14:00 NSPCC Childrens TV Favourites VHS

Compilation of ten animated children’s adventures. The stories featured are: ‘Postman Pat: Postman Pat’s Birthday’; ‘The Shoe People: Can You Keep a Secret?’; ‘Paddington Bear: Please Look After This Bear’; ‘Fireman Sam: The Kite’; ‘James the Cat: Friends’; ‘Noddy: The Great Car Race’; ‘Wil Cwac Cwac: Honey’; ‘The Snowman: The Snowman’s Ball’; ‘SuperTed: SuperTed and the Stolen Rocket Ship’; and ‘Spot: Where’s Spot’.

15:05 Tales Of The River Bank VHS

Tales of the Riverbank, sometimes called Hammy Hamster and Once Upon a Hamster for the Canadian version, is a British children’s television show developed from a Canadian pilot. The original series was later broadcast on Canadian and U.S. television, dubbed by Canadian and American actors for the markets they were to be broadcast in.

15:40 The Story Makers And Other Stores VHS

The Story Makers is an educational children’s television programme that was broadcast on the BBC‘s pre-school digital television network, CBeebies.…

Things can only get better this week, with a 1997 themed stream charting the run-up to that year’s general election. We’ll start off with a bit of Ceefax as usual, before moving onto some BBC and ITV schools and childrens programming. The evening lineup will feature our usual shows plus a Have I Got News For You election special (you won’t believe who’s on Ian’s team), followed by the Nine O’Clock News. The evening’s main feature will be the star studded 1997 neo-noir film Cop Land, starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro. We finish off with a late night edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks from our themed year, featuring bad-tempered bass goblin Peter Hook and original Kochanski, Clare Grogan!

4.00 JobSearch (a film by the Mormon motion picture studio)
4.15 Pages From Ceefax
4.25 The Pink Panther Show: The Pink Pill
4.35 CBBC: Teletubbies
5.00 ITV Schools: Alive and Kicking – Families
5.20 ITV Schools: Stop, Look, Listen – Legoland
5.30 ITV Schools: Middle English – Interference (Episode 1)
5.45 CITV: Tots TV
5.55 CITV: My Parents are Aliens
6.30 Party Political Broadcast: Conservative Party
6.35 Neighbours – Episode 2677
7.00 Party Political Broadcast: Labour Party
7.05 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E22 Skin of Evil
7.55 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E14 The Dicks They Are a Changin’
8.25 Have I Got News for You (Election Special)
8.55 Party Political Broadcast: British National Party
9.00 BBC Nine O’Clock News
9.40 Party Political Broadcast: Liberal Democrats
9.45 Film: Cop Land (1997)
11.40 Never Mind the Buzzcocks
12.10 Party Political Broadcast: UK Independence Party
12.15 Closedown

16:30 Hype! (1996)

Documentary covering the growth and subsequent overexposure of the Seattle “grunge” music scene in the early 90s

6pm Batman – Season 1 Episode 14 – Batman Stands Pat

6:25 The Simpsons – Season 2 Episode 8 – Bart The Daredevil

6.45 King Of The Hill – Season 6 Episode 8 – Joust Like A Woman

7:10 South Park –Season 3 Episode 13 – Are You There God Its Me Jesus

7:35 The Twilight Zone – Season 4 – Episode 6 – Death Ship

8:25 One Foot In The Grave – Series 4 Episode 6 – Secret Of The Seven Sorcerers

8.55 Goodnight Sweetheart – Series 3 Episode 1 – Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (double length Christmas Episode)

9.50 I Love Lucy –Season 2 Episode 12 – Lucys Showbiz Swan Song

10:25 Twin Peaks – Season 3 – Episode9

11:15 – Arm Chair Thriller – Fear Of God Episode 1-2

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.…

The Evening’s Schedule

4:15 Music show

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5:00 Let’s Play Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within (Part 15)

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6:30 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 3)

7:00 Da Ali G Show – ‘Law’ (series 1, episode 1)

7:30 Black Mirror – ‘The Entire History of You’ (series 1, episode 3)

8:20 Face Off – ‘Return To Oz’ (series 2, episode 1)

9:20 Inside No. 9 – ‘The Devil of Christmas’ (series 3, episode 1)

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9:50 Under the Skin (2013)

Feature Presentation

Under the Skin (2013)

A film revolving around and about Scarlett Johansson walking around in the nip.

“A pretentious pile of wank; a film for people who like to think that they’re intelligent. Give me explosions, guns and tanks over this nonsense, any day.” ~ Percival Lebb (Rock, Shock & Drop magazine)

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As always, remember that start times are approximate,…

This week’s show will be vaguely centred around 1996. The early part of the show features and extensive ITV schools block.

After our usual shows, Louis will be spending some time with eccentric boxer Chris Eubank. Trevor McDonald will bring us News at Ten, then we’ll return to Denton as Frost endeavours to crack another case. Capping off the evening is an edition of Channel 4’s Equinox covering the catastrophic 1957 Windscale reactor fire.

4.00 Jobfinder
4.30 Picture Box: The Snow Children
4.45 Starting Science: Care and Maintenance
5.15 Stop Look Listen: Metal
5.25 Stop Look Listen: Crisps
5.35 The English Programme: The Tube – Three Days to Transmission
6.00 Leapfrog
6.15 Starting Out: Escapes
6.45 Neighbours – Episode 4011
7.10 BBC News
7.25 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E21 Symbiosis
8.10 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E13 Angry Dick
8.35 When Louis Met Chris Eubank
9.25 ITN News at Ten
10.00 A Touch of Frost – S02E01 A Minority of One
11.40 Equinox: Our Reactor is On Fire
12.30 Closedown

I know I said last week that I was going to retire the film double bills, but I’ve decided to do another one or two before I draw a line under them and revamp the TV block. A while back I had the idea of doing a Robin Williams double bill consisting of one comedy and one drama, so I’ve decided to go for that this week. At 9.15pm we’ll start off with Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), which has a superb soundtrack! One Hour Photo (2002), a tense thriller featuring a truly creepy performance from Williams, will conclude the evening.

Also, this week’s music show will be starting slightly early to accomodate a long background railway journey – to see the beginning you’ll need to turn up around 3.45pm.

Edit: I’ve decided to postpone Cowboy Bebop this week: the next session is the first of a two parter, so I’ll show both parts next week. It’ll probably work better that way, and this week’s show was running a bit late anyway.

3.45 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Block
6.00 Minder – S05E04 The Second Time Around
6.50 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer – S02E03 Toddlers
7.20 Alexei Sayle’s Stuff – S03E03
7.50 Trailer Park Boys – S01E02 Fuck Community College,…

The Evening’s Schedule

5:15 Let’s Play Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within (Part 14)

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6:30 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 2)

7:00 Hello Ladies: The Movie

8:20 Face Off – ‘Twisted Tales’ (series 1, episode 8)

9:10 Black Mirror – ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ (series 1, episode 2)

10:10 Inside No. 9 – ‘Seance Time’ (series 2, episode 6)

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10:45 The Greasy Strangler (2016)

Feature Presentation

The Greasy Strangler (2016)

An independent film which tends to divide opinion straight down the middle; a Marmite movie, if you will. The narrative focuses on a father and son who… uh… well, it’s quite difficult to provide a reasonable synopsis for this strange and off-kilter film but suffice to say that you can expect a veritable vat of grease and a strangler. Also, lots of naked arses.

“There’s not enough bleach in the world to scrub my eyes after being subjected to this horrendous film of sickening debauchery. It makes ‘I Spit on Your Grave’ and ‘The Human Centipede’ look like a Sunday tea party with the Waltons.” ~ Percival Lebb (Rock,…

Salute! It’s time for another Sploff TV, commencing 7PM on July 25th.

If you arrive 20 minutes early you can enjoy part two of the space rock opera Galactic Nightmare. A wizened old ‘immortal’ has arrived on the scene.

The show starts proper with the animation The Music Scene, followed by a short history of Sheppey’s Light Railway system, and another study on those 1950s American young people called The Snob. Have your copybooks ready.

Ever wondered how someone can die alone in a busy city and not be discovered for three years.? If so, Dreams of a Life is the documentary for you.

The two Alans next… first off Alan Moore takes us on a tour of his beloved Northampton in Don’t Let Me Die in Black and White, second off a classic Alan Bennett sketch: Take a Pew.

Tonight’s animated movie is Laputa Castle in the Sky, a classic from Studio Ghibli. And the show closes with episode four of Welcome to the NHK...…