TODAYS ARRIVALS
1946 – Ted Shackleford
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – A Little Bit Of Luck (Anglia, Granada, ATV Midlands, Associated-Rediffusion, Scottish, Southern, Ulster, Tyne Tees and T.W.W.)
1963 – 4.40pm – Fireball XL5 – Space City Special (ATV London, Westward and Ulster)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1963 – 4.15pm – Fireball XL5 – Convict In Space (Southern)
1963 – 4.50pm – Fireball XL5 – The Fire Fighters (Anglia)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Gets Lost (Anglia, Border and Channel)
1965 – 5.25pm – Stingray – The Master Plan (ATV Midlands, Westward and Channel)
1965 – 6.05pm – Stingray – The Disappearing Ships (Granada)
1968 – 5.30pm – Captain Scarlet – Avalanche (Harlech)
1968 – 5.30pm – Captain Scarlet – Codename Europa (Tyne Tees)
1969 – 4.55pm – Joe 90 – The Birthday (Channel and Westward)
1972 – 7.35pm – UFO – Ordeal (Grampian)
1973 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – The Last Frontier (London Weekend)
1973 – 11.50pm – UFO – The Psychobombs (Grampian)
1974 – 1.00pm – The Protectors – Petard (Anglia)
1976 – 11.30pm – The Protectors – Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Tyne Tees)
1979 – 9.30am – Space:1999 – The Lamba Factor (Yorkshire)
1984 – 9.35am – Joe 90 – Three’s A Crowd (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1964 – 4.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Faster Than Light (CBOT 4, Ottawa, Canada)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1962 – 10.30pm – Antony Chinn and Lian-Shin Yang appear in Danger Man on Anglia Television in the episode The Journey Ends Halfway
1967 – 8.00pm – Wanda Ventham appears in The Avengers on Anglia Television in the episode The Grave Diggers
1968 – 7.25pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Avengers on Border Television in the episode The Thirteenth Hole
1969 – 10.30pm – Grant Taylor appears in Playhouse on Harlech Television entitled The Friendly Persuaders
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1964 – Anglia Television broadcast The Adventures Of Twizzle for the final time at 4.45pm with the episode Twizzle Gets Lost
1965 – American publication Variety reports that Stingray has been sold in 62 markets
1967 – Gerry Anderson is interviewed in London’s Evening News and talks about Captain Scarlet which is just been filmed and the Thunderbirds films along with a planned film entitled No Man’s World which is about the first American moon landing using real actors
