FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Flight Of Fancy (ATV Midlands)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Operation Superstork (Wales West And North)
1962 – 5.27pm – Fireball XL5 – Plant Man From Space (Grampian)
1965 – 4.45pm – Four Feather Falls – A Lawman Rides Again (Grampian)
1967 – 5.25pm – Captain Scarlet – Big Ben Strikes Again (Tyne Tees)
1968 – 5.15pm – Joe 90 – Relative Danger (Southern)
1970 – 4.55pm – Captain Scarlet – Attack On Cloudbase (Harlech)
1970 – 4.55pm – Joe 90 – Three’s A Crowd (Border)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Triple Cross (Anglia)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – The Bodyguards (Ulster)
1973 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Zeke’s Blues (ATV Midlands)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1962 – 5.30pm – Supercar – Hostage (KTRG 13, Honolulu, USA)
1962 – 6.30pm – Supercar – Phantom Piper (CKLW 9, Windsor, Canada)
1964 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Hostages Of The Deep (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1964 – 7.00pm – Stingray – Stand By For Action (Fuji Television, Japan)
1970 – 7.00pm – UFO – Computer Affair (CFCF 12, Montreal, Canada)
1972 – 9.40pm – The Protectors – The Numbers Game (CHTV 3, Christchurch, New Zealand)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1974 – 9.45pm – Wanda Ventham appears as a guest on Les Dawson’s Christmas Box on ATV Midlands Television
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1964 – Barry Gray records the music to accompany the advert for Sea Jet Ice Lolly which features Stingray
2000 – An abandoned episode of Stingray is found after 38 years in the vaults of ITC
2010 – An auction at Bonhams in Knowle includes the Dave Hobson Supercar Collection
