Doctor Who: The Invasion, Part 5
The 224th 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 is missing from the BBC’s archives, but is later replaced on DVD by an animated reconstruction.
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Lost In Space: West Of Mars
The 40th 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: Dial A Deadly Number
British broadcaster ABC airs the 88th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.
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Zond 2
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Zond 2, intended to conduct the first close flyby of the planet Mars. Interplanetary exploration is still in its infancy, however, and just as Zond 1 failed mere weeks away from Venus, communication is lost with Zond 2 three months prior to its planned August 1965 encounter with the red planet. A backup of this spacecraft, Zond 3, will be launched in 1965, also failing to reach Mars but instead returning photos of Earth’s moon.
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: No Way Out
The 12th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Jan Merlin guest stars.
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The Avengers: The Grandeur That Was Rome
British broadcaster ABC airs the 62nd episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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Doctor Who: The Cave Of Skulls
The second episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Cave Of Skulls is part two of An Unearthly Child, taking the time travelers back to the struggle surrounding the discovery of fire.
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H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: Odds Against Death
The 12th 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 stars.
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Gojira
The first Godzilla movie, Gojira, debuts in Japan. Directed by Ishiro Honda and starring Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi and Akihiko Hirata, the film is intended to be an allegory to the ravages of the atomic bomb rather than the beginning of a franchise (though the door is clearly left open to a sequel by dialogue at the close of the movie). The franchise proper will not begin until the first sequel five years later. In the meantime, an American dub of the movie attracts worldwide attention to Gojira, eventually rechristening the character Godzilla for much of the world.
