Day: September 28, 1970

Timeslip: The Wrong End Of Time, Part 1

TimeslipITV premieres the first episode of Timeslip, a time travel adventure series aimed at younger viewers. (Though produced in color, later purges at ITV’s archive facility leaves future generations with only black & white copies of this and most other episodes.)

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Strange Report: Report 0649: Skeleton – Let Sleeping Heroes Lie

Strange ReportITV airs the second episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.)

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Land Of The Giants: Six Hours To Live

Land Of The GiantsABC airs the 28th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Sam Elliott guest star.

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Fantastic Voyage: The Magic Crystal Of Kabala

Fantastic VoyageABC broadcasts the third episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.

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Lost In Space: The Ghost Planet

Lost In SpaceThe 32nd 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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Batman: The Spell Of Tut

BatmanThe 41st episode of Batman airs on ABC. Victor Buono guest stars as the Minstrel; Van Williams and Bruce Lee reprise their Green Hornet characters in a cameo appearance.

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The Avengers: The Town Of No Return

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 79th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. This is the premiere of the series’ fourth season, and the first season to be shot on film rather than videotape.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Fear-Makers

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe third episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison, based on Allen’s 1961 movie of the same name. Lloyd Bochner guest stars.

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The Avengers: Brief For Murder

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 53rd episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. By this episode, which opens the third season, the series has moved firmly into a light-hearted spy-fi vein far removed from its original gritty formulation with two male leads. Where Steed’s sidekicks were on something of a rotation during the second season, Honor Blackman is now the series’ sole female lead.

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H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: Behind The Mask

H.G. Wells' The Invisible ManThe third episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, premieres on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. on CBS. Deborah Watling (Doctor Who) stars.

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Tales Of Tomorrow: The Dark Angel

Tales Of TomorrowThe eighth 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 stars Sidney Blackmer and Meg Mundy.

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Ananke

AnankeUsing a telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, astronomer Seth Nicholson discovers Ananke, a tiny moon of Jupiter orbiting the huge planet at an average distance of 21 million miles and at a high inclination relative to Jupiter’s equator. Ananke is most likely a captured asteroid or the remnant of a captured asteroid, and other small Jovian moons in the same orbit may be other pieces of the captured (and shredded) body. Ananke is the first Jovian moon discovered in nearly two decades, and it will be over two more decades before another is found.