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On This Day In Anderson History – 18th August

TODAYS DEPARTURES

1993 – Tony Barwick

2014 – John Bluthal

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather FallsA Cure For Everything (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Scottish, Southern, Ulster, Tyne Tees and T.W.W.)

1972 – 8.00pm – The ProtectorsThe Quick Brown Fox (Granada)

1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999The Seance Spectre (Ulster and ATV Midlands)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1963 – 3.45pm – Fireball XL5A Day In The Life Of A Space General (Southern)

1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle The Naughty Girl (Border and Channel)

1965 – 6.05pm – StingrayThe Master Plan (Granada)

1973 – 6.00pm – The ProtectorsWam Part Two (Scottish)

1973 – 6.35pm – The ProtectorsGoodbye George (Ulster)

1974 – 1.00pm – The ProtectorsZeke’s Blues (Anglia)

1983 – 10.25am – Space:1999One Moment Of Humanity (HTV)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleCandy Floss Has A Birthday (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)

1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999Force Of Life (HSV 7, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)

1976 – 8.00pm – Space:1999The Metamorph (WUHQ 41, Battle Creek, Lancing, USA)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1966 – 10.10pm – Harry Baird appears in Court Martial on Border Television in the episode Operation Makeshift

1967 – 7.30pm – Nancy Nevinson appears in The Saint on Southern Television in the episode The Spanish Cow

1967 – 8.55pm – Grant Taylor appears in Escape on Southern Television in the episode Five Men For Freedom

1968 – 10.10pm – George Sewell and Gabrielle Drake appear in the play The Ticket on Border Television, part of the For Amusement Only series

1971 – 8.00pm – Charles Tingwell appears in The Avengers on Southern Television in the episode Return Of The Cybernauts

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1976 – A preview of the Space:1999 second series episode The Metamorph is shown on WUHQ 41 in Battle Creek, Lancing, Michigan, the episode would be shown again on Saturday 18th September at 7.00pm with the rest of the series following after

1985 – Grampian Television broadcast Captain Scarlet for the final time at 9.30am with the episode The Inquisition 

2001 – Captain Scarlet is featured on the front cover of this weeks Radio Times along with Postman Pat and Gordon the gopher