As there are no Meatballs this evening, we instead present an alternative schedule to delight and disgust in equal measure.

16:00 - Pipkins - The Grass Is Greener (Episode 259,13/05/1980)

The eldritch horror of Hartley Hare returns to haunt Cab TV once again

16:15 - Yózhik v tumáne (Hedgehog in The Fog)

Russian animator Yuri Norstein's beautiful short film now in glorious HD.

16:25 - Inter-View: R.E.M. & Fans

Fresh-faced Athens, GA …

16:00 - Cartoon Carnage

• Moomins
• Roadrunner & Wile E Coyote
• Beavis & Butthead
• Moral Orel
• Bobobo bo bo bobo

17:00 - Radio Block

• 17:00 - THE WAVES - 3 - We See No Colour
• 17:20 - Peter Cook In His Own Words ep3
• 17:50 - Punt PI - The Crying Boy Paintings
• 18:15 - The Great Bleep Forward ep3

18:45 - Main Schedule

• 18:45 - Strange Paradise - Ep76 & 77
• 19:30 - Fun at The Funeral Parlour s2 ep7 …

16:00 – Welcome To Cab TV

16:05 – Speed Racer

The Secret Invaders (37/52)

High speed cartoon thrills.

16:25 – Tom and Jerry

Switchin' Kitten (1961)

After a gap of four years following the closure of MGM's animation department, the first of a series of 13 new shorts emerged overseen by Gene Deitch and a team of Czechoslovakian animators that had little familiarity with American cartoons. Although the series would stumble into something resembling conventional …

17:40 Osymyso – Intro-Inspection. A mashup of intros to popular songs. Horrifically sublime in places.

18:00 Buck Rogers in the 25^th Century – Space Rockers. Whenever the Space Rockers play their space music the kids kick off violently. Buck Rogers investigates to see if the band have somehow tapped into old Earth punk, or is there something more sinister going on?

18:45 Time Commanders – The Battle of Chalons. After the appalling …

• 16:00 - Kappatoo II ep2 It's About Time
• 16:30 - Galloping Galaxies! s2 ep2
• 16:55 - ChuckleVision - s1 ep7 - Antiques

Radio Block

• 17:15 - Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music s1 ep1
• 17:45 - The Brightonomicon ep1
• 18:10 - Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive s2 ep3 Dave Gorman, Dan Gaster, Jack Dee

main schedule

• 18:40 - Jupiter Moon - ep71 & 72
• 19:30 - American Gladiators s1 ep8
• 20:15 - Solitary v4.0. ep4
• 21:00 - Moody and Pegg s2 …