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On This Day In Anderson History – 18th October

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1930 – David Tomblin

1934 – Paddy Searle

 

TODAYS DEPARTURES

2008 – Peter Gordeno

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1964 – 5.35pm – StingrayThe Ghost Ship (Anglia, ATV London, Southern, Border and Grampian)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1961 – 5.25pm – SupercarThe Magic Carpet (Ulster)

1961 – 5.25pm – SupercarIsland Incident (Grampian)

1961 – 5.25pm – SupercarGrounded (Anglia)

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

1968 – 4.25pm – Captain ScarletDangerous Rendezvous (Harlech)

1969 – 5.15pm – The Secret Service A Case For The Bishop (Granada)

1972 – 7.00pm – The ProtectorsIt Was All Over In Leipzig (Anglia, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire and Southern)

1975 – 5.50pm – Space:1999Alpha Child (Anglia and London Weekend)

1975 – 11.30pm – UFOThe Man Who Came Back (Scottish)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5Drama At Space City (Fuji Television, Japan)

1965 – 4.00pm – Fireball XL5Prisoner On The Lost Planet (ATN 7, Sydney, Australia)

1965 – 5.00pm – Fireball XL5Space Pen (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)

1965 – 6.00pm – StingrayHostages Of The Deep (CBOT 4, Ottawa, Canada)

1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5The Doomed Planet (AMV 4, Albury, Australia)

1966 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5Space Vacation (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)

1970 – 5.30pm – UFOConflict (CJOH 13, Ottawa, Canada)

1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 Force Of Life (Channel 9, Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 Guardian Of Piri (Channel 4, Kron TV, San Francisco, USA)

1979 – 11.56pm – Space:1999The Seance Spectre (Tokai Television, Japan)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1964 – 7.25pm – Nyree Dawn Porter appears in The Saint on ATV London Television in the episode The Scorpion

1965 – 8.00pm – Charles Tingwell appears in Love Story on Border Television entitled Girl On A Cliff

1970 – 2.30pm – Stanley Unwin appears in Jokers Wild on Anglia Television

1971 – 10.30pm – Maxwell Shaw appears in Edgar Wallace on Yorkshire Television in the episode Number Six  

1972 – 3.30pm – Vladek Sheybal appears in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode Fish On The Hook

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1969 – The Secret Service starts on Granada Television

1969 – Fab 1 and Lady Penelope (in human form) appear in Leamington Motors Cavalcade And Motor Show in Royal Leamington Spa which will drive through the town. Fab 1 will be a feature in their showroom for the next week

1976 – Filming starts on the Space:1999 episode The Seance Spectre