Broadcast
This episode was first transmitted in the UK on BBC2 on Friday 28 March 1980. Although the first series had been screened in the UK in 1964 by Granada TV, and a few other ITV regions, it wasn't until the BBC transmitted all 49 episodes, in two seasons between 28 March 1980 and 17 July 1981, that the second series episodes were first seen in the UK. The BBC chose "Demon With A Glass Hand" as the first episode to be broadcast, none of the episodes were screened in series order, with second series episodes mixed in with first series episodes. This was also its last UK terrestrial television broadcast.
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