The Colour of Money on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Helen Shaver, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker

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The Colour of Money on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Helen Shaver, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker. Directed by Martin Scorsese in 1986. Continuing the story of pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Felson from Walter Tevis’ novel, The Hustler, with Newman reprising his role from the 1961 ﬁlm adaptation. Fast Eddie takes a cocky yet talented youngster under his wing and teaches him the art of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback. Airs: Saturday 6th March 9pm

Monday 1st March 10:30am Tuesday 2nd March 10:30am Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947) Small Hotel (1957) Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Comedy. Director: David Mcdonald. Stars: Peter Graves, Joyce Howard, Stars: Gordon Harker, Billie Whitelaw, Leslie Banks and Margaretta Scott. Irene Handl. At a small hotel, Albert A society beauty’s marriage to the waiter is a past master at the art the Prince of Wales causes a of ﬁddling. political crisis. Tuesday 2nd March 6:35pm Monday 1st March 4:25pm Checkpoint (1956) The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) Drama. Director: Ralph Thomas. Thriller. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stars: Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Liam Redmond and Harry Fowler. Justice. An agent is sent to lure an A crime reporter and his girlfriend Italian designer away from his ﬁrm. investigate a dead body pulled from the Thames. A foreign embassy link Tuesday 2nd March 8:15pm makes it a diplomatic matter. The Spy Who Came In from Monday 1st March 6:35pm the Cold (1965) Doctor In Love (1960) Espionage. Director: Martin Ritt. Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom Stars: Michael Craig, Leslie Phillips, and Oskar Werner. A British spy James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims. posing as a former MI5 agent in Richard Hare’s love life has as many East Germany is caught in a ups and downs as his career. labyrinth of plots and counter-plots. Monday 1st March 8:35pm Wednesday 3rd March 10:30am All In A Night’s Work (1961) The Bliss of Mrs Blossom (1968) Comedy Drama. Director: Joseph Comedy. Director: Joseph McGrath. Anthony. Stars: Dean Martin, Stars: Richard Attenborough, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson. Shirley MacLaine, James Booth. A playboy who inherits his uncle’s A bored housewife begins an publishing business has to hush up affair with one of her husband’s the circumstances of his uncle’s death. employees. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 22nd February 2021

The Champions New Series on Talking Pictures TV The stylish, suspenseful and action packed series The Champions, made in the late 1960s, starred Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt. Endowed with superhuman qualities and skills, closely guarded secret gifts given to them by a race of people from a lost city in Tibet, each uses these powers to their best advantage... as Champions of Law, Order and Justice, operators of the International Agency, Nemesis! Airs: Sunday 7th March 9pm

Wednesday 3rd March 12:30pm Thursday 4th March 10pm No Way Back (1949) Easy Money (1948) Drama. Director: Stefan Osiecki. Comedy. Director: Bernard Stars: Terence De Marney, Eleanor Knowles. Cast: Greta Gynt, Dennis Summerﬁeld, Jack Raine, John Salew. Price, Jack Warner, Petula Clark, A boxer begins a downward slide, Mervyn Johns. Four tales about the losing his wife and money. effect a major Pools win has on four different sets of people. Based Wednesday 3rd March 4:15pm on a play by Arnold Ridley. Night Was Our Friend (1951) Friday 5th March 7:50am Drama. Director: Michael Appointment with Crime (1946) Anderson. Stars: Elizabeth Sellars, Crime. Director: John Harlow. Stars: Michael Gough, Ronald Howard. William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell Missing for two years, Martin returns and Robert Beatty. A British thief, home but commits suicide and his released from prison for jewel theft, wife is accused of his murder. devises a plan for vengeance on his accomplices. Wednesday 3rd March 9:05pm Friday 5th March 9:35am Under Suspicion (1992) Old Mother Riley’s Ghosts (1941) Drama. Director: Simon Moore. Stars: Comedy. Director: John Baxter. Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo & Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Maggie O’Neill. In 1950s England, a John Stuart, Dennis Wyndham, detective becomes a suspect when John Laurie. Mother Riley inherits his wife and a client are murdered. a haunted castle and takes in a homeless inventor. Thursday 4th March 10:30am Friday 5th March 12:55pm Unpublished Story (1942) The Punch and Judy Man (1963) War. Director: Harold French. Stars: Comedy. Director: Jeremy Summers. Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson and Stars: Tony Hancock, Sylvia Syms Basil Radford. A war correspondent in and Ronald Fraser. A Punch and London during WWII becomes Judy man is driven to distraction by suspicious of a peace organisation. his social climbing wife and his local government. Thursday 4th March 2:30pm Lassie From Lancashire (1938) Friday 5th March 6pm Comedy. Director: John Paddy Traveller’s Joy (1951) Carstairs. Stars: Marjorie Browne, Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Hal Thompson, Marjorie Sandford. Stars: Googie Withers, Dora Bryan, A talented lass from Lancashire John McCallum, Maurice Denham. appears in a show, hoping to A divorced couple ﬁnd themselves be discovered. stuck, penniless, in a Swedish hotel. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 22nd February 2021

Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Bill Maynard, Joss Ackland, Bernard Lee, Frank Windsor, John Leyton, Maureen Lipman. Directed by Val Guest in 1980. Detective Constable ‘Dangerous’ Davies cannot be trusted not to inﬂict damage upon himself whenever he leaves the police station. His great day arrives when he is assigned to keep tabs on a local villain. As he investigates, everyone gets a lot more than they bargained for! Airs: Sunday 7th March 10pm

Friday 5th March 9pm Sunday 7th March 7:45am Alien Nation (1988) The Last Journey (1935) Crime. Director: Graham Baker. Drama. Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Stars: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Terence Stamp. Los Angeles 1991; Williams, Judy Gunn, Mickey humans co-exist with alien beings, Brantford. A train driver about to one of whom partners a policeman. begin retirement believes his wife is having an affair. The day arrives Saturday 6th March 9am for his ﬁnal journey. Saturday Morning Pictures! Sunday 7th March 12:05pm 9.00 Popeye; 9:10 Zorro’s Black Whip; Value For Money (1955) 9:30 The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961) Young David guards a strange Romantic Comedy. Director: egg for his uncle, but when a baby Ken Annakin. Stars: John Gregson, monster hatches, mayhem ensues. Diana Dors, Joan Hickson. Chayley Director: Alberto Cavalcanti. Stars: falls for a nightclub performer after Rachel Clay, Michael Wade, Terry inheriting a large sum of money from his father. Raven. 10:45 The Lone Ranger; 11:15 Flash Gordon; 11:40 Superman. Sunday 7th March 3:50pm Stop Press Girl (1949) Saturday 6th March 4pm Comedy. Director: Michael Barry. Alaska Passage (1959) Stars: Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Drama. Director: Edward Bernds. Jackson, James Robertson Justice, Stars: Bill Williams, Naura Hayden, Kenneth More. A young girl Lyn Thomas. A woman complicates possesses the power of stopping matters between two trucking all types of machinery. partners who are struggling to keep their business aﬂoat. Sunday 7th March 9pm The Champions (1968) Saturday 6th March 6:10pm Episode 1: The Beginning Destination Gobi (1953) Director: Cyril Frankel. War. Director: Robert Wise. Stars: Stuart Damon, Stars: Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Casey Adams, Murvyn Vye. In 1944, Anthony Nicholls, Felix Aylmer, US Navy specialists run a weather Burt Kwouk. Returning from China station in the Gobi desert where with stolen bacteriological they are harassed by Japanese material, the plane carrying the three agents of Nemesis warplanes but aided by local is shot down over the Himalayas. They survive and are Mongol nomads. nurtured by a Tibetan tribe, learning they have had new abilities bestowed on them by their rescuers.