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1976
Star Maidens: Nemesis

Star MaidensThe second episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.) The show stars Gareth Thomas and Judy Geeson, and involves male slaves who escape from the female-dominated society of planet Medusa to take shelter on Earth. Read more (more…)

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Shazam!: The Contest

Shazam!The 23rd episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. William Campbell (Star Trek) guest stars in the third season premiere.

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Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: The Sorcerer’s Golden Trick, Part 1

Electra Woman & Dyna GirlABC premieres the first episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part one of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes. Read more (more…)

Monster Squad: Queen Bee

Monster SquadNBC premieres the first episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy series imagining Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman as a crime-fighting team led by Walter (Fred Grandy, a year before he would set sail on The Love Boat). (Though similar in concept, the series is unrelated to the late theatrical movie of the same name.)

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Space: 1999: The Exiles

Space: 1999The 26th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. Read more (more…)

Doctor Who: The Masque Of Mandragora, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 429th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Gareth Armstrong and Tim Piggott-Smith guest star.

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Soyuz 22

generic Soyuz image - no mission-specific photos availableThe Soviet Union launches Soyuz 22, a vehicle originally built as a backup for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Unusually, the vehicle does not dock at the recently-launched Salyut 5 space station, but is instead placed in an unusual orbit that happens to make it easy to monitor a major NATO exercise near Norway. Cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Vladimir Aksyonov remain in that orbit for nearly eight days before returning to Earth.

Star Maidens: Nightmare Cannon

Star MaidensThe third episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.) Read more (more…)

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Enterprise leaves drydock

EnterpriseOn schedule, the Space Shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California to much public fanfare, a ceremony including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the cast who played the crew of the Enterprise’s fictional namesake (William Shatner was conspicuously absent). The timing of the rollout, ironically, was intended to roll the test shuttle – originally named Constitution – out of the hangar on Constitution Day during the bicentennial year.

First Star Trek movie announced

Star TrekHaving tried to find a suitable script for a big-screen relaunch of Star Trek virtually since the cancellation of the television series, Paramount – riding the coattails of the much-publicized unveiling of the Space Shuttle Enterprise – issues a press release announcing that the first Trek movie is finally underway – in this case, a still-in-development script called Star Trek: Planet Of Titans, featuring a radically redesigned Enterprise concept by illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, whose other recent genre work – designs for the yet-to-be-released Star Wars – has yet to make him a household name.

Shazam!: Bitter Herbs

Shazam!The 24th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Linden Chiles and James Van Pattern guest star.

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Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: The Sorcerer’s Golden Trick, Part 2

Electra Woman & Dyna GirlABC airs the second episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part two of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes. Read more (more…)

Monster Squad: Mr. Mephisto

Monster SquadNBC airs the second episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy starring Fred Grandy.

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Space: 1999: Journey To Where

Space: 1999The 27th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. Freddie Jones (Children Of The Stones, Dune) guest stars. Read more (more…)

Doctor Who: The Masque Of Mandragora, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 430th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Gareth Armstrong and Tim Piggott-Smith guest star.

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Ark II: The Slaves

Ark IICBS airs the second episode of Filmation’s live-action Saturday morning science fiction series Ark II. Read more (more…)

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Six Million Dollar Man: The Return Of Bigfoot Part 1

Six Million Dollar ManThe 58th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Lindsay Wagner, John Saxon, Sandy Duncan, Stefanie Powers, and Ted Cassidy guest star in the fourth season prmiere, whose story will be concluded on The Bionic Woman.

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The Bionic Woman: The Return Of Bigfoot Part 2

The Bionic WomanThe 15th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Lee Majors and Martin E. Brooks appear as their characters from The Six Million Dollar Man in the second season premiere, which is also a heavily promoted crossover event, part one of which was the season premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man. John Saxon, Ted Cassidy, Sandy Duncan, and Stefanie Powers guest star.

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Star Maidens: The Proton Storm

Star MaidensThe fourth episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.) Read more (more…)

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Gemini Man: Smithereens

Gemini ManNBC airs the first episode of Gemini Man, starring Ben Murphy and Katherine Crawford; William Sylvester takes over Richard Dysart’s role from the pilot movie, and Andrew Prine and country music artist Jim Stafford guest star. This episode becomes infamous for a later appearance on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Read more (more…)

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Shazam!: Ripcord

Shazam!The 25th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Patrick Labyorteaux (Little House On The Prairie, JAG) guest stars.

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Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Glitter Rock, Part 1

Electra Woman & Dyna GirlABC airs the third episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part one of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes. Read more (more…)

Monster Squad: The Tickler

Monster SquadNBC airs the third episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy starring Fred Grandy.

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Space: 1999: One Moment Of Humanity

Space: 1999The 28th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. Read more (more…)

Doctor Who: The Masque Of Mandragora, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 431st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Gareth Armstrong and Tim Piggott-Smith guest star.

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Ark II: The Wild Boy

Ark IICBS airs the third episode of Filmation’s live-action Saturday morning science fiction series Ark II. Read more (more…)

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Holmes & Yoyo: Pilot

Holmes & YoyoABC premieres the first episode of the sci-fi police comedy Holmes & Yoyo, starring Richard B. Shull and John Schuck (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Babylon 5). The series centers around an accident-prone police detective who takes on a robotic partner in human guise. Larry Hovis (Hogan’s Heroes) guest stars. Read more (more…)

Six Million Dollar Man: Nightmare In The Sky

Six Million Dollar ManThe 59th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Farrah Fawcett Majors and Donald Moffat (Logan’s Run) guest star.

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The Bionic Woman: In This Corner, Jaime Sommers

The Bionic WomanThe 16th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Martin E. Brooks (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Norman Fell (Three’s Company, The Ropers) guest star.

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Star Maidens: Kidnap

Star MaidensThe fifth episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. Terence Alexander guest stars. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.) Read more (more…)

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A boy, a girl, and a galaxy

Star WarsOn or around this date in 1976, the very first teaser trailers for an upcoming 20th Century Fox movie called Star Wars is shown in theaters for the first time, with the ominous voice of Malachi Throne (who had, coincidentally, appeared or done voice-overs numerous times in classic Star Trek) declaring that “somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now.” With no hint of the genre-defining soundtrack music, unfinished visual effects, stand-in stock sound effects, and a logo rendered in Helvetica, the effect is perhaps a bit underwhelming.

Gemini Man: The Minotaur

Gemini ManNBC airs the second episode of Gemini Man, starring Ben Murphy, Katherine Crawford, and William Sylvester (2001: a space odyssey). Ross Martin (The Wild Wild West) guest stars. Read more (more…)

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Shazam!: Finders Keepers

Shazam!The 26th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Joanna Cameron guest stars as Isis.

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Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Glitter Rock, Part 2

Electra Woman & Dyna GirlABC airs the fourth episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part two of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes. Read more (more…)