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Streaming service Disney+ releases the the tenth episode of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, starring Pedro Pascal. Amy Sedaris and Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace) guest star. 
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the third episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, aboard the U.S.S. Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery). Doug Jones and Michelle Yeoh star.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 64th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Lars Mikkelsen, Clancy Brown, and Warwick Davis (Willow, Return Of The Jedi) guest star.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 63rd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Lars Mikkelsen, Clancy Brown, and Warwick Davis (Willow, Return Of The Jedi) guest star.
Gemini and Apollo astronaut Richard “Dick” Gordon dies at the age of 88. A veteran of the record-setting Gemini 11 mission (during which he undertook a spacewalk at the unprecedented altitude of 850 miles above Earth’s surface) and the Apollo 12 mission (during which he manned the command module Yankee Clipper while crewmates Pete Conrad and Alan Bean walked on the moon), Gordon was a naval aviator who eventually graduated to test pilot duties, eventually specializing in the F4H Phantom II fighter and teaching other pilots how to fly it. After his Apollo flight and retirement from NASA, Gordon kept working in the technology and engineering industries, but also diversified, becoming Executive VP of the New Orleans Saints football team.
The 28th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) and Dylan Neal (Babylon 5: The Legend Of The Rangers) guest star.
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The fourth episode of Russell T. Davies’ children’s science fiction series Wizards vs. Aliens airs on CBBC., starring Annette Badland, Brian Blessed (Flash Gordon), and Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones).
Cable channel AMC premieres the tenth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name, starring Andrew Lincoln.
The 31st episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
Expansion Team Records releases the album Robo Sapiens by Malibu (a pseudonym for former Jellyfish member Roger Joseph Manning Jr.); the album was released several months earlier in Japan.
The seventh episode of Tim Kring’s sci-fi/superhero series Heroes airs on NBC, starring Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia. Richard Roundtree (Shaft) guest stars.
BBC Home Video and 2|entertain release the 1968 Doctor Who story The Invasion on DVD. (This title will receive a later release date in North America.)
The 32nd episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. Bruce Davison (X-Men) guest stars.
The fifth episode of the superhero series Birds Of Prey, based on characters from the DC Comics universe, airs on the WB. Lori Loughlin (Full House) guest stars.
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The 107th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star in a heavily-publicized musical episode. Hinton Battle guest stars.
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Paramount Home Video releases Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition on DVD.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 118th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor.
The 72nd episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, and Von Flores. Christina Cox (F/X: The Series) guest stars.
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The fifth episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler. Shawn Christian guest stars.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Second Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the tenure of the late Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor.
UPN airs the 49th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Ed Begley Jr. and Sarah Silverman guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 77th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, offering the Star Trek explanation for the legendary Roswell UFO incident.
The ninth episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), airs on UPN. Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the eighth episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst make their first guest appearance in the spinoff inspired by their Hercules series.
UPN airs the 24th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Henry Darrow guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Babylon 5, the first of the series’ third season. Jason Carter joins the cast as Marcus Cole. Tucker Smallwood and Kitty Swink guest star. With parent network PTEN reduced to a syndication service for Babylon 5 and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, the “week of” syndication window is adjusted to the beginning of each week.
The first episode of the science fiction series Earth 2 premieres on NBC, starring Debrah Farentino, Clancy Brown, and Antonio Sabato Jr.
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NBC airs the 59th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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The fifth episode of She-Wolf Of London is broadcast in syndication in North America, a co-production between Universal Studios and British broadcaster HTV, and starring Kate Hodge and Neil Dickson.
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Fox Network premieres the eighth episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Annabelle Gurwitch (The X-Files) guest stars; this episode’s cliffhanger ending is not resolved until the post-series TV movie Dark Horizon.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 54th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Andreas Katsulas (Babylon 5) guest stars in an episode written by future Farscape producer David Kemper.
The 28th episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. Mary Crosby guest stars.
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The fifth episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. Susan Oliver (Star Trek) guest stars.
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CBS airs the sixth episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. John McLiam guest stars.
Disneyland Records releases an LP with selections from John Barry’s soundtrack for the movie The Black Hole, the first movie soundtrack ever recorded digitally. If anything, the music proves to be more enduring than the film it was meant to accompany, though Disney allows it to go out of print, never re-releasing it in any other format. A complete version will finally arrive on CD in 2011.
ITV airs the 13th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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The 87th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk) guest stars.
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The premiere installment of the five-minute astronomy series Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler marks the beginning of the show’s four-decade run on PBS. Hosted by Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium, the show initially airs only on Florida’s PBS channel, and will not enter national syndication to other PBS outlets until 1985. It is often the last thing to air before sign-off, as Horkheimer encourages viewers to step outside and stargaze after the show is over. Horkheimer will host the series until his death in 2010.
CBS airs the ninth episode of Filmation’s live-action Saturday morning science fiction series Ark II.
The fourth episode of Wonder Woman airs on ABC, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. John Saxon guest stars, and Debra Winger makes her first TV appearance as Wonder Woman’s younger sister.
The 438th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. For the first time in the series’ history, the Doctor is seen to be traveling without a companion, and this story marks his second visit to the Time Lords’ planet Gallifrey since the beginning of the series. Much of the Time Lord mythology is derived from this story. Peter Pratt guest stars as the Master.
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NBC airs the ninth episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy starring Fred Grandy.
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ITV broadcasts the fourth episode of horror anthology Beasts, created and written by Nigel Kneale (Quatermass). Jane Wymark (Midsomer Murders), Simon MacCorkindale (Manimal), and Shelagh Frasier (Star Wars‘ Aunt Beru) star.
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ABC airs the ninth 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.
The tenth episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Guest starring in this episode is Paul Jones, one of the founding members of Manfred Mann.
The tenth episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s Far-Out Space Nuts airs on CBS, starring Bob Denver (Gillgan’s Island) and Chuck McCann (Herbie Rides Again).
NASA and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration launch NOAA-3, a weather satellite intended to operate in a near-polar low Earth orbit. NOAA-3 is based on the already-flown ITOS satellite design, and will wait in orbit until March 1974, when the failure of an instrument aboard its predecessor, NOAA-2, requires putting NOAA-3 on full weather-watching duty, where it will remain without any major malfunctions through August 1976.
The 66th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Hugh Marlowe guest stars.
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The ninth episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, is broadcast on CBS.
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The second in NASA’s series of Lunar Orbiter satellites lifts off from Earth on a course for the moon. Lunar Orbiter 2 spends a full week examining the surface of the moon from orbit, sending back high-resolution TV images for mapping purposes, and to help NASA scientists and engineers select suitable landing sites for the upcoming Apollo program. Lunar Orbiter 2’s orbital path allows it to image a particularly promising plain in the Sea of Tranquility…
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