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On This Day In Anderson History – 21st February

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1929 – Maxwell Shaw

 

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1965 – 5.35pm – StingrayInvisible Enemy (Anglia, Grampian, Southern and ATV London)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1962 – 5.25pm – SupercarCrash Landing (Anglia)

1962 – 5.25pm – SupercarThe Talisman Of Sargon (Grampian)

1965 – 4.00pm – StingrayTune Of Danger (Ulster)

1965 – 5.35pm – StingrayThe Lighthouse Dwellers (Scottish)

1973 – 8.00pm – The ProtectorsA Case For The Right (Anglia)

1973 – 8.00pm – The ProtectorsThe First Circle (Ulster)

1973 – 10.30pm – The ProtectorsYour Witness (Grampian)

1976 – 11.30am – Space:1999The Testament Of Arkadia (London Weekend)

1976 – 5.15pm – Space:1999Missing Link (Channel and Westward)

1976 – 11.30pm – The ProtectorsA Pocketful Of Posies (Border)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1966 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5Whistle For Danger (AMV 4, Albury, Australia)

1966 – 7.00pm – ThunderbirdsThe Perils Of Penelope (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)

1972 – 5.00pm – Joe 90Child Of The Sun God (Tokyo Channel 12, Japan)

1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999Another Time, Another Place (Kron-TV, San Francisco, USA)

1976 – 10.00pm – Space:1999Matter Of Life And Death (RAI, Rete 2, Italy)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1962 – 6.05pm – Christine Finn appears in The Adventures Of Robin Hood on Granada Television in the episode The Profiteer

1962 – 11.25pm – Graydon Gould appears in the Mark Saber episode Girls And Diamonds on Granada Television

1973 – 3.30pm – Ian Hendry appears in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode Say It With Flowers 

1978 – 9.00pm – Wilde Alliance – Ed Bishop appears in the episode Danny Boy on ATV Midlands Television

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1960 – This weeks edition of TV Times (Feb 21 – Feb 28) features Four Feather Falls on the cover, which makes it’s debut on Thursday, the London edition features two pages on Four Feather Falls and Torchy The Battery Boy which starts on Tuesday in this region. The Granada issue has just a one page article on Four Feather Falls

1968 – Issue 162 of TV21 Comic is the first to be printed in it’s smaller size (330mm x 265mm) which will continue through to the last issue 242