, and features extensive location filming in Paris, a first for the series.
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The 26th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S. This is the final episode of the first season, which fans collectively refer to as the Quest for Iscandar; on most stations, the show loops back to its first episode the following day and continues to air in sequence.
Under the watchful eye of Marvel UK editor Dez Skinn, Doctor Who Magazine‘s first issue hits British newsstands under the title Doctor Who Weekly (it goes monthly after 61 weekly issues, coinciding with the beginning of Peter Davison’s tenure). Included are pictorial retrospectives of past Doctors and Dalek stories, a fourth Doctor comic titled “The Iron Legion”, a Doctor-less Dalek comic, and – oddly and yet appropriately – the first part of a comic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” scripted by Chris Claremont, all in 28 pages. Rub-off transfer artwork of the fourth Doctor, various explosions and dinosaurs (unrelated to the current TV episodes) are also included on the front cover.
NBC airs the fourth episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Frank Gorshin (Batman) and Markie Post (Night Court) guest star.
The 512th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Co-written by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and producer Graham Williams under a pseudonym, this time-twisting story guest stars Julian Glover, Catherine Schell (Space: 1999) and Tom Chadbon, and features extensive location filming in Paris, a first for the series.
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NASA temporarily loses contact with unmanned space probe Voyager 1 as it cruises toward Saturn. A science experiment is conducted which requires Voyager to point its antenna away from Earth and enter a rolling maneuver, but ground controllers do not hear back from Voyager 1 when they expect to receive the signal that the experiment has ended. A tracking station in Australia sends a wide-beam command to Voyager 1 to reorient itself; it is later discovered that, attempting to regain its orientation with respect to Earth, Voyager 1’s star tracker locked on to Alpha Centauri instead of Canopus, pointing its antenna dish five degrees away from Earth. Normal operations resume once Voyager is pointed correctly. A similar problem will again cause Voyager 1 to break contact after a course correction burn in December.
NBC airs the fifth episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Frank Gorshin (Batman) and Markie Post (Night Court) guest star.
Epic Records releases Reality Effect, the second album by British new wave band The Tourists (featuring future Eurythmics Annie Lennix and Dave Stewart). The album features the singles “So Good To Be Back Home Again” and a cover of “I Only Want To Be With You”, which charts in the UK.
The 39th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Robert Davi and Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars
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The 513th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Co-written by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and producer Graham Williams under a pseudonym, this time-twisting story guest stars Julian Glover, Catherine Schell (Space: 1999) and Tom Chadbon, and features extensive location filming in Paris, a first for the series.
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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 40th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) guest stars.
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The 514th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Myra Frances and Geoffrey Bayldon guest star.
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.