The 43rd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Motorcycle stunt-riding legend Evel Knievel guest stars as himself.
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The 463rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star.
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The 87th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk) guest stars.
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CBS airs the seventh episode of the TV adaptation of Logan’s Run. Soon-Teck Oh guest stars in an episode co-written by Harlan Ellison. 
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The sixth episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Pernell Roberts (Gunsmoke) guest stars in a western-themed episode.
The 21st episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Celeste Holm guest stars.
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The tenth episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. Commander Gampu begins to worry that, what with being 300 years old, he may be losing his touch as the leader of Space Academy. (more…)
The 44th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Michael Callan (Cat Ballou, The Magnificent Seven) guest stars.
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The 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. (more…)
The 464th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star.
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The 88th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk) guest stars.
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CBS airs the eighth episode of the TV adaptation of Logan’s Run. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds) and William Wellman Jr. guest star. (more…)
Columbia Pictures releases the Steven-Spielberg-written-and-directed science fiction film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in American theaters, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, and François Truffaut. A movie about contact with alien life set in modern-day America, Close Encounters (often abbreviated to CE3K) it a genuine hit in its own right, cementing Spielberg’s future connection to the genre and proving that the sudden surge of interest in science fiction was not attributable only to Star Wars. (more…)
NASA and its contractors mull over a report outlining an ambitious (and, considering the continuous delays to the first launch of the Space Shuttle program, overly optimistic) plan to reactivate and occupy the Apollo-era space station Skylab for use by shuttle crews. The plan involves outfitting the ailing station with new solar power panels and equipment, and performing repairs to make it habitable for future astronauts. Despite the best-laid plans, however, the shuttle’s first launch comes after Skylab tumbles back through Earth’s atmosphere.
The 22nd episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Roddy McDowall (Planet Of The Apes, The Fantastic Journey) guest stars.
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The 11th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. Someone at Space Academy is being dishonest, with potentially disastrous results. (more…)
The 465th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star.
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At a distance of nearly 60,000,000 miles from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft cross the orbit of Mars as the twin space probes continue their outbound race toward Jupiter. Moving at 13 miles per second, Voyager 1 will overtake its identical twin, Voyager 2, at the end of 1977, with both spacecraft expected to reach Jupiter in 1979. From here, they will plunge through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, though fears of damage occurring in this part of space have been allayed by the successful asteroid belt passage of Pioneers 10 and 11 in the early 1970s.
The seventh episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) and Rene Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star. (more…)
Nippon Columbia releases the first volume of Hiroshi Miyagawa’s soundtracks from the TV series Space Battleship Yamato (better known in the western world as Star Blazers). (more…)
The 12th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. An old flame of Commander Gampu has to save his space cadets, much to his chagrin. (more…)
The 45th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Peter Mark Richman guest stars.
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The 466th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Keating (Blake’s 7) guest stars. (more…)
The 89th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Lynnette Mettey guest stars.
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The movie-length second episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk premieres on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. William Daniels (Knight Rider, Boy Meets World) and Gerald McRaney guest star. This movie will later be split into two one-hour episodes for syndicated reruns under the title Death In The Family. (more…)
A series of story conferences begin between Star Wars writer/director George Lucas and science fiction writer Leigh Brackett, the first work toward shaping the storyline for an anticipated (but still untitled) Star Wars sequel film. Lucas has brought Brackett on board to contribute new ideas, but she will only submit a first draft before succumbing to cancer. The conferences continue through early December; the eventual product of these early story meetings will be 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back.
Caught completely off-guard by the seemingly unstoppable runaway success of Star Wars, whose toy license it signed on for earlier in the year, toy manufacturer Kenner does something desperate and unprecedented: it sells a mostly-empty box (contents: the Force?) called the Star Wars Early Bird Kit, containing stickers, pictures, and a card to mail off to receive four figures – Luke, Princess Leia, R2-D2 and Chewbacca – by mail sometime between “February and May 1978.” The delay is needed to ramp up production on the figures, which will also be available at retail in 1978. To the surprise of everyone, including Kenner executive Bernard Loomis, who devised the Early Bird Kit, the result is a runaway sales success story.
The 23rd episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Dack Rambo (Dallas) guest stars.
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The 13th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. In space, everyone can hear you cut class, especially if you’re possessed by alien beings. (more…)
The 46th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC.
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The 467th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Keating (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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The eighth episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. John Shea (Lois & Clark) and Ahna Capri (Enter The Dragon) guest star. (more…)
The 24th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Dack Rambo (Dallas) guest stars.
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The 14th episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. The Academy crew sets out to debunk tales of an interstellar Flying Dutchman, only to find there’s more to it than just the legend. (more…)
A two-man crew – cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko – is launched aboard Soyuz 26 by the Soviet Union. The Soyuz capsule docks with the recently-launched Salyut 6 space station, and the crew takes up residence for over three months, setting a new space endurance record at 96 days. The Soyuz 27 crew visits in January and swaps vehicles with the station occupants, meaning that Romanenko and Grechko technically return to Earth aboard Soyuz 27 in March 1978. Ten days into the mission, the first Soviet spacewalk since 1969 is undertaken to examine the forward docking hatch of Salyut 6, with which the previous mission failed to connect. This spacewalk was the first outing of the Soviet-made Orlan spacesuit, a design still in use on the International Space Station in the 21st century.