Started off trying to build a themed schedule and eventually just gave up and settled for some seventies sci-fi shlock and a Derek Jarman double bill. Happy Crown Day, lads. Update: Soz Derek but QUBE ended up taking priority

17:00 – Music vids

17:22 – Rainbow – King For A Day

17:36 – Coronation Street

Episode 1 – 08/12/1960

18:01 – Film: Starship Invasions (1977)

Good aliens and a man (Robert Vaughn) who investigates UFOs thwart a bad alien (Christopher Lee) and his flying saucers hovering over Earth.

Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he’s breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved? Also FYI Sploff, Keato from Strange Paradise is in this as a farmer who gets abducted by the aliens.

19:30 – Talent Search – THE FINALS

20:17: QUBE Coverage and TV Shows

“This is a compilation of local and national coverage on QUBE, and a compilation of QUBE shows, mainly ‘Celebration’.

QUBE is a defunct experimental two-way, multi-programmed cable television system that played a significant role in the history of American interactive television. It was launched in Columbus, Ohio, on December 1, 1977. Highly publicized as a revolutionary advancement, the QUBE experiment introduced viewers to several concepts that became central to the future development of TV technology: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services.”

21:47: Film: The Dress (De Jurk) (1996)

The Dress or De jurk is a 1996 Dutch comedy film drama directed by Alex van Warmerdam.

The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, misery, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress and parade of lives. Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair by the dressmaker, the dress becomes a wheel of misfortune in extraordinary sequence of events that envelopes both the dress and those fatefully drawn into its universe. An aloof artist, a school girl, an unfulfilled maid, a borderline train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag. No one who comes in contact with the dress until it reaches its destination.