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On This Day In Anderson History – 24th April

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 4.30pm – Torchy The Battery Boy Topsy Turvey Land (Scottish)

1966 – 3.10pm – ThunderbirdsThe Duchess Assignment Part Two (Ulster)

1971 – 5.10pm – UFOComputer Affair (Anglia)

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOOrdeal (ATV Midlands)

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOExposed (Yorkshire)

 

1971 – 5.15pm – UFOSub-Smash (Southern)

1973 – 6.35pm – The ProtectorsThe Bodyguards (Scottish)

1976 – 5.15pm – Space:1999Space Brain (Grampian)

1976 – 5.20pm – Space:1999Space Brain (Border)

1983 – 1.45pm – StingrayThe Master Plan (Yorkshire)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 6.00pm – SupercarFalse Alarm (ABC 3, Canberra, Australia)

1966 – 6.00pm – ThunderbirdsPit Of Peril (NHK, Japan)

1976 – 4.30pm – Space:1999 Black Sun (TBS, Japan)

1976 – 5.00pm – The ProtectorsZeke’s Blues (NET, Japan)

1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999The Troubled Spirit (Television One, New Zealand)

 

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1968 – 8.00pm – Cyril Shaps appears in Man In A Suitcase in the episode The Man Who Stood Still on Border Television

1970 – 9.00pm – George Sewell appears in Manhunt on Westward Television in the episode The Ugly Side Of War

1971 – 10.40pm – George Sewell appears in Man In A Suitcase on Yorkshire Television in the episode The Sitting Pigeon 

1972 – 7.00pm – Prentis Hancock appears in Six Days Of Justice on Yorkshire Television in the story A Private Nuisance

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1965 – Selfridges in London hosts the last day of it’s Stingray attraction on the third floor which consisted of models of the craft and the Control Tower

1965 – Barry Gray records the music at IBC Studios for the Thunderbirds episode Pit Of Peril

1986 – Fanderson hosts a one day event at Conway Hall in London

1992 – The Gerry Anderson Tour continues at The Poole Arts Centre in Poole