16:00 – Coming Up On Cab TV…

Your schedule of programmes for this afternoon and evening,

16:05 – Speed Racer

The Car Hater (26/52)

High speed cartoon thrills.

16:28 – Tom and Jerry

Blue Cat Blues (1956)

Cartoon antics with the cat and mouse duo.

16:35 – Knightmare

Series 9 (08/10)

The technological adventure game continues. Will the hardest lads in St Albans beat the dungeon’s traps?

17:00 – Plasmo

Bon Voyage, Plasmo (12/13)

Animated adventures.

17:05 – The Mighty Thor

Thunder In The Netherworld (12/13)

Cartoon superhero shenanigans

17:22 – Sykes

Gamble (Series 2, 9/15)

Comedy

17:52 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Salad Days (Series 3, 7/13)

Surreal sketch comedy

18:20 – Blake’s 7

Sand (Series 4, 09/13)

Sci-fi action drama

19:10 – M*A*S*H

38 Across (Season 5, 15/25)

Comedy set during the Korean War.

19:35 – 15 Storeys High

Errol’s Woman (Series 2, 06/06)

Surreal flat-based comedy

20:03 – Shoestring

Utmost Good Faith (Series 2, 06/10)

Off-beat detective drama

20:57 – The Bill

A Friend In Need (Series 1, 02/11)

The long-running police saga continues

21:47 – Film: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is a 1982 American neo-noir comedy-mystery film directed by Carl Reiner. Starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward, the film is both a parody of and a homage to film noir and the pulp detective films of the 1940s. The title refers to Martin’s character telling a story about a woman obsessed with plaid in a scene that was ultimately cut from the film.

Edited by Bud Molin, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is partly a collage film, incorporating clips from 19 vintage films. They are combined with new footage of Martin and other actors similarly shot in black-and-white, with the result that the original dialogue and acting of the classic films become part of a completely different story.

Among the actors who appear from classic films are Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Edmond O’Brien, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, and Lana Turner.