TODAYS ARRIVALS
1923 – Nicholas Parsons
TODAYS DEPARTURES
2004 – Archie Ludski
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 4.40pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Is Saved At Last (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1965 – 4.05pm – Thunderbirds – Trapped In The Sky (Channel and Westward)
1965 – 5.05pm – Thunderbirds – Trapped In The Sky (Border and Tyne Tees)
1966 – 5.25pm – Thunderbirds – Path Of Destruction Part One (ATV Midlands, Channel and Westward)
1973 – 10.30pm – The Protectors – The Numbers Game (HTV)
1973 – 11.05pm – The Protectors – Border Line (Channel and Westward)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Shadbolt (HTV)
1975 – 6.35pm – Space:1999 – Collision Course (Granada)
1981 – 9.10am – Joe 90 – Artic Adventure (Grampian)
1982 – 1.30pm – Stingray – The Ghost Ship (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And Polly Moppet Quarrel (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1961 – 7.00pm – Supercar – Rescue (Nippon Television, Japan)
1962 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Phantom Piper (KTRG 13, Honolulu, USA)
1964 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Sea Of Oil (CBMT 6, Burlington, Vermont, USA)
1965 – 6.30pm – Stingray – The Invaders (WMTW 8, Mt.Washington, USA)
1970 – 8.00pm – UFO – Exposed (Nippon Television. Japan)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – With A Little Help From My Friends (KXTV 10, Sacramento, USA)
1972 – 7.30pm – The Protectors – It Was All Over In Leipzig (CLW 9, Detroit, USA)
1972 – 8.00pm – The Protectors – The First Circle (KGMB 9, Honolulu, USA)
1972 – 8.30pm – The Protectors – It Was All Over In Leipzig (Channel 9, Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1965 – 9.35pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Avengers on Border Television in the episode The Gravediggers
1972 – 3.15pm – George Murcell and Cyril Shaps appear in Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) on Anglia Television in the episode Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave
1973 – 1.30pm – Tony Anholt appears in this weeks Crown Court on Southern Television entitled Just Good Friends
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Supercar starts on Nippon Television in Japan
1964 – Retail Newsagent is the first to mention the forthcoming TV Century 21 Comic from City Mags, to be launched early in 1965, aimed at the 7 -12 age group and priced 7d
1965 – Thunderbirds starts on Border, Tyne Tees, Westward and Channel Television
1965 – The Sunday Mercury features an article on Thunderbirds
1992 – The first issue of Stingray The Comic goes on sale
