UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
2005 – 11.00am – New Captain Scarlet – Chiller (ITV 1)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy And The Man In The Moon (Tyne Tees)
1961 – 5.20pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle– Twizzle Saves The Doll (Tyne Tees)
1961 – 5.20pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bad Boy Bogey (Southern)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Transatlantic Cable (Granada)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bossy Boots Goes To Topsy Turvey Land (Grampian and Westward)
1965 – 5.00pm – Stingray – The Invaders (Tyne Tees)
1966 – 5.15pm – Thunderbirds – The Duchess Assignment Part One (Ulster)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Traitor (ATV Midlands)
1978 – 2.30pm – Space:1999 – The Mark Of Archanon (Scottish)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1968 – 7.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Crater 101 (TBS, Japan)
1985 – 7.30pm – Terrahawks – Thunder-Roar (NHK, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1961 – 7.30pm – Rupert Davies appears in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode The Actor
1962 – 8.00pm – Barry Morse appears in Playdate on Granada Television in the production Love Story 1910
1969 – 6.35pm – Ed Bishop appears in The Saint in the episode The Revolution Racket on Thames Television
1974 – 11.30pm – Vladek Sheybal appears in Strange Report on Granada Television in the episode Sniper: When Is Your Cousin Not
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – This weeks TV Times (Apr 23 – Apr 29) Southern Edition features a small feature on Supercar
1984 – Thunderbirds is broadcast for the last time on Central Television in the Midlands area at 9.55am with the episode Path Of Destruction
1992 – The Gerry Anderson Tour continues at The Venue in Borehamwood
1994 – The last issue of the Stingray comic goes on sale
2002 – An auction held at London’s Planet Hollywood sees Fab 1 sold for £80,000 with the puppets of Lady Penelope and Parker fetching £20,000 and £27,000