FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – A Trick On Pom-Pom (Ulster)
1966 – 4.30pm – Thunderbirds – Attack Of The Alligators! (Tyne Tees)
1966 – 5.05pm – Thunderbirds – The Duchess Assignment (Southern)
1966 – 5.05pm – Thunderbirds – Attack Of The Alligators! (Westward)
1971 – 5.15pm – UFO – E.S.P. (Southern)
1976 – 10.45pm – The Protectors – Wam Part One (Granada)
1982 – 10.05am – Joe 90 – See You Down There (Grampian)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – High Tension (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN Channel 2, Sydney, Australia)
1966 – 6.30pm – Thunderbirds – The Uninvited (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1971 – 8.00pm – UFO – A Question Of Priorities (Nippon Television, Japan)
1972 – 7.30pm – The Protectors – Thinkback (CKLW 9, Detroit, USA)
1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – The Infernal Machine (Television One, New Zealand)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1960 – 9.05pm – Rupert Davies appears in Armchair Theatre on ATV London in the story The Girl In The Market Square
1965 – 8.25pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Worker on ATV London Television in the story No Automation Without Representation
1965 – 9.10pm – John Bluthal appears in The Saint on ATV London Television in the episode The Happy Suicide
1965 – 11.30pm – David Graham appears in The Four Just Men on ATV London Television in the episode The Beatniques
1975 – 9.00pm – Tony Anholt appears in The Sweeney on Thames Television in the episode Contact Breaker
1978 – 10.30pm – Robert Vaughan appears in Columbo in the episode Troubled Waters on Anglia Television
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1965 – The Daily Mail runs a week long competition that closes on 26th March where you could win either a Troy Tempest or Marina puppet that was used in the production of the series, both are revealed to be twenty one inches in height
1968 – Recording of the music for the Joe 90 episodes of International Concerto and Splashdown take place at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London
1968 – Joan Hughes and Norman Foster are cleared of all the charges in regards to the flying of the Tiger Moth aircraft for the scenes used in the Thunderbird 6 film
1982 – 9.40am – Tyne Tees Television broadcast Thunderbirds for the last time