Day: February 8, 1969

Planet Of The Apes

Planet Of The ApesStarring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall, 20th Century Fox’s big-screen release of Planet Of The Apes quickly becomes one of 1968’s movie success stories, and easily one of the year’s two most influential genre films. Propelled into the future aboard a spacecraft from Earth, a trio of astronauts find themselves on a world ruled by sentient apes with no love of humanity whatsoever – for humanity nearly destroyed their world. The studio almost immediately sets the wheels in motion for a sequel.

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Lost In Space: The Space Vikings

Lost In SpaceThe 49th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.

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The Avengers: The Danger Makes

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 98th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Buccaneer

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 22nd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Barry Atwater and Gene Dynarski guest star.

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The Avengers: Trojan Horse

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 72nd episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.

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The Twilight Zone: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

The Twilight ZoneThe 142nd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Unusually for The Twilight Zone, this is an instance of a complete film presented as an episode, with only minor edits and Serling’s customary introduction added.

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Doctor Who: The Edge Of Destruction

Doctor WhoThe 12th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first part of the story now collectively known as The Edge Of Destruction, the first story – and one of very few in the series’ entire history – to take place entirely within the TARDIS.

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TIROS-4

TIROSNASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the fourth experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-4. Further refinements to the basic TIROS satellite system are made, and after TIROS-3’s discovery of a hurricane in the Atlantic well before it his the US, new enhancements are introduced specifically for early hurricane detection. TIROS-4 remains in orbit for less than six months.

Tales Of Tomorrow: What You Need

Tales Of TomorrowThe 19th episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode, based on a story which will later be adapted for an episode of The Twilight Zone, stars William Redfield.

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