UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1961 – 5.00pm – Supercar – The Magic Carpet (Southern)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1960 – 5.30pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – Bossy Boots Is Taught A Lesson (Scottish)
1961 – 5.15pm – Supercar – The Magic Carpet (ATV London)
1963 – 4.45pm – Torchy The Battery Boy – The Naughty Twins (Grampian, Westward and Wales West And North)
1974 – 11.40pm – The Protectors – The First Circle (Southern)
1976 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – Trial (Granada)
1977 – 5.45pm – Space:1999 – The Exiles (Anglia)
1978 – 1.00pm – Space:1999 – The Rules Of Luton (Westward)
1978 – 2.00pm – Space:1999 – All That Glisters (Scottish)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1965 – 6.00pm – Fireball XL5 – The Doomed Planet (BTV 6, Ballarat, Australia)
1968 – 7.00pm – Captain Scarlet – Noose Of Ice (TBS, Japan)
1971 – 7.30pm – UFO – Confetti Check A-O.K. (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
1985 – 7.30pm – Terrahawks – Mind Monster (NHK, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1965 – 9.40pm – David Graham appears in The Man In Room 17 on Southern Television in the episode The Millions Of Muzafariyah
1966 – 10.15pm – Charles Tingwell appears in Knock On Any Door on Border Television in the episode The White Rhino
1967 – 3.25pm – Wanda Ventham and Jerome Willis appear in Danger Man on Southern Television in the episode The Mirror’s New
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1965 – The Bucks Free Press Newspaper reports on the eleventh annual Summer Show held by The Gerrards Cross Horticultural Society at the Memorial Centre the previous Saturday, eleven children making animals from vegetable life were awarded prizes by Gerry Anderson
1979 – The Manchester Evening News informs readers that Gerry Anderson is linking up with producer Sydney Rose to produce a film called Five Star Five
1988 – Terrahawks is broadcast for the last time on Yorkshire Television at 11.30am with the episode Gold