TPTV Schedule September 10th - 16th 2018
- DATE
- TIME
- PROGRAMME
- SYNOPSIS
Mon 10 6:00 Sep 18
When London
Sleeps
1932. Crime drama directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Harold French, Francis L. Sullivan & René Ray. Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead.
- Mon 10 7:30 Hawkeye & the Last
- The Coward. 1957. Director: Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon
Chaney Jr & Jonathan White. Tom and his father are attacked by Hurons. Tom runs away in fear leaving his wounded father behind.
(Subtitles Available)
- Sep 18
- of the Mohicans
- Luck of The Navy
- Mon 10 8:00
Sep 18
1938. Drama. Directed by Norman Lee. Stars Geoffrey Toone, Judy Kelly and Clifford Evans. With international relations strained and war a possibility, Commander Stanton is given a special mission.
Mon 10 9:25 Bombay Waterfront 1952. Directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Patricia
- Sep 18
- Dainton and Peter Gawthorne. Follows Temple's efforts to aid the
police in solving a series of gruesome murders. (Subtitles Available)
Mon 10 10:50 The History Of The Made in the 50s. A fascinating insight into the history of film making,
- Sep 18
- Movies
- from the early zoetrope to the introduction of perforated film and the
early projectors. Then from silent to 'Talking Pictures'
Mon 10 11:05 Sep 18
- Blind Spot
- 1958. Crime Drama directed by Peter Maxwell. Starring Robert
Mackenzie, Michael Caine and Delphi Lawrence. US Officer Adams, blinded during the war, is framed on a diamond-smuggling rap. 1940. War. Director: Anthony Asquith. Stars Clive Brook, Diana
Wynyard & Raymond Huntley. A German doctor, disillusioned with Nazi propaganda, creates a secret radio-feed condemning the movement.
1965. Adventure. Director: Robert Day. Stars Ursula Andress, John Richardson, Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee. Archaeologists stumble across a lost city, run by a beautiful immortal Queen.
Mon 10 12:35 Sep 18
Freedom Radio
- She
- Mon 10 14:25
Sep 18
Mon 10 16:25 Glimpses of 1950s Amateur colour footage of a 1950s Devon, Plymouth Looe, Bodinnick Sep 18 Devon Ferry and surrounding areas.
Mon 10 16:30 Amos Burke: Secret The Man's Men. Burke must track down town insiders responsible for
- Sep 18
- Agent
- theft of agency personnel records and prevent the sale of those
records to agency adversaries.
Mon 10 17:30 Sep 18
- Scotland Yard
- 1959. The Ghost Train Murder. Directed by Geoffrey Muller. Starring
Russell Napier, Gorgon Needham and Mary Laura Wood. A Hungarian girl is found murdered; stabbed by knitting needles. (S1, E31)
1951. Comedy. Director: Mario Zampi. Stars Alastair Sim, George Cole, Fay Compton & Guy Middleton. When a playful millionaire dies, his loved ones must complete assignments to claim his fortune.
The Housekeeper. Stars John Gregson, Alexander Davion and Daphne Anderson. A serial murderess is on the loose a woman that poses as a housekeeper that preys on OAPs with money.
Mon 10 18:05 Sep 18
Laughter in Paradise
Mon 10 20:00 Sep 18
Gideon's Way
Mon 10 21:00 The Comeback Kid 1980. Comedy. Directed by Peter Levin. Stars John Ritter, Susan Dey,
- Sep 18
- Patrick Swayze & Doug McKeon. A down and out minor league
ballplayer finds a zest for life coaching a group of underprivileged kids
Mon 10 23:00 Sep 18
- Man In The Attic
- 1953. Thriller. Director: Hugo Fregonese. Stars Jack Palance,
Constance Smith & Byron Palmer. A Landlady begins to suspect her new tenant is Jack the Ripper when a self-described pathologist
moves in (Subtitles Available)
Mon 10 0:40 The Beauty Jungle Sep 18
1964. Comedy. Director: Val Guest. Stars Janette Scott, Ian Hendry, Edmund Purdom & Sid James. Shirley leaves her fiance and moves to
London for success after participating in a beauty contest.
The Way to Kill a Killer. 1965. Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A Mexican comes to Stockton with a herd of cattle infected with a deadly, infectious disease. (S1, E11)
1948. Drama. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Stars Jean Kent, Bonar Colleano, Albert Lieven & David Tomlinson. Agents break into an embassy in Paris to steal a diary filled with political secrets.
Made in the early 1930s. A travel log of Ireland and its history and cultures, including a short interview with President William T Cosgrave.
Mon 10 2:55 Sep 18
The Big Valley
Mon 10 3:55 Sep 18
Sleeping Car To
Trieste
Mon 10 5:45 Come Back To Erin Sep 18
- DATE
- TIME
- PROGRAMME
Tinker
SYNOPSIS
Tue 11 6:00 Sep 18
1949. Documentary. Gunther Krampf tells the story of young mining trainees. Tinker (Derek Smith), a Gipsy's son runs away and joins the mining school.
- Tue 11 7:15 Hawkeye & the Last
- The Ethan Allen Story. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John
Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Chris Wiggins. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys are at war with the ruthless tax collectors. (Subtitles
Available)
- Sep 18
- of the Mohicans
Tue 11 7:45 Sep 18
- Sky Liner
- 1949. Thriller. Director: William Berke. Stars Richard Travis, Pamela
Blake & Rochelle Hudson. An FBI Agent finds himself caught up in Cold
War espionage when he boards a plane heading west.
Made in the late 30s early 40s narrated by Kent Stevenson - The introduction to England of the hobbies of Ice Hockey, Figure Skating and what a great night out it is!
Tue 11 9:00 Sep 18
1940s Speed
Skating - Glimpses
Tue 11 9:15 Sep 18
- Blanche Fury
- 1948. Crime. Director: Marc Allegret, Stars Valerie Hobson, Stewart
Granger & Michael Gough. Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. (Subtitles
Available)
Tue 11 11:15 Sep 18
Flying Deuces Never Let Go
1939. Comedy. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the foreign legion to
get over Ollie's broken heart. (Subtitles Available)
Tue 11 12:35 Sep 18
1960. Crime. Director: John Guillermin. Stars Peter Sellers, Adam Faith
& Richard Todd. A London garage owner who makes extra cash dealing in stolen cars, asks Tommy Towers to steal a 1959 Ford Anglia
1971. Drama. Directed by Delbert Mann. Stars Michael Caine, Trevor Howard & Lawrence Douglas. In 18th century Scotland, David claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship.
Tue 11 14:25 Sep 18
Kidnapped
Tue 11 16:30 Amos Burke: Secret Or No Tomorrow. Burke investigates when the government receives a
- Sep 18
- Agent
- note demanding the release of two spies under threat of the release of
a virulent rice fungus on the Asian mainland.
Tue 11 17:30 Sep 18
- Scotland Yard
- 1960. The Dover Road Mystery. Directed by Gerard Bryant. Starring
Geoffrey Keen, Edward Cast and Leonard Sachs. A stolen car used in a bank robbery proves too fast for the squad car. (S1, E32)
1954. Comedy. Directed by J Lee Thompson and Starring Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen and Cecil Parker. Tony wants to marry Anne, but his father-in-law to be has some conditions first...
Tue 11 18:05 Sep 18
For Better, For
Worse
Tue 11 19:45 Sep 18
Dover 1943 - Glimpses
1943. US broadcaster Edward Murrow looks back at Britain's stoic response to the Battle Of Britain in this short film produced by the
Ministry of Information
Tue 11 20:00 Sep 18
- Gideon's Way
- The Ladykiller. Stars John Gregson Alexander Davion and Daphne
Anderson. The new husband of Inspector Keen's girlfriend's best friend has the worst luck - his wives keep turning up dead.
Tue 11 21:00 The History Of Mr Sep 18 Polly
1949. Drama. Director: Anthony Pelissier. Stars John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Moore Marriott & Finlay Currie. Alfred reluctantly uses inherited money on two big ventures.
Tue 11 23:00 The Sound Barrier Sep 18
1952. War. Directed by David Lean. Stars Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick. An aircraft manufacturer whose passion for making the ultimate supersonic jet, suffers great personal tragedy in his quest.
(Subtitles Available)
Tue 11 1:20 Sep 18
Operation Amsterdam
1958. War. Director: Michael McCarthy. Stars Peter Finch, Tony Britton & Eva Bartok. An English Major and two diamond experts plan to take diamonds from Amsterdam before the Nazis invade
Tue 11 3:25 Sep 18
The Big Valley Murder At 3am Rough On Rents
Night of the Wolf. 1965. Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Nick is bitten by a rabid wolf & leaves the ranch and Stockton without any explanation. (S1, E12)
Tue 11 4:25 Sep 18
1953. Crime drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Dennis
Price, Philip Saville and Peggy Evans. A serial killer on the loose makes a habit of murdering women on the street at precisely 3am.
1942. Comedy short. Directed by Ben Holmes. Stars Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Dot Farley. Edgar rents out his family's apartment to a troublemaker who likes to throw wild parties
Tue 11 5:40 Sep 18
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- TIME
- PROGRAMME
Mutiny
SYNOPSIS
Wed 12 6:00 Sep 18
1952. Starring Mark Stevens & Angela Lansbury. During the war of 1812, the U.S., in need of gold, arranges to borrow it from France. A young Captain must navigate through the British blockade.
The Witch. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Arch McDonnell. Someone is going to a lot of trouble to convince the townspeople that a witch has cursed them. (Subtitles
Available)
Wed 12 7:40 Hawkeye & the Last Sep 18 of the Mohicans
Wed 12 8:10 Forces' Sweetheart Sep 18
1953. Comedy directed by Maclean Rogers. Three goofy soldiers played by Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Freddie Frinton vie for the affections of the lovely Judy, the ENSA-tainer.
Wed 12 9:45 Sep 18
Operation Amsterdam
1958. War. Director: Michael McCarthy. Stars Peter Finch, Tony Britton & Eva Bartok. An English Major and two diamond experts plan to take diamonds from Amsterdam before the Nazis invade
Wed 12 11:55 Sep 18
Shadow of Fear Impulse (1955) Valley Of Eagles
1963. Crime drama directed by Ernest Morris and starring Paul
Maxwell, Clare Owen and Anita West. Waiting for his flight home from
Baghdad, Bill takes a message from a British secret agent.
1955. Drama. Directed by Charles De la Tour & Cy Endfield. Stars Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith & Joy Shelton. A Night club singer tricks an estate agent into thinking he killed a jewel thief.
1951. Adventure. A scientist invents a formula that converts waves into energy. His wife steals the formula and the scientist pursues her across the frozen tundra. Starring Jack Warner & Nadia Gray.
A Little Gift of Cairo. Burke is assigned to stop Farid from retaking power by preventing him, his arsenal of weapons and napalm from reaching Cairo.
Wed 12 13:10 Sep 18
Wed 12 14:50 Sep 18
Wed 12 16:30 Amos Burke: Secret
- Sep 18
- Agent
Wed 12 17:30 Sep 18
- Scotland Yard
- 1960. The Last Train. Directed by Geoffrey Muller. Starring Russell
Napier, Norman Johns and Lisa Daniely. Duggan investigates a murder in the London Underground. (S1, E33)
Wed 12 18:10 Sep 18
- Tarka The Otter
- 1979. Family. Director: David Cobham. Stars Peter Ustinov, Peter
Bennett & Edward Underdown. A family film which follows the life of an otter and its adventures in the wild.
Wed 12 20:00 Sep 18
Gideon's Way The Criminal Hell Drivers
To Catch a Tiger. Stars John Gregson Alexander Davion and Daphne Anderson. The victim of a car accident gives a death bed statement saying a man murdered his first wife with an overdose of morphine
1960. Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Stanley Baker, Sam
Wanamaker, Patrick Magee & Margit Saad. A racetrack robber escapes from prison & tries to get his hands on the loot from the job.
1957. Drama. Directed by C. Raker Endfiled and stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Sid James and Sean Connery. Tom signs up as a 'Hell
Driver', but the death-trap roads are the least of his problems.
1944. Drama. Directed by John Cromwell. Stars Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple & Joseph Cotten. When her husband goes to fight in the war, Anne is alone to raise their two daughters.
(Subtitles Available)
Wed 12 21:00 Sep 18
Wed 12 23:00 Sep 18
Wed 12 1:10 Sep 18
Since You Went
Away
Wed 12 4:40 Sep 18
- The Big Valley
- The Guilt of Matt Bentell. 1965. Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long,
Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Heath lashes out at someone who was once the commandant of a Confederate prison camp. (S1, E13)
Wed 12 5:40 Victorian London - A Film Made by Wilf Watters in the 1960s where he visits what remains
- Sep 18
- Glimpses
- of Victorian London landmarks and streets and also giving us a slice of
60s London Life.
- DATE
- TIME
- PROGRAMME
West of Kerry
SYNOPSIS
Thu 13 6:00 Sep 18
1938. Drama. Directed by Dick Bird. Starring Eileen Curran & Cecil Ford. A young medical student visits the Blasket Islands during the holidays and becomes charmed with the place and its people.
Thu 13 7:15 Hawkeye & the Last The Medicine Man. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart,
- Sep 18
- of the Mohicans
- Lon Chaney Jr & Dickson Kerwin. Hawkeye and Chingachcook find
Wenatchgo, an old and respected medicine man. (Subtitles Available)
1944. Comedy. Demobbed from the army, four troublesome soldiers are reunited with their old Sergeant. Starring Norman Evans, Nat
Jackley and Dan Young, Directed by John E Blakely.
Thu 13 7:45 Sep 18
Demobbed
Thu 13 9:35 Sep 18
Two Thousand
Women
1944. War. Director: Frank Launder. Stars Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson
& Patricia Roc. Female prisoners arrive at a German camp. Among them is Freda, a strong-minded journalist.
- Thu 13 11:35 The Story Of Elsie
- Introduced by Henry Cooper and made in 1972. A stop-motion
animation story of a difficult old woman who takes risks crossing the road. Narrated by the great Cyril Fletcher, story by Peter Hart.
1956. Crime drama directed by Vernon Sewell. A husband plots to kill his rich wife. Does he have the perfect alibi? Starring Derek Bond and
Hugh Latimer.
- Sep 18
- Bossing
Thu 13 11:45 Sep 18
Rogue's Yarn
Thu 13 13:20 Sep 18
- The Black Rider
- 1954. Directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Jimmy Hanley, Rona
Anderson and Lionel Jeffries. A local reporter discovers a group of enemy agents, but will the story get him promotion? (Subtitles
Available)
Thu 13 14:40 Sep 18
Sleeping Car To
Trieste
1948. Drama. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Stars Jean Kent, Bonar Colleano, Albert Lieven & David Tomlinson. Agents break into an embassy in Paris to steal a diary filled with political secrets.
A Very Important Russian Is Missing. Burke must collaborate with
Russian agents to recover an abducted top Russian intelligence officer. 1960. Evidence in Concrete. Directed by Gordon Hales. Starring Russell Napier, Howard Pays and Peter Welch. A young girl's body found near a busy motorway tells of something sinister. (S1, E34)
Thu 13 16:30 Amos Burke: Secret
- Sep 18
- Agent
Thu 13 17:30 Sep 18
Scotland Yard
Thu 13 18:05 The Man In The Sky Sep 18
1957. Drama. Director: Charles Crichton. Starring Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars & Walter Fitzgerald. John Mitchell is on a flight fraught with disaster but Mitchell is determined to land the plane.
- Thu 13 19:50 The Fishmonger in
- Filmed in 1947. A delightful education short film set in Barkingside
High Street, Ilford, Essex, about the Fishmonger and his working day including a trip to Billingsgate.
- Sep 18
- 1947 - Glimpses
Thu 13 20:00 Sep 18
- Gideon's Way
- Big Fish Little Fish. Stars John Gregson Alexander Davion and Daphne
Anderson. Gideon's car almost hits a young pick-pocket who is being controlled by his mother.
Thu 13 21:00 The Beauty Jungle Sep 18
1964. Comedy. Director: Val Guest. Stars Janette Scott, Ian Hendry, Edmund Purdom & Sid James. Shirley leaves her fiance and moves to
London for success after participating in a beauty contest.
1983. Drama. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Stars Jason Robards, Steve
Guttenberg, John Lithgow & JoBeth Williams. A Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike. 1979. Coming of age/comedy-drama. Directed by Peter Yates. Stars Dennis Quaid & Daniel Stern. A small town boy obsessed with the cycling team vies for the affections of his college sweetheart. The Brawlers. 1965. Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. The leader of a group of six families from Ireland believes he has a claim on Barkley land. (S1, E14)
Thu 13 23:15 Sep 18
The Day After Breaking Away The Big Valley
Thu 13 1:50 Sep 18
Thu 13 3:50 Sep 18
Thu 13 4:50 Sing As You Swing Sep 18
1937. Musical. Directed by Redd Davis. Starring Evelyn Dall, Claude Dampier & Lu Ann Meredith. Top British radio stars perform in this musical revue.
- DATE
- TIME
6:00
- PROGRAMME
- SYNOPSIS
Fri 14 Sep 18
- Death On The Set
- 1935. Drama. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and filmed at Twickenham
Studios. A film director with a murky past swaps places with his gangster double. Starring Henry Kendall and Eve Gray.
The Servant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Leonard Ontkean. Hawkeye and Chingachgook find a young Irish girl, Bridget, alone in the woods. (Subtitles Available)
1942. Comedy. Gert and Daisy are put in charge of a group of tearaway evacuee children. Starring Elsie Waters and Doris Waters. (Subtitles
Available)
Fri 14 Sep 18
7:20 Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans
Fri 14 Sep 18
7:50 9:25 9:50
Gert & Daisy's Weekend
Fri 14 Sep 18
Walter Ford In Walter The Sleuth
1927. Comedy Drama. Directed by Walter Forde. Featuring Walter Forde, Pauline Peters & George Foley. Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves.
1948. Crime drama starring Derek Farr, Carole Landis and Stanley Holloway. Sugiani, a black-market racketeer (Joseph Calleia), is amassing a fortune until reporter Linda Medbury (Landis), is on to him
(Subtitles Available)
Fri 14 Sep 18
Noose
Fri 14 11:40 Sep 18
- It's in the Bag
- 1943. Directed by Herbert Mason. Sisters Gert and Daisy find out an
old dress of Granny's that they have sold had £2,000 sewn into the hem. Can they get it back? Stars Elsie & Doris Waters.
Fri 14 12:55 Sep 18
Three Men In A
Boat
1956. Comedy. Director: Ken Annakin. Stars Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards & David Tomlinson. Based on the Jerome K Jerome novel. The story follows three men who decide to go on holiday on the
Thames.
Fri 14 14:40 Sep 18
Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951. Starring Robert Newton, John Howard Davis, Sir Michael Hordern and Max Bygraves. A faithful rendition of the Thomas Hughes book of life at the famed Rugby School for Boys. (Subtitles Available)
Terror in a Tiny Town: Part 1. When Burke investigates the strange death of an atomic plant security officer, he finds a town in which the residents respond in robotic ways.
Fri 14 16:30 Amos Burke: Secret
- Sep 18
- Agent
Fri 14 17:30 Sep 18
- Scotland Yard
- 1961. The Silent Weapon. Directed by Peter Duffell. Staring Geoffrey
Keen, Stanley Morgan and Norma Parnell. A horse rider is found dead in suspicious circumstances. (S1, E35)
Fri 14 18:05 Sep 18
The Galloping
Major
1951. Director: Henry Cornelius. Stars Basil Radford, Sidney James, Jimmy Hanley & Janette Scott. A retired British Major wants to get into horse racing but accidently buys the wrong horse.
Fri 14 19:45 Glimpses: Fitness Made in 1940 and directed by Donald Carter. An educational short, see
- Sep 18
- Wins the Game
- Arsenal play Tottenham at Highbury, learn the art of cycling, cricket,
running clubs and male fitness clubs.
Fri 14 20:00 Sep 18
- Gideon's Way
- The White Rat. Stars John Gregson, Alexander Davion and Daphne
Anderson. A series of warehouse robberies are led by a creepy albino mastermind who obsesses over a pet rat.
Fri 14 21:00 Capone Investment 1974. Thriller. Stars Glyn Owen, Peter Sallis, Isobel Black & John Thaw.
- Sep 18
- A brutal murder triggers an investigation revealing that $4m of
gangster, Al Capone's, gains may be located in 1970s England
Fri 14 23:00 Mr Perrin & Mr Traill 1948. Drama. Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Stars David Farrar,
- Sep 18
- Greta Gynt, Marius Goring & Raymond Huntley. A Schoolmaster is
upset when a new teacher becomes an immediate success with the boys.
Fri 14 Sep 18
0:50 2:35 2:40 3:40 5:30
The Shout
Report On Litter The Big Valley Freedom Radio Night Prowl
1978. Horror. Director: Jerzy Skolimowski. Stars Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt & Tim Curry. Once a traveller, now a patient at a mental hospital, claims to have learnt a Aboriginal magic power.
Early, possibly 1930s/40s. Public Information Film on the rising concern of litter at Wembley Stadium and in our parks and gardens.
Take your litter home with you!
Fri 14 Sep 18