ITV airs the 90th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Jane Asher guest stars.
ITV airs the 91st episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Carol Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure, The Night Stalker) guest stars.
The American wing of Japanese arcade game manufacturer Taito introduces the coin-op racing game Buggy Challenge on the American arcade market. 
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ITV airs the 92nd episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Fritz Weaver and Ed Begley, Jr. guest star in an episode directed by Norman Lloyd.
Berkley Books publishes The Dune Encyclopedia, written and compiled by Dr. Willis E. McNelly and approved by Dune creator Frank Herbert (who would still contradict this book with some of his later Dune novels). The book, written from an academic point of view within the Dune universe, later goes out of print and is now considered a collectors’ item. (more…)
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz T-12 on a mission to space station Salyut 7. Cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya and Igor Volk visit the station crew and test new equipment during a three-hour spacewalk. Savitskaya becomes the first woman to fly in space twice as well as the first female spacewalker, an assignment that seems to have been devised purely for the political purpose of beating NASA to that first (the American space agency having announced in 1983 that an upcoming shuttle mission would feature a female spacewalker). Volk’s presence aboard the mission ensures that he has spaceflight experience ahead of his next mission, believed to be the first manned flight of the Soviet Buran shuttle. The Soyuz T-12 crew is in space for almost 12 days, returning to Earth on July 29th.
EMI Records releases the self-titled album Keats, written and performed by members of the Alan Parsons Project; Parsons produces. (more…)
ITV airs the 93rd episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Gloria Grahame guest stars.
Capcom releases the arcade video game 
Warner Bros. Records releases Lindsey Buckingham‘s second solo album, Go Insane, featuring the single of the same name. (more…)
Epic Records releases the Kansas compilation album The Best Of Kansas, featuring the highlights of the band’s first two lineups (though at the time of release, the band has broken up, only to reform a few years later). (more…)
ITV airs the 94th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Sondra Locke and Frank Converse guest star.
ITV airs the 95th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Tom Smothers, Susan Strasberg, and Robert Loggia guest star.
Midway releases the arcade video game Timber. (more…)
ITV airs the 96th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Cyril Cusack, Jacqueline Hill (Doctor Who), and Jason Carter (Babylon 5) guest star.
CBS Records releases Wendy Carlos‘ instrumental album Digital Moonscapes. Performed entirely on synthesizers (credited on the album to the “LSI Philharmonic Orchestra”), the album includes one track (“Io”) which was originally composed for, and dropped from, a scene in the movie Tron (for which Carlos also composed the soundtrack). (more…)
Space Shuttle Discovery makes its first flight into space on a mission to deploy three commercial communications satellites. Tested on this flight is a huge solar power panel which unfolds vertically from Discovery’s cargo bay, testing technology for space station designs still on the drawing board. Discovery’s crew for this flight consists of Commander Henry Hartsfield, Pilot Michael Coats, mission specialists Judy Resnick, Steven Hawley, Mike Mullane, and payload specialist Charles Walker.
Atari releases the arcade game Return Of The Jedi in the United States, completing its own coin-op Star Wars trilogy and allowing players to participate in the thrill of helping Ewoks snag Imperial speeder bikes out of mid-air. (more…)
Scotti Bros. Records releases the Dave Edmunds album Riff Raff, again pairing Edmunds with producer Jeff Lynne of ELO fame. The album includes the singles “Breaking Out” and “S.O.S.” (more…)
The first episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. under the title Fox Mystery Theatre, as it is a co-production between Hammer and 20th Century Fox. Dirk Benedict (Battlestar Galactica, The A-Team), Jenny Seagrove, and George Sewell (UFO) guest star.
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The second episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. under the title Fox Mystery Theatre. Deborah Raffin (7th Heaven) and David Langton (Upstairs, Downstairs) guest star.
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ITV airs the 97th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Roger Rees (M.A.N.T.I.S.) guest stars.
Activision releases Park Patrol for Commodore 64 home computers (more…)
British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Key To Time by Peter Haining, a chronological collection of events, press mentions and other ephemera from Doctor Who’s beginning through the book’s publication. (The book is not related to the Key to Time storyline of the series’ 16th season.) (more…)
Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off on an eight-day mission, the first shuttle mission with a seven-person crew, which also happens to be the first American shuttle crew with two women on board. A satellite to study radiation around the Earth is deployed, along with an experiment to study the feasibility of refueling empty satellites to extend their service life. Challenger’s crew for this flight consists of Commander Robert Crippen, Pilot Jon McBride, mission specialists Kathryn Sullivan, Sally Ride, David Leestma and payload specialists Marc Garneau and Paul Scully-Power.
The third episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. under the title Fox Mystery Theatre. Mary Crosby (The Ice Pirates, Dallas) guest stars.
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ITV airs the 98th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Roy Marsden guest stars.
HBO premieres the made-for-TV movie Countdown To Looking Glass, starring Scott Glenn and Helen Shaver as reporters caught in the outbreak of World War III. In later years, when the movie becomes part of a movie package syndicated to local TV stations, it will accidentally cause panic among some of its audience. (more…)
The fourth episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. under the title Fox Mystery Theatre. David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Sapphire & Steel) and Jan Francis (Just Good Friends) guest star in an episode written by David Fisher (Doctor Who) and directed by Gabrielle Beaumont (The Tomorrow People, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
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Atlantic Records releases Julian Lennon‘s debut album, Valotte, featuring the singles “Too Late For Goodbyes” and “Valotte”. (more…)
ITV airs the 99th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. This is the seventh season finale.
The first edition of the collection of prose, poetry and blank verse titled “The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed“ – supposedly “written” by an artificial intelligence called RACTER – is published by Warner Books. When a commercial version of RACTER is made available, some users cry foul – it doesn’t output anything remotely like the book attributed to it.
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The fifth episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. under the title Fox Mystery Theatre. Carol Lynley (The Night Stalker) and Judy Loe (Ace Of Wands) guest star.
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Just in time for Halloween, Activision releases the Ghostbusters cartridge for the Atari 2600 home video game system, based on the hit movie of the same name. (more…)
NBC airs the first episode of the weekly series based on Kenneth Johnson’s alien invasion epic V, starring Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Diane Badler. After abandoning V: The Final Battle during pre-production, Johnson is back in charge of the weekly series, which picks up moments after the end of The Final Battle. (more…)