Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 2nd December 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Man Who Haunted Himself on Talking Pictures TV Stars: , Hildegarde Neil, Olga Georges-Picot, Anton Rodgers, Kevork Malikyan. Directed by Basil Dearden. Roger Moore gave a career-defining performance as a businessman whose existence is reshaped by malevolent forces in this taut psychological thriller. Made in 1970 at a point in his career after The Saint and before The Persuaders, this is the film that established Moore’s big-screen charisma and ultimately lead to him taking over the role of . According to his autobiography, this was his favourite role; one which called for “emotion, drama and great intensity”. Clearly, he was more than able to deliver. Airs: Saturday 7th December at 5:50 pm.

Mon 2nd Dec 06:00 Tues 3rd Dec 18:00 Trouble Brewing (1939) Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) Comedy, directed by: Drama, directed by Herbert Wilcox. Anthony Kimmins. Starring: Anna Neagle, Edna May Stars: George Formby, Googie Withers, Oliver, George Sanders & Zasu Pitts. Gus McNaughton. Ealing comedy in During WWI a British nurse based which an eager newspaper reporter in Brussels assists an escaped goes undercover to expose a gang of prisoner of war. counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, he proves to be a greater menace Wed 4th Dec 11:45 to public order than the criminals he Wonderful Life (1964) is chasing! Musical, directed by: Sidney J. Furie. Stars: Cliff Richard, Susan Hampshire, Mon 2nd Dec 16:40 Richard O’Sullivan & The Shadows. and Thurs 5th Dec at 20:05 Cliff’s band is stranded in the Canary IWM: Break In (1956) Islands but find work on a movie. A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should Wed 4th Dec 19:15 be used in solving a crime. Bless This House (1972) Comedy, directed by Gerald Thomas. Mon 2nd Dec 22:00 Stars: Sidney James, Diana Coupland Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) & Sally Geeson. Middle-aged home- Mystery, directed by: Otto Preminger. owner Sid Abbot just wants to get on Stars: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley & with building his illegal whisky still. Laurence Olivier. A woman reports that her young daughter is missing but there seems to be no evidence Wed 4th Dec 22:05 that she ever existed. Remember My Name (1978) Thriller, directed by: Alan Rudolph Tues 3rd Dec 12:00 Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony The Fallen Idol (1948) Perkins, Moses Gunn. Just released from Thriller, directed by Carol Reed. prison, a young woman arrives in town Stars: Ralph Richardson, to “start a new life”, but soon begins Michele Morgan and Jack Hawkins. stalking a married construction worker A butler working in a foreign embassy for no apparent reason. in falls under suspicion when his wife dies. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 2nd December 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 5th Dec 09:15 Sun 8th Dec 14:00 The Villain (1979) Ha’penny Breeze (1951) Comedy, directed by Hal Needham. Drama, directed by: Don Sharp. Stars: Kirk Douglas, Arnold Stars: Edwin Richfield, Don Sharp, Schwarzenegger & Ann-Margret. Gwyneth Vaughan. David returns to A bank robber makes a deal with a his Suffolk village after World War II. corrupt banker to avoid execution in The community are demoralised, exchange for a dirty assignment. but they gather support for his scheme to enter a yacht race with a Thurs 5th Dec 18:00 converted fishing smack. It could be Riddle Of The Sands (1978) a lifeline for the village... Adventure, directed by: Tony Maylam. Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter & Sun 8th Dec 16:00 Simon MacCorkindale. Set in 1901, The March Hare (1956) a pair of British yachtsmen discover a Comedy, directed by: George More German plot to invade . O’Ferrall. Stars: Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Wilfrid Hyde White. Fri 6th Dec 14:30 Sir Charles Hare gambles his all on Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946) his horse at Ascot, but the horse is Thriller, directed by: Robert Hamer. ‘pulled’ and he is forced to sell his Stars: Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns, estate including the stud. However, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, his aunt, buys a promising foal which Sally Ann Howes. The wife of a pub she intends to raise in secret for him... landlord in Victorian Brighton, who is having an affair, wants to rid herself of Sun 8th Dec 18:35 her abusive husband. Maytime in Mayfair (1949) Musical, directed by: Herbert Wilcox. Fri 6th Dec 22:00 Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Scars of Dracula (1970) Thora Hird, Tom Walls, Peter Graves. Horror, directed by: Roy Ward Baker. Penniless man-about-town Michael Stars: Christopher Lee, Jenny Hanley, is delighted to hear he has been left Dennis Waterman. At a remote castle a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. Count Dracula is resurrected. The His intention is to sell it as quickly as villagers set fire to the castle but bats possible, but on meeting Ellen the kill the women and children who manager, he changes his mind. Across the street a rival sought sanctuary in the local church. dress-maker is also after Ellen and the shop, and prepared to Dracula’s reign of terror has begun. use whatever means are needed. Sat 7th Dec 16:00 NEW SERIES The Land That Time Forgot (1975) Sun 8th Dec 21:00 Adventure, directed by Kevin Connor, Mystery and Imagination based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Episode 1: Uncle Silas (1968) novel. Stars: Doug McClure, Directed by Alan Cooke. John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon. Stars: Robert Eddison, Patience Survivors of a U-Boat torpedo drift to a strange island inhabited by Collier, Lucy Fleming & John Welsh. pre-historic monsters and primitive A young heiress is sent to live with humans with an erupting volcano. her uncle in a decaying mansion, where terrifying schemes are used to Sat 7th Dec 17:50 force her to marry his son. The Man Who Haunted Himself Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology (1970) series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series A man renounces high business were broadcast from 1966 to 1970. Each episode featured principles after recovering from a television plays based on the works of well-known authors near-fatal car accident. Why do friends such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, see him in places he has never been – M. R. James and Edgar Allan Poe. Very few of the original and why does a girl he has seen only episodes survive, but the feature-length teleplays produced once claim an intimate relationship by Thames Television between 1968 and 1970 were saved, with him? and will be broadcast on Sunday nights at 9pm.