This week we celebrate 50 years of Play For Today. On this day in 1970, the very first play was broadcast - The Long Distance Piano Player, starring Ray Davies. I will be broadcasting this at 9.20, the same time it originally went out (it even went out on a Thursday night, for optimal synchronicity).
In the afternoon we have some schools programming and a CITV block. After Star Trek, we take …
4:30 The Toys That Made Us - Lego
5:15 The Toys That Made Us – Hello Kitty
6pm Batman – Season 1 Episode 26 – Batman Sets The Pace
6:25 The Simpsons – Season 2 Episode 20 - The War Of Simpsons
6.45 King Of The Hill – Season 6 Episode 18 - Dang Ol' Love
7:10 South Park –Season 4 – Episode 11 - 4th Grade
7:35 The Twilight Zone – …
hogTV returns this Wednesday with another double-bill feature - Human Highway & True Stories, directed by and starring Neil Young and David Byrne respectively.
What can I say about these 2 films?
They're odd.
Human Highway is the oddest. It evades any kind of description, so instead I'll just tell you who's in it:
All the members of Devo (including Booji Boy), Dennis Hopper (Frank from Blue Velvet), Dean Stockwell (Al from Quantum Leap, …
During the evening of Wednesday (14/10/20), hedge will be presenting a replacement dish of hog TV in place of my regular Meatball TV serving. However, prior to that, in the afternoon, I will be doing a live commentary for John Carpenter's seminal horror masterpiece The Thing.
Other CAB TV crew are welcome to join on microphone for the commentary (provided that they are willing to stay on point and not start humming …
4.00: Rocket Robin Hood: Dr Mortula (Season 2, Episode 1)
4.25: Tom & Jerry #052 – Tom & Jerry In The Hollywood Bowl
Tom conducts a symphony at the Hollywood Bowl, but Jerry destroys the concert.
4.32: Knightmare: Series 5, Episode 02
4.57: The Mysterious Cities Of Gold – The Manuscript (Series 1, Episode 24)
Tao goes back into the underground grotto to study the mystery of the jade mask.
5.25: Noggin The Nog – Noggin And The Ice Dragon (Episodes 1 - …
Really disorganised this week; I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do this time. Might be a pseudo-Funbucket or maybe a special show? I dunno. I'll figure it out soon. There will definitely be something, and I'll start at 4pm as usual in any case.
This week we have an extensive schools block with some nice youth dramas. The second series of 3rd Rock From the Sun kicks off with the two part conclusion of last week's cliffhanger, and Louis meets Eugène Terre'Blanche in Weird Weekends. Today's main feature is a 1975 Play For Today about day to day life in a mental hospital - The Funny Farm, written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke. …
Scheduled thusly:
18:10 AMRAKUS - A Space Rock Opera Part 1 (pre-show). Earth has buggered up all its water, human people travel to the planet Amrakus to extract the water purifying element Trinogen. There is no way this is not a good idea.
18:30 Grass - Woody Harrelson narrates America's history with marriage-joanna. Features some wonderful archive footage from propaganda films, news reels, tv shows and interviews.
19:48 1950's LSD Experiment. An …
4:30 Transformers - The Master Builders
4:50 - Go-Bots
5:15 The Toys That Made Us – Transformers
6pm Batman – Season 1 Episode 25 – The Joke Trumps An Ace
6:25 The Simpsons – Season 2 Episode 19 - Lisas Subsitute
6.45 King Of The Hill – Season 6 Episode 17 - Fun With Jane And Jane
7:10 South Park –Season 4 – Episode 10 – Probably
7:35 The Twilight Zone …
