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ABC airs the fourth episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, and starring Darren McGavin. Larry Storch and William Daniels guest star. 
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The fifth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Ron Soble guest stars.
The fifth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC. This episode is written by SF novelist Norman Spinrad. (more…)
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The voyage of the World War II battleship-turned-space-cruiser begins with the colorfully-named premiere episode, S.O.S. Earth: Revive Space Battleship Yamato! The first episode of Space Battleship Yamato airs in Japan, though years later it will gain popularity in the English-speaking world as the translated, re-dubbed and heavily edited Star Blazers.
The fifth episode of the TV spinoff of Planet Of The Apes premieres on CBS. (more…)
The sixth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
The sixth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC. This episode, written by former Star Trek cast member Walter Koenig, introduces the character of Enik. (more…)
The 22nd episode of the animated Star Trek airs on NBC, bringing both the second season and the animated series to a close. This episode introduces now-retired Robert April, the name originally envisioned by Gene Roddenberry for the captain of the Enterprise. (more…)
The sixth episode of the TV spinoff of Planet Of The Apes premieres on CBS. Roscoe Lee Browne guest stars. (more…)
The seventh episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
The seventh episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC, as the Marshall children nearly fall victim to mind-altering Sleestak technology. (more…)
The eighth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
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The eighth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC, as the Marshall kids find a strange device that controls both the floating pylons and the weather. (more…)
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Luna 23 toward the moon, intended to gather surface samples from the Mare Imbrium region for return to Earth. The sample collection hardware is unable to complete its task after landing, and ground controllers are only able to receive partial scientific data from the lander, whose batteries run out within three days of landing. It won’t be until 2012, when NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs Luna 23’s landing site from orbit, that the truth will be learned: the lander tipped over on its side during a descent mishap, leaving it intact but unable to gather a soil sample.
The 18th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Monte Markham guest stars.
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ABC airs the fifth episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Eric Braeden guest stars. (more…)
The ninth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 16, a six-day manned space mission to test modifications to the Soyuz vehicle design ahead of 1975‘s Apollo-Soyuz Test Project international flight. Cosmonauts Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov test the new Soyuz docking mechanism and solar panels, and new rendezvous/docking equipment intended to assist with the Apollo-Soyuz flight as well as to prevent “wasted” missions such as Soyuz 15.
“Kee Games” (a shell company created by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell) introduces a new arcade game, a video war between two artillery commanders called Tank. The first video game to require each player to man two joysticks, designed to mimic real tank controls, Tank is later immortalized in the first pack-in launch title for the Atari VCS console, under the title of Combat. (more…)
The 19th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Meg Foster guest stars in an episode written by D.C. Fontana (Star Trek).
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The ninth episode of the TV spinoff of Planet Of The Apes premieres on CBS. John Hoyt and Morgan Woodward guest star.
ABC airs the sixth episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Madlyn Rhue guest stars. (more…)
The tenth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. This episode is written by Donald F. Glut (latter better known for writing the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back).
The eighth episode of the British comedy series Robert’s Robots airs on ITV licensee Thames Television, starring John Clive (A Clockwork Orange, Yellow Submarine) as eccentric inventor Robert Sommerby and Nigel Pegram as one of his robot creations. This is the beginning of the show’s second season.
The 20th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Farley Granger guest stars.
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NASA and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration launch NOAA-4, a weather satellite intended to operate in a near-polar low Earth orbit. NOAA-4 is based on the already-flown ITOS satellite design, and will operate without any major malfunctions through November 1978.
The tenth episode of the TV spinoff of Planet Of The Apes premieres on CBS. Beverly Garland guest stars. (more…)
ABC airs the seventh episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Tom Skerritt and Stanley Adams guest star. (more…)
The 11th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
The first transmission from Earth designed to be a message for interstellar listeners is broadcast from the newly-refurbished Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. Weighing in at 210 bytes, the message is a binary transmission that, when properly assembled, provides a graphical representation of Earth’s solar system, a human being, the makeup of human DNA and the elements from which it is constructed, and the population of Earth. Though the Arecibo dish is pointed in the direction of the M13 globular cluster at the time of the message’s transmission, that cluster will have moved in the 25,000 years it takes for the message to reach that location (and, in any case, Earth and its entire solar system will have moved in the 25,000 additional years it would take to receive a reply), so the message is more of an interstellar technology demo than a message in a bottle.
Electric Light Orchestra‘s fourth album, Eldorado, is released, featuring the single “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head”. This is the first ELO album with a full orchestra (as opposed to previous albums’ practice of overdubbing three string players endlessly), and the first to be released in the US before its UK release date. (more…)