Star Trek: A Wolf In The Fold

Star TrekThe 43rd episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. Robert Bloch, writer of the novel that inspired Hitchcock’s Psycho, returns with a script recasting Jack the Ripper as an extraterrestrial entity wreaking havoc down through the ages (with an airdate just before Christmas!). Read more

Journey To The Center Of The Earth: Sleeping Slaves Of Zeerah

Journey To The Center Of The EarthABC broadcasts the 16th episode of the Filmation animated series Journey To The Center Of The Earth, very loosely based on the 1959 movie of the same name. Ted Knight, Pat Harrington Jr., and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.

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Doctor Who: The Enemy Of The World, Part 1

Doctor WhoThe 186th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Patrick Troughton plays a double role, starring as both the Doctor and as the ruthless dictator Salamander, in a story set in Earth’s future. Previously missing from the BBC’s archives, a copy of this episode was recovered in Nigeria in 2013. Read more

Star Trek: The Trouble With Tribbles

Star TrekThe 44th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. This early script by writer David Gerrold becomes the best-loved episode of the entire series (according to many a fan poll), introducing the rapidly-reproducing, rapidly-eating, Klingon-sniffing Tribbles to the Star Trek universe. This is their only appearance in the original series, though they reappear in two animated series and Deep Space Nine years later. Read more

Journey To The Center Of The Earth: Trail Of Gold

Journey To The Center Of The EarthABC broadcasts the 17th and final episode of the Filmation animated series Journey To The Center Of The Earth, very loosely based on the 1959 movie of the same name. Ted Knight, Pat Harrington Jr., and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.

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Doctor Who: The Enemy Of The World, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 187th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Patrick Troughton plays a double role, starring as both the Doctor and as the ruthless dictator Salamander, in a story set in Earth’s future. Previously missing from the BBC’s archives, a copy of this episode was recovered in Nigeria in 2013.

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The Prisoner: Living In Harmony

The PrisonerITV broadcasts the 14th episode of The Prisoner, produced, occasionally written by, and starring Patrick McGoohan. Alexis Kanner guest stars as The Kid. When The Prisoner is broadcast in 1968 in the United States, CBS censors interpret this Western-themed episode as a criticism of the American position in the Vietnam War and the network completely omits it from the running order. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Return Of Blackbeard

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 98th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Malachi Throne guest stars.

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Star Trek: The Gamesters Of Triskelion

Star TrekThe 45th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. Kirk, Chekov and Uhura find themselves drafted into playing deadly games for the amusement of unfathomable aliens; naturally, Kirk has a female “drill thrall” and introduces her to his own brand of inter-species relations. Read more

Doctor Who: The Enemy Of The World, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 188th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Patrick Troughton plays a double role, starring as both the Doctor and as the ruthless dictator Salamander, in a story set in Earth’s future.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Terrible Leprechaun

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 99th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Walter Burke guest stars.

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Surveyor 7 lands on the moon

SurveyorSurveyor 7, the last of NASA’s robotic moon landers, comes to a smooth landing on the moon’s Tycho Crater. Packed with more scientific instrument packages than any of its predecessors, Surveyor 7 studies the amount of dust kicked up by its retro rockets during landing, and lands closer to its planned target than any of the other Surveyors. Another experiment involves a test to see if a laser beam originated from Earth can be picked up by Surveyor’s cameras.

Star Trek: A Piece Of The Action

Star TrekThe 46th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. Kirk and Spock gang up on a society who has taken a piece of outdated Earth literature and turned it into a blueprint for a blood-soaked society. (As heavy as that sounds, much hilarity ensues.) Vic Tayback (Alice) guest stars. Read more

Doctor Who: The Enemy Of The World, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 189th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Patrick Troughton plays a double role, starring as both the Doctor and as the ruthless dictator Salamander, in a story set in Earth’s future. Previously missing from the BBC’s archives, a copy of this episode was recovered in Nigeria in 2013.

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The ‘480 Patent

Ralph BaerRalph Baer files the first patent for his Television Gaming & Training Apparatus, United States patent #3,728,480. The patent is assigned to Baer’s employer, government contractor Sanders Associates, and is the first patent filed for the design of a video game. Though Baer will eventually build, and sell the design for, the first home video game, the real reward to be reaped from this patent will be licensing: every company manufacturing a video game console will have to pay Sanders and Baer for the privelege of expanding upon this basic patent, and it stands up in numerous court cases well into the 1980s as the “pioneer patent of the video game industry.”

Doctor Who: The Enemy Of The World, Part 5

Doctor WhoThe 190th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Patrick Troughton plays a double role, starring as both the Doctor and as the ruthless dictator Salamander, in a story set in Earth’s future. Previously missing from the BBC’s archives, a copy of this episode was recovered in Nigeria in 2013.

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