TODAYS DEPARTURES
1977 – Grenville Nott
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy Opens A Barbers Shop (ATV Midlands, Scottish, Granada, T.W.W. and Associated-Rediffusion)
1961 – 5.40pm – Supercar – Grounded (ATV London and Southern)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – Atomic Witch Hunt (ATV London)
1995 – 7.00pm – Space Precinct – Protect And Survive (Sky One)
1999 – 3.50pm – Lavender Castle – Swamp Fever (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Saves The Broken Down Toys (Southern)
1961 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Daffy’s Birthday (Tyne Tees)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – Crash Landing (Scottish)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – The Forbidden Planet (Border)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Planet Of Platonia (Granada and Wales West And North)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Noose Of Ice (Ulster)
1972 – 5.10pm – UFO – Destruction (Scottish)
1972 – 10.40pm – UFO – Timelash (Granada)
1972 – 11.10pm – UFO – Mindbender (Channel and Westward)
1978 – 11.25am – Space:1999 – Dorzak (Tyne Tees)
1979 – 11.35pm – The Protectors – Blockbuster (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1962 – 10.00am – Supercar – The White Line (Nippon Television, Japan)
1972 – 6.30pm – UFO – Court Martial (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1961 – 10.00pm – Ian Hendry stars in The Avengers, a new series starting on Southern Television
1965 – 9.40pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Human Jungle on Associated-Rediffusion Television in the episode Ring Of Hate
1966 – 8.00pm – Jerome Willis appears in The Avengers on Rediffusion London Television in the episode How To Succeed… At Murder
1966 – 9.55pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Liars on Southern Television
1967 – 6.30pm – Dolores Mantez appears in Danger Man on ATV London Television in the episode Loyalty Always Pays
1967 – 10.30pm – George Murcell appears in Armchair Theatre in the story The Exploding Azalea on ATV London Television
1970 – 8.00pm – John Tate appears in The Champions on Thames Television in the episode The Survivors
1970 – 8.00pm – Lois Maxwell appears in The Baron on Westward Television in the episode Something For A Rainy Day
1972 – 5.40pm – George Sewell appears in Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) in the episode Vendetta For A Dead Man on Southern Television
1973 – 12.25am – Christine Finn appears in Scales Of Justice on London Weekend Television in the episode The Hidden Face
1979 – 7.15pm – Zienia Merton appears in Return Of The Saint on Granada Television in the episode The Nightmare Man
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Supercar makes it’s debut in TV Comic – issue 483
1965 – Barry Gray records the music for the Thunderbirds episode The Perils Of Penelope at CTS Studios
1967 – The TV Century 21 Spring Extra goes on sale with forty eight pages, priced at two shillings
1967 – Barry Gray records the music at his studios for the Captain Scarlet episode The Mysterons
1968 – Joan Hughes appears in court at Aylesbury facing seven charges of flying low, dangerously and endangering people and property when she flew her Tiger Moth plane under a fly-over on the M40 Motorway near High Wycombe last May filming a sequence for Thunderbird 6. Producer Norman Foster is also charged for aiding and abetting her
1976 – Filming starts on the Space:1999 episode All That Glisters