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Schedule 1982
First Friday schedule of Channel 4, 5th November 1982
| Time | Programme | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 4.45 | Countdown | Richard Whiteley hosts this fast-moving crossword quiz game, with this week's resident wordsmith, Ted Moult. |
| 5.15 | Preview | Looking ahead to the new Channel's programmes with all four Channel 4 announcers: Paul Cola, Keith Harrison, Olga Hubicka and David Stranks. |
| 5.30 | The Body Show | Yvonne Ocampo introduces the first of a series showing how everyone can enjoy keeping fit to music with the exercises dancers use. |
| 6.00 | People's Court | Real-life Californian court cases are tried in the studio. Tonight retired Judge Wapner tries the case of One Bald Tyre and the case of One Hot Roller Skate. |
| 6.30 | Book Four | The Channel's new book programme considers writing about war, featuring Len Deighton (in a rare TV interview), William Boyd and Fay Weldon. |
| 7.00 | Channel Four News | Britain's first hour-long nightly news programme is launched by ITN with Peter Sissons, Sarah Hogg, Godfrey Hodgson and Trevor McDonald. |
| 8.00 | Brookside | Britain's new twice-weekly serial set and shot on a new Merseyside estate. Tonight the Collins family move in to a few unwelcome surprises! |
| 8.30 | The Paul Hogan Show | Australian TV's top-rated comic comes to British screens, featuring ‘Divorce Australian Style', with the guests reassembling to reclaim their gifts, and live from a downtown pool-hall, 'Pot Belly'. |
| 9.00 | Film on Four: Walter | Ian McKellen gives a sensitive portrayal as a mentally handicapped man in the first of this series of feature films commissioned specially by Channel 4. |
| 10.15 | The Comic Strip Presents: Five Go Mad in Dorset | Those famous brats have a ripping time on their summer hols in this hilarious spoof from the Comic Strip team. |
| 10.45 | The Raving Beauties in Pink | Anna Carteret, Sue Jones-Davies and Fanny Viner (The Raving Beauties) in a witty, provocative revue celebrating women's lives. |
| 11.45 | Close | Time to go to bed. |
