The fourth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC; this is effectively the series’ Halloween special. Bronson Pinchot (Perfect Strangers) stars. 
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The fourth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC; this is effectively the series’ Halloween special. Bronson Pinchot (Perfect Strangers) stars.
The 41st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Barbara Stock (Spenser: For Hire) stars.
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Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off on a one-week mission to carry the Spacelab module and an all-German crew to orbit. The “Spacelab D1” mission is flown by Commander Henry Hartsfield, Pilot Steven Nagel, mission specialists James Buchli, Guion Bluford, and Bonnie Dunbar, and payload specialists Reinhard Furrer, Ernst Messerschmid and Wubbo J. Ockels.
This is the final successful launch of Challenger.
The fourth episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Jesse Dizon (Operation Petticoat) and Branscombe Richmond (Renegade) guest star.
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Electronic Arts releases the game development toolkit Adventure Construction Set for the Apple II home computer, allowing users to design their own tile-based computer RPGs, defining characters, settings, weapons, magic use, and more.
CBS airs the sixth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. David Mendenhall and Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager) star in an episode comprised of two short stories.
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The fifth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC; this is the second and final episode directed by Spielberg himself. Kevin Costner (Field Of Dreams), Kiefer Sutherland (24), Anthony LaPaglia (Without A Trace) and Casey Siemaszko (Back To The Future) star in an episode scored by John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Superman). Spielberg is nominated for an Emmy for best direction, but does not win; the episode’s cinematographer (John McPherson) does win an Emmy. Most Amazing Stories episodes are a half-hour long, but this one runs a full hour.
The first edition of the non-fiction-with-science-fiction-short-stories anthology “The Planets“ is published by Bantam Books, edited by Byron Preiss. Contributors include Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, JPL scientist Dale Cruikshank, Frank Herbert, illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, and many more. Each body in the solar system is described in a factual essay, and then features in a short story.
The sixth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Gregory Hines guest stars in an episode directed by Peter Hyams (2010: The Year We Make Contact).
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The fifth episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Rhonda Aldrich (Sequestered, Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
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CBS airs the seventh episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Adrienne Barbeau and Danny Kaye star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including Harlan Ellison’s adaptation of his own short story, Paladin Of The Lost Hour.
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With its own jet engines freeing it from the need for a carrier aircraft, the Buran Analogue test vehicle – the Soviet equivalent of Space Shuttle Enterprise – makes its first approach and landing test, cutting off its jet engines at a predetermined altitude and gliding to an airstrip for a landing. The Buran Analogue will ultimately make more test flights than the Enterprise, continuing to conduct glider landings through 1988.
The seventh episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Matthew Labyorteaux (Whiz Kids, Little House On The Prairie) and Milton Berle guest star.
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The sixth episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Sondra Currie (The Hangover) guest stars.
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CBS airs the eighth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. James Coco, Piper Laurie, and Morgan Freeman star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Burning Man.
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The eighth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Sid Caesar and Leo Rossi guest star.
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The Space Shuttle Enterprise arrives to begin its new life as a star exhibit at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. Having used the Enterprise as a test shuttle for landings and engineering fit checks, and having dispatched it on a world tour of air shows and other public appearances, NASA donates Enterprise to the Smithsonian, as any plans to refit it into a spaceworthy orbiter have been nixed by this point.
Microsoft introduces a graphical user interface for the IBM PC compatible computers, Windows 1.0. Essentially a GUI shell for Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system, Windows arrives over two years after it was initially announced in 1983. To avoid legal entanglements with Apple (which has already launched a more visually-pleasing user interface with its Macintosh computers), Microsoft deliberately omits such now common features as overlapping or resizeable windows. Due to the amount of RAM in most users’ PCs, Windows’ multitasking ability is extremely limited.
CBS airs the ninth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Helen Mirren and Brian Tochi (Space Academy) star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including a remake of an episode from the original Twilight Zone.
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ABC airs the Lucasfilm TV movie Ewoks: The Battle For Endor, starring Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, and Aubree Miller. Written and directed by the Wheat Brothers (The Fly II, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick), the movie quickly dispenses with all but one of the human family around which the first Ewok TV movie centered and then embarks on an adventure that’s more fantasy than science fiction.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a seven-day mission of crucial importance to plans for a future space station. In addition to launching three satellites (Mexico’s MORELOS-B, RCA’s SATCOM KU-2 and AUSSAT-2 for Australia), two spacewalks in excess of five hours each are conducted, each one testing a different method of erecting large truss structures in space. Atlantis’ crew for this mission consists of Commander Brewster Shaw, Pilot Bryan O’Connor, mission specialists Mary Cleave, Sherwood Spring, Jerry Ross and payload specialists Rodolfo Neri Vela and Charles Walker.
The seventh episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) and Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years, From The Earth To The Moon) guest star.
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CBS airs the tenth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Jonathan Ward (Mac And Me) and Jeffrey Jones (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Bettlejuice) star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including one directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins).
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The Alan Parsons Project releases its ninth album, Stereotomy, including the single “Limelight”.
Mindscape releases RACTER for the Apple II home computer, a program originally promoted as an early example of artificial intelligence, but whose packaging claims it to be a parody of artificial intelligence.
The ninth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Dom DeLuise (Cannonball Run, Blazing Saddles) and Loni Anderson (WKRP In Cincinnati) guest star in an episode directed by Burt Reynolds.
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Activision releases the game development toolkit Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker for the Apple II home computer, allowing users to design their own computer games, including animated sprites, music, and more.
CBS airs the 11th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Charles Martin Smith and Peter Riegert star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including an adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s short story One Life, Furnished In Early Poverty.
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The eighth episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Sid Haig (Jason Of Star Command) and Greta Blackburn (V) guest star.
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The tenth episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Ed McMahon, Dirk Benedict (Battlestar Galactica, The A-Team), Barbara Billingsley (Leave It To Beaver), Gary Coleman (Diff’rent Strokes), Richard Simmons, and Clara Peller guest star.
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