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On This Day In Anderson History – 29th April

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1958 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle Catches Cold (Associated-Rediffusion)

1961 – 5.40pm – SupercarPhantom Piper (ATV London and Southern)

1962 – 5.00pm – SupercarKing Cool (ATV London)

1995 – 7.00pm – Space PrecinctTwo Against The Rock (Sky One)

1999 – 3.50pm – Lavender CastleLost In Space (ITV Network)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1959 – 12.47pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleBouncy The Ball (ATV Midlands and Southern)

1961 – 5.25pm – Torchy The Battery BoyPom-Pom And The Toys (Westward)

1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 Prisoner On The Lost Planet (Granada and Wales West And North)

1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5The Sun Temple (ATV Midlands)

1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleFootso Is Stolen (Grampian)

1964 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5Ghosts Of Space (Granada)

1972 – 11.35pm – UFOTimelash (Southern)

1974 – 10.30pm – The ProtectorsThe Bodyguards (Tyne Tees)

1976 – 4.25pm – ThunderbirdsCry Wolf (Yorkshire)

1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 Journey To Where (Granada and Ulster)

1978 – 11.30am – Space:1999One Moment Of Humanity (Grampian)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 6.00pm – SupercarWhat Goes Up (ABV Channel 2, Melbourne, Australia)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1965 – 8.00pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Saint on Border Television in the episode The Noble Sportsman

1969 – 9.00pm – Grant Taylor appears in Judge Dee on Yorkshire Television in the episode A Festival Of Death

1975 – 3.00pm – Cyril Shaps appears in Department S on Yorkshire Television in the episode A Fish Out Of Water

1975 – 11.40pm – Nick Tate appears in Boney on Granada Television in the episode Boney Tells A Fortune

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1961 – Torchy The Battery Boy begins on Westward Television

1965 – The Stage reports that puppet designer John Blundell has left A.P.Films to join The Caricature Theatre in Wales

1967 – The first episode of Captain Scarlet appears as part of an unscheduled late night transmission on ATV London Television