UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1959 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Pilliwig Gets A Present (ABC Midlands and ABC North)
1986 – 11.30am – Terrahawks – Child’s Play (ITV Network)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Torchy And The Strange Animal (Anglia and Associated-Rediffusion)
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – King Kool (ATV Midlands)
1963 – 5.28pm – Fireball XL5 – Whistle For Danger (Grampian)
1964 – 5.40pm – Fireball XL5 – Sabotage (Grampian)
1966 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Twizzle Saves The Broken Down Toy (Westward)
1966 – 4.45pm – Four Feather Falls – Ambush (Grampian)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – The Inquisition (Grampian)
1969 – 5.40pm – Joe 90 – Lone-Handed 90 (Granada)
1974 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Petard (HTV)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – Space Immigrants (Fuji Television, Japan)
1965 – 6.00pm – Stingray – Set Sail For Adventure (ABV 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1966 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – Planet Of Platonia (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1969 – 7.00pm – Wanda Ventham appears in Department S on Harlech Television in the episode The Man From “X”
1969 – 9.30pm – Francis Matthews appears in Rogue’s Gallery on Westward Television in the episode A Bed-Full Of Miracles
1977 – 7.30pm – Prentis Hancock appears in The New Avengers on ATV Midlands Television in the episode Sleeper
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1967 – The first picture of Captain Black appears on the cover of issue 125 of TV Century 21 Comic