UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Gets Lost (ATV Midlands, Granada, Scottish, T.W.W. and Associated-Rediffusion)
1961 – 5.40pm – Supercar – Amazonian Adventure (ATV London and Southern)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – Space For Mitch (ATV London)
1999 – 3.50pm – Lavender Castle – Collision Course (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And Candy Floss Open A Cake Shop (Southern)
1961 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Flopsy Makes A Christmas Pudding (Tyne Tees)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – The White Line (Scottish)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Prisoner On The Lost Planet (Border)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Last Of The Zanadus (Granada and Wales West And North)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Place Of Angels (Ulster)
1972 – 5.10pm – UFO – Confetti Check A.O-K (Scottish)
1972 – 10.40pm – UFO – The Long Sleep (Granada)
1972 – 11.10pm – UFO – The Responsibility Seat (Channel and Westward)
1978 – 11.25am – Space:1999 – The Seance Spectre (Tyne Tees)
1979 – 11.35pm – The Protectors – Sugar And Spice (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1962 – 10.00am – Supercar – The Magic Carpet (Nippon Television, Japan)
1972 – 6.30pm – UFO – Close Up (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1965 – 8.00pm – John Bluthal appears in The Saint on Border Television in the episode The Happy Suicide
1966 – 5.00pm – Robert Easton appears in Lost In Space on Anglia Television in the episode Return From Outer Space
1968 – 8.30pm – Patrick Wymark appears in Playhouse on Southern Television in the production The Judge
1975 – 10.30pm – George Murcell and Nancy Nevinson both appear in the play The Prison on Thames Television
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1962 – Supercar features heavily at the National Toy Fair in New York which runs to 16th March with items produced for the series on show
1968 – Granada Television screen the first Thunderbirds episode to be broadcast in three parts, each part appearing on a different day (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday). Ten episodes starting today with Security Hazard at 4.40pm will be repeated this way, the others included are Atlantic Inferno, Path Of Destruction, Alias Mr.Hackenbacker, Lord Parker’s ‘Oliday, Ricochet, Perils Of Penelope, Terror In New York City, Edge Of Impact and Day Of Disaster
