The 639th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) and Dennis Carey guest star.
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The 640th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Eleanor Bron, Alexei Sayle (The Young Ones), Trevor Cooper (Star Cops) and William Gaunt guest star; Terry Molloy reprises the role of Davros. 
The 641st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Eleanor Bron, Alexei Sayle (The Young Ones), Trevor Cooper (Star Cops) and William Gaunt guest star; Terry Molloy reprises the role of Davros. This is the final episode of season 22, and is the last new Doctor Who episode for over a year. It is also the end of the experimental episode length of 50 minutes (though a 45 minute episode length will become standard in the 21st century revival of the series).
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Atari releases the arcade video game The Empire Strikes Back, based on the movie of the same name; this is a conversion kit allowing arcade operators to freshen aging Star Wars coin-ops with new levels and game elements.
Atari releases the arcade game Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the United States, giving players the chance to hate pixellated snakes from a safe distance.
BBC Radio 4 begins airing the six-part Doctor Who radio drama Slipback, starring Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, and Valentine Dyall, as part of the “Pirate Radio 4” programming block. The story is written by Doctor Who’s current television script editor (and occasional novelist) Eric Saward. This is the final recorded radio drama performance for Valentine Dyall, who died weeks before broadcast.
GNP Crescendo releases the first-ever CD of Alexander Courage’s music from the original Star Trek television series, presenting selections from the two pilot episodes, The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before. This is the first time that music from the original series has been presented, other than countless recordings and remakes of the main title theme.
The 16th Godzilla movie, Godzilla 1985, premieres in the United States, a re-edited version of the previous year’s Japanese release of The Return Of Godzilla.
ABC broadcasts the first episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. The series chronicles the adventures of Threepio and R2-D2 in the years before the movie trilogy. 
ABC broadcasts the second episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO.
ABC broadcasts the third episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO.
CBS airs the first episode of a modern revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Bruce Willis stars in an adaptation of a Harlan Ellison story, while Melinda Dillon stars in a second segment. Wes Craven (A Nightmare On Elm Street) directs both stories.
ABC broadcasts the fourth episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. This episode marks the first appearance of a movie character other than the droids themselves.
CBS airs the second episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Annie Potts (Ghostbusters), Meg Foster, and Terry O’Quinn (Lost) star in three short stories; Wes Craven (A Nightmare On Elm Street) directs two of them.
ABC broadcasts the fifth episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO.
CBS airs the third episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Eric Bogosian, Lorna Luft, and Jeffrey DeMunn star in three short stories.
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ABC broadcasts the sixth episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO.
CBS airs the fourth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Dee Wallace-Stone (E.T.) and Scott Grimes (The Orville) star in three short stories, including one directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist).
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CBS airs the fifth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Tony Lo Bianco and David Dukes star in an episode comprised of two short stories.
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The 41st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Barbara Stock (Spenser: For Hire) stars.
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CBS airs the sixth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. David Mendenhall and Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager) star in an episode comprised of two short stories.
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CBS airs the seventh episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Adrienne Barbeau and Danny Kaye star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including Harlan Ellison’s adaptation of his own short story, Paladin Of The Lost Hour.
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CBS airs the eighth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. James Coco, Piper Laurie, and Morgan Freeman star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Burning Man.
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CBS airs the ninth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Helen Mirren and Brian Tochi (Space Academy) star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including a remake of an episode from the original Twilight Zone.
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ABC airs the Lucasfilm TV movie Ewoks: The Battle For Endor, starring Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, and Aubree Miller. Written and directed by the Wheat Brothers (The Fly II, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick), the movie quickly dispenses with all but one of the human family around which the first Ewok TV movie centered and then embarks on an adventure that’s more fantasy than science fiction.
CBS airs the tenth episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Jonathan Ward (Mac And Me) and Jeffrey Jones (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Bettlejuice) star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including one directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins).
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CBS airs the 11th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Charles Martin Smith and Peter Riegert star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including an adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s short story One Life, Furnished In Early Poverty.
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CBS airs the 12th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Gary Cole (Crusade), Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons), and Ron Glass (Firefly, Barney Miller) star in an episode comprised of two short stories, including an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s short story I Of Newton.
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CBS airs the 13th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), and Donald Moffat (Logan’s Run) star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including another remake of an episode from the classic Twilight Zone series and an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Star.
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CBS airs the 14th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Elliott Gould, Robert Carradine, and Hamilton Camp star in an episode comprised of three short stories.
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