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On This Day In Anderson History – 15th May

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1929 – David Healy

 

TODAYS DEPARTURES

2009 – Charles Tingwell

2015 – Judith Shutt

 

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 4.30pm – Torchy The Battery BoyTorchy And The Broken Rocket (Scottish)

1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery BoyThe Naughty Twins (Ulster)

1966 – 3.15pm – Thunderbirds Martian Invasion Part Two (Ulster)

1966 – 4.35pm – Thunderbirds Security Hazard (Southern)

1966 – 4.35pm – ThunderbirdsBrink Of Disaster (T.W.W.)

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOCourt Martial (Anglia)

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOSurvival (Yorkshire)

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOClose Up (Southern)

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOComputer Affair (ATV Midlands)

1973 – 6.30pm – The Protectors It Could Be Practically Anywhere On The Island (Scottish)

1983 – 1.45pm – StingrayInvisible Enemy (Yorkshire)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1962 – 5.30pm – SupercarThe Tracking Of Masterspy (CBOT 4, Ottawa, Canada)

1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar Jail Break (ABC 3, Canberra, Australia)

1966 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds City Of Fire (NHK, Japan)

1976 – 5.00pm – The ProtectorsGoodbye George (NET, Japan)

1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999End Of Eternity (Television One, New Zealand)

1977 – 4.30pm – Space:1999Force Of Life (TBS, Japan)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1966 – 7.25pm – Lois Maxwell appears in The Baron in the episode Something For A Rainy Day

1969 – 8.00pm – Wanda Ventham appears in Department S on Tyne Tees Television in the episode The Man From X

1974 – 1.30pm – Peter Dyneley appears in this weeks episodes of Crown Court on Westward Television in the story Vermin 

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1959 – Birn publish the storybook Twizzle And The Hungry Cat

1965 – A forty eight page Stingray Special is issued costing two shillings which contains two free badges – Stingray and W.A.S.P.

1965 – Troy Tempest and Marina are featured in colour in this weeks TV World (May 15 – May 21) in the Midlands area

 

1966 – Sylvia Anderson and Lady Penelope appear in the Sunday Mirror discussing the Thunderbirds Are Go film and the latest fashion designs that will be in the shops in June for young girls to purchase

1992 – The Gerry Anderson Tour continues at The Barbican in York