Doctor Who: Carnival Of Monsters, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 337th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Jon Pertwee’s “Navy Lark” co-star Tenniel Evans guest stars, and making his first Doctor Who appearance is Ian Marter.

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Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 339th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master before the actor’s untimely death in June 1973. Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) guest stars.

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The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar ManThe TV movie-of-the-week The Six Million Dollar Man airs on ABC, starring Lee Majors, Martin Balsam, and Darren McGavin. Based loosely on the 1972 novel “Cyborg” by Martin Caidin, this movie begins the story of bionic man Steve Austin on television, and proves to be popular with the TV audience. Two further movies will follow in 1973 before a long-running series begins in 1974. Read more

Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 340th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master before the actor’s untimely death in June 1973. Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) guest stars.

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IBM 3340: the Winchester hard drive

IBM Model 3340IBM introduces the Model 3340 hard disk drive system for its System/370 mainframe computers. Housed in a large casing similar to a combined washer and dryer, this is the birth of modern hard disk technology, with read and write heads integral to the drive itself rather than being mounted on an arm which reaches into the drive casing. The 3340’s removable modules, each containing drive platters and the read/write heads, can be swapped out with other modules containing other drives. IBM ships the 3340 with two maximum storage capacities: 35 megabytes or 70 megabytes; the unit is internally called a Winchester hard drive, a case of a code name that sticks well beyond development. The 3340 is available through 1984.

Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 341st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master before the actor’s untimely death in June 1973. Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) guest stars.

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Genesis II

Genesis IICBS premieres the made-for-TV movie Genesis II, starring Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, and Percy Rodrigues. Created and written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, Genesis II is clearly a series pilot, the first of several attempts by Roddenberry to chart a career beyond Star Trek. The story concerns an astronaut named Dylan Hunt who is frozen in suspended animation, only reawakening after the fall of human civilization; the pilot does not result in a series pickup, though the story of Dylan Hunt will form the basis of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, a syndicated series produced in the early 2000s after Roddenberry’s death. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 5

Doctor WhoThe 342nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master before the actor’s untimely death in June 1973. Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 6

Doctor WhoThe 343rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master before the actor’s untimely death in June 1973. Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) guest stars. This marks one of the earliest collaborations between the Doctor’s various enemies (in this case, a one-time-only alliance between the Master and the Daleks).

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Salyut 2: first military space station

Salyut 2The Soviet Union launches a second space station, and the first station designed exclusively for military tasks in orbit. Salyut 2 is the first station to use the Almaz military space station design devised in the 1960s as a response to the US Air Force’s never-flown Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Within two weeks, however, technical difficulties take their toll: Salyut 2 begins to tumble out of control, and its crew compartment depressurizes. (The redesigned Soyuz vehicle is not ready to fly yet, so no crew ever visits Salyut 2.) The second Soviet space station burns up in the atmosphere less than two months after launch.

Pioneer 11 launched

Pioneer 11The unmanned space probe Pioneer 11 is launched on a course that will be one of the first real tests of the theory of gravity assist. Reaching Jupiter in 1975, it will use the giant planet’s gravity to throw it across the solar system to rendezvous with Saturn, the first human-made vehicle to visit that planet. The experience gained with Pioneer 11’s groundbreaking trajectory through the solar system will prove instrumental in the upcoming Mariner Jupter/Saturn ’77 mission, which is later be renamed Voyager.

Doctor Who: Planet Of The Daleks, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 345th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: Planet Of The Daleks, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 346th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: Planet Of The Daleks, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 347th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.

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