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Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 10th May 2021 306 | VIRGIN 445

One Step Beyond on Talking Pictures TV Broadcast from January 1959 to July 1961, One Step Beyond was hosted and directed by John Newland and, like The Twilight Zone, which began broadcasting nine months later, it focussed on other-wordly phenomena. Among its stories, the series dealt with premonition of death: The Lincoln Assassination; disaster: Tidal Wave; astral projection: The Long Call; ghosts: The Death Waltz and coincidence: Reunion. Among those who appeared were: Paula Raymond, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jocelyn Brando, Joan Fontaine, Warren Beatty, Charles Bronson, Jack Lord, , Patrick Macnee, André Morell, Donald Pleasence, William Shatner and Peter Wyngarde. The series will be airing on Tuesdays at 6pm from May 11th.

Monday 10th May 10:30am Tuesday 11th May 3:40pm We’ll Smile Again (1942) Beware of Pity (1946) Musical. Director: John Baxter. Stars: Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Stars: Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Meinhart Maur. Nazi spies infiltrate a Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper. film studio in order to send coded A cavalry officer becomes close to the messages, but are foiled by two of the wheelchair-bound daughter of a local studio staff. bigwig, with catastrophic results. Costumes designed by Cecil Beaton. Monday 10th May 4:50pm Delayed Action (1954) Tuesday 11th May 6:35pm Thriller. Director: John Harlow. The Big Chance (1957) Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Drama. Director: Peter Graham Scott. Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton. Stars: Adrienne Corri, William Russell Two criminals do a deal with a suicidal Ian Colin. A travel agent trapped in man, who will confess to their crimes a mundane job seizes his chance to before he dies. escape – but is life on the run for him? Monday 10th May 9pm Tuesday 11th May 9pm The Ghost & Mrs Muir (1947) Situation Hopeless But Drama. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Not Serious (1965) Stars: , Gene Tierney and Comedy. Director: Gottfried Reinhardt. George Sanders. Mrs Muir discovers Stars: , that her holiday cottage is haunted by and Mike Connors. Wilhelm Frick hides the previous owner. two American fliers, but does not inform them World War II is over. Tuesday 11th May 7:30am Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) Wednesday 12th May 8:45am Comedy. Director: Arthur Crabtree. Night Ferry (1976) Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Adventure. Directed by David Eady. Linden Travers & Hugh Sinclair. Jack’s Stars: Graham Fletcher-Cook, grandfather Harry comes out of prison Jayne Tottman and Bernard Cribbins. and stays with him in his mews flat. From the Children’s Film Foundation. A dastardly master-of-disguise plans to Tuesday 11th May 12:35pm smuggle an Egyptian mummy abroad. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Wednesday 12th May 12:20pm Comedy. Director: Anthony Asquith. Not So Dusty (1956) Stars: , , Comedy. Director: Maclean Rogers. Michael Denison, . Stars: Bill Owen, Leslie Dwyer and Algernon discovers that his friend Ernest Joy Nichols. Two dustmen find a has a fictional brother – and poses as the brother. valuable book, but the donor’s sister wants it back. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 10th May 2021

Sherlock Holmes on Talking Pictures TV The first television adaptation of Doyle’s stories, first aired in 1954, starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared as Inspector Lestrade. The series was filmed at Epinay-sur-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis in and in . Actors who appeared in the series included: , Grégoire Aslan, Paulette Goddard and Richard O’Sullivan. Airs at 6pm on Wednesdays from May 12th.

Wednesday 12th May 9:05pm Saturday 15th May 2:05pm Prick Up Your Ears (1986) The Land that Time Forgot (1975) Drama. Director: Stephen Frears. Adventure. Director: Kevin Connor. Stars: Gary Oldman, , Stars: Doug McClure, John McEnery Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters. and Susan Penhaligon. Survivors of The life and death of outrageous British a U-Boat torpedo drift to an island playwright Joe Orton. inhabited by pre-historic monsters. Thursday 13th May 10:30am Saturday 15th May 6:35 pm Elizabeth of Ladymead (1949) Is Paris Burning? (1966) Drama. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Stars: Drama. Director: Rene Clement. Stars: and Hugh Williams. , , Elizabeth remains at Ladymead while Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anthony Perkins, her husband is fighting abroad. Alain Delon. The story of the 1944 Allied Resistance and Paris Liberation. Thursday 13th May 2:45pm Caravan (1946) Saturday 15th May 9:50pm Drama. Director: Arthur Crabtree. All Coppers Are (1971) Stars: , Jean Kent, Drama. Director: . Anne Crawford, and Stars: Martin Potter, Julia Foster and . A young man is Nicky Henson. A young policeman nursed back to health by a gypsy girl. and a crook become rivals in love. Thursday 13th May 9pm Sunday 16th May 11:45am Harry and Tonto (1974) Strawberry Roan (1945) Drama. Director: Paul Mazursky. Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars: Stars: Art Carney, Herbert Berghof, Philip William Hartnell, Carol Raye and Bruns, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald Walter Fitzgerald. A farmer marries a and . A 70-year-old man showgirl and tries to help her become travels across America with his cat. more settled on the farm. Friday 14th May 2:55pm Sunday 16th May 1:25pm Adam and Evelyne (1949) Pollyanna (2002) Romance. Director: Harold French. Drama. Director: Sarah Harding. Stars: Stewart Granger and Stars: Amanda Burton, Georgina . The ward of a veteran Terry and Kenneth Cranham. Orphan gambler returns from boarding school Pollyanna goes to stay with Aunt Polly, a gorgeous young woman. bringing mirth and mayhem with her. Friday 14th May 9pm Sunday 16th May 7pm Deathline (1972) Battle of the Sexes (1960) Horror. Director: Gary Sherman. Stars: Director: Charles Crichton. Stars: Donald Pleasence, Christopher Lee. , and Two London students find themselves Constance Cummings. An accountant involved in the case of a missing man. takes on a lady efficiency expert.

Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Superman Episode 3: Million Dollar Limited 09:10 The Cisco Kid (1950-1956) Episode 3: Chain Lightning 09:45 Johnny on the Run (1953) Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars: Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour, Eugeniusz Chylek, Edna Wynn, David Coote. A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother and is involved in a robbery. Shot in Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands. 11:05 The Adventures of Champion the Wonder Horse Episode 7: Canyon of Wanted Men 11:35 Radar Men From The Moon (1952) Bridge of Death Starring: George Wallace, Aline Towne and Roy Barcroft. Commando Cody fights the evil ruler of the moon. 11:50 Casper – Boo Moon (1954)