What fresh hell awaits us this Friday? Tune in and find out. The Funbucket proper is on hiatus until the 6th of November, when the new shows will come in and we can get back to normality. Until then I'll be doing a few special Friday shows. The show will begin at 4pm, as usual.
12:00 - Didn't They Do Well
12:30 - Sunday Night At The London Palladium (1961)
13:20 - Whittaker's World Of Music (1971)
14:00 - Bruce Forsyth's Big Night In (1978)
15:40 - An Audience With Bruce Forsyth
16:40 - Bruce Forsyth On Sammy Davis Jnr
17:30 - Sammy And Bruce (1980)
18:30 - Mr Entertianment (2017)
19:30 - Bruce Forsyth - A Comedy Roast (2010)
20:20 - Slingers Day
20:45 - Play …
without going into too much detail, tonight is unfortunately off we'll resume next week
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.
