As the summer starts to heat up, let’s cool out with a couple of evenings of retro TV.

We kick off at four with a vintage Jobfinder, and witchy dreamgirl Toni Arthur turns up in some schools programming. A CITV double of Allsorts and Children’s Ward follows, then we finally return to Home and Away. Our soapy sojourn continues with The Bill, then Jimmy’s getting mixed up with drucks in Brookside.

At 8 we switch over to the BBC and join Simon Mayo on TOTP to see what dross was stinking out the charts in the summer of ’89. Nick Ross emerges to scare the shit out of us in Crimewatch UK, then Panorama investigates whether the Argies might be able to blow us all to kingdom come with their Condor missiles. After a quick update, Electric Avenue looks into travel automation in Airbus aircraft and the Docklands Light Railway. We finish off with another look into the mysteries of quantum mechanics with the bods at the Open University.

1600 Central Jobfinder (12.09.87)
1640 ITV Schools: Stop Look Listen – Train Station
1650 ITV Schools: Seeing and Doing – Birds
1700 CITV: Allsorts – Jumble
1715 CITV: Childrens Ward S01E01
1745 Home and Away (Episode 919)
1810 The Bill S08E71 Letting Go
1835 The Bill S08E72 Travelling Light
1900 Brookside (Episodes 1324 and 1325)
2000 Top of the Pops
2030 Crimewatch UK (May 1989)
2115 Nine O’Clock News (10.10.89)
2145 Panorama – The Condor Conspiracy
2230 Crimewatch Update [10]
2240 Electric Avenue (Episode 9)
2305 Open University: Quantum Mechanics Band 6 – Where is an Electron?