4:50 pm Nirvana Live At The Paramount (1991)

6pm Batman – Season 1 Episode 7 – Instant Freeze

6:25 The Simpsons – Season 2 Episode 1 – Bart Gets An F

6.45 King Of The Hill – Season 6 Episode 1 – Bobby Goes Nuts

7:10 South Park –Season 3 Episode 7 – Jewbilee

7:35 The Twilight Zone – Season 5 – Episode 3 – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

8.00 Secret Life Of Machines – Series 3 Episode 5 – The Photocopier

8:25 One Foot In The Grave – Series 3 Episode 5 – The Trickster On The Roof

8.55 Goodnight Sweetheart – Series 2 Episode 4 – Who’s Taking Your Home Tonight

9.25 I Love Lucy –Season 2 Episode 5 – The Operetta

9.50 Twin Peaks – Season 3 – Episode 1-2

This week’s retro block features continuity, news and other ephemera (mainly) from the mid nineties. We’ll be warming up with some Pages From Ceefax at 4, then at 5pm there will be a compilation of interviews and musical performances from the BBC’s perennial magazine programme Pebble Mill, including such luminaries as Ant and Dec, Paul Shane and Ted Chippington. This week’s schools/CBBC block features the second episode of Geordie Racer.

We continue with our usual shows at 7pm. At 9pm we have an episode of Eastenders, preceding tonight’s main feature, which serves to warm us up for tomorrow night’s showing of Kes. The Price of Coal (a Play for Today written by Barry Hines and directed by Ken Loach) starts at 9.30pm. This week in part one, Meet the People, we are introduced to the workers and management of a coal mine on the outskirts of Barnsley, who are busy making preparations for an upcoming visit from Prince Charles. The concluding part, Back to Reality, will be shown next week.

To cap the night off,…

Another unoccupied and beckoning Wednesday slot, another del/hog replacement stream.

Same deal as last week – Del will start things off at 5pm and hogTV will take over at 8pm.

Continuing a theme from last week’s stream, tonight I’ll be showing the Jacques Becker classic, Le Trou. Subjectively and objectively the best prison escape film ever made. If you haven’t seen it before you’re in for a treat.

Deletes Retro Replacement

5:00 – Woof

5:25 – The Sooty Show – Sleep Walking

6:00 – X – Fire

6:50 Bloody Kids (1980)

Director:

Stephen Frears

Writers:

Stephen Poliakoff (original idea), Stephen Poliakoff (screenplay)

Stars:

Derrick O’Connor, Gary Holton, Richard Thomas | See full cast & crew »

The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene),…

4.20pm The Big TNT Show (1966)

The Big T.N.T. Show is a 1966 concert film. Directed by Larry Peerce and distributed by American International Pictures, it includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England.

A sequel to 1964’s The T.A.M.I. Show,^[1] and, like it, executive produced by Henry G. Saperstein,^[2] The Big T.N.T. Show was likewise shot on videotape and transferred to 35-millimeter film.^[1][3] Some footage from it was reused in the film That Was Rock^[3] a.k.a. The T.A.M.I. / T.N.T. Show (1984).^[4]

The concert was shot before a live audience at the Moulin Rouge (originally opened in 1938 as the Earl Carroll Theater) club^[5] at 6230 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles,…

4.00: Rocket Robin Hood: Wily Giles (Season 1, Episode 7)

Robin recounts how he first met Giles and how the diminutive, and ornery, old man came to be the cook for him and the Merry Men.

4.25: Tom & Jerry #034 – Kitty Foiled

Tom subjects Jerry to his usual harassment; but the cat finds a new enemy, and the mouse finds a new friend, in the canary of the house.

4.32: Knightmare: Series 3, Episode 16 (Series 3 Finale)

4.57: The Mysterious Cities Of Gold – The Abduction Of Zia (Season 1, Episode 5)

The heroes are marooned on an island they think is deserted, until they discover it has one strange inhabitant.

5.22: The Changes: Heartsease – Episode 7

Nicky and Jonathon escape from the village but the witch-finder and enraged villagers are in hot pursuit.

5.47: Futurama: Put Your Head On My Shoulders (Season 2, Episode 10)

After a horrendous accident requires his body to be rebuilt, Fry’s head is attached to the shoulder of a co-worker while Bender opens a dating service just in time for Valentine’s Day.…

In contrast to the sort of stuff I’ve been showing in the film slot of late, this Friday’s show will conclude with a sojourn into the gritty world of late sixties social realism with two Ken Loach films.

In the first film of the night, Kes (1969), we get a glimpse into the life of Billy Casper (played by David Bradley in his first ever acting role). Billy is a teenage boy suffering an abusive upbringing in a deprived mining town on the outskirts of Barnsley, with little to look forward to than a life of brutal drudgery at the local pit. Upon taking a kestrel from a nest, he develops a life-changing relationship with the bird and finds solace in training it, but the harsh realities of his situation are never far behind him. Also starring Brian Glover (also in his debut role) and Collin Welland in supporting roles as teachers at Billy’s school.

The evening concludes with Poor Cow (1967), in which Carol White stars alongside Terence Stamp. Featuring a Donovan soundtrack, the film was forged in Loach’s unorthodox, improvisational filmmaking style. Joy, a cockney working class woman on the cusp of adulthood,…

Starting with a bit of music, then a small Sheppey segment with Marooned, and Dockyard Church. There’s more advice for CABers with The Fun of Making Friends, and Magnetic River supplies a bit of science… with magnets!! Stink Bomb completes the anime anthology that is Memories. Dance comes to CABTV in the form of DV8’s Strange Fish. A bit of synth fun with Adult Swim’s Lords of Synth leads us into tonight’s movie: Living in Oblivion, starring CAB favorite Steve Buscemi, and finishing off with the next episode of The Life of a CABer Welcome to the NHK.

I hope there’s something in this little lot that you will enjoy.