UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1973 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Lena (Scottish)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Force Of Life (ATV Midlands, Scottish, Grampian, Ulster, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire, Westward, Channel and Border)
1976 – 11.30am – Space:1999 – The Exiles (London Weekend)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Phantom Piper (Westward and T.W.W.)
1963 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Atomic Witch Hunt (Southern)
1971 – 12.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Footso Has Toothache (Grampian)
1971 – 5.10pm – UFO – Computer Affair (Granada)
1971 – 5.15pm – UFO – Confetti Check A-O.K. (Grampian)
1973 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – Border Line (Grampian)
1976 – 11.35am – Space:1999 – Death’s Other Dominion (Southern)
1976 – 5.15pm – Space:1999 – The Metamorph (Channel and Westward)
1976 – 5.40pm – Space:1999 – The Exiles (ATV Midlands)
1977 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – Seed Of Destruction (Anglia)
1977 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – Missing Link (Yorkshire)
1977 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – One Moment Of Humanity (Tyne Tees)
1978 – 11.15pm – The Protectors – Burning Bush (Yorkshire)
1982 – 11.15am – Space:1999 – Journey To Where (Border)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961- 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And Polly Moppet (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Ice-Fall (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN Channel 2, Sydney, Australia)
1966 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds – Desperate Intruder (NHK, Japan)
1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – The Exiles (Channel 4, Kron TV, San Francisco, USA)
1977 – 4.30pm – Space:1999 – Space Brain (TBS, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1961 – 11.10pm – Francis Matthews appears in Saber Of London on Associated-Rediffusion Television in the episode It Walks At Night
1966 – 3.35pm – Paul Maxwell appears in Man Of The World on ATV London Television in the episode Specialist For The Kill
1973 – 11.10am – Peter Dyneley appears in The Saint on Westward Television in the episode The Careful Terrorist
1973 – 3.25pm – Peter Dyneley and Francis Matthews appear in The Saint on Ulster Television in the episode To Kill A Saint
1973 – 7.05pm – Martin Landau appears in Columbo on Anglia Television in the episode Double Shock
1974 – 9.00pm – Clifton Jones appears in The Police Story on Thames Television in the episode The Ho Chi Minh Trail
1975 – 11.20pm – Martin Landau appears in The Twilight Zone on Granada Television in the episode Mr.Denton On Doomsday
1976 – 5.45pm – Ed Bishop appears in The Adventurer on Yorkshire Television in the episode Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice And Miss Me Once Again…
1976 – 11.30pm – John Bluthal appears in Man In A Suitcase on Yorkshire Television in the episode Jigsaw Man
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Readers of this weeks TV Comic are invited to join The Mike Mercury Supercar Club, priced 2s 6d members would receive a Supercar Pilots Licence and a golden metal Supercar Wings badge
1965 – The first Stingray and TV Century 21 Annuals go on sale – both priced 9s 6d
1976 – The second series of Space:1999 starts on Westward and Channel Television
1992 – Stingray receives it UK Network Premiere on BBC 2 at 6.00pm
1993 – Fanderson’s Space City Convention takes place at The Dean Park Hotel in Watford this weekend
1995 – The Space Precinct paperback The Deity Father is published by HarperCollins