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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 15th April 2019 306 | VIRGIN 445

VAN DER VALK is coming to Talking Pictures TV starting on Thursday 18th April at 9pm Created by Nicolas Freeling, this gritty British-made police drama series is set in the beautiful location of Amsterdam. Cynical Dutch detective Commissaris “Piet” Van der Valk and his colleagues investigate murders, kidnappings and political corruption. Starring: Barry Foster, Michael Latimer and Joanna Dunham. Originally made by , the series showed between 1972-1992. Van der Valk appeared in various incarnations over a twenty year period, proving how compelling the plot and characters were. The programme remains highly watchable.

Monday 15th April 15:10 Wednesday 17th April 08:20 80,000 Suspects (1963) Halfway House (1944) Drama, directed by . Drama, directed by Basil Starring Claire Bloom, Richard Dearden. Starring Mervyn Johnson & . Johns, Glynis Johns & Tom A doctor’s already-shaky Walls. A group of travellers, marriage is tested when he all with something to hide in has to contend with a their past, take shelter from a smallpox epidemic. storm in an old inn. Wednesday 17th April 15:30 Monday 15th April 18:00 The Purple Plain (1954) Madeleine (1950) War film, directed by Robert Drama, directed by . Parrish. Starring , Starring , Ivan Desny, Bernard Lee & Win Min Than. Leslie Banks & Elizabeth Sellars. Canadian RAF pilot Forrester The true story of Madeleine is a loner whose bravery can’t Smith, a Scotswoman on trial cover a streak of reckless for murder. instability. Wednesday 17th April 23:00 Tuesday 16th April 11:55 A Kind of Loving (1962) They Who Dare (1954) Drama directed by John War Drama, directed by Lewis Schlesinger. Starring: Alan Bates, Milestone. Starring June Ritchie, Thora Hird. After his & Denholm Elliott. In Greece girlfriend’s pregnancy forces him during the war British to marry her, a young man must commandos and patriots are adjust to his new life and ordered to destroy two strategic contend with his domineering German airfields. mother-in-law. Thursday 18th April 08:25 Tuesday 16th April The Overlanders (1946) Double Bunk (1961) 18:00 War film, directed by Harry Watt. Comedy, starring Ian Starring Chips Rafferty. Based on a Carmichael, Janette Scott, true story, set in WW2. A desper- Sidney James & . ate gang drive their herd across A newlywed couple are Australia rather than leave them desperate to get back home to the Japanese. after their houseboat runs out of fuel in . Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 15th April 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 continued

Thursday 18th April 15:30 Saturday 20th April 18:20 Crooks In Cloisters (1964) Northwest Frontier (1959) Comedy, directed by Jeremy Adventure, directed by J. Lee Summers Starring: Ronald Fraser, Thompson. Starring , , Melvyn Hayes. Lauren Bacall, . In 1905 Having pulled off the smallest ever India, British army officer Captain Scott train robbery, Little Walter and his (Kenneth More) is charged with crew decide to set up business in protecting the six-year-old Hindu a monastery off the Cornish coast! prince from would-be Muslim assassins. Thursday 18th April 18:00 Saturday 20th April 21:00 Lost Horizon (1973) The Boys From Brazil (1978) Adventure, Directed by Charles Jarrott, Drama, directed by Franklin J. starring , Liv Ullmann, Schaffner. Starring Gregory Peck, Sally Kellerman. Escaping war-torn , James Mason. , a group of Europeans crash in A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers the Himalayas, where they are taken a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle to the mysterious Valley of the Blue the Third Reich. Moon, Shangri-La. Sunday 21st April 09:10 Thursday 18th April 21:00 For Those in Peril (1944) Van Der Valk (1972) War Drama directed by Charles (Series 1, Episode 1) Crichton Starring: David Farrar, One Herring’s Not Enough Ralph Michael, and Robert Wyndham. Crime drama, directed by Dennis A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so Vance. Starring: Michael Latimer, he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. Colin McCormack, Barry Foster. A sunny afternoon in Amsterdam; a Sunday 21st April 16:30 phone call from a stranger; a confession Know Where I’m Going (1945) to murder. This case startles even the Drama directed by Michael Powell, hardened Commissaris Van der Valk. Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Wendy Episode 2 is at 21.00 on Hiller, , George Carney. Friday 19th April A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier Friday 19th April 11:45 fiancé. When the weather keeps them Madness Of The (1949) separated on different islands, she Drama, directed by Charles Bennett. begins to have second thoughts. Starring , Paul Sunday 21st April 21:00 Dupuis, Kathleen Byron & Maxwell Reed. : Lydia Garth’s romance is plagued by her Mrs Davenport (1970) recurring spells of blurred vision. Directed by Peter Duguid. Starring: Friday 19th April 18:00 Angela Baddeley, Harriet Harper, The Jazz Singer (1980) Joyce Heron, Noel Johnson. Life is Musical drama directed by Richard comfortable for the Davenports as Fleischer, starring Neil Diamond, Mr Davenport is about to retire, but Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz. A Jewish that life has become routine musician defies his Orthodox father’s could he be looking for a last fling wishes in order to realize his dream of elsewhere? becoming a jazz singer. Sunday 21st April 22:00 Saturday 20th April 07:15 The Anderson Tapes (1971) The Final Test (1954) Crime Thriller, directed by Sidney Comedy, directed by Anthony Asquith. Lumet. Starring Martin Balsam, Dyan Starring Jack Warner, & Cannon, , Christopher George Relph. A cricketer looks forward Walken. A habitual criminal, looking for to his last test match, but his son would a big score after leaving prison, goes rather write poetry than watch. to the syndicate seeking funds for a massive robbery.