UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
2005 – 10.56am – New Captain Scarlet – Touch Of The Reaper (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Pilliwig Gets A Present (Scottish)
1961 – 5.30pm – Four Feather Falls – How It Began (Border)
1977 – 5.45pm – Space:1999 – The Taybor (Anglia)
1978 – 1.15pm – Space:1999 – Devil’s Planet (Westward)
1978 – 1.45pm – Space:1999 –The Immunity Syndrome (Scottish)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1971 – 7.00pm – UFO – Destruction (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1973 – 12.15am – The Protectors – A Case For The Right (Nippon Television, Japan)
1977 – 5.00pm – Space:1999 – Dragon’s Domain (TBS, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1967 – 4.35pm – Vladek Sheybal appears in Court Martial on ATV London Television in the episode Silence Is The Enemy
1971 – 5.19pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Adventures Of Robin Hood on HTV in the episode The Minstrel
1972 – 12.00am – John Tate appears in Strange Report on Yorkshire Television in the episode Report 4077: Swindle-Square Root Of Evil
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1961 – Four Feather Falls starts on Border Television
1973 – The original Space:1999 writers guide is compiled by George Bellak and Christopher Penfold
1994 – Fanderson host a one day event at Margate Winter Gardens for Fanderson Junior
1996 – Stingray features as one of the five stamps issued by Royal Mail to celebrate big stars from the small screen, which also includes Sooty, Muffin The Mule, The Clangers and Dangermouse
