16:00 – Coming Up On Cab TV…
Your schedule of programmes for this afternoon and evening, with music by Aphex Twin
16:05 – Speed Racer
Race For Revenge, Part I (12/52)
High speed cartoon thrills. Speed is caught up in plot by the son of a deceased racer to avenge his father’s death.
16:30 – Tom and Jerry
Touché, Pussy Cat! (1954)
Cartoon antics with the cat and mouse duo. Jerry tries to teach Nibbles how to become a Mousketeer.
16:35 – Knightmare
Series 7 (10/15)
The technological adventure game continues. Will Ben, Jon, Tim and Ben succeed in their quest to outwit Lord Fear?
17:00 – Ulysses 31
Rebellion on Lemnos (24/26)
Cartoon sci-fi adventuring based on the myths of Ancient Greece. Ulysses aids a princess whose planet has been enslaved by the Shark Men.
17:30 – Sykes
Marriage (Series 1, 11/16)
Comedy. Hattie is on the look for some eligible bachelors. After she meets some, Eric realises how different – and difficult – his life would be without her.
17:55 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Archaeology Today (Series 2, 8/13)
Surreal sketch comedy. A dissatisfied bridegroom tries to exchange his spouse; hunters pursue a terrifying mosquito; domestic problems interrupt the work of Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo and other creative geniuses.
18:25 – Blake’s 7
Rumours of Death (Series 3, 8/13)
Sci-fi action drama. Avon sets out on a personal vendetta to avenge the death of his lover.
19:15 – M*A*S*H
Bug Out (Season 5, 1/25)
Comedy series set in the Korean War, In this two part opening episode to Season 5, the 4077th bugs out in fear of a Chinese advance, but Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar must stay behind with a patient who can’t be moved.
20:05 – The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Series 3, 5/7
Comedy. Reggie’s community has become an enormous success after a television feature, but how long can it last?
20:35 – Shoestring
Higher Ground (Series 1, 3/10)
Offbeat crime drama series. The Major is not the sort of man to crack easily. So why does his wife ring Eddie Shoestring at Radio West?
21:25 – Life On Mars
Series 1, 4/8
Drama series about a detective who suffers a car accident and wakes up in 1973. Sam’s principles call into question the ethos of his whole department as he takes on a local gangster in an attempt to stamp out police corruption
22:20 – Film: Chungking Express
This 1994 film from director Wong Kar-Wai is a duology consisting of two stories based in Hong Kong. A Taiwanese cop becomes mixed up in the affairs of a mysterious woman, while another cop becomes the object of obsession for a snack bar employee. Starring Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
00:05 – Closedown