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On This Day In Anderson History – 3rd March

TODAYS ARRIVALS

1914 – Donald Gray

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1960 – 5.00pm – Four Feather FallsTrouble At Yellow Gulch (Anglia, ATV Midlands, T.W.W., Scottish, Granada, Southern, Ulster, Tyne Tees and Associated-Rediffusion)

1963 – 4.50pm – Fireball XL5 Prisoner On The Lost Planet (ATV London, Ulster, Westward and Channel)

1971 – 8.00pm – UFOThe Responsibility Seat (Anglia)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1962 – 5.15pm – SupercarThe Runaway Train (Tyne Tees)

1963 – 4.40pm – Fireball XL5Convict In Space (Tyne Tees)

1963 – 4.50pm – Fireball XL5Flying Zodiac (Southern)

1963 – 4.50pm – Four Feather FallsA Cure For Everything (Border)

1964 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle And Footso (Border, Channel, Southern and Anglia)

1965 – 5.25pm – StingrayTom Thumb Tempest (ATV Midlands)

1965 – 6.05pm – Stingray Titan Goes Pop (Granada)

1966 – 4.55pm – ThunderbirdsThe Duchess Assignment (Anglia)

1966 – 6.30pm – ThunderbirdsThe Man From MI.5 (T.W.W.)

1968 – 4.40pm – Captain ScarletDangerous Rendezvous (Anglia)

1968 – 5.30pm – Captain ScarletFlight 104 (ATV London, Channel, Scottish, Westward and Border)

1968 – 5.30pm – Captain ScarletPoint 783 (Tyne Tees)

1973 – 6.10pm – The ProtectorsThe Big Hit (Scottish)

1975 – 11.00pm – The Protectors Sugar And Spice (Channel and Westward)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1965 – 6.00pm – StingrayStar Of The East (ABC 3 Canberra, Australia)

1965 – 7.30pm – Stingray Secret Of The Giant Oyster (Fuji Television, Japan)

1978 – 7.30pm – Space:1999Journey To Where (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1961 – 9.35pm – Peter Dyneley appears in No Hiding Place on Granada Television in the episode Never Dine With Dead Men

1961 – 11.10pm – Cyril Shaps appears in Interpol Calling on Granada Television in the episode Slave Ship

1963 – 10.20pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Cheaters on Grampian Television in the episode The Legacy

1963 – 10.50pm – Harry Baird appears in White Hunter on Grampian Television in the episode Big Bwana Brady

1970 – 9.00pm – Elizabeth Morgan and Windsor Davies appear in The Misfit in the first episode On Being British on Westward Television

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1966 – Filming begins on the first Thunderbirds film – Thunderbirds Are Go

1967 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle is broadcast for the last time on Rediffusion and Border Television with the episode Another Racing Car