TODAYS ARRIVALS
1910 – Charles Crichton
1960 – Doctor Helena Russell
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – King Dithers Loses His Crown (Scottish)
1961 – 5.00pm – Supercar – The White Line (Southern)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.15pm – Supercar – The White Line (ATV London)
1961 – 5.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy Opens A Barbers Shop (Tyne Tees)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy And The Man In The Moon (Grampian and Wales West And North)
1976 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – A Pocketful Of Posies (Granada)
1977 – 6.00pm – Space:1999 – New Adam New Eve (Anglia)
1978 – 1.15pm – Space:1999 – The Beta Cloud (Westward)
1978 – 2.30pm – Space:1999 – The Bringers Of Wonder Part Two (Scottish)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Space Monster (BTV 6, Ballarat, Australia)
1968 – 7.00pm – Captain Scarlet – The Launching (TBS, Japan)
1971 – 7.30pm – UFO – Survival (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1977 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – The Metamorph (RTP, Portugal)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1968 – 4.55pm – Francis Matthews appears in The Adventures Of Robin Hood on Southern Television in the episode The Minstrel
1973 – 10.55pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in Journey Of The Unknown on Westward Television in the episode The Beckoning Fair One
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1976 – Filming starts on the Space:1999 episode Space Warp
1977 – The second series of Space:1999 begins on RTP in Portugal