UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – Gold Diggers (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Scottish, Southern, Ulster, Tyne Tees and T.W.W.)
1972 – 7.30pm – The Protectors – Balance Of Terror (Granada)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Rescue (Granada)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – The Lazy Broomstick Man (Border and Channel)
1965 – 6.05pm – Stingray – Aquanaut Of The Year (Granada)
1963 – 3.45pm – Fireball XL5 – The Fire Fighters (Southern)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – 2000 Ft To Die (Channel, Westward and London Weekend)
1972 – 11.30pm – UFO – Identified (HTV Cymru)
1973 – 9.40am – Joe 90 – Lone-Handed 90 (London Weekend)
1974 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – Route 27 (Anglia)
1983 – 10.25am – Space:1999 – The Taybor (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Footso Disappears (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1972 – 7.00pm – UFO – Identified (KXTV 10, Sacramento, USA)
1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Guardian Of Piri (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1967 – 7.30pm – John Tate appears in The Saint on Southern Television in the episode The Crooked Ring
1969 – 10.30pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Prisoner on Harlech Television in the episode It’s Your Funeral
1971 – 8.00pm – Lois Maxwell appears in The Saint on Thames Television in the episode Interlude In Venice
1972 – 5.20pm – Brian Blessed appears in Shirley’s World on Ulster Television in the episode Knightmare
1974 – 1.00pm – Shane Rimmer and David Healy appear in The Persuaders on Ulster Television in the episode Element Of Risk
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Supercar starts on Granada Television
1965 – Stingray begins on WJBK 2 in Detroit USA at 7.00pm
1965 – Newspapers in Baltimore, Maryland, USA advertise over the next few days the arrival of Stingray on Saturday mornings on WMAR 2
1969 – Antonia Ellis is pictured in The Daily Sketch with news that her first acting role will be in UFO
1970 – Ayshea, Bonnie Peterson and Patricia Gordeno promote the new series UFO in Birmingham
1972 – UFO starts on HTV Cymru today
1972 – UFO starts on KXTV 10 in Sacramento, USA at 7.00pm
1972 – The Protectors start on Channel, London Weekend and Westward Television today, also inside this weeks edition of the TV Times (9 – 15 September) is a three page article focusing on Robert Vaughan directing an episode
1985 – Captain Scarlet is broadcast for the last time on Tyne Tees Television at 11.30am with the episode The Inquisition
1991 – The Sunday People interview Christine Glanville ahead of the screening of Thunderbirds on BBC 2 on Friday
