FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Returns To Earth (Southern)
1961 – 5.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And His Friends Go To The Circus (Tyne Tees)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Moon Falls Asleep (Grampian and Wales West And North)
1974 – 11.40pm – The Protectors – Decoy (Southern)
1976 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Wam Part Two (Tyne Tees)
1977 – 6.00pm – Space:1999 – The Rules Of Luton (Anglia)
1978 – 1.15pm – Space:1999 – The Bringers Of Wonder Part Two (Westward)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1971 – 7.30pm – UFO – Kill Straker! (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Journey To Where (RTP, Portugal)
1985 – 7.30pm – Terrahawks – To Catch A Tiger (NHK, Japan)
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1960 – Torchy The Battery Boy appears in Harold Hare’s Own Paper for the first time
1968 – Filming commences on The Secret Service with the episode A Case For The Bishop
1976 – The Southern Daily Echo informers readers that Space:1999 will start tomorrow on Southern Television
1981 – Fanderson is created
1983 – Anglia Television broadcast Joe 90 for the final time at 10.30am with the episode The Birthday
1983 – The Liverpool Echo prints an article on the forthcoming series Terrahawks
2011 – Fanderson host a 30th Birthday Party at The Crown Piaza Hotel in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
2022 – Fanderson host a one day celebration of it’s creation at The Pinewood Hotel