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Retro: Scotland, Friday, August 16, 1985

Source: Glasgow Herald via Google News Archive

BBC1
6:00 Ceefax
6:50 Breakfast Time
9:20 TBA
10:30 Play School
10:50 Cricket: 5th test
Peter West introduces the whole of this morning's play between England and Australia from Edgbaston.
1:05 News
1:22 Scottish News
1:25 The Flumps
1:40 Cricket: 5th test
4:20 Little Misses and the Mister Men
4:35 Laurel and Hardy
4:40 The Record Breakers
5:05 Breakthrough
5:35 Gun Shy
Donovan is hired to take the much-robbed railroad payroll through to Quake City.
6:00 Six O'Clock News and Weather
6:35 Reporting Scotland
7:00 Wogan
Beryl Reid, Annie Ross, Clare Maxwell-Hudson.
7:40 Cover Up
8:30 Bird Brain of Britain
Simon King watched birds confront intelligence tests up and down the country, and nominates a winner.
9:00 Nine O'Clock News and Weather
9:25 Give Us a Break
Unwelcome attention from Brindly diverts Micky Noades, and a rival manager muscles in on Mo.
10:15 The Beechgrove Garden
Weather permitting, Bill and Ben intend to sow a new patch of grass under the trees at the bottom of the garden.
10:45 Omnibus at the Proms
12:00 Film: "Family Reunion" (1981) Fielder Cook, J. Ashley Hyman, Peter Weller.
Retired schoolteacher Bette Davis gladly accepts an unlimited bus travel pass as a going-away gift, but while she's visiting relatives local politicians are intent on selling off chunks of her New England homestead.
1:30 Weather
1:35 sign-off

BBC2
6:55 Open University
7:25 TBA
9:00 Ceefax
11:00 Golf
The Benson and Hedges International from Fulford Golf Club - the 2nd round.
2:30 Racing from Newbury
4:15 Cricket: 5th test
England vs. Australia at Edgbaston.
6:30 Film: "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" (1959)
7:55 When Practice isn't Perfect
President of the General Medical Council Sir John Walton talks about the GMC's disciplinary procedures for the first time on television, and Wendy Fisher-Gordon, lawyer and journalist, gives her view of the system she encountered when her youngest son died.
8:35 Gardeners' World
Geoff Hamilton, Margaret Waddy and John Kelly take stock of the budget garden at Barnsdale.
9:00 My Music
Frank Muir, John Amis, Denis Norden and Ian Wallace bid to answer Steve Race's questions.
9:30 Commercial Breaks
Billion-Dollar Day. 24 hours in the lives of three foreign currency speculators working out of London, New York and Hong Kong, seen at work simultaneously, trying to make money out of money.
10:00 Cricket: 5th test
10:30 Newsnight
11:15 Weatherview
11:20 Film: "A Dream of Kings" (1969) Daniel Mann, Irene Papas, Anthony Quinn.
1:10 Weather
1:15 sign-off

Scottish Television
6:15 Good Morning Britain
9:25 Sesame Street
10:25 Porky Pig
10:35 The World of James Michener
11:30 About Britain
12:00 Heggerty Haggerty
12:10 Rainbow
12:30 All in a Day's Walk
1:00 ITN News at One
1:20 Scottish News
1:30 A Country Practice
2:25 Hair
2:55 Canadian Souvenir Postcards
3:00 Keep It in the Family
3:30 Whose Baby?
4:00 Rainbow
4:15 Victor and Maria
4:25 Emu's World
4:50 Cartoon Time
4:55 The Joke Machine
5:15 Cartoon Alphabet
5:45 ITN News and Weather
6:00 Scotland Today
6:35 The Zodiac Game
7:05 Magnum
8:00 Benny Hill Show
9:00 Shine on Harvey Moon
"We're in the Money". April 1948 and Harvey's pride could cost him a lot of money.
10:00 ITN News at Ten
10:30 Late Call
10:35 Film: "Day of the Locust" (1974) Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, Burgess Meredith.
1:15 sign-off

Channel 4
2:35 Film: "Reggae Sunsplash II" (1979)
Montego Bay festival of 1979 which included Bob Marley and the Wailers and Burning Spear. The links between Jamaican culture, reggae music and Rastafarianism are examined in this German film.
4:30 The Gong Show
Chuck Barris and the Gong gang introduce today's (almost live) edition of this American talent show, with a man-sized praying mantis, a singing Tarzan and the Wizard of Whoopee, the Unknown Comedian.
5:00 I Dream of Jeannie
Tony strains his eyes and has to take an eye test but the efforts of Jeannie to improve Tony's vision prove all too successful.
5:30 Bliss
Muriel Gray hosts the new pop show which today features Propaganda Sique Sique Sputnik, Paul King and Phil Oakey with mad moments from Roby Bremner and Alexei Sayle as this week's Agony Aunt.
6:20 Soul Train
Jeffrey Daniel presents the first soul music show on British TV, with the best in soul, disco and funk.
7:00 Channel 4 News
7:30 Gardeners' Calendar
Hannah Gordon presents another edition of the show with the experts from the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley, today looking at the basics of planting up a trough of alpines, choosing house plants for the bedroom, helping the cottage garden to seed itself and drying flowers to preserve summer's colours for the winter.
8:00 Blondie - Eat to the Beat
8:50 Soul Train
10:00 The Comic Strip Presents: Fistful of Travellers Cheques
11:45 The Secret Policeman's Ball
The film of the Amnesty International gala organised by John Cleese.
1:25 sign-off
 
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