The 317th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.
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The tenth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Stefanie Powers (The Girl From UNCLE, Hart To Hart) guest stars.
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The 318th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star. 
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The 11th episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Frank Converse (Coronet Blue) guest stars.
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BBC1 airs the 28th episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 319th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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The 12th episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins.
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NASA launches the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, lasting 11 days total. Astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke descend to the lunar surface in the lander Orion, while Ken Mattingly pilots the command/service module Casper in orbit. Again, a lunar rover is tucked into one side of the lunar module, allowing Young and Duke to reach distances of 16 miles from their landing site. They spend a total of 20 hours walking on the moon’s surface, collecting over 200 pounds of soil and rock samples from the Descartes highlands region.
Students and seasoned weather researchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma embark on the Tornado Intercept Project (TIP), a concerted effort to gather film footage of developing or active tornadoes in an effort to study wind and debris patterns. Though believed by some to be of limited scientific value, TIP is the beginning of “storm chasing” and yields major breakthroughs in scientific understanding of the formation of tornadoes just one year later.
ITV premieres the first episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings originally made to sell to foreign markets. It is these recordings that will eventually get a DVD release in the 21st century.
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The 320th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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The 13th episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Christine Belford, George Murdock, and Michael Pataki guest star in the last episode of the show’s first season.
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ITV broadcasts the second episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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The 321st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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ITV broadcasts the third episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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The 322nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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ITV broadcasts the fourth episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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The 323rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) and John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back) guest star.
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ITV broadcasts the fifth episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.
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Having spent six years wrangling with various mission profiles for a “Grand Tour” of the outer solar system, made possible by a favorable planetary alignment occurring only once every 175 years, NASA finally authorizes a very stripped-down version of its original ambitious Grand Tour plans. The Mariner Jupiter/Saturn ’77 mission will consist of two twin unmanned spacecraft to be launched in 1977, each on a course to explore Jupiter, and then to use Jupiter’s gravity to deflect them to Saturn. These spacecraft will be renamed Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 just a few months before lifting off.
The 324th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur. (more…)
After two years of hammering out details and wording, President Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin sign an international agreement to share science and technology between the United States and Soviet Union, including an agreement to mount a joint space mission culminating in the docking of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit in 1975. Both nations’ space agencies begin crew selection and technical preparations for a joint venture that seemed impossible during the Cold War-fueled race to the moon.
ITV broadcasts the sixth and final episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings. It is those recordings that will allow the series to resurface on DVD in the 21st century.
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The 325th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur.
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The 326th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur.
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BBC1 airs the 27th episode of Doomwatch, opening the show’s third season and adding new cast member Elizabeth Weaver. This episode, featuring Jonathan Pryce in a minor guest-starring role, no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 327th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur.
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The 328th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur.
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BBC1 airs the 29th episode of Doomwatch. This episode, guest starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures) no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
With planning already well underway for the Apollo-Soyuz mission which won’t take place until 1975, NASA commissions a study from McDonnell Douglas to explore the feasibility of a follow-up to the international space mission, possibly involving joining the backup of the Skylab space station (known as “Skylab B”) and a yet-to-be-launched Soviet Salyut space station at some point in the latter half of the 1970s, effectively creating a joint international space station. Although the study goes so far as to specify issues of concern regarding the structure of the two stations and their respective standard atmospheric pressures, the recommendations are shelved pending the outcome of the Apollo-Soyuz flight. Significant political developments in the late 1970s will prevent the idea of an international station from moving forward for at least a quarter century.
The 329th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur. This episode ends the ninth season.
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In Santa Clara, California, Atari is formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The company is initially part of Bushnell’s desire to continue competing in the coin-operated game market, where he believes video games can take part of the market share from pinball, but consumer products are not far from Bushnell’s mind either: two weeks before Atari’s incorporation, he attends a Magnavox product fair and gets a first-hand look at the first home video game console.
The fourth Planet Of The Apes film, Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes is released in theaters, starring Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, and Ricardo Montalban. The Apes film franchise shifts to a near-future setting that picks up the threads of Escape. (more…)
BBC1 airs the 31st episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
Space shuttle contractor North American Rockwell submits a safety study to NASA concerning safety and escape systems for the upcoming space shuttle, including a study of smaller vehicles with potential use as “lifeboats” in the event that a shuttle is unfit for return to Earth due to heat shield or other catastrophic damage. The various proposals, which include the possibility of permanently berthing an Apollo command module (another vehicle contracted to North American Rockwell) in the shuttle’s cargo bay for use as a lifeboat, are rejected by NASA due to the impact that each proposal would have on available space and weight for cargo.