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1964
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Hot Line

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe ninth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Michael Ansara and James Doohan (Star Trek, Jason Of Star Command) guest star.

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Doctor Who: Crisis

Doctor WhoThe 45th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as Planet Of Giants.

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The Outer Limits: I, Robot

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 41st episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Howard da Silva and Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) star in an adaptation of the story by Eando Binder.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Submarine Sunk Here

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe tenth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Carl Reindel guest stars.

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Doctor Who: World’s End

Doctor WhoThe 46th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, making the Daleks the first recurring enemy in the series’ history.

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The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part I

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 42nd episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Duvall and Steve Ihnat star in the first part of the original series’ only two-part episode.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Magnus Beam

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 11th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Mario Alcalde guest stars in an episode written by Alan Caillou.

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Star Trek pilot filming begins

Star TrekAt Hollywood’s Desilu Studios, filming begins on The Cage, the unaired first attempt at a pilot episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek. Starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike and Leonard Nimoy as the exotic-looking alien science officer Spock, filming proceeds at a brisk pace, despite numerous delays due to the show’s then-novel special effects, set and costuming requirements. Though the result is viewed enthusiastically by all involved, the completed pilot stirs little enthusiasm at the television networks. NBC thinks the series premise has promise, but that as it stands, The Cage is “too cerebral” for prime time. Ironically, exactly two years later, most of the footage from The Cage is broadcast anyway, as part of The Menagerie – a fast favorite among the viewers for whom it was deemed to be too brainy.

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Mariner 4 to Mars

Mariner 4NASA attempts a second unmanned launch to Mars, successfully putting Mariner 4 on course for its nine-month cruise to the red planet. Intended to take the first-ever close-up pictures from the vicinity of another planet, Mariner 4’s main engineering objective is to simply survive the trip. The main problem encountered en route is a flaky star tracker (intended to lock onto specific stars and keep Mariner 4 in the correct orientation).

Doctor Who: The Daleks

Doctor WhoThe 47th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, although the title of this individual episode makes it easily confused with the first season serial of the same (collective) name.

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The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part II

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 43rd episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Duvall and Steve Ihnat star in the second part of the original series’ only two-part episode.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: No Way Out

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 12th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Jan Merlin guest stars.

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Zond 2

Zond 2The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Zond 2, intended to conduct the first close flyby of the planet Mars. Interplanetary exploration is still in its infancy, however, and just as Zond 1 failed mere weeks away from Venus, communication is lost with Zond 2 three months prior to its planned August 1965 encounter with the red planet. A backup of this spacecraft, Zond 3, will be launched in 1965, also failing to reach Mars but instead returning photos of Earth’s moon.

Doctor Who: Day Of Reckoning

Doctor WhoThe 48th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part three of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.

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The Outer Limits: Keeper Of The Purple Twilight

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 44th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Webber and Warren Stevens star.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Blizzard Makers

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 13th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Werner Klemperer (Hogan’s Heroes) guest stars.

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The Sound of Star Trek

Star Trek musicHalfway through filming on the Star Trek pilot episode, The Cage, the attention of the show’s producers turns to the music for the pilot, and possible composers. Among the composers approached but unable to commit to Star Trek are Jerry Goldsmith (later to score 1979‘s Star Trek: The Motion Picture), John Williams (later of Star Wars and Lost In Space fame), Lalo Schifrin (Mission: Impossible), Elmer Bernstein, and Dominic Frontiere (The Outer Limits); a young composer named Alexander Courage, whose schedule is open, is considered especially promising.

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Doctor Who: The End Of Tomorrow

Doctor WhoThe 49th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Ghost Of Moby Dick

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 14th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. June Lockhart (one of the stars of Allen’s latest series Lost In Space) guest stars.

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Voyager… to Mars!

VoyagerFollowing up on preliminary studies assuming almost-Earthlike conditions, NASA commences work on a major robotic interplanetary landing mission called Voyager, which will use a Saturn IB rocket to send an orbiter with two landers to Mars. But NASA is doing so without much help from its usual interplanetary think-tank, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, whose scientists warn NASA that the latest astronomical data suggests a significantly thinner atmosphere and lower atmospheric pressure than the scenario for which NASA is designing its vehicles. As the complexity involved in creating self-guided landers with on-board laboratories increases, contractors begin to insist that only a Saturn V will do; since all Saturn V boosters are currently in reserve for Apollo lunar missions, NASA pushes the Voyager mission back into the 1970s.

Doctor Who: The Waking Ally

Doctor WhoThe 50th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.

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The Outer Limits: The Duplicate Man

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 45th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Ron Randell and Constance Towers star.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Long Live The King

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 15th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Carroll O’Connor (All In The Family, In The Heat Of The Night) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: Flashpoint

Doctor WhoThe 51st episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part six of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, and marks the first change in the regular cast; Susan (Carole Ann Ford) departs the TARDIS at the end of this episode.

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The Outer Limits: Counterweight

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 46th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Michael Constantine and Jacqueline Scott star.

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