TODAYS ARRIVALS
1931 – Barbara Bain
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – King Dithers Goes Down To Earth (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Rescue (Anglia)
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Hostage (Ulster)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Footso And The Magic Seeds (Westward)
1968 – 4.55pm – Captain Scarlet – Seek And Destroy (Harlech)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – 2000 Ft To Die (Anglia, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire and Southern)
1975 – 5.50pm – Space:1999 – Force Of Life (Anglia and London Weekend)
1983 – 11.05am – Joe 90 – Colonel McClaine (Yorkshire)
1986 – 11.30am – Captain Scarlet – Expo 2068 (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy’s Birthday (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – A Day In The Life Of A Space General (Fuji Television, Japan)
1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Forbidden Planet (AMV 4, Albury, Australia)
1965 – 6.30pm – Stingray – The Pilot (WGN 9, Chicago, USA)
1965 – 7.00pm – Thunderbirds – Trapped In The Sky Part One (CFTO 9, Toronto, Canada)
1966 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Flying Zodiac (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1969 – 10.30am – Joe 90 – The Most Special Agent (CFCF 12, Montreal, Canada)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – With A Little Help From My Friends (WTVJ 4, Miami, USA)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Breakaway (WUHQ 41, Battle Creek, Lancing, USA)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Dragon’s Domain (Channel 9, KHJ TV, Los Angeles and Channel 4, Kron TV, San Francisco, USA)
1979 – 11.56pm – Space:1999 – The Beta Cloud (Tokai Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1959 – 5.25pm – Peter Dyneley appears in Jungle Boy on ABC London Television in the first episode Meet Jungle Boy
1959 – 11.00pm – Gary Miller is a guest on Music Shop on ABC London Television
1965 – 9.40pm – Rupert Davies appears in Play Of The Week entitled The Successor on Southern Television
1970 – 1.50pm – Peter Dyneley and Francis Matthews appear in The Saint on Ulster Television in the episode To Kill A Saint
1973 – 11.10am – Graydon Gould appears in The Saint on Westward Television in the episode Element Of Doubt
1974 – 10.15pm – John Tate appears in Danger Man on Anglia Television in the episode Not So Jolly Roger
1981 – 2.00pm – Charles Tingwell appears in Father, Dear Father on Westward Television in the episode Father, Dear Father’s Day
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Supercar starts on Anglia Television today
1964 – Norma Ronald is interviewed in this weeks TV Times (Sept 13 – Sept 19) London Edition
1965 – The Sydney Morning Herald announces the arrival of Fireball XL5 which will start in a weeks time
1965 – Stingray starts on WGN 9 in Chicago, USA
1965 – Thunderbirds begins on CFTO 9, Toronto, Canada
1967 – The Mysterons appear in TV Tornado Comic for the first time
1969 – Joe 90 starts on CFCF 12 in Montreal, Canada
1970 – The Sunday Mercury runs an article on UFO on it’s TV Pages along with a picture of Gabrielle Drake
1972 – The Protectors starts on Anglia, Yorkshire, Southern and Tyne Tees Television today
1972 – The Protectors begin on WTVJ 4 in Miami, USA
1975 – Space:1999 comic strip starts in Look-In – issue 38 dated 13th September
1975 – Space:1999 starts on WUHQ 41 in Battle Creek, Lancing in Michigan
1986 – Captain Scarlet is broadcast for the last time on Border Television at 11.30am
1987 – Fanderson hosts a one day event at The Dragonara Hotel in Leeds – Space:1999 Mini Convention
1999 – Message From Moonbase Alpha has it’s premiere at Breakaway – The Convention in Los Angeles, California, USA