TPTV Schedule March 8Th to March 14Th

TPTV Schedule March 8^thto March 14^th

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Time Programme

Synopsis

Mon 08 Mar 21
00:15 The Face Of Fu
Manchu
1965. Thriller. Directed by Don Sharp. Starring Christopher Lee, Nigel Green and Howard Marion-Crawford. New murders alert Officer Nayland Smith to the possibility that Fu Manchu may not be dead.
Mon 08 Mar 21

02:05 Dark City

1950. Thriller. Directed by William Dieterle. Stars: Charlton Heston, Dean Jagger, Lizabeth Scott,

Viveca Lindfors. When a man kills himself after a poker game, his brother looks for revenge. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Mon 08 Mar 21 Mon 08 Mar 21 Mon 08 Mar 21 Mon 08 Mar 21
04:00 Lytton's Diary 05:00 The Westerner 05:30 Tate
Rabid Dingo: Shock Horror. 1985. Stars: Peter Bowles, Anna Nygh, Sylvester Williams. Lytton tries to dig up dirt on an Australian tycoon interested in buying the Daily Post. (S1, E01) Going Home. 1962. Western Series created by Sam Peckinpah and starring Brian Keith. One of the most sophisticated westerns for its time or any other. (S1, E11) The Gunfighters. 1960. Western. Stars David McLean. Tate takes on a train car full of fast guns when a simmering rancher vs. homesteader dispute escalates. (S1, E11) 1960. Comedy. Directed by Gerald Thomas. Stars Leslie Phillips, Geraldine Mcewan, Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell & Irene Handl. A couple inherit an estate and turn it into a summer camp for children.
06:00 No Kidding
Mon 08 Mar 21
07:45 Guilt Is My
Shadow
1950. Drama. Directed by Roy Kellino. Stars Patrick Holt, Elizabeth Sellars and Peter Reynolds. A farmer is enjoying an idyllic life in Devon, until his nephew arrives on the run from the police. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Mon 08 Mar 21 Mon 08 Mar 21 Mon 08 Mar 21 Mon 08 Mar 21
09:30 William Tell 10:00 Catweazle 10:30 Gentle Trap
The Killer. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Accused of murdering a partisan helper and stealing his gold, Tell must find a way to prove his innocence. The Sign of the Crab. 1971. Stars Geoffrey Bayldon, Gary Warren & Moray Watson. When Burglars raid King's Farthing, there are no prizes into who's hands the stolen property falls. 1960. A locksmith on his first burglary is on the run when a rival gang wants his haul. Stars Spencer Teakle & Martin Benson. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE) 1952. War. Directed by David Lean. Stars Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick. An aircraft manufacturer whose passion for making the ultimate supersonic jet, suffers great personal tragedy in his quest. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
11:40 The Sound
Barrier

Mon 08 Mar 21
14:00 Enemy At The
Door
By Order Of The Fuhrer. 1978. Stars: Alfred Burke, Bernard Horsfall & Emily Richard. In June 1940, the islanders of Guernsey await the German invasion following bombing raids. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Mon 08 Mar 21
15:00 Through the
Pyrenees to
Made in 1937 by Paul Devil as part of 'The Screen Traveller' series - A journey through the mountains of southwestern France, and a pilgrimage to the holiest shrine of the Roman

Catholic faith.

Lourdes

Mon 08 Mar 21
15:15 Alaska Passage 1959. Drama. Director by Edward Bernds. Stars Bill Williams, Naura Hayden & Lyn Thomas. A woman complicates matters between two trucking partners who are struggling to keep their business afloat.
Mon 08 Mar 21
16:45 The Way We
Live
1946. Drama and documentary combine in this stylish and ambitious film in which 3,000 local people took part. The film delves into the complexities of rebuilding Plymouth after the Second World War. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Mon 08 Mar 21
18:00 Scales of
Justice
1966. The Haunted Man. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Keith Barron. An actor receives a head injury breaking up a robbery. The injury effects his memory and he can no longer remember his part. (S1, E11)
Mon 08 Mar 21

18:35 Brighton Rock

1947. Crime Drama. Directed by John Boulting. Stars Richard Attenborough & Hermione

Baddeley. Small time gang leader, Pinkie Brown, desperately tries to cover his tracks after he murders a journalist (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Mon 08 Mar 21
20:25 Jack The Ripper Part 1 of 2. 1988. Drama. Stars Michael Caine, Armand Assante & Ray McAnally. Chief
Inspector Frederick Abberline is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute in the East End of London.
Mon 08 Mar 21

22:25 Girl in Room 13

1960. Crime. Directed by Richard E. Cunha. Stars Brian Donlevy, Andrea Bayard, Victor

Merinow. A letter summons American detective, Steve Marshall, to Brazil in search of a fugitive murderess.
Mon 08 Mar 21
00:00 The Go
Between
1971. Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton. A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

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Tue 09 Mar 21
02:20 The Night Caller 1965. Sci-Fi directed by John Gilling and starring John Saxon, Maurice Denham and Patricia
Haines. Aliens need to find mates from another world or they'll become extinct, they start with earth females (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Tue 09 Mar 21 Tue 09 Mar 21 Tue 09 Mar 21
04:00 Shadows of
Fear
05:00 The Rogues
The Death Watcher. 1971. Stars: John Neville, Judy Parfitt, Victor Maddern. A Scientist is determined to prove his fanciful theories about spirits (S1, E04) 1965. The Computer Goes West. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen.
06:00 Development of 1936. We learn of the beginnings of the English Railways and how they were devised in the
The English Railways
1800's to service the collieries.
Tue 09 Mar 21
06:10 The Boy Who
Stole a Million
1960. Comedy. Directed by Charles Crichton. Stars Maurice Reyna, George Coulouris & Warren Mitchell. In this British made film, a young lad working in a bank 'borrows' a million to fix his dad's taxi.

07:50 Nothing Barred

1961. Comedy. Directed by Darcy Conyers. Stars Brian Rix, Charles Heslop & Leo Franklyn. Lord

Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public.
09:30 The Adventures Ladies of Sherwood. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Archie Duncan. Is it the end for of Robin Hood
10:00 Catweazle
Arthur of Tetsbury having raised a shire levy can Robin him save him from an untimely demise. The Black Wheels. 1971. Stars Geoffrey Bayldon, Gary Warren & Moray Watson. When Groome loses his voice, Catweazle's efforts to find it reduce the residents of King's Farthing to a state hysteria
Tue 09 Mar 21
10:30 High Tide at
Noon
1957. Drama. Directed by Philip Leacock. Stars: Betta St. John, Michael Craig, William Sylvester. Returning to Nova Scotia, Joanne Mackenzie's gambler husband squanders their savings.
Tue 09 Mar 21

12:35 Stop Press Girl

1949. Comedy. Director by Michael Barry. Stars Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, James

Robertson Justice & Kenneth More. A young girl possesses the power of stopping all types of machinery.
Tue 09 Mar 21 Tue 09 Mar 21
14:15 A Work's Group
Day Out
14:20 Left, Right and
Centre
Glimpses: 1950s amateur footage of a mining engineering company having a work's day out in Worcester. 1959. Comedy. Director: Sidney Gilliat. Stars: Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim & Patricia Bredin. The Tory candidate at the Earndale by-election inadvertently starts a friendship with his election rival. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Tue 09 Mar 21
16:10 No Room at the 1948. War Drama. Directed by Daniel Birt. Stars Freda Jackson, Joy Shelton, Hermione

Inn

Baddeley & Joan Dowling. A drunken landlady confines a group of child evacuees to a life of

degradation.
Tue 09 Mar 21

17:50 BFI: The

1941. Factual. Director: Francis Searle. Recruitment film presenting an ideal view of the nursing

profession, which is likely to have been in stark contrast with the daily experience of wartime nurses
Hospital Nurse
Tue 09 Mar 21
18:00 Scales of
Justice
1966. Infamous Conduct. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Dermot Walsh. A famous surgeon loses his license (and his wife) after a female patient accuses him of conduct unbecoming a physician. (S1, E12)

18:35 Miracle in Soho

1957. Romance. Director: Julian Amyes. Starring John Gregson, Belinda Lee, Cyril Cusack and

Peter Illing. Michael is an unhappy road worker, until he meets Julia, and 'the miracle' happens.
20:35 Jack The Ripper Part 2 of 2. 1988. Drama. Stars Michael Caine, Armand Assante & Ray McAnally. The killer is nicknamed 'Jack the Ripper' after a letter is forwarded to Scotland Yard.
22:35 All In A Night's
Work
1961. Drama. Director by Joseph Anthony. Stars Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson. The young heir to a publishing business fears foul play when his uncle is found dead. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)

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Time Programme

00:25 Master Spy
Synopsis
Wed 10 Mar 21
1964. Drama. Directed By Montgomery Tully. Starring Stephen Murray. A Russian scientist working for the British is suspected of being a 'plant', sent to monitor nuclear secrets for the Communists. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21
01:50 A Touch of Love 1969. Drama. Director: Waris Hussein. Stars Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen & Eleanor Bron. Based on 'The Millstone'. A Philosophy student falls pregnant after a one night stand with a gay TV presenter.
Wed 10 Mar 21 Wed 10 Mar 21
03:55 Report On Litter Early, possibly 1950s. Public Information Film on the rising concern of litter at Wembley
Stadium and in our parks and gardens. Take your litter home with you!

04:00 Budgie

The Jump-up Boys. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. Budgie dons a white coat

and takes a real job at last. But hearing that Budgie has gone straight, Charles Endell suspects foul play.
Wed 10 Mar 21
05:00 Stagecoach
West
By the Deep Six. Western with Wayne Rogers & Robert Bray, who run a stagecoach line in the Old West where they come across a wide variety of killers, robbers and ladies in distress. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21
06:00 Popeye The
Sailor
Bride And Gloom. 1954. Stars Jack Mercer & Mae Questel. Popeye is set to marry Olive but come the following morning his happiness is short lived by a frosty reception from his bride to be. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21
06:10 Zorro's Black
Whip
Detour Of Death. 1944. Stars George J. Lewis & Lucien Littlefield. After her brother is killed by corrupt politicians, Barbara dons a black costume & mask to become The Black Whip. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21

06:30 Go-Kart Go

1963. Action. Directed by Jan Darnley-Smith. Stars Dennis Waterman, Frazer Hines & Melanie

Garland. Rival groups build their own go-karts to win the local go-kart race. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21
07:45 The Lone
Ranger
Rustler's Hideout. 1949. Stars Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore & John Hart. The Lone Ranger believes in Fred Vance and helps him settle during a war between the Madden gang and local ranches. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21
08:15 Flash Gordon
Conquers the
The Destroying Ray. 1940. Stars Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton. Captain Torch activates the detonation control and insists he must dispose of Flash Gordon.

(SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)

Universe

Wed 10 Mar 21

08:40 Superman

Private Snafuperman. 1942. Stars Mel Blanc & Tedd Pierce. In this parody Private Snafu is

given the powers of Superman to help in the war but refuses to read the field manual and consequences follow. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21

08:50 Superman

The Magic Telescope. 1942. Stars Bud Collye, Joan Alexander & Jackson Beck. Superman

must save the town and its people from a comet plunging to Earth using a magnetic telescope. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Wed 10 Mar 21 Wed 10 Mar 21 Wed 10 Mar 21 Wed 10 Mar 21

09:00 Twist or Stick

It's a 1960s twisting compilation see 'The Hollies' Shane Fenton & The Fentones, The Orchids,

The Keytones, a lot of 'That Old Yeah, Yeah Feeling' and much more.
09:30 The Adventures The Lady Lilith. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. A difficult of Sir Lancelot
10:00 Catweazle decision is faced when a court is asked to intervene regarding a lady's inheritance. The Wogle Stone. 1971. Stars: Geoffrey Bayldon, Gary Warren, Moray Watson. Lord Collingford is tempted to sell King's Farthing and Duck Halt to an up-and-coming property tycoon. Made in the late 1940s, we follow the workings of Wembley Ice Rink and watch British champion Figure skater, Marion Davies, along with Cecilia Colledge, Daphne Walker and various others. 1948. Comedy Drama. Directed by Charles Crichton. Stars Robert Beatty, Stanley Holloway & Moira Lister. A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
10:30 Ice Champions

10:45 Another Shore

Wed 10

Mar 21

12:20 Violent
Playground
14:30 Rooms
1958. Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Anne Heywood & Peter Cushing. A policeman enters a romance with the sister of an infamous gang leader. 1977. The Artist. The tenants are intrigued when Kathys brother moves in. There is an air of mystery about him... Starring William Marlowe, Jill Gascoine, Brian Cox, Debbie Farrington & Susan Brown.
Wed 10 Mar 21
15:00 London Airport, early 1960s -
Glimpses: Made in early 60s. A day In the life of the 'London' Airport. The Passengers, the 'Wavers-goodbye', the Airport Staff, the Pilots, the Cleaning Staff and those left behind...
Glimpses
Wed 10 Mar 21

15:25 Lucy Gallant

1955. Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Starring Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston & Claire

Trevor. Lucy opens a gown shop. Rancher Casey disdains 'working women', but he is madly in love with Lucy.
Wed 10 Mar 21

17:30 Rooms

1977. Repairs. Carol invites her parents for a lunch that promises to be stormy... Directed by

Hugh David and written by Leslie Duxbury. Stars Jenny Twigge, Ian Redford, Julie Shipley & Cheryl Branker
Wed 10 Mar 21
18:00 Scales of
Justice
1967. Payment In Kind. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Maxine Audley. Debt collectors suggest 'payment in kind' after the wife of a struggling businessman falls behind on hire purchase payments. (S1, E13)
Wed 10 Mar 21
18:35 IWM:
Dangerous
1940. A short film warning of the dangers of 'Careless Talk' with Roland Culver and Penelope Dudley Ward, Second World War. Directed by John Paddy Carstairs.
Comment (1940)
Wed 10 Mar 21
18:50 The Edgar
Wallace Mystery Theatre
20:00 Rumpole of the
Bailey
Man Detained. 1961. Directed by Robert Tronson. Stars Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino & Michael Coles. A burglary is discovered at the offices of a photographic company.

Rumpole and the Course of True Love. Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Peter Bowles. Rumpole must defend his Client, who is on the edge of losing their career as a teacher. 1986. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Stars Paul Newman, Tom Cruise & Forest Whitaker. Continuing the story of pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson who takes a cocky yet talented youngster under his wing.
21:05 The Colour Of
Money

Wed 10 Mar 21
23:35 Blood From The 1971. Horror. Directors: Seth Holt. Stars: Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers. An
Mummy's Tomb archaeological expedition brings the coffin of an Egyptian queen, known for her magical powers, to London

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Thu 11 Mar 21
01:25 This Property is 1966. Drama. Director: Sydney Pollack. Stars Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid &

Condemned

Charles Bronson. Inspired by the Tennessee Williams play, this depression-age drama has all

the right elements. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Thu 11 Mar 21
03:35 IWM: They
Stand Ready (1955)
1955. A documentary that offers a robust justification of National Service at a time when large numbers of British troops were stationed in the Mediterranean & the Far East as well as in West Germany
Thu 11 Mar 21

04:00 Callan

You Should Have Got Here Sooner. Stars: Edward Woodward, Ronald Radd & Anthony

Valentine. Callan investigates a failed robbery on Lonely's behalf and discovers a link to the enemy
Thu 11 Mar 21 Thu 11 Mar 21 Thu 11 Mar 21
05:00 Target: The
Corruptors
06:00 IWM: Albert's
Savings (1940)
Prison Empire. 1961. Stars Stephen McNally, Robert Harland & Harold J. Stone. Investigative reporters Paul Marino & Jack Flood investigate various cases of industrial corruption. (S1, E12) An appeal to the public to save for the war effort, in the form of an 'Albert' monologue recited by Stanley Holloway 1960. Comedy. Directed by Gerald Thomas. Stars Leslie Phillips, Geraldine Mcewan, Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell & Irene Handl. A couple inherit an estate and turn it into a summer camp for children.
06:05 No Kidding
Thu 11 Mar 21
07:50 The Trollenberg 1958. Sci-Fi. A series of deaths on a Swiss mountain-side appear to be connected to a

Terror

mysterious cloud. Stars: Forrest Tucker, Warren Mitchell & Andrew Faulds. (SUBTITLES

AVAILABLE)
Thu 11 Mar 21
09:30 Sir Francis
Drake
The Gypsies. 1962. Stars Terence Morgan, Sarah Branch & Eileen Way. The Golden Hind comes across a rowing boat full of people and takes them aboard. The small group cause trouble on the Golden Hind.
Thu 11 Mar 21 Thu 11 Mar 21

10:00 Catweazle

The Enchanted King. 1971. Stars: Geoffrey Bayldon, Gary Warren, Moray Watson. A local

sculptor is mistaken by Catweazle for a demon who turns people into stone. 1958. Thriller. Director by Montgomery Tully. Stars Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw & Harry Fowler. A crime reporter and his girlfriend investigate a dead body pulled from the river has embassy links.
10:30 Diplomatic
Corpse

Thu 11 Mar 21
11:50 The Hillman
Minx in the
Made in the 1960s an astounding road race featuring Sheila van Damm; former owner of The Windmill Theatre and female motor racing competitor. She must drive non stop and not below

40mph for 20 days.

1960s

Thu 11 Mar 21
12:10 Carve Her
Name With
1958. War Drama. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield & Jack Warner. Based on the true story of WW2 special agent Violette Szabo recruited to work as a spy in

France. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)

Pride

Thu 11 Mar 21 Thu 11 Mar 21 Thu 11 Mar 21

14:30 Rooms

Portraits. 1977. Brian's ex-wife turns up to do some straight talking. Directed by John Bruce.

Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe, Brian Cox, Susan Brown, Anne Dyson, Debbie Farrington. Made in 1962 sail with all the comforts of a 60s holiday by sea and arrive in beautiful Lisbon as we travel around the capital of Portugal on a typical 1960s holiday. 1964. Comedy. Directed by Richard Quine. Stars William Holden, Audrey Hepburn & Noel Coward. A screenwriter's secretary acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots when asked for assistance. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
15:00 Down to Lisbon by Sea
15:15 Paris When It
Sizzles

Thu 11 Mar 21

17:30 Rooms

House Party. 1977. Ian is in trouble with the police but his wife, Carol, discovers he's shielding

someone. Stars Cheryl Branker, Julie Shipley, Colin McCormack, Jenny Twigge & Christopher Douglas.
Thu 11 Mar 21
18:00 Destination
Gobi
1953. War. Director by Robert Wise. Stars Richard Widmark, Don Taylor & Murvyn Vye. In 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi Desert and are harassed by Japanese warplanes.
Thu 11 Mar 21
19:50 Where Has Poor Unseen for years this strange, B-Picture oddity sees Warren Mitchell superb as fairground

Mickey Gone?

magician Emilio Dinelli, tormented by a gang of young rowdies who take him prisoner in his

backstreet workshop (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)
Thu 11 Mar 21 Thu 11 Mar 21

21:00 Public Eye

1973. Detective & Mystery Drama. The Golden Boy. Stars Alfred Burke, Alan Webb & Richard

Hurndall. Marker investigates why a man who had everything gave it all up and disappeared. 1980. Comedy. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Bernard Cribbins, Bill Maynard, Joss Ackland & Maureen Lipman. Detective Constable Davies is accident prone but gets the chance to investigate a villain.
22:00 Dangerous
Davis, The Last Detective