The 22nd episode of Batman airs on ABC. Burgess Meredith guest stars as the Penguin. (This is part two of a two-part story; each week’s story unfolds in two half-hour episodes on Monday and Tuesday.) 
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The 110th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Ark.
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The 23rd episode of Batman airs on ABC. Frank Gorshin guest stars as the Riddler. (more…)
The 25th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.
UK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 26th episode of Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation science fiction series Thunderbirds, featuring the voices of Shane Rimmer, David Graham, Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, and Peter Dyneley. This is the first season finale.
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The 24th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Frank Gorshin guest stars as the Riddler. (more…)
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 10 toward the moon, where it becomes the moon’s first artificial satellite. Luna 10 remains functional for two months, during which a pre-recorded signal from it becomes one of the highlights of the 23rd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. Luna 10 does not take photos of the moon from orbit, but does find varying concentrations of mass within the lunar surface. This is the last of the original “large” Luna probes, with later orbiters taking on a more compact form, and later large Luna probes containing landers and sample return rockets.
The 111th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Celestial Toymaker. The first story of the series under the stewardship of its third producer, Innes Lloyd, this episode is missing from the BBC’s archives. (more…)
The 25th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Cesar Romero guest stars as the Joker. (more…)
The 26th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Werner Klemperer (Hogan’s Heroes) guest stars.
The 26th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Cesar Romero guest stars as the Joker.
NASA launches its first space-based telescope, the unmanned Orbiting Astronomical Observatory satellite, into Earth orbit. Weighing nearly two tons and sporting visible, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray astronomy capabilities, OAO is in trouble mere minutes after it goes into service: a serious electrical failure leaves the spacecraft in a blind tumble, and it will be declared a loss three days after launch. NASA will attempt another OAO launch in 1968.
The 112th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Celestial Toymaker. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 27th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Victor Buono guest stars as King Tut. 
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The 27th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Royal Dano guest stars.
The 28th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Victor Buono guest stars as King Tut. (more…)
The 113th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Celestial Toymaker. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 29th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Roddy McDowall (Planet Of The Apes, The Fantastic Journey) guest stars as the Bookworm. (more…)
The 28th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.
The 30th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Roddy McDowall (Planet Of The Apes, The Fantastic Journey) guest stars as the Bookworm. (more…)
The 114th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Celestial Toymaker. This is the only episode of this story not missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 31st episode of Batman airs on ABC. Frank Gorshin guest stars as the Riddler. (more…)
The 29th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. This episode wraps up the first season, and is the final episode of Lost In Space to be broadcast in black & white.
The 32nd episode of Batman airs on ABC. Frank Gorshin guest stars as the Riddler. (more…)
The 115th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Gunfighters. This is the final Doctor Who serial whose episodes have individual titles. (more…)
The 33rd episode of Batman airs on ABC. Burgess Meredith guest stars as the Penguin. (more…)
The 34th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Burgess Meredith guest stars as the Penguin in the final episode of the show’s wildly successful first season. (more…)
The 116th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Gunfighters.
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The 117th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Gunfighters.
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NASA launches the Nimbus 2 satellite, designed to observe weather patterns from orbit and test new weather and climate detection technologies. Nimbus 2’s only means of data storage fails within weeks, and that system’s only backup fails later in the year. Nimbus 2 is shut down in 1969 when the system it uses to maintain orientation to Earth’s horizon also fails.
The 118th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Gunfighters. This is the final episode of the original series with an episode title independent of the story’s overall umbrella title; all future episodes will simply be “part one,” “part two,” etc. of their respective stories.
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The 119th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Frederick Jaegar guest stars. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives. (more…)
NASA’s first attempt to soft-land an unmanned space probe on another body in the solar system ends with a perfect landing: Surveyor 1 snaps photos from the moon’s surface, takes measurements of the local environment, and provides valuable engineering data about the surface that will prove helpful in constructing the much heavier Apollo lunar modules that will – it is hoped – take astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade.
Gemini 9 lifts off on a three-day mission to complete the still unfulfilled docking objectives of the Gemini program. The flight has already seen significant problems, not the least of which is the death of the originally-assigned crew, Elliott See and Charles Bassett, in an accident involving T-38 training jets. The backup crew, Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan, fly Gemini 9 instead, but find that their rendezvous/docking target is still trapped in the aerodynamic shroud that protected it during launch (the shroud would normally have been jettisoned). Furthermore, a spacewalk has been written into the mission plan, requiring Cernan to leave Gemini and go to the rear of the vehicle to unstow and test a “jetpack” (an early prototype of the Manned Maneuvering Unit that will finally see use in the space shuttle program in the 1980s). The spacewalk becomes a two-hour ordeal which leaves Cernan exhausted, thanks to the lack of handholds on the exterior of the Gemini capsule. The flight ends after three days in space.
The 120th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Frederick Jaegar guest stars. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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