12:00 – 1978 NZ Music Industry documentary
Self explanatory
12:50 – Penn & Teller Home Invasion special
more mental magic based shenannigans
13:30 – SCTV Christmas Special 1982
Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and John Candy (AKA: Johnny Sweets) star
14:35 – Royal Canadian Air Farce Video Yearbook Vol 3
Canadian Sketch Comedy
scheduled to end at 15:45, may add a 5min extra in if anything springs to mind
Join me for some Christmas music, films and specials from years gone by. Schedule will be finalised soon.
Pour yourself a drop of brandy and prepare to get festive, with a special yuletide edition of the Throwback! We start at 4pm with some seasonal Ceefax, then move onto some kids programming with Watch and Play School. Festivities continue into the early evening with a gameshow gala of Bob’s Full House and Big Break. We join the staff of Easyjet for a Christmas episode of Airline, followed by an edition of Neol’s Christmas Presents from 1991. To finish off the TV block we join Moira Stewart for a BBC News report from Christmas Eve 1981.
I’m going to leave it open from 8pm onwards – depending on what transpires, there may be a film or two, some gaming, or more retro TV. We’ll see what happens!
4.00 Ceefax
4.15 BBC Schools: Watch – The Nativity (Parts 1 and 2)
4.50 Play School (1985 Christmas Special)
5.10 Bob’s Full House (1985 Christmas Special)
5.45 Big Break (1994 Christmas Special)
6.20 Airline
6.40 Neol’s Christmas Presents (1991)
7.40 BBC News
8.00 [TBA]
12:00 – The Wrestler 1974
The Wrestler is a 1974 independent film directed by Jim Westman, produced by professional wrestler Verne Gagne and W.R. Frank, starring Ed Asner as Frank Bass, a wrestling promoter. Verne Gagne also stars in the film as Mike Bullard, the current wrestling champion of his “league”. After a long reign as champion, Bullard is getting older and feeling pressure from all sides, including his wife and wrestling promoters, to pass the championship to Billy Taylor and retire. Bullard’s resistance to their requests that he step aside is the central conflict in the film. The film presents professional wrestling as a truly competitive sport, always maintaining the illusion that matches are a result of athletic combat and not pre-determined outcomes decided before the matches.
At one point during the film, a number of wrestlers who had either died during a match or as a result of in-ring injuries are mentioned. That list of names was not fictional, but taken from the history of professional wrestling.
13:40 – Hot Properties With Richard Belzer, Hulk Hogan And Mr. T
The full programme that “the clip” came from.…
Join me at 8pm for some festive gaming, then at 10pm we’re going to have an attempt at the Rocket League tournament.
16:00
DS9
Season 2 – Episode 04
16:45
Doctor Who
Terror Of The Zygons – Episode 4
17:10
Grange Hill
Series 9 – Episode 05
17:35
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Series 2 – Episode 3
18:05
The Friday Night Armastice
Series 2 – Episode 2
18:35
Sooty
Series 11 – Episode 12 – Cuddley Toy
18:55
Brian Pern
Season 2 – Episode 03
19:15
Charlie Brookers Screenwipe
Series 1 – Episode 2
19:45
Bellamy’s People
Episode 3
20:15
Task Master (New Zealand)
Series 03 -Episode 10
21:00
Snuff Box
Series 1- Episode 2
21:25
Spitting Image
Series 17 – Episode 03
21:50
Still Game
Hogmany
4.00 Dragnet S01E15 The Gun
4.25 CHiPs S01E15 Surf’s Up
5.15 Barney Miller S02E02 The Social Worker
5.40 Night Court S02E02 Christine and Mac
6.05 Sanford and Son S02E01 By the Numbers
6.50 The White Shadow S01E13 Mainstream
7.35 M.A.N.T.I.S. S01E15 The Sea Wasp
8.20 Star Trek: Voyager S02E02 Initiations
9.05 TekWar S01E09 Deadline
9.50 The Outer Limits S01E11 Dark Matters
10.35 Tales from the Darkside S01E07 Inside the Closet
Omnes Blotto! Starting at midday at 11:30am – along with Peter Sellers in the above “Showing with…” self-directed short from 1959, he stars this afternoon in The Mouse That Roared; joining The Mouse… and Sir Henry at Rawlinson End will be a “triple F” of Fantômas with his mad big blue face, F for Fake with Orson Welles and F/X: Murder by Illusion with Bryan Brown; accompanying the aforementioned will be Dean-o and gang in The Wrecking Crew for some reason, Kurt Russell wearing Tennis Shoes and the epic double-episode finale of The Venture Bros.’ second season.
Starting at 11:30 with a little music, we commence a day of films with:
11:40 – The Wrecking Crew (1968)
In this, the final of the four Matt Helm films featuring Dean Martin, very special agent Helm is tasked with foiling the evil Contini, half conman-half cocktail. Unsurprisingly, to do so he must travel the world and meet beautiful women – amongst them: Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate (tragically in her final role), Nancy Kwan, and Tina Louise.…
Schedule summary:
17:35 – Sheepy’s opening caption and music.
17:40 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
17:45 – Trailer for I Start Counting!
17:46 – FILM: Danger on Dartmoor (1980)
18:43 – Trailer for Black Narcissus
18:45 – FILM: I Start Counting! (1969)
20:31 – Trailer for Who Killed Teddy Bear
20:33 – FILM: Black Narcissus (1947)
22:14 – Short Film: Don’t Be Like Brenda (19xx)
22:22 – FILM: Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)
23:52 – Short Film: LSD: Insight or Insanity? (1968)
00:11 – Closedown music.
00:16 – Closedown.
Schedule Details:
17:35 – Sheepy’s opening caption and music.
17:40 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
17:45 – Trailer for I Start Counting!
17:46 – FILM: Danger on Dartmoor (1980) – a British Children’s Film Foundation drama film directed by David Eady and starring Marcus Evans,…
