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Monday February 25th English: Fiends of the Eastern Front and Black Hawk Profile BBC 1, 10.15 am: Music Time - featuring a demonstration of some of the sounds you can make using a drum synthesiser ITV, 7 pm: The Kenny Everett Video Show - Series 3, Episode 2, featuring: • Someone’s Looking At You Boomtown Rats (repeated from the New Year’s Eve special) • Mama’s Boy - Suzi Quatro • Living Doll Cliff Richard (who is a revelation here - not necessarily for his music, but the sheer fun he’s having - he comes across as a genuinely good bloke) • Another Brick in the Wall Pink Floyd (via Hot Gossip) BBC 1, 7.15 pm: Blake’s 7 - Rumours of Death: another tragic episode which explores Avon’s tender side - we always suspected he might have one, and here it is, spilling out of his wounds and splashing all over the concrete. BBC 2, 9 pm: Yes, Minister - Open Government: the very first episode - here’s a clip Tuesday February 26th English: Apeth and Tedosaurus BBC 1, 5.10 pm: Grange Hill - Series 3, Episode 15, in which - SPOILER WARNING - Antoni Karamanopolis falls off a roof and dies. Wednesday February 27th History: The Story of Nelson - Part Three Thursday February 28th English: A Walk in Our Village Star Wars Weekly No 106 Doctor Who Weekly No 21 Spectacular Spider-Man Weekly No 365 Incredible Hulk Weekly No 53 Marvel Superheroes No 359 BBC 1, 7.20 pm: Top of the Pops - presented by David ‘Kid’ Jensen, with: • I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down Elvis Costello & The Attractions • Turning Japanese The Vapors • Dance Yourself Dizzy Liquid Gold • Cuba Gibson Brothers • At the Edge Stiff Little Fingers • So Lonely The Police (via Legs & Co) • All Night Long Rainbow ITV, 8.30 pm: TV Eye - Afghanistan: The China Connection - visiting Pakistan to explore the Chinese connection to the current crisis in Afghanistan Friday February 29th A leap year! BBC 1, 5.10 pm: Grange Hill - Series 3, Episode 16: last in the current series BBC 2, 6 pm: Monkey - The Minx and the Slug Saturday March 1st 2000 AD Prog 155: includes a ‘Ro-Jaws Robo Feature’ (apparently written by the mockney robot character Ro-Jaws) about Disney’s sci-fi feature film The Black Hole, claiming it’s “on general release from 7th March” There’s also an ad for the third edition of a comic called Speed and, in a rare moment of unbridled silliness, comedy cartoon superhero Captain Klep finds himself “marooned in history,” having to “wait it out until his own time arrived” in the guise of various historical luminaries such as Genghis Klep and Leonardo da Klep - very much like Scaroth did in the recent Doctor Who story City of Death. One day Doctor Who will repay the homage when Captain Jack waits out several millennia in various different bits of Torchwood. ITV, 10 pm: Tales of the Unexpected - Royal Jelly - first episode of the second season of Roald Dahl’s creepy anthology series Sunday March 2nd UK SINGLES CHART No 1: Atomic Blondie No 65: King / Food For Thought UB40 UK ALBUMS CHART No 1: String of Hits The Shadows No 41: Big Smash! Wreckless Eric

Monday February 25th - Sunday March 2nd, 1980

TERM 2: Week 7

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TERM 2 (Jan - Apr 1980) New Year (Jan 1 - Jan 6, 1980) Week 1 (Jan 7 - Jan 13, 1980) Week 2 (Jan 14 - Jan 20, 1980) Week 3 (Jan 21 - Jan 27, 1980) Week 4 (Jan 28 - Feb 3, 1980) Week 5 (Feb 4 - Feb 10, 1980) Week 6 (Feb 11 - Feb 17, 1980) Half Term (Feb 18 - Feb 24, 1980) Week 7 (Feb 25 - Mar 2, 1980) Week 8 (Mar 3 - Mar 9, 1980) Week 9 (Mar 10 - Mar 16, 1980) Week 10 (Mar 17 - Mar 23, 1980) Week 11 (Mar 24 - Mar 30, 1980) Easter 1 (Mar 31 - Apr 6, 1980) Easter 2 (Apr 7 - Apr 13, 1980)

TERM 2 IN LINK FORM

TERM 1 (Sep - Dec 1979)

Hi-de-Hi! Jan 1, 1980

Steelworkers Strike Jan 2, 1980

State of the Union Jan 23, 1980

My Girl Madness

Blake’s 7 Returns Jan 7, 1980

Barbara Woodhouse Jan 7, 1980

Mugabe Elected Zimbabwe PM Mar 4, 1980

Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins

Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel

Robin Cousins at the Olympics Feb 21, 1980

Underpass John Foxx

Judge Death Jan 19, 1980

TERM 3 (Apr - Jul 1980)