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On This Day In Anderson History – 9th April

 

 

UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS

2005 –  10.52am – New Captain ScarletRain Of Terror (ITV 1)

 

FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS

1960 – 5.00pm – Torchy The Battery BoyKing Dithers Goes Down To Earth (Tyne Tees)

1961 – 5.20pm – The Adventures Of TwizzleTwizzle And Footso (Tyne Tees)

1961 – 5.20pm – Torchy The Battery BoyKing Dithers Loses His Crown (Southern)

1962 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery BoyBogey And The Statues (Southern)

1962 – 5.25pm – SupercarThe Sky’s The Limit (Granada)

1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery BoyKing Dithers (Grampian and Westward)

1965 – 5.00pm – StingrayThe Disappearing Ships (Tyne Tees)

1966 – 5.15pm – ThunderbirdsDanger At Ocean Deep Part One (Ulster)

1968 – 5.00pm – Captain ScarletCodename Europa (ATV Midlands)

1976 – 6.35pm – The ProtectorsGoodbye George (Granada)

1978 – 2.30pm – Space:1999Brian The Brain (Scottish)

1979 – 10.45am – Joe 90Relative Danger (Grampian)

 

OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS

1968 – 7.00pm – Captain ScarletThe Trap (TBS, Japan)

1985 – 7.30pm – TerrahawksExpect The Unexpected Part Two (NHK, Japan)

 

GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES

1958 – 8.30pm – Christine Finn appears in Play Of The Week on Granada Television in the presentation of No Medals

1958 – 11.30pm – Peter Dyneley appears in Assignment Foreign Legion on Granada Television in the episode The Richest Man In The Legion

1958 – 11.30pm – Nicholas Parsons appears in Douglas Fairbanks on Associated-Rediffusion Television in the episode Crown Of The Andes

1963 – 8.00pm – Charles Tingwell appears in Crane on Anglia Television in the episode Bad Company

1970 – 6.35pm – Lois Maxwell appears in The Saint on Southern Television in the episode Interlude In Venice

1970 – 8.00pm – George Murcell appears in The Saint in the episode The Power Artist on Yorkshire Television

 

TODAYS OTHER NEWS

1961 – The Adventures Of Twizzle starts on Tyne Tees Television

1966 – Ulster Television are the first region to show Thunderbirds in two parts on two different days starting with Danger At Ocean Deep, eleven more episodes are shown this way