The Throwback returns after a long hiatus – our theme year is 1988. We kick off at 4pm with a full startup and Ceefax segment followed by a complete edition of Daytime Live. We continue with our usual programmes, Home and Away, The Bill (Watch out for JuMoo’s Lucy Benjamin) and Eastenders. This week’s Play For Today, the Mike Leigh drama Home Sweet Home, features Eric Richard (familiar to regular Throwback viewers as veteran desk jockey Bob Cryer from The Bill). Crimewatch and some news follows, then we then kick on to our depressing documentary segment: a hard-hitting look at the dangers of rave culture in World in Action, and pharmaceutical shithousery as The Cook Report investigates one woman’s addiction to prescription drugs. We wrap up as usual with Electric Avenue, some Open University programming and a closedown.

4.00 BBC1 Startup and Ceefax (05.01.88)
4.35 Daytime Live (11.02.88)
5.40 Home and Away (Episode 915)
6.00 The Bill S08E61 Private Enterprise
6.25 The Bill S08E62 Getting Through
7.05 Eastenders (Episode 1287)
7.35 Play For Today – United Kingdom
9.05 Crimewatch (June 1988)
9.45 BBC News (01.01.88)
10.00 Crimewatch Update
10.15 World in Action – A Trip Round Acid House (05.12.88)
10.45 The Cook Report – Ada vs. Ativan (03.05.88)
11.15 Electric Avenue Episode 6 (05.12.88)
11.40 Open University
00.10 Closedown