Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 31st August 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Went the Day Well? on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, , C.V. France, Thora Hird, Valerie Taylor, David Farrar, Harry Fowler, Patricia Hayes, Elizabeth Allan. Directed by Cavalcanti in 1942, adapted from a story by Graham Greene. When a quiet English village is visited by a platoon of soldiers which is revealed as German troops, the villagers stage a fightback. This celebrated propoganda film reinforces the message that “careless talk costs lives”. Airs: Saturday 5th September 6:00pm.

Monday 31st August 12:00pm Tuesday 1st September 7:00pm The Baby and the Battleship (1956) The Lady is a Square (1959) Comedy. Director: Jay Lewis. Comedy musical film directed by Stars: John Mills, André Morell, Herbert Wilcox. Stars: Anna Neagle, Richard Attenborough, Lionel Jeffries, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott and , Barry Foster, Anthony Newley. An aspiring singer John Le Mesurier, Sam Kydd. A sailor goes to work as a butler in the house smuggles a baby aboard ship. of a classical music patron. Monday 31st August 6:00pm Wednesday 2nd September The Brack Report (1982) 7:45am Stars: Donald Sumpter, Jenny Seagrove, Echo of Diana (1963) Patricia Garwood, Neil Nisbet, Director: Ernest Morris Richard Hampton. Scientist Paul Brack Stars: Vincent Ball & Betty McDowall. is working on a project at one of Joan is distraught at the death of her Britain’s nuclear power stations which husband in a plane crash, but all is suddenly becomes the focus of a not what it seems. potential disaster. Continues daily at 6pm. Wednesday 2nd September 2:30pm Monday 31st August 7:00pm Take Me High (1973) NO HIDING PLACE - Musical Comedy. Director: David NEWLY DISCOVERED EPISODE. Askey. Stars: Cliff Richard, Deborah Whoever’s Right, Sweeney’s Wrong Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole, (1965) Ronald Hines, Anthony Andrews, Director: Ian Fordyce. Richard Wattis, Madeline Smith. Stars: Raymond Francis, Johnny Briggs, An ambitious young financier gets Michael McStay, Fred Beauman, the shock of his life when he’s given Patrick O’Connell, Nigel Green, a new posting in Birmingham! David Orchard. An ex prisoner trying to go straight is caught up with a group Wednesday 2nd September of safe-cracking villains. 10:05pm The Comedy Man (1964) Tuesday 1st September 9:30am Drama. Director: Alvin Rakoff. On the Fiddle (1961) Stars: , Cecil Parker and Comedy. Director: Cyril Frankel. Stars: Dennis Price. Charles Byrd has spent Alfred Lynch, and his life aiming for success, but never Cecil Parker. A couple of loveable quite got there. He tries one last time service dodgers avoid the front line in London. until they are sent to France. Thursday 3rd September 9:30am Tuesday 1st September 11:40am Where There’s a Will (1936) The Stranger (1946) Comedy. Director: William Beaudine. Drama nominated for an Oscar. Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Director: Orson Welles. Stars: Norma Varden. An incompetent Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson solicitor is taken in by American and Loretta Young. A war crimes thieves and unwittingly becomes investigator is on the trail of an party to a bank robbery. infamous Nazi. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 31st August 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

NEW SERIES: Enemy at the Door Stars: Alfred Burke, Simon Cadell, Bernard Horsfall, Richard Heffer, Simon Lack. Depicting the German occupation of Guernsey, during the Second World War, the series ran from 1978-1980. Alfred Burke led the German force, aided by Simon Cadell. John Nettles played a police detective and Anthony Head made his TV debut as the leader of the resistance, his mother Helen Shingler was also a main character. Airs: Sunday 6th September 9:00pm and continues every Sunday.

Thursday 3rd September 2:30pm Saturday 5th September 9:00pm Beautiful Stranger (1954) The Silent Partner (1978) Thriller. Director: David Miller. Thriller. Director: Daryl Duke. Stars: Ginger Rogers, Herbert Lom, Stars: , Susannah York, Stanley Baker, Jacques Bergerac. Christopher Plummer, John Candy. An actress living on the Riviera A bank teller skims $50,000 during a becomes involved with a dangerous robbery, but the crook wants it back. criminal. (AKA Twist of Fate) Score composed by Oscar Peterson. Friday 4th September 10:10am Sunday 6th September 11:15am Raising the Wind (1961) The March Hare (1956) Comedy. Director: Gerald Thomas. Comedy. Director: George More Stars: James Robertson Justice, O’Ferrall. Stars Peggy Cummins, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Liz Fraser, Terence Morgan, Wilfrid Hyde White. Kenneth Williams and Jennifer Jayne. Sir Charles Hare gambles his all on A group of music students move into a his horse at Ascot. shared flat in order to cut costs. Sunday 6th September 1:25pm Friday 4th September 2:30pm Hello Down There (1969) Battle of the V1 (1958) Comedy Science-Fiction, Director: War. Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning. Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina and Stars: Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Christopher Lee. Polish Resistance Roddy McDowall. A marine scientist discover a mysterious pilot-less plane. volunteers his family to live in an underwater home. Saturday 5th September 11:00am Sunday 6th September 3:25pm IWM: The Desert Victory (1943) My Teenage Daughter (1956) Oscar winning documentary directed Drama. Director: Herbert Wilcox. by Roy Boulting, covering the battle of Stars: Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, El Alamein. Commentary spoken by Norman Wooland, Wilfrid Hyde- Leo Genn and music composed by White. A mother tries to deal with William Alwyn. her teenage daughter’s descent into Saturday 5th September 1:55pm delinquency. Suspected Person (1942) Sunday 6th September 6:00pm Drama. Director: Lawrence Huntington. The Yellow Balloon (1953) Stars: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, Drama. Director: J. Lee Thompson. David Farrar, Robert Beatty, William Stars: Andrew Ray, Kenneth More, Hartnell. Two bank robbers try to find Kathleen Ryan. A young boy is their partner, who fled to London after blackmailed by a crook who saw they were arrested. him unwittingly lead his friend to Saturday 5th September 6:00pm fall from a building. Went the Day Well? (1942) Sunday 6th September 9:00pm War. Director: Cavalcanti. Adapted NEW SERIES Enemy at the Door from a story by Graham Greene. (1978-1980) Stars: Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, War Drama. Stars: Alfred Burke, Basil Sydney, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Simon Cadell, Bernard Horsfall, Thora Hird, David Farrar, Harry Fowler, Richard Heffer, Simon Lack. Patricia Hayes, Elizabeth Allan. When Depiction of the German a quiet English village is visited by a occupation of Guernsey, during platoon of soldiers which is revealed as the Second World War. Continues German troops, the villagers stage a fightback. every Sunday.