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.
Moonbase 3: View Of A Dead Planet
The final episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3 premieres. Michael Gough (Batman) guest stars. Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast
Moonbase 3: Castor And Pollux
The fifth episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3 premieres. George Pravda guest stars.
Moonbase 3: Outsiders
The fourth episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3 premieres. Garrick Hagon (Star Wars) guest stars.
The Moonbase 3: Behemoth
The second episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3 premieres. Peter Miles guest stars.
Moonbase 3: Departure And Arrival
The first episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3, premieres. Written by series creators Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, and produced during their downtime as producer and script editor of Doctor Who, Moonbase 3 is an attempt to do “serious” SF without fanciful elements such as aliens.
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.