18:00 – Sheepy’s opening caption, then music.
18:06 – Thames TV morning start-up music.
18:11 – Michael Bentine’s Potty Time S01E17 – On the Pirate Buses – a British children’s TV show, written by and starring Michael Bentine, and directed and produced by Leon Thau for Thames Television. This week, Mr. Bentine and the Potties head off to investigate the world of pirate buses. First broadcast on Mon 4th Mar 1974 by ITV. This is a fabulous piece of synchronicity! Only a week or so ago, somebody showed an old current affairs report about bus deregulation in the 1980s, and how it led to wars between rival bus companies on the South Coast. Well, nearly ten years earlier, here’s Mr. Bentine’s potty take on a similar war that was actually going on at the time, again on the South Coast!
18:22 – Ace of Wands S03E02/20 – The Meddlers: Part 2/3 – a British fantasy children’s television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972. It was created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television.…
