Land Of The Giants: Comeback
ABC airs the 36th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. John Carradine, Olan Soule, and Janos Prohaska guest star.
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Fantastic Voyage: The Spy Satellite
ABC broadcasts the 11th 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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Doctor Who: The Invasion, Part 4
The 223rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Kevin Stoney guest stars as Tobias Vaughn, and Nicholas Courtney returns as the freshly-promoted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the newly created UNIT. This is the last Cybermen story until 1975.
This episode aired on the fifth anniversary of Doctor Who’s first broadcast.
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The Avengers: The Hour That Never Was
British broadcaster ABC airs the 87th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. Gerald Harper (Adam Adamant Lives!) guest stars.
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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Magnus Beam
The 11th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Mario Alcalde guest stars in an episode written by Alan Caillou.
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Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
The first-ever episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford, William Russell and Jacqueline Hill star in An Unearthly Child, the first episode of a four-part story which launches the series. Though it’s a major television milestone in retrospect, much of the viewing audience is still reeling from the previous day’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the series premiere goes unnoticed by many.
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The Avengers: The Medicine Man
British broadcaster ABC airs the 61st episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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TIROS-2
NASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the second experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-2. Though almost identical to its short-lived predecessor, TIROS-2 is outfitted with a new stabilization system which uses detection of Earth’s magnetic field to properly orient the satellite. TIROS-2 functions successfully for just over one year.
H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: Bank Raid
The 11th episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. on CBS. Lisa Daniely and Deborah Watling (Doctor Who) star.
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Tales Of Tomorrow: Enemy Unknown
The 12th 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, based on a Sturgeon short story, is no longer in the archives and may be lost.
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