TODAYS ARRIVALS
1934 – Philip Madoc
TODAYS DEPARTURES
1976 – Frank Bellamy
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bad Boy Bogey (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
1986 – 11.30am – Terrahawks – Timewarp (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Twins Learn A Lesson (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)
1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5 – Faster Than Light (Grampian)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Implicado (HTV)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Space Brain (Tyne Tees)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Triads (Fuji Television, Japan)
1979 – 11.56pm – Space:1999 – All That Glisters (Tokai Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1967 – 8.00pm – Shane Rimmer appears in Court Martial in the episode No Wreath For An Angel on Southern Television
1968 – 7.33pm – John Bluthal appears in The Saint on Border Television in the episode The Happy Suicide
1973 – 11.10am – John Bluthal appears in The Saint on Westward Television in the episode The Damsel In Distress
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1966 – A 35 feet replica of Thunderbird 3 will be at The Royal Show Ground in Stoneleigh Abbey, Coventry, it will be touring around the country as part of Doctor Barnardo’s Homes Centenary to raise funds for the charity