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...…

5pm Louie Bluie (1985)

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

Director:

Terry Zwigoff

Stars:

Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Jay Lynch

6pm Batman – Season 1 Episode 13 – The Thirteenth Hat

6:25 The Simpsons – Season 2 Episode 7 – Bart Vs Thanksgiving

6.45 King Of The Hill – Season 6 Episode 7 – Torch Song Hillogy

7:10 South Park –Season 3 Episode 12 – Mr Hankeys Christmas Classics

7:35 The Twilight Zone – Season 4 – Episode 5 – Mute

8:25 One Foot In The Grave – Series 4 Episode 5 – The Trial

8.55 Goodnight Sweetheart – Series 2 Episode 10 – Don’t Fence Me In

9.25 I Love Lucy –Season 2 Episode 11 – Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable

9.50 Twin Peaks – Season 3 – Episode 8

10:50 – Arm Chair Thriller – Dead Mans Kit Episodes 3-4

After shore-leave in Lisbon for the crew of HMS Diana,…

Next week I’m going to retire the film double bills. Fun as they’ve been, I’d like to change things around and pack a few more shows into the TV section, maybe bring some drama back. This week, the double bills will go out with a bang (or possibly several) with Snatch (2000) and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

4.00 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Block
6.00 Cowboy Bebop – Session 11: Toys in the Attic
6.25 Minder – S05E03 A Number of Old Wives’ Tales
7.15 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer – S02E02 Haircuts
7.45 Alexei Sayle’s Stuff – S03E02
8.10 Trailer Park Boys – S01E01 Take Your Little Gun and Get Out of My Trailer Park
8.35 Limmy’s Show – S02E02
9.05 The Young Ones – S01E02 Oil

Gruesome Geezers Double Bill
9.40 Snatch (2000)
11.20 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

5pm – Charley Says – A Compilation of Pifs

6:10 – An Audience With Billy Conolly (1985) Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.

7:50 – You Bet! (1989) You Bet! is a British game show that aired on ITV between 20 February 1988 and 12 April 1997, initially hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1988 to 1990, then by Matthew Kelly from 1991 to 1995 and finally by Darren Day from 1996 to 1997.

8:40 – Saturday Zoo (1993) Special guests are Carrie Fisher, Hulk Hogan and Dexys Midnight Runners. Saturday Zoo was a British alternative comedy and chat show series, featuring an eclectic mix of stand-up acts, interviews

and music. Hosted by Jonathan Ross, it ran for 13 episodes, beginning in January 1993, on Channel 4. It was apparently not well received due to Jonathan Ross being on just about everything at the time.

9:40 – Viva Cabret (1994) This episode features Tom Jones, The Doug Anthony Allstars, The Amazing Jonathan, Mark Thomas, Lily Savage,…