TODAYS DEPARTURES
1979 – John Tate
2022 – Leo Eaton
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
2005 – 10.53am – New Captain Scarlet – Mercury Falling (ITV 1)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Hungry Money Box (Tyne Tees)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Space For Mitch (Granada)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy And Squish (Wales West And North)
1965 – 5.25pm – Stingray – Treasure Down Below (Channel, Westward and Tyne Tees)
1966 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds – Martian Invasion (ATV London)
1976 – 6.35pm – Space:1999 – The Last Enemy (Granada)
1976 – 6.35pm – Space:1999 – The Troubled Spirit (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1968 – 7.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Shadow Of Fear (TBS, Japan)
1969 – 7.00pm – Joe 90 – Test Flight (Nippon Educational Television, Japan)
1977 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – The Immunity Syndrome (Kron TV, San Francisco, USA)
1977 – 9.40pm – Space:1999 – Ring Around The Moon (RTP, Portugal)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1961 – 7.30pm – George Murcell appears in Danger Man on Southern Television in the story Bury The Dead
1962 – 8.00pm – Cyril Shaps appears in Playdate on Southern Television in the presentation All Correct, Sir
1965 – 9.40pm – Cyril Shaps appears in It’s Dark Outside on Associated-Rediffusion Television in the episode A Dream Of Magic – A Greed Of Money
1966 – 9.10pm – Jerome Willis appears in The Avengers in the episode How To Succeed… At Murder on Border Television
1967 – 7.25pm – Graydon Gould appears in The Saint on ATV London Television in the episode The Element Of Doubt
1969 – 6.35pm – Gabrielle Drake and John Tate appear in The Saint on Thames Television in the episode The Best Laid Schemes
1970 – 11.00pm – Michael Billington appears in The Prisoner on Westward Television in the episode A Change Of Mind
1972 – 10.15pm – Ian Hendry appears in Sunday Night Theatre on Southern Television in the story A Summer Story
1973 – 10.33pm – Rupert Davies appears as a guest on Sound Stage on Westward Television
1974 – 2.00pm – Rupert Davies appears in Marked Personnel on Tyne Tees Television
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1959 – Torchy The Battery Boy is one of the programmes which ABC-TV has sold to Australia
1965 – A few newspapers run a competition to win either an original Troy Tempest or Marina puppet that was used in the production of Stingray, it appears in The Staffordshire Sentinel today and The Daily Mail tomorrow
