Day: November 5, 1983

Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends: Mission: Save The GuardStar

Spider-Man And His Amazing FriendsNBC airs the 24th and final episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, and Frank Welker.

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The Powers Of Matthew Star: Winning

The Powers Of Matthew StarThe seventh episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. Barry Van Dyke (Battlestar Galactica, Diagnosis Murder) guest stars.

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The Greatest American Hero: The Price Is Right

The Greatest American HeroABC airs the 32nd episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp.

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The Bionic Woman: Motorcycle Boogie

The Bionic WomanThe 43rd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Motorcycle stunt-riding legend Evel Knievel guest stars as himself.

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Space Academy: Planet Of Fire

Space AcademyThe ninth episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. One of the cadets discovers that his science experiment has potentially deadly side effects.

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Tank

Tank“Kee Games” (a shell company created by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell) introduces a new arcade game, a video war between two artillery commanders called Tank. The first video game to require each player to man two joysticks, designed to mimic real tank controls, Tank is later immortalized in the first pack-in launch title for the Atari VCS console, under the title of Combat.

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Night Gallery: The Ring With The Red Velvet Ropes

Night GalleryNBC airs the 34th episode of Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Rod Serling. Gary Lockwood (2001: a space odyssey, The Lieutenant) guest stars.

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The Immortal: White Horse, Steel Horse

The ImmortalABC airs the seventh episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal, starring Christopher George. John Dehner guest stars.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Fatal Cargo

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 91st episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Woodrow Parfrey (Time Express) guest stars.

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The Prisoner: The General

The PrisonerITV broadcasts the sixth episode of The Prisoner, produced, occasionally written by, and starring Patrick McGoohan. Colin Gordon guest stars as Number Two.

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ATS-3

Earth from ATS-3NASA launches Applications Technology Satellite-3, bundling new technology demonstrations onto a new weather satellite in geosynchronous orbit. Offering the first color view of Earth from that orbit, ATS-3 also relays weather data to specially equipped ground stations. It remains in service through 1975. This is the second ATS satellite to have a successful outcome, with ATS-2, ATS-4 and ATS-5 all faling victim to various kinds of launch failures.

Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 1

Doctor WhoThe 135th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first episode of the series to introduce a new incarnation of the Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton. To ensure that audiences don’t defect from the series due to the change of lead actor, producer Innes Lloyd brings back the Daleks for the second Doctor’s first outing. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.

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Mariner 3 goes nowhere

Mariner 3Though successfully launched, NASA’s Mariner 3 – one of a pair of identical robotic probes intended to become the first space probes to fly by Mars – fails to properly deploy, stranded in the nose cone of the rocket that took it into space. Unable to spread its solar panels, Mariner 3 simply never activates and is lost in space. The liftoff of its sister ship, Mariner 4, is still a few weeks away, giving engineers time to prevent the same mishap from occurring again.

Science Fiction Theatre: The Unexplored

Science Fiction TheatreThe 28th episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars Kent Smith and Osa Massen.

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