UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.05pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bossy Boots Is Taught A Lesson (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Returns To Earth (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Hi-Jack (ATV Midlands)
1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5 – Prisoner On The Lost Planet (Grampian)
1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather Falls – Safe As Houses (Grampian)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Flight 104 (Grampian)
1969 – 12.25pm – Joe 90 – Trial At Sea (London Weekend)
1969 – 5.15pm – Joe 90 – Mission X-41 (Granada)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – For The Rest Of Your Natural (HTV)
1983 – 11.05am – Joe 90 – Hi-Jacked (Yorkshire)
1984 – 11.10am – Space:1999 – The Bringers Of Wonder Part Two (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Doomed Planet (Fuji Television, Japan)
1965 – 6.00pm – Stingray – The Man From The Navy (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1973 – 9.00pm – The Protectors – Balance Of Terror (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1973 – 10.12pm – The Protectors – For The Rest Of Your Natural (CHTV 3, Christchurch, New Zealand)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1970 – 10.25pm – George Sewell appears in Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased)on Westward Television in the episode Vendetta For A Dead Man
1974 – 7.30pm – Barry Morse stars in The Zoo Gang which starts on Anglia Television
1975 – 5.55pm – Donald Gray appears in Dixon of Dock Green on BBC 1 in the episode The Hired Man
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1963 – Fireball XL5 starts on Fuji Television in Japan
1965 – Barry Gray scores the music for the Thunderbirds episode Terror In New York City at CTS Studios
1986 – Captain Scarlet is broadcast for the last time in the Midlands region at 11.30am on Central Television with the episode The Launching
2015 – 5.00pm – Thunderbirds Are Go (the series) begins on ITV