17:57 – Opening music.

18:00 – Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity – Episode 2: The Age of Invention – Radio Times: “Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature’s most mysterious force – electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements. Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments – a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.

“Just under 200 years ago scientists discovered something profound, that electricity is connected to another of nature’s most fundamental forces – magnetism. In the second episode, Jim discovers how harnessing the link between magnetism and electricity would completely transform the world, allowing us to generate a seemingly limitless amount of electric power which we could utilise to drive machines, communicate across continents and light our homes.…

16:00 – Jelly Mountain – Episodes 3 & 4

A visit to the circus heralds arcane amusements, along with musings on old cuppas and paying with Fool’s Gold

16:29 – Seal Of Neptune Episode 3 – The Mermaid

Oliver Postgate tells the saga of Cyrus the small seahorse who sets out beneath the waves with his friend Shrimp to return the Seal of Neptune to its rightful owner.

16:38 – Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers Episode 03 – Captured By Shark Men

Flash stops the wedding ceremony, but he and Dale are captured by King Kala, ruler of the Shark Men and a loyal follower of Ming. At Ming’s order, Kala forces Flash to fight with a giant octosak in a chamber filling with water.

16:59 – Liquid Television – Series 1 Episode 4

Segments: Dental Health, Winter Steele: Ball of Communion, Jac Mac and Rad Boy: Go!, Footworks: Scoring, Dangerous Puppets, The Thing What Lurked in the Tub, Invisible Hands, Monk’s Purpose, Stick Figure Theater: Madonna in Express Yourself, Æon Flux, Psycho-Gram: Music Industry.

17:23 – Duckman – Season 1 Episode 4 – Psyche

Trying to feel more attractive,…

due to an emergency redeployment I’m unable to put anything together this week next week is my scheduled week off as well, so the Zeppelin will next fly on June 4th. I’ll be starting a bit earlier and doubling up on a few episodes of things from the main schedule to compensate.

what do you want to see doubled up?

Strange paradise/Jupiter Moon?

Lads army/American gladiators/deadliest warrior?

prisoner cell block H/within these walls?

let me know in the replies below.

Cheers

17:31 – Opening music.

17:34 – Brass – S01E04 – More Granada-made northern-drama-satirising comedy, starring Timothy West. This week, Lady Patience tells Bradley that his daughter is carrying on with a miner. Agnes tells George that the person Isobel is carrying on with is their son Jack. Bradley agrees to talk to the strikers and offers them a silent hooter – the strike is ended. George tests Bradley’s anti-tank boot which explodes, and Bradley manages a pit disaster, in which he knows Jack is involved. First broadcast on Mon 14th March 1983 by ITV.

18:00 – Sky – S01E04 – What Dread Hand – More HTV children’s science fantasy weirdness, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. This week, finding Sky unconscious, Arby, Jane and their friend Roy rush him to hospital, where his life is put in further danger by Goodchild. However, he may be closer to finding the location of the Juganet. First broadcast on Mon 28th April 1975 by ITV.

18:25 – The Tomorrow People – S01E04 – The Slaves of Jedekiah (Part 4/5) – The classic 1970s ITV children’s series about a group of teens with paranormal abilities,…

16:00 – Speed Racer

Race Around The World (51/52)

High speed cartoon thrills.

16:24 – Tom and Jerry

Pent-House Mouse (1963)

Pent-House Mouse is the inaugural Tom and Jerry short produced by Chuck Jones after being fired from Warner Bros. Cartoons, released in 1963. Production returned to Hollywood after five years (the previous 13 shorts were produced in Czechoslovakia and directed by Gene Deitch). It is the only cartoon to be produced in 1963.

16:31 – The Crystal Maze

Series 2 (10/13)

Crystal-hunting buffoonery hosted by Richard O’Brien

17:23 – Futurama

Spanish Fry (Season 4, 17/18)

Sci-fi comedy

17:44 – Sapphire And Steel

Assignment Four (Episodes 3-4)

Spooky sci-fi shenanigans.

18:32 – Space: 1999

The Infernal Machine (Season 1, 21/24)

Spooky sci-fi shenanigans (in space)

19:24 – M*A*S*H

Patient 4077 (Season 6, 16/25)

Comedy set during the Korean War.…

It’s Saturday night no-one works Saturday night you don’t work any night you don’t work any day skive hard play hard that’s my motto…

A bit of music, a bit of this, a bit of that – maybe not even anything at all.