ABC airs the 59th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Mario Alcalde guest stars.
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ABC airs the 59th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Mario Alcalde guest stars.
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The 34th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Anne Francis stars in an episode written by Serling.
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ABC airs the 60th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Edgar Stehli guest stars.
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The 35th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Jack Warden (Being There) stars in an episode written by Serling.
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ABC airs the 61st episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Lee Bergere guest stars in the second season finale.
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Proposed and designed by Cornell University, and funded by the Adavanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the Arecibo Ionospheric Research Center – a thousand-foot radar and radio telescope dish – begins construction in a natural limestone bowl south of Barrio Esparanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Construction will take over three years, at a cost of nearly $10,000,000, with a steel feed receiver structure supported in mid-air over the parabolic dish by some five miles of steel cables. Facilities are constructed for scientists visiting the eventual facility, and additional facilities are constructed to shape aluminum into the mesh structure of the telescope dish on-site, a more economical approach than having those parts of the telescope shipped in from outside. Though conceived and pitched as a means of studying the ionosphere, with possible defense applications such as missile detection, the Arecibo facility will makes its best known contributions to astronomy after it opens.
The 36th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Keenan Wynn stars in an episode written by Richard Matheson, closing the series’ first season.
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NASA begins soliciting studies from contractors for an unmanned robotic spacecraft to land on the moon. Intended to carry scientific instruments and television cameras to examine the moon from ground-level, the Surveyor landers are intended to reap their own benefit in the form of scientific data, but they will also serve as advanced scouting support missions for possible later manned landings on the moon.
The first episode of the western series Wrangler is broadcast on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn and guest starring Susan Oliver. The episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created the series, his first to get past the pilot stage. Wrangler also boasts another historic first, being the first western to be shot on videotape instead of film. As of 2024, it is uncertain if the episode has been preserved in its entirety, though a videotape of unedited footage is held in UCLA’s archives. 
The second episode of the western series Wrangler is broadcast on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn and guest starring Paul Carr. The episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created the series, his first to get past the pilot stage.
The experimental communications relay satellite Echo 1 is launched into orbit by NASA. A 100-foot metalized Mylar balloon, Echo 1 is a demonstration of passive signal relay, carrying no powered transmitters of its own; its reflective surface simply bounces signals back to Earth. Microwave signals, radio, telephone and TV signals are all successfully relayed via Echo 1; it remains in orbit for four months.
The 34th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan. Werner Klemperer (Hogan’s Heroes) guest stars.
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The third episode of the western series Wrangler is broadcast on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn. James Anderson guest stars in an episode written by George F. Slavin. Wrangler is produced by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created the series, his first to get past the pilot stage.
The 35th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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The fourth episode of the western series Wrangler is broadcast on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn and guest starring Julie Adams (Creature From The Black Lagoon). This episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created the series, his first to get past the pilot stage.
ABC airs the 62nd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Jean Allison, Ted Knight, and William Schallert guest star in the third season premiere.
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The 36th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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The fifth episode of the western series Wrangler is broadcast on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn and guest starring Michael Keep. The episode is written by Stanley H. Silverman and Richard P. McDonagh, heavily reworking an original script by Bob Greene and Joe L. Davis. Wrangler is produced by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created this series, his first to get past the pilot stage.
The 37th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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The sixth episode of the western series Wrangler is scheduled to air on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn. Though TV Guide listings at the time indicate the episode was to air on this date, it is pre-empted for unknown reasons; as only an incomplete worktape exists in the UCLA archives, it’s possible that the reason for the delay was failure to complete the episode on time, possibly as a result of the series’ unprecedented method of shooting and editing on the then-very-new medium of videotape. Wrangler is produced by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created this series, his first to get past the pilot stage; Roddenberry also wrote the episode (as indicated by the archived scripts), which would have been credited on screen to the pseudonym of “Leon Edward”. Though 1960 TV listings indicated that this episode was rescheduled for the following week, there is significant evidence that this episode was never actually broadcast, replaced by another episode which does exist archivally in finished form.
British broadcaster ABC premieres the first episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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The 38th and final episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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The seventh and final episode of the western series Wrangler is broadcast on NBC in the United States, starring Jason Evers as Pitcairn. Mary Murphy and Frank Silvera guest star in an episode written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who also created this series, his first to get past the pilot stage. Despite contemporary TV listings showing that a previous episode of Wrangler, Encounter At Elephant Butte, was postponed to this date, there is significant evidence that this episode aired instead, including existence of a complete copy of the episode containing a handoff from series star Jason Evers to musician “Tennessee” Ernie Ford, whose prime-time variety show, The Ford Show, had briefly been replaced by Wrangler as a summer replacement series, affording Ford and his show’s crew time for a break. Wrangler, the first western shot and edited on videotape using facilities at Los Angeles TV station KTLA, is never repeated again, though at least partial copies of each episode remain archived at UCLA, thanks to KTLA donating a large amount of vintage videotapes to the school’s library for archival preservation.
British broadcaster ABC airs the second episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the third episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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ABC airs the 63rd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Harry Townes guest stars.
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The 37th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Bob Cummings and Gene Lyons star in the second season premiere, written by Serling, who appears on-camera as the show’s narrator for the first time.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the fourth episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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The U.S. Air Force launches the first active-relay communications satellite into orbit, Courier 1B (the original Courier 1 having been lost to a faulty launch vehicle earlier). Unlike the reflective Echo 1 satellite, Courier 1B uses power from the solar cells covering its spherical casing to reboost and retransmit the signals it receives from Earth. Once again, a message from President Eisenhower is transmitted, this time to be received by the United Nations. Clourier 1B remains functional for just over two weeks before a glitch renders it useless.
ABC airs the 64th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) guest stars.
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