TODAYS ARRIVALS
1946 – Terry Curtis
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Is Stolen (Ulster)
1966 – 4.30pm – Thunderbirds – Attack Of The Alligators! (Border)
1966 – 4.30pm – Thunderbirds – Martian Invasion (Tyne Tees)
1966 – 5.05pm – Thunderbirds – Brink Of Disaster (Southern)
1966 – 5.05pm – Thunderbirds – Martian Invasion (Westward)
1971 – 5.15pm – UFO – The Square Triangle (Southern)
1972 – 11.15pm – Crossroads To Crime (Thames)
1976- 10.45pm – The Protectors – Wam Part Two (Granada)
1982 – 10.00am – Joe 90 – Three’s A Crowd (Grampian)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 4.30pm – Supercar – Transatlantic Cable (KTRG 13, Honolulu, USA)
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – King Kool (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN Channel 2, Sydney, Australia)
1966 – 6.30pm – Thunderbirds – Sun Probe (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1971 – 8.00pm – UFO – The Long Sleep (Nippon Television, Japan)
1976 – 5.00pm – The Protectors – Trial (NET, Japan)
1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Dragon’s Domain (Television One, New Zealand)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1971 – 6.45pm – Brian Blessed appears in The Avengers in the episode The Morning After on HTV
1976 – 11.35am – Cy Grant appears in Born Free on Anglia Television in the episode The Masai Rebels
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1963 – Don Spencer’s Fireball theme single enters the UK charts published today and will eventually peak at no.32 and stay on the charts for eleven weeks
1969 – Recording sessions begin for the music on Doppleganger which will run to 29th March
1972 – Crossroads To Crime is broadcast on Thames Television for the first time
1981 – The first Fanderson convention entitled Fanderson 81 takes place at the Dragonara Hotel in Leeds
1993 – Fanderson takes part in Action 93 this weekend co-organised with The Saint Club, Six Of One and The Randall And Hopkirk Appreciation Society