BBC controversies about the Director General's decision'. The BBC's chief operating officer, Caroline Thomson, affirmed the need to broadcast "without affecting and impinging on the audience's perception of our impartiality" and that in this case, it was a "real issue." The 2009 Gaza appeal is the only occasion on which the BBC is known to have refused an appeal broadcast request from the DEC. It is reported the 2009 DEC Gaza appeal screened only by Channel 4 and ITV raised £8.3m. In August 2014 the BBC broadcast a new DEC aid appeal for people in Gaza, without similar controversy, which raised £16m
Trapped in the Sky 7:00 p.m. on 30 September 1965. An alternative, two-part format debuted on 20 October for the episode's Granada Television première. The episode was networked nationwide for the first time on 20 September 1991, after BBC Two acquired the broadcast rights to the series; it achieved ratings of 6.8 million viewers when it was repeated by the channel in 1992. On 18 December 1994, "Trapped in the Sky" was transmitted in a re-edited format as the first episode of "Turbocharged Thunderbirds"; broadcast on UPN in the United States, the programme combined footage drawn from the 1960s series with new, live-action scenes.