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On This Day In Anderson History – 17th May

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1917 – Frank Bellamy

2034 – Patrick Donaghue (Captain Magenta)

 

TODAYS DEPARTURES

2023 – Ray Austin

 

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1986 – 11.30am – TerrahawksTerratomb (ITV Network)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy King Dithers Loses His Crown (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)

1962 – 5.25pm – SupercarJail Break (ATV Midlands)

1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL51875 (Grampian)

1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather FallsTeething Troubles (Grampian)

1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle And Footso Go Fruit Picking (Westward)

1968 – 5.00pm – Captain ScarletCodename Europa (Grampian)

1968 – 5.00pm – Captain ScarletManhunt (Ulster)

1969 – 5.45pm – Joe 90 Test Flight (Granada)

1974 – 6.30pm – The ProtectorsFighting Fund (HTV)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 Spy In Space (Fuji Television, Japan)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1961 – 8.00pm – Gary Miller appears on Val Parnell’s Startime on Granada Television

1967 – 8.00pm – Keith Alexander appears in No Hiding Place on Southern Television in the episode A Through And Through With Powder 

1970 – 9.10pm – Nyree Dawn Porter is a guest on The Englebert Humperdinck Show on Westward Television

 

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1963 – A group of dignitaries from The Polish Ministry Of Culture are invited to tour the A.P.Films studios

1965 – American publication Broadcasting reports that Stingray has been sold in forty five markets with a gross sale exceeding one million dollars, ITC President Abe Mandell adds that the series which went into syndication less than two month ago has been sold to nineteen of the top twenty five markets in the country

1967 – Gerry Anderson is interviewed in The Belfast Newsletter and talks about Thunderbirds and the new series Captain Scarlet

2014 – RAF Cosford hosts the Flight Of Fancy exhibition this weekend which will include talks by Sylvia Anderson, Alan Shubrook, Mary Turner, Brian Johnson and Tony Day as well as original puppet and vehicles seen in the various productions