Month: March 1972

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils, Part 5

Doctor WhoThe 316th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.

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Castle Of Fear: The Ghost Of Potter’s Field

Ghost Story / Circle Of FearNBC airs the 22nd episode of the supernatural anthology series Circle Of Fear (previously known as Ghost Story). Tab Hunter and Louise Sorel star.

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Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: Satisfaction Guaranteed

Night GalleryNBC airs the 29th episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Victor Buono (Batman) guest stars in the second season closer, and the first instance of a Night Gallery episode telling a single story in a half-hour time slot, which will become the show’s new format in its third season.

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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 315th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.

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The Sixth Sense: Eye Of The Haunted

The Sixth SenseThe ninth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Mariette Hartley guest stars.

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Ghost Story: The New House

Ghost StoryNBC airs the pilot episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Jeanette Nolan and Sam Jaffe guest star in a script by Richard Matheson (Twilight Zone, The Omega Man). The pilot gets enough attention for production to be greenlit on a series to premiere in the fall of 1972. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.)

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Solid rocket boosters picked for shuttle

Shuttle on a Saturn VAfter a five-month design study focusing on alternatives to a winged (and manned) reusable first stage bosoter for the upcoming Space Shuttle, NASA settles on a configuration consisting of two solid rocket boosters strapped to the shuttle’s external fuel tank. Among the alternatives considered was the possibility of restarting production of the Saturn V rockets that launched Apollo and Skylab missions, with the shuttle and its fuel tank separating from the Saturn V’s first stage at high altitude (though in this configuration, a failure of the shuttle’s main engines would prove to be catastrophic). The SRB/tank configuration is expected to shave half a billion dollars off of the shuttle’s development costs.

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 314th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.

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The Sixth Sense: Witch, Witch, Burning Bright

The Sixth SenseThe eighth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Chloris Leachman guest star.

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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 313th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.

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The Sixth Sense: With This Ring, I Thee Kill!

The Sixth SenseThe seventh episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Lucie Arnaz and Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) guest star.

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Pioneer 10 launched

Pioneer 10NASA launches Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft sent to study the huge planet Jupiter at close range. Its Atlas-Centaur booster gives it a good head start, propelling it to over 32,000 miles per hour en route to Jupiter, the fastest man-made object in history at this point. Pioneer 10 is also the first man-made vehicle to traverse the asteroid belt, with instruments detecting fewer large particles than anticipated. It will reach Jupiter in late 1973.

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Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: Episode 28

Night GalleryNBC airs the 28th episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Laurence Harvey and William Windom guest star.

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