This week’s films both involve Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Pryor wrote some of the material for the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles (1974) – he was supposed to play one of the main roles alongside Wilder, but was prevented from doing so for insurance reasons, being replaced by Cleavon Little. They do actually appear together in the second film, Stir Crazy (1980).

In the TV section, we have the last episode of Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out. This will be replaced the following week by The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

4.00 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Block

6.00 Cowboy Bebop – Session 3: Honky Tonk Women
6.25 Minder – S04E06 If Money be the Food of Love, Play On
7.15 Vic Reeves Big Night Out – S02E08
7.40 Alexei Sayle’s Stuff – S01E06
8.05 The Mark Thomas Comedy Product – S01E04 Tours of London
8.30 Peep Show – S05E02 Spin War

Pryor/Wilder Double Bill

9.00 Blazing Saddles (1974)
10.35 Stir Crazy (1980)