Electronic Games Magazine
Reese Communications publishes the first issue – and, if it doesn’t sell well, likely the only issue – of Electronic Games Magazine, the first periodical devoted to video games and other electronic forms of entertainment. Video Magazine columnists Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz (operating under the pseudonym Frank Laney Jr. in order to protect his more “serious” writing work) propose the magazine after a string of successful video-game-focused issues of Video, and, with Katz’ wife Joyce Worley joining in the writing and editing duties, become the first video game journalists, inventing such now-common terms as “playfield”, “screenshot”, and “Easter egg”. Though the first issue could have been a one-off experiment, the magazine goes monthly by the end of spring 1982.
Radar Scope
Having just opened up its American branch, Japanese video game manufacturer Nintendo introduces its first arcade game, the virtually-unknown space shooter Radar Scope. The game fails to make a splash, and many of the Radar Scope cabinets in Nintendo’s warehouse are later converted into their next (and far more profitable) game, which involves a plumber saving a woman from a gorilla.
Battlestar Galactica: Gun On Ice Planet Zero
The seventh episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC. This episode is part two of a two-part story; Roy Thinnes (The Invaders) guest stars.
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The Bionic Woman: African Connection
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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Doctor Who: Image Of The Fendahl, Part 1
The 462nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star.
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Space Academy: The Phantom Planet
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.
Night Gallery: Spectre In Tap-Shoes
NBC airs the 33rd episode of Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Rod Serling. Sandra Dee guest stars.
The Immortal: Man On A Punched Card
ABC airs the sixth episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal, starring Christopher George. Lynda Day George (Mission: Impossible) guest stars.
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White Noise: An Electric Storm
Island Records releases the debut album by White Noise, an ad hoc early electronic music group including David Vorhaus and members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Man Of Many Faces
The 90th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Jock Gaynor guest stars.
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The Prisoner: The Schizoid Man
ITV broadcasts the fifth episode of The Prisoner, produced, occasionally written by, and starring Patrick McGoohan. Anton Rodgers guest stars as Number Two.
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Part 4
The 134th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This concludes the first story to feature the Cybermen, and is the first episode in the show’s history in which the Doctor regenerates. The new Doctor, Patrick Troughton, is glimpsed briefly at the end of the episode.
In perhaps the most painful example of episode wiping in the show’s history, this episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives, though the scene of the Doctor’s first regeneration has since been recovered.
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Science Fiction Theatre: The Water Maker
The 27th episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars William Talman, Virginia Grey, and Craig Stevens.
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