17:57 – Sheepy’s opening music.
18:00 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
18:05 – The Tomorrow People S01E08 – The Medusa Strain (Part 3/4) – The classic 1970s ITV children’s series about a group of teens with paranormal abilities, who use their special gifts to battle evil. This week, Rabowski finally coerces Peter into opening another Time Arch, where Jedikiah sends Rabowski to assault the lab in a prelude to eradicate the existence of Tomorrow People for all time. First broadcast on Mon 25th June 1973 by ITV.
18:29 – Star Trek (The Original Series) – S01E09 – Dagger of the Mind – This week, the Enterprise visits a rehabilitation facility for the criminally insane where the chief doctor has been using a device which destroys the human mind. This episode was the first to have the Vulcan mind meld. Playing mentally disturbed Van Gelder took a toll on the actor Morgan Woodward. He called the role the most physically and emotionally exhausting acting job of his career. Desperate to get out of Westerns and expand his range, he was cast against type for this episode and was so well regarded that he came on board next season to play the tragic Capt. Ronald Tracey in “The Omega Glory”. Reportedly when he finished filming this episode he went home and took a rest for four days, and it took its toll on his personal life, as he confessed that for three weeks afterwards he was anti-social towards friends and family. However, he was grateful that this episode opened up whole new opportunities for him. The South Park episode set in the planetarium (S02E11, “Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods”) is a parody of this episode. First broadcast in the USA on Thu 3rd Nov 1966 by NBC.
19:20 – …And Mother Makes Three – S02E03 – Growing Pains – More gentle middle-class Thames sitcom, starring Wendy Craig as the newly-widowed Sally Harrison, doing her best to bring up her two boisterous sons, Simon and Peter. This week, Sally protests when Simon talks about leaving school and getting a job, a note suggests that he’s run away from home to start a life as a soldier, and a recruitment officer points her in the direction of the intake camp. First broadcast on Thu 16th Dec 1971 by ITV.
19:44 – Brass – S01E07 – More Granada-made northern-drama-satirising comedy, starring Timothy West. This week, George is home from hospital and Agnes tells him that Matt has gone to kill his father, Bradley Hardacre, so they both go to the hall and tell Bradley. That night Matt enters the hall via Lady Patience’s bedroom and is waylaid by Lady P. Austin goes one further: he knocks Bradley out and orders him to be taken to the hospital, due to be blown up at midnight with the deadly SBD. First broadcast on Mon 4th Apr 1983 by ITV.
20:09 – Van der Valk – S02E04 – A Dangerous Point of View – More Thames-made Amsterdam-based crime drama, starring Barry Foster. This week, while working on a case, a private detective is stabbed to death in a seedy apartment. Who was he watching for two weeks in the building opposite? And how did it lead to his death? First broadcast on Wed 19th Sep 1973 by ITV.
21:01– Sheepy’s Unwatched FILM Project #10: Moon (2009) – a science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (in his directorial debut) and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones. The film follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. Kevin Spacey, unfortunately, voices Sam’s robot companion, GERTY.
22:34 – Adam Rosser Interviews Duncan Jones – supplied by Right_Said_Brett during the film.
22:40 – Snub TV S02E02 – This week featuring:
• EPMD “Too Much Too Drink” (video)
• A.C. Marias “One of Our Girls Has Gone Missing” (video)
• Ride “Drive Blind” (Live @ Subterranea Dec 1989)
• Ancient Beatbox interview and “Raining” (SnubTV video)
• Sacher Musak “Gorba”
• Jesus & Mary Chain interview, “Kill Surf City” (video) “Gimme Hell” (Live), “Take It” (Live)
Or as the Radio Times put it: “Featuring: the Jesus and Mary Chain – a film from the last date on their recent British tour; hurdy-gurdy collides with synth technology in the shape of Ancient Beatbox, plus new Creation label hopes, Ride. Mystery meets art in the form of AC Marias, plus cult US duo EPMD. Produced and edited by BRENDA KELLY and PETER FOWLER”
From 1st generation off-air VHS > Panasonic HD recorder > DVD-R > MPEG Streamclip > MPEG4
Video compression: H.264, 352 x 288, deinterlaced
Audio compression: AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz, 192 kbps
First broadcast on Mon 15th Jan 1990 at 6.40pm by BBC2.
23:09 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Original Radio Series) – Fit the Tenth – The third episode of the then-five-episode second series that went out stripped across a single week in Jan 1980. Original Radio Times listing: “Fit the third: In which our heroes have some close encounters with others and themselves.
MARVIN: This is the sort of thing you life forms enjoy, is it?“
First broadcast on Wed 23rd Jan 1980 at 10.30pm by BBC Radio 4.
23:38 – COMMENTARY TRACK VERSION of The Tomorrow People S01E04 – The Slaves of Jedekiah (Part 4/5) – More interesting, amusing and sometimes scandalous DVD commentary featuring Nicholas Young (John), Peter Vaughan-Clarke (Stephen) and Philip Gilbert (TIM), moderated by Nicholas Briggs. To recap: this is the classic 1970s ITV children’s series about a group of teens with paranormal abilities, who use their special gifts to battle evil. This week, John, Carol and Stephen recover to find Jedikiah has left, taking Kenny with him. They follow them back to the mansion in order to perform a rescue only to discover Jedikiah has set a trap for them. Original programme first broadcast on Mon 28th May 1973 by ITV. DVD Commentary recorded c. 2002.
00:02 – Closedown music.
00:06 – Closedown.