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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 21st September 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

The Importance of Being Earnest on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , Michael Denison, , , Dorothy Tutin, . Directed by in 1952. Algernon discovers that his friend Ernest has a fictional brother and poses as the brother. Film adaptation of the 1895 play. Prepare to join in with Edith Evans as she makes her immortal delivery of the legendary words: “A handbag?” Airs: Monday Sunday 27th September 7:10pm.

Monday 21st September 8:35am Wednesday 23rd September 8:45am Spring Meeting (1941) Trouble Brewing (1939) Comedy. Directors: Norman Lee, Comedy. Director: Anthony Kimmins. Walter C. Mycroft. Stars: George Formby, Stars: Enid Stamp-Taylor, & Gus McNaughton. , Basil Sydney, George wins a lot of money at Sarah Churchill, Nova Pilbeam, the races, but he’s paid with Margaret Rutherford. An adventuress counterfeit money. and her son seek financial and romantic success in an Irish manor. Wednesday 23rd September 11:50am Monday 21st September 6:55pm 80,000 Suspects (1963) Mr Denning Drives North (1951) Drama. Director: . Crime. Director: Anthony Kimmins. Stars: Claire Bloom, Stars: , and and . A doctor’s Eileen Moore. A British aircraft engineer already shaky marriage is tested accidentally kills his daughter’s when he has to contend with a boyfriend and tries to it cover up... smallpox epidemic.

Tuesday 22nd September 12:15pm Wednesday 23rd September The Holly and the Ivy (1952) 6:50pm Drama. Director: George More Nicholas Nickleby (1947) O’Ferrall. Stars: and Drama, directed by Alberto Celia Johnson. A heart-warming tale Cavalcanti. Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, of a minister and his family reunited Sybil Thorndike, . at Christmas time, recounting their Robbed of his rightful inheritance, trials in life. Nicholas Nickleby is forced to leave his schoolmaster’s post and seek his Tuesday 22nd September 6:55pm fortune as a travelling entertainer. They Were Not Divided (1950) War. Director: Terence Young. Wednesday 23rd September 9pm Stars: Edward Underdown, The Mind of Mr J.G. Reeder (1969) Ralph Clanton, Helen Cherry. Episode 2: The Green Mamba In a World War II training depot, Director: Kim Mills. recruits come from all walks of life Cast: Hugh Burden, Willoughby to learn to survive. Goddard, Joe Melia, Pauline Delaney. When the emeralds of Suleiman the Magnificent are stolen and the sentry guarding them dies from a snake bite. Mr Reeder has good reason to be grateful for the intuition of a woman. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 21st September 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thursday 24th September 12:20pm Saturday 26th September Portrait of Alison (1955) 12:20pm Crime. Director: Guy Green. They Came From Beyond Space Stars: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, (1967) Sci-Fi. Director: Freddie William Sylvester. A Francis Francis. Stars: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Durbridge story. A painter is Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin and Bernard commissioned to paint the portrait Kay. Scientists investigating a of a girl killed in Italy. meteor shower are possessed by an alien force. Thursday 24th September 7:00pm Saturday 26th September 2:05pm Passage Home (1955) Trent’s Last Case (1953) Drama. Director: . Drama. Director: . Starring: Peter Finch, Stars: , Michael and . A young woman Wilding & . Private eye comes to regret her rescue from a Philip Trent suspects foul play when difficult situation in South America. an American financier is found dead. Sunday 27th September 11:15am Thursday 24th September 10:00pm The Passionate Stranger (1957) First Monday in October (1981) Comedy. Director: Muriel Box. Stars: Comedy-drama. Director: Ronald Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson, Neame. Stars: Walter Matthau, Carlo Giustini, Patricia Dainton. Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes. A married writer of romantic fiction The Supreme Court’s first woman pens a book about an affair with a Associate Justice dates her politically chauffeur. When her chauffeur opposed colleague. stumbles on the manuscript, he assumes it is about him. Friday 25th September 2:30pm Sunday 27th September 1:05pm The Lamp Still Burns (1943) Oliver Twist (1948) Drama. Director. . Stars: Drama. Director: David Lean. Stars: Rosamund John, John Howard Davies, , and Godfrey Tearle. A young woman Robert Newton and . architect changes careers to become a An orphaned boy joins a household nurse. Produced by Leslie Howard. of boys in , trained to steal A plea for better conditions for for their master. nurses and in hospitals. Sunday 27th September 7:10pm Friday 25th September 6:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest Hangar 18 (1980) (1952) Director: James L. Conway. Comedy, directed by Anthony Stars: Darren McGavin, Asquith. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins and Richard Wattis, Michael Denison. James Hampton. Astronauts and a Algernon discovers that his friend, NASA scientist expose a White House Ernest has a fictional brother and cover-up of an occupied UFO. poses as the brother. Sunday 27th September 9pm Enemy at the Door (1978) Saturday 26th September 9:00am Episode 4: NEW SERIES: Midnight is a Place Steel Hand From The Sea (1977-78) Director: Christopher Hodson. Stars: Simon Gipps-, Maxine Cast: Alfred Burke, Bernard Horsfall, Gordon, David Collings, Erik Chitty and Emily Richard, Antonia Pemberton, William Squire. Based on the Joan Aiken Richard Heffer, Martin Jacobs, historical melodrama, directed by Chris Simon Cadell, John Malcolm, McMaster. The story follows a young Anthony Head. Richter relays a English boy and a French girl who are message from high command to left destitute after a fire. The pair warn anybody who tries to escape struggle to survive, learning ways of making that reprisals will be taken. Dr. Martel’s son Clive a living and finding help where they least expect it. lands on the island to spy out the German position.