continuing the 1993 memphis TV weirdness with the WWF invasion of the USWA.
the back end of march and the 3rd of april.
i've added a little bonus of the wwf programme from the 3rd of april at the end.
there'll be roughly a 10 minute break between this and Sepulchre (i'll be resetting everything after i finish)
16:00
DS9
Season 1 - Episode 19
16:45
Doctor Who
Revenge Of The Cybermen - Episode 3
17:10
Grange Hill
Series 8 - Episode 18
17:35
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Series 1 - Episode 4
18:05
The Saturday Night Armastice
Series 1 - Episode 4
18:35
Sooty
Series 11 - Episode 06 - Rabbit Trap
18:55
Brian Pern
Season 1 - Episode 01
19:15
The Trip
Series 4 …
right then... the last night of me being wired up to the machines tonight, with the current hiatus of regular saturday programming, i thought for one week only i'd roll all 3 strands of stuff into one handy saturday shaped bonanza.
so... from 12:00 we'll have USWA's programming from march of 1993:
for anyone who's been following along the write ups or the programming, we're currently seeing the local memphis wrestling programme …
Damo is off this week having shampoo squirted into his eyes or something, so I'm filling in with some gaming action! Hedge and K should be around for Red Dead Online to do some trader role stuff (and no doubt some badass desperado mischief thrown in). If anyone else wants to get involved they are welcome to: Rocket League, Golf With Your Friends, GTA etc. are all on the cards and I'd …
16:00
Mork & Mindy
Season 1 - Episode 15
16:25
The Phil Silvers Show
Season 4 - Episode 05
16:50
Taxi
Season 4 - Episode 20
17:15
Cheers
Season 5 - Episode 24
17:40
Community
Season 2- Episode 08
18:00
Malcolm In The Middle
Season 5 - Episode 14
18:25
Muppets Tonight
Season 2 - Episode 06 - Paula Abdul
18:50
Dilbert
Season 1 - Episode -12
19:15
Harvey Bird Man
…
This week's film is Ron Howard's Backdraft (1991), starring Kurt Russell, Donald Sutherland and Robert DeNiro. A serial arsonist is on the loose - two brothers working alongside each other in the Chicago Fire Department must put aside their differences as they fight to stop the carnage.
4.00 Takeshi's Castle S01E38
4.25 St. Elsewhere S02E05 A Wing and a Prayer
5.15 Hill Street Blues S03E01 Trial by Fury
6.00 Cagney & Lacey S04E04 Old Debts
6.50 …
17:35 – Sheepy's opening caption and music.
17:40 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
17:45 – Only When I Laugh – S02E05 – The Visitors – A sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV, written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp, Home to Roost). It stars Christopher Strauli as Norman, a rather naive middle-class man who is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout called Figgis (James Bolam) and …
The White Shadow will be bumped this week to acommodate a M.A.N.T.I.S. two parter: Thou Shalt Not Kill/Revelation.
4.00 Dragnet S01E11 The Big Shooting
4.25 CHiPs S01E11 Name Your Price
5.15 Barney Miller S01E11 Escape Artist
5.40 Night Court S01E11 Harry and the Rock Star
6.05 Sanford and Son S01E11 TV or Not TV
6.50 M.A.N.T.I.S. S01E10/11 Thou Shalt Not Kill/Revelation
8.20 Star Trek: Voyager S01E14 Faces
9.05 TekWar S01E05 Stay of Execution
9.50 The Outer Limits S01E08 Living Hell
10.35 …
With Halloween firmly behind us, we move onto the third instalment of the franchise so stupendously bad it can't hang onto a lead for more than one film - Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994). In a desolate straight-to-video future where the corporations that created them have fallen apart, cyborgs are now hunted down and stripped for parts like Mk. 3 Escorts. A recast Cash Reese (Khrystyne Haje) inexplicably becomes pregnant, and must …
a few weeks ago we started out venture into the bizarro world era of pro wrestling known as "McMemphis" where Vince McMahon and the WWF (at the time) "invaded" Jerry Lawler's Memphis promotion USWA.
The USWA was in the process of becoming a "feeder territory" to the WWF - that is, a place where wrestlers would go while they were honing their skills and the creative team were preparing something for them …
