TODAYS ARRIVALS
1935 – Wanda Ventham
1963 – Doctor Bob Mathias
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Is Naughty (ATV Midlands, Granada, T.W.W. and Associated-Rediffusion)
1995 – 7.00pm – Space Precinct – The Forever Beetle (Sky One)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.10pm – Supercar – The Talisman Of Sargon (Tyne Tees)
1961 – 5.25pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy Is Stolen (Westward)
1962 – 5.05pm – Supercar – Jailbreak (Grampian)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – The Day The Earth Froze (Wales West And North and Granada)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Forbidden Planet (ATV Midlands)
1974 – 10.30pm – The Protectors – With A Little Help From My Friends (Tyne Tees)
1976 – 4.25pm – Thunderbirds – Terror In New York City (Yorkshire)
1980 – 11.55am – The Animates – Valentine’s Day (Thames)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Goes To The Zoo (ATN 7, Sydney, Australia)
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Supercar “Take One” (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1972 – 9.00pm – The Protectors – A Matter Of Life And Death (Nippon Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1966 – 10.52pm – Dolores Mantez appears in The Human Jungle on Border Television in the episode The Twenty-Four Hour Man
1967 – 10.10pm – George Sewell and John Tate appear in Armchair Theatre on Border Television in the play The Education Of Corporal Halliday
1972 – 5.15pm – Brian Blessed appears in The Avengers on Southern Television in the episode The Morning After
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1966 – John Phillips the owner of Space Models is interviewed in The Middlesex Chronicle which includes a picture of Fab 1
1976 – Filming starts on the Space:1999 episode A Matter Of Balance
1982 – Granada Television broadcast Joe 90 for the final time at 9.55am with the episode The Birthday
1982 – Gerry Anderson appears on The Extra Ordinary People Show on Granada Television at 11.30am
