18:00 – Opening music.

18:03 – Sky – S01E02 – Juganet – More HTV children’s science fantasy weirdness, written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin. This week, Arby’s sister Jane finds them. Sky tries to explain that the world is treating him as an infection and trying to expel him: he needs to find a Juganet to enable him to return to his own time. First broadcast on Mon 14th April 1975.

18:27 – Star Trek (The Original Series) – S01E03 – Where No Man Has Gone Before – Continuing our full run of the classic SF series, this was the unprecedented-in-TV-history second pilot, produced in 1965 after the first pilot, “The Cage”, was rejected by NBC. Reportedly, Lucille Ball, who owned Desilu Productions (where the pilot was produced), persuaded NBC management to consider a second pilot, thereby exercising a special option agreement it had with Desilu, because she liked Gene Roddenberry and believed in the project. Some sources say that she actually put up the money for it herself.

This slightly-reedited-from-the-original-second-pilot version of the episode (see Wikipedia for full details) was eventually broadcast third in sequence in the USA,…

SP-TV STARTS AT 5:20 TODAY

In the meantime, here’s a pre-show stream in the form of one of the best mixes I’ve ever heard, accompanied by a stroll around Newcastle.

18:00 – Intro music.

18:03 – The Story of Maths: 4. To Infinity and Beyond – Radio Times: “Marcus du Sautoy concludes his investigation into the history of mathematics with a look at some of the great unsolved problems that confronted mathematicians in the 20th century.

After exploring Georg Cantor’s work on infinity and Henri Poincare’s work on chaos theory, he looks at how mathematics was itself thrown into chaos by the discoveries of Kurt Godel, who showed that the unknowable is an integral part of maths, and Paul Cohen, who established that there were several different sorts of mathematics in which conflicting answers to the same question were possible.

He concludes his journey by considering the great unsolved problems of mathematics today, including the Riemann Hypothesis, a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers. A million-dollar prize and a place in the history books await anyone who can prove Riemann’s theorem.” First broadcast Mon 27th Oct 2008, 21:00 on BBC4.

19:01 – Paperplay – The only other one of these I could find on YouTube. Hopefully the other 180(!) episodes are out there somewhere,…

17:20. First Ever Countdown Episode Ever. The very first show shown on C4 and featuring one of the most miserable contestants seen in a tv game show (it took five episodes to dislodge the bastid).

17:50. Starfleet E01 and E02. Yes I’m showing two episodes. My show my rules. Japanese puppet show.. in spaaaaaaaaace.

18:40. The High Chaparral – Destination Tucson. TV Western serial that ran from 1967 to 1971. Typical cliched cowboy shite yes… but lads, its got Cameron Mitchell on a horse! Also… the first minute or so is dubbed into German.. just go with it.

20:20 Moonbase 3 – Departure and Arrival. Realistic science fiction created by Barry Letts, and amongst others starred that fella from Dear John. Lasted six episodes.

21:15 Survivors – The Fourth Horseman. Covid19 70s – shat me right up as a kid did this, especially the opening titles.

22:05 FarScape Premier. “My name is John Crichton, An astronaut, A radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole,…

ran as nothing else was happening

• 18:40 – Strange Paradise – ep94
• 19:05 – Jupiter Moon ep90
• 19:30 – Lads Army s1 ep6
• 20:15 – American Gladiators s1 ep19*
• 21:00 – battlebots 2015 s1 final
• 21:40 – Prisoner Cell Block Hs2 ep58
• 22:30 – within these walls s4 ep3

Good afternoon and welcome to the first installment of my regular Monday stream. Seeing as it’s a Bank Holiday, I will be starting earlier than usual with some extra Bank Holiday treats. Going forward, my regular stream will be as from Sky onwards, normally starting at 6pm, although sometimes it might be preceded by a musical train journey (I ran out of time today, otherwise there would have been one preceding Tiswas). Hope you enjoy!

TL;DR:

15:30 – Opening Music.
15:33 – Tiswas – The Best of the Best Bits
16:25 – Pixies – On the Road
16:55 – Pixies – Gouge
17:45 – Sky – S01E01 – Burning Bright
18:10 – Star Trek (The Original Series) – S01E00 – The Cage
19:13 – Intermission
19:15 – …And Mother Makes Three – S01E01 – Simon’s Holiday
19:39 – Brass – S01E01
20:05 – Van der Valk – S01E01 – One Herring’s Not Enough
20:57 – FILM: Me Without You (2001)
22:40 – Soundbreaking – S01E01 – The Art of Recording
23:30 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Original Radio Series) – Fit the First
23:58 – Closedown music.…