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Upstairs and Downstairs on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Claudia Cardinale, Mylène Demongeot, , , Joan Hickson and Sid James. Directed by in 1959. This light-hearted comedy follows a newly-wed couple’s quest to find a reliable live-in domestic. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually get complicated. Features Claudia Cardinale in her first English-speaking role. Airs: Saturday 5th December at 1:20pm.

Monday 30th November 10am Tuesday 1st December 12:05pm Robin’s Nest Hue and Cry (1947) Episode 1: Sleeping Patterns Adventure. Director: Charles Stars: Richard O’Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt Crichton. Stars: Alastair Sim, and Tony Britton. An unemployed chef Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler. A gang has big ambitions to open his own of street boys foil a master crook who Bistro... but his plans go awry. sends commands for robberies in a Continues weekdays at 10am cunning way. Monday 30th November 10:30am Tuesday 1st December 4pm Model For Murder (1959) Another Time, Another Place Drama. Directed by Terry Bishop. (1958) War Drama. Directed by Lewis Allen. Stars: Keith Andes, Hazel Court, Stars: , Barry Sullivan, Michael Gough, Julia Arnall and Glynis Johns, , Patricia Jessel. A Mayfair dress Sidney James. During WWII, a designer arranges for the theft of New York newspaper woman falls for valuable jewellery. a married BBC war correspondent. Monday 30th November 1:35pm Wednesday 2nd December Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) 10:30am War Drama. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Happy Go Lovely (1951) Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield Musical Comedy. Director: H. Bruce & Jack Warner. Based on the true story Humberstone. Stars: , of WWII special agent Violette Szabo, Vera-Ellen and Cesar Romero. recruited to work as a spy in France. Niven plays rich but stuffy B.G. Monday 30th November 6:40pm Bruno who is head of a successful The Prince and The Pauper (1978) greetings card firm in Scotland. Drama. Director: Richard Fleischer. Wednesday 2nd December 3:50pm Stars: Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, The Pot Carriers (1962) Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch and Drama. Director: Peter Graham Scott. Rex Harrison. A Prince and a pauper Stars: Ronald Fraser, Carole Lesley, find that they are identical and decide Alfred Burke. A young prisoner to trade places. struggles to adjust to life inside. Tuesday 1st December 10:30am Wednesday 2nd December 6:45pm The Floating Dutchman (1954) The Spider and the Fly (1949) Drama. Director: Vernon Sewell. Crime. Director: Robert Hamer. Stars: Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler and Stars: Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Mary Germaine. A Scotland Yard Nadia Gray, George Cole. detective goes undercover among a An unusual love triangle develops gang of jewel thieves. between two criminals and a policeman on the eve of the First World War. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 30th November 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Flame in the Streets on Talking Pictures TV Stars: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, Johnny Sekka, Ann Lynn, Wilfrid Brambell . Directed by Roy Ward Baker in 1961. Racial tensions manifest at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the West Indian community of post-war Britain. Airs: Sunday 6th December at 10pm.

Thursday 3rd December 10:30am Saturday 5th December 6pm Suddenly (1954) Scotland Yard (1953) Drama. Director: Lewis Allen. Stars: Episode 1: The Drayton Case , Sterling Hayden and Crime. Director: Ken Hughes. James Gleason. Three gangsters trap Stars: Victor Platt & Vincent Ball. a family in their own house, intending A wartime air raid reveals the body to kill the president of the USA. of a murdered woman. Thursday 3rd December 2:30pm Saturday 5th December 1:20pm A Window in London (1940) Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) Thriller. Director: Herbert Mason. Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Stars: Michael Craig, Claudia Paul Lukas, Hartley Power, Patricia Roc. Cardinale, Anne Heywood, Mylène A man thinks he sees a young woman Demongeot, Joan Hickson, being murdered through the window Sid James. British newlyweds of his train. (AKA Lady in Distress.) discover hiring suitable home help is harder than they thought. Thursday 3rd December 10pm Foul Play (1978) Saturday 5th December 6pm Comedy. Director: Colin Higgins. Against the Wind (1948) Stars: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and War. Directed by: Charles Crichton Burgess Meredith. A recently divorced Stars: Robert Beatty, Jack Warner librarian is drawn into a mystery when and Simone Signoret. During WWII, a stranger asks her to hide a secret film. a group of men and women gather together in London to train as spies. Friday 4th December 7:15am Saturday 5th December 8pm Cavalcade of Variety (1941) Houdini (1953) Musical. Director: Thomas Bentley. Drama. Director: George Marshall. Features Peter Brough, Archie Andrews, Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and Billy Cotton and his band, the Sherman Torin Thatcher. The spectacular Fisher girls and many more. career of magician Harry Houdini Friday 4th December 2:45pm whose tricks defied explanation Wonderful Life (1964) and safety. Musical. Director: Sidney J. Furie. Sunday 6th December 12:20pm Stars: Cliff Richard, , Ha’penny Breeze (1951) Richard O’Sullivan and The Shadows. Drama. Director: Frank Worth. Cliff’s band is stranded in the Canary Stars: Edwin Richfield, Don Sharp Islands and get work on a movie. and Gwyneth Vaughan. David’s Friday 4th December 5pm Suffolk village is demoralised but Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) they gather support for his scheme Episode 1: On Trial to enter a yacht race. Drama. Written by: Fay Weldon. Sunday 6th December 7pm Director: Raymond Menmuir. In Clover (1966) Stars: David Langton, Rachel Gurney, Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Stars: James Robertson Justice, Jean Marsh, Pauline Collins. Sarah , Shirley Anne Field, Moffat is engaged at 165 Eaton Place John Fraser, Joan Sims. Gaston and becomes good friends with Rose. Grimsdyke enrols on a medical Repeat of Sunday’s episode. course run by Sir Lancelot Spratt.