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1961
The Twilight Zone: A Quality Of Mercy

The Twilight ZoneThe 80th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, and Leonard Nimoy star.

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The Avengers: Dragonsfield

The AvengersThe 26th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions. This, the last episode of the show’s first season, is the last to include Hendry in the cast.

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1962
The Twilight Zone: Nothing In The Dark

The Twilight ZoneThe 81st episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, and R.G. Armstrong star.

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Apollo unveiled

ApolloWeeks before an American astronaut first makes it to orbit, NASA unveils the design of the two Apollo spacecraft: a command/service module (large compared to the Mercury capsules Americans have already seen) and a completely un-aerodynamic lunar module whose unique shape, designed solely for landing on the moon, will never need to operate inside an atmosphere. Though further refinements in both designs are still to come, NASA has already decided on the basic shape of its crash lunar exploration program whose goal is to land a man on the moon before 1970.

The Twilight Zone: One More Pallbearer

The Twilight ZoneThe 82nd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Joseph Wiseman stars in an episode written by Serling.

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The Twilight Zone: Dead Man’s Shoes

The Twilight ZoneThe 83rd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Warren Stevens and Joan Marshall star.

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The Twilight Zone: The Hunt

The Twilight ZoneThe 84th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Arthur Hunnicutt and Jeanette Nolan star.

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Ranger 3

RangerNASA launches the Ranger 3 lunar probe, built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and intended to go directly to the moon, transmitting pictures of the surface back to Earth until it impacts the lunar surface. This modified Ranger spacecraft design also includes a balsa wood sphere, containing seismic detection experiments, which is intended to be blasted free of the main spacecraft and impact the moon separately. A problem with the Agena second stage booster puts Ranger 3 on the wrong heading with too much acceleration, missing the moon by 22,000 miles. With three straight failures to send a costly probe to the moon, NASA’s future and the future of its lunar exploration program is now under government review.

The Twilight Zone: Showdown With Rance McGrew

The Twilight ZoneThe 85th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Larry Blyden and Arch Johnson star.

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TIROS-4

TIROSNASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the fourth experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-4. Further refinements to the basic TIROS satellite system are made, and after TIROS-3’s discovery of a hurricane in the Atlantic well before it his the US, new enhancements are introduced specifically for early hurricane detection. TIROS-4 remains in orbit for less than six months.

The Twilight Zone: Kick The Can

The Twilight ZoneThe 86th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Enrest Truex and Russell Collins star.

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The Twilight Zone: A Piano In The House

The Twilight ZoneThe 87th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Barry Morse and Joan Hackett star.

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Mercury 6: first American in orbit

John GlennThe third manned Mercury flight, Friendship 7, puts John Glenn in orbit for nearly five hours, the first American astronaut to circle the Earth. The retro-rocket package on Glenn’s vehicle, Friendship 7, becomes an issue when a sensor indicates that the heat shield protecting the capsule’s interior from the intense heat of reentry has slipped. Intended to be cast off before reentry, the retro package is left on at the insistence of ground controllers, resulting in an unusually rough ride home after only three orbits.

The Twilight Zone: The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank

The Twilight ZoneThe 88th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. James Best and Sherry Jackson star.

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The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man

The Twilight ZoneThe 89th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Lloyd Bochner and Richard Kiel star in one of the original series’ most iconic episodes.

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The Twilight Zone: The Fugitive

The Twilight ZoneThe 90th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Susan Gordon stars.

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The Twilight Zone: Little Girl Lost

The Twilight ZoneThe 91st episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Sarah Marshall and Robert Sampson star.

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The Twilight Zone: Person Or Persons Unknown

The Twilight ZoneThe 92nd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Richard Long and Frank Silvera star.

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The Twilight Zone: The Little People

The Twilight ZoneThe 93rd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Joe Maross and Claude Akins star in an episode written by Serling.

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The Twilight Zone: Four O’Clock

The Twilight ZoneThe 94th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Theodore Bikel stars.

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The Twilight Zone: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

The Twilight ZoneThe 95th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Andy Devine and Milton Selzer star.

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The Twilight Zone: The Trade-Ins

The Twilight ZoneThe 96th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Joseph Schildkraut and Noah Keen star in an episode written by Serling.

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Ranger 4

RangerNASA launches the Ranger 4 lunar probe, built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and intended to go directly to the moon, transmitting pictures of the surface back to Earth until it impacts the lunar surface. Another attempt to successfully launch the modified design including a seismology probe, this is the first Ranger launch in which the Agena second stage works perfectly. Unfortunately, a failure in Ranger 4’s onboard computer sends it tumbling, unable to acquire communications with Earth. Tracking the transmitter of the seismology probe, NASA determines that Ranger 4 indeed slams into the lunar far side, but without taking or transmitting a single picture, still resulting in a mission failure.

The Twilight Zone: The Gift

The Twilight ZoneThe 97th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Geoffrey Horne stars in an episode written by Serling.

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The Twilight Zone: The Dummy

The Twilight ZoneThe 98th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Cliff Robertson and George Murdock star.

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