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You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, At last, we can finally announce that tickets are now on sale for our 8th Festival of Film/ Road Show on Sunday 10th October 2021, 11am-7pm at the iconic Plaza, Stockport. We also have a special event planned on Saturday 9th at the beautiful Savoy Cinema, just around the corner at Heaton Moor. The Savoy is very much like ‘The Bijou’ from The Smallest Show on Earth, (without all the problems!), so we decided to hold a proper Saturday Morning Pictures Show on Saturday 9th October 2021 from 9am-12pm – bring your pop guns and wear your badges! There will be a special guest and a separate Film Quiz with Afternoon Tea in the afternoon from 1-4pm. It will be a smaller event than The Plaza on the Sunday so get your tickets quick! There’s not many seats available at The Savoy. If you have specific seating requests for ANY EVENT, then call us to book your tickets rather than online or on the order form. When booked we will send you a fact sheet on parking and hotels etc. Exciting times – we’ve got some great guests lined up for this year! For those of you who have tickets already from last year – we will post out your new packs as soon as we can. More details on pages 26-28. At last we can all have a get together to look forward to! This month there’s something very special for fans, a limited edition necklace with her autograph, and TWO DVDs for just £20. More details on pages 18-19. Also a superb new box set of ’s series The Westerner – now available on DVD for the very first time, fully restored with optional subtitles for those who need it. With great stories and exceptional cameos, it’s a release a lot of you have been asking for for many years so you can create your own saloon bar with Dave ‘the drifter’ anytime you like! Good news for Gideon’s Way fans too – the box set is now back in stock – see page 14. There’s something for everyone this month in our newsletter: a Shane Fenton CD; Look At Life; a special DVD for all you cool kids of the 60s – watch your favourites LIVE in your living room with our Sounds of the 60s DVD set on pages 10-11– just £25 for 5 DVDs full of The Kinks, the Small Faces, Lulu, Cilla, Sandie Shaw and many more. Also we have a suberb Music Hall CD Box Set for fans of the ‘Old Time Music Hall’; The Pathfinders for fans of the wartime air pilot TV series; a brand new book on dear and some very special Limited Edition Cards to pop in the post and remind your friends what’s on Talking Pictures TV this month and give them something to smile about! Lots of premieres on the channel as always: The Singer Not the Song with and ; in ; two war comedies: Q Planes with , & Valerie Hobson and Appointment with Venus with David Niven & Glynis Johns. and Derrick De Marney star in Uncle Silas; Glynis Johns appears again in The Beachcomber with Robert Newton and Patricia Roc stars with Will Fyffe and Maxwell Reed in The Brothers. Don’t miss Kirk Douglas in The Fury and Bette Davis in Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte. Finally, good news for Laurel and Hardy fans – coming soon, so boiled eggs and nuts to you all (!) and a thank you for your support and the kind words that come into the office via phone or post. Best wishes, Sarah, Noel and Neill V You can always call us 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 1 RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE INCLUDES EVERYTHING ON THESE TWO PAGES. EXCLUSIVE PRICE THE WESTERNER is one of the most sophisticated western series for its time – THE WESTERNER JUST £15 or any other. Starring Brian Keith as amiable, WITH FREE UK POSTAGE unexceptional cowhand/drifter Dave Blassingame who travels with a dog called Brown, played by 2-Disc set ALL 13 EPISODES Spike, best known for his performance as Running Time: 325 mins. Old Yeller (1957) and who also appeared in Lassie. John Dehner also features as rakish The ground-breaking con man, Burgundy Smith. Western series created, written and produced by ALL 13 EPISODES: 1: Jeff, 2: School Days, 3: Brown, 4: Mrs Kennedy, SAM PECKINPAH. 5: Dos Pinos, 6: The Courting of Libby, For the first time ever on DVD, 7: Treasure, 8: The Old Man, 9: Ghost of a Chance, fully restored with 10: Line Camp, 11: Going Home, optional subtitles. 12: Hand on the Gun, 13: The Painting. Made in 1962, The Westerner was The main character, Dave, is a drifter, in between created by Sam Peckinpah, who shortly jobs he mostly squanders his money in saloons. afterwards achieved prominence As he drifts, he stumbles into conflicts, many of following the release of the Western epic which pose ethical and moral dilemmas. Some The Wild Bunch (1969). His film career episodes are comedic, others much more serious. lasted from 1954 to 1983, and included Peckinpah acted as producer of the series, with a Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Villa Rides (1968), Straw Dogs, (1971), hand in the writing of each episode and directing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) and many of them. Critically praised, the show ran for Cross of Iron (1977). only 13 episodes before cancellation, mainly due to its gritty content. The episodes ‘Jeff’ and Cast list: Brian Keith, John Dehner, Hank Gobble, Jimmy Lee Cook, Michael T. Mikler, Victor Izay, ‘Hand on the Gun’ are extraordinary in their Marie Selland, Rudy Dolan, Malcolm Atterbury, imaginative directing and forerunners of his later Wayne Tucker, Irene Calvillo, Jean Allison, feature films. The Westerner and Peckinpah were R.G. Armstrong, Pepe Callahan, Virginia Gregg, both nominated by the Producers Guild of America John Pickard, Karl Swenson, Harry Swoger, for Best Filmed Series and The Westerner has Geoffrey Toone, Robert J. Wilke, John Apone, since achieved cult status. Conlan Carter, Julio Corona, Margaret Field, Wendell Holmes, Slim Pickens, Peckinpah also directed two hour-long episodes Charles Horvath, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jack Kruschen, Dee Pollock, for The Dick Powell Theatre including ‘The Losers’, Madlyn Rhue, John Anderson, John Brinkley, Robert Culp, Roberto Contreras, a remake of The Westerner with Lee Marvin. Michael Forest, Michael Greene, Hari Rhodes, Paul Richards, Paul Sorensen, He mixed slow motion, fast motion and stills Warren Tufts, Michael Ansara, Barney Brown, Richard Rust, Frank Ferguson, together to capture violence, a technique famously , Tom Steele, Hank Patterson, Manuel Serrano, Katy Jurado, put to more sophisticated use in The Wild Bunch. Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan, William Tracy, Janan Hart and Michael Morgan. Call Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 2 Or 01923 290555 OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 3 Memories of a life in films: THE COLLECTORS’ Going Full Freeview Part 21, by Noel Cronin Shane Fenton The financial cost of moving transponders from & the Fentones Freeview HD to full Freeview, meaning that Moody Guys transmission went from 60% to 95% of the UK, was huge and something of a gamble – not only WITH FREE CD in transmission costs but also because of the need £15.99 UK POSTAGE to increase the quality and variety of the programming. MUSIC CD 35 Tracks on 1 CD However, having made the decision, we got on with it. Looking back, it was a huge strain, but as our audience numbers grew, so did our SHANE FENTON & THE FENTONES advertising revenue – which brought its own problems. What you do were one of the most popular British beat realise is, you can please some of the people some of the time, but not groups in the pre-Beatles era (Fenton later returned as ‘’ in the all the people all of the time. Some felt TPTV should have stayed small 1970s Glam Rock era). Shane charted with numbers like I’m A Moody Guy, and very niche; others felt the adverts were too repetitive – which in Walk Away, It’s All Over Now and Cindy’s Birthday, while The Fentones notched up a couple of hits with, The Mexican and The Breeze and I. Songs like Why truth they were and to a lesser degree still are. Obviously without the Little Girl and Too Young For Sad Memories were also popular fan favourites. support of those booking advertising with us, there would be no All are included on this unique compilation, which features the first eight 45s, Talking Pictures TV. plus nineteen bonus tracks. This collectors’ set includes live radio broadcasts The majority of TV advertising is, of course, largely on ITV and Sky. unissued studio recordings, almost impossible to find elsewhere. Both wield a degree of control and, without going into the rights or Track Listing 18. The Fentones - Take Five wrongs of this situation, let’s just say it’s ‘difficult’ for stations such 1. I’m a Moody Guy 19. Wild Little Willie as TPTV to survive and hopefully prosper. TPTV have stayed with 2. Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue 20. I’m Coming Home their original advertising agency, (an equally small set up so the 3. Walk Away 21. Sticks and Stones right fit!), and, although the wretched Covid affected the whole 4. Fallen Leaves on the Ground 22. The Fentones - Moon Dawg country, it deeply affected advertising and especially the smaller 5. It’s All Over Now 23. Shake Rattle and Roll agencies. But as the country comes out of the Covid cloud things are 6. Why Little Girl 24. Just Because improving, so – onwards and upwards! 7. The Fentones - The Mexican 25. I’m Walking Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures 8. The Fentones - Lover’s Guitar 26. The Fentones - Goofin’ Around TV and Renown Pictures and is contributing his 9. Cindy’s Birthday 27. Mona Lisa memories to the newsletter. Ever since his entrance into the world of film as a young man, 10. It’s Gonna Take Magic 28. Just Out of Reach Noel has been interested in preserving the 11. The Fentones - The Breeze and I 29. Great Balls of Fire heritage of lost and forgotten films, shorts and 12. The Fentones - Just for Jerry 30. The Fentones - Caravan programmes, and for many years has gathered, 13. Too Young For Sad Memories 31. Long Tall Sally restored and preserved this wonderful heritage 14. You’re Telling Me 32. Talkin’ ‘Bout You which would otherwise be lost. Noel worked for the Rank Organisation and the 15. I Ain’t Got Nobody 33. Johnny B Goode Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to several libraries that 16. Hey Miss Ruby 34. The Fentones - The Breeze and I owned films which now air on Talking Pictures TV. His career as a producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV Bonus Tracks 35. It’s Gonna Take Magic series spans several decades. Our full listings should now be in 17. Sparkling Brown Eyes (Featuring Billy Fury) all magazines and newspapers – if we aren’t in yours, please tell them! 4 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 5 The Projectionist and the Cameraman FRED THOMAS F.R.P.S. DAYBREAK by OUR PRICE £15 Dr Rodina Prince with FREE UK POSTAGE A British noir masterpiece starring It all began when my father was a child and his elder brother took him to see the silent film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He was absolutely enthralled and stated that when he Eric Portman and Ann Todd in grew up he wanted to be a cameraman. This was no childish statement and some years later the post war story of hangman Eddie he enrolled in night classes to learn all about camera work. What I haven’t mentioned is that Tribe and the love of his life, Frankie. my father was born with vision in his right eye only but, luckily for him, the viewing lens on Running Time: 1hour 17mins approx. cine cameras were on the left! A few years later WWII began, and my father was called up but, due to his eyesight, he Black and White. Year: 1948 was given a desk job. He was involved with job deployment and the Army was in dire need of Cast: Ann Todd, Eric Portman, cameramen. My father posted himself but was caught out and hauled before his CO and had Maxwell Reed and . a right dressing down! His CO was impressed with his ingenuity however, that he allowed Director: Compton Bennett. it to go forward. He became part of the Army Kinema Corps and one of his first jobs was at Eddie Tribe is an unassuming, shy bachelor, Dunkirk. He filmed until the film ran out and actually fell asleep on the beach and was nearly left for dead. They always said he could sleep on a washing line! He saw action in various who runs a barbers’ shop in with places, including the Italy Campaign, was posted to India, serving with the 8th Indian Army the help of his of trusted confidant Ron. and eventually was sent to Burma, captured by the Japanese and put to work on the Burma Eddie, however, has a dark secret. As well railway. Seeing the conditions he knew he had to escape while he was still fit enough, and as the barbers’ shop, Eddie also works as a escape he did. He spent weeks surviving in the jungle until he was safe again. hangman and travels around the country At the end of the war he served in Germany, now an officer, performing executions. One day Eddie has and in 1947 he married my mother, who he’d met soon after some good news, his estranged father has the war started, before she moved to Germany. He became good friends with Peter Lawford and Peter Lorre, often out on the passed away and he inherits his barge town together. He stayed with the Army until 1953, returning to business on the River Thames. Becoming the UK for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. He began work a man of means gives Eddie more self with Movietone News and then Rank. With Rank he travelled the confidence and after a short courtship he world filming for documentaries and as a war cameraman. He also marries beautiful young Frankie. Despite filmed many of the‘Look at Life’ series and I was actually in one married bliss, Eddie cannot bring himself to myself at the PDSA in . He filmed in India when Kenny Moore and Lauren Bacall were making North West Frontier, and they became good reveal his dark secret to Frankie. Sparks fly friends of his. Kenny who got my father to act as an extra in the film. between his new In 1959 he joined a new television company, Tyne Tees TV, and stayed wife and Olaf, a until retirement, as Senior Cameraman/Director, travelling the world. Danish seaman he He received the first Shell award and was awarded an Emmy. He was has hired to help also made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. On retirement he him on the barges, set up his own company, Highlight Film Services, and made many TV and his life begins a commercials. Unfortunately, in the early 1990’s he began experiencing headaches and loss of memory. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor and tragic downward spiral …. died within the year. Everyone seems to know the stars of films, To order, call us on Freephone Or 01923 290555 6 Producer, Director, Writer – but how many remember the Cameramen!! 0808 178 8212 7 LOOK AT LIFE Volume 1: TRANSPORT – Episodes Volume 1 Ticket to Tokyo Travel on a Britannia airliner. Turn of the Wheel What happens to old trains Letting Off Steam British Railways modern age. and buses when they are replaced? TRANSPORT New Roads for Old Tomorrow’s roads. City of the Air London Airport in the BOAC era. Flight on a Cushion Story of the hovercraft. Behind the Ton-Up Boys There were nearly two Talking of Coaches... A coach tour of Italy. million motorcyclists in Britain. Currently airing on Alpine Rescue Hazards faced by Swiss pilots. Going Places Under Water The story of the Talking Pictures TV. Shopping for a ‘Queen’ The ‘Queen Elizabeth’. world’s first underwater sightseeing bus. OUR PRICE £25 Sailing the Sky The thrills of gliding. Living with Cars What was done to cope with with FREE UK POSTAGE Driving Test Driving school tuition. the increasing number of cars on the roads? Shape of a Ship A look at the big new liners. Flying to Work Private planes and helicopters. 4 Disc Box Set. Air Hostess The Spirit of Brooklands The story of the 54 Episodes. The working renowned motor racing circuit. Running Time: 9hrs. day of an air Weather Adviser Special ships maintain a hostess. constant scientific watch on the weather. Colour. Years: 1959-1969. Taxi! Taxi!! What Price Safety? How to make roads safer? Narrated by: Raymond Baxter, Organisation Down in the Dumps Problem of dumped cars. Tim Turner, Michael Ingrams, behind taxis. Cats of the Sea The thrill of sailing catamarans. , John Witty, All Through the Breaking the Ice The icebreakers responsible Ann MacEwen & Duncan Carse. Night Out on for keeping shipping routes open. the trunk roads. Skimming Through the Sixties The hovercraft. The films in this 4-DVD set, Volume 1, Over and Under Bridge building in Britain. The Big Take-OffBritish aircraft industry. are concise and beautifully shot. The ‘slice Horsepower Riders Safety on a motorcycle. Lighter Than Air Going up in a hot air balloon. of life’ colour featurettes presented Eyes of the Law Traffic control in Germany. Just an Accident Daily death on the roads. cinema-goers with varied aspects of British Scooter Commuter In ten years, scooters Scrambling for It A popular sport. life, and among the documentaries included on Britain’s roads increased to over 41,000. The Straits of Dover Every day, 750 ships pass here, several vividly capture the vibrancy Sea Horses Little tugs, mainstay of the ports. through the five mile wide shipping channel. and optimism of the ‘Swinging Sixties’. So They All Hover Now Today all kinds of things Where Do You Leave the Boat? Pleasure boats Digitally restored from the original film hover – trucks, barrows, even stretchers! and the problem of where to keep them. elements, this release includes 54 The Village Sleeps Again Building a by-pass. Pushing the Bike The bike’s impact. memorable films which offer a Birdmen The first man to pedal through the air. Playing fascinating snapshot of transport in Draw the Fires Railway modernisation. Trains 1960s Britain, many unseen since their The Car Has Wings Natural boundaries no Running first screening. longer limit the range of motoring. steam Look at Life was a series of short Vintage Models A visit to Montague Motor locomotives. documentary films produced in the Museum at Beaulieu in the New Forest. The City’s Pilot Aboard Britain’s pilot services. For Living 1960s by the Special Features Division Where No Tide Flows A look at our canals. In Impact of of the Rank Organisation and screened High, Wide and Faster Co-ordination between traffic. in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas – roads, railways and shipping facilities. All in a Day’s replacing the circuit’s newsreel, Oil Aboard The oil tankers and their crews. Work People Universal News, which had become Report on a River Modernising port services who travel by air as part of an everyday job. largely irrelevant with the advent of and keeping traffic moving on the Thames. A Load of Pheasants Intercontinental deliveries TV news broadcasts. Europe Grows Together Continental links. by lorries that travel via Britain’s ports.

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 8 OUR PRICE £25 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 9 Sounds of the 60’s on DVD Sounds of the 60’s 5 DVD Set Watch your favourite artists OUR PRICE £25 perform their best-loved hits! with FREE UK POSTAGE This 5-DVD, four hour set includes performances by 5 DVD Set some of the best acts Over four hours of of the sixties. some of the biggest The Animals; The Searchers; Dave Berry; Herman’s Hermits; hits of the 60’s! Cat Stevens; The Move; This fabulous box set contains The Mindbenders; P.P. Arnold; five DVDs featuring studio footage The Kinks; The Troggs; of performances by some of the The Smoke; Small Faces; greatest bands of the 1960s. Relive the era by watching this The Yardbirds; Dave, Dee, compilation of TV show clips, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch; (including Ready, Steady, Go), ; Billy J Kramer; with audience dancing and Brian Auger & The Trinity; groovy fashions. Highlights include a Casey Jones; Manfred Mann; teenage Lulu confidently performing Gerry & The Pacemakers; at the beginning of her career, Cilla Black with a lovely rendition of You’re My Spencer Davis Group; Lulu; World; Sandy Shaw with her second hit, Long Live Love, and The Kinks in a brilliant early appearance – when Ray Davies roars You’ve Really Got Me Alan Price; Chris Farlowe; and sings the satirical Well-Respected Man, their place at the head of the PJ Proby; The Easybeats; British pop movement is established. Paul Jones leads Manfred Mann in The Creation; The Tremeloes; their early hits, a very young Cat Stevens shows his talent, Gerry & the Sandie Shaw; Steppenwolf; Pacemakers perform their anthem, Ferry Cross the Mersey and The Four Pennies; The Hollies; Steve Marriott fronts the Small Faces with his unique voice. The musical Gladys Knight; The Temptations, revolution that was Motown is also covered – watch Gladys Knight & the Pips perform an upbeat version of I Heard it Through the Grapevine a year ; Marvin Gaye; before Marvin Gaye had a No1 hit with it, while he sings Ain’t That Smokey Robinson; Barry Ryan; Peculiar, (with audience participation), and Smokey Robinson & the The Four Tops; Edwin Starr; Miracles perform Tears of a Clown. The main focus, however, is on the early Crazy World of Arthur Brown; British music scene, which led the world at the time. Information rolls across the Martha & The Vandellas; screen with details about the performers. Finally, the music moves towards the Peter & Gordon; Procul Harum. epics of the late 60s, with Procul Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale and Steppenwolf’s Born to be Wild. A great find for music aficionados.

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Please email us at: [email protected] OUR PRICE £30 Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, I wondered if you are interested in a with FREE UK POSTAGE photo of our Odeon cinema in Colwyn Bay. The film showing isFederal Agent (1936) starring Bill Boyd. Saturday morning 7 DVD Set. Pictures cost 9D. Great times were had Year: 1965-1966. watching Rex Allen, Johnny Mack Brown Running time: 1300 mins. and The Durango Kid films and the usual Flash Gordon serials. Black and White. As I have been consistently banging on Stars:  about Talking Pictures, it is now my John Gregson and neighbour’s favourite channel. Alexander Davion. All the best, Peter John Gregson stars as Commander George A boon for patients during lockdown Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, Gideon, CID in Gideon’s Way – a classic Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, What a surprise to see that you have crime thriller series based on the books by I work at an NHS hospital caring for people who acquired Look at Life. In 1965 a film John Creasey. Extensively shot on location, have had a stroke. Lately that recovery has been (Out of the Bombsite) was produced complicated by Covid19. In addition, some patients recording the birth of cycle speedway the documentary style of the direction need rehab following a debilitating Covid19 lends itself to fast-paced, thrilling action infection. We have also had to shut the door to after the 2nd World War. As a cycle stories with outstanding performances visitors. That’s a year of mask-wearing nurses, no speedway rider I was approached to participate in this film. I was filmed from guest stars such as Gerald Harper, family or friends, and a long rehab journey. It’s frankly been a hideous time for them. One leaving my home in Abingdon to cycle , George Cole, can only imagine how they feel – not everyone to work at the Rutherford Appleton Ray McAnally, Rosemary Leach, can express it. TV watching has always been a Establishment in Harwell. Look at Life George Baker, Donald Houston, necessary adjunct to a patient’s hospital rehab was shown in Rank cinemas but Victor Maddern & Gordon Jackson. journey, but when I first got hooked on TPTV during unfortunately not in a cinema near the first lockdown, I began helping my patients me. So I had never seen it. I had tried This rarely seen series is presented here, tune in to a channel that most didn’t know existed. in vain ever since to acquire a copy of with all 26 episodes complete and uncut. Imagine their delight at seeing a classic movie or this film. Seeing that Talking Pictures Described as “ of its day,” it programme, often from their own childhood era. was going to start showing these I did will appeal to people who like police shows. Only last night a patient was bemoaning the lack of some more research on the internet watchable decent TV. I showed him the TPTV and was able to purchase the set channel and he was in his element. Anything that This release also includes: relating to sport. What an absolute • image gallery can help people recover from illness, forget their illness, and fill the void that the absence of pleasure to roll back 56 years and see • variant US titles on four episodes visitors brings must be valuable. As I write this, not only a young version of myself but • clean title sequences I am wondering if TPTV has a place in reminiscence other cycle speedway riders that incidental music compilation. therapy – because it really does make a difference I remember so well. Thank you – to me included. Talking Pictures for spurring me Yours sincerely, Kim, Staff Nurse into action. Regards, Dave To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 14 15 PATHFINDERS THE COMPLETE SERIES EPISODE LIST PATHFINDERSTHE COMPLETE SERIES EPISODE 6: ONE MAN’S BOMBER (AKA ONE MAN’S LANCASTER) A pilot struggles to bring his damaged OUR PRICE bomber back to base. Jeremy Bulloch, John D. Collins, Anthony Valentine. EPISODE 7: SITTING DUCKS £25 German night fighters have suddenly WITH FREE UK POSTAGE become lethally effective. What is their secret? John Arnatt, John Barron, Edd The gripping 1970s Byrnes, Rutger Hauer, David Lodge. drama series recreating EPISODE 1: INTO THE FIRE EPISODE 8: CODENAME GOMORRAH the experiences of the The Pathfinder crews are called upon to The squadron is equipped with a top- attack vital U-Boat pens. Jeremy Bulloch, secret bomb-aiming aid. Donald Douglas, Pathfinder Squadron. Jack May, Luan Peters, David Ashford. Bernard Lee, Paul Massie, Mike Pratt. Number of discs: 3. Colour. EPISODE 2: FOR BETTER OR WORSE EPISODE 9: SWEETS FROM A STRANGER Number of episodes: 12. A joint operation with British commandos A German jet fighter base must be Running Time approx: 600 mins. brings unforeseen complications. destroyed before the Stars: Robert Urquhart, Peter Armitage, Peter Blythe, Jennifer fighters can devastate Clulow, Tony Selby, David Simeon. Allied bombers. Jack Watling, Julian Orchard, Geoffrey Bayldon, Jack May, Christopher Cazenove. EPISODE 3: THE FOG A hazardous mission against a navy base Johnny Briggs, Christopher Cazenove, Based on brings the threat of heavy casualties. Christopher Cazenove, Michael Craze, Linda Marlowe, material Richard Heffer, Jack May, Kate O’Mara. Shirley Stelfox, Morris Perry, supplied by veterans, Pathfinders is a gripping EPISODE 4: FLY THERE, WALK BACK Jack May. drama series which follows the experiences of a typical After being shot down, a bomber crew WWII Pathfinder Squadron. Tense and action-packed, tries to evade capture. Michael Coles, EPISODE 10: OPERATION PICKPOCKET the series evokes the experiences of Pathfinder crews Arnold Diamond, Wolfe Morris, A Lancaster crashes Nazi Germany – and captures the atmosphere of life on a wartime Jane Seymour, David Weston. with top-secret technology on board. Ian Collier, Mark Eden, Richard Franklin, EPISODE 5: JONAH MAN bomber station. It was filmed using surviving Olaf Pooley, Michael Wolf. A Lancaster is Lancaster planes and includes EPISODE 11: NIGHTMARE a wealth of rare footage. shot down in the North Sea and A badly damaged Lancaster limps back All volunteers, the Pathfinder a grim battle for to base – with a live bomb jammed in its Squadrons of RAF Bomber survival begins. bomb bay. , Julian Orchard, Command flew in advance of Eric Flynn, Paul Shelley, Ian Stirling. bombing raids over occupied Ray Lonnen, EPISODE 12: IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY Europe and Nazi Germany and Mark McManus, The son of a famous RAF Air Marshal ‘lit up’ the target with flares Julian Orchard, refuses to fly Pathfinder missions. Sheila Ruskin. Ray Brooks, Susan Jameson, Diane Keen, and incendiaries. Julian Orchard, Dennis Waterman.

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WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES CHILDREN’S FILM FOUNDATION FILMS on SATURDAY MORNING PICTURES OUR PRICE £22 Saturday 15th May 9:45am (1953) Director: . Stars: , , with FREE UK POSTAGE Eugeniusz Chylek, Edna Wynn, David Coote. A Polish boy runs away 2 DVD Set. Running time: 307 mins. from his unkind foster mother and is involved in a robbery. Year: 1973. Colour. All six episodes. Shot in and the Scottish Highlands. Saturday 22nd May 9:45am Treasure At The Mill (1957) Stars: Stratford Johns & Frank Windsor, Director: Max Anderson. Stars: John Ruddock, Richard Palmer, as the popular detective duo Barlow and Watt Hilda Fenemore, Harry Pettit and Merrilyn Pettit. A bunch of kids try from Z Cars and Softly Softly. to beat a nasty antique dealer to a hidden treasure chest left by a Director: BAFTA nominee Leonard Lewis fleeing Cavalier. (Eastenders), David Wickes (Jekyll & Hyde) and Saturday 29th May 9:45am Mystery on Bird Island (1954) Gilchrist Calder (The Onedin Line). Director: John Haggarty. 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Saturday 15th May 9:50pm and Saturday 22nd May 8:10pm Sunday 30th May 10pm and Saturday 12th June 8:25pm and Wednesday 19th May 9:05pm and Friday 28th May 8:10pm Wednesday 9th June 12:30pm Thursday 17th June at 9:00pm All Coppers Are (1971) Inferno (1953) (1958) Deadfall (1968) Drama. Director: Sidney Hayers. Drama. Director: . Comedy. Director: Wolf Rilla. Stars: Drama. Director: Bryan Forbes. Stars: Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Stars: Michael Caine, Eric Portman, Nicky Henson. A young policeman Fleming and William Lundigan. Eric Barker and Miles Malleson. A German Giovanna Ralli, & Nanette Newman. and a crook become rivals in love. A millionaire is left alone with a Cambridge student has girl troubles. A cat-burglar checks himself into a broken leg in the Mojave Desert. Monday 17th May 6:35pm and Saturday 5th June 6:35pm and sanatorium under false pretences. Wednesday 26th May 6:10am Sunday 23rd May 11:50am Tuesday 8th June at 12:10pm Sunday 13th June 7pm and (1954) and Tuesday 25th May 1:45pm The Brothers (1947) Friday 18th June 11:05am Comedy. Director: . Doctor Syn (1937) Historical Drama. Directors: Melodrama. Director: David MacDonald. Dragonwyck (1946) Stars: Eddie Byrne, June Thorburn and Stars: Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Period Drama. Director: Joseph L. Betty Ann Davies. A village squire offers Maude T. Howell & Roy William Neill. Stars: George Arliss, John Reed, and John Laurie. Story Mankiewicz. Stars: Gene Tierney, to give a cottage to a deserving family. Loder and . of the long grudge between two clans. Walter Huston, Vincent Price. Wednesday 19th May 2:45pm and Local vicar Doctor Syn secretly Sunday 6th June 4:15pm Miranda Wells moves to New York Tuesday 25th May 3:20pm leads a gang of smugglers. Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night to live in Dragonwyck Manor. The Singer Not the Song (1961) Sunday 23rd May 1:30pm and (1946) Crime Drama. Director: Sunday 13th June 7pm and Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Friday 28th May 3pm Roy William Neill Stars: Basil Rathbone, Wednesday 16th June 9:05pm Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mylène Demongeot, Appointment with Venus Nigel Bruce & Alan Mowbray. Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte John Mills, and John (1951) War Comedy. A diamond is stolen on a train and (1964) Thriller. Director: Robert Bentley. Only an Irish priest is willing to Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: the son of its owner is murdered. Aldrich. Stars: Bette Davis, stand up to a Mexican bandit. David Niven & Glynis Johns. A Monday 7th June 1:40pm, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten. Friday 21st May 1:20pm British Major rescues a cow from a Wednesday 9th June 6:30pm and A middle-aged Southern woman, Crackerjack (1938) German-occupied Channel Island. Sunday 13th June 11:45am. is plagued by bizarre occurrences. Comedy Thriller. Director: Albert de Sunday 23rd May 7pm and Sugar (1953) Documentary. Monday 14th June 4:55pm Courville. Stars: Tom Wall, Lilli Palmer and Thursday 27th May 9pm Director: Howard Stean. The restored NEW No Hiding Place: Noel Madison. A gentleman thief poses as Romance on the Orient and infamous ‘Marigold sweet shop’, Contents Noted (1962) a butler to outsmart a criminals gang Express (1985) Romantic Drama. destroyed during the war, reminds Newly discovered episode. – and falls in love with a baroness. Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark. people of the simple pleasures had by Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, Saturday 22nd May 12pm and Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Stuart Wilson, those in times of war and rationing. Andrew Laurence, Frank Littlewood, . Former lovers are John Junkin and Peter Vaughan. Monday 24th May 12:05pm reunited on the Venice- train. Friday 11th June 10pm and Ask a Policeman (1939) Sunday 20th June 1:00am Monday 14th June 6:40pm and Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. Saturday 29th May 2pm and The Fury (1978) Thursday 24th June 6:30pm Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Thursday 3rd June 2:50pm Supernatural Thriller. Director: Sherlock Holmes: The Woman Moore Marriott. Sergeant Samuel Uncle Silas (1947) Brian De Palma. Stars: Kirk Douglas, in Green (1945) Mystery. Dudfoot and his two constables stage a Drama. Director: Charles Frank. John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Director: Roy William Neill. Stars: fabricated crimewave to save their jobs. Stars: Jean Simmons, Derrick Charles Durning and Amy Irving. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. De Marney, Katina Paxinou and Saturday 22nd May 3:45pm and Derek Bond. Uncle Silas becomes The son of a CIA agent is kidnapped Sherlock Holmes investigates the Sunday 30th May 7pm guardian of his teenage niece. for his supernatural powers. murders of several women. Man Hunt (1941) Saturday 29th May 4:05pm & Saturday 12th June 4pm and Thursday 17th June 4:30pm Thriller. Director: Fritz Lang. Tuesday 15th June 3:00pm The Impersonator (1961) Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, Thursday 10th June at 2:15pm The Beachcomber (1954) Hell and High Water (1954) Thriller. Director: , John Carradine and Cold War Drama. Director: Alfred Shaughnessy. Stars: Roddy McDowall. A big-game hunter fails Comedy-drama. Director: Muriel Samuel Fuller. Stars: Richard Widmark, John Crawford, Jane Griffith, to kill Hitler and is pursued to England. Box. Stars: Glynis Johns, Robert Bella Darvi and Victor Francen. A sub Patricia Burke and John Salew. Newton and . commander helps to prevent a nuclear English villagers are sure a U.S. Saturday 22nd May 6:35pm and Drunken womaniser Ted is sent attack. airman is the killer in their midst. Sunday 30th May 12:35pm to a tropical island by his family. Q Planes (1939) Saturday 12th June 6:35pm and Saturday 19th June 1:10pm and War Comedy. Directors: Tim Whelan Sunday 30th May 3:30pm and Thursday 17th June 14:40 Tuesday 22nd June 1:10pm and Arthur B. Woods. Stars: Friday 11th June at 1:25pm Fourteen Hours (1951) The Hunters (1958) Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Prelude to Fame (1950) Drama. Director: Henry Hathaway. War. Director: Dick Powell. Valerie Hobson. In September 1938, Drama. Director: Fergus Stars: Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Stars: Robert Mitchum, experimental British aircraft vanish on McDonell. Stars: Guy Rolfe, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget and Robert Wagner, May Britt. test flights. Major Hammond, his sister Kathleen Byron & Kathleen Ryan. Agnes Moorehead. A New York police An American officer falls in love Kay and a pilot must solve the mystery The career of a gifted young officer tries to stop a man from jumping with a lieutenant’s wife, creating 32 and recover the planes. musician; an Aldous Huxley story. from the 15th floor of an hotel. enmity between them. 33 SUBTITLED FILMS ON TPTV THIS MONTH FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 VARIOUS ARTISTS Full subtitle listings on 15:45 Man Hunt 19:00 Man Hunt 18:35 Sherlock: Terror by Night our website. 18:35 Q Planes 21:00 The Champions 23:15 The Color Of Money C’MON LET’S DO Sat 15 May 21:55 Harry and Tonto Mon 31 May 21 03:40 Glad Tidings 06:00 Two on the Tiles 00:15 The Amorous Adventures 06:00 Pot O’Gold Tue 8 June 07:30 The Reluctant Bride of Moll Flanders 07:45 The Night We Dropped 07:50 The Girl Who Couldn’t Quite THE BRITISH 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures Sun 23 May a Clanger 15:00 The Eternal Sea (all content subtitled) 06:00 What a Whopper 12:05 17:05 Talking Pictures TV R 12:15 Bank Holiday 07:45 Dead Man’s Evidence 14:00 Enemy at the Door emembering Sam Kydd 14:05 The Land that Time Forgot 11:50 Doctor Syn 16:00 The Foreman Went 18:00 One Step Beyond 18:35 Is Paris Burning? 21:00 The Champions to s 01:20 Guilty? Mon 24 May 18:45 Emergency 21:00 Call Northside 777 w CD 05:00 Stagecoach West T i 03:10 Killings At Outpost Zeta 07:55 Tue 1 June t Sun 16 May 10:30 Cover Girl Killer 06:20 Man In The Mirror Wed 9 June 06:45 The Terror (1938) WITH FREE 06:25 The Turners of 14:00 Enemy At The Door 07:55 Dentist In The Chair UK POSTAGE Prospect Road 15:00 Dear Mr. Prohack 13:35 Fiddlers Three 08:15 Mystery on Bird Island £15.99 07:40 Child’s Play (1952) 16:45 The Breaking Point 18:00 One Step Beyond 09:30 The Champions 10:00 Trouble Brewing 18:35 Patricia Presents... 21:00 Framed (1975) 14:20 Conflict of Wings MUSIC CD 11:45 Strawberry Roan 18:40 Witness In The Dark 23:10 The Desperate Hours 16:00 Danger Within 35 Tracks on 1 CD 13:25 Pollyanna 19:55 Patricia Presents... 03:35 Undercover Girl 18:00 Sherlock Holmes 15:40 Up In The World 21:00 Harlow 05:00 Stagecoach West 21:05 The Spy Who Came in from THE TWIST was the biggest dance 21:00 The Champions 23:35 Murder At 3am Wed 2 June the Cold 22:00 The Great Gatsby 02:40 Starting Over 08:00 Treasure At The Mill 23:20 Fear Strikes Out craze in the early 60s, when new 00:50 Every Day’s A Holiday Tue 25 May 09:30 The Champions Thu 10 June dance fads seemed to come along 02:40 The Marked One 06:30 British Intelligence 14:00 Love on the Dole 10:10 The Rainmaker Mon 17 May 07:45 Farewell To Arms 16:00 Serious Charge 12:40 As Young As You Feel every few weeks. This unique 07:45 Second Best Bed 12:15 Law & Disorder 18:00 Sherlock Holmes 01:05 Alien Nation collection takes a look at the UK’s reaction to the Twist, presenting an eclectic 12:25 Escape By Night 13:45 Doctor Syn 21:05 Escape From Zahrain Fri 11 June collection of artists, performing mainly cover versions of US hits as well as 14:00 Enemy At The Door 15:20 The Singer Not The Song 00:55 Easy Money 06:00 Meet Flash Gordon 16:15 Home at Seven 18:00 One Step Beyond 02:45 Gaolbreak in Person originals. , Des O’Connor, Billy Fury, Shane Fenton, Bert Weedon, 01:00 Not Wanted On Voyage 23:00 Starting Over Thu 3 June 11:20 A Bell For Adano Winifred Atwell, Craig Douglas, The King Brothers, Cyril Stapleton, Joe Loss 02:40 Red Line 7000 02:50 Hoodlum 06:00 Borderline (1950) 18:00 Are You Being Served? Tue 18 May 05:00 Stagecoach West 17:00 No Hiding Place - and Susan Maughan all appear on this CD. 06:00 Bob’s Your Uncle Wed 26 May Told by a Dead Man 20:00 Next To No Time 07:30 The Brave Don’t Cry 07:25 Johnny on the Run 18:30 21 Days 22:00 The Fury 1. Duffy Power - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On 18. Des O’Connor - Twist Drive 14:15 Josephine and Men 08:45 The Ringer 00:45 Ambush In Leopard Street Sat 12 June 2. Winifred Atwell - Johann’s Twist 19. Billy Fury - Let’s Paint The Town 16:15 Laugh It Off 13:40 True as a Turtle 01:55 Casbah 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 18:00 One Step Beyond 15:40 The Black Orchid Fri 4 June (all content subtitled) 3. Bert Weedon (With Kenny Lynch) - Twist Me Pretty Baby 20. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Do You Want To Dance 18:35 Grand Ole Opry 18:00 Sherlock Holmes 06:00 Double Confession 12:00 The Punch and Judy Man 4. Cyril Stapleton & His Show Band (Featuring Ray Merrell) - 21. Paul Rich - Rock-A-Hula Baby 05:00 Stagecoach West 21:05 Black Sunday 14:55 G.I. Blues 14:10 Destination Gobi Wed 19 May 23:55 Faces in the Dark 21:15 The Skull 20:25 Deadfall Let’s Twist A Little Longer Tonight 22. Joe Loss & His Orchestra - Roon The Toon 06:05 Kiss the Bride Goodbye Thu 27 May 22:55 Lust For a Vampire 22:55 Nijinsky 5. Cyril Stapleton & His Show Band - The Twistin’ Train 23. Lord Rockingham’s Xi - Newcastle Twist 08:50 Seventy Deadly Pills 07:45 The Angel With The Trumpet 02:55 The Rat Race Sun 13 June 6. Shane Fenton & The Fentones - It’s Gonna Take Magic 24. Susan Maughan - Mama Do The Twist 10:30 Double Bunk 09:45 Life In Danger Sat 5 June 08:10 All In Good Fun 14:45 The Singer Not The Song 11:00 Funny Face 06:10 False Colours 15:45 King Creole 7. Billy Fury - The Twist Kid 25. The Hal Carter Five - Come On And Twist Me 18:00 Sherlock Holmes 13:05 Sons Of The Sea 07:25 King of the Underworld 19:00 Dragonwyck 8. Craig Douglas - Ring A Ding 26. Davy Jones - Jezebel 00:35 The Strange Love of 14:40 Gert & Daisy’s Weekend 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 21:00 The Champions Martha Ivers 00:40 Salt Of The Earth (all content subtitled) 22:00 Hush...Hush Sweet Charlote 9. Cyril Stapleton & His Show Band - Let’s Twist Again 27. Ray Pilgrim - Red Red Roses Thu 20 May 02:30 Night Ride 12:05 The Silver Fleet Mon 14 June 10. Jimmy Powell - Tom Hark 28. Joe Loss & His Orchestra - Twistin’ In The Mood 08:00 Pool of London Fri 28 May 14:05 07:50 While I Live 11. The Firestones - Party Twist (Part 2) My Guy’s Gone Twist 29. Joe Loss & His Orchestra - Along The Boulevard 14:45 Let George Do It 10:50 The Firechasers 20:25 The Four Feathers 14:00 Enemy At The Door 18:30 Dangerous Cargo 18:00 The Magic Box 03:15 Fear And Desire 18:40 Sherlock: Woman in Green / Christopher Columbus Twist / Twistin’ The Mood 30. The King Brothers - King Size Twist 23:05 Park Plaza 605 Sat 29 May Sun 6 June 21:00 Angels One Five 12. Ray Bennett - Twistin’ To The Blues 31. - Tanglefoot 00:40 Friends 07:20 Who Goes Next 06:00 Vintage Wine 02:45 Inner Sanctum 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 07:30 Shoot to Kill 23:15 Battle of the V1 13. The Gary Edwards Combo - Twistful Thinkin’ 32. David Ede & The Rabin Band - Twistin’ The Trad Fri 21 May (all content subtitled) 13:55 Count of Monte Cristo 02:45 Salute the Toff 14. The Vernons Girls - You Know What I Mean 33. David Ede & The Rabin Band - 07:55 Strawberry Roan 12:00 Challenge For Robin Hood 16:15 Sherlock: Terror by Night Tue 15 June 11:35 Dance Little Lady 20:05 An Inspector Calls 19:00 The Angry Silence 08:05 Deadly Record 15. Cyril Stapleton & His Show Band - Twist Me Another Twistin’ Those Meeces To Pieces 18:00 Portrait of Clare 23:50 The Upturned Glass 21:00 The Champions 12:00 Blood of The Vampire 16. The Firestones - Party Twist (Part 1) The Twist / Hawaiian 34. Dean Shannon - Ubangi Stomp 21:00 The 01:35 Islands In The Stream 22:00 The Carpetbaggers 17:00 Remembering John Gregson War Twist / Twist It Up 35. Cyril Stapleton & His Show Band - Sat 22 May 03:40 IWM: Burma Victory (1945) 03:05 The Atomic City 18:00 One Step Beyond 06:00 Phantom From Space Sun 30 May Mon 7 June 18:35 Charlie Chan at the 17. The Viscounts - Mama’s Doin’ The Twist When The Saints Come Twistin’ In 07:30 Old Mother Riley Meets 07:45 Girl In the Picture (1957) 06:00 Don’t Bother To Knock Olympics The Vampire 10:00 The Five Pennies (1952) 21:00 Stardust 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 12:35 Q Planes 10:00 Traveller’s Joy 23:15 The Country Girl To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 (all content subtitled) 14:10 The House In Marsh Road 14:00 Enemy At The Door 05:00 Stagecoach West NAME FREEPHONE ADDRESS 0808 178 8212

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