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On This Day In Anderson History – 12th April

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1935 – Lee H Katzin

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1959 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery BoyA Bell For Penny-Farthing (ABC Midlands and ABC North)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery BoyBossy Boots Goes To Topsy Turvey Land (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)

1962 – 5.25pm – SupercarCalling Charlie Queen (ATV Midlands)

1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5The Forbidden Planet (Grampian)

1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather FallsGold Is Where You Find It (Grampian)

1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleFootso Disappears (Border and Channel)

1968 – 5.00pm – Captain ScarletPlace Of Angels (Grampian)

1974 – 6.30pm – The ProtectorsTriple Cross (HTV)

1983 – 11.05am – Joe 90Splashdown (Yorkshire)

1984 – 11.10am – Space:1999The Lambda Factor (HTV)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5Planet 46 (Fuji Television, Japan)

1965 – 6.00pm – StingrayTom Thumb Tempest (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1959 – 6.15pm – Shane Rimmer appears on The Sunday Break on Southern Television

1962 – 10.40pm – Nancy Nevinson appears in The Pursuers on Southern Television in the episode The Colonel

1967 – 5.25pm – Christine Finn appears in William Tell on Southern Television in the episode Gessler’s Daughter

1968 – 7.35pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Saint on Border Television in the episode The Death Penalty

1969 – 11.40pm – Ray Barrett is a guest on It’s Vicki Carr on Westward Television

 

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1966 – When Channel and Border Television screened The Adventures Of Twizzle in 1964 this episode was not shown due to The Budget on that day which was broadcast from 3.15pm to 5.55pm, the other regions moved the series from 4.45pm to 1.00pm whilst these two did not