The 63rd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Shelley Berman stars in an episode written by Serling.
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The 14th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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ABC airs the 91st episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Larry Gates guest stars.
ABC airs the 92nd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Christopher Lee (The Horror Of Dracula, The Wicker Man, Star Wars Episode II) guest stars.
At a special joint session of Congress called to discuss “urgent national needs,” President John F. Kennedy sets a new goal for NASA (which has only just put a single American astronaut into space): “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.” Kennedy requests that Congress pass space-related budgets totaling half a billion dollars for 1962 alone (encompassing not only the Apollo program, but nuclear rocket development, weather satellite development, and communication satellites).
CBS broadcasts the seventh episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Martin E. Brooks (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman) and Dana Elcar (MacGyver, 2010: The Year We Make Contact) star.
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The 64th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. John Hoyt (Star Trek) and Jack Elam star in an episode written by Serling.
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The 15th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This is one of only three first season episodes that still exists in its entirety.
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CBS broadcasts the eighth episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Mark Lenard (Star Trek) stars.
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The 65th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Burgess Meredith stars in the second season’s finale, written by Serling.
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ABC airs the 93rd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Michael Crawford guest stars.
CBS broadcasts the ninth episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Charlotte Ray (The Facts Of Life) stars.
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The 16th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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ABC airs the 94th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond. This episode is a repurposed 1950 episode of the anthology series Stars Over Hollywood, and as such is neither directed nor introduced by John Newland.
CBS broadcasts the tenth episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Kevin McCarthy (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers) and Martin Balsam star.
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ABC airs the 95th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland, and written by Ian Staurt Black (Doctor Who).
CBS broadcasts the 11th episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Woodrow Parfrey (Time Express) stars.
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The 17th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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ABC airs the 96th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Peter Wyngarde (Department S, Jason King, Flash Gordon) guest stars.
CBS broadcasts the 12th episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Murray Hamilton (Jaws) and Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond) star.
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ABC airs the 97th and final episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. John Meillon and Anton Rodgers guest star. Though this is the last episode of the venerable series, the name and format – and even some episode scripts – will be revived for a follow-up series, The Next Step Beyond, in the 1970s, also hosted by Newland.
CBS broadcasts the 13th episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Barry Morse (Space: 1999, The Martian Chronicles) and Mitchell Ryan star.
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The 18th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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Recent Jet Propulsion Laboratory hire Michael Minovitch submits the first of a series of papers and technical memorandums on the possibility of using carefully-calculated gravitational assist maneuvers to speed transit time between celestial bodies while requiring minimal engine/fuel use. Where most previous scientific thought concentrated on using engine burns (and a lot of fuel) to cancel the effects of a planet’s gravity, Minovitch demonstrated that gravity could be a big help with a carefully calculated trajectory. Though nearly every planetary mission since then has capitalized on Minovitch’s research, it was initially rejected by JPL. Minovitch’s calculations are later revisited by Caltech grad student Gary Flandro, who flags down a particular combination of Minovitch’s pre-computed trajectories for a “grand tour” of the outer solar system, a mission which will eventually be known – in a somewhat scaled-down, less grand form – as Voyager.
NASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the third experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-3. Further refinements to the basic TIROS satellite system are made, but one of the satellite’s two television cameras fails within days of going into service. TIROS-3 proves the future life-saving potential of weather satellites by giving Earthbound meteorologists advance warning of the formation and strengthening of Hurricane Esther well before it makes landfall on the east coast of the United States. TIROS-3 is operational for less than a year.
CBS broadcasts the 14th and final episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. With ratings steadily falling, and network production shifting from New York to Hollywood, the series has reached its end.
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The second American in space is Virgil “Gus” Grissom, pilot of the Mercury 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7. Like Alan Shepard’s flight, Grissom’s launch reaches an altitute of 118 miles and splashes down 15 minutes later, but mechanical problems with the explosive bolts to release the capsule’s hatch allow water into the vehicle. Grissom has to bail out at sea, wearing a spacesuit that’s rapidly taking on water, while Liberty Bell 7 sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic. Grissom weathers repeated accusations that he manually blew the hatch and caused his vehicle to sink, a claim which is later disproven.
The 19th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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The 20th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This is one of only three first season episodes that still exists in its entirety.
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The Soviet Union launches its second manned spacecraft, Vostok 2, with cosmonaut Gherman Titov aboard. This mission sets a new space endurance record, with Titov spending just over one day in orbit, circling Earth 17 times in the process. Later accounts show that it’s not a pleasant day in orbit: Titov is reportedly the first sufferer of space sickness, vomiting in the cabin of his Vostok capsule.
The first government contract is issued in the Apollo lunar landing program, as MIT lands the contract to develop the guidance and navigation computer at the heart of the Apollo vehicles. For its day, MIT designed one of the most robust computers that early ’60s technology could squeeze into such a small space; modern digital watches are far more powerful than that computer. The same computer system will be installed in both the command module and the lunar module.
The 21st episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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NASA launches the Ranger 1 lunar probe, designed to test a new vehicle configuration to reach the moon, transmitting pictures back to Earth as it falls toward impact on the lunar surface. The Agena second stage rocket designed to push Ranger 1 into a much higher orbit to escape Earth’s gravity fails, and Ranger 1 falls back into Earth’s atmosphere, disintegrating eight days after launch. This is the first of a series of setbacks for the troubled Ranger program.
The 22nd episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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The 66th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson star in the third season premiere.
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