This week’s theme year is 1998. As always we start off at 4pm with some Ceefax, schools and kids programming. After our usual shows we’ll have an edition of University Challenge, followed by a short film made as part of the BBC’s 10X10 series. The news precedes tonight’s main event, a Play For Today from 1980 – The Flipside of Dominick Hide, in which Peter Firth stars as a time traveller from the future, visiting London in search of an ancestor. In the true spirit of depressing documentaries this will be followed by an edition of Panorama about ubernonce Sidney Cooke, made shortly before the ill-fated decision to put him aboard a rocket and fire him into space. The evening concludes with a weather report and closedown.
4.00 Ceefax
4.30 The Pink Panther
4.40 ITV Schools: Good Health – Look After Yourself
4.55 ITV Schools: Stop Look Listen – Vets
5.05 ITV Schools: Stop Look Listen – Ambulance Service
5.15 ITV Schools: Over to You – Dreams
5.30 ITV Schools: Leapfrog
5.45 ITV Schools: Middle English – Interference (Episode 2)
6.00 CBBC: Popeye
6.10 CBBC: Blue Peter – 40th Anniversary Special
6.35 Neighbours
7.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E23 We’ll Always Have Paris
7.50 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E15 I Enjoy Being a Dick
8.20 University Challenge
8.50 10X10: Too Fast
9.00 BBC Nine O’Clock News
9.40 Play For Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide
11.10 Panorama: Sidney Cooke
11.50 Weather and Closedown
I’ve vague memories of Flipside, and recently watched the SciFi Debris review of it. It’s going to be interesting revisiting after all these years. I just hope Dominick Hide doesn’t come across as the terrible c*nt that Gary Sparrow is.
I’m looking forward to that Sploff – I’d never heard of it; I’ve got hold of plenty of Plays For Today from that era and I thought that looked like an interesting one. There’s a sequel to it as well. I might try and get hold of that if it’s enjoyable.