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The Seekers on Talking Pictures TV! Stars: Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell and Kenneth Williams Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 22nd June 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Seekers on Talking Pictures TV! Stars: Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell and Kenneth Williams. Directed by Ken Annakin, this 1954 feature overflows with beautiful scenery, colour and set pieces. In 1821 adventuring seafarer Philip Wayne (Jack Hawkins) and Paddy Clarke (Noel Purcell) set ashore to explore the Bay of Plenty. Stumbling upon a Maori burial cave, they are captured but Wayne impresses the chief, and is adopted as his honorary son. Back in England he marries, and decides to return to the Pacific with his new wife Marion (Glynis Johns). Airs Tuesday 23rd June at 10pm. Monday 22nd June 7:10am Tuesday 23rd June 10pm The Teckman Mystery (1954) The Seekers (1954) Drama. Director: Wendy Toye. Adventure directed by: Ken Stars: Margaret Leighton, John Justin Annakin. Stars: Jack Hawkins, and Roland Culver. A writer is Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell, commissioned to write the biography Kenneth Williams. In 1821, a British of a young airman who died while sailor visits New Zealand, befriends a testing a new plane. Maori chief, marries in England and returns with a group of followers. Monday 22nd June 9:30am Kill Her Gently (1957) Wednesday 24th June 9:30am Thriller. Director: Charles Saunders. Trouble Brewing (1939) Stars: Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell Comedy. Director: Anthony and Marc Lawrence. Two convicts who Kimmins. Stars: George Formby, escape prison are picked up by a Googie Withers & Gus McNaughton. motorist who helps them on the run. George wins a lot at the races, but he’s paid with counterfeit money. Tuesday 23rd June 11:30am Wednesday 24th June 3:15pm Play It Cool (1962) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) Drama. Director: Michael Winner. Drama. Directed by Robert Stars: Billy Fury, Dennis Price, Hamer. Stars: Googie Withers, Ray Brooks, Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro. Mervyn Johns and Gordon Jackson. This charming pre-Beatles-era musical The tale of a pious chemists’ feature was among Michael Winner’s household and the underworld earliest films. occupied by pub landlady Pearl. Tuesday 23rd June 5:30pm Wednesday 24th June 5:30pm The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) RUDY Rudolph Valentino Comedy Drama. Director: Sam Wood. Documentary. Directed by Andrea Stars: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Bettinetti. The life and career of Charles Coburn. A millionaire Rudolph Valentino as the first ever masquerades as a sales-clerk to pop-icon of the mass media era in investigate employees in his store. the roaring 1920’s. Wednesday 24th June 10:05pm Tuesday 23rd June 9pm The Birthday Present (1957) BUDGIE (1971) Drama. Directed by Pat Jackson. Episode 2: Some Mother’s Sons Stars: Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms, Drama. Director: Michael Jack Watling and Geoffrey Keen. Lindsay-Hogg, Stars: Adam Faith, Lynn A salesman loses his job after serving Dalby, Iain Cuthbertson. Why is Charlie time in prison and struggles to find letting Budgie use a flat in the middle a new job. of Soho for six weeks, and what are Hazel’s mother’s plans? Series continues at 9pm every Tuesday. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 22nd June 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 NO HIDING PLACE: LOST EPISODE Music for Murder on Talking Pictures TV No Hiding Place was the first detective series produced for the commercial network that was ‘live’ and totally British. Barry Baker wrote and produced, with retired Scotland Yard officer Glyn Davies providing storylines based on actual cases, and ensuring accuracy. The series soared in 1960’s audience ratings, attracting more than 7 million viewers. DI Baxter ‘retired’ at the peak of the show’s popularity, and in 1964 DCS Lockhart welcomed two new assistants, Johnny Briggs and Michael McStay as Detective Sergeants Russell and Perryman. In 1965, ex-criminal Colin Holder was brought in, to ‘vet’ the scripts for authenticity, complementing ex-Flying Squad officer George Kelly’s advice on police routine. Few episodes now survive. Tonight the previously lost episode Music for Murder is broadcast for the first time in fifty years. Airs Thursday 25th June at 7:10pm and again on Saturday 27th June at 6pm. Thursday 25th June 9:30am Thursday 25th June 9:55pm The Passing Stranger (1954) The 14 (1973) Drama. Directed by John Arnold. Drama. Director: David Hemmings. Stars Diane Cilento, Lee Patterson and Stars: Jack Wild, Alun Armstrong, Duncan Lamont. Diane Cilento runs June Brown and Cheryl Hall. Based a café in a small English town and on a true story; 14 kids from Lon- is swept off her feet by a mysterious don’s East End stick together after passing stranger. the death of their mother. Thursday 25th June 5:30pm (AKA: The Wild Little Bunch) The Happiest Days of Your Life Friday 26th June 10:30am (1950) Trottie True (1949) Comedy. Directed by Frank Launder. Musical comedy. Director: Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars: Jean Kent, and Joyce Grenfell. Chaos ensues for James Donald and Hugh Sinclair. staff and students when an all-boys After making her name in the music and an all-girls school are evacuated halls, Trottie True marries Lord Digby to the same building. Landon, but their love is put to the Thursday 25th June 7:10pm test. (AKA The Gay Lady) and Saturday 27th June 6pm Friday 26th June 7:15pm NO HIDING PLACE LOST EPISODE: Now and Forever (1956) Music for Murder (1965) Drama. Directed by Mario Zampi. Crime. Director: John Frankau. Stars: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Cast: Raymond Francis , Johnny Briggs. Walsh and Jack Warner. A schoolgirl A previously lost episode of the famous falls in love with the son of a local series. Set in a hotel, a man falls to his garage owner and they plan to elope. death and the question is was it an Friday 26th June 10pm accident or did someone push him? The Scars of Dracula (1970) Thursday 25th June 8:10pm Horror. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. City That Never Sleeps (1953) Stars: Christopher Lee, Jenny Hanley, Drama, directed by: John H. Auer Dennis Waterman. At a remote castle Stars: Gig Young, Mala Powers, Count Dracula is resurrected. William Talman, Edward Arnold. Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, wants to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 22nd June 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Out of Season on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Susan George, Cliff Robertson, Edward Evans. Directed by Alan Bridges. Joe Turner returns to Britain twenty years after he ended a romantic relationship with Ann. He discovers her running the same picturesque seaside resort in Dorset, but now with a grown daughter named Joanna. Joe and Ann attempt to rekindle their relationship, but are impeded by Joanna, who flirts with Joe and tries to seduce him. All three find themselves pulled into an intense and surprising relationship which explodes with a shocking conclusion. The film features insightful and powerful performances by Redgrave, Robertson and George, with a taut script and first-rate direction. Filmed on location in Dorset, mainly on the Isle of Portland, the bleak look and isolated feel of the island during the off-peak season works beautifully with the plot. Airs Sunday 28th June at 10:05pm. Saturday 27th June 10:30am Sunday 28th June 3:30pm The Immortal Orson Welles (2019) Above Us the Waves (1954) This intimate documentary Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: John contrasts the romanticised maverick Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden. figure with the man behind the War Drama about an attack by British enigma, and celebrates his remarkable submarines on a German battleship in contributions to film history. a Norwegian fjord during World War II. Saturday 27th June 9:05pm Sunday 28th June 6:10pm Come Back To the Five and Dime, Oliver Twist (1948) Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) Drama. Directed by David Lean. Stars: Comedy Drama. Director: Robert Altman. John Howard Davies Alec Guinness Cast: Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Robert Newton and Kay Walsh. Sudie Bond, Marta Heflin, Kathy Bates, An orphaned boy joins a household of Mark Patton. The Disciples of James Dean boys trained to steal for their master. meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present Sunday 28th June 10:05pm and in flashback. Out of Season (1975) Drama. Directed by Alan Bridges. Sunday 28th June 10:30am Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Lambretta Susan George, Cliff Robertson, Between 1946-1947 Italy begins to move. Edward Evans. Ann and her Lambrettas become the symbol of a new daughter Joanna live in a small, Italian vitality, after the trauma of the slightly run down hotel on the civil war. Distances grow smaller, ideas circulate, people meet. English coast. When Joe returns to rekindle a previous relationship with Sunday 28th June 1:30pm Ann, they attempt to renew their True as a Turtle (1957) relationship, with interference from Comedy, directed by: Wendy Toye. the daughter, who flirts with Joe, Stars: John Gregson, Cecil Parker, successfully competing with her June Thorburn, Keith Michell. mother for his attention. Ultimately, A newly-wed young couple all three are pulled into an intense honeymoon on a ketch named Turtle. and surprising relationship which They experience many adventures results in a shocking conclusion ... before finally reaching the French (AKA Winter Rates) harbour of Dinard..
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