The 21st episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC. This is the end of the first season, and the last episode to feature the original characters; when Battlestar Galactica returns nearly a year later, it reflects dramatic budgetary and creative restrictions imposed upon Larson by ABC. 
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Magnavox releases the video game cartridge Take The Money And Run! for the Odyssey² video game system, designed and programmed by Ed and Linda Averett. This is a two-player maze game that predates Pac-Man. (more…)
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, a full-sized, full-weight test article not intended for orbital flight, is mated to an external tank and a pair of solid rocket boosters and rolled out to Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral for engineering fit-checks of the redesigned launch pad (a hand-me-down from the Apollo era, where the same pad had launched all but one of the Saturn V rockets). Enterprise remains on the pad for over a month, providing the first photo opportunity of the full-size shuttle launch stack in all of its glory.
The 33rd episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Markie Post (Night Court) guest stars.
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ITV airs the seventh episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Wendy Hiller, Joseph Cotten, and Phil Brown (Star Wars) guest star.
The 34th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Joanna Miles guest stars.
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ITV airs the eighth episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Jack Weston and Michael Troughton guest star.
The 11th episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) and Christopher Connelly (The Lieutenant, Peyton Place) guest star.
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Atari releases the two-player arcade game Basketball, which features one of the earliest instances of a basketball court drawn in a vaguely 3-D perspective. Like its Football predecessor from Atari, Basketball uses dual trackball controllers. (more…)
ITV airs the ninth episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Julie Harris guest stars in the first season finale.
The 12th episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) and Peter Donat (Time Trax) guest star.
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The 13th episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) and R.G. Armstrong (T.H.E. Cat, Children Of The Corn) guest star in the first season finale.
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The 35th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. This episode concludes the second season.
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The 55th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Michael Shannon (Future Cop) guest stars.
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The 56th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Michael Shannon (Future Cop) guest stars.
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Atari releases 
The Soviet Union launches a redesigned vehicle, Soyuz 34, with no crew aboard. Under automated control, Soyuz 34 docks with space station Salyut 6, where it provides cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin with a more reliable return capsule. Their original vehicle Soyuz 32 capsule is loaded with material to be returned to Earth, and it lands – unoccupied and without incident – on June 13th, and the station crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 in August.
Electric Light Orchestra‘s eighth album, Discovery, is released, featuring the singles “Don’t Bring Me Down”, “Last Train To London” and “Shine A Little Love”. The album is later criticized for being the point at which ELO became part of the disco fad, and is significant in that it’s the first ELO album without the band’s usual resident trio of string players. (more…)
CBS airs Starstruck, a pilot for a series that the network ultimately turned down. Beeson Carroll and Lynne Lipton (Thundercats) star in a story that straddles the line between sci-fi and family-hour western. Roy Brocksmith guest stars, and sci-fi publishing icon Forrest J. Ackerman is a background extra. (more…)
BBC1 broadcasts the first episode of Jack Gerson’s paranormal sci-fi series The Omega Factor, starring James Hazeldine (Chocky) and Louise Jameson (Doctor Who). Cyril Luckham guest stars in the series premiere. (more…)
Task Force Games publishes the tabletop wargame Star Fleet Battles, based on the 1960s TV series Star Trek (though not initially released as a licensed product). The game is created by Allen D. Eldridge & Stephen V. Cole, working under the collective name of the “Amarillo Design Bureau”, and will be reissued and updated in many guises in the years to come, taking in future additions to Star Trek lore from movies and television series yet to be released. Star Fleet Battles will also inspire later computer games such as Interplay’s Star Trek: Starfleet Command.
Arista Records releases Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs & Krauts, the first album by The Rumour, best known for being Graham Parker’s backing band. (more…)
The 24th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Morey Amsterdam guest stars.
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Tiny Adrastea, a small, asteroid-like moon of Jupiter, is discovered in photos returned by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the planet. Adrastea orbits along the outer edge of Jupiter’s ring system, and is likely to be the body from which material for that ring is ejected. Its close orbit carries it around the planet at a speed faster than Jupiter’s rotation, one of the few bodies in the solar system locked into such a fast orbit.
ITV premieres the first episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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After intense solar activity results in a brief swelling of Earth’s atmosphere, Skylab‘s days are numbered: it has already been slowed enough by contact with the outermost layers of the atmosphere to come tumbling back to Earth. Unoccupied since 1974, the now-derelict space station is expected to disintegrate harmlessly over the Indian Ocean, but NASA is caught off-guard when unexpectedly large chunks of Skylab survive long enough to crash into the Australian outback. No one on the ground is hurt, and NASA is jokingly fined for littering.
ITV airs the second episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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The 25th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Linda Foster (Hank) guest stars.
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ITV airs the third episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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ITV airs the fourth episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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The 26th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. This is the final episode of the series to air, with ratings falling over the course of the second season. Project UFO is the last television series to be produced by Jack Webb’s Mark VII Productions prior to Webb’s death in 1982.
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ITV airs the fifth episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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ITV airs the sixth episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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ITV airs the seventh episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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ITV airs the eighth episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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