TELEVISION LISTINGS
American satirical comedy from the 505 hosted by Steve Allen. The first show features Jerry Lewis, Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Junior.
THURSDAY 3
I PSAI‘III 08 (BBC2) 8.30—9pm. Tony Slattcry hosts the feeble etiquette show. with captains Lesley Joseph and Jonathan Meades joined by Odaline Dela Martinez. Malcolm Williamson. Issy Van Randwych and Kit Hcsketh Harvey. Where do they dig these people up?
I Me. You And Him (Scottish) 8.30-9pm. Punt. Dennis and the other one in the domestic sitcom.
I The Travel Show (BBC?) 9—9.30pm. Penny Junor and intrepid traveller Matthew Collins present the consumers' holiday show. which includes a report from the upmarket resort of Estoril. near Lisbon, and. byway ofcontrast. a visit to the Isle ofSkye.
I Admission Impossible (BBC2)
9.31)— lI).3Upm. An expose ofa secret policy pursued by successive Australian governments to populate the country with ‘pure white‘ immigrants. Eyewitness accounts and documents reveal how immigration officers carried out racial selectivity after medical officers had examined applicants for signs ofcolour.
I Fighters (Channel 4) 10.30pm—12.30am. A remarkable look behind the scencsin
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I Edinburgh Nights (BBC2) 11.15—11.55pm. Kirsty Wark introduces a performance from dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. and musical theatre from Barcelona's Els J oglars.
FRIDAY 4
I Cheers (Channel 4) 9.30—10pm. Coach starts to spend all his time with Sam and Diane. which interferes somewhat with their love life.
I Between The Lines (BBCI) 9.30-10.20pm. A tough new drama series
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to investigate police corruption. Neil Pearson plays Tony Clark , recruited by the Complaints Investigation Bureau to infiltrate his own station. Support comes from Siobhan Redmond and the excellent Tom Georgeson.
I Nurses (Channel 4) 10-10.30pm. More comedy from the Miami hospital as a dying cardiac patient tries to teach Julie how to overcome her phobias.
I Just For Laughs Special (Channel 4). 10.30pm-12.30am. Ben Elton hosts a two-hour special rounding up the best of the comedy from the Montreal Festival. Stand-ups appearing include Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, Jack Dee, Eddie lzzard, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Mark Thomas and Steven Wright.
I Edinburgh Nights (BBC2)
11.30pm—12. 10am. A whole programme devoted to Mike Oldfield’s world premiere of Tubular Bells 1!, featuring a twenty-strong band, a pianist, an opera singer and sixteen pipers recorded at the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade.
SATURDAY 5
I Bobby Davro- Public Enemy Humbert (BBC1)6.20—7pm. Oh, no, the BBC have created their answer to Beadle’s About, in which unloveable Bobby Davro plays dubious practical jokes on unsuspecting members of the public. This and Eldorado? Heads will roll.
I The World TIIIS Week (Channel 4) 7—8pm. Sheena McDonald presents the international news analysis and current affairs show.
I Encounters: A Song At Twilight (BBC2) 9.10-10pm. Edwin Pearce‘s play recreates a meeting between two great radicals: the black American singer Paul Robeson and Welsh socialist Nye Bevan who met at the Eisteddfod in 1958.
I Video Diaries: My Demons-The Legacy (BBC2)10—11.15pm. Diarist Willa Woolston returns to America to uncover a buried history of violence in her family.
I Cinema! CinemaI: Journey DI Hope (Channel 4) 10.30pm—12. 15am. The film that won the 1991 Academy Award for best foreign picture is a moving and powerful drama based on the true story of Turkish couple Haydar and Meryem, who leave Turkey with their seven-year-old son, seeking a new life in Switzerland. Their exile rapidly turns into a desperate fight for survival.
SUNDAY 6
I Football Italia (Channel 4) 3—5pm. Channel 4, I love you. The sporting coup of the decade brings live coverage of the greatest soccer league in the world, without any need to buy a dish. Peter Brackley commentates with analysis from Peter Elliott, as Sampdoria take on Lazio. Fingers crossed we’ll see Gazza taking on Des Walker. Bliss.
I The Cosby Show (Channel 4) 6.30-7pm. Smug family fun with the affluent Huxtables and their continually expanding brood. Have these people never heard of birth control?
I Screen One: A Very Polish Practice (BBC1)9.25—11pm. A new seriesof dramas for the autumn season opens with a one-off film from Andrew Davies, reuniting us with Dr Stephen Daker (Peter Davison), hero of A Very Peculiar Practice. Daker is now in Warsaw with his Polish wife and son, working in achaotic hospital. Who should appear but our old chum Bob Buzzard (David Troughton), determined to comer the market in Eastern Europe.
I Ice Sold In Alex (Channel 4) lOpm-12.25am. An interesting variant of the Brit war movie, starring John Mills and Harry Andrews as an officer and sergeant driving through the desert to Alexandria after the fall of Tobruk. En route, they pick up a resourceful South African who turns out to be a German spy.
but a decent chap all the same. Look out for the famous lager scene.
MONDAY 7
I Traveller’s Tales: As American AsApple Pie (Channel 4) 9—10pm. A journey across the States from North to South with Alan Schroeder and comedian Jimmy Tingle, looking at the less fashionable heartlands of America. They explore the religious community of the Mennonites in Kansas, and the cult of ex-President Lyndon Johnson in Texas.
I Betty's Brood (Channel 4)
10.30—1 1.45pm. The budget was £2000, the producers were Gorbals Unemployed Workers’ Centre Drama Group and the result is startling. With a script rooted in the daily fears and preoccupations of unemployment, bad housing, HIV. drugs and alcohol, the story concentrates on a Gorbals family and their troubles coming to terms with acute drug abuse. A skilful mix of tragedy, sentiment. comedy and the grotesque.
TUESDAY 8
I The Munro Show (Scottish) 6.30—7pm. Muriel Gray scampers up peaks and grates on about the joys ofthe open air.
I Citizen Smith (BBC1)8—8.30pm. Robert Lindsay stars as the Tooting radical in what is probably the best British sitcom on our screens at the moment.
I The Mary Whitehouse Experience (BBC2) 9—9.30pm. Repeated smug comedy for trendies, with David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
I Boon (Scottish) 9—10pm. Sub-Minder stuff with Michael Elphick and Neil Morrissey.
I Gummed Labels (Channel 4) 9—1 1 .05pm. Leslie Grantham stars in a surreal and stylish comedy thriller, as an unpredictable psychiatrist who counsels a distraught Asian girl on the eve of her marriage. The girl disappears and a frantic search begins. The cast includes Zia Moyheddin, Meera Syal and Don Letts.
WEDNESDAY 9
I Anton Moslmann - Naturally (Channel 4) 8.30—9pm. More culinary expertise dished up by the little bald geezer from Switzerland.
I The Darling Duds DI May (Scottish) 8—9pm. Catherine Zeta-Jones and David Jason continue their repeat run of the eternal sunshine and scams of the bucolic Larkins.
THURSDAY 10
I Rising Damp (Channel 4) 8—8.30pm. Rigsby returns with another repeated series of the classic 705 sitcom, with Leonard Rossiter, Frances De La Tour and Richard Beckinsale.
I The Travel Show (B 8C2) 9—9.30pm. More holiday advice at home and abroad with the team — Paddy Haycocks. Matthew Collins, Penny J unor and Carol Smillie.
I The Orchid House (Channel 4) 9—10pm. Another chance to see the costume drama set in Dominica. starring Frances Barber, Kate Buffery and Diana Quick.
92 The List 28 August - 10 September 1992