FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bossy Boots Goes To Topsy Turvey Land (Southern)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy’s Birthday (Grampian and Wales West And North)
1974 – 11.40pm – The Protectors – Border Line (Southern)
1975 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Bagman (Granada)
1976 – 7.00pm – The Protectors – Dragon Chase (Tyne Tees)
1977 – 6.00pm – Space:1999 – All That Glisters (Anglia)
1978 – 1.15pm – Space:1999 – Dorzak (Westward)
1978 – 2.15pm – Space:1999 – Dorzak (Scottish)
1978 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – Seed Of Destruction (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1968 – 7.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Treble Cross (TBS, Japan)
1971 – 7.30pm – UFO – Sub-Smash (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – One Moment Of Humanity (RTP, Portugal)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1961 – 10.10pm – Neil McCallum appears in Armchair Theatre on ABC North Television in the production The Night Of Apes
1967 – 3.25pm – Jerome Willis appears in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode Someone Is Liable To Get Hurt
1971 – 9.00pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in Kate on HTV in the episode You Can’t Condemn Them All
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1962 – The first Supercar Annual goes on sale, published by Collins priced 8 Shillings and 6 Pence
1964 – Kinematograph Weekly reports on Lew Grade’s press conference which included a screening of the first Stingray episode at midday
1967 – Recording sessions takes place at Barry Gray Studio’s in Esher for the Captain Scarlet episodes Model Spy and The Trap
1967 – Bruce Forsyth along with Harry Secombe perform a sketch on Thunderbirds in The Bruce Forsyth Show on ATV Midlands Television at 10.05pm
1970 – Lew Grade announces ATV’s new programmes for the Autumn in Birmingham which include UFO, the companies most expensive production to date
1970 – The Coventry Evening Telegraph informs readers of the new series UFO which starts on ATV at 8.00pm on September 16th
1974 – Filming begins on the Space:1999 episode Collision Course
