4.05: New!! Speed Racer – The Great Plan(Season 1, Episode 1)
Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo (Japanese: マッハGoGoGo, Hepburn: Mahha GōGōGō), is a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968.
His adventures centered on his powerful Mach 5 car, his girlfriend Trixie, his little brother Spritle, Spritle’s pet chimpanzee Chim-Chim, and his mysterious older brother, Racer X,[14] whose real name was Rex Racer.
Speed Racer enters his first race to win money for his family. Meanwhile, a gang of robbers are after Pops’s secret plans… which he hid in the windshield of Speed’s car.
4.25: Tom & Jerry #078 – Two Little Indians
Jerry is a scoutmaster who is taking two young mice (both resembling Nibbles) on a hiking trip.
4.30: Knightmare: Series 6, Episode 14
4.50: Ulysses 31 – Songs Of Danger (Episode 13)
Pirates kidnap the children to force Ulysses and No-No to brave the danger of the Sirens, said to guard a map of the Olympus universe.
5.15: New!! Sykes – Burglary (Series 1, Episode 1)
Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and a… (1960–1965) and Sykes and a Big, Big Show (1971).[1] Forty-three of the 1970s colour episodes were remakes of scripts for the 1960s black and white series, such as “Bus” based on ‘Sykes and a Following’ from 1964 and the episode “Stranger” with Peter Sellers based on ‘Sykes and a Stranger’ from 1961.
Sykes had the same premise as Sykes and a… with Sykes, Jacques, Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler reprising their former identical roles. The series was brought to an end by the death of Hattie Jacques of a heart attack on 6 October 1980.
Eric buys a dog after a series of burglaries in the neighbourhood – before realising the Sykes household doesn’t really have anything worth stealing.
5.40: Monty Python’s Flying Circus – Untitled (Series 1, Episode 10)
Sketches include: Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop, It’s a Tree, Ron Obvious, Pet Conversations, Gorilla Librarian, Strangers in the Night
6.10: Blake’s 7 – Voices From The Past (Series 2, Episode 09)
As The Liberator heads to Del 10 Blake receives a subliminal signal to reroute to an asteroid where he finds Shivan, a resistance leader and Governor Le Grand who need The Liberator to transport them to Atlay where they are to hold a summit to denounce the Federation. But is all what it seems?
7.00: M*A*S*H – Mail Call Again (Season 4, Episode 14)
Mail arrives at the 4077th. Col. Potter learns he’s a grandfather, Hawkeye gets his hometown newspaper, Radar gets a home movie from his family, and Frank learns his wife has found out about his affair with Margaret and is asking for a divorce
7.25: The Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin – Series 2, Episode 1
Married – again – to Elizabeth and working,as Martin, at Sunshine Desserts – where he runs the Reginald Perrin Memorial Trust – Reggie is now getting dissatisfied with his new identity and keen to return to being his old self.
7.55: Ultraviolet – Mea Culpa (Episode 4)
After a boy kills a priest in school, the team investigate what led up to the attack, and why some of them appear to be infected without having been bitten.
8.50: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Episode 7 (Final Episode)
Smiley springs his trap and catches the spy. He later interrogates the spy and learns about how and why it happened, and the answers he gets robs him of any sense of victory.
9.30: Film: Near Dark (1987)
Near Dark is a 1987 American neo-Western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (in her solo directorial debut), and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein. The plot follows a young man in a small midwestern town who becomes involved with a family of nomadic American vampires.
Cowboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets gorgeous Mae (Jenny Wright) at a bar, and the two have an immediate attraction. But when Mae turns out to be a vampire and bites Caleb on the neck, their relationship gets complicated. Wracked with a craving for human blood, Caleb is forced to leave his family and ride with Mae and her gang of vampires, including the evil Severen. Along the way Caleb must decide between his new love of Mae and the love of his family.
