UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – Landgrabbers (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Scottish, Southern, Tyne Tees, Ulster and T.W.W.)
1972 – 8.00pm – The Protectors – It Was All Over In Leipzig (Granada)
1974 – 6.05pm – The Protectors – Implicado (London Weekend)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – The Bringers Of Wonder Part Two (Ulster and ATV Midlands)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1963 – 3.45pm – Fireball XL5 – Trial By Robot (Southern)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Catches Cold (Border and Channel)
1965 – 6.05pm – Stingray – Plant Of Doom (Granada)
1973 – 6.05pm – The Protectors – Wam Part One (Scottish)
1973 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – Petard (Ulster)
1974 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – Border Line (Anglia)
1974 – 4.10pm – The Protectors – For The Rest Of Your Natural (Border)
1980 – 11.55am – The Animates – The Animates Start A Newspaper (Thames)
1983 – 10.25am – Space:1999 – Journey To Where (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Death’s Other Dominion (HSV 7, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1968 – 8.00pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in The Champions on HTV in the episode Full Circle
1968 – 9.00pm – George Sewell appears in Public Eye on HTV in the episode Come Into The Garden, Rose
1971 – 8.00pm – Brian Blessed appears in The Avengers on Southern Television in the episode The Superlative Seven
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – The Adventures Of Twizzle begin on GTV 9 in Melbourne, Australia as part of Cartoon Parade which runs for thirty minutes from 4.30pm
1965 – TV Century 21 Comic is featured on a stand as part of The International Sports Exhibition at Crystal Palace in London which runs until 21st August, various puppets from Stingray are also featured
1975 – Martin Landau and Barbara Bain appear at Miami’s Space Transit Planetarium to promote Space:1999 in which 350 guests attend
1980 – Thames Television are the last ITV region to broadcast The Animates