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You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, Happy New Year to all our patrons, here’s to 2021! Welcome to the first newsletter of the new year and a big hello to all the new supporters who have joined us over the last few months. We are so grateful to those who sent us Christmas cards, they were greatly appreciated and such lovely words! Did anyone spot the recent news about efforts to save the ruin of The National Picture House cinema in Hull, destroyed by German bombs during ? All 150 people inside watching The Great Dictator survived. Plans are under way to make the ruin safe for children to visit. This month we bring you a very special DVD release. For the first time ever, the entire series of STAGECOACH WEST is available as a box set with optional subtitles. That’s all 38 episodes, in an 8-DVD Box Set. It’s such a good series, starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer and Robert Bray, with guest stars including James Coburn, DeForest Kelley, Robert Vaughn, Hazel Court, Beverly Garland and James Drury. Good news for fans! On pages 22-23 there’s news of seven ‘lost’ to be shown on Talking Pictures TV, the first on Friday 22nd January at 7:50am, after an Old Mother Riley documentary. A little-known fact about Noël Coward is his involvement with the Orphanage, which he championed and raised money for, bringing joy to the lives of many children. This month we feature a new book which tells the story, see page 9 for details. We are so sad to hear the news of some of our film and TV stars who have recently gone to the great cinema in the sky, including Dame , Jeremy Bulloch, Mark Eden, Rosalind Knight and ‘Queen of Hammer’ Barbara Shelley. We will continue to keep their memories alive. This month also marks the centenary of , (11 Jan 1921–18 Jan 2009) seen, among many others, in Madness of the Heart, The Small Back Room and, of course, Together. There are some excellent premieres on Talking Pictures TV over the coming weeks, see pages 32-33 for highlights, including Laugh It Off with Tommy Trinder, in Battle of the Sexes, the 1938 version of Mr Reeder in Room 13; Flanagan & Allen in We’ll Smile Again; Jungle Street with David McCallum and Jill ; The Plank with , and Jimmy Edwards and Calculated Risk, shot in the freezing winter of 1963. For all you 60+ kids, Saturday Morning Pictures are BACK, starting Saturday 6th February, 9am to 12 midday, see page 31. Please, stay safe and watch your DVDs and Talking Pictures TV! Until next month, thank you as always for your support - we hope you find something of interest in the following pages, it all helps to keep those projectors whirring! Best wishes, Sarah, Noel and Neill 1 You can always call us V 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 TalkingAs Picturesseen on TV RENOWN PICTURES NEW DVD RELEASE The Complete Series! All 38 episodes Stagecoach West starred Wayne Rogers, Richard STAGECOACHSTAGECOACH WESTWEST Eyer and Robert Bray, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON DVD! airing from 1960–1961. Filmed in and around the Sierrita Mountains and EXCLUSIVE PRICE 8-DVD Old Tucson Arizona, USA, Box Set the series portrayed frontier life in the vast landscape JUST£30 with optional that is the hallmark of all FOR ALL EIGHT DISCS! subtitles good westerns. WITH FREE UK POSTAGE With guest stars including: Call: 0808 178 8212 Luke Perry and Simon “Sime” DeForest Kelley, (Dr. Leonard “Bones” Kane are American Civil War McCoy in Star Trek), English actress veterans who operate a stage- Hazel Court, Beverly Garland, coach line on the American ’s first policewoman in Decoy, frontier. They share driving Robert Vaughn, (Napoleon Solo in duties during stagecoach runs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), tough guy and Sime’s son Davey often ; accompanies them on their James Coburn James Drury trips. Based in the frontier (The Virginian), Spaghetti town of Outpost in Wyoming, Lee Van Cleef and Mary Tyler Moore. their adventures include Vincent M. Fennelly produced the series, murder, robbery, swindles, he was closely involved in the production range wars, hijackings, attacks of western films for Monogram Pictures by renegade soldiers, Indians and Allied Artists. George Blair, Harry and Mexican revolutionaries. Harris, Jr., Donald McDougall and Other characters include: Thomas Carr all directed various episodes. Dan Murchison, proprietor of Veteran film & TV writer D.D. Beauchamp, the general store in Outpost; (Gunsmoke, The Man from the Alamo, Cheyenne, Zeke Bonner who operates a The Virginian), and Mary M. Beauchamp way station called The Halfway wrote many episodes. Other writers House; Cal, the clerk in the include Bob Barbash, Will C. Brown, stagecoach line’s office in the Roy Chanslor, Herman Epstein, Kenneth town of Timberline; Hugh Gamet, Ward Hawkins and Paul King. Strickland, United States Marshal and Doc Apperson. This eight-disc collection includes Call Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 all 38 episodes for the first time ever Or 01923 290555 on DVD, with optional subtitles. 2 3 The Land Memories of a life in films: Beyond Battling the BARB system. CD Part 17, by Noel Cronin the Sun Having realised the BARB System may not be the DEFINITIVE WESTERN THEMES, best, but it was the only game in town, we had to CLASSICS & RARITIES work with it. Given that the advertisers demanded the BARB ratings, our viewing OUR PRICE MUSIC CD numbers were soon to plateau on Sky and Freesat 31 Tracks on 1 CD and we needed to consider how we could reach a wider viewing £15.99 audience. The options were difficult and expensive. Virgin was an WITH FREE UK POSTAGE option, but costly, and the criteria for being allowed on the platform This Western-themed music CD showcases great artists of the 40s, 50s, & were difficult. Thank goodness Sarah had the patience and tenacity 60s. The collection features Elton Britt, including his re-make of There’s a to see us through, but short term it was a further drain on our limited Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere. Classic Western TV themes also income. TPTV still managed to acquire new programming – some include: Gunsmoke, Jim Bowie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Broken Arrow and the suppliers were very helpful, some less so, and some, to this day, inimitable Sons of the Pioneers – eight tracks including Heartbreak Hill, The downright hostile. Others just kicked the can into the long grass! Land Beyond the Sun and the classic How Great Thou Art. There are also four rarities from Jimmy Wakely including Sugar Plum Kisses and Let Me Go, I must say the hostile and unhelpful didn’t cover themselves in glory Lover! Other artists include the Ames Brothers with four classic songs of the and time will tell if they were right. old Western Territory, Gordon MacRae, the Andrews Sisters and Dale Evans. The next big decision was how on earth we could get on Freeview – costly but vital for TPTV if we wanted to go nationwide. ELTON BRITT TWILIGHT ON THE TRAIL; THERE’S A VAUGHN MONROE WESTWARD HO THE WAGONS!; STAR-SPANGLED BANNER WAVING SOMEWHERE; THE WRINGLE, WRANGLE. Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Renown Pictures and is contributing his memories to the newsletter. Ever since his entrance into the world of LEGEND OF THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN; BEYOND DALE EVANS WHEN THE WHITE ROSES BLOOM IN film as a young man, Noel has been interested in preserving the heritage of lost and THE SUNSET. RED RIVER VALLEY. forgotten films, shorts and programmes, and for many years has gathered, restored SONS OF THE PIONEERS THE LAND BEYOND THE JIMMY WAKELY OKLAHOMA HILLS; SUGAR PLUM and preserved this wonderful heritage which would otherwise be lost. Noel worked for SUN; WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS; HEARTBREAK HILL; KISSES; LET ME GO, LOVER!; IT’S LONELY ON THE and the Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to LEAD ME GENTLY HOME, FATHER; THE WONDROUS WORD TRAIL TONIGHT. several libraries that owned films which now air on Talking Pictures TV. His career as a (of the Lord); THE THREE OF US; MONTANA; THE PRAIRIE CHIEFS GUNSMOKE; JIM BOWIE – producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV series spans several decades. HOW GREAT THOU ART. ADVENTURIN’ MAN; TALES OF WELLS FARGO; BROKEN ARROW. THE ANDREWS SISTERS CARELESS HANDS; BUTTONS AND BOWS. THE AMES BROTHERS STRAWBERRY ROAN; OLE FAITHFUL; RYE WHISKY; THE LAST ROUND-UP. 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To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 4 5 Dead of Night Matt Monro OUR PRICE The Absolutely Essential WITH FREE UK POSTAGE £15 3CD Collection CD With Optional Subtitles Directors: Basil Dearden, , CD OUR PRICE Charles Crichton and Robert Hamer. £12.99 CD Year: 1945; Black & White. WITH FREE UK MUSIC CD Number of discs: 1. POSTAGE 60 Tracks on 3 CDs Running Time approx: 1hour 39mins. Cast: Anthony Baird, Roland Culver, Known as “The Man With The Golden Voice” this collection contains 60 prime Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, tracks showcasing Matt Monro’s velvety baritone. This set concentrates on his Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, late 50s/early 60s period, including his early UK hits and also a selection of Anthony Baird, Miles Malleson, effortlessly interpreted versions of several Hoagy Carmichael songs. Robert Wyndham, Basil Radford, Naunton Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 Wayne, Peter Jones, Elisabeth Welch. 1. A Portrait Of My Love 1. My Kind Of Girl 1. Softly As I leave You 2. Gonna Build A Mountain 2. Why Not Now? 2. When Love Comes Along “A Classic of English Cinema” 5* Peter Bradshaw, 3. The Garden Of Eden 3. Can This Be Love? 3. There Are No Words For Love 4. Everybody Falls In Love With 4. A Story Of Ireland 4. No One Will Ever Know Dead of Night stood out among British films Someone 5. Another Time, Another Place 5. Is There Anything I Can Do? of the 1940s, influencing many subsequent 5. Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind 6. Prisoner Of Love 6. Tahiti British films in the horror genre. 6. Gone With The Wind 7. Have Guitar, Will Travel 7. My Love And Devotion 7. My Old Flame 8. Bound For Texas 8. By The Way A portmanteau work from four of Ealing’s best 8. Love Me Do 9. You’re The Top Of My 9. Stardust directors, the film is a spooky psychological 9. My House Is Your House Hit Parade 10. Small Fry thriller made up of four chilling ghost stories 10. You Always Hurt The One 10. The Ghost Of Your Past 11. How Little We Know set against the background of a weekend house You Love 11. This Time 12. The Nearness Of You party, where the guests entertain each other 11. A Cottage For Sale 12. I’ll Dream Of You 13. Georgia On My Mind with tales of uncanny or supernatural events, 12. That Old Feeling 13. Love Is The Same Anywhere 14. Skylark 13. Memories Of You 14. Jeannie 15. One Morning In May telling stories which make up four segments 14. What Can I Say After I Say 15. Such Is My Love 16. I Get Along Without You within the film:The Hearse Driver, I’m Sorry? 16. The Thing About Love Very Well The Christmas Party, The Haunted Mirror 15. Do You Ever Think Of Me? 17. Come Sta 17. Memphis In June and The Golfer’s Story. 16. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 18. Cheek to Cheek 18. I Guess It Was You All Extras: Remembering Dead of Night Featurette 17. Once In A While 19. April Fool The Time 18. I Cried For You 20. Mirage 19. Blue Orchids (75 mins). Restoration Comparison. 19. The One I Love Belongs To 20. Rocking Chair Stills Gallery. Trailer. Somebody Else 20. The Golden Age OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 6 7 Noël Coward BOOK OFFER – NEWLY PUBLISHED NOËL COWARD BOOK The Absolutely Essential Collection The Importance 60 tracks 3 CDs £12.99 FREE UK POSTAGE Sir Noël Coward, the English playwright, of Happiness: composer, director, actor and singer was known for his wit, style and flamboyance. As well as screenplays and theatre works, NOËL COWARD he composed hundreds of songs, and his stage, film acting and directing career CD & the Actors’ spanned six decades. Disc One CD Orphanage 1 A Room with a View by Elliot James 2 Mad Dogs and Englishmen 3 There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner CD The Actors’ Orphanage was a home for 4 Pride the abandoned children of incapacitated 5 I’ll See You Again or struggling actors, a harsh and brutal 6 Twentieth Century Blues 7 Mary Make-believe institution. Noël Coward, the playwright 8 Try to Learn to Love and cultural phenomenon, was looking 9 The Dream is Over for more meaning in his life. After each 10 Zigeuner success, he would always ask... 11 Half-caste Women Disc Three 12 Any Little Fish 1 Mrs. Worthington “What now?” 13 Lover of My Dreams (Mirabelle Waltz) (Don’t Put Your Daughter The Importance of Happiness, an 14 Let’s Say Goodbye On the Stage) inspiring true story, shows how Noël 15 I Travel Alone 2 Poor Little Rich Girl Coward and his committee of famous 16 Most of Ev’ry day 3 Dance, Little Lady actors transformed the austere Actors’ 17 Love in Bloom 4 Something To Do With Spring Orphanage into a place of love and laughter. PAPERBACK BOOK 18 We Were So Young 5 Sail Away 19 Where Are the Songs we Sung? 6 Sigh No More Using documents from the archives, we see how 20 Dearest Love 7 I Wonder What Happened to Him? Noël fixed serious problems and ended a reign of terror within the orphanage. Disc Two 8 Bright Was the Day He created a rural idyll and led glamorous fundraisers, such as Theatrical Garden 1 Mad About the Boy 9 This is a Changing World 2 I Went To a Marvellous Party Parties, midnight matinees at the , cabaret at the Café de Paris 10 His Excellency Regrets and charity galas at West End theatres. When World War II and the Blitz arrived 3 The Stately Homes of 11 Josephine 4 The Party’s Over Now 12 Don’t Make Fun of the Fair the orphanage was evacuated to the United States. The New York years were a 5 Parisian Pierrot 13 I Like America happy period for the children, as they put on a Broadway show and met stars 6 World Weary 14 Why Does Love Get in the Way? 7 Lorelei such as Charlie Chaplin and Gertrude Lawrence. During the post-war years 15 Uncle Harry Noël struggled to make the orphanage solvent and successful once again. 8 Gipsy Melody 16 Alice Is At It Again 9 Just Let Me Look at You There were more problem children, monstrous staff and glamorous 17 A Bar On the Piccola Marina (Live) 10 The Last Time I Saw Paris 18 Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love fundraisers before Noël could finally hand over the reins to his young protégé, 11 Could You Please Oblige Us With a Richard Attenborough. This is a timeless story of altruism, family, love and home. Bren Gun? (Live) 12 There Have Been Songs in England 19 Wait a Bit, Joe 13 Imagine the Duchess’s Feelings! 20 Time and Again 14 It’s Only You Our Price Plus £2 Postage & Packing 15 Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans £12.99 16 I’m Old Fashioned To order, call us on Freephone Call Us Now On Freephone 17 You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To 18 Never Again 0808 178 8212 19 Nina Or 01923 290555 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 8 20 Matelot 9 Crossword for Film & T V Buffs From the Calling all fans of vintage film and TV, – get your thinking caps on and see if you can solve our crossword! THE GREAT Across Down 1. British thriller of 1949 starring 1. British News producing company for WHITE Hugh Williams (5,6) many years whose trademark was a 7. Cicely -----. American actress who crowing cockerel (5) SILENCE played the part of Sipsey in Fried Green 2. Merchant ship drama of 1955 starring Dual Format BLU-RAY Tomatoes (1991) (6) Peter Finch and Diane Cilento (7,4) 8. Surname of American actor who played 3. ------Adam. Well-known British Edition £15 the part of Officer McShane in character actor in films such asGreen for You will receive 12 across (5) Danger (1946) (6) 9. First name of the leading actress in Park 4. Kidnapping drama of 1956 with both DVD and Blu-Ray discs. Plaza 605 (1953) (3) Glenn Ford and Donna Reed (6) Year: 1924. Silent with music. 10. ------of London. Acclaimed 1936 film 5. The 1947 film in which the popular Black/white and tinted. starring Tyrone Power and Madeleine Huggett family first featured (7,4) Running Time approx: 196 min. Carroll (6) 6. ------Andrews. American actor who 12. A ---- Grows in Brooklyn. Oscar winning starred in the British thriller Night of the This limited edition box set contains film of 1945, with Dorothy McGuire (4) Demon (1957) (4) DVD and Blu-ray versions of two of the 13. Robert -----. Distinguished American actor 11. The ------with the Trumpet. 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Surname of the British actor who played 15. Surname of Australian born actress who P.C. 49 for both radio and film (5) played Leslie Howard’s mother in Extras: Both films presented in both High Definition Alternative score for The Epic of Everest: a 19. Alfred Hitchcock chiller of 1948 and his Pygmalion (1938) (4) (Blu-ray) and Standard Definition (DVD). reconstruction of the 1924 accompaniment. first in Technicolor (4) 90 Degrees South (1933, 72 min): Herbert Additional musical pieces which Ponting’s final sound version of The Great accompanied original Epic of Everest White Silence. screenings. The Great White Silence: How Did They Fully illustrated booklets with essays and Do It? Discovery Channel documentary complete film credits. Answers to the Nov-Dec crossword. (2011 23 min). Archive newsreel items (1910-1925, 5 min, DVD only). The Sound of Silence documentary about Simon Fisher Turner’s Great White Silence score (2011, 12 min). 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OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 10 11 From the British 1 DVD £15 Film Institute Wonderful LONDON A collection of silent films from 1924, painstakingly restored by Directors Harry B Parkinson and Frank Miller created the BFI National Archive to reinstate their original tinting and travelogues for cinema screenings. This collection features 12 toning, with new piano accompaniments by world-renowned short films, six of which have been digitally restored by experts silent film pianist John Sweeney. The six films in this collection from the BFI National Archive and six more black and white offer a fascinating glimpse of London life during the mid-1920s. prints made by the BFI using traditional film printing methods. Black/white and tinted. Wander past the long gone Crystal Palace and the recently vanished gates of the Silent with music White City and London’s first Olympic stadium, now lying under the new Westfield and Intertitles. Shopping Centre. Take a trip on a barge from Limehouse to Paddington Basin, Running Time approx: via King’s Cross and the Zoo, peering into urban back gardens. 57min. Year: 1924. Visit the Sunday street markets and wander down narrow alleys, past pot-bellied pubs, the inns of court and the Wonderful London captured some of buildings that Dickens knew. the most evocative images of the Wander through a capital where donkey carts co-exist with capital in the 1920s. These films electric trams and stylish flappers shimmy past flower girls contrasted different aspects of city life: straight out of Shaw’s Pygmalion. Wonderful London the East End and the West End, poor reveals a city as familiar as it is different: full of life, and and rich, natives and immigrants; often fascinating. looking beyond the stereotypes to show surprising views of the city. This collection includes six restorations by the BFI National Archive: Barging Through London, Cosmopolitan London, As well as familiar landmarks of London’s Sunday, Flowers of London, London’s Free London town, the Thames, Big Ben, Shows and London off the Track; all of which reintroduce Tower Bridge and St Paul’s, Wonderful the films’ original tinting and toning. London reveals the lesser known areas; the over-populated districts of Special Features: Dickens’ London, London’s Outer Ring, Clerkenwell, London’s original London Old and New, London’s Contrasts, Known London, Chinatown or the South Asian and Along Father Thames to Shepperton. African seaman who worked in the Extras: Newly recorded piano accompaniments. Port of London. Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays.

WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Call Us Now On Freephone 12 OUR PRICE £15 0808 178 8212 13 How I became frightened of television! Doris Day by Richard Girdler THE ABSOLUTELY Around 1956/57, I was about 3yrs old. I lived in The ESSENTIAL COLLECTION Barons in Twickenham and just at the end of the street was Twickenham Studios. I was allowed to ride my MUSIC CD Triang pedal car to the corner of street and watch what 60 Tracks on 3 CDs CD was going on at the studios, which fascinated me. As I was watching the prop boys, my attention was CD drawn to the left, where there was none other than a gang OUR PRICE of pirates walking towards me! I peddled home as fast as I CD could, yelling, ‘dad there’s pirates, dad, pirates!’. He came £12.99 out to console me and everything settled down and of WITH FREE UK POSTAGE course the pirates were now nowhere to be seen. For 50 years I have been trying Doris Day began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving to find out what pirate film was being made, but nothing, until I received a box set of The Buccaneers with Robert Shaw and Edwin Richfield and two No. 1 recordings in 1945 with “Sentimental Journey” and “My Dreams sat down to watch it. I thought maybe I’d cracked it, but Are Getting Better All the Time” with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. by the end of first volume I discovered it was shot in During her solo career she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to Walton-on-Thames. I got onto 1967 and was one of the biggest film stars in the 1950s-1960s era. the second volume, Nettlefold Disc 1 1. Blame My Absent-Minded Heart 2. Hold Me In Your Arms 3. Dream A Little Dream Of Me must have closed as they switched to Twickenham Studios to record 4. If I Were A Bell 5. I Got The Sun In The Morning 6. Again 7. It’s Magic 8. It Could Happen To You the series and the mystery was 9. The Best Thing For You 10. It’s Better To Conceal Than Reveal (With Dinah Shore) 11. It Had To Be You finally solved, that was it, where 12. Do Do Do 13. I Know That You Know 14. Everywhere You Go 15. Secret Love 16. Sentimental Journey the pirates could be found! 17. Aren’t You Glad You’re You? 18. If I Give My Heart To You 19. Hoop-Dee-Doo 20. Domino How I became frightened of television: as a cinema manager my father would not have a television in the house. His father was also Disc 2 1. Autumn Leaves 2. Imagination 3. It’s A Great Feeling 4. Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) a cinema manager, but he didn’t mind, so he had a TV. We lived 5. It’s A Lovely Day Today 6. It’s You Or No One 7. A Full Time Job 8. If You Were The Only Girl In The World in St Margaret’s in London, my grandparents in grand Mortlake, 9. But Beautiful 10. I’ve Never Been In Love Before 11. I’ll Be Around 12. Let’s Take An Old-Fashioned Walk not far on the train. We used to get off the train and walk to my 13. But Not For Me 14. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be) 15. (Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) grandparents’ house to “Watch with Mother” in the afternoon. Everything was fine, until during one visit, there was a film on the Shanghai 16. Let’s Face The Music And Dance 17. Pillow Talk television called The Interrupted Journey with Richard Todd. 18. A Bushel And A Peck 19. Love Me Or Leave Me Mr Todd had been a naughty boy, playing around on his wife. 20. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was He hopped on the train, went out into the corridor, looked down the carriage, saw smoke and yanked on the communication cord. Disc 3 1. Day By Day 2. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) The train stopped, he jumped off and, as he walked down the side 3. I Didn’t Slip, I Wasn’t Pushed, I Fell 4. The Black Hills Of Dakota of the train, a woman’s arm flopped out of the 5. I’m Not At All In Love 6. Gently Johnny (With Guy Mitchell) window! As a small child, I was convinced that the 7. Love Somebody 8. I’ll See You In My Dreams 9. Sugarbush arm belonged to my mother! From then on, I would only watch TV through the window – I can distinctly 10. Confess 11. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered remember watching Buccaneers through the window! 12. The Deadwood Stage 13. Cheek To Cheek Every time we stayed at my grandparents house the film 14. I’ll Never Stop Loving You 15. It All Depends On You seemed to be on and each time I would only watch it 16. Crazy Rhythm 17. Gone With The Wind 18. Everybody Loves A Lover through the window and only up to the part where the woman’s arm appeared. Years later, as I was preparing 19. Pennies From Heaven 20. Over The Rainbow to watch a film from 40 years ago, I didn’t know the title, but as soon as it started, it jogged my memory to recall my fear of watching TV. To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 14 15 Ferdinand Fairfax, Director Renown by Trevor Brown 6 films for £20 As a 13 year old schoolboy back in 1983, I attended the world You Save £13.96 + free postage! Special Offer premiere of the filmNate & Hayes at the Empire Cinema, Now the weather is cold and the nights are frosty, why Leicester Square, along with my parents and my best friend, not treat yourself to a selection of films from Renown? The films on offer are Gareth, as my late father was a good friend of the film’s director, enduring classics, to be watched again and again. They also make fantastic gifts! Ferdinand Fairfax, known to his friends as Ferdy. The premiere was on a Sunday morning on a boiling hot day Soho Conspiracy (1950) Director: Cecil H. Williamson. during the school holidays. Dad drove us up in his bright yellow Cast: Zena Marshall, Jacques Labrecque, John Witty, Tito Gobbi, Renault 12 and parked a ten minute walk away (long before the congestion charge). Peter Gawthorne, Max Harrison, Syd Harrison. After a local church The premiere was packed, everyone loved the film and dad drove home via Docklands is bombed, a press agent plans a charity concert to help fund the as he wanted to show me & Gareth what it looked like before it was redeveloped. Ferdy restoration. However, the locals of Soho have to save the show. died in 2008, and my father ten years later, so any time I see this exciting swashbuckler Black and White. Running Time: 80 mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99 movie, it brings back happy memories. Together on one disc! Booby Trap (1956) Director: Henry Cass. Ferdy always maintained that the distributors, Paramount, decided not to promote it Cast: Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan, Harry Fowler, Tony Quinn, as it was too similar to another Paramount production filming at Elstree studios that Richard Shaw, Jacques Cey, Fred McNaughton, Michael Moore. summer – Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom… Whilst Ferdy made a few more films, An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the none of them were huge hits. A few years prior to sound of bells, but he leaves his invention in a taxi. Nate & Hayes he directed quite a few episodes of Four Days (1951) Director: John Guillermin. Cast: Hugh McDermott, Danger UXB, a series TPTV have shown. He also Kathleen Byron, Peter Reynolds, Gordon McLeod, John Harvey, directed many episodes of the Stephen Fry/Hugh H.G. Stoker, Francis Roberts. Black & White. Normal Price: £8.99 Laurie series Jeeves and Wooster in the early 1990s. Nate & Hayes was filmed in and Together on one disc! Emergency (1962) Director: . with editing and production in England. Cast: Candy Pibworth, Glyn Houston, Zena Walker, Dermot Walsh, It was based on real characters (Bully Hayes was a Colin Tapley, Garard Green. A sick little girl with a rare blood type 19th century pirate and scoundrel in competition needs a blood transfusion to live. The search begins for one of three with Ben Pease). Years later Ferdy told my father he people in the country: a football player, a fugitive killer and a traitor. wished the film had ended up at Warner Brothers, as Black and White. they would have treated it better, while Paramount Landslide (1937) Director: Donovan Pedelty. Cast: Jimmy Hanley, wouldn’t risk damaging the potential box office for Dinah Sheridan, Jimmy Mageean, Bruno Barnabe, Ann Cavanagh, Indiana Jones. Instead it was quietly released in the Dora Mayfield. A troupe of actors are trapped in a theatre after a autumn of 1983. landslide. When the dust settles, the cashier is found dead and the Ferdy also made a marvellous mini series for ITV in cash box is missing. Black & White. Normal Price: £8.99 the mid 1980s called The Last Place on Earth, which starred Martin Shaw, about Robert Falcon Scott’s ill Lilli Marlene (1950) Director: Arthur Crabtree. fated trip to the Antarctic. Having directed Shaw in Cast: Lisa Daniely, , Hugh McDermott. The French girl an The Professionals a few years earlier he jumped at whose song ‘Lilli Marlene’ is loved by Germans and allies alike, is the chance to work with him again. captured by the Nazis and rescued by the British after being forced I still have the storyboards he gave me, some from a to broadcast the song for the Germans. Black & White. film he made for Touchstone (a Disney subsidiary) called The Rescue in 1988 and others Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99 for a Channel 4 funded film calledTrue Blue from 1996, storyboard and still above. WHILE STOCKS LAST! Offer expires February 15th. I have recently discovered that Ferdy Ferdinand Fairfax (31 July 1944 - 7 March 2008) was hired to direct the Arnold was a film and TV director, BAFTA- Schwarzenegger film The Running Man nominated for projects as diverse as Winston after the original director was fired. Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1982) and Jeeves Ferdy was fired for the same reason, & Wooster (1993). Other television work includes i.e. rewriting the screenplay, as he too The Secret Life Of (1990), Murder In was unhappy with it. He just wasn’t Mind (2001-02) and Egypt (2005). meant for Hollywood! 16 To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 17 Spotlight on: Dame Barbara Windsor 6th August 1937 – 10th December 2020 SPARROWS The news that Barbara Windsor had died peacefully from Alzheimer’s in her London care home on Thursday 10th December 2020 saddened the nation. Ms Windsor had been CAN’T SING a tremendous supporter of Talking Pictures TV since the very beginning and she was a great friend of the channel. Barbara Ann Deeks was born in , London on 6 OUR PRICE August 1937 (her birth was registered in .) She was WITH FREE the only child of John Deeks and his wife, Rose (née Ellis). £12.99 Her mother paid for her to have elocution lessons and she UK POSTAGE trained at the Aida Foster School in , making With Optional Subtitles her stage debut at 13 and her West End debut in 1952, as part of the chorus in Love from Judy. She took the stage Director: name Windsor the following year, inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Year: 1963; Black & White. Barbara joined Joan Littlewood’s at the Theatre Royal, Stratford Number of discs: 1. East, achieving prominence in their stage production Fings Ain’t Wot They Used to Be Running Time approx: 87mins. and Littlewood’s filmSparrows Can’t Sing (1963), receiving a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film Actress. She had been in films sinceThe Belles of St Trinians (1954). Cast: , Barbara Windsor, Her theatre career was prolific. She starred on Broadway in the Theatre Workshop’s , Avis Bunnage, Oh, What a Lovely War and received a 1965 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Barbara Ferris, Brian Murphy, Actress in a Musical. She also appeared in the successful comedy-musical, Come Spy George Sewell, Griffith Davies, with Me with , who became a close friend. In 1970 she landed the role of legend in the musical-biopic Sing A Rude Song, followed in , Arthur Mullard, Peggy Ann Clifford, Wally Patch, 1972 by ’s with . By 1975 she Bob Grant, , , Jenny Sontag, May Scagnelli, was touring the UK, New Zealand and in her own show, Barbara Fanny Carby, , Janet Howse, Queenie Watts, , and followed this with the role of Maria in at the Chichester Festival Harry H. Corbett, , , Rita Webb. Theatre. She played the sex-mad landlady in ’s black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Lyric in 1981, directed by her friend , Sparrows Can’t Sing, stars Barbara Windsor reprising the role for a national tour in 1993. Windsor is perhaps best remembered for her portrayals of a ‘good time girl’ in nine in her BAFTA nominated role as Maggie. The Carry On films. Her first wasCarry On Spying in 1964 and her last Carry On Dick in kitchen sink classic was filmed in the East End 1974. She also appeared in several Carry On... television and compilation specials, as on location in Limehouse, the Isle of Dogs, well as a successful West End production and subsequent tour in Carry On London. Other films of note includeCrooks in Cloisters (1964), (1968) Stepney around the theatre in Stratford and at and TV sitcoms and Wild, Wild Women. Windsor appeared as ‘Saucy Elstree Studios. sailor Charlie comes Nancy’ in the 2nd series of the ITV children’s show, Worzel Gummidge (1980). home from a long sea voyage to find his house Her lasting success in the BBC soap EastEnders came to an end when she decided to kill off her character , to spend more time at home with husband Scott. gone and his wife Maggie missing. There’s Her two previous marriages to Ronnie Knight and Stephen Hollins had seen tabloid panic in Stepney; from the stalls in the street headlines along with spectacular career highs and lows, but Barbara was now fighting to the bar of the Red Lion, but his friends a battle with Alzheimer’s and made the brave decision to go public, doing all she could for charities and appealing won’t tell him where Maggie is, because he is for funding for research into the disease. She was made a known to have a foul temper. Dame in 2016. Barbara Windsor was a national treasure. Although only 4ft 10in tall, she was a giant of the British entertainment OUR PRICE £12.99 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE industry, conquering films, theatre and television in a career that spanned 60 years, 50 of them as a top star. Call Us Now On Freephone Her place in showbusiness history is guaranteed. 18 0808 178 8212 19 3 DVD box set just Renown Box Set £20 with free UK postage Reminder The OLD MOTHER RILEY The Old Mother Shopping Bag is here! EXCLUSIVE Riley Collection JUST LIMITED is Old Mother £10 EDITION! Riley. Collected on three discs plus £2 postage with eight features PLUS a bonus documentary starring Made and printed exclusively by us, our Old Mother Riley Brian Murphy on the life of bag is printed with Old Mother Riley’s face and trademark Arthur and Kitty. cheeky smile. Above are the words “Old Mother Riley” and Bridget’s Night Out (1936) below the famous phrase: “I’ll Open A Tin Of Sardines!” Directors: , Challis Sanderson. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane. Old Mother Riley (1937) Director: Oswald Mitchell. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow. Old Mother Riley in Paris (1938) Director: Oswald Mitchell. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Jerry Verno. Old Mother Riley MP (1939) Director: Oswald Mitchell. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Torin Thatcher, Henry B. Longhurst. Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950) Director: John Harlow. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, The Luton Girls Choir, Willer Neal, Cyril Smith, C. Denier Warren, Catherine Carleton (Katie Boyle). Old Mother Riley’s Jungle Treasure (1951) Director: Maclean Rogers. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Garry Marsh, Cyril Chamber- lain, Robert Adams, Roddy Hughes, Willer Neal, Anita D’Ray, Sebastian Cabot, Bill Shine, , Peter Swanwick. 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To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 Call Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 20 21 OLD MOTHER RILEY and the MISSING SEVEN FILMS Arthur Lucan and his wife Kitty McShane were among the highest-paid variety COMING SOON TO Talking Pictures TV artistes in Britain during the 1930s and 40s. Their popularity with the public resulted in packed Old Mother Riley’s Ghosts theatres throughout the land and a string of slapstick, (1941) The 8th film in the series miniscule-budget film comedies, with Lucan as the (if you count Stars On Parade: belligerent washerwoman, Old Mother Riley and his Bridget’s Night Out, as the first) wife Kitty, playing his flighty daughter – all of which made finds Old Mother Riley inheriting good box office sales. Of these films, seven have been a haunted Scottish castle, but the ‘lost’ in the vaults and unseen for many decades… until ghosts are not all they seem to be. now. In January, Talking Pictures TV are delighted to be This is also the only time Arthur able to blow away the dust from the film cans, so we can appeared in a male role on film. Spooky laughs galore with enjoy them once more. of Dad’s Army fame co-starring as McAdam. Old Mother Riley Overseas (1943) Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1940) A much underrated film, Mother Riley is cheated out of Doing her bit for the war effort, Old Mother Riley who is her pub licence, so she heads abroad, seeking advice working as a nurse, is forced to volunteer for the ATS. from daughter Kitty who is working in the wine Chaos ensues, but through the madness she manages to business in Portugal. The plot includes mistaken prevent secret documents from falling into the hands of identity, a kidnapping plan and stolen port wine. the Nazis. This Riley film helped keep English fires A favourite line when Riley, spots someone burning during the early part of WWII. pretending to be her; “Take a look at that woman Airs on 5th February 9.35am sitting there and tell me if it’s me.” Old Mother Riley in Society (1940) Old Mother Riley Detective (1943) Mother Riley messes up a routine, which Riley investigates the disappearance of food from the results in the star leaving the show and daughter Kitty District Food Controller Offices during the war, to taking over the lead role. A wealthy society boy prove her innocence and save the day. Directed by congratulates Kitty on her performance, but the new Lance Comfort, the role of Lily in the story is played found romance causes Riley to leave home, fearing her by Peggy Cummins. working class background will spoil her daughter’s future. The film features the screen debut of Old Mother Riley at Home (1945) Jimmy Clitheroe as the society households ‘boot boy.’ Daughter Kitty has run off with “her no-good Airs on Friday 29th January 7:10am boyfriend” and Old Mother Riley, sets off to find the runaways and shows Kitty the error of her choice. Willer Neal (formerly Billy Breach) Old Mother Riley’s Circus (1941) played Kitty’s no-good man. Airs on Friday 22nd January at 8.25am, after a Mother Riley’ takes over as ringmaster and discovers that the star of the circus is in documentary on Old Mother Riley. fact, her long-lost daughter. This was the final film for Thomas Bentley, a leading director in both silent and sound eras. The atmosphere throughout is jollied along There would be four more films in theOld Mother Riley series before Arthur sadly with the Riley humour and some great circus acts of the era. collapsed and died in the wings of the Tivoli Theatre in Hull in 1954. Another film, Airs on 12th February 9:20am Old Mother Riley’s Trip to Mars, was never made. NOT YET AVAILABLE ON DVD Keep your eye on talking Pictures TV screens to see these! FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 22 but hopefully in the future! 23 Classic Tales of HORROR Volumes 1 & 2 8 Audio Discs Audio Books CD Audio Books CD AudioCD This collection brings AudioCD together some of the most AudioCD OUR PRICE captivating horror short AudioCD AudioCD stories from the nineteenth £16 each OR AudioCD and early twentieth centuries. Audio Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), £30 for the Audio Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), two sets. Michael Fenton-Stevens (, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Approx. 8 hours of Galaxy) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello). audio horror!! FREE UK POSTAGE VOLUME ONE Eight Spine Chilling Tales. The Man & The Snake VOLUME TWO Seven Spine Chilling Tales. by Ambrose Bierce: a man is rendered psychologically paralysed by a True Relation Of The Apparition Of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe: snake. Man-Size In Marble by E. Nesbit: newlyweds find the cottage of a woman enjoys a visit with an old friend, only to find afterwards that the their dreams, but the previous evil (and dead) owners threaten to return. friend died the day before her visit. Transformation by Mary Shelley: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce: the tale of the murder of Julia a young man exchanges bodies with a dwarf. The Mysterious Mansion Hetman from the perspective of her son, a man who may be her husband, by Honoré de Balzac: a man exacts a bizarre revenge on his unfaithful and Julia herself, through a medium. The Phantom Coach by Amelia B wife and her lover. The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker: young man Edwards: a hunter lost on the moors and seeks shelter from a snowstorm moves into an old mansion where a notorious hanging judge once lived. with a reclusive scientist. The Picture In The House by HP Lovecraft: while The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs: three wishes are granted to the riding his bicycle in rural New England, a genealogist seeking shelter owner of the monkey’s paw, but the wishes come with from an approaching storm enters an apparently abandoned house. Lost an enormous price for interfering with fate. Face by Jack London: a criminal must outwit an Native American chief William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe: a man is haunted to avoid death by torture. A Confession Found In A Prison by Charles throughout his life by his own double. Canon Alberic’s Dickens: the confession of a murderer, written in his cell just before his Scrapbook by M.R. James: a collector of antiquities execution. The Ghostly Rental by Henry James: a passerby investigates an finds a priceless ancient book, but something evil lies abandoned house and finds an old man who collects rent from a ghost. within its pages. Below: Henry James, Ambrose Bierce, E. Nesbit, Jack London and Charles Dickens. Below: Mary Shelley, Daniel Defoe, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker.

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 24 OUR PRICE £30 for both WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 25 The Projectionist and IT CAME FROM The Silver Screen OUTER SPACE by John Ward OUR PRICE WITH FREE In my youth I was a junior projectionist at the Savoy cinema/theatre in Russell street, UK POSTAGE £15 Kettering Northants. During my time there I jotted down assorted ‘happenings’ on whatever was to hand at the time. Here is one anecdote from those early notes. With Optional Subtitles One evening while walking through the Savoy foyer area, I found a couple, perhaps in their Director: Jack Arnold late forties or early fifties, having a contretemps with one of our usherettes and as I passed I Year: 1953; Black & White. was asked by the usherette if I could clear a matter up regarding the film they had just seen. Number of discs: 1. It seemed that the man was upset as he had just ‘paid good money’ to Running Time approx: see Richard Todd starring as RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the 1 hour and 57 minutes. filmThe Dambusters, and he was put out because it was shown in black Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, and white. This film had first seen the cinema silver screen in 1954 or Charles Drake, Kathleen Hughes, 1955 depending on where you lived as they were released in the London Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson. area before they went to the provinces. This was the mid 1960’s, but The Dambusters had yet to appear on television as it still had some Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard ‘pulling power’ on the cinema circuits and was doing healthy business. Carlson) and his fiancé Ellen Fields (Barbara Back to our man who was upset because it was in black and white. Rush) are stargazing in the desert when a He asked me to accompany him outside to show me something that backed up his thinking spaceship bursts from the sky and crashes that it was in colour and we were ‘short changing him’ – and so I went out there with him to the ground. Just before a landslide buries and his lady friend. As we stood there, he pointed a finger at the quad size poster promoting the ship, a mysterious creature emerges and the film, and, as he so rightly pointed out, the poster was in full colour. “Tricky,” I thought. disappears into the darkness. When he tells My mind wandered into maybe asking how he expected to see Charlie Chaplin films promoted. his story to the sheriff (Charles Drake), John is Help came from his lady friend, wife or trainee social worker, who then added her input. branded a crackpot; but before long, strange She said that the film had to be in black and white as they dropped the bouncing bombs at things begin to happen, and the tide of midnight when it was dark, otherwise if it was in colour the Germans would have seen them disbelief turns... Based on a story by coming earlier on in the film. There was a moment of silence at this point as we both stood acclaimed writer Ray Bradbury, It Came From there looking at her; I couldn’t think of anything to say and even her male friend was Outer Space is a science-fiction classic that is at a loss. She then surpassed herself as she offered a comparison by way of further as thought provoking and tantalising today as explanation which even now I find hard to believe! She explained that they had seen it was when it first landed on the silver screen. The Great Escape about allied prisoners of war escaping from the Germans, but that film BONUS FEATURES Commentary with film was in colour, something we all agreed on. She said that because it was in colour, when the historian Tom Weaver. The Universe prisoners of war had dug their tunnel and were trying to escape from According to Universal: A documentary on it just outside the barbed wire fence late at night, the lights came It Came From Outer Space. Theatrical Trailer. on and they were seen coming out of their tunnel and because it Photograph and Poster Gallery. was in colour, they were easily seen because it was so bright there on the screen... We stood there in total silence and after a moment or so I pointed OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE out I had to get on with my work, he apologised for asking a ‘silly Call Us Now On Freephone 26 question’ and there was no reason in her saying anything anymore. 0808 178 8212 27 From the British Film Institute Letters to the Projectionist THE On this page we bring you some of the interesting letters that have arrived at Talking Pictures HQ this month. We receive many letters every day about film and PLEASURE series requests; please be assured that we do make a note of them all. We acquire new films and series every month, so ‘never say never’! is our motto – but sadly we can’t just play those we’d like to play, without proper licensing and rights in place. GIRLS BLU-RAY Also remember, some films or TV series may no longer exist, but we will keep trying! Dual Format Please email us at: [email protected] Edition with £15 Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, Optional Subtitles. You may remember the 1985 advert for Levi You will receive jeans in which Nick Kamen walks into a launderette wearing jeans and proceeds to take both DVD and Blu-Ray discs. off all his clothes except his boxer shorts and put Year: 1965. them in a washing machine while being watched Black/white. by interested ladies. Surely its author John Running Time approx: 85min. Hegarty got the main plot from Hazell Bangs the Director: Gerry O’Hara. Drum, the 1979 episode of Hazell you showed on Monday 23rd November in which he gets very Cast: Francesca Annis, dirty, returns to a launderette and its female Anneke Wills, Suzanna Leigh, proprietor and proceeds to undress in front of her Ian McShane, Klaus Kinski. down to his underpants and shove his clothes in a When Sally moves to London to pursue a washing machine, arousing her interest. Should I write this up in a learned journal?! modelling career, she moves in with You get better and better, best wishes, Mark Angela and Dee and discovers the world of Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, the carefree bachelor girl in Swinging Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, During the sixties, my Grandma, who When I was 8 years old in 1970, a few of us were London. Over one weekend filled with lived in , told us that she’d been playing in the Bensham area of Gatehead in a parties, blossoming friendships, and in a film, as an extra with Freddie and the place called Windmill Hills. An estate had recently romantic encounters the vivacious girls Dreamers, who were in summer season been built, designed by a Scandinavian with split learn about life’s pleasures and pains. in Blackpool that year. She used to watch level apartments and roof gardens. We went to Shot on location, with sparkling dialogue the wrestling at the tower and the film was play in the car park and noticed a crowd standing and lively performances from its young cast, to do with wrestling. We didn’t take much behind a ‘taped off‘ area. We also watched as a this engaging drama bears the hallmarks of notice, in fact I’m not sure we believed couple went to a car carrying something wrapped director Gerry O’Hara’s (That Kind of Girl, her! Years later I switched on TPTV part up, and put it in the boot. Although we didnt The Brute) assured style. way through a film calledCuckoo Patrol realise at the time, we were watching Michael and saw Freddie and the Dreamers. Caine in a scene from ! The apartments Extras: All films presented in both High Definition and There was a poster on a wall behind them were used quite a lot in the film. Close by was also Standard Definition. Alternative complete export cut (Blu-ray only). Export version scenes advertising ‘Wrestling tonight’. I watched the infamous concrete Gateshead Town Centre (DVD only) 12 mins. Original theatrical trailer. The Rocking Horse (1962, 24 mins). the rest of the film and spotted my carpark where Alf ‘Coronation St’ Roberts met his The Meeting (Mamoun Hassan, 1964, 10 mins). Fully illustrated booklet featuring new Grandma in the front row of the audience demise. We used to play there too. pieces by Gerry O’Hara, Professor Sue Harper and Mamoun Hassan. during the wrestling sequence! Regards & best wishes, Rob Quite a thrill for me, especially as she passed away around 1976. To subscribe to the Talking Pictures TV OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Thank you, keep up the brilliant work. weekly email, visit the contact page Regards, Howard of our website: talkingpicturestv.co.uk Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 28 29 NEW Series and films coming up in Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 LARRY PARNES Nov/Dec on Talking Pictures TV FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 LARRY’S Please spread the word and tell your friends! A morning with Old Mother Riley BOYS On Friday 22nd January Talking Pictures Make a note TV invite you to spend a morning with OUR PRICE CD in your Old Mother Riley! At 7:50am we present TV diary! Old Mother Riley’s Musical Moments, £15.99 followed at 8:05am by a documentary WITH FREE UK MUSIC CD 33 Tracks on 1 CD on Old Mother Riley. At 8:25am, the first of a series of POSTAGE previously ‘lost’ Mother Riley films to be shown on Talking Pictures TV this year: Old Mother Riley At LARRY PARNES, manager/agent/ Home, directed by Oswald Mitchell in 1945. The 11th impresario/entrepreneur, known as film in the series, in which Mother Riley’s daughter Kitty runs off with her new boyfriend. “Parnes, Shillings And Pence”, was perhaps the most important non-performing figure in UK Rock ‘n’ Roll. He discovered and managed Britain’s first genuine Wednesday Crime Double Bills Rock ‘n’ Roller, Tommy Steele, in 1956, after which he steadily built his famous Look out for a crime double bill every Wednesday evening “Stable Of Stars”, whose frontline members included Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, featuring The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Dickie Pride (all three widely acknowledged as Britain’s finest rockers) and the irrepressible Joe Brown. His ‘stable’ also included Jess Conrad, Terry Dene, followed by Rumpole of the Bailey. Vince Eager, Steele’s younger brother Colin Hicks, Johnny Gentle, Duffy Power, Wednesday evenings just before 7pm! Peter Wynne, Julian X, The Viscounts, Lance Fortune, Danny Rivers, Nelson Keene, and of course The Tornados, whose multi-million selling ‘Telstar’ reached Good news for fans of William Tell & Sir Francis Drake number 1 in both the UK and US charts. All are featured on this compilation, Look out for NEW episodes of William Tell, on Mondays at 9.30am (starts 11th which includes hits, well-known near misses, and a couple of collectors’ rarities. Jan). New episodes of Sir Francis Drake are also to air, starting Thursday 14th Jan! TOMMY STEELE: ROCK WITH THE CAVEMAN; SINGING THE DANNY RIVERS: HAWK. BLUES; COME ON LET’S GO. TERRY DENE: GERALDINE. MARTY WILDE: ENDLESS SLEEP; A TEENAGER IN LOVE; BAD BOY. NELSON KEENE: IMAGE OF A GIRL. Saturday Morning Flicks! VINCE EAGER: YEA YEA; NO MORE; LONELY BLUE BOY. JESS CONRAD: MYSTERY GIRL. Talking Pictures TV are delighted to announce the COLIN HICKS: LITTLE BOY BLUE. NELSON KEENE: MIRACLES ARE HAPPENING TO ME. start of Saturday Mornings at the Pictures for all you 60-plus kids! Meet Bill and Smudge early to BILLY FURY: MAYBE TOMORROW; WONDROUS PLACE; THE TORNADOS: LOVE AND FURY; TELSTAR. get in the queue before Smelly Harry and his gang! LAST NIGHT WAS MADE FOR LOVE. Relive the thrill of Saturday morning pictures! JOHNNY GENTLE: WENDY; I LIKE THE WAY. Starts Saturday 6th February, 9am to 12 midday DUFFY POWER: DREAM LOVER; WHAT NOW. 09:00 Popeye 09:10 Zorro’s DICKIE PRIDE: FABULOUS CURE; PRIMROSE LANE. Black Whip 09:40 Children’s Film PETER WYNNE: CHAPEL OF DREAMS. Foundation: Cup Fever (1965) JULIAN X: SUE SATURDAY. , Nobby Stiles and Bobby THE VISCOUNTS: ROCKIN’ LITTLE ANGEL. Charlton at United, with LANCE FORTUNE: BE MINE. and David Lodge. 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Thursday 14th January 10:30am Tuesday 19th January 7:20pm Friday 29th January 8:05pm Friday 5th February 4:05pm & Contraband (1940) and Thursday 4th February Fade In (1968) Saturday 6th February 8:05pm Espionage. Director: . 2:30pm Western. Director: Jud Taylor. The Plank (1967) Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Battle of the Sexes (1960) Stars: Burt Reynolds, Barbara Loden. British slapstick comedy, written Hay Petrie. A sea captain deals with Comedy. Director: Charles A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, and directed by Eric Sykes. Stars: smugglers and spies. Crichton. Stars: Peter Sellers, working on location for a film, falls for a Eric Syke, Tommy Cooper and Robert Morley, Constance local cowboy. Jimmy Edwards. Features John Friday 15th January 6pm Cummings. An accountant plans Mr Reeder in Room 13 (1938) Saturday 30th January 11am Junkin, Bill Oddie, , to save his company from an Hattie Jacques, Kenny Lynch and Drama. Director: Norman Lee. American takeover bid. False Colours (1943) Western. Stars: Gibb McLaughlin, Sara Seegar, Director: George Archainbaud. Jimmy Tarbuck. Peter Murray-Hill, Sally Gray. Wednesday 20th Jan 9:05pm Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Saturday 6th February 9am To discover a counterfeiter’s identity, Reds (1981) Jimmy Rogers, . Saturday Morning Flicks! a young man does jail time. When Drama. Director: Warren Beatty. Hopalong Cassidy and his sidekicks Relive the thrill of Saturday released, he finds his fiancee is about Stars: Warren Beatty, expose a scheme to replace the heir morning pictures every Saturday, to marry the man he sought! Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, to a ranch with an impostor. 9am to 12 midday! Gene Hackman. The love affair Saturday 16th January 6pm of John Reed, journalist and Saturday 30th January 9:15pm and Saturday 6th February 6pm Laugh It Off (1940) activist and writer Louise Bryant Thursday 4th February 10pm The Firechasers (1971) Musical. Director: John Baxter. Stars: during the Russian Revolution. Situation Hopeless... Crime. Director: Sidney Hayers. Tommy Trinder, Jean Colin, Anthony But Not Serious (1965) Comedy. Friday 22nd January 9pm Stars: Chad Everett, Keith Barron, Hulme. A talented couple’s career is Director: Gottfried Reinhardt. Joanne Dainton, , Villa Rides (1968) Stars: , Mike Connors, put on hold by a call to service, but Action. Director: . James Hayter, Robert Flemyng. their skills are tested when they put Robert Redford, Paul Dahlke. During While investigating a series of Stars: , Robert World War II, two American fliers bail out on a show for a general. Mitchum, , lethal fires in London, a U.S. Saturday 16th January 7:35pm Herbert Lom. An American over Germany. Wilhelm Frick hides them insurance man falls in love. and Friday 22nd Jan 6:30pm aviator must join the Mexican in his cellar but does not inform them when the war ends. Saturday 6th February 9pm The Chairman (1969) Revolution or face a firing squad. Black Sunday (1977) Action. Director: J Lee Thompson. Saturday 23rd January 6pm Sunday 31st January 10pm and Thriller. Director: Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Haywood, and Friday 29th January 6pm Tuesday 2nd February 9pm John Frankenheimer. and Conrad Yama. A scientist goes Harry’s War (1981) A New Kind of Love (1963) Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, to China to steal a formula for an Comedy. Director: Kieth Merrill. Comedy. Director: Melville Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver. experimental enzyme. Stars: Edward Herrmann, Shavelson. Stars: Paul Newman, A terrorist group plan to blow up Sunday 17th January 2:20pm Geraldine Page. Harry’s rich aunt, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter. a Goodyear blimp hovering over and Friday 22nd Jan 3:25pm a dies while fighting the IRS and A womanizing American reporter in the Super Bowl stadium. Meet the Navy (1946) Harry takes up the fight. Paris mistakes a fashion designer for a Sunday 7th February 10:30am Musical. Director: Alfred Travers. high-class prostitute. He interviews her Calculated Risk (1963) Saturday 23rd January 9:40pm for a series of articles, then falls in love. Stars: Lionel Murton, Margaret Hurst. & Wednesday 27th Jan 9.05pm Crime. Director: Norman Harrison. Royal Canadian Navy men and Power Play (1978) Monday 1st February 8:35pm Stars: William Lucas, John Rutland women pull out all the stops in a Thriller. Director: Martyn Burke. Jungle Street (1961) and . Despite Navy show during World War II. Stars: Peter O’Toole, David Thriller. Director: Charles Saunders. spending time in prison, Kip is Sunday 17th January 3:55pm and Hemmings, . Stars: David McCallum, Jill Ireland and willing to try one more big job. Tuesday 19th January 3.50pm A retiring colonel and his friends Kenneth Cope. A young man attempts Sunday 7th February 1:35pm The Girl From Manhattan (1948) organise a military coup d’etat. to escape his working-class background King David (1985) Comedy. Wednesday 27th January and win the girl he loves through crime. Drama. Director: Bruce Beresford. Director: Alfred E. Green. 7:40am Thursday 4th February 12:35pm Stars: Richard Gere, Alice Krige, Stars: Dorothy Lamour, George We’ll Smile Again (1942) Grand Ole Opry (1940) Denis Quilley, Cherie Lunghi & Montgomery, Charles Laughton. Musical. Director: John Baxter. Comedy. Director: Frank McDonald. . A model and a young reverend return Stars: Bud Flanagan and A small-town mayor in the Ozarks wins Epic historical drama about to their hometown. . Nazi spies the election for state government. David, the second King of Israel. Sunday 17th January 10pm infiltrate a film studio. Features Opry performers. Sunday 7th February 10pm & Thurs 21st January 00:35am Friday 29th January 7:10am Friday 5th February 9:25am Starting Over (1979) Breakthrough (1980) Old Mother Riley in Society Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1939) Comedy. Director: Alan J.Pakula. Drama. Director: Andrew V. (1940) Comedy. Comedy. Director: Maclean Rogers. Stars: Burt Reynolds, McLaglen. Stars: Richard Burton, Director: John Baxter. Stars: Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and Jill Clayburgh & Candice Bergen. Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger. Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, John Martita Hunt. Mother Riley nurses for When his wife leaves him, Phil German officers plan to assassinate Stuart. Kitty finds romance with a the ATS, resulting in chaos. moves to Boston and meets a 32 Adolf Hitler. wealthy society boy. free-spirited schoolteacher. 33 Subtitled films available on TPTV this month FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 GLENN Full listings of films with subtitles 18:00 Harry’s War 18:00 Is Paris Burning? CD available on our website. 01:45 The Stranger 23:10 The Great Gatsby Fri 15 January Sun 24 January Sun 31 January CD 06:30 A Tale of Five Cities 06:00 Where There’s A Will MILLER 08:45 Night Of The Prowler 10:00 Robin’s Nest 11:00 The Passing Stranger 13:15 Theatre Royal 60 ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS CD 14:20 Lost Horizon (1973) 14:10 Laugh It Off 21:00 Enemy At The Door 23:40 Live It Up 15:45 Cheaper By The Dozen 22:00 New Kind of Love OUR PRICE 02:25 Fear And Desire 21:00 Enemy At The Door 02:10 Three Steps to the Gallows MUSIC CD Sat 16 January 00:05 Penny Gold Mon 01 February 60 Tracks on 3 CDs 06:05 The Breaking Point 01:50 Houdini 08:00 Lost Hours £12.99 12:10 Up In The World Mon 25 January 11:55 Convoy (1940) WITH FREE UK POSTAGE 06:00 Mad About Men 14:00 Hell Drivers 18:00 Laugh It Off Glenn Miller, American trombonist, 23:55 The Upturned Glass 07:40 The Cariboo Trail 16:10 Ghost of Greville Lodge 10:30 The Frightened City 23:55 Fighting Man of the Plains arranger, composer and bandleader was the best-selling recording artist of Sun 17 January 18:35 Night Boat to Dublin 03:05 Crazy Days the swing era, from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best-known big bands. 07:45 Farewell To Arms 22:00 The Day of the Locust Tue 02 February Miller’s recordings include “In the Mood”, “Moonlight Serenade”, 21:00 Enemy At The Door 02:30 Greed of William Hart 07:50 Desert Mice Mon 18 January “Pennsylvania 6-5000”, “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, “A String of Pearls”, Tue 26 January 14:15 The Ghost & Mrs Muir “At Last”, “(I’ve Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo”, “American Patrol”, “Tuxedo 06:00 Clash By Night 06:00 Come Back Peter 21:00 New Kind of Love 12:40 Pool of London 10:30 Make Mine a Million 23:10 Forever Female (1954) Junction”, “Elmer’s Tune”, and “Little Brown Jug”. In just four years he 14:25 It Always Rains On Sunday 14:00 Arabian Adventure 05:00 Stagecoach West scored 16 number-one records and 69 top ten hits—more than 22:00 These Dangerous Years (1957) 18:35 The Secret Place Wed 03 February or . In 1942, at the peak of his career, Miller decided to join the 00:00 Hard Times 00:40 Battle of the V1 06:00 Borderline (1950) war effort. Too old to be drafted, he was placed in charge of an Army band, Tue 19 January 02:40 12:45 Theatre Royal 06:00 King of the Underworld earning him the rank of captain, later promoted to major. On December 15, 05:00 Stagecoach West 14:30 Echo Of Diana 1944, while flying to Paris, Miller’s aircraft disappeared in bad weather over 07:45 The Big Job Wed 27 January 21:05 Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline 14:05 The March Hare 06:05 Fort Algiers 02:10 The Most Dangerous Game the English Channel. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal. 23:50 The Hunter 10:45 Helter Skelter Thu 04 February Disc 1 1. In The Mood 2. Moonlight Serenade 3. Over The Rainbow 4. A String Of Pearls 5. Moon Love 05:00 Stagecoach West 14:30 Teacher’s Pet 06:20 Out Of The Clouds 6. Stairway To The Stars 7. The Lady’s In Love With You 8. Sunrise Serenade 9. Wishing (Will Make It So) Wed 20 January 23:10 Cover Girl Killer 08:05 And The Same To You 06:00 The Girl Who Couldn’t Quite 00:30 The House In Marsh Road 12:35 Grand Ole Opry 10. Little Brown Jug 11. Ain’t Cha Comin’ Out? 12. Runnin’ Wild 13. My Prayer 14. My Isle Of Golden Dreams 10:30 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 01:50 Frozen Alive 01:45 Man In The Attic 15. Bluebirds In The Moonlight 16. Stardust 17. Indian Summer 18. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) 12:45 Scarlet Web Thu 28 January Fri 05 February 19. It’s A Blue World 20. Shake Down The Stars. Disc 2 1. Tuxedo Junction 2. Fools Rush In 3. Pennsylvania 16:15 The Key Man 08:00 Radio Cab Murder 09:25 Old Mother Riley Joins Up 21:05 Reds 10:30 The Way Ahead 18:00 Rockets Galore 6-5000 4. The Man With The Mandolin 5. Blue Orchids 6. Careless 7. When You Wish Upon A Star 02:25 Home and Away 18:35 It Always Rains On Sunday 21:45 The Amorous Adventures of Moll 8. The Woodpecker Song 9. Say It 10. The Nearness Of You 11. When The Swallows Come Back To Capristrano Thu 21 January 22:00 Darling Lili Flanders 12. Slow Freight 13. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar 14. Five O’Clock Whistle 06:00 Night Ride 00:45 Gorgo 00:20 Red Line 7000 07:55 Beyond Christmas 02:20 Double Confession 02:35 Bombay Waterfront 15. Along The Santa Fe Trail 16. Anvil Chorus, Parts 1 & 2 17. Yes, My Darling 12:50 Ambush In Leopard Street Fri 29 January Sat 06 February Daughter 18. Frenesi 19. The Booglie Wooglie Piggy 20. Boulder Buff. 14:30 Murder At 3am 06:10 The Body Vanished 09:00 Popeye The Sailor Disc 3 1. Chattanooga Choo-Choo 2. I’ve Got A Gal In Kalamazoo 15:50 Witness In The Dark 08:45 The Flying Squad 09:10 Zorro’s Black Whip 3. Imagination 4. Blueberry Hill 5. Song Of The Volga Boatmen 17:05 Talking Pictures With Patricia Dainton 10:30 A Gunman Has Escaped 09:40 Cup Fever Fri 22 January 15:15 Cheaper By The Dozen 10:55 The Lone Ranger 6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 7. Perfidia 8. You And I 06:10 Send For Paul Temple 18:00 Harry’s War 11:25 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 9. Elmer’s Tune 10. Moonlight Cocktail 11. (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) 08:25 Old Mother Riley at Home 21:55 Child’s Play (1972) 11:45 Superman The White Cliffs Of Dover 12. Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else 10:30 House of Blackmail 23:55 HIT! 11:55 Superman 11:55 Nurse on Wheels 02:40 Third Alibi 21:00 Black Sunday But Me) 13. Serenade In Blue 14. American Patrol 15. Skylark 21:00 Villa Rides Sat 30 January Sun 07 February 16. I Dream’t I Dwelt In Harlem 17. At Last 18. I Know Why (And So Do You) Sat 23 January 06:00 Bond Street 13:35 King David 19. Juke Box Saturday Night 20. 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