This special retro show will bring us into the new year! Built around archive BBC programming from New Years Eve 1982, programmes include the 1977 John Betjeman film The Queen's Realm, childrens drama Ghost in the Water, the Hammer horror film Hands of the Ripper (1971) starring Angharad Rees and the Old Grey Whistle Test end of year show. We finish off with Michael Aspel bringing in the new year!

6.00 Flouncer's …

5:30 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 20)

5:55 Captain Butler (episode 1) *NEW

6:20 Nathan For You (series 1, episode 1) *NEW

6:45 Inside No. 9 – ‘The Stakeout’ (series 5, episode 6)

7:15 Face Off – ‘Scene of the Crime’ (series 3, episode 10)

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7:55 FILM: Little Otik (2000)

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Join me today at 5pm as we literally kill the festivities stone dead with double bill of Ghost Stories For Christmas, followed by 1974's proto-slasher classic, Black Christmas.

5:00: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1971)

Award winning animation by Richard Williams.

5.25: Frosty The Snowman (1969)

Classic Rankin Bass TV special from 1969

5.55: The Small One (1978)

Disney short directed by Don Bluth, possibly the most maudlin Christmas cartoon of all …

  • 6.00 People Just Do Nothing S01E01
  • 6.30 People Just Do Nothing S01E02
  • 7.00 People Just Do Nothing S01E03
  • 7.30 People Just Do Nothing S01E04
  • 8.00 Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - 2006 Christmas Special
  • 8.30 Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - 2007 Christmas Special
  • 9.00 Pennis From Heaven
  • 10.00 Big Night (1996)

4pm Transformers – Season 1 Episode 5 – Roll For It

4.20 Thundercats – Season 1 Episode 5 – Pumm-Ra

4.45 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Season 1 Episode 5 – Shredder And Splintered

5.05 Count Duckula – Series 1 Episode 5 – Restoration Comedy

5.30 Eerie Indiana – Episode 5 – Americas Scariest Videos

5.50 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – Season 1 Episode 5 – Different Drum

6:10 Batman – Season …

I ho-ho-hope you'll be able to join me for a festive Friday frolick through Christmas specials from days gone by. Starting at midday, this bumper broadcast will bring yuletide cheer to even the saddest of old cunts.

12.00 Tom Green Public Access Christmas Special 1995
1.00 Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
2.30 Bullseye - 1990 Christmas Special
3.00 Grange Hill 1985 Christmas Special
3.30 Flouncer's Festive Music Show
4.30 Minder - An Officer and …

Tonight we have a special Christmas retro show, mostly themed around Christmas Eve 1998! Kicking off at 4pm with a festive music show, we have some schools and childrens stuff with a wintry twist. In the evening, we have a House Party from CaB favourite Neol, a dramatic yuletide Eastenders, then some news and a Jonathan Creek Christmas special starring Rik Mayall! We then finish off the evening with Tim Burton's Edward …

6:00 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 19)

6:25 Da Ali G Show – ‘Realness’ (series 3, episode 6)

6:50 Face Off – ‘Junkyard Cyborg’ (series 3, episode 9)

7:35 Inside No. 9 – ‘Thinking Out Loud’ (series 5, episode 5)

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8:00 FILM: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

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OTHTV 2021 shit or bust

wedged between the sweaty bag of bollocks that was 2020 and the shit filled abyss that's apparantly round the corner, is a slice of abnormal normality with OTHTV, right here on the CaBTV network.

  • 1900 - the starlost episode 2/16
  • 2000 - Jake's Progress end of series
  • 2100 (i think) - Swift and Shift Couriers end of series 1
  • 2130 (assuming Swift and shift is on at 9) - History Bites
  • 2200 (again assuming timings …