Kicking off with some Ceefax as usual, we quickly move on to some more bizarre music cues in Chalkface, followed by some CBBC with Chris Jarvis, including Paul and Barry’s rather obscure game show To Me, To You and Record Breakers. Our soap segment follows as the odious Jimmy Corkhill drags his sorry arse back to the close.

Going into the evening, CaB TV bête noire Keith Allen presents Top of the Pops, then we join Jeremy Clarkson and Quentin Wilson for some classic Top Gear. Crimewatch File goes over a murder investigation, and Big Trev brings us News at Ten before Dispatches looks into drug dealing in rave culture and the events surrounding the death of Leah Betts. Sting and Robin Williams appear on Clive Anderson Talks Back, then we move onto some public information films and Open University before the FINAL CLOSEDOWN!

1600 Ceefax
1615 Chalkface – Episode 4, Opting Out
1645 CBBC: Animals of Farthing Wood
1710 CBBC: To Me, To You
1740 CBBC: Record Breakers
1805 CBBC: Newsround
1815 Home and Away (Episode 926)
1845 The Bill S08E85 We Should Be Talking
1910 The Bill S08E86 Reasonable Grounds
1935 Brookside (Episodes 1338, 1339)
2025 Top of the Pops (19.06.96)
2055 Top Gear
2125 Crimewatch File – The Iceman
2215 ITN News at Ten (09.08.96) [fragment]
2230 Dispatches – The Essex Boys
2310 Clive Anderson Talks Back
2335 PIF Block
0000 OU: The Physics of Matter – Band 4, Ideal Sounds
0035 Closedown