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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 7th October 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Girl with Green Eyes on Talking Pictures TV Starring , Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave and Julian Glover, Girl with Green Eyes was directed by Desmond Davis. Edna O’Brien adapted the screenplay from her own novel, The Lonely Girl. The tender story follows a young, naive country girl’s romance with a sophisticated older man. Touching and humorous, the film is beautifully played, Rita Tushingham and Peter Finch are perfect in their roles. Premieres Sunday 13th October at 10pm. The Imperial War Museum Film Archive TPTV are delighted to be working with the Imperial War Museum, making their archive available to a wider audience, and showcasing some unseen gems. This week we are featuring A Diary For Timothy (1945), (1943) and We Serve (1942). We have a put a programme license agreement in place in order to show the films, which is an exciting and unique opportunity for the channel.

Mon 7th Oct 19 14:35 Tues 8th Oct 19 22:00 Law and Disorder (1958) The Lovers! (1973) Comedy directed by Charles Comedy directed by Herbert Wise. Crichton. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Starring: Richard Beckinsale, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire. Paula Wilcox, Joan Scott, Susan Colin’s clergyman father is actually Littler, Anthony Naylor. Geoffrey a confidence trickster. When Colin and Beryl want to fall in love, like studies law, his father retires, but Adam & Eve, but Adam & Eve soon he’s involved in smuggling... didn’t live in in 1972... Mon 7th Oct 19 19:15 Wed 9th Oct 19 12:00 John and Julie (1955) The Shillingbury Blowers (1979) Comedy, directed by William Drama, directed by Val Guest. Fairchild. Stars: Colin Gibson, Lesley Stars: Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Dudley, Noelle Middleton, Megs Trevor Howard, Sam Kydd, John Jenkins, Sid James & Peter Sellers. Le Mesurier and Patrick Newell. Two children run away to so The arrival of a pop star and his they can visit the Queen. wife upsets the status quo of the Shillingbury village brass band. Mon 7th Oct 19 22:00 Take a Girl Like You (1970) Wed 9th Oct 19 19:10 Comedy. Director: Jonathan Miller. The Hypnotist (1957) Stars: Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed, Noel Drama, directed by Montgomery Harrison. Jenny heads to the South Tully. Stars: Roland Culver, Patricia of England to start a new career Roc, Paul Carpenter. A hypnotist where she runs into Patrick, one of attempts to convince one of his the local ‘lads’. patients to murder his own wife. Tues 8th Oct 19 14:35 and Thurs 10th Oct 19 14:30 Friday 11th 05:10 The Way Ahead (1944) A Diary For Timothy (1945) War Drama, directed by: Carol Director: Humphrey Jennings. Reed. Stars Jimmy Hanley, Stanley Impressionist portrait of wartime Holloway, Trevor Howard & David Britain as presented to new-born Niven. After a battalion suffers baby Timothy, with narration written casualties at Dunkirk the gaps by E.M Forster and spoken by in the ranks must be filled by Michael Redgrave. ‘call-ups’. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 7th October 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 10th Oct 19 18:00 Sat 12th Oct 19 21:00 The New Lot (1943) Cry, The Beloved Country British Army training film (1951) directed by , following Drama, directed by: Zoltan five new recruits from different Korda. Stars: Canada Lee, Sidney backgrounds, with , Poitier, Charles Carson. A South John Laurie, Raymond Huntley, African minister searches for John Slater and a cameo appear- his missing son, only to find his ance from Robert Donat.(Film later people living in squalor and his reworked as “The Way Ahead”). son a criminal. Thurs 10th Oct 19 22:00 Sat 12th Oct 19 14:30 The Family Way (1966) The Courtneys of Curzon Street Drama, directed by: Roy & John (1947) Boulting. Stars Hayley Mills, Hywel Drama, directed by Herbert Bennett, & Marjorie Wilcox. Stars: Anna Neagle, Mi- Rhodes. The troubles of two young chael Wilding, Thora Hird. newlyweds whose marriage has yet The story of the Courtney family, to be consummated. from the late 19th century, when Fri 11th Oct 19 10:20 and Edward Courtney married his Sat 12th Oct 11:20 mother’s maid, to the closing days of the Second World War. We Serve (1942) Training film for officers of the Sun 13th Oct 19 16:45 ATS, directed by Carol Reed and Here Comes the Sun featuring Celia Johnson, Ann Todd, (1946) Joyce Carey and Peggy Ashcroft. Comedy, directed by Herbert Fri 11th Oct 19 22:00 Wilcox. Stars: John Baxter and The Mind Of Mr Soames (1970) Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen Drama, directed by Alan Cooke. and Elsa Tee. A sports reporter is Starring: Terence Stamp, Robert on the run from the police, as he Vaughn & Nigel Davenport. Since tries to clear his name. his birth John Soames has been in Sun 13th Oct 19 22:00 a coma & is brought to life in a Girl With Green Eyes neurological clinic. (1964) Sat 12th Oct 19 12:30 Drama, directed by Desmond The Terrornauts (1967) Davis. Stars Peter Finch, Science Fiction, directed by Rita Tushingham, Lynn Montgomery Tully. Redgrave and Julian Glover. Starring: Zena Marshall, Catholic Irish farm girl Kate Simon Oates. An observatory is Brady, along with her gregarious transported to an asteroid, where best friend Baba Brennan, moves the scientists discover strange to Dublin to pursue a more beings who intend to destroy exciting life. There, the two the earth. meet worldly writer and translator Eugene Gaillard. Sat 12th Oct 19 14:20 Although both are interested Operation Bullshine (1959) in him, it is Kate who quietly The ATS wife of an artillery pursues him. lieutenant secretly joins her husband on the post. The fact that her husband is very popular with the other ATS leads to some funny complications.