TODAYS DEPARTURES
2001 – Nyree Dawn Porter
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Pilliwig Gets A Present (Ulster)
1966 – 3.10pm – Thunderbirds – Danger At Ocean Deep Part Two (Ulster)
1966 – 4.35pm – Thunderbirds – The Cham-Cham (Border)
1971 – 5.10pm – UFO – A Question Of Priorities (Anglia)
1971 – 5.15pm – UFO – The Sound Of Silence (Southern)
1973 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – The Numbers Game (Scottish)
1974 – 11.25pm – The Protectors – 2000 Ft To Die (Border)
1974 – 11.30pm – UFO – The Long Sleep (Ulster)
1975 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – The Insider (Southern)
1976 – 5.15pm – Space:1999 – Missing Link (Grampian)
1976 – 5.20pm – Space:1999 – Another Time, Another Place (Border)
1984 – 11.10am – Space:1999 – Catacombs Of The Moon (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Grounded (ABC 3, Canberra, Australia)
1966 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds – Trapped In The Sky (NHK, Japan)
1976 – 4.30pm – Space:1999 – Earthbound (TBS, Japan)
1976 – 5.00pm – The Protectors – The Insider (NET, Japan)
1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – The Last Enemy (Television One, New Zealand)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1962 – 11.25pm – Rupert Davies appears in Interpol Calling on Granada Television in the episode The Angola Brights
1969 – 11.00pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Human Jungle in the episode Ring Of Hate on Westward Television
1970 – 4.55pm – Lois Maxwell stars in Adventures Of Rainbow County which starts today on Yorkshire Television, according to Yorkshire’s TV Times the series is receiving it’s World Premiere
1972 – 9.00pm – George Sewell appears in Six Days Of Justice in the first story of the new series Cross-Fire on Yorkshire Television
1985 – 3.00pm – Matt Zimmerman appears in Gems on Anglia Television
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1965 – The first photo of Lady Penelope and Fab 1 appears in TV Century 21 Comic – issue 12 in the masthead of the strip inside
1966 – Thunderbirds begins on NHK in Japan
1968 – Recording takes place of the music for the episodes of Joe 90 Big Fish and The Unorthodox Shepherd at CTS Studios
1973 – The Adventures Of Twizzle is broadcast for the last time on ITV in the Southern region at 10.05am
1983 – Stingray was listed to be shown on Yorkshire Television at 1.45pm but was removed so ITV could screen the film Sunset Boulevard as a tribute to actress Lillian Gish who passed away the previous week, Ghost Of The Sea was shown in May the following year