This week’s show will be vaguely centred around 1996. The early part of the show features and extensive ITV schools block.
After our usual shows, Louis will be spending some time with eccentric boxer Chris Eubank. Trevor McDonald will bring us News at Ten, then we’ll return to Denton as Frost endeavours to crack another case. Capping off the evening is an edition of Channel 4’s Equinox covering the catastrophic 1957 Windscale reactor fire.
4.00 Jobfinder
4.30 Picture Box: The Snow Children
4.45 Starting Science: Care and Maintenance
5.15 Stop Look Listen: Metal
5.25 Stop Look Listen: Crisps
5.35 The English Programme: The Tube – Three Days to Transmission
6.00 Leapfrog
6.15 Starting Out: Escapes
6.45 Neighbours – Episode 4011
7.10 BBC News
7.25 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E21 Symbiosis
8.10 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E13 Angry Dick
8.35 When Louis Met Chris Eubank
9.25 ITN News at Ten
10.00 A Touch of Frost – S02E01 A Minority of One
11.40 Equinox: Our Reactor is On Fire
12.30 Closedown
If that Windscale documentary is the one I think it is, it’s absolutely superb… and quite chilling. I know I watched one around that time that left a huge impression; I hope this is the same one (or maybe an equally good different one!).
Also, in the Star Trek episode, look out for Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) doing her little goodbye wave to the fans near the end, as Picard & Crusher leave the cargo bay; this was the last episode she filmed (but not the last she appeared in).
Ah thanks for that Sheepy; we’ll have to keep an eye out for Tasha’s wave! I haven’t watched the Windscale doc all the way through but it looks fascinating – lots of great archive footage and interviews with people who were involved in the disaster. Looking forward to that. 🙂