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On This Day In Anderson History – 2nd August

 

 

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

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