Ep.30 r1 — Fairlight — 16 October 1985

First, the radio.

Official singles chart for the 13th of October had the Power of Love by Jennifer Rush in first place.

Five weeks at the top from early October, uh, soft verses and a chorus that ate Radio One.

Here's the Power of Love.

Learn about the power of love.

The sound of your-

That chorus still fills a kitchen on a wet Wednesday.

You hear Jennifer Rush on the wireless, then walk into W.H. Smith and find a completely different kind of castle music waiting on cassette.

I nearly tried the big note in the car, which is a public service warning if you live near me.

Please leave the big notes for Jennifer.

Keep both hands on the keyboard map because Fairlight already asks for enough keys without you conducting from the driver's seat.

On the box that Wednesday, uh, BBC One had Tenko at, uh, five past eight, a series three repeat, uh, with Dorothy forced into a decision after hostility from the other internees.

Uh, prisoner of war drama, women held after Singapore fell, and it still hit hard in '85, even on a repeat.

Here's the Tenko theme.

[instrumental music] Those titles still mean evening telly with the curtains shut and nobody joking through the first scene.

James Harpham's theme does half the work before anyone speaks, and the camp stories never felt light even when you'd seen the episode before.

Over on the kids' dial that same week, the Tripods was midway through series two, Friday tea time on BBC One, Will learning more about the masters and the Hall of Beauty, caps on skulls, white mountains, and a proper sci-fi itch after school.

Tripods and Tenko in the same week is peak '85 scheduling.

One show about women surviving a camp, the other about kids dodging alien machines, and both stuck in the playground the next morning.