The Real Ghostbusters: When Halloween Was Forever
ABC premieres the eighth episode of The Real Ghostbusters, an animated series based upon the hit 1984 movie and featuring the voices of Arsenio Hall, Maurice LeMarche, and Lorenzo Music. This episode, timed to coincide with Halloween, is written by J. Michael Straczynski. 
Ewoks: The Season Scepter
ABC premieres the 26th episode of Star Wars: Ewoks, an animated series based upon George Lucas’ furry primitive (and very marketable) characters from the 1983 film Return Of The Jedi.
Starman: Secrets
ABC premieres the sixth episode of Starman, a series based upon and continuing the story of John Carpenter’s 1984 movie of the same name. Robert Hays, C.B. Barnes, and Michael Kavanaugh star.
Automan: Ships In The Night
The fourth episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Automan airs on ABC, starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner, taking at least a little bit of inspiration from the 1982 movie Tron. Frank Aletter (It’s About Time) guest stars.
Automan: The Great Pretender
The third episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Automan airs on ABC, starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner, taking at least a little bit of inspiration from the 1982 movie Tron. Clu Gulager guest stars.
Automan: Staying Alive While Running A High Flashdance Fever
The second episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Automan airs on ABC, starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner, taking at least a little bit of inspiration from the 1982 movie Tron. William Windom guest stars.
Automan: Pilot
The first episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Automan airs on ABC, starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner. Inspired by the 1982 movie Tron, Automan involves a hologram of an intelligent computer program who fights crime alongside a nerdy police computer technician. Patrick Macnee (The Avengers, Battlestar Galactica) and Sid Haig (Jason Of Star Command) guest star. The series lasts less than a full season.
Battlestar Galactica: Gun On Ice Planet Zero
The sixth episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC. This episode is part one of a two-part story; Roy Thinnes (The Invaders) guest stars.
Future Cop: The Kansas City Kid
ABC airs the sixth episode of Future Cop, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times). Joan Collins (Dynasty) guest stars. The series is cancelled following the broadcast of this episode, but will reappear a year later as a new pilot for NBC.
Future Cop: The Carlisle Girl
ABC airs the fifth episode of Future Cop, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times). Peter Donat (Time Trax) guest stars.
Future Cop: Girl On The Ledge
ABC airs the fourth episode of Future Cop, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times).
Future Cop: The Mad Mad Bomber
ABC airs both parts of a two-part episode of Future Cop as its Friday night movie, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times). Albert Salmi and Gerrit Graham guest star.
Future Cop: Fighting O’Haven
The first weekly episode of Future Cop airs on ABC, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times), based on a successful pilot movie aired in May 1976.
Wonder Woman: The Feminum Mystique, Part 2
The fifth episode of Wonder Woman airs on ABC, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. John Saxon guest stars, and Debra Winger guest stars as Wonder Girl.
Future Cop: Cleaver & Haven
The TV movie-of-the-week Future Cop airs on ABC, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times), involving a veteran LAPD cop who is assigned a rookie trainee who turns out to be an android. The movie achieves a high enough rating to return as a short-lived series in 1977, though the show will also become the subject of a lawsuit over its premise.
The New Original Wonder Woman
The TV movie-of-the-week The New Original Wonder Woman airs on ABC, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Red Buttons, Chloris Leachman and Eric Braeden guest star. This is ABC’s second attempt to bring the comic book heroine to the small screen (following a 1974 pilot movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby). Ratings and reviews are impressive enough to merit two more one-hour specials, followed by a series pickup.
Kolchak: Firefall
ABC airs the sixth episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on the 1973 TV movie The Night Stalker and starring Darren McGavin. Madlyn Rhue guest stars.
The Outer Limits: The Human Factor
ABC airs the eighth episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Gary Merrill, Sally Kellerman and Sally Kellerman star in a script by David Duncan.
The Outer Limits: O.B.I.T.
ABC airs the seventh episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Peter Breck and Jeff Corey star in a script by Meyer Dolinsky.
The Outer Limits: The Man Who Was Never Born
ABC airs the sixth episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Martin Landau (Mission: Impossible, Space: 1999) and Shirley Knight star in a script by Anthony Lawrence.
The Outer Limits: The Sixth Finger
ABC airs the fifth episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE) and Edward Mulhare (Knight Rider) star in a script by Ellis St. Joseph.
The Outer Limits: The Man With The Power
ABC airs the fourth episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Donald Pleasance and Priscilla Morrill star in a script by Jerome Ross.
The Outer Limits: The Architects Of Fear
ABC airs the third episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Culp stars in a script by Meyer Dolinsky.
The Outer Limits: The Hundred Days Of The Dragon
ABC airs the second episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Sidney Blackmer and Phillip Pine star.
The Outer Limits: The Galaxy Being
ABC airs the first episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Lee Phillps and Jacqueline Scott star in a script written by Stevens.
Tales Of Tomorrow: Little Black Bag
The 35th 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, written by Cyril Kornbluth, stars Joseph Anthony and Vicki Cummings; Kornbluth’s story will also be adapted by the BBC’s Out Of The Unknown anthology series, and again on American television as an early episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.