Alan Parsons: A Valid Path
The Alan Parsons album A Valid Path is released, featuring guest appearances by Shpongle, Roger Waters, The Crystal Method and John Cleese (!).
Stargate SG-1: Between Two Fires
Pay cable channel Showtime airs the 95th episode of Stargate SG-1. Garwin Sanford and Peter Wingfield (Highlander) guest star.
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Welcome To Paradox: Research Alpha
The second episode of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Welcome To Paradox airs, a loosely-connected anthology of science fiction stories set in Betaville, a utopian future city whose incredible technology has frequently unintended side-effects. Robert Wisden (Jeremiah, Smallville) stars in a story adapted from the works of SF authors James H. Schmitz and A.E. van Vogt.
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Sliders: California Reich
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 58th episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, and Charlie O’Connell.
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Return To Jupiter: Terminex
The 12th episode of Return To Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Sonia Todd (Home And Away) and David Wenham (The Lord Of The Rings trilogy).
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Star Cops: Other People’s Secrets
The eighth episode of Chris Boucher’s futuristic police drama Star Cops premieres on BBC2. Geoffrey Bayldon guest stars. 
Wendy Carlos: Digital Moonscapes
CBS Records releases Wendy Carlos‘ instrumental album Digital Moonscapes. Performed entirely on synthesizers (credited on the album to the “LSI Philharmonic Orchestra”), the album includes one track (“Io”) which was originally composed for, and dropped from, a scene in the movie Tron (for which Carlos also composed the soundtrack).
Ultima II
Sierra releases the computer role playing game game Ultima II: Revenge Of The Enchantress for the Apple II. Written by Richard “Lord British” Garriott, this is the second volume of the best-selling Ultima series of RPGs, and the first to introduce space travel and science fiction elements into the games’ sword-and-sorcery fantasy setting.
Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Six, Part 2
ITV airs the 32nd episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. David Collings and Edward de Souza guest star.
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Quinn Martin’s Tales Of The Unexpected: No Way Out
NBC airs the eighth and final episode of Quinn Martin’s horror/sci-fi anthology Tales Of The Unexpected. (This series is not to be confused with the longer-lived British series of the same name, created by acclaimed author Roald Dahl.) Bill Bixby (The Magician, The Incredible Hulk) and Robert Pine (CHiPs) guest star. (The series has already been cancelled at this point; NBC is burning off the remaining episodes into off-season time slots.)
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Abandon ship!: Soyuz 21’s hasty return
42 days into their stay aboard the military space station Salyut 5, Soviet cosmonauts Boris Volynov and Vitaly Zholobov report unusual odors in the station’s air. On the 49th day of their stay, the two men bundle into their Soyuz 21 capsule to return home on only 10 hours’ notice, an unprecedented event. Details of the causes of the emergency return remain closely guarded to this day, including the possibility of toxic gas escaping into the station’s atmosphere and causing one or both cosmonauts to suffer rapidly deteriorating health. Neither of them fly in space again after their return.
Doctor Who: The Dominators, Part 3
The 212th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This story is the beginning of season six, Patrick Troughton’s final season and the last season to be shot in black & white.
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Luna 11
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 11 toward the moon, the first of a new, smaller generation of Luna probes designed to survey the moon from orbit. Unlike its predecessor, Luna 11 is equipped with cameras, and like NASA’s Lunar Orbiter, Luna 11 is tasked with mapping the moon in advance of a presumed attempt to land cosmonauts there. However, an attitude control problem points Luna 11’s cameras away from the moon, unable to transmit useful imagery back to Earth. Luna 11 remains functional in orbit of the moon for six weeks.
Men Into Space: Into The Sun
The 35th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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Tales Of Tomorrow: The Woman At Land’s End
The fourth episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, air 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 no longer remains in the archives and may be lost.
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