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On This Day In Anderson History – 4th June

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

1973 – 11.40pm – The ProtectorsGoodbye George (Channel and Westward)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1961 – 5.20pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle And The Broken Down Toy (Tyne Tees)

1961 – 5.20pm – Torchy The Battery BoyKing Dithers Goes Down To Earth (Southern)

1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery BoyPilliwig Gets A Present (Grampian and Wales West And North)

1965 – 5.25pm – StingrayMarineville Traitor (Tyne Tees)

1966 – 5.15pm – ThunderbirdsCity Of Fire Part One (Ulster)

1972 – 11.15pm – UFOThe Cat With Ten Lives (Channel and Westward)

1974 – 7.00pm – The ProtectorsRoute 27 (Ulster)

1974 – 11.10pm – UFOThe Cat With Ten Lives (Yorkshire)

1976 – 6.30pm – The ProtectorsLena (Granada)

1978 – 3.15pm – Space:1999Matter Of Balance (Scottish)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1968 – 7.00pm – Captain ScarletCodename Europa (TBS, Japan)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1961 – 9.05pm – David Graham appears in ABC Armchair Theatre on ABC North Television entitled Man On The Mountain Top

1966 – 6.15pm – Don Spencer appears on Thank Your Lucky Stars on Border Television

1966 – 7.25pm – Vladek Sheybal appears in The Baron on Southern Television in the episode And Suddenly You’re Dead

1966 – 9.40pm – Ray Barrett appears in The Man In Room 17 on Southern Television in the episode Lady Luck’s No Gentleman  

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1966 – Farnham Common Sports Club holds a Grand Fete from 2pm to 7pm where the children can see the cast of T.V.’s Thunderbirds and Lady Penelope’s Fab 1, this will be the first time the vehicle has been seen in public

1969 – The Manchester Evening News prints an interview with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson