The Sky at Night The Sky at Night The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the same permanent presenter, Patrick Moore, from its first broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013, Moore having died on 9 December 2012. This made it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history. Many early episodes are missing, either because the tapes were wiped, thrown out, or because the episode was broadcast live and never recorded in the first place. Beginning with the 3 February 2013 edition, the show was co-presented by
Trapped in the Sky judged by Anderson and Gray to be tonally unsuitable and was replaced two weeks before the first broadcast of "Trapped in the Sky" in September 1965. Gray recorded the incidental music in December 1964, at the Olympic Studios at Barnes, London, with an orchestra of 30 instrumentalists. "Thunderbirds" was originally due to have a 25-minute episode running time; this was doubled at the instruction of Lew Grade, Anderson's financial backer at distributor ITC, after a preview screening of "Trapped in the Sky". Praising the plot and special effects, Grade commented, "That's not a television series, that's a feature film!" With