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I Believe In You on Talking Pictures TV Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker, Joan Collins, Harry Fowler, Godfrey Tearle, , George Relph and Sid James star in this 1952 drama directed by . Henry Allardyce Phipps, retired from the Colonial Service, is a bored bachelor of small independent means. He meets Norma, who is trying to elude the police. She introduces him to her probation officer, whose job intrigues him, and he decides to have a go at it himself. Airs: Monday 13th September 9pm.

Monday 13th September 11:45am Wednesday 15th September Four Star Playhouse – Finale (1953) 10:30am Comedy Drama. Director: Roy Kellino. The Perfect Woman (1949) Stars: David Niven, John Litel, Harvey Comedy. Director: Bernard Knowles. Stephens, John Eldredge, Martha Hyer. Stars: Patricia Roc, Stanley Holloway, An aspiring actor finds his career Nigel Patrick & Miles Malleson. thwarted by his resemblance to his A scientist creates a robot woman. already successful cousin. Wednesday 15th September 3pm Monday 13th September 12:20pm Dragonwyck (1946) The Bad Lord Byron (1949) Drama. Director: Joseph L. Historical Drama. Director: David Mankiewicz. Stars: Gene Tierney, MacDonald. Starring: , Walter Huston & . Mai Zetterling & Joan Greenwood. For Miranda Wells, moving to New Seriously ill Lord Byron dreams of York to live in Dragonwyck Manor judgement, as poet and soldier or with her rich cousin Nicholas, seems seducer and libertine. like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes a nightmare. Tuesday 14th September 10:00am Highly Dangerous (1950) Wednesday 15th September 9:05pm Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Vice Squad (1982) Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark Thriller. Director: Gary A. Sherman. and Marius Goring. An entomologist Stars: Wings Hauser, Season Hubley, travels to a Balkan country to Gary Swanson, J. D. Hauser, Joseph investigate germ warfare. Di Giroloma, Pepe Serna, Beverley Todd. After her friend is Tuesday 14th September 11:45am murdered, Hollywood prostitute Karla The Long Night (1947) agrees to help find the killer. Drama. Director: Anatole Litvak. Stars: Henry Fonda, , Thursday 16th September 9:25am Ann Dvorak & Vincent Price. The Gang’s All Here (1943) A demobilized soldier shoots a man. Musical. Director: Busby Berkeley. As the police move in, he remembers the Stars: Phil Baker, Alice Faye, Carmen events that have led to this tragedy. Miranda, Benny Goodman and Eugene Pallette. A on leave Tuesday 14th September 3pm romances a showgirl. Painted Boats (1945) Drama. Director: Charles Crichton. Thursday 16th September 1:15pm Stars: Jenny Laird, Bill Blewett, The Pot Carriers (1962) Robert Griffith, Harry Fowler, May Hallatt Drama. Director: Peter Graham Scott. and Madoline Thomas. The story of two Stars: Ronald Fraser, Carole Lesley and canal families and the waterways on Alfred Burke. A young prisoner which they lived and worked. struggles to adjust to life inside. Wednesday 15th September 7:50am Thursday 16th September 9pm The Battle of Billy’s Pond (1976) Yangtse Incident (1957) Director: Harley Cokeliss. Stars: War. Director: Michael Anderson. Ben Buckton, Andrew Ashby, Talfryn Stars: , William Hartnell Thomas, Ann Beach, Keith James, & Sam Kydd. The British sloop HMS Billy and his friend find industrial waste Amethyst is caught up in the Chinese being emptied into the local pond. Civil War and involved in the 1949 Yangtse Incident. Talking Pictures TV Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 13th September 2021 SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 13th September 2021

Week 3 The Footage Detectives on Talking Pictures TV on Talking Pictures TV Mike Read joins Talking Pictures TV founder Noel Cronin on his quest Join at ‘The Cellar Club’ this week for the to track down old films, footage and programmes, finding footage classic Hammer production The Curse of , made from film cans in lofts and garages. They discuss locations, studios in 1957. crafted a script that not only proved and all things film. This week Mike and Noel look at Croydon Airport to be a box office success but also lead to Hammer become in the 30s or 40s, a delightful short film from the 70s on the Ford a leading horror producer. It stars Hammer stalwarts Lee Fiesta and a lost episode of No Hiding Place: The Burning Car! and Cushing, with support from Hazel Court and Robert No Hiding Place was the successor of two series: Murder Bag and Urquhart. The second showing is A Bucket of Blood, made Crime Sheet, and continued to follow the cases of Detective Chief in 1959 and directed by Rodger Corman in just five days with a Superintendent Tom Lockhart at Scotland Yard, with a longer one- budget of $50,000. It stars Dick Miller who appeared in many Corman hour format allowing for more story and character development. productions and pokes fun at the pretentious side of the art world and beatnik culture. He was initially assisted by Detective Sergeant, later, Inspector Harry Films showing Friday 17th September from 9pm Baxter (Eric Lander), followed by Det. Sgt. Russell (Johnny Briggs) THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) Director: Terence Fisher. Stars: Peter Cushing, and Det. Sgt. Perryman (Michael McStay), and finally by Det. Sgt. Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart and . Brilliant scientist Frankenstein Gregg (Sean Caffrey). 236 episodes were made in total of which assembles a creature out of dead body parts and brings it to life, but the monster is not as under 20 survive in some form. This episode has only partially obedient or docile as he expected, and runs amok, creating murder and mayhem. urvived, made in 1962 it’s called Car In Flames – many will recognise A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1958) Director: . Stars: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris some of the cast; particularly Barbara Young, known to our viewers and Antony Carbone. A young busboy is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his as Dot from Hazell as well as Roland Curram. landlady’s cat and covers its body in clay. When pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous. Airs: Sunday 19th September 12pm. Friday 17th September 9:20am Friday 17th September 7:15pm Saturday 18th September 4pm Sunday 19th September 7pm Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) Broken Journey (1948) The Frogmen (1951) Swallows and Amazons (1974) Director: Terence Fisher. Stars: Drama. Director: and Adventure. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Stars: Adventure. Director: Claude Tommy Steele & Pat O’Brien. Michael C Chorlton. Stars: Phyllis Cal- , & Whatham. Stars: Virginia McKenna Crosbie is sacked, but needs his job to vert, James Donald, Dana Andrews. A U.S. Navy dive team is Ronald Fraser, Simon West, Suzanna fund an operation for his son – only to and Margot Grahame. A plane crash assigned to destroy a submarine base on Hamilton, Sophie Neville, Stephen find his old editor has been murdered. lands miles from civilisation. a Japanese held island. Grendon, Kit Seymour , Lesley Friday 17th September 2:15pm Saturday 18th September 12pm Sunday 19th September 12:30pm Bennett and Mike Pratt. Children’s The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) Hue and Cry (1947) NEW No Hiding Place: adventure set in the 1920s about Drama. Director: John M. Stahl. Stars: Adventure. Director: Charles Car in Flames (1962) four children on holiday in the Lake , Roddy McDowall and Crichton. Stars: Alastair Sim, A previously lost episode, directed by District, who meet two tomboys. Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Oscar-nominated Frederick Piper and Harry Fowler. Mark Lawton and Adrian Cooper. Stars: The children name themselves The film, telling the story a Catholic priest A gang of street boys foil a master Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, Eric Corrie, Swallows while their two friends who goes to China as a missionary. crook who sends instructions for Peter Glaze, Rex Garner, Roland Curram, become The Amazons, and together robberies in a cunning way. Thomas Gallagher, Barbara Young they embark on a series of and Douglas Bradley-Smith. adventures. Based on the popular book by Arthur Ransome. Sunday 19th September 3:55pm House of Bamboo (1955) Sunday 19th September 10pm Thriller. Director: Samuel Fuller. All About Eve (1950) Saturday Morning Pictures Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack and Drama. Director Joseph L Mankiewicz. Cameron Mitchell. Eddie Kenner is on Stars: , Anne Baxter & 09:00  Laurel & Hardy: Hog Wild (1930) George Sanders. The inside story 09:25 Green Hornet Strikes Again Episode 13: Flaming Inferno (1941) an army assignment to investigate a murderous clique, led by an ex-soldier. of an ambitious actress’ rise from a 09:55 Sky Pirates (1976) Children’s Film Foundation film. glamour-struck girl in a theatre alley to an award winner. Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards. Stars: Adam Richens, Michael McVey, Sylvia O’Donnell, Bill Maynard and Reginald Marsh. When their model plane NEW SERIES: (1988) crashes, Mike and Harry are befriended by an ex-pilot, Charlie and his niece, Thursday 2nd September 8:35pm Continues every Saturday at 8.35pm. who teach them to fly radio-controlled planes. Charlie repairs the boys’ Starring , Deborah Raffin and Ben Masters,Noble House follows Ian Struan Dunross, plane and invites them to the test of his new long-distance aircraft but the chairman of Struan & Co, the oldest of the British-East Asia trading companies. To the Chinese, he is “Tai-Pan” (“supreme leader”) of the “Noble House” and this power provides ancient promises, dark plane is stolen. They learn that the ‘Napoleon’ diamond has been stolen from secrets and financial problems on a small island of people who want to see him fall.Noble House the French State Museum, and realise that the plane is to be used to was one of the last great mini-series to air, following the success of Shogun, another smuggle the diamond out of the country. adaptation. Pierce Brosnan’s debut as James Bond had been delayed and he was able to provide 11:05 Dick Tracy Episode 2: Fur Pirates Stars Ralph Byrd & Kay Hughes. the perfect lead. However, Hong Kong is the real star of the series. Pacts are made on junks floating 11:35 The Phantom Empire (1935) Episode 9: Prisoner of the Ray in Aberdeen Harbour, police chases weave through wet markets and tycoons snake up winding roads in Rolls-Royces. Released before Hong Kong was handed back to China, the series provides a nostalgic portrait of a great city.