TODAYS ARRIVALS
1924 – Gary Miller
1970 – Sandra Benes
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – A Trick On Pom Pom (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
1986 – 11.30am – Terrahawks – Two For The Price Of One (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – A Trick On Pom-Pom (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – 70-B-Lo (ATV Midlands)
1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5 – The Mystery Of The TA2 (Grampian)
1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather Falls – A Bad Name (Grampian)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – A Flag For Stray Town (Westward)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Expo 2068 (Grampian)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Winged Assassin (Ulster)
1969 – 5.45pm – Joe 90 – Attack Of The Tiger (Granada)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Quin (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Hypnotic Sphere (Fuji Television, Japan)
1965 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Tune Of Danger (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1973 – 10.12pm – The Protectors – It Could Be Practically Anywhere On The Island (CHTV 3, Christchurch, New Zealand)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1968 – 7.33pm – David Graham appears in The Saint on Border Television in the episode The Unkind Philanthropist
1968 – 8.00pm – Barry Morse appears in The Saint on Granada Television in the episode The Reluctant Revolution
1972 – 3.00pm – Shane Rimmer appears in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode The Mercenaries
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1965 – The American publication Broadcasting reports that after a screening of Stingray at a meeting of Development Programme Associates in Los Angeles that the series has been sold in twenty two markets
1969 – Fab 1 and Lady Penelope (in human form) appear in a grand cavalcade of cars in Bristol starting in Marsh Street, then until 12th May they will be at Welch’s showrooms in Marsh Street and Downend Road
1976 – Filming starts on the Space:1999 episode The Rules Of Luton
1986 – Terrahawks starts it’s third series networked on ITV
1992 – The Gerry Anderson Tour continues at The Lewisham Theatre in Lewisham