18:00 [News] BBC Galactic News

19:00 [Adventure] Professor Enigma
Planet of the Cybermen - The Professor (Adam Feldon) investigates a series of political assassinations on New Mondas that, if not stopped, may pave the way for a hardline military takeover of the moderate government. Cyber Coordinator: Cyberleader Darul Gold. (Repeat)

20:00 [Motoring] Top Gear
Series 808, Episode 4 - A visit from the Nekomi Institute of Technology Motor Club; Which is faster, a Lamborghini Hechicero or a Royal Salusian Marine?; Autobots - which is best?

21:00 [Travel] Michael Palin's Regrettably Titled Travel Series see SPOTLIGHT below
Episode 04: That Doesn't Sound So Bad - Michael joins a Jawa sandcrawler's voyage across Tatooine's Dune Sea, runs afoul of a Tusken raiding party, and visits the court of the infamous Jabba the Hutt... whether he wants to or not.

22:00 [Adventure Science] The Web of History
The Path to the Stars - James Burke and Hiroe explore the twists and turns of history that led to First Contact with Salusia, and from there to the earliest pioneers of the First Diaspora, including the founders of the Rigel Crown Colonies.

23:00 [Movie] (***˝) Biggles Jumps to Lightspeed
(Color; 2408) Updated tale of Capt. W.E. Johns's famed aviator, now a member of the 22nd-century Royal Aerospace Force defending the Crown Colonies of the Rigel Sector from the Kilrathi. Biggles: Jack Harkness. Algy: John W. Smith.

01:00 [Movie] (****) Monty Python Presents the Ragnarök
(Color; 2393) The legendary 20th-century comedy team reunite to present a sweeping tale of love, madness, heroism, and the Viking prophecy of the fiery end of all creation... if the Wedge Defense Force had been there. Features the famous Charge of the Valkyrie Flying Fish Cavalry. Balder: Graham Chapman. MegaZone/Loki: John Cleese.

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PROGRAMME SPOTLIGHT: Michael Palin's Regrettably Titled Travel Series
He was the first BBC presenter to make television on a planet other than Earth. Over the centuries he's been a fugitive from (false) justice, a cultural envoy, an ambassador of peace, and one of the most widely traveled Earthmen in the history of the Diaspora - but through it all he's remained a beloved national treasure of his native Britain. In this, his 200th BBC travel programme, Michael Palin takes on the most sprawling subject yet - the Outer Rim Territories at the edge of civilized space - and shows once again the abundant wit, gentle humanity, and traditional British intrepidity that have made him such a generations-spanning icon. As he explains in the flyleaf to the companion book, "The show has the title it has because of the two principal alternatives, Around the Rim with Michael Palin was terrible and Michael Palin's Outer Rim was worse."

> Balder: Graham Chapman.

"Oh, don't grovel. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people grovelling."

> MegaZone/Loki: John Cleese.

This breaks my brain. But in a good way.

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>PROGRAMME SPOTLIGHT: Michael Palin's Regrettably Titled Travel
>Series
> As he explains in the flyleaf
>to the companion book, "The show has the title it has because of the
>two principal alternatives, Around the Rim with Michael Palin
>was terrible and Michael Palin's Outer Rim was worse."

...yes. I can see how tha- yes.

Adam Feldon as the Professor? Was this before or after Rose Tyler? If it was after, that would be a shame....she's much more decorative. But, I might have a fixation.

As to the Top Gear/Autobots thing....the mind boggles. Those guys never met a car they didn't at least try to bend, or so it seems...

Thanks, Gryph. Just the giggle I needed at 0630 on this, my Deity-given day of rest.

- Bodhi
"Who knew the British could be such sneaky bastards?" -- Source unknown.