This week’s theme year is 1980. Festive continuity is starting to creep in as we inch closer towards Christmas! We start off with some schools and childrens’ lunchtime programming, before a BBC news bulletin from the day of John Lennon’s death (40 years ago almost to the day). We then dip back into Brookside for more on the interminable trainers saga.

After the ST:TNG double bill, there will be an episode of Steptoe and Son, followed by the corresponding episode of Sanford and Son which was adapted from the original Galton and Simpson script. Tonight’s main event is an in-depth look at life in Strangeways prison. This comes in the form of two programmes: the opening episode of the 1980 BBC documentary series Strangeways, and the 1979 World in Action investigation Banged Up (with a fragmentary News at Ten and period Granada continuity breaking the two up). To wrap up the evening, we have an appropriately Christmas themed episode of Micro Live, before a late news bulletin and closedown.

4.00 Ceefax
4.15 BBC Schools: Investigating Science – Made to Measure
4.35 ITV Schools: My World – The Dairymen
4.45 ITV Schools: Your Living Body – New Lives
5.00 ITV Schools: The Land – Isle of Skye
5.25 Paperplay
5.35 Magpie
6.00 BBC Mid-Day News
6.10 Thomas the Tank Engine – S02E05 Old Iron
6.15 Thomas the Tank Engine – S02E06 Thomas and Trevor
6.20 Tugs – S01E11 High Winds
6.35 Brookside – Episode 1004
7.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S02E15 Pen Pals
7.45 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S02E16 Q Who
8.30 Steptoe and Son – S04E04 The Siege of Steptoe Street
9.00 Sanford and Son – S01E08 The Great Sanford Siege
9.25 Strangeways – Episode 1: A Human Warehouse
10.05 News at Ten (Fragment)
10.20 World in Action – Banged Up
10.50 Micro Live (Episode 10)
11.20 Late News and Closedown

Here’s what’s on…

18:15 AKIRA OST Mix (pre-show). Just some lovely bits of music from the classic anime.

18:30 Black Moth Super Rainbow – Rollerdisco. Music video.

18:32 Jason of Star Command Ch.3 and Ch.4. The evil Scotty clone has infiltrated star command, meanwhile Jason and the real Scotty are being held captive by Dragos and his spaghetti creatures.

18:55 Fred Basset – One Over Par. More fun and games featuring the Daily Mail’s cartoon mutt.

18:59 Doomwatch – Project Sahara. The Doomwatch team investigate a new defoliant.

19:49 Out of the Unknown – Tunnel Under the World. Yesterday was June 15th, today is June 15th, tomorrow it will be June 15th. Chocobites anyone?

20:42 How do you Know it’s Love. Get your copybooks ready for more 1950s American wisdom for young folk.

20:55 Gokusen S1 Ep2. Kumiko Yamaguchi‘s ongoing attempts to save the delinquents in her class from getting themselves expelled.…

5:00 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 17)

5:25 Da Ali G Show – ‘Realize’ (series 3, episode 4)

5:55 Face Off – ‘Monster Twist’ (series 3, episode 7)

6:40 Inside No. 9 – ‘Love’s Great Adventure’ (series 5, episode 3)

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7:10 FILM: Repossessed (1990)

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4.00: Rocket Robin Hood: Genius In A Bottle (Season 2, Episode 8)

4.25: Tom & Jerry #059 – His Mouse Friday

Tom becomes a castaway on an island and chases Jerry to a native village, but Jerry tricks the cat by disguising himself as a blackface native.

4.32: Knightmare: Series 5, Episode 09

4.57: The Mysterious Cities Of Gold – The City Of The New Sun (Series 1, Episode 31)

Chased down by the Olmecs, the group faces capture again, but the Olmecs are driven off by a band of Mayans.

5.25: Shadow Of The Stone – Episode 6 (Final Episode)

5.50: Futurama – The Route Of All Evil (Season 3, Episode 12)

Prof. Farnsworth’s and Hermes’ 12 year old sons combine forces to take over Planet Express, but their ambition is more than their ability and they need their fathers’ help to save the day.

6.12: Blake’s 7 – Space Fall (Series 1, Episode 2)

Blake takes the prison transport ship “London” under siege with help from Kerr Avon and Jenna Stannis.…

4pm Transformers – Season 1 Episode 3 – More Than Meets The Eye Part 3

4.20 Thundercats – Season 1 Episode 3 – The Burbils

4.45 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Season 1 Episode 3 – A Thing About Rats

5.05 Count Duckula – Series 1 Episode 3- One Stormy Night

5.30 Eerie Indiana – Episode 3– The ATM With The Heart Of Gold

5.50 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – Season 1 Episode 3 – Teamwork

6:10 Batman – Season 1 Episode 32 – The Riddlers False Notion

6:35 The Simpsons – Season 1 Episode 4 – Bart The Muderer

6.55 King Of The Hill – Season 7 Episode 4 – Dances with Dogs

7:20 South Park –Season 4 – Episode 17 – A Very Crappy Christmas (end Of Season 4)

7:45 The Sooty Show – Down Dog

8:00 The Twilight Zone – Season 5 – Episode 10 –The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

8:25 The Armando Iannucci Shows – Episode 2 Work

9:05 Chronological Alan – Knowing Me, Knowing You – Episode 2

9.35 I Love Lucy –Season 2 Episode 30 – Ricky And Fred Are TV Fans

Tonight’s film is Flash Gordon (1980).

4.00 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Block
6.00 Top Cat – Episode 1, Hawaii Here We Come
6.25 Minder – S07E03 Fatal Impression
7.15 The All New Alexei Sayle Show – S02E03
7.45 Murder Most Horrid – S01E03 He Died a Death
8.15 Absolutely Fabulous – S01E03 France
8.45 Trailer Park Boys – S03E03 If I Can’t Smoke & Swear I’m Fucked
9.10 Limmy’s Show – S03E03
9.40 Peep Show – S08E03 The Love Bunker

Tonight’s Film
10.10 Flash Gordon (1980)

4pm – 6pm Mystery Grab bag of assorted programing

6::00 – Tiswas (19 April 1980)

7:40 – Who Dares Wins (25 May 1988)

8:20 – Smash Hits Poll Winners Party (1996)

9:50 – Snub TV

10:25 – An American In Paris (1951)

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. EN

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Writers:

Alan Jay Lerner (story by), Alan Jay Lerner (screen play by)

Stars:

Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant | See full cast & crew »

I’m doing something a bit different for the opening of this week’s show – we’ll start off with some classic cartoons, before moving on to a block of shows, both cartoons and live action, that would have been seen on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network in the late nineties/early 2000s. The trainers saga continues in Brookside, then another Star Trek: The Next Generation double bill precedes the final episode of Weird Weekends, in which Louis attempts to make a name for himself in the hard-hitting world of gangsta rap. Our main event for tonight is Brassneck, a 1975 Play For Today adapted from the play of the same name. We round off the evening with another episode of Look, Stranger about a family of shrimp fishermen from Morcambe Bay, followed by the ninth episode of Micro Live to take us to closedown.

4.00 The Pink Panther – Pink Punch/Pink Pistons
4.15 Top Cat – S01E24 Choo-Choo Goes Ga-Ga
4.40 Rugrats – S02E03 Chuckie vs. The Potty
4.50 Rugrats – S02E04 Together at Last
5.05 Recess – S02E04 Operation Field Trip
5.15 Hey Arnold!…