Amazing Stories: Life On Death Row
The 31st episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Patrick Swayze (Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing) guest stars in an episode co-written by Mick Garris and Rockne S. O’Bannon (Farscape, seaQuest DSV).
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Amazing Stories: Fine Tuning
The seventh episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Matthew Labyorteaux (Whiz Kids, Little House On The Prairie) and Milton Berle guest star.
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Buran Approach & Landing Test 1
With its own jet engines freeing it from the need for a carrier aircraft, the Buran Analogue test vehicle – the Soviet equivalent of Space Shuttle Enterprise – makes its first approach and landing test, cutting off its jet engines at a predetermined altitude and gliding to an airstrip for a landing. The Buran Analogue will ultimately make more test flights than the Enterprise, continuing to conduct glider landings through 1988.
Christmas In The Stars
RSO Records, the label responsible for releasing the Star Wars movie soundtracks to date, releases the Star Wars novelty tie-in album Christmas In The Stars. Produced by Meco Menardo (of Star Wars disco cover fame), the album not only answers the age-old question of what to get a Wookiee for Christmas when he already has a comb, but is the first credited studio session work of future rock god Jon Bon Jovi (credited on the LP under his given name, Jon Bongiovi).
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Doctor Who: Creature From The Pit, Pt. 3
The 516th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Myra Frances and Geoffrey Bayldon guest star.
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Wonder Woman: Time Bomb
The 42nd episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Joan Van Ark (Knots Landing) and Ted Shackelford (Space Precinct) guest star.
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The Bionic Woman: Black Magic
The 21st episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Vincent Price (Pit And The Pendulum, Time Express), William Windom (My World And Welcome To It, Murder She Wrote), Julie Newmar (Batman), and Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller) guest star.
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The Starlost: Gallery Of Fear
The eighth episode of the short-lived Canadian-made science fiction series The Starlost, Gallery Of Fear, premieres.
Ghost Story: House Of Evil
NBC airs the ninth episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Melvyn Douglas, Richard Mulligan, and Jodie Foster guest star in an episode written by Robert Bloch. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.)
Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: Episode 14
NBC airs the 14th episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Patty Duke, Cesar Romero (Batman), Carl Reiner, and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman) guest star.
Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 17 toward the moon, carrying with it the first automated moon rover, Lunokhod 1. Solar-powered and deployed to the surface via a pair of ramps, the wheeled rover operates for eleven months, more than double the expected operational life span. Unlike Luna 16, Luna 17 and Lunokhod perform their studies of the lunar surface without returning any soil samples to Earth.
Zond 6
The Soviet Union launches an unmanned Soyuz 7K-L1 spacecraft, designated Zond 6, on a seven-day flight around the moon and back to Earth. Like Zond 5 before it, Zond 6 carries specimens of Earth animals and plants, but a rupture of the Soyuz pressure vessel results in these specimens being exposed to hard vacuum, resulting in instant death. Furthermore, the spacecraft opens and jettisons its parachutes too early, leaving it to slam into the ground at high speed. With continued glitches plaguing the Zond flights, Soviet mission planners aren’t confident enough in the 7K-L1 capsule to put cosmonauts in it for the next flight.
Land Of The Giants: The Flight Plan
ABC airs the sixth episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Linden Chiles guest stars.
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ESSA-6
The recently-rechristened Environmental Sciences Service Administration launches, with the help of NASA, ESSA-6, the latest in a constellation of weather satellites operated by the former U.S. Weather Bureau. ESSA-6 remains in service until late 1969.
Star Trek: Metamorphosis
The 38th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. Glenn Corbett guest stars as Zefram Cochrane, the man who invented warp drive (and shouldn’t, in the 23rd century, still be alive), a portrayal very different from what is shown in future Star Trek series.
Surveyor 6 lands on the moon
NASA’s robotic explorer Surveyor 6 lands safely on the moon, taking soil samples and pictures from the surface and, for the first time, testing an alpha-scattering surface analysis device of a type that would be included on many later missions to Mars. With the conclusion of Surveyor 6’s operations, the Surveyor probes have completed all of the tasks that were prerequisites to future Apollo manned moon missions. Surveyor 6 successfully lands in the same region of the moon that Surveyors 2 and 4 failed to reach.
Out Of The Unknown: Second Childhood
BBC2 airs the 17th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Hugh Leonard, the story stars Nigel Stock and Caroline Blakiston (Return Of The Jedi). This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
Star Trek: The Corbomite Maneuver
The tenth episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Clint Howard guest stars; this is actually the first episode produced after NBC’s order for the first season of the show.
Lost In Space: The Oasis
The ninth 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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The Avengers: The Mauritius Penny
British broadcaster ABC airs the 33rd episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The Twilight Zone: Deaths-Head Revisited
The 74th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Joseph Schildkraut and Oscar Beregi Jr. star in an episode written by Serling.
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One Step Beyond: Message From Clara
ABC airs the 30th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Barbara Baxley and Robert Ellenstein guest star.
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Science Fiction Theatre: The Voice
The 64th episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars Donald Curtis and Kristine Miller.
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