16:57 – Opening music.

17:00 – Phineas and Ferb S02E60 – The Doof Side of the Moon – A random episode of the charming kids’ cartoon series about two ingenious little boys, their older sister, and the secret life of their pet platypus.

17:12 – The Tomorrow People S01E01 – The Slaves of Jedekiah (Part 1/5) – The classic 1970s ITV children’s series about a group of teens with paranormal abilities, who use their special gifts to battle evil. Wikipedia: “Stephen, up until now an ordinary schoolboy, suddenly collapses on a London street as the mental ordeal of “breaking out” begins. The three existing Tomorrow People (John, Carol and Kenny), aware of his ordeal, manage to make contact with him and guide him through the process, but are unable to keep him from being kidnapped by Ginge and Lefty, two Cockney thugs working for the mysterious Jedikiah, who wants the Tomorrow People for their psychic powers…” Yup, am giving this a go to see how it goes down. This first episode has a cute trailer for next week’s show on it, which I’d never seen before (I think Bravo must have chopped it off when they showed the series.) First shown on Mon 30th April 1973.…

• 16:00 – Bobo bo bo bobobo ep60
• 16:25 – moomins E13 The Trial of the Groke
• 16:30 – Jossys Giants s1 ep5
• 16:55 – RoadRunner Wile E Coyote ep42
• 17:05 – King Of The Castle ep6
• 17:30 – Beavis and Butthead s3 ep13
• 17:40 – Children Of The Dog Stars ep2
• 18:05 – Moral Orel s3 ep2
• 18:15 – I Think I’ve Got A Problem s1 ep2 (r)
• 18:45 – Strange Paradise ep95
• 19:05 – Jupiter Moon ep91
• 19:30 – Lads Army s1 ep7
• 20:20 – American Gladiators 2nd quarter final
• 21:00 – Deadliest Warrior s1 ep1
• 21:45 – Prisoner Cell Block H s2 ep59
• 22:30 – Within These Walls s4 ep4

as Battlebots series 1 concluded last wee, we’ll return to series 2 in a few weeks – rather than doubling up on Prisoner (that will happen when within these walls finishes) i thought i’d dg up some other form of non-human violence – Deadliest Warrior. part documentary, part pub discussion, part simulation, the last series of this garnered some attention for one of the hypothetical battles it staged in particular.…

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,…