TODAYS DEPARTURES
1985 – Maxwell Shaw
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – High Tension (Westward and T.W.W.)
1971 – 12.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And Footso Go Camping (Grampian)
1971 – 5.10pm – UFO – Close Up (Granada)
1971 – 5.15pm – UFO – Kill Straker! (Grampian)
1976 – 11.20am – Space:1999 – Breakaway (Southern)
1976 – 5.45pm – Space:1999 – The Troubled Spirit (Ulster)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – The Sunken Temple (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN 2, Sydney, Australia)
1976 – 10.00pm – Space:1999 – The Metamorph (Kron TV, Channel 4, San Francisco, USA)
1977 – 4.30pm – Space:1999 – The Last Enemy (TBS, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1968 – 8.00pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Avengers on Southern Television in the episode The Thirteenth Hole
1971 – 9.00pm – Wanda Ventham appears in Department S on HTV in the episode The Man From “X”
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1965 – Golden Wonder who produce the inflatable Stingray stop production as experts warn that the toy is dangerous, staff at the company send out letters to the six thousand who have ordered one
1970 – The Calgary Herald in Canada promotes UFO in it’s television pages, the series will start next month
1976 – Space:1999 Series One starts on Southern Television
1976 – The first episode of Space:1999 Series Two is broadcast on Kron Television, Channel 4 in San Francisco, The Metamorph would be repeated on 4th September when the series would start a regular run