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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 1st June 2020 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Rebel on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Margit Saad, . Directed by Robert Day, and released in 1961. Tony Hancock stars as a self-taught artist who throws in his office job to live among the beatniks and bohemians of . The first big screen work for writers Galton & Simpson and TV and Radio star Tony Hancock, the script includes classic comic scenes and lines, developing Hancock’s popular anti-intellectual themes. Airs Thursday 4th June at 7:20pm.

Monday 1st June 9:20am Wednesday 3rd June 9:15am (1954) The Land That Time Forgot (1975) Comedy directed by . Adventure, directed by Kevin Connor, Stars: Glynis Johns, , based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Anne Crawford, . novel. Stars: Doug McClure, Caroline is a prim schoolteacher who John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon. meets Miranda, a mermaid, while on Survivors of a U-Boat torpedo drift holiday. As they look alike, Miranda to a strange island inhabited by decides she wants to swap places. pre-historic monsters and primitive Monday 1st June 7:30pm humans with an erupting volcano. The Big Blockade (1942) Wednesday 3rd June 11:55am Propaganda documentary directed The Angel With The Trumpet by . Stars: Leslie Banks, (1950) Frank Cellier, , , Drama, directed by: Anthony Bushell. , . Stars: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney and A propaganda film on the blockade of Norman Wooland. A powerful Nazi Germany by the Allies. Depicted in panoramic story of a family’s a series of humorous sketches, the film tribulations from the last decades of also includes a British bomber mission. the 19th Century through to the dark Monday 1st June 10pm days of Nazi rule. These Dangerous Years (1957) Wednesday 3rd June 7:10pm Drama musical directed by Herbert They Met in the Dark (1943) Wilcox . Stars: George Baker, Mystery, directed by: Karel Lamac. Frankie Vaughan, Carole Lesley, Stars: James Mason, Joyce Howard, Thora Hird, and . Edward Rigby. A cashiered naval When tough gang leader Dave officer and a young woman join Wyman is called up for military service, forces to solve a murder and he finds the discipline suits him. expose a German spy ring. Tuesday 2nd June 7:45am Wednesday 3rd June 5pm Make Me an Offer (1954) Catweazle (1970) Series 1, Comedy. Directed by Cyril Frankel. Episode 1: in a Bottle Starring . The story of Fantasy, directed by Quentin Charlie, who as a boy fell in love with Lawrence. Stars: Geoffrey Bayldon, a Portland Vase on a trip to a museum Robin Davies, Neil McCarthy. and becomes an antiques dealer. Our favourite medieval magician Tuesday 2nd June 5:45pm returns. Catweazle casts a spell which IWM: Captured (1959) transports him to the 20th century. Dramatised British Army training film He mistakes all modern technology by John Krish, with Alan Dobie, for , particularly “elec-trickery” Ray Brooks and Wilfred Bramble. (electricity) and the “telling bone” Shows the Communist treatment of (telephone). Airs weekdays at 5pm. prisoners of war. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 1st June 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Eight O’Clock Walk on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , Cathy O’Donnell, Maurice Denham, Derek Farr. Director: Lance Comfort, released in 1954. Richard Attenborough portrays an innocent man on trial for his life in this compelling, sympathetic courtroom drama. As he was the last person to see her alive, a London taxi driver is arrested for the murder of a little girl Airs: Saturday 6th June 8:10pm

Thursday 4th June 2:50pm Saturday 6th June 4.30pm Man on the Run (1949) The Small Back Room (1949) Crime Drama. Director: Lawrence Drama. Directors: Michael Powell Huntington. Stars: Valentine Dyall, Emeric Pressburger. Stars: Derek Farr, Leslie Perrins, Joan Hopkins, David Farrar, Jack Hawkins and Edward Chapman. Having deserted Kathleen Byron. The best bomb the army, Peter Burdon is continually disposal expert must battle his inner on the run. self during the German raids. Thursday 4th June 7:20pm Saturday 6th June 8:10pm The Rebel (1961) Eight O’Clock Walk (1954) Comedy. Director: Robert Day. Drama. Director: Lance Comfort Stars: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Stars: Richard Attenborough, Cathy Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Irene Handl. O’Donnell, Maurice Denham and Tony Hancock’s feature film-starring Derek Farr. A taxi-driver is accused of debut about a self-taught artist who murdering an eight-year-old girl on a throws in his office job to live the derelict bomb-site. dream and goes to live among the beatniks and bohemians of Paris. Sunday 7th June 12:05pm Simon and Laura (1955) Friday 5th June 3pm Comedy, directed by: Muriel Box. So Little Time (1952) Stars: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall and War Drama. Director: Compton Bennett. Muriel Pavlow. A TV studio feature a Stars: Marius Goring, Maria Schell. famous couple in a new show. When war returns to Europe for the However, in private they argue and second time in a generation, the throw things at each other – will they Belgians again suffer occupation. be able to maintain a happy façade? Friday 5th June 5:30pm Sunday 7th June 3:55pm Forever Female (1954) Let’s Be Happy (1957) Comedy. Director: Irving Rapper. Musical, directed by: Henry Levin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Stars: Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin and Paul Douglas. A young writer sells Robert Flemyng. Receiving an his play to a Broadway producer inheritance, Canadian Jeannie who wants to transform it into a MacLean visits her family’s Scottish vehicle for his ex-wife. roots. Romance blossoms with a Friday 5th June 10pm businessman called Stanley but Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) Jeannie is also flattered by the Horror. Director: Arthur Crabtree. attentions of Lord McNairn! Stars: Michael Gough, Sunday 7th June 6:30pm June Cunningham, Graham Curnow. (1948) A mystery writer baffles Scotland Yard Drama, directed by: . with ingenious murders. Stars: , Hugh Williams, Saturday 6th June 2:55pm Michael Lawrence, Bernard Lee, An Inspector Calls (1954) . Ladymead is the Crime Drama, directed by: gracious Georgian mansion in which Guy Hamilton. Stars: Alastair Sim, Elizabeth lives while her husband is Bryan Forbes, Eileen Moore, fighting abroad. Here, we encounter Olga Lindo, Arthur Young. Dinner at four incarnations of the central character, all portrayed by the Birling household is interrupted by Anna Neagle, as she anxiously awaits her husband’s return: a Police Inspector, investigating the ‘Beth’ of the Crimean War, ‘Elizabeth’ of the Boer War, suicide of a lower class girl. ‘Betty’ of World War , and ‘Liz’ of World War II.