Argo Records releases the standalone Doctor Who audio drama LP Doctor Who and the Pescatons in the UK, starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, and guest starring Bill Mitchell in a story written by veteran TV writer Victor Pemberton. The first release of its kind licensed by the BBC (although plans had been made, and abandoned, for a radio series starring actor Peter Cushing in the 1960s), this release is the first in a very long history of Doctor Who stories told entirely in the audio medium, and will be re-released in other forms in later years.

After grueling location shooting in Tunisia and lengthy studio filming at Elstree Studios in England, principal photography wraps up on George Lucas’
The
The 23rd episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. William Campbell (Star Trek) guest stars in the third season premiere.
On schedule, the Space Shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California to much public fanfare, a ceremony including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the cast who played the crew of the Enterprise’s fictional namesake (William Shatner was conspicuously absent). The timing of the rollout, ironically, was intended to roll the test shuttle – originally named Constitution – out of the hangar on Constitution Day during the bicentennial year.
Having tried to find a suitable script for a big-screen relaunch of
On or around this date in 1976, the very first teaser trailers for an upcoming 20th Century Fox movie called
The
The
The
The
The
The
The