TODAYS DEPARTURES
2023 – Lynn Loring
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1962 – 4.40pm – Fireball XL5 – Flying Zodiac (ATV London, Westward and Channel)
1965 – 7.00pm – Thunderbirds – Vault Of Death (Anglia and ATV Midlands)
1976 – 4.45pm – Space:1999 – The Lambda Factor (ATV Midlands)
1984 – 11.45am – Terrahawks – The Midas Touch (Grampian and Scottish)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.15pm – Supercar – Supercar “Take One” (Tyne Tees)
1962 – 4.25pm – Fireball XL5 – The Doomed Planet (Anglia)
1962 – 4.40pm – Fireball XL5 – XL5 To H20 (Tyne Tees)
1965 – 6.30pm – Thunderbirds – 30 Minutes After Noon (T.W.W.)
1965 – 7.30pm – Thunderbirds – Sun Probe (Border)
1966 – 5.00pm – Thunderbirds – Lord Parker’s ‘Oliday (Border)
1976 – 4.25pm – Space:1999 – The Last Sunset (Southern)
1978 – 11.30am – Joe 90 – The Unorthodox Shepherd (Grampian)
1984 – 1.00pm – Terrahawks – The Midas Touch (ITV Network except Scottish and Grampian)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 12.00pm – Supercar – False Alarm (Channel 4, Picayune, New Orleans, USA)
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Phantom Piper (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1964 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Ghost Of The Sea (ABN 2, Sydney and ABC 3, Canberra, Australia)
1975 – 6.30pm – Space:1999 – End Of Eternity (KTVA 11, Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
9.40pm – Ian Hendry appears in Danger Man on Granada Television in the episode Say It With Flowers
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Supercar appears in The Wizard Of Oz, a production to be performed on ice at The Empire Pool in Wembley as part of Holiday On Ice which will run for ten weeks
1962 – This weeks TV Times (Dec 23 – Dec 29) Granada Edition – features a small item on Fireball XL5 which starts in this region on Boxing Day
1967 – The Golden Shot hosts a Captain Scarlet themed edition of the show at 8.35pm on ATV London Television
1973 – Grampian’s TV Times has The Protectors listed at 1.30pm with the first screening of Decoy, the programme is replaced with Scotsport with the episode shown on 11th May 1974
1974 – One of the first views of Space:1999 is seen on Horizon on BBC 2 at 9.05pm which looks at special effects used in film and television