This week’s theme year is 1998. As always we start off at 4pm with some Ceefax, schools and kids programming. After our usual shows we’ll have an edition of University Challenge, followed by a short film made as part of the BBC’s 10X10 series. The news precedes tonight’s main event, a Play For Today from 1980 – The Flipside of Dominick Hide, in which Peter Firth stars as a time traveller from the future, visiting London in search of an ancestor. In the true spirit of depressing documentaries this will be followed by an edition of Panorama about ubernonce Sidney Cooke, made shortly before the ill-fated decision to put him aboard a rocket and fire him into space. The evening concludes with a weather report and closedown.

4.00 Ceefax
4.30 The Pink Panther
4.40 ITV Schools: Good Health – Look After Yourself
4.55 ITV Schools: Stop Look Listen – Vets
5.05 ITV Schools: Stop Look Listen – Ambulance Service
5.15 ITV Schools: Over to You – Dreams
5.30 ITV Schools: Leapfrog
5.45 ITV Schools: Middle English – Interference (Episode 2)
6.00 CBBC: Popeye
6.10 CBBC: Blue Peter – 40th Anniversary Special
6.35 Neighbours
7.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E23 We’ll Always Have Paris
7.50 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E15 I Enjoy Being a Dick
8.20 University Challenge
8.50 10X10: Too Fast
9.00 BBC Nine O’Clock News
9.40 Play For Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide
11.10 Panorama: Sidney Cooke
11.50 Weather and Closedown

The Evening’s Schedule

5:00 Let’s Play Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within (Part 16)

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6:30 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 4)

6:55 Da Ali G Show – ‘Neil Hamilton’ (series 1, episode 1)

7:30 Black Mirror – ‘Be Right Back’ (series 2, episode 1)

8:15 Face Off – ‘Waterworld’ (series 2, episode 2)

9:00 Inside No. 9 – ‘The Bill’ (series 3, episode 2)

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?!?! – STEAMED HAMS!!!

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9:30 Ghostbusters (1984)

Feature Presentation

Ghostbusters (1984)

In this classic comedy film, a team of four men form a ghost hunting business in New York City, right around the time that a catalytic event of epic supernatural proportions is set into motion. Featuring an all-star cast including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis.

“Whilst there are laughs to be had, one has to question the state of cinema, and perhaps even humanity as a whole, when grown adults are flocking in droves to watch a silly movie about ghosts in Manhattan.…

This Friday’s film will be Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989), a comedy drama focusing on a hot summer day, in a Brooklyn neighbourhood bristling with racial tension.

4.00 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Block
6.00 Cowboy Bebop – Session 14: Bohemian Rhapsody
6.25 Minder – S05E06 The Long Ride Back to Scratchwood
7.15 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer – S02E05 Muscle Chemicals
7.45 Alexei Sayle’s Stuff – S03E05
8.15 Ads Infinitum – S02E04 British Cuisine (Kewzeen)
8.25 Trailer Park Boys – S01E04 Mrs. Peterson’s Dog Gets Fucked Up
8.55 Limmy’s Show – S02E05
9.25 The Young Ones – S01E05 Interesting
9.50 Peep Show – S06E05 The Party

Tonight’s Film
10.20 Do The Right Thing (1989)

4-6pm Deletes Music Show

6pm Batman – Season 1 Episode 15 – The Joker Goes To School

6:25 The Simpsons – Season 2 Episode 9 – Itchy &Scratchy & Marge

6.45 King Of The Hill – Season 6 Episode 9 – The Bluegrass Is Always Greener

7:10 South Park –Season 3 Episode 14 – Worldwide Recorder Concert (last episode of eason 3)

7:35 The Twilight Zone – Season 4 – Episode 7 – Jess Belle

8:25 One Foot In The Grave – Series 4 Episode 7 One foot In The Algarve

10.00 Goodnight Sweetheart – Series 3 Episode 2 – It Ain’t Necessarily So

10.25 I Love Lucy –Season 2 Episode 13 – Lucy Hires An English Tutor

10:50 Twin Peaks – Season 3 – Episode 10

11:50 – Arm Chair Thriller – Fear Of God Episode 3-4

A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult – throwing herself from the roof of the building where he is also living in an apartment.…

4.00: Rocket Robin Hood: Follow The Leader

4.25: Tom & Jerry #042 – Heavenly Puss

Tom is refused entry to cat heaven due to his record of trying to harm Jerry.

4.32: Knightmare: Series 4, Episode 08

4.57: The Mysterious Cities Of Gold – Esteban’s Medallion (Series 1, Episode 14)

Esteban and his friends now know where the City of Gold is, but first they have to get back Mendoza’s half of the pendant.

5.22: The Witches And The Grinnygog – Episode 3

5.47: Futurama: The Problem With Popplers (Season 2, Episode 18)

The Planet Express crew discovers a delicious snack food on a remote planet, but Leela has a change of heart when she discovers a disturbing fact about the snack food that endangers Earth.

6.10: The Prisoner: Dance Of The Dead (Episode 2)

Note: For decades there’ve been many arguments in Prisoner fan circles about what the “correct” episode order is, I’ve gone with a revised episode order which is why this deviates from the official episode sequencing.…

This week Cowboy Bebop returns with a two parter, and we pick up where we left off with Peep Show. Our film will be Brassed Off (1996), starring Pete Postlethwaite, Ewan McGregor and Tara Fitzgerald.

4.00 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Block
6.00 Cowboy Bebop – Sessions 12 & 13: Jupiter Jazz, Parts I and II
6.50 Minder – S05E05 Second Hand Pose
7.40 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer – S02E04 Clothes
8.10 Alexei Sayle’s Stuff – S03E04
8.40 Trailer Park Boys – S01E03 Mr. Lahey’s Got My Porno Tape
9.05 Limmy’s Show – S02E04
9.35 The Young Ones – S01E04 Bomb
10.05 Peep Show – S06E04 – The Affair

Tonight’s Film
10.35 Brassed Off (1996)