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On This Day In Anderson History – 24th May

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1986 – 11.30am – TerrahawksSpace Cyclops (ITV Network)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery BoyPilliwig Gets A Present (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)

1962 – 5.25pm – SupercarThe Day That Time Stood Still (ATV Midlands)

1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5 The Granatoid Tanks (Grampian)

1964 – 5.40pm – Fireball XL5Ghosts Of Space (Grampian)

1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather FallsFancy Shootin’ (Grampian)

1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle Has Some Fun (Westward)

1968 – 4.55pm – Captain ScarletInferno (Grampian)

1968 – 5.00pm – Captain ScarletAttack On Cloudbase (Ulster)

1969 – 5.40pm – Joe 90Trial At Sea (Granada)

1973 – 7.30pm – UFOThe Square Triangle (Ulster)

 

1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors The Last Frontier (HTV)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5Space Monster (Fuji Television, Japan)

1966 – 5.55pm – Fireball XL5Planet 46 (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1971 – 10.10pm – Peter Dyneley and Jerome Willis appear in BBC 2’s Thirty Minute Theatre in the production Death’s Head

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1966 – Fireball XL5 starts on CTC 7 in Canberra, Australia with the episode Planet 46 

1967 – Filming begins on the Captain Scarlet episode The Launching

1986 – The convention Fanderson’86 takes place at Conway Hall in London