NASA’s unmanned Mariner 2 probe is the first unmanned spacecraft to successfully reach and take measuresments of another planet in the solar system. Passing by Venus at a distance of 25,000 miles, Mariner 2 detects a cool atmosphere with a blistering hot surface underneath it – quickly dispelling any hopes of finding life there. Mariner 2 isn’t equipped with any cameras, which is just as well: unless any cameras had ultraviolet filters, they would have seen nothing but featureless clouds at Venus. Mariner 2 continues on into a solar orbit, shutting down early in 1963.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 38th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 39th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. Gerald Harper (Adam Adamant Lives!) guest stars.
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In the Hillsboro Press-Gazette, ENIAC and UNIVAC co-creator Dr. John Mauchly predicts that there will come “a time when everyone will carry his own personal computer”, even going so far as to anticipate portable “hand computers” used for such tasks as interactive shopping lists. Mauchly’s predictions aren’t 100% accurate, however: by the 21st century, groceries do not arrive via delivery chutes in every home, and he fails to anticipate the use of “hand computers” to access social networks or view amusingly captioned photos of cats.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 40th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. Bruce Boa (Astronauts) guest stars in an episode written by future Star Maidens scribe Eric Paice.
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The 103rd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. George Grizzard and Gail Kobe star in the fourth season premiere. Though technically cancelled at the end of its third season, CBS offers Rod Serling the chance to revive the series at midseason to replace – ironically – the hour-long series that took its place on the schedule. This necessitates a brief experiment, for the remainder of the shortened fourth season, in making The Twilight Zone an hour-long show over Serling’s protest.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 41st episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. This episode is written by future Doctor Who writers Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke.
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The 104th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, and Bill Bixby star in an episode written by Serling.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 42nd episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 105th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. David Opatoshu and Ed Nelson star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 43rd episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens.
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The 106th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Dennis Hopper stars in an episode written by Serling.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 44th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 107th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Barbara Baxley and Frank Overton star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 45th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 108th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Jack Klugman and Ross Martin star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 46th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens.
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The 109th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Anne Francis stars.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 47th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 110th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Robert Duvall and William Windom star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 48th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens.
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The 111th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Robert Sterling and Burgess Meredith star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 49th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 112th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Dana Andrews and Patricia Breslin star in an episode written by Serling.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 50th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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Actress Alex Kingston, a familiar face in both British and American television, is born in England. With a variety of roles on UK TV throughout the 1980s and ’90s, she will make the leap to American television in 1997 with a regular role on the hospital drama ER through 2004. In 2008 she will make her first appearance as Professor River Song, occasional companion and gadfly to the Doctor in Doctor Who, opposite both David Tennant and Matt Smith.
The 113th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Steve Forrest and Jacqueline Scott star in an episode written by Serling.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 51st episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 114th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Howard Morris, Patricia Berry, and Jack Albertson star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 52nd episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. This concludes the series’ second season.
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Meetings commence at the BBC to hash out ideas for a new children’s science fiction series to be produced in-house, possibly involving a time machine, an aloof old man, a younger “man of action” character, a female scientist, and a younger woman. As the creative lightning rod of this series development, Sydney Newman begins to weed out ideas he considers unsuitable – such as giving these characters the roles of “science troubleshooters” working for the government – and homes in on the time travel idea, as well as the old man character, who emerges as a man of mystery. These are the first creative meetings from which the BBC’s Doctor Who will emerge.
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An unmanned Soviet lunar lander, Luna 4, is launched from the USSR’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. Unlike Luna 2, which intentionally crashed into the moon with no attempt to slow its approach, Luna 4 is the first atempt at a vehicle intended to survive its descent to the lunar surface and make observations from the ground. A failed course correction engine burn leaves the 3,000-pound vehicle in a wide, looping orbit around the Earth, unable to reach the moon at all. The Soviet Union, after several more attempts, will eventually achieve the first unmanned soft landing on the surface of the moon three years later.
The 115th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Martin Balsam stars.
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The 116th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Albert Salmi and John Anderson star.
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The 117th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Pat Hingle and Nan Martin guest star.
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