16:00 – Coming Up On Cab TV…
Your programme schedule for this afternoon & evening. With music by Wireless World
16:05 – Speed Racer – The Most Dangerous Race Part 3 (Episode 11)
By a miracle Speed has survived, but has suffered a concussion and hysterical blindness. His determination to win the race against literally all odds touches Racer X to the point that he deliberately fakes injury to help navigate Speed to safety – and to warn Oiler when a leakage of oil from his car leads to a near-fatal explosion short of the finish.
16:30 – Tom & Jerry #88 – Pet Peeve
After the cost of dog and cat food increase, George and Joan (Tom and Spike’s owners) decide they must get rid of one of them before they are eaten out of their home. Tom and Spike must compete to catch Jerry so they can stay, but both get kicked out in the end and Jerry stays.
16:35 – Knightmare – Series 7 Episode 9
17:00 – Ulysses 31 – Strange Meeting – Episode 23
Ulysses and the children are sent back in time and meet the original Ulysses, Telemachus and Penelope of Homer’s epic.
17:25 – Sykes – Dream (Series 1, Episode 11)
After being bitten by a dog, Eric consults his doctor, and suddenly finds himself afflicted by a less easily treated malady.
17:55 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus – The Attila The Hun Show (Series 2, episode 7)
“The Attila the Hun Show”; a burlesque performance by government ministers; a documentary study of village idiots. Also: political groupies pursue MPs.
18:25 – Blake’s 7 – Children of Auron (Series 3, Episode 7)
Serverlan has unleashed a plague on Cally’s home planet Auron. Avon and the Liberator crew travel to Auron to aid Cally’s people to fight it.
19:10 – MASH – The Interview (Season 4, Episode 25 – Season Finale)
A news correspondent (Clete Roberts) visits the 4077th to get their feelings about the war.
19:35 – The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – Series 3, Episode 4
Perrins is now in full swing with guests and money pouring in. The council planning department takes an interest. Some of the guests reveal their innermost secrets.
20:10 – Shoestring – Knock For Knock (Season 1, Episode 2)
Eddie is now Radio West’s ‘Private Ear’, accepting sleuthing work for listeners. His first client is Claire Stevens, whose husband was killed in a hit and run by drivers of a white van.
21:00 – Life On Mars – Series 1, Episode 3
When a man is killed at a textile factory, Gene is convinced the culprit is Ted Bannister, the union organiser. Gene pressures Ted into a confession which he gives to save the factory from closure. Gene is happy with the confession, but Sam pushes deeper, and discovers Ted was covering up for a fatal accident.
21:55 – Film: Simon Magus (1999)
Ben Hopkins’ impressive directorial debut is a mythical mystery set in a Jewish stetl in 19th-century Central Europe. Simon Magus is a simple-minded man revered for his reputed magical powers. Into his life comes the devilish Sirius whose aim is to corrupt both the Jewish and Roman Catholic communities using Magus as the unwitting deus ex machina.
Cast:
Stuart Townsend as the Jew Dovid Bendel.
Rutger Hauer as the squire. He is more interested in poetry than money.
Sean McGinley as a cunning business man. He competes with Dovid Bendel.
Noah Taylor as Simon Magus. He is the village fool.
Ian Holm as The Devil.
23:40 – Closedown