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On This Day In Anderson History – 14th January

 

TODAYS DEPARTURES

2005 – John Beaton

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And The Broken Down Toy (Associated-Rediffusion, ATV Midlands, Granada, T.W.W. and Scottish)

1968 – 5.30pm – Captain Scarlet – Traitor (ATV London, Scottish, Westward, Channel and Border)

1999 – 4.00pm – Lavender Castle – Flower Power (ITV Network)

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy And Chawky Quarrel (Southern)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – What Goes Up (Scottish)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Space Monster (Border)
1968 – 4.40pm – Captain Scarlet – Point 783 (Anglia)
1968 – 5.30pm – Captain Scarlet – White As Snow (Tyne Tees)
1978 – 11.30am – Space:1999 – Seed Of Destruction (Tyne Tees)
1979 – 2.30pm – Space:1999 – The AB Chrysalis (Scottish)
1979 – 11.35pm – The Protectors – Petard (Yorkshire)

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1964 – 4.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Forbidden Planet (CBOT 4, Ottawa, Canada)

1966 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Flight To Danger (BTV 6, Ballarat, Australia)

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1960 – 9.35pm – Michael Holliday appears on Hippodrome on Granada Television

1962 – 4.50pm – Neil McCallum appears in Sir Francis Drake on ABC North Television in the episode The Flame Thrower

1966 – 9.40pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Liars on Southern Television

1967 – 9.10pm – George Murcell appears in The Baron in the episode Time To Kill on Anglia Television

1972 – 7.30pm – George Murcell appears in The Persuaders on Yorkshire Television in the episode Nuisance Value

1984 – 8.45pm – Shane Rimmer appears in Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime on TVS in the episode The Crackler

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1958 – The Adventures Of Twizzle begins on Television Wales And West on their first day of broadcasting within Jolly Good Time which runs for thirty minutes from 5.00pm to 5.30pm
1962 – Supercar has a major presence at the Harrogate International Toy Fair which opened today with many manufacturers promoting their new licensed items
1974 – Filming begins on the Space:1999 episode Matter Of Life And Death