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On This Day In Anderson History – 11th August

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather FallsLandgrabbers (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Scottish, Southern, Tyne Tees, Ulster and T.W.W.)

 

1972 – 8.00pm – The ProtectorsIt Was All Over In Leipzig (Granada)

1974 – 6.05pm – The ProtectorsImplicado (London Weekend)

1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999The Bringers Of Wonder Part Two (Ulster and ATV Midlands)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1963 – 3.45pm – Fireball XL5Trial By Robot (Southern)

1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle Catches Cold (Border and Channel)

1965 – 6.05pm – StingrayPlant Of Doom (Granada)

1973 – 6.05pm – The ProtectorsWam Part One (Scottish)

1973 – 6.35pm – The ProtectorsPetard (Ulster)

1974 – 1.00pm – The ProtectorsBorder Line (Anglia)

1974 – 4.10pm – The ProtectorsFor The Rest Of Your Natural (Border)

1980 – 11.55am – The AnimatesThe Animates Start A Newspaper (Thames)

1983 – 10.25am – Space:1999Journey To Where (HTV)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999Death’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