TODAYS ARRIVALS
1915 – Grenville Nott
1927 – Alf Joint
1947 – Alan Shubrook
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – First Train Through (Granada, Anglia, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Southern, Scottish, Ulster, Tyne Tees and T.W.W.)
1972 – 7.30pm – The Protectors – Triple Cross (Granada)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – The White Line (Granada)
1963 – 3.45pm – Fireball XL5 – Space City Special (Southern)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And Polly Moppet (Border, Southern and Channel)
1972 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Disappearing Trick (Channel, Westward and London Weekend)
1974 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – Trial (Anglia)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1965 – 5.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Convict In Space (ATN 7, Sydney, Australia)
1965 – 5.35pm – Fireball XL5 – The Triads (GMV 6, Shepparton, Australia)
1972 – 7.00pm – UFO – Exposed (KXTV10, Sacramento, USA)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Breakaway (KPRC 2, Houston, USA)
1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Ring Around The Moon (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1963 – 9.35pm – Peter Dyneley appears in Drama’63 on Grampian Television entitled Harbour Island
1964 – 8.00pm – Matin Landau appears in The Detectives on Anglia Television in the episode Shadow Of His Brother
1967 – 9.00pm – Jerome Willis appears in Escape on Southern Television in the episode The Kindness Of Strangers
1971 – 8.00pm – Ed Bishop appears in Strange Report on Ulster Television in the episode Report 5055: CULT – Murder Shrieks Out
1971 – 8.00pm – George Murcell appears in The Saint on Thames Television in the episode The Death Game
1972 – 7.30pm – George Murcell appears in Jason King on Ulster Television in the episode That Isn’t Me, It’s Somebody Else
1972 – 10.40pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in Villains on London Weekend Television in the episode Bernie
1972 – 12.30am – Lois Maxwell appears in Department S on London Weekend Television in the episode The Ghost Of Mary Burnham
1976 – 4.45pm – Prentis Hancock appears in Rogue’s Rock on Yorkshire Television in the episode Black Gold
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1962 – Supercar starts on WBTW 13 at 8.30am in Florence, South Caroline, USA
1962 – Supercar begins on KHOU 11 at 5.30pm in Houston, USA
1963 – Todays edition of the Detroit Free Press features Fireball XL5 on two of it’s pages which starts the following Saturday
1965 – Fireball XL5 starts on GMV 6 in Shepparton, Australia
1966 – The Stage includes a job advert from A.P.Films for anyone interested in puppetry
1973 – This weeks TV Times (22 Sep – 28 Sep) contains the first part of Robert Vaughan’s life story
1981 – Gerry Anderson appears on The Extraordinary People Show at 4.45pm which is broadcast on the ITV Network
