A sparkly fog of sexy cobblers.
16:00 – Library music mix
\ A short collection of easy-to-license bangers, accompanied by some nice archive footage of 1970 London with its buses and taxis and all that.
16:20 – The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse
\ Arguably marks the start of an about-turn in American TV cartoons – away from shovelled-out toy adverts, back towards comedy made by animators. Everyone involved has sparkling reputations of course.
16:45 – Bad Influence!
\ Concluding series one of the mummy-I-want-a-grey-import-Atari-Panther-now gaming show.
17:05 – Catchword
\ Recently-unearthed FULL episode of the Countdown-rivalling teatime words quiz, where success means knowing long words for everything and the value of nothing. Lung disease has never been so much fun.
17:35 – Down Your Ear (Radio 4)
\ Satisfying precision daftness as Armando Iannucci probes the world of sounds and radio.
17:55 – The Strange Story of Joe Meek
\ Vintage Arena documentary featuring the talented, triumphant, troubled and tragic life of pioneering British music producer Joe Meek.
18:55 – I Love 1970
\ Thought it would be interesting to see the first episode of this in full, now. Certainly not the first retrospective talking-heads clip show, but this is pretty much ground zero for the cheaply-researched, half-recalled reacting to the memory of anything and everything that followed. Presented by… err, um… I can’t remember for some reason.
20:00 – The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer
\ Our friend Flouncer has previously shown this series, but I’m showing this episode here for three good reasons: 1) It’s a particularly cracking episode, 2) it’s the rarer 35-minute version from the VHS, and 3) it begins with the BBC Video intro featuring Vic and Bob’s commentary.
20:40 – Nightcleaner
\ Earthy ten minute BBC2 documentary from 1982 about a street cleaner. This is basically Hedgehog food.
20:45 – The Thick Of It
\ Ominous changes are looming for the Department of Social Affairs – a secretive cabinet reshuffle is on its way, while Julius Nicholson’s radical thinking threatens Hugh’s domestic footwear budget.
21:15 – Divination Dave
\ Excellent short animation about a couch potato who experiences a spiritual awakening.
21:25 – FILM: WarGames (1983)
\ Almost can’t believe we haven’t shown this. Classic slice of 80s techno-bollocks: A mischievous teenage compu-tinkerer accidentally triggers mutually-assured destruction by hacking into the central billing computer at Norweb.
23:20 – 500 Bus Stops
\ Final episode chronicling John Shuttleworth’s world tour, which concludes in the plague village of Eyam.
23:50 – Late programming TBA
Bonus bollocky whim-wham throughout