The 345th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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The 346th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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The 347th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) 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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The 13th episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Kevin Stoney (Doctor Who) and John Woodnutt (Knights Of God) guest star in the fourth and final part of a four-part serial, and the last episode of the show’s first season. This marks the final appearances of original cast members Sammie Winmill and Stephen Salmon.
The eighth episode of Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is broadcast on ITV licensee Anglia Television, starring Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap), with Welles providing his customary introductory and closing narration.
ABC airs the first episode of the DC animated series Super Friends, starring the voices of Norman Alden, Casey Kasem, Ted Knight, and Olan Soule.
After years of denying that Star Trek had ever been a “kids show” like its prime-time rival Lost In Space, Gene Roddenberry agrees to NBC’s offer to restart the science fiction cult classic as an animated series, premiering on the seventh anniversary of the live-action show’s debut with the episode Beyond The Farthest Star. In the end, this series becomes the only iteration of the Star Trek franchise to win an Emmy Award for a non-technical (i.e. music, hairstyling, special effects) category.
The first episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3, premieres. Written by series creators Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, and produced during their downtime as producer and script editor of Doctor Who, Moonbase 3 is an attempt to do “serious” SF without fanciful elements such as aliens.