Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 30th March 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 on Talking Pictures TV Directed by . Stars: , , , and Martita Hunt. Considered to be the first of the Gainsborough melodramas, this Regency tale told from the perspective of the 1940s is lead by James Mason, playing a notorious rake with a huge fortune, who marries without love. The unhappy marriage is further marred when his wife falls for another, but plans to elope are foiled. Catching a fever as she waves goodbye to her lover’s departing ship, the poor wife’s illness is fatally worsened by a jealous woman, who ultimately pays the highest price for her deceit. Back in the 1940s, love takes a happier course. All Gainsborough melodramas have their roots in this production, but none surpassed the first. Airs on Sunday 5th April at 3:45pm

Monday 30th March 07:20am Tuesday 31st March 10:00pm That Brennan Girl (1946) Billy Liar (1963) Drama, directed by: Alfred Santell. Comedy, directed by Stars: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, John Schlesinger. William Marshall, June Duprez. Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie When Ziggy Brennan’s seaman & Wilfred Pickles. A lazy young clerk husband is killed in action, her baby in provincial Northern England lives is taken into custody. Can she make in his own fantasy. good and be reunited with her child? Wednesday 1st April 2:15pm (AKA Tough Girl) You Will Remember (1941) Monday 30th March 12:00pm Musical drama, directed by Lady Hamilton (1941) Jack Raymond. Stars: , Drama, directed by . Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Hyson. Stars: Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh Based on the life of the English and Alan Mowbray. The historical composer Leslie Stuart, famous in story of the romance between Lord the British music halls. Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. Wednesday 1st April 4:05pm (AKA That Hamilton Woman) One Jump Ahead (1954) Monday 30th March 14:30pm Crime thriller directed by Target for Tonight (1941) Charles Saunders. World War II documentary featuring Stars: Paul Carpenter, Diane Hart, the RAF on a Bomber Command raid Jill Adams and Freddie Mills. over Germany from the experience of A journalist is on the trail of a killer, Wellington bomber “F for Freddie”. attempting to keep “one jump ahead” of the police. Tuesday 31st March 2:55pm and Sunday 5th April 09:30am Wednesday 1st April 5:25pm Who Killed the Cat? (1966) A Boy a Girl and a Bike (1949) Directed by Montgomery Tully. Comedy, directed by Ralph Smart. Stars: Mary Merrall, Ellen Pollock, Stars: John McCallum, Diana Dors, Mervyn Johns. A widow persecutes Honor Blackman and Patrick Holt. three old ladies, even poisoning a pet A bike club covers for illegal dealings. cat – but fate takes its revenge... Thursday 2nd April 2:30pm Tuesday 31st March 4:40pm A Stitch in Time (1963) No, My Darling Daughter (1961) Comedy, directed by Robert Asher. Comedy directed by Ralph Thomas. Stars: Norman Wisdom, Stars: , Michael Craig Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke. and Juliet Mills. The daughter of a Apprentice butcher Norman will go wealthy industrialist runs away with to any lengths to visit his young friend a playboy, but falls in love with the in hospital, despite causing chaos! young man sent to bring her back. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 30th March 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thursday 2nd April 4:30pm Saturday 4th April 6:50pm The Jungle Book (1942) The Rainmaker (1957) Adventure, directed by Zoltan Korda. Romance, directed by Stars: Sabu, Joseph Calleia and Joseph Anthony. Stars: Burt Lancaster, John Qualen. Early film version of Katharine Hepburn. A middle-aged Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale. woman who suffers from unrequited Mowgli, raised by wolves in the love for the sheriff falls for a con man African jungle, stumbles upon the who comes to town with the promise village where he was born. that he can make it rain. Saturday 4th April 9:20pm Thursday 2nd April 7:00pm Girl With Green Eyes (1964) On the Night of the Fire (1939) Drama, directed by Desmond Davis. Drama, directed by . Stars Peter Finch Rita Tushingham Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard Lynn Redgrave & Julian Glover. and Romney Brent. A barber commits a An Irish Catholic farm girl moves to theft which leads to his involvement in Dublin to pursue a more exciting life. blackmail and murder. Sunday 5th April 12:50pm Friday 3rd April 12:00pm Looking for Sophia (2004) The Iron Maiden (1962) Documentary, directed by: Comedy, directed by Gerald Thomas. Roberto Olla, Danila Satta Stars: Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Documentary on the work of Jeff Donnell. An aircraft designer with a Sophia Loren with interviews and passion for traction engines designs a rare footage. A heroine, according to new supersonic jet plane. Anthony Burgess; Sophia is a mystery. Sunday 5th April 3:45pm Friday 3rd April 5:50pm The Man in Grey (1943) The Turners of Prospect Road (1947) Drama, directed by: Leslie Arliss Comedy, directed by Maurice J. Wilson. Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Helena Pickard, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Maureen Glynne. A taxi driver finds an Stewart Granger. The story of a abandoned greyhound puppy Regency romance with a bitter and takes it home to his daughter, outcome told in retrospect. who raises it and trains it to race. Sunday 5th April 7:05pm Saturday 4th April 3:45pm Dear Mr Prohack (1949) Heart of a Child (1958) Comedy, directed by: Drama, directed by Clive Donner. . Stars: Cecil Parker, Stars: Jean Anderson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Donald Pleasence, Richard Williams. , Sheila Sim. During wartime rationing, a young Arthur Prohack works in the treasury Austrian boy is forced to sell the where he has rigid control of the family dog to pay for food. Will his public purse. When he comes into a canine friend find him when he is private fortune, his personal finances trapped in a snowstorm? are much more difficult to manage! Sunday 5th April 10:00pm Saturday 4th April 5:20pm Armchair Theatre: Office Party Flight To Mars (1951) (1971) Science fiction, directed by Lesley Drama, directed by: Voytek. Selander. Stars: Marguerite Chapman Stars: Peter Barkworth, Ray Brooks, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz. Angharad Rees. Written by Five astronauts fly to Mars where they Fay Wheldon, this drama is sharply encounter seemingly friendly and observed. Office politics overshadow advanced inhabitants – a retirement party, highlighting a however, the Martians plan to use the society in which men and women ship to invade Earth. cannot relate to one another’s needs.