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On This Day In Anderson History – 6th February

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery BoyTorchy Is Stolen (Tyne Tees)

1966 – 4.30pm – ThunderbirdsThe Man From MI.5 (Border)

1966 – 4.35pm – ThunderbirdsCry Wolf (Tyne Tees)

1966 – 5.05pm – ThunderbirdsCity Of Fire (Southern)

1966 – 5.05pm – ThunderbirdsCry Wolf (Westward)

1968 – 5.00pm – Captain ScarletTraitor (Granada)

1976 – 6.35pm – Space:1999Missing Link (Granada)

1976 – 6.35pm – Space:1999Another Time, Another Place (HTV)

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1963 – 6.00pm – SupercarWhat Goes Up (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN Channel 2, Sydney, Australia)

1968 – 7.00pm – Captain ScarletOperation Time (TBS, Japan)

1971 – 8.00pm – UFOReflections In The Water (Nippon Television, Japan)

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1967 – 8.00pm – Cyril Shaps appears in The Rat Catchers on Southern Television in the episode Big Grab – Amsterdam

1971 – 6.15pm – Peter Gordeno is a guest on The Golden Shot on Southern Television

1973 – 3.25pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in Kate in the episode From A Stranger

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1959 – Roberta Leigh is interviewed in this weeks edition of TV Times which covers programmes from 8th February to 14th February

1965 – The Daily Mirror runs a small article regarding the special effects used in Stingray using two photos of the vehicle carried overland on a transporter. The set in the pictures is from the Thunderbirds episode Pit Of Peril which is in production. The article also mentions that there are now twenty five companies producing merchandise on Stingray 

1965 – Barry Morse is interviewed in this weeks TV Times (Feb 6 – Fab 12) Border Edition

1982 – 9.35am – Thunderbirds is broadcast on London Weekend Television for the last time in this region with the episode Path Of Destruction