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You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, We are excited to announce that our first confirmed guest for Stockport on Sunday October 10th is the lovely Amanda Barrie, star and TV soap queen, with many film & TV appearances; you may have seen her on TPTV in What a Whopper, ’ve Gotta Horse, Doctor in Distress and among others. We are delighted to tell you that our hosts for the day will be Frazer Hines & Jenny Hanley. The day before, at the Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor, our Saturday Morning Pictures show will be great fun for all you kids aged 50+! Tickets include breakfast roll, tea/coffee, free popcorn and a limited edition enamel badge. There will be prizes, a great line up of films & shorts on screen and audience participation. We are also looking forward to meeting our fellow film boffins at the Savoy for a quiz with afternoon tea.To those of you who have booked places for these events, tickets with information packs will be dispatched in August as ‘happy days are here again’ to quote dear Betty Driver! If you haven’t booked yet, grab your tickets quick – more details on page 11 and page 29. We can’t wait to see you all again! This month we are proud to present the latest in our Crime Collection series, Volume 8. This includes 11 rare and previously lost films, such asThe Girl on the Pier with Veronica Hurst; the once lost short, Vacant Possession with Brian Murphy; and & Bonar Colleano in Escape by Night. Our £20 combined offer this month features Petula Clark CBE, on CD and DVD in Don’t Ever Leave Me, (appearing with Jimmy Hanley). Also in this month’s magazine, music CD Twang covers the ‘golden age’ of British guitar-led bands and Kenny Lynch OBE features in a CD which covers his early career. A book on Sir Tommy Steele OBE showcases one of Britain’s greatest entertainers. West Cinemas & Theatres is a nostalgic book at a bygone age. For fans of action adventure, we have a box set of Doug McClure’s best-loved films. If you are interested in war history, you will enjoy The Blitz, an 80th anniversary box set. WWII nostalgia also to be enjoyed with Tawny Pipit on DVD. Fans of Softly Softly will appreciate Task Force Series 2 7-DVD box set. Volume 4 of Look at Life looks at Sport and for those who remember the Doomwatch series we have a 7-Disc box set. Vintage train enthusiasts will love the box set on famous steam trains. We hope you find something you like; of course, you are under no obligation to buy anything, but printing and posting costs have risen so much that if you don’t buy anything in 12 months, I’m afraid the computer does remove your address from our database of club members. This month’s premieres include Band Waggon with Arthur Askey, The Blind Goddess with Eric Portman; and & Cecil Parker in The Chiltern Hundreds. We have begun filming two exciting new series withCaroline Munro, (English actress, model & singer); and Mike Read, (disc jockey, writer and television presenter). More details to follow. Our new sponsors Backwaters Tours have made a generous offer of £50 off any booking on one of their small waterways cruises for TPTV viewers, see below. We hope you all saw our article in the . We were delighted to receive a visit from them and have printed part of the interview on pages 24-25. Take care & enjoy the summer, (rain or shine!), Best wishes, Sarah, Noel and Neill Backwaters Tours are a new kind of cruise which target the smaller waterways of France. We are offering £50 off your booking when you mention TPTV! Visit www.backwaters.tours or phone 01303 316116 or email [email protected] 1 RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE INCLUDES EVERYTHING ON THESE TWO PAGES. CRIME WITHOUT CLUES CRIME COLLECTION Volume 8 3-DVD Set (1948) Directed by Charles Reisner. Can reporter Mike WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES Kent prevent more deaths 11 CRIME FILMS NEW EXCLUSIVE while he tries to resolve a from 1944 to 1966 RENOWN 3 DVD SET sinister plot to steal a including rare gems such fortune in jewels? Cast: as The Girl on the Pier with Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser Veronica Hurst and the once CRIME COLLECTION and Leslie Brooks. lost short, Vacant Possession, with Brian Murphy and Volume 8 VACANT POSSESSION Daphne Heard. Sid James PRICE (1966) A formerly ‘lost’ and Bonar Colleano star in JUST £20 British short, directed by Escape by Night and Boris Karloff WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Peter Moffatt. investigates as Colonel March. OPTIONAL SUBTITLES Cast: Daphne Heard, Brian THE GIRL ON THE PIER (1953) 3-DVD Box Set Murphy, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Director: Lance Comfort. This British Total Running time: 11 hours John J. Carney, Julie Lynton, shot in 1950s Brighton Elizabeth Wallace, Richard depicts rivalry between a crooner who Gale and Frederick Peisley. has done time for robbery and his THE WAY OUT (1955) AKA Dial 999 Montgomery Tully directed and wrote partner in crime who is being this British crime drama in which a man tells his wife he is being framed for blackmailed for a share of the loot. murder. Cast: John Bentley, Sydney Tafler, Cast: Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Gene Nelson, Mona Freeman & Michael Goodliffe. Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes & Campbell Singer. ESCAPE BY NIGHT (1953) Written & directed by John Gilling. Cast: Bonar Colleano, Sid James, THE SCARLET WEB (1954) British Andrew Ray, , Simone Silva & Patrick Barr. crime film, director Charles Saunders. An insurance investigator agrees to COLONEL MARCH INVESTIGATES (1953) British help a woman who is being crime film made from three pilot episodes ofColonel blackmailed. Cast: Griffith Jones, March of Scotland Yard, directed by Cy Endfield. Hazel Court and Zena Marshall. Cast: Boris Karloff, Richard Wattis & . THE LISTENER (1956) Director: Roy Kellino. An episode from the TV series Four THE CROOKED SKY (1957) This British crime Star Theatre starring: Ida Lupino, Ralph Moody, Walter Coy & Richard Lupino. drama directed by Henry Cass centres on a smuggling racket between and the US. Cast: Wayne Morris, Karin Booth & Anton Diffring. PICCADILLY THIRD STOP (1960) This fast-paced British thriller is directed by Wolf Rilla. Cast: Yoko Tani, Terence Morgan, Mai Zetterling & William Hartnell. SEVEN DOORS TO DEATH (1944) Directed by Elmer Clifton. An architect studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft and double murder. Cast: Chick Chandler, June Clyde & George Meeker.

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 2 OUR PRICE £20 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 3 Memories of a life in films: GREAT BRITISH Adding Subtitles Part 23, by Noel Cronin Our next battle was for subtitles – hundreds of emails and letters arrived daily asking for them, but we had no budgets for these and no software to play them out onto VARIOUS Artists including: the screen. However, I am pleased to say we did launch The Eagles, The Krew Kats, CD our subtitling service three years ago. We can’t provide subtitles for everything just yet – remember that the age of the films and The Fentones, The Hunters, the series we show means that no subtitles or even scripts exist. Everything The Scorpions & The Packabeats. must be created from scratch at great expense and time, but we do create WITH FREE more and more every month. We don’t receive license fees from anyone to UK POSTAGE help towards the cost! £15.99 The process of creating subtitles consists of many stages. Assuming no MUSIC CD 1hr 18min script is available, the first stage is to transcribe the dialogue. This can be 34 Tracks on 1 CD done manually, or by using automated software. Text is produced that matches the dialogue, which is then split into captions, which are only The “Golden Age” of the twangy UK Beat Instrumental occurred between the roughly in sync with the audio. The second stage involves tidying up the late 1950s and the very early 1960s, inspired by The Shadows’ spectacular dialogue. There are numerous ‘rules’ that subtitles must adhere to. Where successes. This compilation presents thirty-four tracks from six guitar-led possible, subtitles are timed to start or end at the same point where the groups, whose sound and style paid homage to The Shadows. The Eagles, camera cuts to a different shot. Generally, anything over 250 words per from Bristol, enjoyed airplay with Bristol Express and Exodus, followed by minute (wpm) is considered too fast for the average viewer to read, so each The Krew Kats, aka Marty Wilde’s former Wildcats (they also recorded as caption must be on-screen long enough to allow at least a 250wpm reading The Tom Cats), who charted with Trambone. The Fentones, who also backed speed. Captions must not be placed where they would cover the speaker’s Shane Fenton, charted with The Mexican and The Breeze And I, while mouth, or other on-screen action. Caption positions may be adjusted both The Hunters weighed in with Teen Scene and The Storm’/‘How’s M’Chicks? vertically and horizontally. However, prior and subsequent captions in the both collectors’ items. The Scorpions also cut two collectable 45s, (Ghost) scene must remain in the same position to avoid captions jumping all over Riders In The Sky and Rockin’ At The Phil, while The Packabeats charted the screen. Text is coloured to represent different speakers. Each speaker with Gypsy Beat, before famously recording The Traitors for Joe Meek. must have a new colour from the previous speaker. Captions are also used COMPLETE WITH FOLD-OUT BOOKLET WITH DETAILS ON THE MUSIC AND BANDS BELOW. to describe music and sound effects. Accuracy to the spoken dialogue, spelling, punctuation and grammar errors and also misheard dialogue are THE EAGLES Bristol Express / Johnny’s Tune / Exodus / The March Of The Eagles / Old Ned (Theme From Steptoe checked. The software checks for adherence to all the rules, plus technical And Son) / Theme From Maigret / Happy Joe (Theme From ) / Theme from Oliver Twist requirements. Once the subtitle file has passed all those checks, it is ready to THE KREW KATS Trambone / Peak Hour / Samovar / Jack’s Good / be delivered to playout. A long process, but worthwhile. The Bat THE TOM CATS Tom Tom Cat / THE FENTONES Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Renown Pictures and is The Mexican / Lover’s Guitar / The Breeze And I / Just For Jerry / contributing his memories to the newsletter. Ever since his entrance into the world of film as a young man, Noel has been interested in preserving the heritage of lost and forgotten Gringo / Mick’s Tune THE HUNTERS Teen Scene / films, shorts and programmes and for many years has gathered, restored and preserved this Santa Monica Flyer / Golden Earrings / Tally Ho / wonderful heritage which would otherwise be lost. Noel worked for The Storm / How’s M’chicks? THE SCORPIONS and the Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to several libraries that owned films which now air on Talking Pictures TV. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky / Torquay / His career as a producer and editor of films, Our full listings should now be in Rockin’ At The Phil / Scorpio THE PACKABEATS documentaries & TV series spans several decades. all magazines and newspapers – Gypsy Beat / Big Man / Evening In Paris / The Traitors if we aren’t in yours, please tell them! 4 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 5 BOOK OFFER: TOMMY STEELE A LIFE IN THE SPOTLIGHT BOOK OFFER: TOMMY STEELE A LIFE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

80 ILLUSTRATIONS TOMMY STEELE Tommy Steele: IN COLOUR A Life in the Spotlight. AND MONO £27 The Authorised Biography by Sebastian Lassandro In the summer of 1956, while on shore leave from the Merchant Navy, Thomas Hicks was spotted playing music in a London coffee bar. Nothing like this ‘rock’ had previously been BRAND NEW heard in Britain and he became an overnight RELEASE! sensation, never returning to his ship. He changed his name to Tommy Steele and, for 65 years, he has been Britain’s greatest showman. HOT OFF In a remarkable career spanning radio, records, Broadway and Hollywood, Steele started the rock THE PRESS! revolution in the UK before moving to lighter family entertainment and becoming a well-loved household name. HARDBACK He received an OBE for Services to Entertainment in 1979 and a knighthood for Services to BOOK Entertainment and Charity in 2020. Steele conquered the West End, Hollywood and 400 Broadway; he holds records for the longest-running one-man show in London’s West End; PAGES and the record for most appearances at the hallowed London Palladium. He appeared in Kill Me Tomorrow, Light Up The Sky, The Duke Wore Jeans, Half a Sixpence and WITH many more. However, his remarkable career has RARE PHOTOS never been detailed comprehensively – until now. Authorised by Sir Tommy Steele himself, A Life in the FROM THE Spotlight offers a detailed insight into the career of TOMMY STEELE an unrivalled entertainment legend with stories, ARCHIVES details and anecdotes never before seen in print. This is his story, fully approved and endorsed by Sir Tommy Steele OBE himself. Foreword by Sir Tim Rice with contributions Our Price £27 from Petula Clark, Dame Judi Dench, Elaine Paige and Paul Nicholas. (Includes £2 contribution to Postage

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 & Packing. Item sent tracked.) 6 7 DOUG McCLURE’S LOST WORLDS OUR PRICE £20 The box set includes the following three films: At The Earth’s Core (1976) with FREE UK POSTAGE When eccentric Victorian scientist, Dr Abner Perry 3 Disc Box Set. (), and his assistant develop a high Running Time approx: powered drill they decide to test its capabilities 4 hours 45 min. Colour. in a remote Welsh Mountain. The drill proves too Starring: Doug McClure, powerful and plunges the duo into a vast cavern Peter Cushing, Susan Penhaligon, at the earth’s core where evil prehistoric birds Peter Gilmore, Cyd Charisse, have enslaved a tribe of humans. Can and his assistant help rescue Keith Barron & Robert Gillespie. the tribe and escape the evil clutches of their flying nemesis? Director: . Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Cy Grant, This 3-DVD set features a trio of , Godfrey James, Keith Barron & Robert Gillespie. Doug McClure’s best-loved action adventures: At The Earth’s Core, (1978) Warlords of Atlantis and The Land That Time Forgot. A perilous nautical tale of mutiny, murder, hidden treasure, giant sea Special Features: Interviews with monsters and lost worlds. On the sailing Susan Penhaligon and the ship Texas Rose, an archaeology director Kevin Connor. professor, his scientist son and an Doug McClure first achieved fame as engineer are on a quest to find the lost Trampas in The Virginian in 1962. He city of Atlantis, when a giant octopus also appeared in Shenandoah in 1965, attacks their ship. They awaken within a with and Katharine mysterious underwater realm, a deep-sea kingdom colonised by an advanced Ross. During the 1970s he was cast as alien race with a dark secret. Director: Kevin Connor. Stars: Doug McClure, the lead in action adventure films, long Peter Gilmore, Cyd Charisse, Shane Rimmer & Lea Brodie. before Indiana Jones arrived. The films were famous for epic stories, exotic (1975) landscapes and giant monsters. They The Land That Time Forgot were innovative in their portrayal of the When a German U-Boat torpedoes a British supply creatures, with effects relying on stop ship, the survivors force their way on board and motion, rear projection, models and overpower the German crew. However, they drift full-sized props, providing thrilling vis- off course and find a strange island, where they are uals for the time. McClure and director attacked by huge prehistoric monsters and a tribe of Kevin Connor found a formula that kept primitive humans. Director: Kevin Connor. audiences entertained and the films Stars: Doug McClure, John McEnery, are being discovered by new audiences, Keith Barron & Susan Penhaligon. finding their place in film history.

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 8 OUR PRICE £20 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 9 Crossword for Film Buffs Renown Pictures and Talking Pictures TV present Calling all fans of vintage film – can you solve our crossword? Saturday Morning Pictures 20. The ------: 1956 comedy of Tickets £25 9am-12pm manners starring Grace Kelly and (4) Saturday 9th October 2021 21. See 1 Across. A true Saturday Morning Pictures Show on the big screen – Down just like the old days! 1. Surname of famous Hollywood actress whose birth name was Betty Joan Perske (6) Cartoons, prizes, feature film, 2. Renowned British Director whose many nostalgic atmosphere, cheering, films include The Man Who Never Was booing and SURPRISE GUEST – (1956) and Tunes of Glory (1960) (5) but no letting your mates in 3, 9 Across & 17 Down. British drama of through the toilet windows! 1951 starring George Raft and Coleen Gray Includes egg/bacon roll, tea/coffee, (3,3,3,3,4) FREE popcorn, stalls in the foyer 5. Comedy drama of 1966 starring PLUS a LIMITED EDITION and Shelley Winters (5) Saturday Morning 6. See 13 Across. Pictures Badge. Across 8. Brief ------(1945). One of the most 1. 1, 21 & 7. Historic British film of 1948 acclaimed British films of all time, starring Celia Johnson and (9) starring in the title role (6,6,7) “Where was 4. Surname of the Hollywood actress whose 12. Across the ------: 1957 British drama Come and Join Us! Frank Marker’s “How many many films include Reign of Terror (1949) based on a story by Graham Greene, first office?” James Bonds and Three Little Words (1950) (4) starring Rod Steiger and David Knight (6) have there 7. See 1 Across. 14. First name of the actress in British films, Test your been?” 9. See 3 Down. including The Spider and the Fly (1949) film and TV 10. Surname of composer who collaborated and Valley of Eagles (1951), who was born knowledge with Alan Jay Lerner on such musicals as in Bucharest. and enjoy TALKING PICTURES TV Brigadoon (1954) and Paint Your Wagon 16. Night of the ----- (1957). X-rated British a chat with (1969) (5) starring Dana Andrews and like-minded & Renown Pictures 11. Singer-turned-Actress who won an Peggy Cummins (5) 17. See 3 Down. people. Oscar for her performance in Moonstruck Join us for (1987) (4) Answers to the June-July crossword. 13 & 6 Down. ------When I ----- : British an afternoon Film Quiz comedy thriller of 1968 starring Richard of fun, film and prizes! “Who played Attenborough and (4,4,) Mr Pastry?” 15. ------the Gun (1950). American Tickets £25 1-4pm film noir with Richard Conte Includes afternoon tea, film quiz and free popcorn! and Audrey Totter (5) 18. Multi Oscar-winning To book your tickets for either event, 1963 film with Paul Newman call Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 and Patricia Neal (3) Book online at: www.renownfilms.co.uk 19. 1955 film about the Boer trek in South Africa starring Saturday 9th October 2021 Tyrone Power and at The Savoy Cinema, Heaton Moor. Susan Hayward (7) 10 105 Heaton Moor Road, Stockport SK4 4HY. 11 Renown Special Offer 2 for £10 Usual Price £7.99 each. WITH FREE UK POSTAGE SOFTLY SOFTLY Offer ends August 15th. Kiss the Bride TASK Goodbye A working-class girl’s plans to marry are FORCE thwarted when her mother interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter’s social status, she arranges for her daughter to Series 2 wed her boss while the fiancé is away at war. He arrives home to discover his love is OUR engaged to another man. PRICE £20 Who will she marry? Directed by: Paul L. Stein WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Cast: Patricia Medina, Jimmy Hanley, Ellen Pollock, Claud Allister, OPTIONAL SUBTITLES , Marie Lohr, Number of discs: 7. Frederick Leister and Wylie Watson. 22 Episodes. Running Time: 89 mins approx 2 for £10 Running Time Year of Production 1945 | Black and White approx: 1300 mins. Colour. Year: 1970 Reluctant Bride Cast: Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, David Lloyd Meredith, Four orphaned children are put in their Norman Bowler, Susan Tebbs, Terence Rigby and Walter Gotell. Aunt and Uncle’s custody after their Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor parents, renowned explorers, are lost. The ‘proper’ English aunt is the sister of reprise their roles as nasty and nice cops the missing mother; the uncle, a Texas oilman, DCS Charlie Barlow and DCI John Watt. the brother of the father. Naturally, the Most of these episodes were originally disparate pair dislike each other at first… broadcast live. Charlie Barlow defined the Directed by: Henry Cass no-nonsense, sharp-tongued police chief, Cast: John Carroll, Virginia Bruce, Brian while DCI Watt played mellower mind Oulton, Kay Callard, Michael Caridia, games with the villains. Together with their Pamela Brown and Arthur Lowe. Special Operations squad, they tackle Running Time: 70 mins approx fictional Thamesford’s crimes and cases. Year of Production 1955 | Black and White

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 12 13 Currently airing on Talking Pictures TV. Letters to the Projectionist Volume 4 On this page we bring you some of the interesting letters that have arrived at Talking Pictures HQ this month. We receive many letters every day about film and series requests; please be SPORT assured that we do make a note of them all. We acquire new films and series every month, so ‘never say never’! is our motto – but sadly we can’t just play those we’d like to play, without 7 HOURS OF proper licensing and rights in place. Also remember, some films or TV series may no longer exist, THESE WONDERFUL but we will keep trying! Please email us at: [email protected] with FREE UK POSTAGE CINEMATIC SHORTS OUR PRICE £25 Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, 3 Disc Box Set. I met Peggy Cummins at the Memorabilia Show at the NEC in about 2010. She told me that her first film,Dr O’Dowd was lost forever as all 42 Episodes. prints were destroyed by fire in the Blitz in 1940. Peggy played Alice in Colour. Years: 1959-1969. Alice In Wonderland on the West End stage. The Queen Of Hearts, she Films in these box sets are said, was played by both Sybil Thorndike and who beautifully shot and marvellously were flown over the stage on wires. Imagine Margaret Rutherford flying over the stage on a wire? It was whilst playing Alice in 1945, I think, that concise. The ‘slice of life’ colour Peggy was spotted by Head of 20th Century Fox Pictures, Daryl F. Zanuck, featurettes presented cinema-goers who gave her a movie contract. Peggy told me she’d love to act again “in a with varied aspects of British life. small part, not too many lines to learn and I’d love to play an Irish role.” Digitally restored from the original film She grew up in Dublin. She retired from the screen to concentrate on elements, Volume 4 presents 42 raising her family after filming The Human Jungle in the early 60s. memorable films, many of which have Sadly, she never did perform again. I think she is absolutely gorgeous in The Captain’s Table. remained unseen since their first My very best regards, Ian screening, with subjects ranging from Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, Many thanks to Frederick Biggs Scotland’s burgeoning winter sports It was early one morning, in 1971 I guess, from Radstock, a fan of the film business to the Grand National, from when I was making my way to work. I had just started working in County Hall which is a The Strawberry Roan, who sent us a mountaineering on the Matterhorn to nice surprise gift with a picture of the drama of Saturday football fever – beautiful building fronting the Thames. I was young and enthusiastic and liked to get to work Tryphena, his own Strawberry Roan! 1960s style. Narrators include early. I noticed a lot of people huddled together Raymond Baxter, Cliff Michelmore peering over the Embankment wall. I could not and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. help but be curious as it was early morning and in those days the South Bank was not very touristy. I joined them and saw below lights and a camera on a small rail track. People were huddled around what looked like a body. They kept stopping, walking away and then started moving around the body again. Someone explained that they were making a film. It was only later I found out that I was witnessing the great Hitchcock at work on Frenzy. Great fun! Cris 14 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 15 THE BLITZ 80th ANNIVERSARY BOX SET Featuring three new documentary films with OUR PRICE interviews from some of those who were there. WITH FREE The Blitz £20 UK POSTAGE Eighty years on, The Blitz is a definitive documentary on the build-up to the raids, with detailed footage of the NUMBER OF DISCS: 3 destruction that followed. It features interviews from Running Time approx: 3 hours. those who lived through it and reveals the strength of Colour & B/W. Written, directed an entire nation who never surrendered. & narrated by Bruce Vigar. Stories From The Blitz During the Blitz, over 40,000 civilians Stories from the Blitz features stories from were killed and more than a million houses destroyed in London alone, individuals, describing incredible human courage as the plus destruction in many other cities air raid sirens went off and they waited for the bombs including Liverpool, Hull and the ports. to drop. Featuring interviews and archive footage from The German’s conducted these mass air one of Britain’s darkest periods in history. attacks against Britain from 1940-1941. The Blitz – The Aftermath Despite the 8-month campaign, the will With interviews and archive footage, The Aftermath of the British could not be broken, and examines the lasting effects of the mass bombings – the Blitz is remembered in history as a failure. Marking the 80th anniversary from the loss of life to the immense damage caused of the Blitz, Bruce Vigar’s documentary to buildings across the country – and how the Blitz portrays the main events and aftermath of the German bombings of Britain from changed the face of Britain’s cities and lives. 1940-1941. Interviews and archive footage give insight into the atmosphere felt These three poignant documentaries reveal personal stories told by witnesses throughout the country, and the attitude that came to be known as the ‘Blitz Spirit’. and survivors. People are shown lying on London underground platforms to In spite of their fear, UK citizens experienced a feeling of sleep when shelters were full. Rescuers search through the determination not to be beaten, as German air raids rubble of collapsed buildings and former RAF members targeted UK cities and bombed the country heavily and share their memories. The Blitz is a vivid portrayal of an almost without respite, including the use of V-1 flying event that brought the nation to its knees, but also revealed bombs, between 7th September 1940 and 11th May 1941. the resilience of the British people.

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Music CD1951-1961 LEAVE ME DVD Just £20 for both CD Petula Clark On Air with free UK Postage. is a landmark collection Director: Arthur Crabtree. representing a unique Year: 1949; Black & White. discovery of 23 recordings Number of discs: 1. made by Petula Clark CBE Running Time approx: 80 mins. for various BBC Radio Cast: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, programmes between 1951 Linden Travers, Hugh Sinclair, and 1961, including the long Edward Rigby, Anthony Newley, running Calling All Forces in Barbara Murray, Brenda Bruce, which Petula appeared as the resident featured artist. Almost all of the Maurice Denham, Frederick Piper, songs are unheard since their original transmission and this Sandra Dorne, Russell Waters, compilation ensures these historical broadcasts are not lost to history. Anthony Steel, Michael Balfour, Highlights include Rodgers and Hart’s With A Song In My and James Hayter, , , Philip Stainton, Piaf’s While The Angelus Was Ringing (Les Trois Cloches), accompanied John Salew, Barbara Leake, Arthur Hambling, Martin Miller & Ben Williams. by Geraldo and his Orchestra with the George Mitchell Singers and Choir. Other standout selections include up tempo covers of the Dean This Rank classic comedy stars Jimmy Hanley as a car salesman who accidentally Martin and Line Renaud duet Relax-Ay-Voo and the Doris Day hit Ooh becomes a kidnapper! When small-time crook Harry Denton, (Edward Rigby), Bang Jiggilly Jang. There are live performances by Petula of her own is released from prison, he moves in with his grandson Jack and kidnaps Sheila, hits Sailor and Suddenly There’s A Valley, and of the daughter of a well-known actor, played the theme song to her 1952 filmMade In Heaven, by Petula Clark. Harry gets more than he introduced by co-star David Tomlinson. bargained for, as Sheila welcomes the TRACKS: Good Luck, Good Health, God Bless You / Harbour Lights / adventure and the attention in the press! Her While the Angelus Was Ringing / With a Song in My Heart / Till Then / father realises that the publicity is boosting ticket sales at his ailing theatre so he is not Down in the Glen / I’ll Make Up for Everything / My Choice / Far Away Places / keen to see his daughter returned too quickly. My Happiness / Someone Like You / Autumn Leaves / Always / Made in Heaven Meanwhile a friendship develops between / We’re a Couple of Swells (With Billy Ternent) / Relax-Ay-Voo / Sheila and Jack, while his long-suffering Suddenly There’s a Valley / Ooh Bang Jiggilly Jang / It’s Magic / Sailor / girlfriend begins to suspect he has another Dancing with Tears in My Eyes / Dancing in the Dark / Stardust (Bonus Track) / woman! Clark’s twelth film role, in which Ordinary People (With George Formby) (Bonus Track) she sings: “It’s Not for the Want of Trying”.

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 18 PETULA CLARK DVD & CD £20 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 19 NEW Series and films coming up in Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 SPOTLIGHT ON July/August on Talking Pictures TV FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Petula Clark CBE Please spread the word and tell your friends! Two new exclusive series Petula Clark was born on the 15 November 1932, in Ewell, Surrey. Both her parents were nurses and coming to Talking Pictures TV! Noel is currently filming withMike Read, for a new series during the war she and her sister lived at the home of called The Footage Detectives – bringing you a look their grandparents in Wales. Her first ever live audience behind the scenes of TPTV and analysing lost footage, was at the Colliers’ Arms in Abercanaid, near Merthyr new Glimpses, lost films and TV episodes. We hope it Tydfil. Petula made her radio debut on the BBC Empire will be hitting TPTV screens in September. If you have any footage you Service on October 17th, 1942 on a request programme would like us to look at contact The Footage Detectives at our normal address or via email: [email protected] called It’s All Yours when she sang Mighty Lak a Rose for In another scoop, actress Caroline Munro is also filming her uncle serving overseas. Almost 70 years later, she is still performing, recording with us at the moment – the “scream queen” herself is Make a note and filming and showing no signs of stopping. hosting our new show called: The Cellar Club – introducing a Hammer in your TV diary! Petula was spotted by producer Maurice Elvey while performing at London’s Season followed by films of interest on Friday nights. Royal Albert Hall. He offered her a part in what would become the first of thirty Laurel & Hardy on Talking Pictures TV British film roles. Her early films include working with Jack Warner in theHuggett Saturday 17th July Sunday 1st August film series and several films with Anthony Newley, a lifelong friend from whom 9:35am Below Zero (1930) 4pm (1940) she received her first screen . By 1951 she was voted by British cinema-goers Saturday 17th July 5:15pm The Laurel-Hardy 4pm (1936) Murder Case (1930) as their sixth favourite actress – ahead of Margaret Rutherford! Her films include: 5:30pm (1945) 5:55pm Interview (1928) Easy Money (1948), Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949), Dance Hall (1950), Madame Sunday 18th July Tuesday 3rd August Louise (1951), The Card (1952), Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969), Finian’s Rainbow 4pm The Battle of the Century (1927) 6:40pm Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) 4:25pm The Bohemian Girl (1936) Thursday 5th August (1968) and Never Never Land (1980). Saturday 24th July 6:30pm (1933) No stranger to television, Petula had TV series of her own, on both sides of the 9am (1932) Saturday 7th August Atlantic, in every decade from the 40s to the 70s. Her recording career began in 4pm Way Out West (1937) 9am County Hospital (1932) 5:15pm The Private Life of Saturday 7th August 1949 with a song called House in the Sky and her first official Top 10 chart success, Oliver the Eighth (1934) 4pm Hog Wild (1930) The Little Shoemaker, topped the charts in the UK and Australia. More hit singles Sunday 25th July 4.25pm Saps At Sea (1940) 4pm Swiss Miss (1938) 5:35pm (1933) followed throughout the 50s, including Suddenly There’s a Valley, Majorca, and 5:35pm Do Detectives Think? (1927) Sunday 8th August With All My Heart. The hits continued throughout the 60s and 70s. Saturday 31st July 9am Liberty (1929) 4pm (1939) Petula played Las Vegas in her own show, as well as with Saturday 31st July 5:20pm (1930) Anthony Newley in the late 60s & early 70s, breaking 4pm Towed In A Hole (1932) Saturday 14th August 4:25pm Block-Heads (1938) 9am Tit for Tat (1935) attendance records. Sell-out shows were also seen, (and 5:35pm (1928) recorded), at the Coconut Nut Grove and the Copacabana. In the UK, she smashed box office records at the Royal Albert COMING SOON TO SATURDAY MORNING PICTURES: Fury, starts on 17th July at 11:15am. Ranch owner Jim Newman Hall and the Palladium, to say nothing of her international adopts a young boy who befriends a wild stallion called Fury. Stars: shows. Recently she has played to critical acclaim in musicals Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond & William Fawcett. on stage from Blood Brothers and Sunset Boulevard to her The Phantom Empire begins on 24th July 11:35, latest success in Mary Poppins as the bird-lady. starring Gene Autry with Frankie Darro and Petula Clark is a true British legend, show business royalty Betsy King Ross. A singing cowboy stumbles upon and one of the country’s finest entertainers. a subterranean civilisation living beneath his ranch. 20 Combines western, musical & science fiction. 21 DOOMWATCH SERIES 1-3 Now on DVD for the first time, this series collection DOOMWATCH includes the BBC documentary The Cult of Doomwatch about the history and making of the programme and the Series 1-3 incredible fandom it spawned. Groundbreaking the remaining science-fact series Doomwatch explores the scientific dangers lurking behind some of our greatest fears. episodes Led by the gruff but incorruptible Doctor Spencer Quist (John Paul), the Doomwatch team struggle tirelessly to OUR PRICE protect the people and planet from the never ending threat of science gone wrong. Quist is assisted by WITH FREE Doctor John Ridge (Simon Oates), a chemist and £25 UK POSTAGE notorious ladies man with a decidedly shady past and series heartthrob Tobias Wren (Robert Powell), a WITH OPTIONAL conscientious researcher who is deeply committed to SUBTITLES his job. Over three dynamite series the team deal with Number of discs: 7. genetic engineering, chemical waste, nuclear rockets, Running Time approx: 1211 mins pollution, wildlife culls, terrorist plots and industrial Cast: Joby Blanshard, John Paul, sabotage, to name just a few. The appeal of the show lay in its commitment to exposing real scientific threats. Robert Powell, Simon Oates, An episode concerning the use of hormones in fish Vivien Sherrard, John Barron, farming even sparked debate in Westminster! John Bown, Wendy Hall, Ann Lee, Doomwatch was created by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler, John Nolan, Elizabeth Weaver, the creative duo behind one of ’s most Jean Trend and Michael Elwyn. memorable villains – the Cybermen. With an audience of 13 million, Doomwatch saw popularity on an Doomwatch was a British science fiction television programme which ran unprecedented scale for its Monday night slot and in on BBC1 between 1970-1972. It featured a scientific agency responsible our current age of anxiety over climate change, the for investigating and combatting ecological and technological dangers. stories and fears it uncovered are as palpable as ever. The master tapes were wiped soon after transmission, but those episodes EPISODE LIST: Series 1, Episode 1: The Plastic Eaters; that still exist are collected together in this 7-disc set: episodes 1, 4, 5, Episode 4: Tomorrow The Rat; Episode 5: Project Sahara; 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11 from Series 1; all episodes from Series 2 and episodes Episode 6: Re-Entry Forbidden; Episode 7: The Devil’s Sweets; 4, 6 & 12 from Episode 8: The Red Sky; Episode 10: Train and De-Train; Episode 11: The Battery People; Series 2, Episode 1: Series 3. You Killed Toby Wren; Episode 2: Invasion; Episode 3: The Also includes Islanders; Episode 4: No Room for Error; Episode 5: By The the previously Pricking Of My Thumbs; Episode 6: The Iron Doctor; Episode un-transmitted 7: Flight Into Yesterday; Episode 8: The Web Of Fear; Episode episode 12 of 9: In The Dark; Episode 10:The Human Time Bomb; Episode 11: Series 3 “Sex The Inquest; Episode 12: The Logicians; Episode 13: Public & Violence”. 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Outwardly there is little sign that, Alongside films, they run 60-year-old culturally at least, this is one of the public information shorts and vintage most important places in British TV series such as Gideon’s Way from the television: the channel that boosted mid-60s and Scotland Yard, which ran the morale of the country’s seniors from 1953 to 1961. during a pandemic that put them Famously the Queen, after a brief most at risk. A channel that enjoyed a illness in 2016, watched Laurel and lockdown surge in 2020 and now gets Hardy films on the channel as she more than six million viewers weekly. recuperated. This summer, as the “We’re looking after the people that entire nation recuperates, there will telly just forgot about,” says Sarah be another season of Laurel and Cronin-Stanley, Noel’s daughter and Hardy, along with even more of the the channel’s managing director. The films once pumped out of Pinewood, phones ring constantly as we talk and Twickenham and Shepperton. The age Sarah and Noel are both obliged to of these often long-forgotten films take a call. “It’s our viewers,” says Sarah means they can be peppered with above the din. “You can ring us and racial attitudes that are now, rightly, talk to me or Dad, and we listen. You unacceptable. “I try to warn people But it’s not just the programming possibly had never had the chance to can email us, and we will reply.” about outdated attitudes and that makes Talking Pictures such a sit down and discover we have good The business came about more than discriminatory language,” Sarah says. success, it’s the sense that rather than films on all day long. I see it on social a decade ago when Noel, a veteran “If I cut things out, I get moaned at, watching a TV channel, you’re in a media, a much younger audience film editor and distributor, discovered but if I don’t, we also get complaints.” club – a club that really cares about that watch us as well, and it’s not that the BBC was sitting on treasure. 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When the children tired of her the world’s longest non-stop run behind steam – up to its acquisition by the she was rescued once again and restored to main line use by the members nation and the National Railway Museum at York. of the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust at Butterley in Derbyshire. Duchess of Sutherland This “Steam Classics” records the story of the This is her story – from Pwellhi to Paddington. restoration to main line steam work of one of Sir William Stanier’s Super Power British Pacifics magnificent “Princess Coronation” class Pacific’s built for the London One of the few positives to come out of the Midland and Scottish Railway, number gloom of the inter-war years in Britain was the 6233 “Duchess of Sutherland”. After many new breed of powerful steam locomotives. years of static exhibition, the locomotive was the subject of a complete overhaul First built by Sir Nigel Gresley, these 4-6-2 which is recorded here for posterity. 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Saturday 17th July 10am Saturday 24th July 2:05pm Sunday 1st August 10am and Tuesday 10th August 9pm Eagle Rock (1965) and Tuesday 27th July12:10pm Thursday 5th August 7:50am (1956) Drama. Director: Henry Geddes. The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) Alf’s Button Afloat (1938) Comedy. Director: John Paddy Stars: Pip Rolls, Bryan Marsh and Comedy. Director: John Paddy Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. Carstairs. Stars: , Stephen Morris. A boy suffers from Carstairs. Stars: Cecil Parker Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen & Maureen Swanson & Jerry Des- vertigo while mountain climbing in the & David Tomlinson. Tony runs Alastair Sim. A British sailor releases a genie monde. A window cleaner works at Lake District. for election, but encounters from a button made from Aladdin’s lamp. a country estate where the owner’s competition from the butler. son is threatened by kidnappers. Saturday 17th July 1:50pm Monday 2nd August 4:55pm Look At Life: Air Hostess (1964) Sunday 25th July 2:20pm and Wednesday 11th August 9:05pm Thursday 29th July 12:25pm LOST FILM: Ticket to Paradise (1961) A look into the working day of an Romance. Director: Francis Searle. Stars: Beware of Pity (1946) airline stewardess. The Cardboard Cavalier (1949) Historical Comedy. Director: Patricia Dainton, Emrys Jones and Vanda Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Saturday 17th July 2:05pm and Walter Forde. Stars: Sid Field, Hudson. A previously lost film, unseen for Stars: Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven and Wednesday 21st July 12:10pm Jerry Desmonde and Margaret years. Romance between a travel agent Cedric Hardwicke. A young woman Fallen Angel (1945) Lockwood. Romance between and a tourist in Italy. is romanced by a handsome young Thriller. Director: Otto Preminger. Lord Lovelace & Nell Gwyn. officer, but does he really love her? Stars: Dana Andrews, Tuesday 3rd August 5pm and Saturday 24th July 9pm Friday 6th August 8pm Saturday 14th August 9:55 am and Bruce Cabot. Did press agent Who Dares Wins (1982) The Kid From Canada (1957) Andrews kill his mistress? No Hiding Place: The Front Man Thriller. Director: Ian Sharp. (1962) A previously lost Director: Kay Mander. Stars: Sunday 18th July 10am Stars: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis episode of the cult detective show. Bernard Braden, Bobby Stevenson and Friday 23rd July 6pm & Tony Doyle. Directors: Richard Sidwell & Richard and Christopher Braden. Cousins Band Waggon (1940) An anti-nuclear group plan to Doubleday. Stars: Raymond Francis, learn to get along when a man’s life Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. kill the U.S. Ambassador at Eric Lander, Jess Conrad and Eddie Byrne. is in danger. Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, the Iranian embassy, leading Saturday 14th August 1:35pm Patricia Kirkwood & Moore Marriott. to a siege. Wednesday 4th August 10:30am Man Hunt (1941) Comedians set up a radio station in a Carnival (1946) Thriller. Director: Fritz Lang. Sunday 25th July 7pm Drama. Director: Stanley Haynes. Stars: castle, unaware it is a German spy base. The World of Budgerigars Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Bernard and George Sanders. A hunter Sunday 18th July 11:35am Lost short film – final work of Miles & Stanley Holloway. Jenny joins a Look At Life: Bottle Party (1962) Sid James? (1976) finds the vacation residence of Stars: Sid James, Patricia Burke and ballet. After a romance with a Adolf Hitler but is prevented from The fascinating story of why we throw sculptor, her marriage to a devout farmer away 200 million bottles every year. Philip Marsden. Sid James on the assassinating him. joys of owning a budgerigar in this ends in gunplay. Sunday 18th July 11:50am rare, previously ‘lost’ short film – Saturday 14th August 7:05pm and Tuesday 20th July 3pm possibly the last footage of Sid. Thursday 5th August 2:40pm Snowball (1960) The Blind Goddess (1948) October Moth (1960) Director: Pat Jackson. Drama. Director: Harold French. Sunday 25th July 10pm Drama. Director: John Kruse. Stars: Stars: Gordon Jackson, Stars: Eric Portman, Anne Crawford and Personal Services (1987) Robert Cawdron, Peter Dyneley & Lana Zena Walker, Kenneth Griffith Hugh Williams. Lord Brasted’s Comedy. Director: Terry Jones. Morris. On a Yorkshire farm, a young and . Mickey secretary accuses him of embezzling. Stars: Julie Walters, Alec McCow- man believes a car crash victim is his tells a lie that snowballs, with dire en and Shirley Stelfox. The rise of deceased mother. consquences for a bus conductor. Tuesday 20th July 7:45pm a single mother from waitress to Look at Life: Testing Time (1963) A madam of a suburban brothel. Saturday 14th August 8:40pm Saturday 7th August 9:50am All Coppers Are (1971) Look into all the different things that Supersonic Saucer (1956) need to be tested in Britain today. Saturday 31st July 9:55am Drama. Director: Sidney Hayers. Bush Christmas (1947) Director: Guy Fergusson. Stars: Stars: Martin Potter, , Wednesday 21st July 6:30pm A very rare Australian–British Marcia Manolescue, Fella Edmonds and David Essex, Look at Life: Brains Unlimited (1963) Children’s Film Foundation film, Gillian Harrison. A group of schoolchil- Nicky Henson & . A Look into an examination of the directed by Ralph Smart. Stars: dren come upon an alien from Venus A young policeman and a small- education system, not only in Britain, Chips Rafferty, John Fernside and and help him defeat a gang of criminals. time crook are involved with the but also in the Commonwealth. Stan Tolhurst. Children track down rustlers who stole their horses. Monday 9th August 12.45pm same girl. Saturday 24th July 9:50am Saturday 31st July 12pm Strictly for the Birds (1963) Sunday 15th August 10pm Hide and Seek (1972) Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: Harry and Tonto (1974) Director: David Eady. Stars: Peter Newby, Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) Drama. Director: Delmer Tony Tanner, Joan Sims & Graham Stark. Drama. Director: Paul Mazursky. Gary Kemp, Robin Askwith, Roger Avon, Terry Blessing seems to be having a Stars: Art Carney, Rene Enriquez Eileen Fletcher, Roy Dotrice and Liz Fraser. Daves. Stars: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward and Anne Bancroft. lucky day with a gambling win – until and Philip Burns. When his A boy runs away from his approved an ex-girlfriend turns up with a child she apartment building is torn down, a school to join his father, who has written Demetrius refuses to help Emperor Caligula and has to fight claims is his son. Look out for retired lifelong New Yorker goes on to tell him that he is leaving England. Carol Cleveland in her first film role. a cross-country odyssey. 32 in the gladiators’ arena. 33 SUBTITLED FILMS ON TPTV THIS MONTH FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Full subtitle listings on 09:30 02:45 Glimpses: The Sunshine 18:40 Pack Up Your Troubles our website. 12:10 Fallen Angel Sweethearts 50s Bikini Girls! 21:00 Friends Thu 15 July 14:10 The Secret Place 02:50 Another Shore 23:05 The Lady is a Square EN Y 06:00 Child in the House 18:00 Sherlock Holmes 05:00 Stagecoach West 02:55 Up River K N 07:40 Rotten to the Core 23:05 The Enforcer Wed 28 July 05:00 Stagecoach West 09:40 No Hiding Place - Inquest on 02:50 Jazz Mad 08:15 BFI: Eagle Rock Wed 04 August an Idol Thu 22 July 09:30 The Champions 06:20 Warn That Man 10:45 The Hypnotist 06:00 An Ideal Husband 10:30 Loser Takes All 08:15 BFI: Hide and Seek 14:30 Scarlet Thread 09:30 12:15 The Night We Got The Bird 09.30 The Champions Y 16:00 Spring and Port Wine 13:35 Now and Forever 13:50 The Lamp Still Burns 12:25 L NC 18:30 The 15:20 Rebecca 18:00 Sherlock Holmes 16:25 The Yellow Balloon H 21:00 Darling Lili 18:40 Julia 21:05 Dulcima 18:00 Sherlock Holmes CD 01:30 The Molly Maguires 21:00 The Lovers! 23:05 Hurry Sundown 21:25 I Met a Murderer P Fri 16 July 22:45 Up the Junction Thu 29 July Thu 05 August U ON 06:00 The Gentleman Bandit 01:10 Harry’s War 14:05 Night Without Stars 11:30 The Ringer 08:00 Come Back Peter Fri 23 July 16:00 Paper Tiger 13:05 Law & Disorder 14:10 From The Terrace 06:00 Flannelfoot 18:30 Another Shore 14:40 October Moth 18:00 Cheaper By The Dozen 07:25 End of the Line 20:05 Girl Can’t Help It 18:30 Sons of the Desert THE ROO 19:45 The Mummy’s Shroud 10:20 And The Same To You Fri 30 July 19:50 Devil’s Bait F 03:25 The Broken Melody 11:45 Spring Meeting 06.00 Sunstruck Fri 06 August WITH FREE Sat 17 July 13:35 The Small Voice 10:10 Five Guns West 06:00 Second Woman UK POSTAGE 06:00 Profile 21:20 Don’t Bother To Knock (1952) 15:15 Young and Innocent 07.50 Old Mother Riley: £15.99 09:00 Saturday Morning Pictures 02:30 Enemy Mine 18:00 The Egyptian Bridget’s Night Out (all content subtitled) Sat 24 July Sat 31 July 08:10 Will Any Gentleman MUSIC CD 47min 14:05 Fallen Angel 06:00 Marked Men 06:05 Konga 11:35 The Cariboo Trail 20 Tracks on 1 CD 16:00 Our Relations 07.10 Sundown 07.50 Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts 20:00 No Hiding Place: Front Man 17:30 Twice Two 9-12 Saturday Morning Pictures 9-12 Saturday Morning Pictures Sat 07 August During a 60+ year career, during which he was an ubiquitous TV, radio and 18:35 House of Bamboo (all content subtitled) (all content subtitled) 07:30 Phantom From Space 20:40 Villa Rides 12:00 The Long, the Short & the Tall 12:00 Demetrius and The Gladiators 9-12 Saturday Morning Pictures movie personality, the hugely-popular KENNY LYNCH OBE left his mark as a Sun 18 July 16:00 Way Out West 16:00 Towed In A Hole (all content subtitled) singer, songwriter, producer, actor, comic, entertainer and more. Kenny’s 06:10 Old Mother Riley’s 17:15 The Private Life Of Oliver 16:25 Block-Heads 12:00 Lifeboat Jungle Treasure the Eighth 17:35 L& H: The Finishing Touch 16:00 Laurel & Hardy: Hog Wild early recording career has been largely overlooked; and although it included 07:40 Murder in Eden 17:55 Oliver Hardy Interview 18:35 Went The Day Well 16:25 Saps At Sea a couple of significant hits, this body of work has never previously been 09:30 Law Of The Plainsman 21:00 Who Dares Wins 20:25 Hombre 17:35 Busy Bodies 13:45 Hobson’s Choice 01:20 Come Back to the Five & 02:25 Helter Skelter 21:00 Black Sunday reissued. It includes his HMV singles releases between 1960-62, with 16:00 Battle of The Century Dime, Jimmy Dean Sun 01 August Sun 08 August Mountain of Love, Puff (Up In Smoke) and Up On The Roof, plus jukebox 16:25 The Bohemian Girl 03:30 Stranger In Town 06:00 Make Mine a Million 07:35 Bush Pilot 21:00 The Champions Sun 25 July 09:30 Law Of The Plainsman 09:30 Law Of The Plainsman favourites like There’s Never Been A Girl and It Would Take A Miracle. Also 22:00 Heaven Can Wait 06:00 Live It Up 12:10 Lease of Life 11:55 Pollyanna included are both sides of a novelty single he recorded with 04:20 A Tale of Five Cities 09:30 Law Of The Plainsman 14:00 Fun in Acapulco 14:00 Against the Wind Mon 19 July 10:00 The Night My Number Came Up 16:00 A Chump At Oxford 16:00 The Flying Deuces and partner-in-crime Harry Fowler, plus a live track recorded with 06:00 Lena Rivers 12:35 The Land that Time Forgot 17:15 Laurel-Hardy Murder Case 17:20 Laughing Gravy Tubby Hayes, which later featured in the filmDr Terror’s 10:00 Adventures of Captain Fabian 16:00 Swiss Miss 17:55 Oliver Hardy Interview 21:00 The Champions 12:00 The History Of Mr 17:35 Do Detectives Think? 19:10 Genevieve 22:00 The Amorous Adventures of House Of Horrors. This rare body of work features 14:00 Enemy At The Door 19:20 Happiest Days of Your Life 21:00 The Champions Moll Flanders half a dozen sides which have never been reissued in 15:00 Last Holiday 21:00 The Champions 22:00 Jigsaw 04:40 October Moth 16:45 The Flying Squad 00:10 Heart of the Matter 00:05 Child’s Play (1972) Mon 09 August any format, making this an essential release for all 21:00 Girls! Girls! Girls! Mon 26 July 04:10 Peg Of Old Drury 07:45 Second Chorus Kenny Lynch fans. INCLUDES A FOLD-OUT BOOKLET 22:55 The Assassination Bureau 07.30 Captain Boycott Mon 02 August 11:30 Echo Of Diana 02:20 The Naked Kiss 10:00 Another Time, Another Place 06:00 Shadows on the Stairs 12:45 Strictly For The Birds WITH FULL OVERVIEW OF KENNY’S CAREER AND MUSIC. 04:10 The Most Dangerous Game 12:15 Scarlet Blade 07:25 My Teenage Daughter 14:00 Enemy At The Door Tue 20 July 14:00 Enemy At The Door 10:05 The March Hare 15:00 The Devil and Miss Jones MOUNTAIN OF LOVE / WHY DO YOU TREAT ME THIS WAY / SLOWCOACH / 06:45 Melody Club 15:00 Bank Holiday 12:00 Shepherd On The Rock 16:50 Adventure in the Hopfields 08:10 Third Alibi 16:45 Scarlet Web 14:00 Enemy At The Door 18:45 Night Ferry YOU MAKE LOVE SO WELL / SO / LOVE ME / THE STORY BEHIND MY TEARS / 10:00 The Frightened Man 18:45 Soapbox Derby 16:55 Ticket To Paradise 02:50 Harlow 11:20 Portrait of Alison 21:00 House of Strangers 18:45 Go Kart Go 05:25 Champion The Wonderhorse STEADY KIND / THERE’S NEVER BEEN A GIRL / DOLL FACE / IT WOULD TAKE A 13:00 No Hiding Place 01:05 Nurse on Wheels 23:00 They Came From Beyond Space Tue 10 August MIRACLE / STROLLING BLUES / PUFF (Up In Smoke) / HAPPY THAT’S ME / A Pocketful of Bones 02:50 Son of Monte Christo 02:50 Mr Kingstreet’s War 10:00 Raising The Wind 16:50 Rock You Sinners 04:50 The Black Abbot 04:40 Once A Thief 11:55 The Lady With A Lamp UP ON THE ROOF / JUMP ON YOUR BROOMSTICK / CRAZY CRAZES / I’M NOT THAT 18:00 One Step Beyond Tue 27 July Tue 03 August 15:00 Death Goes To School 21:00 Age of Innocence 08:05 Return Of A Stranger 06:00 Heart of the Matter 16:15 Dear Mr. Prohack SORT OF GIRL (with Barbara Windsor & Harry Fowler) / IT HAD BETTER BE A WONDERFUL 22:55 The Hot Rock 15:00 It Always Rains On Sunday 08:05 Sky Liner 18:00 One Step Beyond LIE (with Barbara Windsor & Harry Fowler) / GIVE ME LOVE (live with Tubby Hayes) 05:00 Stagecoach West 16:50 Once In a New Moon 11:40 Serves You Right! 21:00 Up In The World Wed 21 July 18:00 One Step Beyond 12:10 Quiet Weekend 05:00 Stagecoach West 06:50 Lilli Marlene 18:35 Our Relations 17:00 No Hiding Place: Front Man Wed 11 August 08:30 BFI: Skid Kids 23:00 The Hunter 18:00 One Step Beyond 06:00 Bush Christmas To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 NAME FREEPHONE ADDRESS 0808 178 8212

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