Month: January 1970

Doctor Who and the Silurians, Part 1

Doctor WhoThe 258th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Fulton MacKay, Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) and Peter Miles guest star. This is the first story to feature the Silurians.

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The Owl Service: The Missing Key

The Owl ServiceThe sixth episode of children’s fantasy series The Owl Service is broadcast by British broadcast Granada Television. The series is adapted by novelist Alan Garner from his own novel.

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Land Of The Giants: Panic

Land Of The GiantsABC airs the 45th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Jack Albertson and Peter Mark Richman guest star.

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Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 257th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier, now a series regular, while Caroline John makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw. This is the first story to feature the Nestene Consciousness and its plastic servants, the Autons.

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TIROS-M / ITOS

ESSANASA and ESSA launch the ITOS satellite, also known as TIROS-M, a next-generation weather satellite intended to take over from the constellation of short-lived ESSA weather satellites. With a configuration that is, for the first time, significantly different from the TIROS/ESSA satellites, the TIROS-M design’s shakedown cruise is a short and bumpy one: after system failures force a shutdown of the satellite’s attitude control system, it is shut down in mid-1971.

UFO: Flight Path

UFOThe 15th episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Gabrielle Drake guest star.

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The Owl Service: Betrayal

The Owl ServiceThe fifth episode of children’s fantasy series The Owl Service is broadcast by British broadcast Granada Television. The series is adapted by novelist Alan Garner from his own novel.

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Land Of The Giants: The Secret City Of Limbo

Land Of The GiantsABC airs the 44th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Malachi Throne and Whit Bissell guest star.

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Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 256th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier, now a series regular, while Caroline John makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw. This is the first story to feature the Nestene Consciousness and its plastic minions, the Autons.

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Strange Report: Report 4977: Swindle – Square Root of Evil

Strange ReportITV airs the 16th and final episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). An international co-production with Norman Felton’s Arena Productions and NBC, Strange Report was intended to spend the second half of its season in the United States, but arrangements between ITV and Arena Productions fell through, ending the series’ run prematurely.

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The Owl Service: The Plates Are Hidden

The Owl ServiceThe fourth episode of children’s fantasy series The Owl Service is broadcast by British broadcast Granada Television. The series is adapted by novelist Alan Garner from his own novel.

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Land Of The Giants: Pay The Piper

Land Of The GiantsABC airs the 43rd episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Jonathan Harris (Lost In Space, Space Academy) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 255th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier, now a series regular, while Caroline John makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw. This is the first story to feature the Nestene Consciousness and its plastic servants, the Autons.

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Moody Blues: To Our Children’s Children’s Children

To Our Children’s Children’s ChildrenDecca Records releases the fifth album by the Moody Blues, To Our Children’s Children’s Children, featuring the single “Watching And Waiting”. This is the first of two albums the band will release in 1970.

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Strange Report: Report 4407: Heart – No Choice for the Donor

Strange ReportITV airs the 15th episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.)

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The Owl Service: A Strange Picture

The Owl ServiceThe third episode of children’s fantasy series The Owl Service is broadcast by British broadcast Granada Television. The series is adapted by novelist Alan Garner from his own novel.

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Land Of The Giants: Nightmare

Land Of The GiantsABC airs the 42nd episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Torin Thatcher guest stars.

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Apollo 20 hardware reassigned to Skylab

SkylabNASA formally cancels the planned Apollo 20 mission to the moon’s Copernicus crater in order to begin converting the upper stage of the mission’s Saturn V rocket into the Skylab space station, to be launched in the early 1970s. Construction of the Apollo command/service module and lunar module scheduled to fly this mission was halted before either vehicle was completed. The crew would have consisted of Stu Roosa, Paul Weitz and Jack Lousma; ironically, Weitz was transferred to the first Skylab crew, while Lousma was part of the second Skylab crew. Both later flew on shuttle missions.

Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space, Part 1

Doctor WhoThe 254th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, the first of the series’ seventh season. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier, now a series regular, while Caroline John makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw. As of this story, the Doctor is exiled on Earth indefinitely by the Time Lords, unable to travel in space or time in the TARDIS.

This is Jon Pertwee’s first episode as the Doctor, and the first Doctor Who episode filmed in color. Due to a BBC studio strike, the story is filmed entirely on location, a rarity for Doctor Who.

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