UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – Safe As Houses (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, T.W.W., Scottish, Southern, Ulster, Tyne Tees and Associated-Rediffusion)
1972 – 7.30pm – The Protectors – Thinkback (Granada)
1973 – 6.00pm- The Protectors – Dragon Chase (Scottish)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1963 – 3.45pm – Fireball XL5 – Faster Than Light (Southern)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy And Polly Moppet Quarrel (Border, Southern and Channel)
1965 – 6.05pm – Stingray – Hostages Of The Deep (Granada)
1973 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – Decoy (Ulster)
1974 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – The Bridge (Anglia)
1974 – 11.45pm – The Protectors – Zeke’s Blues (Southern)
1977 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Implicado (Tyne Tees)
1977 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Quin
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Devil’s Planet (ATV Midlands and Ulster)
1983 – 10.25am – Space:1999 – The Rules Of Luton (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Footso Has Toothache (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Voyager’s Return (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1962 – 10.00pm – Jerome Willis appears in Out Of This World on Anglia Television in the episode The Dark Star
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1960 – The first Torchy Gift Book published by The Daily Mirror goes on sale priced at 5 Shillings
1965 – Trapped In The Sky is shown to the press at The Scala Cinema in Birmingham on the big screen in colour, ahead of it’s UK debut on ATV Midlands Television at the end of the month
1965 – The first colour photo of Fab 1 is seen on the cover of TV Century Comic issue 33
1966 – The Doctor Barnardos replica Thunderbird Three takes up residence at Dane John Gardens in Canterbury until September 10th
1977 – The Protectors second series starts on Ulster Television today