TODAYS DEPARTURES
2008 – Johnny Byrne
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – The Launching (ATV Midlands)
1973 – 11.15pm – The Protectors – Fighting Fund (Channel and Westward)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.15pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Twins Learn A Lesson (Tyne Tees)
1961 – 5.20pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Is Stolen (Southern)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – 70-B-Lo (Granada)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy And The Broken Rocket (Grampian and Westward)
1965 – 5.00pm – Stingray – Pink Ice (Tyne Tees)
1966 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds – Security Hazard (ATV London)
1976 – 6.35pm – Space:1999 – The Last Enemy (HTV)
1976 – 6.35pm – The Protectors – Petard (Granada)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1968 – 7.00pm – Captain Scarlet – The Heart Of New York (TBS, Japan)
1977 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – The Dorcons (Kron TV, San Francisco, USA)
1985 – 7.30pm – Terrahawks – Expect The Unexpected Part One (NHK, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1971 – 4.50pm – Christine Finn appears in The Adventures Of Robin Hood on HTV in the episode The Profiteer
1976 – 9.00pm – Shane Rimmer appears in Hadleigh on ATV Midlands Television in the episode Divorce
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1966 – Bingley Hall in Birmingham hosts the Boys And Girls Exhibition 1966 which runs from 2nd April to 16th April, one of the features is a 35Ft Thunderbird 3, which ten children at a time can see the landing and take-off of the craft whilst briefed by Jeff Tracy in the instrument room
1974 – Filming begins on the Space:1999 episode Another Time, Another Place
1985 – Terrahawks begins on NHK in Japan
2015 – Thunderbird Four appears on The River Thames in London to promote the new series Thunderbirds Are Go