The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 25 into Earth orbit, with cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Valery Ryumin set to become the first occupants of the new Salyut 6 space station. However, the crew is unable to successfully dock Soyuz 25 to Salyut 6, and after a fifth attempt to dock, the mission is aborted and the cosmonauts are recalled to Earth due to concerns about the remaining fuel in their vehicle. As a result, Soyuz 25 is the last all-rookie Soviet space crew until the 1990s.
ITV airs the fourth episode of Raven, starring Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia) and Shirley Cheriton (EastEnders). 
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Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its fourth free-flight after separating from its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, gliding to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base’s dry lake bed runway. For the first time, Enterprise’s engines are left exposed, adding to the drag experienced by the gliding shuttle rather than masking the engines with a protective cover. This more accurately simulates the aerodynamics of a shuttle returning from space. Enterprise’s crew for the two-and-a-half-minute flight consists of Joe Engle and Richard Truly.
The second episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) guest stars. (more…)
The Atari Video Computer System, model number CX2600, hits retail stores in the United States, primarily through a deal with Sears (which has a contractual right to repackage it as the Sears Video Arcade). Packaged with two joysticks, a pair of paddles, and the two-player-only tank game Combat, the VCS isn’t quite a runaway success, with only a quarter million units selling by Christmas 1977. (more…)
The 18th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Jayne Kennedy and Ted Shackelford (Space Precinct) guest star.
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The 41st episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Andrew Prine (V, Weird Science) guest stars.
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The sixth episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. Living asteroids rock the Space Academy cadets back on their heels. (more…)
NASA prepares a preliminary schedule of Space Shuttle launches, covering the years 1979-1982 (and assuming the shuttle will be ready to launch in 1979). The ambitious schedule (which also assumes, in line with current planning, that the test orbiter Enterprise will be upgraded to spaceworthiness) includes almost-monthly flights from 1979 onward to deploy communications and weather satellites already on the drawing board, as well as frequent science missions with the cargo-bay-mounted Spacelab. On only the second test flight, the schedule has OV-102 (yet to be named Columbia) slated for a mission to the abandoned early 1970s space station Skylab, using a teleoperator retrieval system which also exists only on paper. While many of the schedule’s goals will be met, the delay in the shuttle program will be longer than NASA anticipates at this time.
The 460th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back) and Frederick Jaeger guest star; John Leeson joins the cast as the voice of K-9.
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The 85th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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ITV airs the fifth episode of Raven, starring Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia) and Shirley Cheriton (EastEnders). (more…)
CBS airs the fifth episode of the TV adaptation of Logan’s Run. Mel Ferrer guest stars in an episode directed by future Cheers star Nicholas Colasanto. (more…)
The third episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) guest stars. (more…)
Electric Light Orchestra‘s seventh album, Out Of The Blue, is released, featuring the singles “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”, “Turn To Stone” and “Mr. Blue Sky”. Perhaps reflecting the now-widespread fascination with science fiction, this is the first ELO album to depict the band’s logo as a giant spaceship, a theme which is carried over into the extravagant set for the world tour that takes up ELO’s schedule for the next year. (more…)
NASA’s Viking 2 orbiter closes to within 40 miles of Mars’ small outermost moon, Deimos, the first spacecraft to visit the tiny moon up close. Deimos is found to be cratered and irregularly shaped, confirming the likelihood that it is an asteroid that once strayed close enough to Mars to fall into orbit.
NASA announces that Voyagers 1 and 2 may be in a unique position to study the newly-discovered Comet Kohler 1977 XIV, discovered just days before Voyager 1’s launch. Both Voyagers are expected to pass Comet Kohler at a distance of a little over 1 astronomical unit (AU), equivalent to the distance between Earth and the Sun, in November, and the possibility of examining the comet with their onboard instruments is proposed. This plan is eventually abandoned, since the comet will track near the sun, direct exposure to which could harm the television tube cameras installed aboard each Voyager. The exploration of comets with robotic spacecraft will have to wait until the 1980s.
The 19th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Martin Mull and Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch) guest star.
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The seventh episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. A simian sidekick saves the day when a routine repair mission goes wrong. (more…)
The 461st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back) and Frederick Jaeger guest star; John Leeson joins the cast as the voice of K-9.
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ITV airs the sixth and final episode of Raven, starring Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia) and Shirley Cheriton (EastEnders). (more…)
The fourth episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Basketball superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar guest stars. (more…)
Astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton bring Space Shuttle Enterprise back to the ground safely for its fifth free-flight landing test, the second to land with the shuttle’s engines exposed and the first to land on an actual paved runway at Edwards Air Force Base. The crew successfully compensates for a “bouncing” problem experienced on previous shuttle test landings, proving that Enterprise’s sister ships should be able to land safely after returning from orbit. Following this test, Enterprise is slated to undergo a major refit to finish it out into a spaceworthy orbiter, but NASA ultimately decides the process is too expensive. This is the final free-flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
The 20th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Juliet Mills (Nanny and the Professor), David Hedison (Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea), and John Colicos (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
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The 42nd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Dan O’Herlihy (Colditz, Whiz Kids) and Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
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The eighth episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. Just in time for Halloween, the Academy is haunted by a spirit from a doomed planet. (more…)
The 47th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. (more…)
The 462nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star. (more…)
The 86th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Robert Loggia and Rick Springfield guest star.
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CBS airs the sixth episode of the TV adaptation of Logan’s Run. Kim Cattrall guest stars. (more…)
The fifth episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) and Gary Owens (Space Ghost) guest star. (more…)
The movie-length first episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk premieres on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Of the many Marvel Comics-derived TV projects on CBS’ late ’70s schedule, The Incredible Hulk is the only one that sticks around for a lengthy run extending into the 1980s. 
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The ninth episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. One of the cadets discovers that his science experiment has potentially deadly side effects. (more…)