The first episode of The Tomorrow People series premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Intended to rival the BBC’s venerable (but aging) Doctor Who, this is part one of a five-part story. Francis de Wolff guest stars. 
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The first episode of The Tomorrow People series premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Intended to rival the BBC’s venerable (but aging) Doctor Who, this is part one of a five-part story. Francis de Wolff guest stars.
The 348th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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The second episode of The Tomorrow People series premieres on ITV. Francis de Wolff guest stars.
The 349th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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NBC airs the 42nd episode of Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Rod Serling. Dean Stockwell and Sally Field guest star.
The third episode of The Tomorrow People series premieres on ITV. Francis de Wolff guest stars.
The first American space station, Skylab, is launched unmanned atop the last Saturn V rocket ever to be flown. Within minutes, however, it’s obvious that the space station – whose habitable space is actually the heavily modified third stage of the Saturn V – is already in serious trouble. Launch vibrations rip off one of the solar panels, and the other panel fails to automatically open. With less than two weeks before the first Skylab crew is due to lift off, the clock is ticking for mission planners to devise contingency and repair procedures.
The 350th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stewart Bevan and Talfryn Thomas (Survivors) guest star.
NBC airs the 43rd and final episode of Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Rod Serling. Susan Strasberg guest stars. The series will resurface in syndication, but cut down to half-hour form, often severely truncating or even omitting story segments from the earlier hour-long episodes and, bizarrely, incorporating equally significantly edited-down episodes of the hour-long Gary Collins series The Sixth Sense (also produced by Universal) with new Rod Serling intros to pad out the syndication package.
The National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma dispatches “storm chasers” to track, follow, and observe the behavior of storms in a predicted tornado outbreak. The chasers manage to document the complete development of a tornado in Union City, Oklahoma on film and on an experimental Doppler radar system; for the first time, large-scale cloud rotation at high altitude is observed on radar prior to the appearance of a funnel cloud, a key discovery in tornado prediction. This phenomenon, called the Tornadic Vortex Signature, is a precursor to virtually every radar-detected tornado.
The first three-man Skylab crew lifts off to undertake a mission far different from the one for which they had trained. Their primary objective is now to save the crippled station from the damage it suffered during launch; as it is, Skylab is uninhabitable, with temperatures in its workshop and crew quarters soaring above 100 degrees, threatening to heat up items inside enough to fill the space with toxic gases. The first repair spacewalk takes place less than 24 hours after the crew arrives in an Apollo capsule, and succeeds in starting to drop the temperature inside.
The 351st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stewart Bevan and Talfryn Thomas (Survivors) guest star.
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The fourth episode of The Tomorrow People series premieres on ITV. Francis de Wolff guest stars.
The 352nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stewart Bevan and Talfryn Thomas (Survivors) guest star.
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The fifth episode of The Tomorrow People series premieres on ITV. Francis de Wolff guest stars in the fifth and final part of a five-part serial.
Two members of Skylab‘s first three-man crew undertake a three-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to take on the most difficult and dangerous part of the repairs to the space station: freeing a jammed solar “wing” required to provide almost half of the station’s electrical power. With no handholds and only tethers keeping them anchored to the station, astronauts Pete Conrad and Joseph Kerwin have a hard time even reaching the solar panel, and are knocked loose when, after overexerting themselves trying to manually pull the panel free, it jerks open; with only their tethers keeping them attached to Skylab, it’s a potentially life-threatening situation for both. Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, later admits that the Skylab repair spacewalk gave him much greater concern for his own survival.
The 353rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stewart Bevan and Talfryn Thomas (Survivors) guest star.
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The sixth episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Roger Bizley (I, Claudius) guest stars in the first part of a four-part serial.
The fifth and last of the original cycle of time-bending sequels, Battle For The Planet Of The Apes is released in theaters. Facing diminishing returns, and a desire on the part of 20th Century Fox to exploit the Apes franchise on the small screen, the series comes to a suitably post-apocalyptic end.
The 354th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1.
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The seventh episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Roger Bizley (I, Claudius) and Dave Prowse (Star Wars) guest star in the second part of a four-part serial.
Having repaired and secured the damaged Skylab over the course of three spacewalks, the space station’s first three-man crew leaves the station and returns to Earth after 28 days in space, experiencing gravity after nearly a month of zero-G.
The first Skylab crew’s stay in space sets a new record, twice as long as the previous longest American manned spaceflight, Gemini 7 in 1965.
The 355th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This episode closes the series’ tenth season on the air, and is the last to feature Katy Manning as the Doctor’s companion, Jo Grant. The character doesn’t resurface until a 2010 episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
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The eighth episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Roger Bizley (I, Claudius) and Dave Prowse (Star Wars) guest star in the third part of a four-part serial.
The ninth episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Roger Bizley (I, Claudius) and Dave Prowse (Star Wars) guest star in the fourth and final part of a four-part serial.
The tenth episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Kevin Stoney (Doctor Who) and John Woodnutt (Knights Of God) guest star in the first part of a four-part serial.
The 11th episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Kevin Stoney (Doctor Who) and John Woodnutt (Knights Of God) guest star in the second part of a four-part serial.
Atari releases its second arcade game: the very first video racing game, Space Race. Devised to fulfill a contractual game development obligation to rival manufacturer Bally Midway, the game is released by Midway under the title Asteroid, though Atari releases its own “clone” (of its own game) under the title Space Race on this date.
The 12th episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Kevin Stoney (Doctor Who) and John Woodnutt (Knights Of God) guest star in the third part of a four-part serial.
With the first Skylab crew having salvaged the first American space station, the second crew – designated Skylab 3 – lifts off for another long-term stay in space. Alan Bean, Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott spend 59 days aboard Skylab, performing a spacewalk to conduct further repairs to their damaged space station, investigating the effects of long-duration weightlessness and space travel on the human body, and observing the sun through Skylab’s solar telescope system. A thruster leak in the Apollo command/service module forces NASA to consider a rescue mission.