After three weeks off for some exciting gaming streams, the boring old Sheepy Show returns:
18:00 – Sheepy’s opening music.
18:05 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
18:10 – Michael Bentine’s Potty Time S01E15 – Marie Celeste – a British children’s TV show, written by and starring Michael Bentine, and directed and produced by Leon Thau for Thames Television. This week, Mr. Bentine and the Potties investigate the mystery of the Marie Celeste. First broadcast on Mon 18th Feb 1974 by ITV.
18:21 – Shadows S03E07 – HoneyAnn – a British supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. This week, in the last-ever episode, a country girl takes a job as nursemaid to a wealthy family, and finds that everyone in the house seems to be suffering under the rule of a strict, authoritarian nanny. She has a few country tricks up her sleeve for dealing with nanny. First broadcast on Wed 1st Nov 1978 by ITV. Written by Fay Weldon(!), and starring Gwyneth “Cassandra” Strong (in her second Shadows appearance, the first being three years earlier in S01E07 “The Other Window”), with Adrienne “To Sir With Love”/”Up The Junction” Posta. Bonus Gwyneth Strong info I just noticed in her IMDb profile: her Dad, Colin, directed “The Old Grey Whistle Test” and “Late Night Line Up” (but her parents didn’t want her to be an actor), and she’s married to Jesse “Bugs” Birdsall!
18:45 – Clangers S02E02 – The Rock Collector – the famous Oliver Postgate / Peter Firmin stop-motion children’s television series about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. This week, the astronaut returns to collect rocks, but falls in the soup when Tiny Clanger startles him. First broadcast on Sun 25th Apr 1971 at 4.50pm by BBC1.
18:55 – Star Trek (The Original Series) – S01E29 – Operation — Annihilate! – This week, in the last of the first series, the Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy. First broadcast in the USA on Thu 13th Apr 1967 by NBC.
19:45 – Only When I Laugh – S01E04 – The Man with the Face – A sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV, written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp, Home to Roost). It stars Christopher Strauli as Norman, a rather naive middle-class man who is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout called Figgis (James Bolam) and an upper-class hypochondriac called Archie (Peter Bowles). All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff, led by Richard Wilson with Derrick Branche. This week, Archie has been seeing a Greek girl Anna and panics when her violent boyfriend Nico comes looking for him, so Figgis wraps his head in bandages and says he is a burns victim. Aware that Nico will want to see him with the bandages removed, Figgis then swathes Norman in bandages so that he can be the one to face Nico – and for good measure covers his own head up, causing Dr Thorpe no end of confusion. First broadcast on Mon 19th Nov 1979 by ITV.
20:09 – Special Branch – S02E03 – Depart in Peace – Groundbreaking British police drama series following the exploits of the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police: an elite group of officers tasked with protecting London from spies, terrorists, and subversives. This week, an ex-colonial policeman is pressured to return to Africa to testify at the trial of a onetime Mau-Mau warlord, but he adamantly refuses. First broadcast on Tue 25th Aug 1970 by ITV.
20:58 – Eurotrash S02E02 – The legendary late-night magazine show starring Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier, exploring unusual and bizarre topics from Europe and around the world. This week we have Lily Savage in Berlin, Johnny Logan, Lova Moor, Liedertafel Margot Honecker, Alpine Skirt Chasers, Allegro Fortissimo, Cybersex. First broadcast on Fri 15th Apr 1994 by Channel 4.
21:23 – A Bouquet of Barbed Wire E02/07 – Introductions – a drama series based on the novel by Andrea Newman published in 1969. Starring Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon and Sheila Allen, it was produced by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series is known for its treatment of family and sexual dynamics, focused on the relationship between father and daughter. This week, Peter gets a new secretary, Sarah, who with her two boyfriends and an alcoholic father is not as angelically pure as she seems. Gavin feels emasculated by Peter, so when Prue suggests asking him for a loan, he hits her. First broadcast on Fri 16th Jan 1976 by ITV.
22:13 – Screen One: A Very Polish Practice – A 94-minute standalone film, shown as S04E01 in the Screen One strand, wrapping up the story of A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Stephen Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife Grete Grotowska and son Tomasz. Despite the chaos caused by the disintegration of communism, Stephen is happy working as a hospital doctor. However he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again? First broadcast on Sun 6th Sept 1992 (over four years after the end of Series 2) at 9.25pm by BBC1.
23:47 – Closedown music.
23:52 – Closedown.