The 28th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet, Airplane!) guest stars.
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The first two-man American space crew lifts off in the first manned flight of NASA’s Gemini program. With a larger, more maneuverable spacecraft designed for longer stays in space, Gemini is intended to be a stepping stone on the path to the first lunar landing, allowing astronauts to practice rendezvous, docking, and orbital changes. Aboard the Gemini capsule are Mercury veteran Gus Grissom and rookie John Young; the capsule is unofficially nicknamed “Molly Brown” (a reference to Grissom’s sunken Mercury capsule). The flight lasts barely five hours and includes the first-ever orbital attitude changed made by a manned spacecraft.
The 64th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Crusade. 
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The 29th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Henry Silva, Malachi Throne, and Tom Skerritt guest star.
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The 65th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Crusade. This episode is now missing from the BBC archvies.
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The 30th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Torin Thatcher guest stars in an episode revolving around the Loch Ness Monster.
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Built for COMSAT (Communications Satellite Corporation) by Hughes Aircraft, borrowing heavily from the design of the successful Syncom experimental satellites earlier in the decade, Intelsat I is launched into a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean, providing telephone, TV, and fax communication via satellite between the United States and Europe. Intelsat I, nicknamed “Early Bird”, doesn’t go operational until COMSAT has completed diagnostics and engineering tests; its first operational use is in June 1965. It will provide satellite transmission of the first live TV coverage of a returning space mission (the splashdown of Gemini 6 in December 1965), and it will be an integral part of the international satellite links necessary for the Our World broadcast in 1967. Despite being retired from regular use in January 1969, it will be reactivated in June 1969 to handle some of the television coverage of the first lunar landing.
Decca Records releases the Zombies‘ second album, Begin Here, featuring the single “Tell Her No”. (more…)
The 66th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Crusade. Julian Glover and Jean Marsh guest star.
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On the 45th anniversary of a similar severe weather event, a major outbreak of violent tornadoes strikes the northern midwest, causing 271 deaths and over a thousand injuries in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Michigan; 137 of the deaths occur in Indiana alone. With weather radar still in its infant state, a radio station in Cedar Rapids spots the first storm on its own radar, while nearby National Weather Service offices do not have radar yet. The U.S. Weather Bureau’s confusing system of “tornado forecasts” and “tornado alerts” is changed to more clearly delineated “watches” and “warnings” after this event.
The 31st episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. J.D. Cannon guest stars.
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NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building is completed at the spaceport rapidly taking shape on Cape Canaveral ahead of the Apollo lunar missions. Topped off at a total cost of $117,000,000, the VAB is where Saturn V rockets are assembled for the Apollo moonshots, and the huge, eight-acre building will later transition to the assembly of the Space Shuttle launch system elements and the Space Launch System boosters for the 21st century Orion program.
The 67th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Crusade. Julian Glover and Jean Marsh guest star. This episode is now missing from the BBC archives.
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The 32nd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. George Sanders guest stars in the first season’s finale, and the final episode to be broadcast in black & white.
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The 68th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Space Museum. Peter Craze and Jeremy Bulloch guest star. (more…)
The 69th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Space Museum. Peter Craze and Jeremy Bulloch guest star.
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The 70th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Space Museum. Peter Craze and Jeremy Bulloch guest star.
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ITV premieres the first episode of the paranoid sci-fi series Undermind, starring Jeremy Wilkin. (more…)
Following two years of aborted or otherwise unsuccessful attempts to launch another robotic lunar lander toward the moon, the Soviet Union sends Luna 5 on its way. Intended to be an automated soft-landing mission, Luna 5 encounters major technical problems as it coasts from Earth to the moon. It does eventually reach the moon, but does so out of control and unable to brake for a survivable landing; the plume of material created by the impact of the 3,000-pound Luna 5 is large enough to be spotted from Earth-based telescopes for several minutes.
The 71st episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Space Museum. Peter Craze and Jeremy Bulloch guest star.
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The 73rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Chase, featuring the Doctor’s third struggle against the Daleks.
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The second manned Gemini flight, Gemini 4, lifts off with Jim McDivitt and Ed White aboard for a four-day mission. Four hours into the flight, White becomes the first American spacewalker, controlling his movement with a handheld device with small jets allowing him to change his own orientation, though he is tethered to the Gemini capsule at all times. This is the first NASA flight overseen from the new Manned Space Center constructed in Houston, Texas, and the first to be broadcast live worldwide.
The 74th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Chase, featuring the Doctor’s third struggle against the Daleks.
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It’s not easy to reach the moon. Just a month after the failed flight of Luna 5, the Soviet Union launches the near-identical unmanned spacecraft Luna 6 to the moon. A pre-programmed mid-course correction engine burn, meant to help Luna 6 coast toward a soft landing on the lunar surface, instead overcorrects. The engine fails to acknowledge a command to stop firing, pushing Luna 6 so far off course that it misses the moon by almost 100,000 miles, dumping the vehicle in an orbit around the sun.
The 75th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Chase, featuring the Doctor’s third struggle against the Daleks.
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The 76th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as The Chase, featuring the Doctor’s third struggle against the Daleks. This is the first time that the name “Doctor Who” appears in one of the show’s episode titles, and the last such occurrence until 1970’s Doctor Who and the Silurians.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the seventh episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick. This episode marks the beginning of the series’ second season.
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The 77th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part six of the story now collectively known as The Chase, featuring the Doctor’s third struggle against the Daleks. This is the last episode to feature Ian and Barbara, who return to Earth; stranded space pilot Steven Taylor joins the TARDIS crew.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the eighth episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick.
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NASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the tenth and final experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-10. Continuing to test technological upgrades for a fully-functional weather satellite fleet, TIROS-10 also provides additional coverage during hurricane seasons, and remains operational for exactly two years, at which point NASA begins a planned shutdown and phase-out of the experimental TIROS satellites in favor of the Nimbus and ESSA weather satellites.
The 78th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Time Meddler. This is the first time we meet another one of the Doctor’s people, with his own TARDIS, and the last Doctor Who story to be produced by the series’ original producer, Verity Lambert. (more…)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the ninth episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick. This episode features scenes filmed on location at the Parkes Radio Telescope.
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The 79th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Time Meddler. This is the first time we meet another one of the Doctor’s people, with his own TARDIS, and the last Doctor Who story to be produced by the series’ original producer, Verity Lambert.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the tenth episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick.
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