16:00 – Pipkins

Hartley The Leader (07/04/77)

Cowboys (26/09/77)

16:30 – Seal Of Neptune

Episode 1 – The Discovery

The Seal of Neptune is a children’s programme created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, also known for their works Ivor the Engine and Clangers. It was broadcast on BBC Television in 1960. Its plot featured the adventures of a seahorse and a shrimp and was similar in animation style to Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog. It was followed in 1963 by a sequel called The Mermaid’s Pearls.

16:40 – Flash Gordon (1936)

Episode 1 – Planet Of Peril

The planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. Dr. Alexis Zarkov takes off in a rocket ship to Mongo with Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as his assistants. They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena. Ming’s daughter, Princess Aura, tries to spare Flash’s life.

17:00 – Liquid Television

Season 1 Episode 2 –

Open: John Denver PSA
Winter Steele “Eat Crow”
Invisible Hands
Stick Figure Theatre “Mister Alfred Hitchcock”
Rocky (by Malcolm Bennett)
Footwork “Dog Flirting”
Dog Brain (by J. Falconer)
Dangerous Puppets
Cut-Up Camera “Aerobics Instructor”
Excerpt from Joy Street
Weird (by Derek Philips)
Æon Flux
Psycho-Gram “Hostage” (serialized throughout episode)

17:25 – Duckman

Season 1 Episode 2 – T.V. or Not to Be

Duckman is hired by a televangelist to find a missing painting and has a near-death experience after being captured and suffocated with cellophane.

17:50 – Spiderman

Episode 02 – Mysterious World! The Man Who Follows His Fate

When a train suspiciously overturns, Takuya believes Professor Monster and the Iron Cross Army are responsible, while flashbacks reveal the tragic details surrounding Garia’s arrival on Earth and the transfer of power to Takuya.

18:15 – Monkey

Series 1 Episode 2 – Monkey Turns Nursemaid

Buddha sends a messenger to find a holy man to make the journey from China to India. She chooses the boy priest and bestows upon him the name Tripitaka. Joined by the irrepressible Monkey – with his magic wishing staff and magic powers.

18:55 – Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Episode 03 (Jan 07, 1976)

Young Heather Hartman displays suspicious behaviour when asked about the recent murders; Grampa Larkin is arrested again.

19:20 – Soap

Series 1 Episode 2

Mary has lunch with Jessica and finds out about her affair. Danny gets told by the mob boss that he has to kill the man who killed his father. Jody dresses up in his mother’s clothes and tells his mother he wants to have a sex change operation. Burt is reunited with one of his long lost sons. Chester is being blackmailed by his secretary for trying to end their affair.

19:45 – Babylon 5

Season 1 Episode 2 – Soul Hunter

A mysterious alien who steals the souls of the living arrives on the station, putting Delenn’s life in danger.

20:30 – Wild Palms

Episode 1 – Everything Must Go

Wild Palms is a five-hour miniseries which first aired in May 1993 on the ABC network in the United States. The sci-fi drama, announced as an “event series”, deals with the dangers of politically motivated abuse of mass media technology and virtual realities in particular. It was based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. Wagner, who also wrote the screenplay, served as executive producer together with Oliver Stone. The series stars James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, Bebe Neuwirth, David Warner, and Angie Dickinson. The episodes were directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon, Peter Hewitt and Phil Joanou.

22:00 – Columbo: Ransom For A Dead Man

Leslie Williams (Lee Grant), a brilliant and ruthless lawyer, murders her husband Paul (Harlan Warde) to get his money, arranging the act to look as if he had been kidnapped and killed by his captors.

23:40 – Closedown