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.

16:00 – Jelly Mountain Episodes 1 & 2

16:30 – Seal Of Neptune Episode 2 – The Sharks

16:40 – Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers Episode 02 – The Tunnel of Terror

17:00 – Liquid Television – Series 1 Episode 3

17:25 – Duckman Season 1 Episode 3 – Gripes Of Wrath

17:45 – Spiderman Episode 3

18:10 – Monkey Series 1 Episode 3

18:55 – Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Episode 4

19.20 – Alone Season 1 Episode 1

20.00 – Babylon 5 Season 1 Episode 3 – Born To The Purple

20:45 – Wild Palms – Episode 2

21:35 – Columbo – Season 1, Episode 1 – Murder By The Book

SCHEDULE CHANGE: Due to me finding Brass far less funny than I remember – and judging by how many people tuned out over the last two weeks when it was on, I’m not alone – I’ve moved it to the start of the evening. Normally I would just let the first series play out in its current slot before doing anything, but it turns out it’s 13 not 6 episodes per series, and I’m afraid that I don’t have that much patience! However this allows those who have been enjoying it (I know there’s one or two of you) to continue to watch…and who knows, maybe it will get better later on, I definitely remember it being funny at some point.

Meanwhile I will be replacing it with The Tomorrow People, the first two episodes of which got a fairly good response on my Fill-In stream last Friday. This will be going out before Star Trek, shifting the latter and …And Mother Makes Three 25m later.

17:32 – Opening music.

17:35 – …