Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 18th November 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Overseas Press Club on Talking Pictures TV First screened in 1957 and unseen for over fifty years and featuring performances by, among others, Phyllis Calvert, Peter Wyngarde, Richard O’Sullivan, Robert Raglan and Peter Arne. This series features individual dramas based on the adventures of famous reporters who witnessed some of the most extraordinary stories of the 20th century. A woman comes forward as one of several claimants to the Romanov fortune. Is she really the daughter of the last Czar of Russia? A ten-year-old Polish orphan, wearing a sergeant’s uniform is found as a stowaway on a British cargo ship. In post-war Naples, a young priest lives and works among wild street gangs of abandoned children. April,1945: a war correspondent arrives in Munich and finds, in Hitler’s home, one of the war’s strangest exploits... The series starts on: Tues 12th Nov 11:00 continuing at the same time every week day.

Mon 18th Nov 15:30 Tues 19th Nov 22:00 The Fast Lady (1963) Frankenstein Created Woman Comedy, directed by: Ken Annakin. (1967) Stars: Stanley Baxter, James Robertson Horror, directed by: Terence Fisher Justice, & Julie Christie. Stars: Peter Cushing, Thorley Walter, Mr. Troon invests in a vintage Bentley Susan Denberg. Frankenstein’s to impress the daughter of a wealthy assistant is hanged for murder and tycoon who despises him. his lover commits suicide. Frankenstein transfers his assistant’s Mon 18th Nov 18:00 spirit into the body of his lover. The Man Who Finally Died (1963) Thriller, directed by: Quentin Wed 20th Nov 07:30 Lawrence. Stars: Stanley Baker, The Foreman went to France Peter Cushing, Georgina Ward. (1942) A German immigrant to Britain receives Drama, directed by: Charles Frend. a mysterious phone call telling him Stars: Tommy Trinder, Constance the father he believed dead for 20 Cummings, Gordon Jackson. years is actually alive. He returns to An English factory foreman travels to Bavaria to investigate. France in 1940 in order to smuggle vital machinery out of the country Tues 19th Nov 11:30 before the invading Germans arrive. Please Turn Over (1960) Comedy, directed by: Gerald Thomas Wed 20th Nov 11:30 Stars: Ted Ray, Leslie Phillips, Oh... Rosalinda! (1956) Julia Lockwood. An English suburb Musical comedy, directed by: is thrown into chaos when the Michael Powell daughter of one of the residents Stars: Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, publishes a book detailing the secrets Anthony Quayle. Adaptation of of the inhabitants. Die Fledermaus by Johan Strauss, updated to post-war Vienna. Tues 19th Nov 18:00 (1944) Wed 20th Nov 22:05 Drama, directed by Basil Dearden. Best Pair of Legs in the Business Stars: Mervyn Johns, & (1974) Tom Walls. A group of travellers, all with Comedy, directed by: something to hide in their past, take Christopher Hodson. shelter from a storm in an old inn. Stars: Reg Varney, Diana Coupland, Lee Montague and Jean Harvey. A middle-aged compère and drag artiste is low on talent but high on ambition. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 18th November 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 21st Nov 16:30 Fri 22nd Nov 19:05 Talking Pictures with Marty Wilde Brighton Rock (1947) (2019) Crime drama, directed by: Marty Wilde, MBE is an English singer John Boulting. and songwriter, among the first of the Stars: Richard Attenborough and British pop stars to emulate American Hermione Baddeley. Small-time rock and roll. His films include gang leader Pinkie Brown tries to What a Crazy World (1963), cover his tracks after a murder, The Hellions (1961) and Jet Storm but runs into trouble with a (1960) and he had a string of hit records potential witness. including Donna and Sea of Love. He appeared regularly on the BBC Sat 23rd Nov 12:30 television show 6.5 Special and was Catch Us If You Can (1965) the main regular artist on the Musical drama, directed by: Saturday ITV popular music shows John Boorman. Oh Boy! and Boy Meets Girls. Stars: Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, In this exclusive interview, filmed at David Lodge, Yootha Joyce, the Renown/Talking Pictures David De Keyser. A stuntman and 5th Festival of Film, he talks about his an actress abscond with an E-type life and experiences in the world of Jaguar while filming a commercial. music and entertainment and They drive towards Devon, encountering performs his own composition, adventures along the way, accompanied a tribute to Eddie Cochran. by music performed by the Dave Clarke 5. (AKA Having a Wild Weekend) Thurs 21st Nov 18:00 Hue and Cry (1947) Sat 23rd Nov 18:00 Comedy, directed by: Charles Crichton. Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) Stars: , Frederick Piper, Thriller, directed by: Robert Hamer. Harry Fowler. A gang of street boys Stars: Googie Withers, Mervyn foil a master crook who sends Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, commands for robberies by altering a Sally Ann Howes. The wife of a pub comic strip’s wording each week. landlord in Victorian Brighton, who is having an affair, wants to rid herself Thurs 21st Nov 22:00 of her abusive husband. Plenty (1985) Drama, directed by: Fred Schepisi. Sun 24th Nov 16:00 Stars: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Rotten to the Core (1965) André Maranne. An ex-secret service Comedy, directed by: John Boulting. agent becomes bored when she returns Stars: Anton Rodgers, Eric Sykes, to post-WWII Britain. She marries a Charlotte Rampling. After 18 months diplomat, but becomes increasingly in jail a group of felons are released neurotic and bitter. and eager to receive their share of the stash. They are told that their Fri 22nd Nov 15:50 leader is dead and the money gone, Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) but this is not quite the case... Comedy, directed by Frank Launder. Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Sun 24th Nov 19:10 Joyce Grenfell & John Turnbull. Spring in Park Lane (1948) Chaos ensues for staff and students Comedy, directed by: Herbert Wilcox. when an all-boys and an all-girls Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding. school are amalgamated during Joshua Howard’s niece suspects the the Blitz. new footman is not what he makes out to be.