Last week was a terrible week for the fantastical on TV and radio. Will this week have proven to be any better? (It will not.)
Saturday 8th July 1972
Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Sunday 9th July
LWT – 1.15pm – Stingray: Rescue From The Skies (repeat)
Monday 10th July
BBC1 – 9pm – Doomwatch: Hair Trigger
“I still think (it does) a good job of tabloid terrorising. This one is about brain manipulation.” (Tom Hutchinson in The Evening Standard, standing against the almost universal condemnation of the show’s third series.)
“Man isn’t born free. For him … the dreadful has already happened. He has to live with the nightmare, or rise above it. And natural evolution is too slow” (Quoted in Radio Times.)
Tuesday 11th July
Thames – 1.40pm – Batman (Repeat)
Wednesday 12th July
BBC1 – 7.25pm – Mission Impossible: Bag Woman
“My most unfavourite programme returns tonight with all those plastic people making out that you can use all the con-tricks in the world as long as you’re on the right side, a philosophy that I think one of the most pernicious in all the American filmed series.” (Tom Hutchinson in The Evening Standard)
“It’s a case of case of Casey being too attached to her work.” (Radio Times.)
Thursday 13th July
ITV – 4.55pm – Atom Ant (most probably a repeat)
Friday 14th July
Thames – 4.55 – Land Of The Giants (repeat)
Perhaps next week will have been better. Stay tuned …
The Almanac Of The Fantastical 