Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 6th April 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Magic Christian on Talking Pictures TV Directed by Joseph McGrath in 1969. Stars: Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by Raquel Welch, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. Sir Guy Grand is the richest man in the world, and when he stumbles across a young orphan in the park he decides to adopt him and travel around the world spending cash. It’s not long before the two of them discover on their happy-go-lucky madcap escapades that money does, in fact, buy anything you want. Airs on Saturday 11th April at 9pm

Monday 6th April 08:55am Wednesday 8th April 3:45pm Thunder Rock (1942) Heart of a Child (1958) Supernatural drama directed by Roy Drama, directed by Clive Donner. Boulting. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Stars: Jean Anderson, Barbara Mullen and James Mason. Donald Pleasence, Richard Williams. One of the Boulting Brothers’ finest, A young boy is forced to sell the a writer disillusioned by the threat of family dog to pay for food. Will his fascism becomes a lighthouse keeper. canine friend find him when he is trapped in a snowstorm? Monday 6th April 10pm The Family Way (1966) Wednesday 8th April 6:20pm Drama. Directors: Rebecca (1940) Roy and John Boulting. Mystery, directed by Alfred Hitchcock Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and starring Laurence Olivier, John Mills and Marjorie Rhodes. Joan Fontaine and George Sanders. A look at the troubles of two young A self-conscious bride is tormented newlyweds whose marriage has yet to by the memory of her husband’s be consummated. dead first wife. Tuesday 7th April 09:15am Thursday 9th April 4:30pm Don’t Bother To Knock (1961) The Man in Grey (1943) Comedy, directed by Cyril Frankel. Drama, directed by: Leslie Arliss Stars: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey & Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Elke Sommer. A flirtatious travel agent James Mason, Stewart Granger. gives all his girlfriends keys to his flat A Regency romance with a bitter which seemingly backfires. outcome, told in retrospect. Tuesday 7th April 12pm Thursday 9th April 10pm April Love (1957) The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970) Drama, directed by Henry Levin. Drama, directed by Stars: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Massimo Dallamano. Dolores Michaels & Arthur O’Connell. Stars: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, A city boy moves to a Kentucky horse Herbert Lom. A corrupt young man farm where he courts a neighbour. somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a painting gradually Tuesday 7th April 7:15pm reveals his inner ugliness to all. Dear Mr Prohack (1949) Comedy, directed by: Friday 10th April 2:30pm Thornton Freeland. Stars: Cecil Parker, Jassy (1947) Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Drama, directed by Bernard Knowles. Dirk Bogarde, Sheila Sim. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc When Arthur Prohack comes into a & Dennis Price. Jassy is believed to be private fortune, his personal finances a 17th century witch after receiving are much more difficult to manage! visions of approaching disasters. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 6th April 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Skull on Talking Pictures TV This 1965 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis for Amicus Productions, starred the frequently paired horror actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, alongside Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Michael Gough and Peter Woodthorpe. A professor is driven mad by the stolen skull of the Marquis de Sade. Airs: Friday 10th April at 10pm.

Friday 10th April 6:30pm Saturday 11th April 9pm The Rainmaker (1957) The Magic Christian (1969) Romance, directed by Comedy, directed by: Joseph McGrath. Joseph Anthony. Stars: Burt Lancaster, Stars: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr. Katharine Hepburn. A middle-aged The richest man in the world stumbles woman falls for a con man who comes across a young orphan and decides promises that he can make it rain. to adopt him. They travel the world Friday 10th April 10pm together, spending cash. The Skull (1965) Saturday 11th April 11pm Horror, directed by Freddie Francis. Armchair Theatre: The Creditors Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, (1972) Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett. Madness Drama, directed by: Philip Saville. fills the mind of a professor who buys Stars: Kenneth Haigh, Anthony Higgins, the stolen skull of the Marquis de Sade. Susannah York. A rejected husband Saturday 11th April 1:35pm attempts to create problems for his Coastal Command (1942) wife’s new partner. Based on a drama Second World War feature length by Strindberg. documentary illustrating the work of RAF Coastal Command, concentrating Sunday 12th April 1:45pm on the crew of Sunderland aircraft Spellbound (1945) “T for Tommy”, directed by J B Homes, Drama, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. score by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck and Michael Chekhov. A psychiatrist Saturday 11th April 3:05pm protects the identity of an amnesia It’s Hard To Be Good (1948) patient accused of murder. Comedy, directed by: Jeffrey Dell. Stars: Anne Crawford, Jimmy Hanley, Sunday 12th April 7pm Raymond Huntley. A conscientious My Six Loves (1962) captain emerges from the war with Comedy, directed by Gower Champion. ambitions to spread peace and goodwill, Stars: Debbie Reynolds, David Janssen, but finds his message is misunderstood. Cliff Robertson. Comic story of a Saturday 11th April 4:55pm Broadway musical star who arrives at Secret of the Incas (1954) her country home and finds six runaway Adventure, directed by: Jerry Hopper. children living on her property. Stars: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Sunday 12th April 9pm Nicole Maurey. Adventurer Harry Steele Sunday Night at the is on the trail of an ancient Incan artefact. London Palladium (1965) Shot on location at Machu Picchu in Variety show from the London Peru, the film is often credited as the Palladium hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark. and featuring singer and comedian Saturday 11th April 7pm Des O’Connor, american singer A Touch of Larceny (1959) Tony Martin, comic actor Sid James and Comedy, directed by: Guy Hamilton. jazz singer Cleo Laine performing with Stars: James Mason, George Sanders, the Johnny Dankworth Seven. Vera Miles. British Commander Max Easton fakes his defection to the Soviets in order to sue the slandering newspapers for the money he needs to woo an American woman.