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 II (15/52)

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

Mouse For Sale (1955)

Cartoon antics with the cat and mouse duo. Tom sells Jerry disguising him as a white mouse after seeing an ad in the newspaper.

16:40 – Knightmare

Series 7 (13/15)

The technological adventure game continues. Will Barry, Simon, Derek and Daniel triumph against the fiendish Lord Fear?

17:00 – New!! Plasmo

Plasmo and the Moontower (01/13)

Claymation science-fiction animation from Australia. Plasmo is a two and a half year old space orphan. He lives on the uncharted world of Pynco, with his friends Parsty and Niknik. When would-be space adventurers Brucho and Coredor stumble upon the planet, their greed and bumbling provides an opportunity for Plasmo and his friends to leave Pynco and begin their discovery of the wider universe around them.

17.05 – New!! The Mighty Thor (01/12)

Trapped By Loki (01/13)

Animated super-hero antics. After years of imprisonment in Asgard, Loki escapes to Earth to gain his revenge on his half-brother, Thor. Once there, Loki learns that Thor lives among humans as one of them, Dr. Donald Blake.

17:25 – Sykes

Lodger (Series 1, 15/16)

Situation comedy. Mr Brown stays next door when he has the decorators in to his house.

17:55 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

How Not To Be Seen (Series 2, 11/13)

Surreal sketch comedy.

18:25 – Blake’s 7

Moloch (Series 3, 11/13)

Sci-fi action drama. The Liberator follows Servalan’s flagship to Sardos, where a rogue Federation officer has designs on the galaxy.

19:15 – M*A*S*H

Lt. Radar O’Reilly (Season 5, 5/25)

Comedy series set in the Korean War. Hawkeye and B.J. arrange for Radar to be Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, but Radar realizes he feels better as a Corporal.

19:40 – New!! 15 Storeys High

The Sofa (Series 1, 1/6)

Surreal flat-based comedy starring the late Sean Lock. Vince decides to advertise for a new flatmate and ends up with unemployed student Errol. When he decides to get a new sofa, the day ends in tragedy when he ends up losing his Tesco clubcard and two voluptuous women decide to force themselves upon him.

20:10 – Shoestring

Nine Tenths Of The Law (Series 1, 6/11)

Offbeat crime drama series. Mary Phillips asks for Eddie’s help after her ex-husband Dennis snatches their little daughter June, a ward of court, with a view to taking her back to Australia with him.

21:00 – Life On Mars

Series 1, 7/8

Drama series about a detective who suffers a car accident and wakes up in 1973. Drama series about a detective who wakes up in what seems to be 1973. The death in custody of drug dealer Billy Kemble pits Sam against CID as he tries to uncover the truth.

22:00 – Film: Slacker (1990)

Written, produced and directed by Richard Linklater, Slacker follows a single day in the life of an ensemble of mostly under-30 bohemians and misfits in Austin, Texas. The film follows various characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them. The characters include Linklater as a talkative taxi passenger, a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a JFK conspiracy theorist, an elderly anarchist who befriends a man trying to rob his house, a television set collector, and a hipster woman trying to sell a Madonna pap smear.