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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 20th April 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Up The Junction on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman and Adrienne Posta. Directed by Peter Collinson, released in 1967. Upper-class Chelsea girl Polly moves to working-class Battersea and takes a job in a sweet factory. She makes friends with her co-workers Rube and Sylvie and falls for a nineteen year old second-hand furniture assistant, who aspires to become rich and leave Battersea forever. Plenty of cool 60s pop music and fashion throughout, mod-vibe scooter scenes and a psychedelic-pop musical score by Manfred Mann. Airs on Saturday 25th April at 9:30pm

Monday 20th April 1:45pm and Wednesday 22nd April 10:05pm Monday 27th April 4am The Spy Who Came In from High Tide at Noon (1957) the Cold (1965) Drama, directed by . Cold War film, directed by Stars: Betta St. John, Michael Craig Martin Ritt. Stars: Richard Burton, and William Sylvester. Returning to & Oskar Werner, Nova Scotia, Joanne Mackenzie’s directed by Martin Ritt. British spy gambler husband squanders Alec Leamas, posing as a disgraced their savings. former MI5 agent in East Germany, is caught in a sinister labyrinth of Monday 20th April 10:00pm plots and counter-plots. The Deadly Affair (1966) Thriller, directed by Sidney Lumet Thursday 23rd April 2:30pm Stars: James Mason, Simone Signoret. The Huggetts Abroad (1949) A British secret agent is puzzled by Comedy, directed by Ken Annakin. the sudden suicide of a man he Stars: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison recently investigated. & Dinah Sheridan. When Jimmy gets work in South Africa the family all Tuesday 21st April 7:20pm decide to go with him, travelling Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) there by truck. Comedy, directed by Arthur Crabtree. Stars: Jimmy Hanley, , Thursday 23rd April 6:40pm Linden Travers, Hugh Sinclair. Jack’s (1958) grandfather Harry comes out of prison Drama, directed by Ralph Thomas. and stays with him in his mews flat. Stars: Dirk Bogarde, , He is soon up to his old tricks; Cecil Parker & . embarrassment and chaos follow. During the French Revolution, Lucie Manette falls in love with a Wednesday 22nd April 1:45pm duplicitous Englishman. White Cradle Inn (1947) Drama, directed by: Harold French. Friday 24th April 2:30pm Stars: Michael Rennie & Madeleine Frieda (1947) Carroll. During the war many children Drama, directed by Basil Dearden. were evacuated to the Swiss Alps, Stars: David Farrar, Glynis Johns, one of whom is billeted with the local Mai Zetterling & Flora Robson. Inn owners. An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII marries a German woman who helps him escape. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 20th April 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 No Room At The Inn on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Freda Jackson, Joy Shelton, Hermione Baddeley and Joan Dowling. Directed by Daniel Birt, released in 1948. During the evacuation of children from British cities in the early months of World War II, young Mary O’Rane is sent to live at with Mrs. Voray, a widow who has already taken in several other evacuee children. Mary discovers that Mrs. Voray is a sadistic woman with a fondness for alcohol who keeps her charges in conditions of squalor and semi-starvation. Airs on Saturday 25th April at 6:05pm

Friday 24th April 10:00pm Sunday 26th April 2:00pm Little Fauss and Big Halsey (1970) One Good Turn (1954) Comedy-drama, directed by Comedy, directed by John Paddy Sidney J. Furie. Stars: Robert Redford Carstairs. With Norman Wisdom, and Michael J. Pollard, also featuring Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird. Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery, Jr. and Norman is the oldest orphan at Lucille Benson. The exploits of two Greenwood Children’s Home ... motorcycle riders, one of Redford’s lesser known works. Sunday 26th April 4:00pm Love on the Dole (1941) Saturday 25th April 6:05pm Drama, directed by: John Baxter. No Room At The Inn (1948) Stars: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans & War Drama, directed by George Carney. In 1930s Salford, Daniel Birt. With Freda Jackson, Harry Hardcastle and his sister Sally, Joy Shelton, Hermione Baddeley, both in their different ways, fall Joan Dowling. The drunken landlady victim to poverty. of a British boarding house confines a group of child evacuees to a life Sunday 26th April 9pm of degradation. Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1974) Saturday 25th April 7:45pm Variety show hosted by Ted Rogers. Atomic City (1952) This week’s stars include Sacha Distel, Thriller, directed by Jerry Hopper and The Drifters, Penny Lane, Nino Frediani starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke. and The Second Generation. After physicist Dr. Addison discovers that his son, has been kidnapped, Sunday 26th April 10:00pm he and his wife receive a series of This Property Is Condemned telegrams with instructions. (1966) The kidnappers want atomic secrets Romantic drama directed by Sydney in exchange for the boy. Pollack. Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson, Saturday 25th April 9:30pm Robert Blake and Mary Badham with Up The Junction (1967) a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola, Drama, directed by Peter Collinson. Fred Coe and Edith Sommer. With Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Inspired by the Tennessee Williams’ Maureen Lipman and Adrienne Posta. play, this sexually charged Upper-class Chelsea girl Polly moves Depression-era drama has all the to working-class Battersea and takes a right ingredients; repressed desires, job in a sweet factory. sultry women, sweltering weather and a handsome stranger...