Let's go back in time to the week of 21 - 27 November, 1992.
The cover for this week's issueo of Radio Times features British comedian Rowan Atkinson, dressed in a green leotard, demonstrating the art of physical humor.
The Olympics took place in Barcelona in August. Polly Toynee comments on the fact that an estimated 1,200 British children are stolen away to foreign countries every year, mostly by their fathers. Among other actors, Paul McCann (Doctor Who) is interviewed - but not about Who.
But what's happening on the science fiction scene?
Radio 4: 4:30 pm, Science Now. Global Warming. At 5:00 pm, Costing the Earth, Polar explorer Robert Swan discusses global warming.
Sunday, 22 Nov 1992
"Operation Crash Dive" episode of Thunderbirds, the 1960s Gerry Anderson series on BBC 2. This is shown in its original English (on Monday and Wednesday mornings it is broadcast dubbed in French).
"Attack!" episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the 1960s American TV series, airs at 10.45 am on Channel 4.
The third part of the 6-part British fantasy mini-series, The Borrowers, starring Ian Holm and Penelope Wilton, airs at 5.45 am on Channel 1.
Monday, 23 Nov 1992
Part 3 of the 12-part science fiction comedy thriller Watt on Earth airs at 4.20 PM on BBC 1. This episode stars Garth Napier Jones, Tom Brodie, Jessica Simpson, Simon Cook, Heather Wright, Anna Wing, Angela Bruce and Christopher Blake star.
BBC Radio 5: The first of six parts of Terry Pratchett's Guards, Guards! airs at 9:30 pm. Stars Martin Jarvis, John Wood, Melvyn Hayes, Helen Atkinson Wood.
Tuesday, 24 Nov 1992
Television series Spacevets. At 4.05 PM, Part 2 of the episode "Teeth of the Storm" airs at 4.05 PM on BBC 1. Linden Kirk, Robin Kingsland, Bernard Wright, David Schneider, Mark Hayford and Richard Robinson star.
On BBC 2, the cult British TV series Thunderbirds is aired in French. The episode is "The Man From M15." Morning TV on this Tuesday also included Techno, which talks about current technology, Mathsphere, which discusses math, and Watch, which on this occasion is a look at time and planets. Finally, Science Challenge.
On BBC 2, at 7.45 PM Assignment aired a documentary called "Star Wars - the Next Generation." Military chiefs in America and Russia plan to join forces to build a space shield against the growing threat of Scud missiles. But Britain objects to this new partnerships.
The American TV show Quantum Leap airs the episode "Piano Man," at 9:00 PM on BBC 2.
Wednesday, 25 Nov 1992
Part 4 of Watt on Earth airs at 4.20 PM on BBC 1.
On BBC 2, Search Out Science airs "Planet Earth," in which Doctor Who plays the ultimate challenge, the greatest gameshow in the galaxy.
On ITV, The Tomorrow People airs at 4:40 PM. It's a sci fi series about three young people marooned on a faraway island. The program stars Kristian Schmid, Christian Tessier, Kristen Ariza, Adam Pearce, Manning Redwood, and Hugh Quarshie.
On ITV at 11:40 PM is the film Escape From DS-3, starring Jackson Bostwick, David Chandler, Buba Smith and Channing Mitchell. At 1:20 AM airs the movie In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep, which stars Tony Markes and Rainbow Dolan and finally at 2:40 AM the American TV series War of the Worlds airs the episode "Dust to Dust."
On Channel 4, The Prisoner airs the episode "Checkmate", at 11:00 PM.
Thursday, 26 Nov 1992
Thunderbirds in French, on BBC 2 at 11:00 AM. On Channel 4, at 10:21 am, Science and Technology, for students preparing for GCSE or equvalent exams.
On Sky Movies Gold, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, at 8:10 pm.
At 4:40 pm, the game Knightmare, a dungeon game set in medieval times.
On BBC 2, at 6:00 pm, Stingray, the classic Gerry Anderson puppet series. At 6:25, The Man From Uncle, "The Yukon Affair." And at 7:15 pm, Doctor Who, part 2 of the Jon Pertwee episode "The Daemons."
On Channel 4 at 2:40 am Friday night, Twilight Zone, "Person or Persons Unknown."
BBC Radio 5: At 6:30 pm is episode 5, "Freeze," of Greywing, in which Timothy Spall plays a part-time superhero. Bernard Hill is the evil ice-cream tycoon Penny Leake.
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