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The 314th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.
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The eighth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Chloris Leachman guest star.
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Toho releases the 12th Godzilla movie, Godzilla vs. Gigan. 
After a five-month design study focusing on alternatives to a winged (and manned) reusable first stage bosoter for the upcoming Space Shuttle, NASA settles on a configuration consisting of two solid rocket boosters strapped to the shuttle’s external fuel tank. Among the alternatives considered was the possibility of restarting production of the Saturn V rockets that launched Apollo and Skylab missions, with the shuttle and its fuel tank separating from the Saturn V’s first stage at high altitude (though in this configuration, a failure of the shuttle’s main engines would prove to be catastrophic). The SRB/tank configuration is expected to shave half a billion dollars off of the shuttle’s development costs.
NBC airs the pilot episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Jeanette Nolan and Sam Jaffe guest star in a script by Richard Matheson (Twilight Zone, The Omega Man). The pilot gets enough attention for production to be greenlit on a series to premiere in the fall of 1972. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.) 
The 315th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.
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The ninth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Mariette Hartley guest stars.
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NBC airs the 29th episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Victor Buono (Batman) guest stars in the second season closer, and the first instance of a Night Gallery episode telling a single story in a half-hour time slot, which will become the show’s new format in its third season.
NBC airs the 22nd episode of the supernatural anthology series Circle Of Fear (previously known as Ghost Story). Tab Hunter and Louise Sorel star.
The 316th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.
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The 317th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.
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The tenth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Stefanie Powers (The Girl From UNCLE, Hart To Hart) guest stars.
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The 318th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
The 11th episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Frank Converse (Coronet Blue) guest stars.
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BBC1 airs the 28th episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 319th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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The 12th episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins.
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NASA launches the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, lasting 11 days total. Astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke descend to the lunar surface in the lander Orion, while Ken Mattingly pilots the command/service module Casper in orbit. Again, a lunar rover is tucked into one side of the lunar module, allowing Young and Duke to reach distances of 16 miles from their landing site. They spend a total of 20 hours walking on the moon’s surface, collecting over 200 pounds of soil and rock samples from the Descartes highlands region.
Students and seasoned weather researchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma embark on the Tornado Intercept Project (TIP), a concerted effort to gather film footage of developing or active tornadoes in an effort to study wind and debris patterns. Though believed by some to be of limited scientific value, TIP is the beginning of “storm chasing” and yields major breakthroughs in scientific understanding of the formation of tornadoes just one year later.
ITV premieres the first episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings originally made to sell to foreign markets. It is these recordings that will eventually get a DVD release in the 21st century.
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The 320th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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The 13th episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Christine Belford, George Murdock, and Michael Pataki guest star in the last episode of the show’s first season.
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ITV broadcasts the second episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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The 321st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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ITV broadcasts the third episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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The 322nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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ITV broadcasts the fourth episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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The 323rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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ITV broadcasts the fifth episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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Having spent six years wrangling with various mission profiles for a “Grand Tour” of the outer solar system, made possible by a favorable planetary alignment occurring only once every 175 years, NASA finally authorizes a very stripped-down version of its original ambitious Grand Tour plans. The Mariner Jupiter/Saturn ’77 mission will consist of two twin unmanned spacecraft to be launched in 1977, each on a course to explore Jupiter, and then to use Jupiter’s gravity to deflect them to Saturn. These spacecraft will be renamed Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 just a few months before lifting off.