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On This Day In Anderson History – 18th January

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1936 – Ron Ashton

2041 – Seymour Griffiths (Lieutenant Green)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – The Sunken Temple (ATV Midlands)
1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5 – Space Pirates (Grampian)
1964 – 5.15pm – Fireball XL5 – Sabotage (Anglia)
1964 – 5.15pm – Fireball XL5 – Space Magnet (Tyne Tees)
1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather Falls – Escort (Grampian)
1967 – 5.25pm – Thunderbirds – Lord Parker’s ‘Oliday Part One (Granada)
1967 – 6.05pm – Thunderbirds – Lord Parker’s ‘Oliday Part Two (Granada)
1969 – 12.25pm – Joe 90 – Big Fish (London Weekend)
1971 – 4.50pm – Joe 90 – Breakout (Border)
1973 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Your Witness (Ulster)
1974 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Burning Bush (ATV Midlands)

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1965 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Ghost Of The Sea (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)

1973 – 8.55pm – The Protectors – Ceremony For The Dead (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – The Full Circle (ATN 7, Sydney, Australia)

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1966 – 8.00pm – George Murcell appears in No Hiding Place on Rediffusion London Television in the episode A Dead Cert

1970 – 2.30pm – Dolores Mantez appears in Danger Man on Anglia Television in the episode The Man On The Beach

1971 – 8.30pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in Man At The Top on ATV Midlands Television in the episode Join The Human Race

1971 – 8.50pm – Sylvia Anderson appears on the the panel of Call My Bluff on BBC 2

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1966 – The first issue of Lady Penelope comic goes on sale priced at 7d, inside is a free gift of a Super Signet Ring with Lady Penelope’s own personal seal. To promote the new comic there will be adverts in the press and television commercials

1967 – The first issue of Candy comic goes on sale priced at 9d, inside is a free gift of Candy’s Magic Painting Book

1967 – The first Zero X strip begins in TV Century 21 comic issue 105 which also contains a free gift of a Target Trainer

1968 – Recording sessions takes place at Olympic Studios in Barnes for the music used in The Most Special Agent, the first episode of Joe 90