Science Report: Alternative 3

Science Report: Alternative 3UK broadcaster Anglia TV (later part of ITV) premieres the TV movie Science Report: Alternative 3, a “mockumentary” positing a scenario about Earth’s best and brightest young minds leaving their doomed world to start a colony on Mars. Originally intended to air on April 1st, 1977, the special – which is presented as an episode of a non-existent “Science Report” series – has been delayed due to broadcast industry strikes, but despite the end credits still carrying the April 1st date, the joke is lost on members of the viewing public, who call Anglia demanding further information; the “Alternative 3” scenario will gain traction as an actual conspiracy theory in the years to come, particularly when its 1978 novelization replaces the TV movie’s fictional astronauts with the names of real astronauts. Read more

Space: 1999: The Dorcons

Space: 1999The 48th and final episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. Patrick Troughton (Doctor Who) guest stars in the series finale. The show’s run, and very tentative plans for either a third season or a spinoff led by Catherine Schell as Maya, have already ended thanks to a combination of cast members’ demands for raises and creative control, the slowly unraveling marriage of producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, and ITC head Lord Lew Grade’s desire to redirect the funds for the series toward a pet film project, Raise The Titanic. Read more

Hammer House Of Horror: Witching Time

Hammer House Of HorrorThe first episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Horror premieres on ITV. Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and Ian McCulloch (Survivors) guest star in an episode written by Antony Read (Doctor Who).

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Hammer House Of Horror: The Thirteenth Reunion

Hammer House Of HorrorThe second episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Horror airs on ITV. Julia Foster and Dinah Sheridan guest star.

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