17:57 – Sheepy’s opening music.

18:00 – Thames TV morning start-up music.

18:05 – The Tomorrow People S01E07 – The Medusa Strain (Part 2/4) – The classic 1970s ITV children’s series about a group of teens with paranormal abilities, who use their special gifts to battle evil. This week, Carol and Stephen jaunt to the Tower of London where they encounter Jedikiah. Jedikiah takes Carol back to Rabowski’s spaceship, hoping to use her as leverage with Peter.  First broadcast on Mon 18th June 1973 by ITV.

18:30 – Star Trek (The Original Series) – S01E08 – Miri – This week, the Enterprise discovers an exact duplicate of Earth, where the only survivors of a deadly man-made plague are some of the planet’s children. The first of the four episodes banned by the BBC for over 20 years. Unlike the other three, this one did get shown, just the once, in December 1970, after which the BBC received a number of complaints regarding the episode’s content. The quantity and nature of the complaints were never made public. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the BBC chose not to include the episode in repeat runs of Star Trek. Three other episodes from the series were also excluded: “Plato’s Stepchildren“, “The Empath“, and “Whom Gods Destroy“. Fans writing to the BBC to complain about the ban during the show’s repeat run in the mid-1980s, its fifth showing altogether, received a standard reply: “There are no plans to screen the four episodes because we feel that they deal most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease. You will appreciate that account must be taken that out of Star Trek’s large and enthusiastic following, many are juveniles who would watch the programme no matter what time of day the series is put into the programme schedules.” However, the ban was finally lifted for the BBC’s next showing of the series in the early 1990s. Also, in the things-I-didn’t-know-yesterday department, several of the children on Miri’s world were portrayed by relatives of the Trek cast and crew. Among them were William Shatner’s daughters Lisabeth and Melanie, Grace Lee Whitney’s son Scott, Vincent McEveety’s son Steven, and Gene Roddenberry’s daughters, Darleen and Dawn. Two others, Phil and Iona Morris, children of Mission Impossible actor Greg Morris, later appeared in subsequent Star Trek shows as well. First broadcast in the USA on Thu 27th Oct 1966 by NBC.

19:20 – …And Mother Makes Three – S02E02 – The Matchmakers – More gentle middle-class Thames sitcom, starring Wendy Craig as the newly-widowed Sally Harrison, doing her best to bring up her two boisterous sons, Simon and Peter. This week, Simon and Peter come up with the idea of finding their mum a husband, Sally’s not too happy when a randy admirer manages to track her down, and Mr. Campbell agrees to help her by playing the part of a rival suitor.  First broadcast on Thu 9th Dec 1971 by ITV.

19:45 – Brass – S01E06 – More Granada-made northern-drama-satirising comedy, starring Timothy West. This week, despite Bradley’s plans, Jack survives the collapse of the pit and is taken to the cottage Hospital. He is suffering from amnesia and spurns Isobel’s love, and adores Charlotte, who saved him. Matt also tells his mother of his love for Charlotte, so she is forced to tell him that Bradley Hardacre is his real father. First broadcast on Mon 28th Mar 1983 by ITV.

20:10 – Van der Valk – S02E03 – A Rose from Mr. Reinhart – More Thames-made Amsterdam-based crime drama, starring Barry Foster. This week, Arlette’s intuition proves truer than her husband’s after a young woman is threatened in the park. Van der Valk tries to atone for his mistake by hounding the prominent Amsterdam buisnessman, but his personal feelings might be clouding his judgment. First broadcast on Wed 12th Sep 1973 by ITV.

21:00 – Sheepy’s Unwatched FILM Project #9: The Virgin Suicides (1999) – an American psychological drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, AJ Cook and Josh Hartnett. The film also features Scott Glenn, Michael Paré, and Danny DeVito in minor roles, with voice narration by Giovanni Ribisi. It is based on the 1993 best selling debut novel of the same name by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides.
The film follows the lives of five attractive adolescent sisters, in an upper-middle-class suburb of Detroit during the mid-1970s. After the youngest sister, Cecilia, makes an initial attempt at suicide, all of the girls are put under close scrutiny by their religious, overprotective parents, eventually being confined to their home, which leads to their increasingly depressive and isolated behavior. As in the novel, the film is told in first person plural, from the perspective of a group of adolescent boys in the neighborhood who are fascinated by the girls.
Shot in 1998 in Toronto, the film was director Sofia Coppola’s debut feature. It features an original score by the French electronic band Air. The film premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, and received a limited theatrical release on April 21, 2000 in the United States, later expanding to a wide release in May 2000. The film was met with largely positive critical reception, with both the performances and Coppola’s direction receiving note. It was also praised for its lyrical representation of adolescent angst, visual style, and soundtrack, and is now recognized as a cult classic.

22:32 – Snub TV S02E01 – This week featuring:
• Looking back at 1989 [So possibly all of this is just a “Best of the last series” thing]
• Dinosaur Jr “Freak Scene” (SnubTV video)
• The Timelords (KLF) interview extract
• KRS One/Boogie Down Productions “My Philosophy” (video)
• Happy Mondays “Do It Better” (Live)
• New Order interview extract
• The Fall with Michael Clark & Company “Deadbeat Descendent” (Live Studio performance) + Mark E. Smith interview extract
• 808 State v MC Tunes “Dance Yourself to Death” (SnubTV video)
• Butthole Surfers interview extract
• Ultra Vivid Scene “Mercy Seat” (SnubTV video)
• Howard Devoto interview extract
• Cathal Coughlan & The Fatima Mansions “Only Losers Take the Bus” (SnubTV video)
• The Stone Roses “I Wanna Be Adored” (Live)
From 1st generation off-air VHS > Panasonic HD recorder > DVD-R > MPEG Streamclip > MPEG4
Video compression: H.264, 352 x 288, deinterlaced
Audio compression: AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz, 192 kbps
First broadcast on Mon 8th Jan 1990 at 6.30pm by BBC2.

23:01 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Original Radio Series) – Fit the Ninth – The second episode of the then-five-episode second series that went out stripped across a single week in Jan 1980. Original Radio Times listing: “[Picture caption] The ghost of Zaphod Beeblebrox the 4th gives himself a nasty shock.
New Year Season
Fit the second: In which our heroes have the chance to chew the fat with some old enemies and Arthur Dent has an unpleasant cup of tea.
Eddie: “Man and machines share in the stimulating exchange of… aaargh.”
[Starring] Peter Jones as the Book,
with Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Stephen Moore as Marvin/Gag Halfrunt, David Tate as Eddie, Bill Wallis as the Vogon Captain, Leueen Willoughby as the Nutrimat Machine and Richard Goolden as Zaphod Beeblebrox IV.
(Stereo)“
First broadcast on Tue 22nd Jan 1980 at 10.30pm by BBC Radio 4.

23:30 – COMMENTARY TRACK VERSION of The Tomorrow People S01E03 – The Slaves of Jedekiah (Part 3/5) – More interesting, amusing and sometimes scandalous DVD commentary featuring Nicholas Young (John), Peter Vaughan-Clarke (Stephen) and Philip Gilbert (TIM), moderated by Nicholas Briggs. To recap: this is the classic 1970s ITV children’s series about a group of teens with paranormal abilities, who use their special gifts to battle evil. This week, in the Tomorrow lab, Jedikiah lays in wait to catch Tomorrow People like flies in his web of technology. Original programme first broadcast on Mon 14th May 1973 by ITV. DVD Commentary recorded c. 2002.

23:54 – Closedown music.

23:58 – Closedown.