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On This Day In Anderson History – 24th June

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1995 – 7.00pm – Space PrecinctThe Witness (Sky One)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle The Lazy Broomstick Man (Southern and ATV Midlands)

1961 – 5.25pm – Torchy The Battery BoyTorchy Returns To Earth (Westward)

1962 – 5.15pm – SupercarHi-Jack (Grampian)

1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5The Robot Freighter Mystery (Granada and Wales West And North)

1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 The Triads (ATV Midlands)

 

1976 – 4.25pm – ThunderbirdsSecurity Hazard (Yorkshire)

1978 – 9.10am – Space:1999The Dorcans (Tyne Tees)

1986 – 11.05am – Captain ScarletLunaville 7 (Yorkshire)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1972 – 9.00pm – The ProtectorsBalance Of Terror (Nippon Television, Japan)

 

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1961 – 8.50pm – Nyree Dawn Porter appears in The Avengers on ABC North Television in the episode Death On The Slipway

1970 – Gabrielle Drake appears in The Avengers on Southern Television in the episode The Hidden Tiger

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1959 – ATV Midlands broadcast The Adventures Of Twizzle for the last time at 12.47pm with the episode The Lazy Broomstick Man 

1967 – Lady Penelope joins the crew of the frigate H.M.S. Penelope which is at Davenport Dockyards for a re-fit, after sending a request to adopt her Century 21 Productions sent Penny Snow to hand over a Lady Penelope puppet to the crew of the ship

1976 – Yorkshire Television broadcast the episode Security Hazard as the eleventh episode in their first run of Thunderbirds, which contains footage from Sun Probe and End Of The Road which has not been screened as yet and also Day Of Disaster which the station will not screen until 1982