After years of studies into the feasibility of constructing a nationwide disaster alert system, NOAA Weather Radio is officially designated the “sole government operated radio system” for both weather-related disasters and other major emergency announcements (nuclear attacks are specifically mentioned in the declaration from President Ford). This shift in policy toward using the National Weather Service’s radio infrastructure for all potential disaster situations is at least partially inspired by the April 1974 tornado “Super Outbreak” in the midwest. For the first time, Congress approves a budget earmarked specifically for weather radio, topping $3,000,000 for expansion in 1976.
The second episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. 
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The 26th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Linda Marsh (The Facts Of Life) and Jeff Corey (Star Trek, Babylon 5) guest star.
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ABC airs the 13th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Jamie Farr (M*A*S*H) and Katharine Woodville guest star. (more…)
The 385th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the first story of the fourth Doctor’s era.
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The 27th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. John Fujioka and Robert Ito guest star.
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The third episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
NASA launches its second Landsat satellite, originally named ERTS-2 (Earth Resource Technology Satellite) and still based on the Nimbus experimental weather and Earth-observation satellites. Originally intended to be online for a year, Landsat 2 functions through 1982, carrying a suite of instruments and sensors nearly identical to that of Landsat 1.
One day before deorbiting the vacant space station for reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, Soviet military space officials fire the anti-aircraft cannon mounted on the exterior of space station Salyut 3 – the first test of spacecraft-to-spacecraft weapons in history (though there is no target on which to test the ammunition rounds). Without a steerable mount, in practice, the entire Salyut 3 station would need to have been pointed at the gun’s target. The station is destroyed by friction upon atmospheric reentry a day later.
ABC airs the 14th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Bernie Koppell (The Love Boat) and Lara Parker (Dark Shadows) guest star. (more…)
The 386th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. (more…)
The 28th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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The fourth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
Fawcett publishes the novel Phoenix Without Ashes by Edward Bryant, based upon the original premise of the short-lived early ’70s Canadian television series The Starlost, created by Harlan Ellison; Ellison himself expounds on the trials and tribulations of making that show in an extended foreword. (more…)
With the final Apollo spacecraft’s flight mere months away, an internal NASA document examining the progress of the Space Shuttle program, approved in 1972 by President Nixon, spells out what seems like a worst-case scenario: thanks to the difficulties of creating whole new orders of technology to create a reusable space vehicle (on a budget which each successive Congress keeps slashing), the shuttle won’t be lifting off until 1979 at the earliest, leaving a potential four-year gap in American crewed spaceflight when NASA was anticipating (and publicizing) a gap of no more than two years. (In actuality, the time between crewed American space missions will be even longer than that.)
ABC airs the 15th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Jim Backus (Gilligan’s Island) and Larry Linville (M*A*S*H) guest star in an episode co-written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, who would collaborate years later on Back To The Future. (more…)
The 387th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1.
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The 29th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Jess Walton guest stars.
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The fifth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
ABC airs the 16th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Andrew Prine and Keenan Wynn guest star. (more…)
The 388th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1.
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The sixth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
ABC airs the 17th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Erik Estrada (CHiPS) guest stars. (more…)
The 389th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1.
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The seventh episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
The The 30th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Robert DoQui and Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk) guest star.
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The eighth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. Tom Chadbon (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) guest stars. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
The 391st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1.
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The 31st episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Dick Van Patten (Eight Is Enough) guest stars.
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The ninth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. Tom Chadbon (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) and Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest star. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. (more…)
Future Star Trek: Enterprise co-star Jolene Blalock is born in California. After a career in modeling, she will move into acting, with her role as Enterprise’s resident Vulcan crew member T’Pol standing out as her most recognized work. She will also appear in such TV series as Legend Of The Seeker, G vs. E and Stargate SG-1.
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ABC airs the 18th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Hans Conreid guest stars. (more…)
The 392nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This episode marks the first-ever appearance of Davros in the series, as well as the first attempt to nail down an origin story for the Daleks themselves. (more…)
The tenth and final episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest stars. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975; an entire generation of young viewers will go on to consider the short series a seminal event in UK genre TV. (more…)