Talking Pictures TV Highlights For CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR
This is just a small selection; our full listings are on our website www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk and in all good newspapers and TV magazines. We send email listings every Sunday to anyone who wants them – just let us know! Email Sarah: [email protected] Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Christmas Eve Christmas Day Boxing Day New Year Thursday 24th December 7:45am Friday 25th December 10am Saturday 26th December 9am Thursday 31st December 10:30am Get Some In! Christmas Special Christmas at Robin’s Nest and Sunday 27th December 9am Jumping For Joy (1956) Christmas at the Camp (1975) (1979) Stars: Tony Britton, Tessa Runaround: Christmas Special (1979) Comedy. Director: John Paddy Stars: Tony Selby, Robert Lindsay, Wyatt & Richard O’Sullivan. Director: Colin Nutley. Classic children’s Carstairs. Stars: Frankie Howerd, David Janson. C Flight must stay Robin puts up the decorations, gameshow. Hosted by Mike Reid with Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson. behind when they’re picked for but the bistro must stay closed. Barbara Dickson, The Band of the Irish A young dog racer loses his job. maintenance duty. Guards & Winchester Cathedral Choir. Friday 25th December 10:30am Thursday 31st December 6:50pm Thursday 24th December 10:30am An Inspector Calls (1954) Saturday 26th December 8:10pm Dead Of Night (1945) Oliver Twist (1948) Crime. Director: Guy Hamilton. Went The Day Well? (1942) Thriller. Director: Alberto Drama. Director: David Lean. Stars: Alastair Sim. An inspector War. Director: Cavalcanti. Stars: Cavalcanti. Stars: Charles Crichton, Stars: John Howard Davies, Robert calls on the Birling family. Leslie Banks, Mervyn and Basil Sydney. Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Newton, Alec Guinness, and Kay Walsh. English villagers fight back against a Mervyn Johns & Michael Redgrave. An orphaned boy joins a household of Friday 25th December 12:05pm platoon of German troops. An architect senses doom as his boys who steal for their master. and Sunday 27th Dec 3:25pm dreams become reality. Please Sir! (1971) Saturday 26th December 10pm Thursday 24th December 12:50pm Comedy. Director: Mark Stuart. Personal Services (1987) Friday 1st January 11.55am The Christmas Tree (1966) Stars: John Alderton, Deryck Comedy, directed by Terry Jones. In The Doghouse (1961) Family. Director: Jim Clark. Stars: Guyler, Carol Hawkins. Stars: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Comedy. Director: Darcy Conyers. Brian Blessed, William Burleigh, Teacher Bernard Hedges takes Shirley Stelfox, Danny Schiller. A waitress Stars: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Anthony Honour and Kate Nicholls. his class to a holiday camp. sublets to prostitutes and is soon running Cummins. A newly qualified vet Gary is determined to get a tree for a brothel that caters to middle-aged men. takes over an old practice and children in hospital for Christmas. Friday 25th December 3:05pm becomes rivals with another vet. Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Sunday 27th December 11:00am & Thursday 24th December 14:30pm (1951) Tuesday 29th December 7:50am Friday 1st January 6pm & Trouble in Store (1953) Drama. Director: Brian Desmond The Way We Live (1946) Thursday 7th January 2:30pm Comedy. Director: John Paddy Hurst. Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Drama documentary on the rebuilding The Water Babies (1978) Carstairs. Stars: Norman Wisdom, Warner and Sir Michael Hordern. Plymouth after World War II, told Action-animation. Director: Lionel Moira Lister, Margaret Rutherford. Christmas is not a time of by a visiting journalist and through Jeffries. Stars: James Mason, The escapades of an employee of a celebration for Scrooge. the experiences of a local family made Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw. London store who has ambitions to homeless by the bombing. Framed for a crime, Tom jumps become a window-dresser. Friday 25th December 6pm & into a river and becomes an Saturday 2nd January 6pm Sunday 27th December 7:05pm aquatic creature. Thursday 24th December 4:25pm El Cid (1961) The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) and Friday 1st January at 1:45pm Epic. Director: Anthony Mann. Family film, written and directed by Friday 1st January 9:45pm & An Evening with Matt Monro Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Lionel Jeffries. Stars: Laurence Naismith, Monday 4th January 10pm Music Special (1967) Loren, Herbert Lom. Spain is Lynne Frederick, Rosalyn Landor, Garry Witchfinder General(1968) Director: Kenny Clayton. overrun by the Moors and the Miller, David Lodge, Diana Dors. Horror. Director: Michael Reeves. For 40 years a film reel of Matt Monro country’s only hope rests in El Cid. A family move to an old house where Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy. performing live lay unknown in the they encounter two ghostly children. The exploits of Matthew Hopkins, family garage. Its discovery by his Friday 25th December 9:30pm “Witch Finder Generall”. daughter Michele was momentous: the and Thurs 31st Dec 10pm Sunday 27th December 10pm; only known film of Britain’s greatest Without a Clue (1988) Monday 28th December 11:50pm & Saturday 2nd January 9:30pm & singer had at last been found. Comedy. Director: Thom Friday 1st January at 8pm Tuesday 5th January 10pm Eberhardt. Stars: Michael Caine, Ten Little Indians (1965) Hud (1963) Tuesday 22nd December 6:35pm & Ben Kingsley, Lysette Anthony. Mystery. Director: George Pollock. Director: Martin Ritt. Stars: Thursday 24th December 7:45pm Doctor Watson creates an Stars: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton. Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Christmas Under Fire (1941) imaginary Sherlock Holmes and 10 strangers are invited to a mansion Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde. War. It’s a Christmas of holly & barbed needs an actor to play him. in the Alps where each will die. Hud declares his father mentally wire yet the British are determined to incompetent to save the herd. make it as cheerful as possible. Friday 25th December 11:40pm Wednesday 30th December 9:05pm & Sat 2nd January 11:45pm & Friday 8th January 10pm Sunday 3rd January 7:10pm & Thursday 24th December 8pm The Best of the Adventures Money Movers (1978) Wednesday 6th January 2:30pm Ooh... You Are Awful! (1972) (1981) Comedy. Director: Crime. Director: Bruce Beresford. The Anniversary (1967) Comedy. Director: Cliff Owen. Stanley Long. Stars: Barry Evans, Stars: Terence Donovan, Bryan Brown, Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt. Diana Dors, Liz Fraser. Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux. Stars: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock Charlie must find a bank account Feature-length compilation A company running armoured cars is and Jack Hedley. The family 22 number to recover a fortune. from the ‘Adventures of’ series! repeatedly targeted by robbers. gathers to endure ‘Mother’. 23