The Lost Saucer: Return To The Valley Of The Chickaphants
ABC airs the tenth episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In).
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Doctor Who: Pyramids Of Mars, Part 3
The 412th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back) and Gabriel Woolf guest star in an episode regarded by many fans as one of the series’ all-time classics.
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Planet Of The Apes: The Horse Race
The ninth episode of the TV spinoff of Planet Of The Apes premieres on CBS. John Hoyt and Morgan Woodward guest star.
Kolchak: Firefall
ABC airs the sixth episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on the 1973 TV movie The Night Stalker and starring Darren McGavin. Madlyn Rhue guest stars.
Six Million Dollar Man: Straight On ‘Til Morning
The 19th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Meg Foster guest stars in an episode written by D.C. Fontana (Star Trek).
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Home Box Office
Service Electric Cable, the local cable company in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, embarks on an ambitious experiment, launching a movie channel that only a few hundred of their subscribers pay extra to receive. The channel, Home Box Office, is the brainchild of a New York City broadcasting entrepreneur seeking a workaround for the tendency of the city’s own high-rise architecture to block over-the-air signals. Originally code-named the Green Channel (presumably for the cash it is hoped it will rake in), HBO begins life with a mix of movies and live sports events (such as pro hockey) with no commercial interruption. Within a year, HBO will be acquired by Time-Life, expanding to nine hours of programming every day. With HBO having proven that cable subscribers will pay extra for an ad-free movie and sports channel, competing pay cable networks such as Showtime will spring up in the years to come. HBO also pioneers the concept of broadcasting exclusively via satellite, years ahead of the broadcast networks.
Search: In Search Of Midas
The eighth episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search airs on NBC, starring Doug McClure and Burgess Meredith. Barbara Feldon (Get Smart) guest stars.
Rod Serling’s Night Gallery
NBC premieres Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, a TV movie anthology of three original Serling stories, each introduced by Serling himself and starring Joan Crawford, Roddy McDowall, Ossie Davis, Richard Kiley and Tom Bosley. A young Steven Spielberg directs one of the three segments, his second professional directorial credit. Night Gallery will become a series on NBC’s schedule in late 1970.
Star Trek: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky
The 63rd episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Kate Woodville and Byron Morrow guest star.
Lost In Space: Collision Of Planets
The 68th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Daniel J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues) guest stars.
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The Twilight Zone: The Old Man In The Cave
The 127th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. James Coburn stars.
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Pioneer 2
NASA launches Pioneer 2, a near-identical twin to the failed lunar probe Pioneer 1 it launched a month earlier. Again, technical errors prevent the probe from entering lunar orbit or, for that matter, even reaching the moon – Pioneer 2 limps into a looping arc, barely a thousand miles from Earth, and returns home to burn up in the atmosphere.