The Funbucket returns for a special one-off Saturday show. We start off at midday with a marathon of police procedural action! At 4pm there will be a radio show accompanied by a train journey, switching over to music videos at 5.30 (requests welcome). At six we kick into some classic Funbucket material: some Pete and Pete shorts that predate the original series, Rex the Runt, the one Terry-era Minder that I didn’t show (a Christmas clip show) and we pick up The Brittas Empire where I left it off. We then move on to a Saturday night throwback segment featuring a classic episode of Casualty, followed by a film double bill. Flight of the Navigator tells the story of a young boy who is abducted by aliens and is returned to his family eight years later without having aged. Then Robinson finally makes a triumphant return to CaB TV in the sequel to Patrick Keiller’s London: Robinson in Space! We finish off with some PIFs, railway ephemera and a Shipping Forecast.

Flouncer’s Procedural Preshow
12.00 Hill Street Blues S02E08 The World According to Freedom
12.50 Quincy, M.E. S02E06 Hit and Run at Danny’s
1.40 Cagney & Lacey S02E20 The Gang’s All Here
2.30 The Bill S15E56/E57 Integrity

The Main Event
4.00 Music Show
5.30 Music Videos
6.00 The Adventures of Pete and Pete – The Dot; The Big Race; Artie’s Workout
6.20 Rex the Runt – S02E01 Mouse in Me Kitchen
6.40 Minder – S04E01 Minder’s Christmas Bonus
7.30 The Brittas Empire – S06E01 Back With a Bang
8.00 Casualty
9.00 Flight of the Navigator (1986)
10.30 Robinson in Space (1997)
11.20 PIFs and Railway Stuff
0.48 Shipping Forecast