TODAYS ARRIVALS
1927 – Sylvia Anderson
1929 – Keith Shackleton
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Another Racing Car (Associated-Rediffusion, Granada, Scottish, T.W.W. and ATV Midlands)
1961 – 5.40pm – Supercar – Keep It Cool (ATV London and Southern)
1962 – 5.20pm – Supercar – 70-B-Lo (ATV London)
1995 – 7.00pm – Space Precinct – The Snake (Sky One)
1999 – 3.50pm – Lavender Castle – Raiders Of The Planet Zark (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Gets Lost (Southern)
1962 – 5.10pm – Supercar – Supercar “Take One” (Scottish)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Robert To The Rescue (Border)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – The Triads (Granada and Wales West And North)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Planet 46 (ATV Midlands)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Flight To Atlantica (Ulster)
1972 – 5.10pm – UFO – The Square Triangle (Scottish)
1972 – 10.45pm – UFO – The Man Who Came Back (Granada)
1972 – 11.10pm – UFO – The Psychobombs (Channel and Westward)
1984 – 1.30pm – Stingray – Trapped In The Depths (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1962 – 10.00am – Supercar – Hostage (Nippon Television, Japan)
1972 – 7.30pm – UFO – The Dalotek Affair (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1965 – 8.00pm – Christine Finn appear in Gideon’s Way on Southern Television in the episode The ‘V’ Men
1967 – 10.05pm – Anthony Chinn appears in Armchair Theatre on Southern Television in the production Any Number Can Play
1968 – 8.30pm – Patrick Wymark appears in Playhouse on Southern Television in the production Public And Confidential
1969 – 9.00pm – David Healy appears in The Power Game on Anglia Television in the episode Special Envoy – Triangles
1969 – 9.05pm – Francis Matthews appears in Out Of The Unknown on BBC 2 in the episode The Yellow Pill
1973 – 1.00pm – Rupert Davies appears in The Champions on Anglia Television in the episode Project Zero
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – The Adventures Of Twizzle appear in TV Land comic for the last time in issue 26
1963 – Fireball XL5 arrives on ATV Midlands Television, the last region to screen the series
1967 – Bristol’s Evening Post reports on a visit by Lady Penelope (in human form – Jennifer Reakes) to the Childrens Hospital. Jennifer works at the Gaumont Theatre where Thunderbirds Are Go will be screened next week
1973 – Filming concludes on The Protectors
1984 – 11.45pm – The Protectors should have been seen for the last time on London Weekend Television with the episode Quin, but at the last minute the programme was removed