UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Footso Gets A New Tail (Associated-Rediffusion, Granada, T.W.W. and ATV Midlands)
1995 – 7.00pm – Space Precinct – The Fire Within Part Two (Sky One)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.10pm – Supercar – False Alarm (Tyne Tees)
1961 – 5.25pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – A Trick On Pom-Pom (Westward)
1962 – 5.10pm – Supercar – The Sky’s The Limit (Grampian)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Faster Than Light (Granada and Wales West and North)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Prisoner On The Lost Planet (ATV Midlands)
1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy Opens A Barbers Shop (Grampian)
1976 – 4.25pm – Thunderbirds – Pit Of Peril (Yorkshire)
1980 – 11.55am – The Animates – Holiday Time (Thames)
1984 – 4.00pm – Terrahawks – Gunfight At Oaky’s Corral (Channel and TSW)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Jail Break (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1972 – 9.00pm – The Protectors – The First Circle (Nippon Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1965 – 8.00pm – Gary Miller appears in Gideon’s Way on Border Television in the episode The Great Plane Robbery
1965 – 9.40pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Human Jungle on Border Television in the episode Ring Of Hate
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1966 – TV Century 21 Summer Extra is published
1968 – Thunderbird 6 has it’s UK premiere at 2.30pm at the Odeon Cinema Leicester Square in London
1994 – The second issue of Fleetway’s Joe 90 comic goes on sale with a free gift – a pair of special Joe 90 glasses
