UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1965 – 7.00pm – Thunderbirds – Trapped In The Sky (ATV Midlands)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Footso Gets A New Tail (Westward)
1970 – 8.00pm – UFO – The Cat With Ten Lives (ATV Midlands and Tyne Tees)
1970 – 8.00pm – UFO – Kill Straker (Border)
1984 – 4.30pm – Terrahawks – Top Ten Pop (ITV Network except Grampian and Scottish)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.15pm – Supercar – Ice-Fall (Tyne Tees)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Whistle For Danger (ATV Midlands)
1972 – 5.10pm – UFO – Conflict (HTV)
1972 – 5.40pm – The Protectors – It Was All Over In Leipzig (Grampian)
1974 – 6.15pm – The Protectors – Chase (Border)
1976 – 4.20pm – Thunderbirds – Sun Probe (Yorkshire)
1984 – 5.30pm – Terrahawks – Top Ten Pop (Grampian and Scottish)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Hi-Jack (ABV Channel 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1964 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Plant Of Doom (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN Channel 2, Sydney, Australia)
1965 – 5.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Sabotage (ATN 7, Sydney, Australia)
1965 – 5.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Planet 46 (HSV 7, Melbourne, Australia)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – A Matter Of Balance (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1962 – 9.35pm – Ian Hendry appears in Armchair Theatre on Southern Television entitled Afternoon Of A Nymph, he also appears on the cover of this weeks TV Times (30 Sep – 6 Oct) Southern Edition
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1965 – HSV 7 in Melbourne, Australia begin to broadcast Fireball XL5
1965 – Thunderbirds receives it’s UK debut on ATV Midlands Television
1967 – This weeks TV Times (30 Sep – 6 Oct) London Edition features a small article on Captain Scarlet
1968 – Len Jones the voice of Joe 90 is pictured in todays Daily Express with the puppet he voices in the series, he also says that Joe will slaughter Doctor Who who is broadcast on BBC 1 on the same day
1991 – The first Supercar video goes on sale with four episodes to mark it’s 30th Anniversary
1996 – The UFO episode Survival receives it’s UK Network Premiere on BBC 2 at 6.00pm
