TODAYS ARRIVALS
1927 – Lois Maxwell
1930 – Ken Holt
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1965 – 5.35pm – Stingray – Star Of The East (Anglia, Grampian, Southern and ATV London)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – The White Line (Anglia)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – False Alarm (Grampian)
1965 – 4.00pm – Stingray – Titan Goes Pop (Ulster)
1965 – 5.35pm – Stingray – Rescue From The Skies (Scottish)
1973 – 8.00pm – The Protectors – Chase (Ulster)
1976 – 11.30am – Space:1999 – The Troubled Spirit (London Weekend)
1976 – 5.25pm – Space:1999 – Ring Around The Moon (Channel and Westward)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1967 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – The Fire Fighters (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Earthbound (Kron-TV, San Francisco, USA)
1976 – 10.00pm – Space:1999 – Black Sun (RAI, Rete 2, Italy)
GUEST APPEARENCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1967 – 9.40pm – George Sewell appears in A Drug On The Market on Southern Television
1972 – 9.00pm – George Sewell stars in a new series Home And Away on Southern Television
1973 – 3.30pm – Clifton Jones and Harry Baird appear in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode The Man On The Beach
1973 – 8.00pm – Catherine Schell appears in The Persuaders in the episode The Morning After
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1968 – Issue 161 of TV21 Comic is the last to be printed in it’s larger format – 355mm x 265mm
1974 – 5.15pm – Screen Test on BBC 1 shows some behind the scenes footage from the Space:1999 episode Black Sun some sixteen months before it is screened on ITV