TODAYS ARRIVALS
1995 – Kate Kestral
TODAYS DEPARTURES
2007 – George Sewell
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And His Friends Go To The Circus (Associated-Rediffusion, Granada, Scottish, T.W.W. and ATV Midlands)
1961 – 5.40pm – Supercar – Jungle Hazard (ATV London and Southern)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – The Sky’s The Limit (ATV London)
1971 – 11.00pm – UFO – The Long Sleep (Anglia)
1995 – 7.00pm – Space Precinct – Time To Kill (Sky One)
1999 – 3.50pm – Lavender Castle – The Galacternet (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy Opens A Barber’s Shop (Southern)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – The Tracking Of Masterspy (Scottish)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Wings Of Danger (Granada and Wales West And North)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Dangerous Cargo (Border)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Spy In Space (ATV Midlands)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Expo 2068 (Ulster)
1972 – 5.10pm – UFO – Close Up (Scottish)
1972 – 10.45pm – UFO – Mindbender (Granada)
1972 – 11.10pm – UFO – The Long Sleep (Channel and Westward)
1974 – 10.30pm – The Protectors – A Kind Of Wild Justice (Tyne Tees)
1978 – 11.35am – Space:1999 – Devil’s Planet (Tyne Tees)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1962 – 10.00am – Supercar – Supercar “Take One” (Nippon Television, Japan)
1972 – 9.00pm – The Protectors – 2000Ft To Die (Nippon Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1968 – 5.00pm – Jerome Willis appears in The Adventures Of Sir Lancelot in the episode Prince Of Limerick on Border Television
1970 – 8.00pm – Vladek Sheybal appears in The Baron in the episode And Suddenly You’re Dead on Westward Television
1971 – 11.10pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Prisoner on Southern Television in the episode It’s Your Funeral
1972 – 5.10pm – George Murcell appears in Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) in the episode Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave on Yorkshire Television
1974 – 8.00pm – Windsor Davies appears in Bless This House on Thames Television in the episode The Bells Are Ringing
1977 – 9.00pm – Cyril Shaps appears in Raffles on Tyne Tees Television in the episode The Last Laugh
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1971 – The screening of the UFO episode The Long Sleep on Anglia Television is the only one that is broadcast in a late night slot in this region when the series was shown for the first time
1972 – The Protectors start on Nippon Television in Japan
1976 – Filming begins on the Space:1999 episode Journey To Where
1977 – UFO is broadcast for the last time in the London region, as they didn’t purchase the series in the 1980’s
1994 – The first issue of The New Thunderbirds Comic goes on sale
