16:00 – Coming Up On Cab TV…

Your schedule of programmes for this afternoon and evening,

16:02 – Speed Racer

The Race Against Time (28/52)

High speed cartoon thrills.

16:26 – Tom and Jerry

Timid Tabby (1956)

Cartoon antics with the cat and mouse duo.

16:33 – New!! The Crystal Maze

Series 1 (01/13)

The Crystal Maze is a British game show devised by Jacques Antoine, based upon his format for the French game show Fort Boyard, and produced for Channel 4. The programme focuses on teams of contestants, a mixed group of men and women, attempting a range of challenges to earn time required to help them complete one final challenge, which if completed successfully earns them a prize. The premise of the show is themed around challenges set to different periods of human history within a fictional labyrinth of time and space (the titular “Crystal Maze”), and is notable for the use of golf ball-sized Swarovski glass crystals (referred to as “time crystals”) as a reward for each challenge successfully completed by contestants, and lock-in conditions for contestants that ran out of time or broke a three-strikes rule on a challenge.

17:25 – Sykes

Protest (Series 2, 12/15)

Comedy

17:55 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease (Series 3, 10/13)

Surreal sketch comedy

18:23 – Blake’s 7

Warlord (Series 4, 12/13)

Sci-fi action drama

19:12 – M*A*S*H

Hanky Panky (Season 5, 19/25)

Comedy set during the Korean War.

19:37 – Ideal

The Boyfriend (Series 1, 03/08)

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

20:05 – Shoestring

Where Was I (Series 2, 09/10)

Off-beat detective drama

20:58 – The Bill

It’s Not Such A Bad Job After All (Series 1, 05/11)

The long-running police saga continues

21:52 – Film: Papillon (1973)

Papillon is a 1973 historical drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film stars Steve McQueen as Charrière (“Papillon”) and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega.

Convicted murderer Henri Charriere , known as “Papillon” for his butterfly chest tattoo, is transported to French Guiana to serve his sentence in a work camp. Determined to escape, Papillon forms an unlikely relationship with the frail but notorious forger Louis Dega, who reluctantly joins in the attempt. Despite the harshness of solitary confinement, brutal conditions and constant threats of betrayal, Papillon leads a desperate escape off the island.