At last, the night that Sploff’s been waiting for!

Note: the post-Star Trek running order has been changed to let the feature-length Van der Valks finish earlier.

17:35 – Sheepy’s opening caption and music.

17:40 – Thames TV morning start-up music.

17:45 – Only When I Laugh S03E06 – Dear Diary – with Isla Blair. First broadcast on Wed 7th Oct 1981 by ITV.

18:10 – You Must Be Joking! S01E06 – First broadcast on 9th July 1975 by ITV.

18:35 – The Owl Service S01E06 – HD remaster. First broadcast on Sun 25th Jan 1970 by ITV.

18:59 – Clangers (New) S01E39 – The Chicken Waltz – First broadcast on Mon 6th June 2016 at 6pm by CBeebies.

19:10 – Star Trek (TOS) S03E20 – The Way to Eden – Space Hippies, need I say more?! Except that it was first broadcast on Fri 21st Feb 1969 by NBC.

20:00 – Van der Valk S04E02 – Dangerous Games – In this second of seven two-hour Inspector Morse style specials, Van der Valk plays cat and mouse with a leak in police headquarters. First broadcast on Wed 23rd Jan 1991 by ITV.

21:45 – Tales of the Unexpected S03E05 – A Girl Can’t Always Have Everything – with Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Brewster Mason and James Faulkner. First broadcast on Sun 9th Nov 1980 by ITV.

22:10 – Keep It In The Family S03E06 – The Inferior Decorator – Dudley has decided that it’s time to redecorate the bedroom, unfortunately he suffers from delusions of competence. First broadcast on Tue 6th Oct 1981 by ITV.

22:34 – Eurotrash S09E08 – but actually the pre-S09 Christmas Special broadcast on 24th Dec 1997 by Channel 4. Network should have labelled this as either S08E09 or S09E00. Tsk!! Perhaps if they’d been arsed to put airdates in their own booklet they’d’ve noticed the error…

22:58 – NEW! – Thriller S01E01 – Lady Killer (USA title: The Death Policy) – a British television anthology series, made by ATV for the ITV network and originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits. The series was created by Brian Clemens (of The Avengers, The Professionals, and many others fame), who also scripted the majority of the episodes and story-lined every installment. This episode stars Robert Powell, Barbara Feldon, Linda Thorson and T.P. McKenna. First broadcast on Sat 14th Apr 1973 by ITV.

00:06 – Thriller S01E01 – Alternate USA titles – When “Thriller” was exported to the USA, the Americans completely redid the opening and closing titles in a rather trippy manner, sometimes inserting their own newly-shot teasers (using actors shot from a distance or from the neck down!). Here are the ones for this episode.

00:13 – Closedown music.

00:18 – Closedown.