UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 4.50pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Twins Learn A Lesson (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
1973 – 11.30pm – The Protectors – The Tiger And The Goat (Westward and Channel)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Deep Seven (Ulster)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle And Polly Moppet (Westward)
1968 – 4.55pm – Captain Scarlet – Model Spy (Harlech)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – The Tiger And The Goat (HTV)
1975 – 5.50pm – Space:1999 – Breakaway (Anglia and London Weekend)
1983 – 11.05am – Joe 90 – Project 90 (Yorkshire)
1986 – 11.30am – Captain Scarlet – Triple Cross (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy Opens A Barber’s Shop (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Robert To The Rescue (AMV 4, Albury, Australia)
1966 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – The Triads (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Breakaway (WHEC. Channel 10, Rochester, New York, USA)
1979 – 11.56pm – Space:1999 – Seed Of Destruction (Tokai Television, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1961 – 11.20pm – Christine Finn appears in Mark Saber on Granada Television in the episode The Big Snatch
1965 – 8.00pm – Paul Maxwell appears in Riviera Police on Southern Television in the episode A Shot In The Dark … And Two In The Mid-Day Sun
1967 – 8.00pm – Lois Maxwell appears in The Saint on Border Television in the episode Simon And Delilah
1971 – 11.15pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in The Saint on Tyne Tees Television in the episode The Best Laid Schemes
1972 – 8.00pm – Cyril Shaps and Tony Anholt appear in Jason King on Tyne Tees Television in the episode A Thin Band Of Air
1977 – 7.30pm – Georgina Moon appears in You’re Only Young Twice on Thames Television in the first episode Stranger In Paradise and will be seen in other episodes of the series
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1963 – Recording sessions take place at Pye Studios for the Stingray episodes Plant Of Doom and Sea Of Oil
1964 – The fifth and final Torchy Gift Book goes on sale – priced 6s 6d
1969 – The last issue of TV21 Comic (issue 242) – The first series goes on sale
1975 – Space:1999 starts on London Weekend and Anglia Television today