UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1965 – 5.35pm – Stingray – Count Down (Anglia, Border, Southern, Grampian and ATV London)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1962 – 5.25pm – Supercar – The Sky’s The Limit (Anglia)
1963 – 5.25pm – Fireball XL5 – 1875 (Scottish)
1965 – 4.15pm – Stingray – Treasure Down Below (Ulster)
1965 – 5.35pm – Stingray – The Disappearing Ships (Scottish)
1968 – 4.45pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – The Toy’s Go To School (Grampian)
1968 – 5.00pm – Captain Scarlet – The Launching (Granada)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 5.00pm – Four Feather Falls – A Cure For Everything (ABV Channel 2, Melbourne, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1969 – 8.00pm – Paul Maxwell appears in The Champions on Tyne Tees Television in the episode The Silent Enemy
1973 – 3.25pm – Antonia Ellis and Maxwell Shaw appear in Hine on Anglia Television in the episode Missiles For Sale, As New-One Owner
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1962 – The sheet music to the Supercar theme tune is published
1966 – The British Puppet And Theatre Guild hold their annual puppet festival at The Rock Pavilion in Hastings, which includes in the lower hall the original puppets from Stingray
1992 – The Gerry Anderson Tour continues at The Theatre Royal in Lincoln