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On This Day In Anderson History – 17th October

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1936 – Dolores Mantez

 

TODAYS DEPARTURES

2024 – Wolfgang Manthey

 

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1965 – 4.05pm – ThunderbirdsPit Of Peril (Channel and Westward)

1965 – 5.05pm – ThunderbirdsPit Of Peril (Border and Tyne Tees)

1966 – 5.25pm – ThunderbirdsAlias Mr.Hackenbacker Part One (ATV Midlands, Channel and Westward)

1974 – 6.30pm – The ProtectorsBaubles, Bangles And Beads (HTV)

1975 – 6.35pm – Space:1999War Games (Granada)

1975 – 6.35pm – Space:1999Breakaway (HTV)

1982 – 1.30pm – StingrayThe Man From The Navy (Yorkshire)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleThe Orange And Banana Tree (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)

1961 – 7.00pm – SupercarThe Lost City (Nippon Television, Japan)

1965 – 6.30pm – StingrayThe Big Gun (Channel 11, WPIX, New York, USA)

1970 – 8.00pm – UFOSurvival (Nippon Television, Japan)

1972 – 8.30pm – The ProtectorsTriple Cross (Channel 9, Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1964 – 9.10pm – Christine Finn appears in Gideon’s Way on Grampian Television in the episode The “V” Men

1966 – 9.10pm – Tony Anholt appears in Court Martial on Border Television in the episode Operation Trojan Horse

1970 – 9.00pm – Grant Taylor appears in Fraud Squad on Anglia Television in the episode The Harland Affair

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1973 – Lew Grade announces that three joint productions with RAI the Italian state tv company have been sold to America, one of them is Space:1999 

1975 – Space:1999 starts on HTV

1996 – Gerry Anderson – The Authorised Biography by Simon Archer and Stan Nicolls goes on sale