Star Trek: The Cloudminders
The 76th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Jeff Corey guest stars.
ESSA-9
The recently-rechristened Environmental Sciences Service Administration launches, with the help of NASA, ESSA-9, the latest in a constellation of weather satellites. ESSA-9 is the last weather satellite to carry the ESSA designation, as the government reorganizes ESSA into a new agency, NOAA, the following year. ESSA-9 remains in service until 1972.
Out Of The Unknown: The Little Black Bag
BBC2 airs the 34th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Adapted by Julian Bond from a story by C.M. Kornbluth, the story stars Emrys Jones and Geraldine Moffatt.
Mariner 6 launched
NASA and JPL launch the unmanned Mariner 6 space probe on a mission to Mars, where it will be joined by its yet-to-be-launched identical twin, Mariner 7. Mariner 6 will take five months to reach the red planet, with its slightly faster sister ship mere days behind it, and will fly past Mars twice as close as the planet’s previous unmanned visitors.
Land Of The Giants: Seven Little Indians
ABC airs the 19th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Kevin Hagan guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Seeds Of Death, Part 5
The 236th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the second appearance of the Ice Warriors.
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N1 Flight #1
The gigantic Soviet-made N1 rocket, Sergei Korolev’s answer to the American Saturn V launcher, lifts off for the first time with an unmanned Zond spacecraft intended for a lunar flyby. Barely 70 seconds after leaving the pad, the N1 explodes at an altitude of seven miles, but the Zond space probe is salvaged by its escape tower rockets. The Soviet Union is no closer to safely sending a crew of cosmonauts to the moon.
Star Trek: The Way To Eden
The 75th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This infamously “hippie themed” episode guest stars Charles Napier.
The Enterprise runs aground
NBC announces that it is dropping Star Trek from the fall 1969 network schedule. Having taken the show’s Friday night “death slot” as a sign of things to come, Gene Roddenberry has already begun seeking greener pastures, leaving the day-to-day showrunner duties to Fred Freiberger. Roddenberry also has no plans to manipulate fan protests against the cancellation this time (as he had done in 1967 and 1968); some NBC publicity and promotions executives are surprised when the seemingly inevitable backlash fails to materialize.
Land Of The Giants: Night Of Thrombeldinbar
ABC airs the 18th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Alfred Ryder guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Seeds Of Death, Part 4
The 235th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the second appearance of the Ice Warriors.
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Star Trek: Requiem For Methuselah
The 74th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This episode sees Spock use a version of a Vulcan mind-meld on Kirk, urging him to “forget”; the later movies will reveal that this memory manipulation technique has an opposite number: “remember”…
Out Of The Unknown: Random Quest
BBC2 airs the 31st episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Adapted by Owen Holder from a story by John Wyndham, the story stars Keith Barron. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
Doctor Who: The Seeds Of Death, Part 3
The 234th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the second appearance of the Ice Warriors.
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Out Of The Unknown: Something In The Cellar
BBC2 airs the 30th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Donald Bull, the story stars Milo O’Shea and Clive Morton. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
Land Of The Giants: Deadly Lodestone
ABC airs the 17th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Paul Fix guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Seeds Of Death, Part 2
The 233rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the second appearance of the Ice Warriors.
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