UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.05pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Naughty Twins (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Flight Of Fancy (Ulster)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – The Lazy Broomstick Man (Westward)
1968 – 4.55pm – Captain Scarlet – Point 783 (Harlech)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Burning Bush (HTV)
1983 – 11.05am – Joe 90 – The Fortress (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Gets Lost (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Whistle For Danger (Fuji Television)
1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Mystery Of The TA2 (AMV 4, Albury, Australia)
1966 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Wings Of Danger (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1979 – 11.56pm – Space:1999 – The AB Chrysalis (Tokai Television, Japan)
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1962 – The Stage reports that Supercar along with other programmes made by ATV have been sold to Egypt
1975 – The Daily Record informs readers about Space:1999 which starts next Thursday
1985 – 9.25am – Fireball XL5 is shown for the last time on Central Television with the episode Wings Of Danger