16:00 – Coming Up On Cab TV…
Your schedule of programmes for this afternoon and evening,
16:05 – Speed Racer
The Desperate Desert Race – Part I (14/52)
High speed cartoon thrills. Speed is forced into a duel-race in the desert with Prince Kim Jugger, the wildest driver in the world.
16:30 – Tom and Jerry
Pup On A Picnic (1955)
Cartoon antics with the cat and mouse duo. Spike and Tyke are having a picnic, but several inconveniences occur
16:40 – Knightmare
Series 7 (12/15)
The technological adventure game continues. Will Julie, Helen, Samantha and Helen survive the dungeon’s traps?
17:00 – Ulysses 31
The Kingdom Of Hades (26/26)
Cartoon sci-fi adventuring based on the myths of Ancient Greece. In the final episode, Ulysses and his companions reach the Kingdom of Hades. They meet Orpheus, who seeks Ulysses’ help to find his love, Eurydice, who has been taken to the Kingdom of Hades by Charon.
17:25 – Sykes
Journey (Series 1, 14/16)
Comedy. Eric and Hattie enjoy a holiday in Scotland with Mr Brown, but after they speed home on the sleeper, they end up in Darlington.
17:55 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Scott of the Antarctic (Series 2, 10/13)
Surreal sketch comedy. Foam-rubber snow and a stuffed lion are featured in a scene from “Scott of the Antarctic”; a football match is waged between gynecologists and Long John Silver impersonators.
18:25 – Blake’s 7
Ultraworld (Series 3, 10/13)
Sci-fi action drama. The Liberator comes across a mysterious artificial planet that Cally is drawn to and the rest of the crew chase after her; except for Vila who stays behind with Orac. The others find the world to be one massive computer system ran by a group of aliens called the Ultra who wipe the minds of trespassers and turns them into slave “menials”, or processes them for food.
19:15 – M*A*S*H
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Season 5, 4/25)
Comedy series set in the Korean War. An explosion causes Hawkeye to go blind.
19:40 – The Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin
Series 3, 7/7
Comedy. Reggie is offered a job at Amalgamated Aerosols, but the sweet smell of success still eludes him.
20:10 – Shoestring
Listen To Me (Series 1, Episode 5)
Offbeat crime drama series. Adamant that her husband Harry was wrongly jailed for killing a shop assistant during a jeweller’s shop robbery, Mel Shepherd threatens to jump from Radio West’s roof unless Eddie finds the real murderer.
21:00 – Life On Mars
Series 1, 6/8
Drama series about a detective who suffers a car accident and wakes up in 1973. A hostage situation becomes personal for Sam when the hostage-taker’s deadline coincides with the deadline for switching off his life-support machine in 2006.
22:00 – Film: Under The Silver Lake (2018)
Comedy thriller written, produced and directed by David Robert Mitchell. Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.