UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bossy Boots Forgets To Be Good (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bogey And The Statues (Associated-Rediffusion and Anglia)
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Rescue (Ulster)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Catches Cold (Westward)
1968 – 4.55pm – Captain Scarlet – The Heart Of New York (Harlech)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Zeke’s Blues (HTV)
1977 – 11.30pm – The Protectors – The Last Frontier (Tyne Tees)
1983 – 11.05am – Joe 90 – Most Special Astronaut (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Gets A Surprise (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Robot Freighter Mystery (Fuji Television)
1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Hypnotic Sphere (AMV 4, Albury, Australia)
1966 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Space Pirates (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1979 – 11.56pm – Space:1999 – The Rules Of Luton (Tokai Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1969 – 8.55pm – Paul Maxwell appears in Court Martial on Southern Television in the episode Vengeance Is Mine
1971 – 5.19pm – Len Jones appears in Follyfoot on HTV in the episode The Charity Horse
1973 – 11.15am – John Bluthal appears in The Saint on Westward Television in the episode The Happy Suicide
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Supercar starts on Ulster Television
