16:00 – Coming Up On Cab TV…
Your schedule of programmes for this afternoon and evening,
16:05 – Speed Racer
The Fire Race – Part I (16/52)
High speed cartoon thrills. The Inca land of Kapetepek, noted for its secrecy and treasures, hosts a race with foreign and native drivers. To ensure their land’s privacy, the Kapetepekan drivers must win, at any cost.
16:30 – Tom and Jerry
Designs on Jerry (1955)
Cartoon antics with the cat and mouse duo. Stick figure versions of Tom and Jerry come to life when Tom creates a very detailed blueprint of a mousetrap.
16:35 – Knightmare
Series 7 (14/15)
The technological adventure game continues. Will Barry, Simon, Derek and Daniel triumph against the fiendish Lord Fear?
17:00 – Plasmo
Blast-Off (02/13)
17:05 – The Mighty Thor
Chained Evil (02/13)
Loki enhances the mental powers of Sandu, a carnival mystic. Sandu then uses his supernatural powers of levitation to battle Thor and to trap him beneath an entire building.
17:20 – Sykes
Café (Series 1 15/15)
Eric buys a transport café and turns it into a smart roadhouse. However this alienates the customers and so to get them back, he tries to make things more earthy.
17:50 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Spam (Series 2, 12/13)
World revolutionaries are quizzed about football scores; figures from works of art go on strike throughout galleries in England; the search continues for a cure for over-acting; Viking marauders kidnap Englishmen who ask for canned ham.
18:20 – Blake’s 7
Death-Watch (Series 3, 12/13)
Tarrant’s elder brother Deeta is competing in a gladiatorial ceremony, where combatants fight each other to the death in a duel (Interplanetary feuds are settled into combat). When Deeta is killed by the android Vinni, Tarrant decides to take on Vinni himself, only to learn Servalan is acting as a judge and she is manipulating events to trigger a real war.
19:10 – M*A*S*H
The Nurses (Season 5, 06/25)
A feud between Margaret and the nurses jeopardizes Nurse Baker’s overdue honeymoon.
19:35 – 15 Storeys High
The Model (Series 1, 02/06)
Vince is promoted to swimming instructor and begins to teach a would-be glamour model, much to her husband’s annoyance. Meanwhile, Errol decides it’s time to redecorate the bathroom.
20:05 – Shoestring
The Link-Up (Series 1, 07/11)
After Molly Tasker, director of a local women’s refuge, accuses Radio West of ignoring domestic violence, Eddie investigates why the late Jackie Craig, whose wife is in the hostel, was unaccountably wealthy when he drowned
21:00 – Life On Mars
Series 1, 08/08
As CID investigates a murder linked to a crime syndicate, Sam thinks he is finally coming to grips with the world of 1973, until he meets his 29-year-old father.
21:55 – Film: Bowfinger
Bowfinger is a 1999 American comedy satirical film directed by Frank Oz. When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him
23:35 – Closedown
Ah, Bowfinger. The last decent live action film Eddie Murphy ever made. Steve Martin too for that matter!