UK PREMIERE BROADCASTS
1958 – 5.00pm – The Adventures Of Twizzle – Jiffy’s Birthday (Associated-Rediffusion, Granada, T.W.W. and ATV Midlands)
FIRST UK REGIONAL SCREENINGS
1961 – 5.15pm – Supercar – Jungle Hazard (Tyne Tees)
1963 – 7.00pm – Fireball XL5 – 1875 (ATV Midlands)
1976 – 4.20pm – Thunderbirds – The Mighty Atom (Yorkshire)
1978 – 11.30am – Space:1999 – Catacombs Of The Moon (Grampian)
1986 – 11.05am – Fireball XL5 – The Sun Temple (Yorkshire)
OVERSEAS FIRST BROADCASTS
1963 – 6.00pm – Supercar – Crash Landing (ABV Channel 2, Melbourne, Australia)
1967 – 6.00pm – Thunderbirds – Trapped In The Sky (WNEW 5, Newark, New Jersey, USA)
1972 – 9.00pm – The Protectors – Disappearing Trick (Nippon Television, Japan)
1975 – 7.30pm – Space:1999 – Breakaway (WDBO 6, Cocoa, Florida, USA)
1975 – 8.00pm – Space:1999 – Breakaway (WNYS 9, Syracuse, New York, USA)
1977 – 8.30pm – Space:1999 – The Metamorph (CTC 7, Canberra, Australia)
GUEST APPEARANCES IN OTHER TELEVISION SERIES
1965 – 9.40pm – Vladek Sheybal appears in The Human Jungle on Border Television in the episode Wild Goose Chase
1973 – 12.55pm – David Healy and Clifton Jones appear in Jason King on Westward Television in the episode Flamingos Only Fly On Tuesdays
1973 – 4.40pm – Yasuko Nagazumi appears in Shirley’s World on London Weekend Television in the episode A Hell Of An Engineer
1977 – 8.00pm – Gabrielle Drake appears in The New Avengers on ATV Midlands Television in the episode Dead Men Are Dangerous
TODAYS OTHER NEWS
1963 – Supercar is seen for the last time on Tyne Tees Television at 5.25pm with the episode The Day That Time Stood Still
1965 – Thunderbirds makes its debut on Dutch Television at 9.00pm with Trapped In The Sky ahead of the UK broadcast at the end of the month
1965 – Rupert Davies features on the cover of this weeks TV Times (Sept 11 – Sept 17) in the Border region edition
1967 – Thunderbirds starts on WNEW 5 in Newark, New Jersey City, USA
1974 – Filming commences on the Space:1999 episode Death’s Other Dominion
1975 – Space:1999 begins on WNYS 9 in Syracuse in New York, USA and also on WDBO 6 in Cocoa, Florida
1989 – UForia 2 begins in Manchester at The Owens Park University Halls Of Residence
