ABC airs the 36th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Skip Homeier and James Doohan (Star Trek, Jason Of Star Command) star.
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The Soviet Union launches the first of its next-generation manned spacecraft, the roomier Voskhod 1 capsule. Cosmonauts Dr. Boris Yegorov, Dr. Konstantin Feoktistov and Vladimir Komarov become the first three-man crew in space, though they find that the larger vehicle is still cramped for a crew of that size; the tight fit makes no allowances for spacesuits, which also makes the Voskhod 1 crew the first “shirtsleeves” space flight. Voskhod 1 spends just over one day in orbit before reentering the atmosphere; for the first time, the crew lands inside the capsule, rather than ejecting and parachuting down after reentry.
The fifth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. David Opatoshu, John Milford, Jill Ireland, and Steve Inhat guest star in an episode written by Harlan Ellison. (The show’s script is credited to “Cord Wainer Bird”, a misspelling of the nom de plume Ellison infamously used to indicate that significant changes were made to his script.)
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The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon, the 22-kiloton Project 596. Though the Chinese nuclear program did receive an early boost from Soviet researchers, much of the research and production of Chinese nuclear weapons has taken place without outside help since the initiation of the Chinese nuclear weapons development program in 1959. Within three years of this test, China will have developed hydrogen bomb technology.
ABC airs the 37th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Culp and Arlene Martel star in an episode penned by acclaimed sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison. 
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The sixth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Charles McGraw guest stars.
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ABC airs the 38th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Eddie Albert and June Havoc star.
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The seventh episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Yvonne Craig (Batman) and Les Tremayne (Shazam!) guest star in an episode that reuses portions of the 1960 film The Lost World, which also featured Hedison, as a cost-cutting measure.
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The 43rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, kicking off the series’ second season. This is part one of the story now collectively known as Planet Of Giants. (more…)
ABC airs the 39th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Adam West (Batman) stars in an episode written by Jerry Sohl.
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The eighth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Richard Carlson guest stars.
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Though successfully launched, NASA’s Mariner 3 – one of a pair of identical robotic probes intended to become the first space probes to fly by Mars – fails to properly deploy, stranded in the nose cone of the rocket that took it into space. Unable to spread its solar panels, Mariner 3 simply never activates and is lost in space. The liftoff of its sister ship, Mariner 4, is still a few weeks away, giving engineers time to prevent the same mishap from occurring again.
The 44th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as Planet Of Giants.
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ABC airs the 40th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Patrick O’Neal and Sara Shane star.
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The ninth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Michael Ansara and James Doohan (Star Trek, Jason Of Star Command) guest star.
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The 45th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as Planet Of Giants.
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ABC airs the 41st episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Howard da Silva and Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) star in an adaptation of the story by Eando Binder.
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The tenth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Carl Reindel guest stars.
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The 46th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, making the Daleks the first recurring enemy in the series’ history. (more…)
ABC airs the 42nd episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Duvall and Steve Ihnat star in the first part of the original series’ only two-part episode.
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The 11th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Mario Alcalde guest stars in an episode written by Alan Caillou.
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At Hollywood’s Desilu Studios, filming begins on The Cage, the unaired first attempt at a pilot episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek. Starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike and Leonard Nimoy as the exotic-looking alien science officer Spock, filming proceeds at a brisk pace, despite numerous delays due to the show’s then-novel special effects, set and costuming requirements. Though the result is viewed enthusiastically by all involved, the completed pilot stirs little enthusiasm at the television networks. NBC thinks the series premise has promise, but that as it stands, The Cage is “too cerebral” for prime time. Ironically, exactly two years later, most of the footage from The Cage is broadcast anyway, as part of The Menagerie – a fast favorite among the viewers for whom it was deemed to be too brainy. (more…)
NASA attempts a second unmanned launch to Mars, successfully putting Mariner 4 on course for its nine-month cruise to the red planet. Intended to take the first-ever close-up pictures from the vicinity of another planet, Mariner 4’s main engineering objective is to simply survive the trip. The main problem encountered en route is a flaky star tracker (intended to lock onto specific stars and keep Mariner 4 in the correct orientation).
The 47th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, although the title of this individual episode makes it easily confused with the first season serial of the same (collective) name.
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ABC airs the 43rd episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Duvall and Steve Ihnat star in the second part of the original series’ only two-part episode.
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The 12th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Jan Merlin guest stars.
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The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Zond 2, intended to conduct the first close flyby of the planet Mars. Interplanetary exploration is still in its infancy, however, and just as Zond 1 failed mere weeks away from Venus, communication is lost with Zond 2 three months prior to its planned August 1965 encounter with the red planet. A backup of this spacecraft, Zond 3, will be launched in 1965, also failing to reach Mars but instead returning photos of Earth’s moon.
The 48th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.
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ABC airs the 44th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Webber and Warren Stevens star.
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The 13th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Werner Klemperer (Hogan’s Heroes) guest stars.
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Halfway through filming on the Star Trek pilot episode, The Cage, the attention of the show’s producers turns to the music for the pilot, and possible composers. Among the composers approached but unable to commit to Star Trek are Jerry Goldsmith (later to score 1979‘s Star Trek: The Motion Picture), John Williams (later of Star Wars and Lost In Space fame), Lalo Schifrin (Mission: Impossible), Elmer Bernstein, and Dominic Frontiere (The Outer Limits); a young composer named Alexander Courage, whose schedule is open, is considered especially promising.
The 49th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.
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The 14th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. June Lockhart (one of the stars of Allen’s latest series Lost In Space) guest stars.
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Following up on preliminary studies assuming almost-Earthlike conditions, NASA commences work on a major robotic interplanetary landing mission called Voyager, which will use a Saturn IB rocket to send an orbiter with two landers to Mars. But NASA is doing so without much help from its usual interplanetary think-tank, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, whose scientists warn NASA that the latest astronomical data suggests a significantly thinner atmosphere and lower atmospheric pressure than the scenario for which NASA is designing its vehicles. As the complexity involved in creating self-guided landers with on-board laboratories increases, contractors begin to insist that only a Saturn V will do; since all Saturn V boosters are currently in reserve for Apollo lunar missions, NASA pushes the Voyager mission back into the 1970s.
The 50th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.
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