Catacombs Reference LibraryTV Times
Catacombs Reference LibraryLWT, original and repeat screenings. Older Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions such as Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and UFO were still being shown on LWT and ATV in the mid-1970s, but had mostly dropped from other ITV regions.
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UFO: The Long Sleep |
Fri, 28 March 1975 11:25pm The last show on the Good Friday holiday, one of just 2 UFO episodes for 1975. UFO appeared in various slots in 1974; in January at 10:30am Sundays, then the Saturday morning slot as part of Saturday Scene at 11:30am in summer, with a short run on Sundays at 1pm in September 1974 (following a run of Thunderbirds in the same slot that finished 1 September). It would not been seen again until February 1977. |
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UFO: The Responsibility Seat |
Sun, 1 June 1975 11:30pm Billed as a repeat (the double-dagger symbol), this was actually the first time the episode was shown. Tyne Tees took a feed from LWT to show the same episode at the same time, also a premiere. |
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Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky |
Sun, 8 June 1975 12:30pm A short run of Thunderbirds on Sundays in summer 1975. Thunderbirds had a longer run in 1974, from Sunday 17 February (1:20pm, 1:10pm by April, 1pm in May), sometimes with Stingray stepping in when sport reduced the timeslot, with the last episode 1 September 1974. Joe 90 had a 1:30pm Sunday slot in November and December 1974. |
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Thunderbirds: Thirty Minutes After Noon |
Sun, 29 June 1975 12:30pm |
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Thunderbirds: Desperate Intruder |
Sun, 6 July 1975 12:30pm |
Thunderbirds: The Uninvited |
Sun, 13 July 1975 12:30pm |
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Sat, 6 September 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 13 September 1975 5:50pm |
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Thunderbirds: Cry Wolf |
Sat, 20 September 1975 9:30am This Saturday brings two Gerry Anderson shows. |
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Sat, 20 September 1975 5:50pm According to these credits, guests include Alex Scott as Aarchon and Lawrence Trimble as Pilot Abrams (both to be seen later in Voyager's Return) |
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Sat, 27 September 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 4 October 1975 5:50pm Says the TV Times: This episode is a "couples" effort: the producer, the scriptwriters and the stars, Martin Landay and Barbara Bain, are husband-and-wife pairs. |
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Sat, 11 October 1975 5:50pm According to these credits, John Hammil appears as Dominix and Eva Reuber-Staier as Jane (they were actually in Force of Life, but not credited when that was shown) |
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Sat, 18 October 1975 5:50pm The TV Times for London featured the series at the top of the page: Mystery man in the Moon |
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Sat, 25 October 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 1 November 1975 5:50pm The following programme changes from A Joke's a joke to the second series of Don't drink the water, a follow-up to On The Buses. |
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Sat, 8 November 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 15 November 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 22 November 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 29 November 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 6 December 1975 5:50pm |
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Sat, 13 December 1975 6:25pm (last before Christmas, 6:25pm-7:25pm) |
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Thunderbirds: Give or Take a Million |
Sat, 27 December 1975 9:30am Two Christmas-themed Anderson episodes on the Christmas weekend. |
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Stingray: A Christmas to Remember |
Sun, 28 December 1975 11:30am |
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Sat, 10 January 1976 11:30am In 1976 the show moves to Saturday mornings, as part of the Saturday Scene magazine for children, just before World of Sport. UFO had run in this slot in 1974, as did The Protectors. |
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Sat, 17 January 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 24 January 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 31 January 1976 11:30am Barry Morse appears later that day in an episode of The Adventurer, with Catherine Schell |
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Sat, 7 February 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 14 February 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 21 February 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 28 February 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 6 March 1976 11:30am |
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Thunderbirds: The Imposters |
Sat, 13 March 1976 11:30am The first run of Space: 1999 has ended, passing the slot to 10 year old episodes of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds |
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Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep |
Sat, 20 March 1976 11:30am |
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Thunderbirds: Move and You're Dead |
Sat, 27 March 1976 11:30am |
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Thunderbirds: Martian Invasion |
Sat, 3 April 1976 11:30am The third Thunderbirds is the last for a while, replaced by the Ron Ely Tarzan series from the mid-1960s |
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Thunderbirds: Lord Parker's 'Oliday |
Sun, 4 July 1976 1:00pm A run of Thunderbirds episodes reappear on Sunday afternoons in July. |
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Thunderbirds: The Cham-Cham |
Sun, 11 July 1976 1:00pm |
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Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster |
Sun, 18 July 1976 1:00pm |
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Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators |
Sun, 25 July 1976 1:00pm |
Thunderbirds: Path of Destruction |
Sun, 1 August 1976 1:00pm |
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Thunderbirds: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker |
Sun, 8 August 1976 1:00pm |
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Sat, 4 September 1976 11:30am (Saturday 11:30am) The second series resumes in the Saturday morning slot. |
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Sat, 11 September 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 18 September 1976 10:20am |
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Sat, 25 September 1976 11:00am |
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Sat, 2 October 1976 11:00am |
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Sat, 9 October 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 16 October 1976 11:30am |
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Sat, 23 October 1976 11:00am The magazine is renamed Supersonic Saturday Scene, with the pop show Supersonic now following Space: 1999, pushing the series earlier. |
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Sat, 30 October 1976 10:55am Billed wrongly as Seed of Destruction (see also wrong billing on 15 October 1978). The first appearance of the art featuring Joan Collins as Kara from Mission of the Darians |
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Sat, 6 November 1976 10:55am |
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Sat, 13 November 1976 10:55am |
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Sat, 20 November 1976 10:55am |
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Sat, 27 November 1976 10:55am (billed as A Matter of Balance) |
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Thunderbirds: Ricochet |
Sun, 28 November 1976 11:10am Thunderbirds resumes on Sunday mornings |
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Sat, 4 December 1976 10:55am |
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Thunderbirds: Security Hazard |
Sun, 5 December 1976 11:10am |
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Sat, 11 December 1976 10:55am |
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Thunderbirds: Vault of Death |
Sun, 12 December 1976 11:10am |
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Sat, 18 December 1976 10:55am (last episode before Christmas, last Year 2 for 10 months) |
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Thunderbirds: Give or Take a Miiiion |
Sun, 19 December 1976 11:10am The Christmas episode |
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Thunderbirds Are Go! |
Sun, 26 December 1976 12:00pm The first broadcast of the 1966 film on LWT, the day after Christmas |
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Star Maidens: Escape To Paradise |
Sat, 1 January 1977 9:30am New Year's Day, launching Star Maidens (the planet is Medusa, not "Mendusa") |
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Thunderbirds: The Perils of Penelope |
Sun, 2 January 1977 11:10am |
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Star Maidens: Nemesis |
TV TIMES BILLED: Sat 8 January 1977 11:00am The second episode of Star Maidens was billed in the Space: 1999 Supersonic Saturday Scene timeslot. After TV Times was printed, the schedule was revised. Star Maidens swapped to Sunday, Space: 1999 was brought forward to the old Saturday slot. |
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TV TIMES BILLED: Sun 9 January 1977 11:00am ACTUAL: Sat, 8 January 1977 11:30am First repeat run of Space: 1999, originally moving to Sunday before they reconsidered and brought it back to Saturday timeslot, swapping with new series Star Maidens. |
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Sat, 15 January 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: Nightmare Cannon |
Sun, 16 January 1977 11:00am Star Maidens in Sunday slot, the title resumes a bold billing. |
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Sat, 22 January 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: The Proton Storm |
Sun, 23 January 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 29 January 1977 11:30am Earlier on Supersonic Saturday Scene, host Sally James introduced guests Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, plus a competition (not mentioned in the TV Times, which only mentions the star guest Leo Sayer). |
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Star Maidens: Kidnap |
Sun, 30 January 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 5 February 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: The Trial |
Sun, 6 February 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 12 February 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: Test For Love |
Sun, 13 February 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 19 February 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: The Perfect Couple |
Sun, 20 February 1977 11:00am |
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UFO: Timelash |
Fri, 25 February 1977 11:40pm A late night Friday slot for some later episodes of UFO, between the Russell Harty talk show and close-down (in the 1970s, all three TV channels shut down shortly after midnight). Episodes continued through March until April. |
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Sat, 26 February 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: What Have They Done to the Rain? |
Sun, 27 February 1977 11:00am |
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UFO: The Psychobombs |
Fri, 4 March 1977 11:40pm |
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Sat, 5 March 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: The End of Time |
Sun, 6 March 1977 11:00am |
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UFO: Mindbender |
Fri, 11 March 1977 11:40pm |
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Sat, 12 March 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: Hideout |
Sun, 13 March 1977 11:00am |
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UFO: The Man Who Came Back |
Fri, 18 March 1977 11:40pm |
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Sat, 19 March 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: Creatures of the Mind |
Sun, 20 March 1977 11:00am |
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UFO: The Responsibility Seat |
Fri, 25 March 1977 11:40pm With the Space: 1999 art of Joan Collins and Martin Landau last seen on 18 December 1976. |
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Sat, 26 March 1977 11:30am |
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Star Maidens: The Enemy |
Sun, 27 March 1977 11:00am |
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UFO: The Long Sleep |
Fri, 1 April 1977 11:40pm |
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Sat, 2 April 1977 11:30am |
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Sat, 9 April 1977 11:30am The first episode appears unexpectedly in the middle of the repeat run. |
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Sat, 16 April 1977 11:30am The Supersonic segment disappears, so the Saturday morning schedule is renamed back to Saturday Scene (with Clapperboard added). |
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Sat, 23 April 1977 11:30am As during the original September 1975 broadcast, the credits include Aarchon and pilot Abrams. |
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Sat, 30 April 1977 11:30am |
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Sat, 7 May 1977 11:30am Retitled "Death's Other Dimensions" |
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Clapperboard: Gerry Anderson part one |
Sat, 14 May 1977 10:00am |
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Sat, 14 May 1977 11:00am Moves to 11:00am-12, as World of Sport starts earlier (in preparation for the F.A. Cup Final on 21 May) |
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Clapperboard: Gerry Anderson part two |
Sat, 21 May 1977 10:05am |
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Sat, 21 May 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 28 May 1977 11:30am Moves back to 11:30am- |
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Sat, 4 June 1977 11:30am |
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Sat, 11 June 1977 11:30am |
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Sat, 18 June 1977 11:30am |
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Sat, 10 September 1977 11:30am The final episodes of Year 2 are finally run. Saturday Scene has been retired, with a new magazine Our Show starting this week (including US comedy Happy Days). Space: 1999 is not part of this magazine (for now), sitting between it and World of Sport. The episode title is correct, but the cast list and director are from Dorzak (when the episode is repeated on 10 December 1978 they repeat this listing error) |
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Sat, 24 September 1977 11:30am (2 week break before next episode) |
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Sat, 8 October 1977 11:00am (11:00am-12:00) Space: 1999 moves into the Our Show magazine, following after Happy Days. |
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Sat, 15 October 1977 11:00am Happy Days moves after Space: 1999 |
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Sat, 22 October 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 29 October 1977 11:00am After three weeks, Our Show ends at 11am, with Space: 1999 and Happy Days now standalone. |
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Sat, 5 November 1977 11:00am Oddly spelled as "Dorzac" instead of "Dorzak". |
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Sat, 12 November 1977 11:00am |
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Sat, 22 July 1978 11:30am First repeat of Year 2, following a new Saturday morning children's show, Southern's The Saturday Banana hosted by Bill Oddie (meanwhile ATV's Tiswas was becoming popular on other ITV regions, and by 1979 would become almost national). |
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Sat, 29 July 1978 11:30am |
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Sat, 5 August 1978 11:30am No episode on Saturday 12 August (instead there is a Fantastic Four episode, and World of Sport starts at 12 noon). |
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Sat, 19 August 1978 11:30am For this episode, Tony Anholt plays Tony "Berdeschi". |
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Sat, 26 August 1978 11:30am First episode with new LWT ident, and the TV Times entry has the Joan Collins art last seen on an episode of UFO (see March 1977) |
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Sat, 02 September 1978 11:30am (last Saturday episode) The last Saturday episode (it will be replaced by the Ron Ely Tarzan series) |
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Sun, 17 September 1978 1:25pm (moves to Sunday, 1:25-2:20pm) The series moves to Sunday midday, following the news show Weekend World and cartoon Funky Phantom, and leading up to The Big Match |
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Sun, 24 September 1978 1:25pm |
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Sun, 1 October 1978 1:30pm (moves to 1:30-2:30pm) |
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Sun, 8 October 1978 1:30pm The preceding show is now quiz show University Challenge |
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Sun, 15 October 1978 1:30pm Billed as Seed of Destruction (see also wrong billing on 30 October 1976). After The Big Match, the Gerry Anderson film Journey To the Far Side of the Sun gets its premiere on LWT. |
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Sun, 29 October 1978 1:30pm |
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Sun, 5 November 1978 1:30pm Anthony Terpiloff gets a TV Times listing note; his episode of The Return of The Saint "The Arrangement" directed by Peter Medak with guests Carolyn Seymour and Sarah Douglas was at 7:15pm. |
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Sun, 12 November 1978 1:30pm |
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Sun, 19 November 1978 1:30pm |
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Sun, 3 December 1978 1:30pm |
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Sun, 10 December 1978 1:30pm As for the original broadcast (10th September 1977) the cast list and director are for Dorzak. One difference is that Barbara Bain now plays "Helen", not "Helena". |
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Sun, 17 December 1978 1:30pm No TV Times printed this week |
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Sun, 31 December 1978 9:05am Not billed in TV Times, a programme substitution because of industrial action at Yorkshire TV. |
During 1979 there were no Gerry and Sylvia Anderson programmes broadcast on LWT, although they had the rights to show several episodes (Seed of Destruction, The Bringers of Wonder - Part 1 and part 2, The Immunity Syndrome, The Dorcons), which were shown in other regions at the time. More industrial action may have frustrated any plans.
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