UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – Escort (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Scottish, Southern, Ulster, Tyne Tees and T.W.W.)
1963 – 4.40pm – Fireball XL5 – The Fire Fighters (ATV London and Ulster)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1963 – 4.15pm – Fireball XL5 – Wings Of Danger (Southern)
1963 – 4.50pm – Fireball XL5 – The Day The Earth Froze (Anglia)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Saves The Broken Down Toys (Anglia, Channel and Border)
1965 – 5.25pm – Stingray – Hostages Of The Deep (ATV Midlands, Westward and Channel)
1965 – 6.05pm – Stingray – Pink Ice (Granada)
1968 – 5.30pm – Captain Scarlet – Manhunt (Harlech)
1968 – 5.30pm – Captain Scarlet – The Launching (Tyne Tees)
1969 – 4.55pm – Joe 90 – Trial At Sea (Channel and Westward)
1972 – 7.35pm – UFO – Close Up (Grampian)
1972 – 11.25pm – Crossroads To Crime (Southern)
1973 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – Fighting Fund (London Weekend)
1974 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – Implicado (Anglia)
1979 – 9.30am – Space:1999 – The Beta Cloud (Yorkshire)
1984 – 9.35am – Joe 90 – See You Down There (Yorkshire)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1967 – 10.52pm – George Sewell appears in Gideon’s Way in the episode Boy With A Gun on Southern Television
1969 – 10.30pm – Clifton Jones appears in Danger Man on Harlech Television in the episode Parallel Lines Sometimes Meet
1973 – 11.30pm – Cyril Shaps appears in Man In A Suitcase on Southern Television in the episode The Man Who Stood Still
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1963 – The London edition of this weeks TV Times has the Fireball XL5 episode Ghosts Of Space listed but is replaced with a different episode The Fire Fighters
1972 – Crossroads To Crime is broadcast for the first time on Southern Television
1986 – Granada Television broadcast The Protectors for the final time at 3.00pm with the episode A Pocketful Of Posies
2001 – Gerry Anderson is awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
