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the Show #16 – Docümensch


Lots of documentaries, plus music, fun and film. I’ll be absent for the first hour or so, so remember to use a coaster.

16:00 – Spycops Like Us (audio)
\ A bonus item relating to the Show #15 – Alexei Sayle talks to a lawyer and Helen from the McLibel film about the details of UK spycops operations.

17:20 – Library music mix
\ Accompanied by a reassuring wall of vintage Ceefax.

17:45 – Henry’s Cat
\ Bob Godfrey’s cartoon that is much funnier than I ever recognised at the time.

18:00 – Crosswits
\ It’s a Crosswits crossover as two other gameshow hosts help Joe and Petunia Public win a very small amount of money.

18:25 – Bob Godfrey’s Do-It-Yourself Animation Show
\ Terry Gilliam, probably around the time that Flying Circus was still being made, humourously demonstrates cut-out animation for the benefit of young viewers.

18:40 – 20 Years Ago Today
\ 1984 documentary programme about the troubled 1964 launch of BBC2 and the channel’s early days.

19:20 – The Big Shilling
\ Ten minute documentary about a wrecking ball operator.…

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  • 16:00 – cartoon carnage
  • 16:55 – Radio bit – The people’s songs
    are friends electric – a dystopian vision
    shipbuilding – the falklands war

    evening viewing

  • 18:50 – Strange Paradise ep84 & 85
  • 19:35 – 30 Seconds ep3
  • 20:00 – Rutland Weekend Television s1 ep4
  • 20:30 – Muck & Brass ep2
  • 21:20 – Prisoner Cell Block H s2 ep46 & 47

16:00 – Welcome To Cab TV

16:04 – Speed Racer

The Dangerous Witness (42/52)

High speed cartoon thrills.

16:28 – Tom and Jerry

Landing Stripling (1962)

Disturbing knockabout hi-jinks with the popular East European Cat & Mouse Duo.

16:34 – The Crystal Maze

Series 2 (02/13)

Crystal-hunting buffoonery hosted by Richard O’Brien

17:23 – Futurama

Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles (Season 4, 09/18)

Sci-fi comedy

17:45 – Sapphire And Steel

Assignment Two (Episodes 1-2/8)

Spooky sci-fi shenanigans

18:35 – Space: 1999

Collision Course (Season 1, 13/24)

Spooky sci-fi shenanigans (in space)

19:27 – M*A*S*H

Change Day (Season 6, 8/25)

Comedy set during the Korean War.

19:52 – Ideal

The Money (Series 2, 8/8)

Manchester-based comedy series starring Johnny Vegas as small-time dope dealer Moz.…


18:30. The First Episode of Codename Icarus. A nefarious organization is recruiting smart kids to develop weapons tech for to sell on to the highest bidder. Cold War kids TV from the early ’80s.

19:05. The First Episode of Highway to Heaven. To combat all the sin in the world the Lord God Almighty sends to earth an angel with the smug smiling face of Michael Landon. In this his first mission he infiltrates an old people’s home that’s missing its regular Derke, and starts bothering the geriatrics.

20:40. The First Episode of Metal Mickey. It’s Metal Mickey. What else do you want me to say?

21:05. The First Episode of UFO. Bastard aliens are causing havoc, can the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation stop them? Who cares, there’s purple haired moon base women in shiny outfits.

21:55 The First Episode of The Water Margin. “Do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become a dragon?”

22:40.…


16:00

Spitting Image

Series 3 – Episode 09

16:25

Grange Hill

Series 4 – Episode 08

16:50

Captain Scarlet

Episode 29- Traitor

17:20

Doctor Who

The Sea Devils – Episode 6

17:40

Star Trek TNG

Season 5 – Episode 11 – Violations

18:25

The Kenny Everett TV Show

Series 2 – Episode 04

18:50

Kids In The Hall

Season 5 – Episode 10

19:15

Chronological Stewert Lee

This Morning With Richard Not Judy – Series 1 – Episode 7

20:00

Men Behaving Badley

Series 6 – Episode 4

20:30

Task Master

Series 6 – Episode 4-BMXing

21:10

Whoose Line Is It Anyway?…


As usual, the schedule may be subject to change towards the end of the evening.

16:30 – Intro Music

16:33 – Musical Train Journey – A cab-ride entitled 4K Cab ride from Schaffhausen over the Rhine Falls to Zürich (Switzerland _ S24 Thayngen – Zürich)” set to music from A.R. Kane, Throwing Muses, and Andrew Poppy.

17:37 – Assorted Music Videos

18:00 – Rainbow – more adventures with Geoffrey, Bungle, Zippy & co. Seems to be an aeronautical theme this time.

18:15 – The Story of Maths: 2. The Genius of the East – Radio Times: “Marcus du Sautoy looks at the rise of mathematics in the east, discovering how it helped build imperial China and finding out about the invention of algebra. When ancient Greece fell into decline, mathematical progress stagnated as Europe entered the Dark Ages, but in the east mathematics reached new heights. Du Sautoy visits China and explores how maths helped build imperial China and was at the heart of such amazing feats of engineering as the Great Wall.…


16:00

Get Smart

Season 1 – Episode 19-Back To The Old Drawing Board

16:25

The Phil Silvers Show

Season 1 – Episode 27 – The Big Uranium Strike

16:50

I Love Lucy

Season 5 – Episode 05 -The Great Train Robbery

17:20

Batman

Season 3 – Episode 05 – A Horse Of Another Color

17:45

The Muppet Show

Season 3 – Episode 03- Jean Stapleton

18:10

Cheers

Season 2 – Episode 13- Battle Of The Exes

18:35

Malcolm In The Middle

Season 1 – Episode 13- Rollerstakes

18:55

The Simpsons

Season 6 – Episode -03 – Another Simpsons Clip Show

19:20

King Of The Hill

Season 10 – Episode 12-24 HourProapene People

19:40

South Park

Season 9 – Episode 07 – Erection Day

20:00

The Sooty Show

ISuperstar

20:25

Chronological Harry Enfield

Harry Endfield And Chums – Series 2 – Episode 5

21:00

News Radio

Season 2 – Episode -06 – Friends

21:20

The Office

Season 2- Episode 07 -The Client

21:45

Seinfeld

Season 5 – Episode 13 – Dinner Party

22:05

The Larry Sanders Show

Season 1- Episode 13 -The Hey Now Episode

22:35

Look At Life

Digging Up The Past

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Monday Music Madness


A last minute fill-in as nothing planned for tonight – final line-up tbc

5:00 – Ben Folds Five – Live Sessions at West 45th

6:00 – The Cure – Live In The Netherlands (1980)

6:25 – David Bowie – Live on Musikladen (1978)

7:10 – Pink Floyd – Live on French TV 1968

7:25 – Young Guns Go For It: The Human League

7:55 – The Rock N’Roll Years – 1967

8:20 – The Old Grey Whistle Test – ‘The Story So Far’ – 350th Edition – 11/10/1980

10:20 – Alchemists Of Sound

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SP-TV Movie Double Bill


19:30 TerrorVision (19:30). A family’s new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.

21:05 Body Melt (1993). “The first phase is hallucinogenic… the second phase is glandular… and the third phase is AHH, GAWD !”

Please let us know if either of these have been shown before and I’ll swap out for another.


16:00 – Welcome To Cab TV

16:05 – Speed Racer

The Desperate Racer (41/52)

High speed cartoon thrills.

16:27 – Tom and Jerry

Mouse Into Space (1962)

Disturbing knockabout hi-jinks with the popular East European Cat & Mouse Duo.

16:34 – The Crystal Maze

Series 2 (01/13)

Crystal-hunting buffoonery hosted by Richard O’Brien

17:26 – Futurama

Crimes Of The Hot (Season 4, 08/18)

Sci-fi comedy

17:48 – Sapphire And Steel

Assignment One (Episodes 5-6/6)

Spooky sci-fi shenanigans

18:34 – Space: 1999

Voyager’s Return (Season 1, 12/24)

Spooky sci-fi shenanigans (in space)

19:26 – M*A*S*H

In Love And War (Season 6, 7/25)

Comedy set during the Korean War.

19:50 – Ideal

The Delivery (Series 2, 7/8)

Manchester-based comedy series starring Johnny Vegas as small-time dope dealer Moz.…