TODAYS ARRIVALS
1936 – Brian Blessed
UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1966 – 5.05pm – Thunderbirds – Path Of Destruction (Anglia, Tyne Tees, Southern, T.W.W. and ATV London)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – Voyager’s Return (ATV Midlands, Channel, Grampian, Ulster, Scottish, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire, Westward and Border)
1976 – 11.30am – Space:1999 – New Adam New Eve (London Weekend)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.25pm – Supercar – Deep Seven (Westward and T.W.W.)
1964 – 5.25pm – Stingray – The Pilot (Tyne Tees)
1965 – 6.35pm – Thunderbirds – Pit Of Peril (Anglia, Scottish, Ulster and ATV London)
1966 – 4.50pm – Thunderbirds – Atlantic Inferno (Ulster)
1970 – 7.00pm – UFO – Exposed (Anglia)
1971 – 5.00pm – UFO – The Dalotek Affair (Border)
1971 – 5.00pm – UFO – Identified (Channel and Westward)
1971 – 5.00pm – UFO – Survival (London Weekend)
1971 – 6.10pm – UFO – The Sound Of Silence (Granada)
1973 – 6.30pm – The Protectors – The Tiger And The Goat (Scottish)
1973 – 8.30pm – The Protectors – Lena (Ulster)
1974 – 10.35pm – UFO – Mindbender (Grampian)
1976 – 11.35am – Space:1999 – Mission Of The Darians (Southern)
1976 – 5.00pm – The Protectors – Wam Part Two (Southern)
1976 – 5.15pm – Space:1999 – Brian The Brain (Channel and Westward)
1976 – 5.40pm – Space:1999 – New Adam New Eve (ATV Midlands)
1977 – 1.15pm – Space:1999 – Dorzak (Granada)
1977 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – Catacombs Of The Moon (Anglia)
1977 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – The Rules Of Luton (Tyne Tees)
1977 – 3.20pm – Space:1999 – The Last Enemy (Yorkshire)
1982 – 11.20am – Space:1999 – New Adam New Eve (Border)
1983 – 3.30pm – Terrahawks – Expect The Unexpected Part One (Scottish)
1983 – 4.30pm – Terrahawks – Expect the Unexpected Part One (Anglia, Channel, HTV, London Weekend, Ulster, Yorkshire, TSW and Border)
1983 – 6.00pm – Terrahawks – Expect The Unexpected Part One (Grampian)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1961 – 4.30pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Bouncy The Ball (GTV 9, Melbourne, Australia)
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Phantom Piper (ABC 3, Canberra and ABN 2, Sydney, Australia)
1965 – 6.03pm – Stingray – Sea Of Oil (CHTV 3, Christchurch, New Zealand)
1966 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds – Cry Wolf (NHK, Japan)
1968 – 7.00pm – Joe 90 – Hi-Jacked (Nippon Educational Television, Japan)
1975 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – The Mark Of Archanon (Channel 4, Kron TV, San Francisco, USA)
1976 – 7.00pm – Space:1999 – All That Glisters (WUHQ 41, Battle Creek, Lancing, USA)
1985 – 6.00pm – Terrahawks – Midnight Blue (NHK, Japan)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1960 – 9.05pm – Ray Barrett appears in Armchair Theatre on ATV London Television entitled Thunder On The Snowy
1968 – 8.00pm – George Murcell appears in The Champions on Harlech Television in the episode Reply Box No.666
1970 – 7.30pm – John Tate appears in Danger Man on Westward Television in the episode Not So Jolly Roger
1973 – 3.25pm – Ray Barratt and Grant Taylor appear in The Saint on Southern Television in the episode The Loving Brothers
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1964 – Stingray starts on Tyne Tees Television
1965 – TV Century 21 International Extra goes on sale with forty eight pages priced at two shillings
1965 – The Daily Mirror runs a feature on Thunderbirds
1966 – The second series of Thunderbirds starts on Ulster Television
1967 – Todays Liverpool Post reports that The Independent Televisions ten line Knightsbridge switchboard was swamped with complaints by parents complaining of the removal of Captain Scarlet in order to show a tribute to Clement Attlee. A Spokesman replied that only children in London and Scotland had missed out
1967 – Sylvia Anderson attends the Woman Of The Year luncheon at the Savoy
1971 – UFO begins on Channel and Westward Television
1974 – Filming starts on the Space:1999 episode End Of Eternity
1983 – Terrahawks starts on Anglia, Channel, Grampian, HTV, London Weekend, Scottish, TSW, Ulster, Yorkshire and Border Television