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Dear Supporters of Film and TV History, Hoping as usual that you are all safe and well in these troubled times. Our cinema doors are still well and truly open, I’m pleased to say, the channel has been transmitting 24 hours a day 7 days a week on air with a number of premières for you all and orders have been posted out to you all every day as normal. It’s looking like a difficult few months ahead with lack of advertising on the channel, as you all know it’s the adverts that help us pay for the channel to be transmitted to you all for free and without them it’s very difficult. But we are confident we can get over the next few months. All we ask is that you keep on spreading the word about the channel in any way you can. Our audiences are strong with 4 million viewers per week , but it’s spreading the word that’s going to help us get over this. Can you believe it Talking Pictures TV is FIVE Years Old later this month?! There’s some very interesting selections in this months newsletter. Firstly, a terrific deal on The Humphrey Jennings Collections – one of Britain’s greatest filmmakers. I know lots of you have enjoyed the shorts from the Imperial War Museum archive that we have brought to Talking Pictures and a selection of these can be found on these DVD collections. Also a brand new release from the BFI, The Battle of the Sexes with and Constance Cummings; the complete series of Butterflies with Wendy Craig on DVD, Quatermass with to tie in with it airing on the channel and some wonderful music CDs plus lots more. I had a lovely chat online with Adrienne Posta about her time on Up the Junction which we aired recently and I hope we can start filming again soon with the stars we love. I hope to invite Adrienne and Maureen Lipman to our next event. Licensing – a thank you to all of you once again for suggestions of what to air on the channel. Our list is pretty full now I’m afraid! As you know it’s not always a case of we haven’t thought of your suggestion, it could be we can’t locate the copyright owners, or we know film material still exists but the owners don’t wish to negotiate a license with us – but stay tuned, hopefully we will get there eventually! Very sad news at the loss of dear Jill Gascoine recently. I know it was a release for her, but watching her so young in ROOMS currently airing on the channel, really brings it home that she is no longer with us. Our hearts go out to her family and of course also to the family of dear Blonde British Bombshell Honor Blackman who also passed away recently. Both a great loss to our industry and we are fortunate to be able to see them both on Talking Pictures TV. Finally, our T-shirts are ready! Hand made by us! They are super quality and a new and improved price – do wear them with pride. Do enjoy the premières on Talking Pictures TV this month including: The Molly Maguires (1970) with , Viva Max (1969) with Peter Ustinov, Copacabana (1947) with Carmen Miranda and Groucho Marx, The Enforcer (1951) with Humphrey Bogart, I Walk Alone (1948) with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster and The Rebel (1961) with . Until next month, Stay Safe and Stay Tuned! Very best wishes, Sarah, Noel & Neill 1 From the One of Britain’s GREATEST Filmmakers HUMPHREY JENNINGS DVD Collections Volumes 1 & 2 The First Days and Fires Were Started SPECIAL OFFER

Humphrey Jennings Volume 1 The First Days (1934-1940) 2 discs, 1 DVD and 1 Blu-Ray £15.00 £15.00 each OR Colour & Black & White; Optional subtitles; Running time approx: 211 minutes. Volume 1 gathers together 14 films from 1934-1940 and £25.00 for both provides a fascinating insight into Jennings’ early days as a filmmaker, learning and developing his craft. Features WITH FREE UK POSTAGE include the acclaimed Spare Time and Can Take Call Us Now On Freephone It! as well as previously neglected works, many of which are available for the first time since their release. 0808 178 8212 Films: Post Haste (1934) Locomotives (1934) The Story of the Wheel (1934) Farewell Topsails Or 01923 290555 (1937) Penny Journey (1938) Speaking from America (1938) The Farm (1938) Making Fashion Widely considered to be one (1938) Spare Time (1939) SS Ionian (1939) The First of Britain’s greatest filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings has Days (1939) Spring Offensive (1940) Welfare of the long been celebrated as the Workers (1940) London Can Take It! (1940) director of works which capture everyday heroism in Extras: The Birth of the Robot times of war and peace. (1936): a Len Lye film for Shell on which Born in Walberswick, Suffolk Jennings worked. English Harvest on 19th August 1907 he was (1939): alternative cut of The Farm. not only a filmmaker but a Cargoes (1940): alternative cut of SS photographer, literary critic, Ionian. Britain Can Take It! (1940) theatrical designer, poet, alternative cut of London Can Take It! painter and theorist of modern art. He died on 24th September Illustrated booklet with essays 1950 in an accident in Greece, and film credits. while preparing for a film. 2 From the British Film Institute One of Britain’s GREATEST Filmmakers HUMPHREY JENNINGS DVD Collections Volumes 1 & 2 The First Days and Fires Were Started SPECIAL OFFER

Humphrey Jennings Volume 2 Fires Were Started (1941-1943) £15.00 each OR 2 discs, 1 DVD and 1 Blu-Ray £15.00 Black & White; Optional subtitles; £25.00 for both Running time approx: 138 minutes. The second volume of films is a lyrical portrait of the nation WITH FREE UK POSTAGE at war and includes five films from 1941-1943. It shows Call Us Now On Freephone Jennings at the peak of his tragically short but outstanding career. From the rousing call to arms of The Heart of Britain and Words for Battle, the poetic evocation of daily 0808 178 8212 life in Listen to Britain, and the powerful drama of Or 01923 290555 Fires Were Started and The Silent Village, the films included in the set offer a lyrical portrait of the nation at war and a moving celebration of ‘Britishness’. Widely considered to be one of Britain’s greatest filmmakers, Films: The Heart of Britain (1941) Humphrey Jennings has Words for Battle (1941) Listen to Britain (1941) long been celebrated as the director of works which Fires Were Started (1943) The Silent Village (1943) capture everyday heroism in Extras: This is (1941, times of war and peace. 10 mins): alternate cut of The Heart of Born in Walberswick, Suffolk on 19th August 1907 he was Britain. I Was a Fireman (1943, not only a filmmaker but a 74 mins): Jennings’ original cut of photographer, literary critic, Fires Were Started. theatrical designer, poet, painter and theorist of modern Illustrated booklet featuring art. He died on 24th September essays, film notes and biographies by 1950 in an accident in Greece, Lindsay Anderson, Patrick Russell while preparing for a film. and Kevin Jackson. 3 Memories of a life in films Part 9, by Noel Cronin Selling to TV stations was hard enough, but only having trade films and old or not very good series made it doubly so. Breaking into companies that had prime product for a small fledgling distribution company was nearly impossible; you either needed distribution clout or money, but I battled away and finally got a break. Luck or judgement who knows?! In my travels I met a charming American and a tough Swede who had a distribution company in the USA and I sold their product in the UK. It wasn’t the best and the company bumped along before going bust. Jim, the American, reappeared a while later. He was working with a New York based company, producing and selling family dramas known as ‘after school specials’ – good wholesome productions that the USA TV networks played for children returning home from school. Good films, but not easy to sell in the UK. I was offered the UK distribution, but had to put up a large advance to secure the contract. The product on the face of it did not support the investment, but my hunch was to go with it. To this day I am not sure how I raised the money – I am sure my house was hocked – but the deal was done! Things started slowly, a few little sales, but not looking great, then BANG – the American company was bought by a company called New World Entertainment and, after a period of uncertainty, my company, Dandelion Distribution, was retained to handle the New World product. I had programming I could only have dreamed of in the past; mini-series, soaps, feature series – a whole new world had literally opened up. LA here I come! Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Renown Pictures. Noel is contributing a series of memories to the newsletter over the coming months. Ever since his entrance into the world of film as a young man, Noel has been interested in preserving the heritage of lost and forgotten films, shorts and programmes, and for many years has been gathering, restoring and preserving this wonderful heritage which would otherwise be lost. Noel worked for The Rank Organisation and the Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to several libraries that owned films which now air on TPTV. His career as a producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV series spans several decades.

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THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES (Dual Format Edition, you will receive both DVD and Blu-Ray editions) Year: 1960 | Black & White Optional Subtitles Running Time Approx: 84 minutes Includes both DVD and Blu-ray editions Director: Charles Crichton Cast: Constance Cummings, Robert Morley, Peter Sellers, Donald Pleasence. When Angela Barrows, an accomplished business woman from the US, is sent by her company to to look into potential export markets, she meets Robert MacPherson, a company manager who has just inherited his father’s textile business and wants her advice on updating it to modern standards. Angela introduces new ideas and the employees, scandalised that they have to work under a female boss, turn to head clerk Mr Martin, who promises to lead the fight against the interloper. Extras: • Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition • Hancock’s Hard Boiled Eggs Sellers’ contemporary, the lad from East Cheam himself, Tony Hancock, appears with ‘The Battle of the Sexes’ Patricia Hayes in this cracking collection of 11 egg-cellent Egg Marketing Board adverts from 1966. • A Ghost of a Chance (1968, 50 mins). Bonus feature-length fun for all the family as Sellers’ chum Graham Stark stars with Ronnie Barker, Patricia Hayes, , Bernard Cribbins and Terry Scott in a corking Children’s Film Foundation comedy. • Images of Edinburgh in Archive Film a selection of rarely-seen short films capturing Scotland’s capital in the first half of the twentieth century, from the BFI National Archive • Woolly Wonders evocative 1940s archive films of traditional Scottish cloth-making, shot in colour by the great Jack Cardiff • Image gallery • Fully Illustrated booklet with an essay by the BFI’s Vic Pratt; biographies of Charles Crichton, Constance Cummings, Robert Morley and James Thurber by Kieron McCormack; notes on the special features and full film credits.

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Call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 6 Or 01923 290555 Spotlight on Penny Morrell Born: 4th February 1938 – Died: 3rd January 2020 The actress, producer and widow of the late George Cole, sadly passed away in January, aged 81. We look back at her prolific career and her achievements both as a wife and mother, as well as her career, in tribute to a remarkable lady. She was born Penelope Margaret Ann Pennington on the 4th of February 1938 in Maidenhead. Her father left when she was two years of age and her mother Dorothy took her with her as she globe-trotted the world. Dorothy then met Ray Morrell, an English Professor who worked in Singapore and Malaysia, who she married. Ray raised Penny as if she were his own child. He taught her to appreciate art and antiques and helped in her studies at night school where she trained in philosophy after a brief, unhappy marriage – she was just 18 – that ended in divorce. Although she had no formal acting training, she had first tasted show business broadcasting in plays for Radio Malaysia when she was just 12 years old. It was not until the family moved to Jersey, years later, that she joined a repertory company and learned the business from stage management to acting. Her talents were soon recognised by the studios and in her twenties she played roles in films such as Brothers in Law (1957), Lucky Jim (1957), Make Mine Mink (1960), The Bulldog Breed (1960), Too Hot to Handle (1960), Out of the Fog (1962), A Stitch in Time (1963), The Comedy Man (1964), Smokescreen (1964) and The Early Bird (1965). While on television she appeared with Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Morecambe & Wise, Sid James and , adding variety to her CV. She also continued to work in radio and famously became the voice of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh with Ian Carmichael. She met George Cole in 1966 at an audition in London for The Waiting Game. George wrote in his autobiography, “I’m pretty sure it was love at first sight. I think I knew there and then that I would marry her.” They were married a year later at Henley Registry Office on 26 May 1967. She made the decision to take a back-seat with her career, allowing George the freedom to pursue his. She concentrated on being a wife and mother to Cole’s two children from his previ- ous marriage and to Tara and Toby, children from their own happy relationship. Penny created the warm, loving, stable and secure family home she had never had as a child, which was also what George had been searching for. Once the children had grown up, Penny began to write and produce shows for Henley’s Kenton Theatre and The Mill at Sonning – many for charity. She also wrote, produced and starred in a series of Music Hall shows for Catamaran Cruises in London in 1980-81, which became so successful that they spawned many corporate bookings. ‘Mrs Cole’s Music Hall’ also played successive and sold out Christmas sea- sons at The Mill from 1982-85. Throughout this time, she also continued to appear in guest roles on television in Doctors, Heartbeat, The End of the Affair and Chucklevision, among others. After George passed away in 2015, Penny continued with her small antique business in Henley, but closed the shop in 2017. She died on the 3rd January 2020 and, at her funeral, it was requested that attendees wore some colour and in- stead of flowers, that they plant something in her memory… a lovely lasting legacy to a lovely lady. 7 Butterflies THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OUR PRICE £25.00 with FREE UK POSTAGE Call Us Now On Freephone: 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 5 DVD Set Colour. Running time: 830 mins With Optional Subtitles. Over 13 hours of classic British comedy. Directors: John B. Hobbs, Sydney Lotterby, Mandie Fletcher, Gareth Gwenlan. Cast: Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, , Andrew Hall, Bruce Montague, Michael Ripper. Wendy Craig stars as Ria, a suburban housewife frustrated with mundane family life, craving some escape from drudgery. As hard as she tries she has never mastered the domestic arts and her well-meant efforts in the kitchen result in spectacular disaster. Husband Ben and layabout sons Russell and Adam live in fear of mealtimes as unidentified creations need coaxing from the pan and the words egg custard induce panic. Desperate for some excitement in her life, could a chance meeting with the charming and wealthy Leonard be the answer she is looking for? Written by , Butterflies ran from 1978 to 1983 and is one of the BBC’s most successful sitcoms. Presented here is every one of the hilarious 28 episodes to enjoy again.

To order, call us on Freephone Or 01923 290555 8 0808 178 8212 From the British Film Institute British Transport Films Volume 14 The Road Ahead 2-Disc DVD Set Years: 1959-1980 | Colour and Black & White Running Time: approx. 215 minutes Following the nationalisation of public transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1 May 1949, British Transport Films was led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey, a founding father of the British documentary movement, and became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain. This 2-disc collection includes 14 newly remastered films, most of which have never been released on DVD before, including Railbus for the 80’s, Five in Millions and Speedlink: The Quiet Revolution. Also included on this release is a new score for Safe on the Track? by composer Mordecai Smyth. A fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the films by BFI curator and BTF expert Steven Foxon and post-war transport historian and enthusiast Stephen Edwards is also included. This digitally remastered collection is a must for the transport enthusiast and the documentary aficionado alike. Disc 1 Diesel Train Driver: Driving the Train (1959, 19 mins) Railway Electrification at Industrial Frequency (1960, 26 mins) Contact with the Heart of England (1967, 8 mins) Speed the Payload (1967, 15 mins) Safe on the Track? (1969, 11 mins) Flashing Yellows (1976, 10 mins) Railbus for the 80’s (1978, 6 mins) Disc 2 Through to the Continent by Ferry Train (1978, 8 mins) Carriage Cleaning (1978, 28 mins) Great Britain: A Travel Guide (1978, 9 mins) Five in Millions (1978, 26 mins) Emergency Coupling Class 253/4 (1980, 14 mins) Safe at Work? (1980, 26 mins) Speedlink: The Quiet Revolution (1980, 9 mins)

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Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 9 THE CRIME COLLECTION CD AUDIO BOOK £19.99 on 6 CDs Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles Read by Peter Egan John Buchan The Thirty Nine Steps Read by James Fox CD Audio Book Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Read by Steven Pacey The Hound of the Baskervilles A devil-beast haunts the lonely moor around the Baskervilles’ ancestral home. A legend warns the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor “… in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.” One of the Baskervilles, Sir Charles, is dead, and the footprints of a giant hound had been found near his body. Would the new heir to the Baskervilles meet the same dreadful fate? The Thirty Nine Steps Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war. A few days later he discovers the murdered body of the American who warned him and becomes a prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland, pursued by the police and German spies involved with stealing British plans. The Moonstone The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and even on Rachel herself. TALKING CLASSICS These audio books represent some of the greatest works of fiction ever written in the English language. Each expertly abridged novel has been selected for its narrative power, range of characters and its place in our literary heritage.

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OUR PRICE £12.99 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE This 40-track compilation features TV themes from ‘The Golden Age’ of television. Tunes include TV westerns, , Wagon Train, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne, Bronco, Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, , Rawhide, Bonanza!, Laramie and Zorro! Also detective series such as M Squad, The Untouchables, Naked City, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Johnny Staccato, Peter Gunn and UK-originated shows, Ghost Squad, Maigret and No Hiding Place. Espionage shows and The Saint, and science-fiction themes from Quatermass & The Pit, One Step Beyond, The Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff’s Thriller and Out of this World. The familiar themes from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Route 66, Adventures in Paradise, Philadelphia Story, Dr Kildare and Ben Casey are included and music shows Dinah Shore Chevy Show and American Bandstand plus America’s favourite comedy show, I Love Lucy. Many of the tracks are from the actual soundbeds of their original series, and have never been released before. 1. ADVENTURES IN PARADISE: Theme From Adventures 19. LARAMIE: original TV theme music (intro theme) In Paradise - Jerry Byrd 20. THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP: The Legend of 2. ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: Funeral March Of Wyatt Earp - Hugh O’Brian A Marionette 21. M SQUAD: M Squad Theme - Stanley Wilson & His Orchestra 3. AMERICAN BANDSTAND: Bandstand Boogie - 22. MAIGRET: original TV theme music Les & Larry Elgart 23. MAVERICK: original TV theme music 4. BEN CASEY: Theme From Ben Casey - Valjean 24. NAKED CITY: original TV theme music (closing theme) 5. BONANZA: original TV theme music 25. NO HIDING PLACE: No Hiding Place - Ken Mackintosh 6. BORIS KARLOFF’S THRILLER: Thriller Theme - Pete Rugolo 26. ONE STEP BEYOND: Fear (opening theme) - Harry Lubin 7. BRONCO: original TV theme music 27. OUT OF THIS WORLD: Out Of This World - Tony Hatch 8. CHEYENNE: original TV theme music 28. PETER GUNN: Peter Gunn Theme - Henry Mancini 9. DANGER MAN: original TV theme music 29. PHILADELPHIA STORY: Tracy’s Theme - Spencer Ross 10. DINAH SHORE CHEVY SHOW: original TV theme music 30. QUATERMASS AND THE PIT: original TV theme music 11. DR KILDARE: Three Stars Will Shine Tonight - 31. RAWHIDE: RAWHIDE - Frankie Laine 32. THE RIFLEMAN: original TV theme music 12. EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATRE: Man Of Mystery - 33. ROUTE 66: original TV theme music (closing theme) - The Shadows Nelson Riddle & Ray Sherman 13. GHOST SQUAD: Ghost Squad Theme - Tony Hatch 34. THE SAINT: Theme From The Saint - Edwin Astley 14. GUNSMOKE: original TV theme music 35. 77 SUNSET STRIP: original TV theme music - Don Ralke 15. HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL: The Ballad Of Paladin - 36. TWILIGHT ZONE: original TV theme music Johnny 37. THE UNTOUCHABLES: original TV theme music 16. HAWAIIAN EYE: original TV theme music (intro theme) 38. WAGON TRAIN: original TV theme music 17. I LOVE LUCY: original TV theme music (closing theme) 39. WAGON TRAIN: Wagon Train - Johnny O’Neill 18. JOHNNY STACCATO: Staccato’s Theme - Elmer Bernstein 40. ZORRO: original TV theme music (opening title theme)

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Film Noir - which translates literally as ‘black film’ or ‘black cinema’ - was an epithet first used by French film critics to describe the new wave of downbeat American crime and detective films which were released in France immediately after WWII. Primarily filmed in a low-key, monochrome visual style that had roots in German Expressionist cinematography, they became increasingly prominent in the immediate post-war era, enjoying a Golden Age through to the late 50s. This unique set features the main title themes and/or signature music from 42 Noir classics, starting with John Huston’s pivotal The Maltese Falcon (1941) and ending with ’ Touch of Evil (1958), taking in benchmark movies like The Big Sleep (1946), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Key Largo (1948), White Heat (1949), The Third Man (1949), Strangers on a Train (1951), (1953) and Night of the Hunter (1955), in between. A truly unique compilation, this is a must-have for fans of the golden cinematic era. 1. THE MALTESE FALCON [Theme] 25. IN A LONELY PLACE [I Hadn’t Anyone Till You, By Hadda Brooks] 2. JOURNEY INTO FEAR [Theme] 26. THE PROWLER [Main/End Title] 3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY [Theme/Scene] 27. THE RACKET [Theme] 4. MILDRED PIERCE [Theme] 28. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN [Theme] 5. DETOUR [Theme] 29. MACAO [Theme] 6 THE KILLERS [Main Title/Theme] 30. THE HITCH-HIKER [Main/End Title] 7. THE BIG SLEEP [Theme] 31. THE BIG HEAT [Theme] 8 THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE [Theme] 32. PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET [Skip Leaves With Candy, 9. NOTORIOUS [Intro] By Lionel Newman] 10. BORN TO KILL [Theme] 33. PRIVATE HELL 36 [Theme] 11 [Theme] 34. CRIME WAVE [Opening Credits] 12. KISS OF DEATH [Theme] 35. SUDDENLY [Theme] 13. KEY LARGO [Theme] 36. NIGHT OF THE HUNTER [Opening Credits] 14. FORCE OF EVIL [Theme] 37. PETE KELLY’S BLUES [Main Theme, By Ray Anthony] 15. SORRY, WRONG NUMBER [Prelude/Foreword] 38. THE WRONG MAN [Prelude] 16. DRUNKEN ANGEL [Guitar Music] 39. THE KILLING [Theme] 17. OBSESSION [Main/End Title] 40. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS [Theme] 18. WHITE HEAT [Theme] 41. ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS 19. CRISS-CROSS [Main/End Title] [Générique, By Miles Davis] 20. THE THIRD MAN [Main Theme, By Anton Karas] 42. A TOUCH OF EVIL [Main Title Theme, 21. THE ASPHALT JUNGLE [Theme] By Henry Mancini] 22. D.O.A. [Theme] 23. SUNSET BOULEVARD [Theme] 24. NIGHT AND THE CITY [Theme/Intro]

To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 13 QUATERMASS Year: 1979 | Colour 2-DVD Set | Optional Subtitles Running time: 200 mins approx £15 Director: Piers Haggard Cast: Sir John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman John Mills brings a stoic intensity to the role of Professor Bernard Quatermass in this key piece of British dystopian fiction from visionary writer . Unsettling in its vision of a crumbling society coming under alien attack, Quatermass is directed with characteristic style by BAFTA winner Piers Haggard and features the high production values associated with . Shot on 35mm, the original negatives have been used for this stunning, brand-new restoration – a new 5.1 mix from original triple-track audio elements is also presented here alongside the original mono soundtrack. Bernard Quatermass, former head of the British Rocket Group, lives in seclusion in western Scotland, watching in appalled silence as Britain slowly turns into a vision of violence, gang rule and governmental collapse. A desperate search for his missing granddaughter plunges him into a terrifying situation QUATERMASS is coming when he comes to realise that the mass to Talking Pictures TV! disappearance of thousands of youths is nothing Don’t miss the thrilling series, less than the culling of the human species by an airing on Talking Pictures TV unknown alien intelligence... from Tuesday 19th May at 9pm, Special Features: and following Tuesdays. • Brand-new 5.1 mix for episodic version Chapter 1: Ringstone Round • Brand-new HD restoration of The Quatermass Appearing as a guest on a Conclusion in its original theatrical aspect ratio television programme covering a United States and Russian • Music-only tracks for all four episodes space mission, Professor • Episode recaps Quatermass is horrified when • Textless titles both spacecraft are destroyed • Image Gallery by an unknown force. • Booklet by archive TV historian Andrew Pixley

OUR PRICE £15 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE Call Us Now On Freephone 14 0808 178 8212 From the British Film Institute That Sinking Feeling £15 A film by Bill Forsyth Dual Format Edition DVD and Blu-Ray Year: 1979 | Optional Subtitles Colour | Running Time: approx. 93 minutes The hilarious directorial debut of acclaimed director Bill Forsyth, whose work also includes: Gregory’s Girl and Local Hero. Cast: Robert Buchanan, Eddie Burt, Drew Burns, Danny Benson, John Gordon Sinclair. Unemployed teenager Ronnie, (played by Robert Buchanan), and his hapless pals spend their time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafés of Glasgow, but their world is about to change when Ronnie hatches a plan to make them all rich by stealing a job-lot of stainless steel sinks. Hilarious and inventive, Forsyth’s zero budget debut provides an authentic depiction of 1970s Glasgow youth culture, and is presented here for the first time in a new HD transfer complete with the original Glaswegian dialogue track. Extras • Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition. • New audio commentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode. • KH-4 (John Schorstein, 1969, 13 min): starring Bill Forsyth. • Mirror (John Schorstein, 1970, 33 min): starring Bill Forsyth. • Glasgow 1980 (Oscar Marzaroli, 1971, 30 min): travel documentary. • Bill Forsyth BAFTA Film (Bill Forsyth, 2009, 7 min). • Kermode Uncut (2012, 9 min): an analysis of the budget for That Sinking Feeling. • A Conversation with Robert Buchanan (2014, 14 min). • Optional alternative dubbed dialogue track. • Fully illustrated booklet with new essays and full credits.

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17 BOOK OFFERS – RECOMMENDED NEW RELEASE Jacqueline Hill A Future in Five Minutes A Biography by Louise Bremner Born in Birmingham in 1929, Jacqueline Hill lost her parents in early childhood and spent her adolescence working in a factory. In the post-war years, a scholarship to RADA helped her escape to a new life in London – and she never looked back. Although best known for her performance as Barbara Wright, one of the very first companions, her career on the small screen began a decade earlier, in the days following the landmark Coronation TV broadcast of 1953. Her appearance on a BBC talent show that summer brought her overnight success, although it soon became clear just how easily that might slip away. During the next ten years, Jacqueline established herself as a leading actress of skill and sensitivity alongside the likes of Sam Wanamaker, Sean Connery and Maggie Smith. She played roles in The Blue Parrot (1953) and The Comedy HARDBACK BOOK Man (1964) and by the time she led viewers into the TARDIS for the first time, she was a seasoned professional, familiar with every aspect of a rapidly changing industry. Jacqueline’s story, told here with the help of new research and interviews, is one of the resilience and determination in both her private life and her career. It offers a snapshot of television history, and shows for the first time how her early experiences prepared her to take on the role she played so memorably in Doctor Who. Our Price £16.99 plus £2 Postage Call Us Now On Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555 18 UK Cinema and The War Years: Part 2 War Returns When World War II was declared on Sunday 3rd September 1939, all cinemas were closed as a safety precaution. It was a worrying time as the nation was still readjusting to some kind of normality after the First World War, which had ended in November 1918. However for the cinema, it was to be an important time. The advent of television for the British masses was nowhere in sight, music halls were on the decline but variety theatre still had audiences. The cinema became once more a place for escapism and keeping up the spirits of the nation. Cinemas were reopened within a week of the closure with the blessing of the government, who realised that cinema was the ideal outlet for propaganda via its newly-created Ministry of Information (MOI). In 1940, the MOI took over the GPO Film Unit, responsible for many creative 1930s documentaries, turning it into the state’s official film propaganda arm. Renamed the Crown Film Unit, it retained many GPO filmmakers, including Harry Watt, Pat Jackson and Humphrey Jennings. Their shorts and documentaries soon appeared on cinema screens. were challenging, particularly as the war progressed. Films were regularly interrupted, with the manager walking on stage to notify the audience of air raid warnings and give direction to the nearest shelters. Most, however, felt safe inside the picture houses – apart from a direct hit they were regarded as “safe as a shelter”. Many would seat grouped under the balcony area for “maximum benefit” if it were to be hit. Basement cinemas were particularly popular – The Ritz Cinema, located in London‘s Leicester Square, always did good business. In some cinemas, the “air raid” interruption was replaced with a slide placed on- screen over the film for a few seconds, so the films didn’t have to be stopped. In areas where bombing had been particularly ferocious, attendance was affected, but gener- ally, from early 1941, the picture houses, palaces and flea pits enjoyed good business. The film themes changed to morale boosting features, war themed stories and heroic tales, lapped up by audiences boosted by visiting servicemen who were stationed nearby. The MOI backed fiction features too, with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 49th Parallel (1941), (1943) and (1943), a depiction of an ordinary British family during wartime. Propaganda messages were delivered by major stars of the day, including, Eating Out with Tommy Trinder (1941). The biggest name was perhaps Leslie Howard, who returned from Hollywood to Britain to make propaganda shorts including From The Four Corners (1941) and fiction features like The First of the Few (1942) and The Gentle Sex (1943), losing his life before the war was over. David Lean came to prominence with films such as In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944) and the charming Blithe Spirit (1945). Launder and Gilliat also contributed with films such as (1944) and The Rake’s Progress (1945), while at , Will Hay starred in The Goose Steps Out (1942) and added to the war effort, with audience friendly stories such as, The Foreman Went to France, Went The Day Well? and The Next of Kin all made in 1942. Audiences flocked to see George Formby, Alastair Sim, , Arthur Lucan as Old Mother Riley, Michael Wilding, Flora Robson, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray and many more. After the war ended cinema continued to thrive and an all-time peak of 1,635 million admissions was reached in 1946. New challenges such as building restrictions meant that new cinemas could not be built in areas of expanding population nor war- damaged ones repaired. Some smaller cinemas fell into disrepair, while the bigger chains spent what they could to keep their cinemas functional and cosmetically pleasing. A tax dispute resulted in Hollywood withholding new films for nine months in 1947-48, encouraging the hasty production of low-budget British pictures, but times were changing as the decade wore on and Britain began the recovery from war. 19 Great Songs from the War Years 3 CDs £12.99 FREE UK POSTAGE 60 tracks Disc One 1 Murray Johnson Pack up your Troubles 2 John McCormack It’s a long way to Tipperary 3 Courtland & JeffriesOh! It’s a lovely War 4 Violet Lorraine/George Robey If You Were the Only Girl in the World 5 John McCormack Roses of Picardy 6 Ella Retford Take me back to dear old Blighty 7 Nora Bayes Over There 8 Courtland & JeffriesGoodbye-Ee 9 Ted Yorke Hello, hello, Who’s your Lady Friend 10 Jack Charman Mademoiselle from Armentieres Disc Three 11 George Grossmith / Haidee De Rance 1 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra They Didn’t Believe Me Tuxedo Junction 12 Bill Murray Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers 2 The Andrew Sisters Boogie Woogie 13 Frederick Wheeler Here We are Again Bugle Boy 14 The American Quartet Oh! You Beautiful Doll 3 The White Cliffs of Dover 15 Harry Champion Boiled Beef and Carrots 4 Noël Coward London Pride 16 John McCormack Keep the Home Fires Burning 5 Nat Gonella & His New Georgians 17 Harry Fay How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em down on the Farm Hey little Hen 18 Jack Hylton Painting the Clouds with Sunshine 6 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra 19 Al Bowlly Goodnight Sweetheart Pennsylvania 6-5000 20 Jack Buchanan Everything Stops for Tea 7 Vera Lynn Yours 8 Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra When Disc Two the lights go on again (all over the world) 1 Vera Lynn We’ll Meet Again 9 George Formby Mr. Wu’s an Air Raid 2 Glenn Miller Orchestra In The Mood Warden Now 3 George Formby Our Sergeant Major 10 The Andrew Sisters Don’t sit Under the 4 Binnie Hale A Nice Cup of Tea Apple Tree 5 Al Bowlly The Very Thought of You 11 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra 6 Gracie Fields Sing As We Go American Patrol 7 Flanagan & Allen Run, Rabbit, Run 12 Bing Crosby Moonlight Becomes You 8 The Andrew Sisters Oh Johnny oh Johnny oh! 13 Kay Kyser & His Orchestra 9 Harry Roy & His Orchestra They Can’t Black out Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition the Moon 14 Irving Berlin This is the Army, Mr. Jones 10 Flanagan & Allen (We’re gonna hang) The Washing on 15 Ambrose & His Orchestra Comin’ in on a the Siegfried Line Wing and a Prayer 11 Gracie Fields Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye 16 Johnny Mercer G.I. Jive 12 Billy Cotton & His Band Kiss Me Tonight Sergeant Major 17 Anne Shelton Lili Marlene 13 Joe Loss & His Band Till the lights of London shine again 18 Vera Lynn There’s a Land of Begin Again 14 Anne Shelton A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square 19 Doris Day / Les Brown & Orchestra 15 Tommy Handley In the Quartermaster’s Stores Sentimental Journey 16 George Formby Bless ‘em all 20 Anne Shelton I’ll Be Seeing You 17 The Ink Spots Whispering Grass 18 Joe Loss & His Band There’ll always be an England To order, call us on Freephone 19 Flanagan & Allen Down forget-me-not Lane 20 20 Prima Scala & His Accordion Band Roll me over 0808 178 8212 Shedflix! Father and daughter run AS SEEN IN THE film channel from a garden studio As media nerve centres go, it is a far cry of major studios. ‘It’s a tragedy,’ says Sarah, from the usual glass-and-chrome Soho office, ‘because they are pieces of history which should stuffed with designer furniture and high-tech be preserved – and as we have proved, there’s gadgets. Despite operating from a modest an audience longing to see them again. At first, shed in a Home Counties village, Talking Pic- he sold them to mainstream channels for their tures TV has become an unlikely success sto- old black-and-white matinee slots, but the big ries in broadcasting, even counting the Queen broadcasters stopped showing them. It was among its fans. Run by a 72-year-old film buff as if streaming, TV-on-demand and box-sets and his daughter, the channel’s blend of clas- would render the oldies obsolete. We disagreed sic movies and vintage TV serials has proved a as we knew there was an audience who would winning formula, and according to the latest otherwise be ignored. We were also terrified ratings now reaches 3.5 million viewers a week. that thousands of brilliant old films would be Vic Reeves and adore its 1960s obliterated from memory, the stars and their crime capers, while actors Kenneth Branagh scripts forgotten.’ and Brian Blessed agree on a classic film they The father-and-daughter team pitched the can both watch and discuss afterwards. idea of a dedicated old movie channel to ter- The operation is all run from Noel Cronin’s restrial broadcasters, banks and satellite TV back garden in the Hertfordshire village of companies – but always in vain. In 2015, they Chipperfield, where he uses a pad and pen to launched Talking Pictures TV themselves, as a put together a schedule from his library. Her free-to-view channel, in the hope it would be fi- Majesty is just the pinnacle of the station’s nanced with advertising. ‘Everyone said, ‘You’re celebrity fan base. ‘What I like are films which mad, no one wants to watch black and white don’t rely on a car chase, big booming special any more, but they were wrong,’ remembers effects or a scantily-clad lady. I also like them Sarah – as the latest viewing figures prove, to have a proper ending, not a cliffhanger. Our with the channel growing from being the secret loyal audience, which we can see growing as pleasure of a few to a mainstream hit. viewers come for a bit of comfort and nostalgia, Brian Blessed loves the channel so much that seems to feel the same way,’ says Noel, he sent them a fan email saying he’s watched His daughter, Sarah Cronin-Stanley, says her ‘lost favourites and little-known gems’, father – who began his career as a post boy adding: ‘We’ve all heard the cliché they don’t with the Rank Organisation – has always been make them like they used to… but we neglect passionate about preserving film history and the arts at our peril.’ spent years building up his eclectic library. ‘He was very clever in the 1960s and 1970s, buying the rights to features no one else was particularly interested in,’ she says. When the Queen was too ill to attend church at Christmas 2016, she watched Laurel and Hardy on Talking Pictures. Celebrity fans include Sir Ian McKellen and theatrical impresario Bill Kenwright who, like Blessed and Branagh, enjoy watching the same films. The programme viewers most ask to see is police show Z-Cars, which starred Brian Blessed alongside Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor – but Noel and Sarah have never been able to persuade the BBC to part with it, nor with Dixon Of Dock Green, which viewers are also keen to see. They also struggle to locate films that have disappeared into the vaults By SARAH OLIVER FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 21 A SPECIAL OFFER from The BFI and+ RENOWN! BOTH DVDS ONLY £15 FOR BOTH plus FREE UK postage & packing Tinker AND The Miners’ Hymns Directed by Herbert Marshall A film by Bill Morrison Run Time: 73 mins approx Run Time: 50 mins approx Black and White Colour and Black/white | Silent with music Tinker This 1949 drama documentary tells The Miners’ Hymns This elegy, in film and the story of Derek Smith (Tinker), a gypsy boy music, of the coal mining history of North East who runs away to join a community of young England is the product of an exceptional boys training to become mine workers. creative collaboration between renowned He makes friends and begins learning the ways filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) and of the world. However, when a theft occurs, acclaimed musician and composer Johann all fingers point to the gypsy boy and his Johannson. Collaged in 2010 from archive film new-found happiness is threatened. The story footage and drawing on the region’s brass of his perseverance makes an interesting and music culture, The Miners’ Hymns celebrates moving social documentary. the labour, endurance, vibrant sense of Tinker was filmed on location in Easington, a community and rich culture that characterised coastal colliery villages on the East Durham the lives of those who worked underground. coast, with mostly non-professional actors. Includes: Concert Documentation - Excerpts Scenes showing the boys going down the mine (2010, 12 minutes): highlights from the live are both claustrophobic and realistic. première performances in Durham Cathedral. With his wife, Alfredda Brilliant and author Interview with Bill Morrison and Jhann Louis Golding, Marshall also wrote the story Jhannson (2010, 8 minutes). Original trailer. for Proud Valley (1940), starring Paul Robeson. Illustrated booklet with essays and notes. Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround option (448 kbps).

To order, call on Freephone Or 01923 290555 22 0808 178 8212 Farewell To Honor Blackman Born: 22d August 1925 – Died: 6th April 2020 Honor Blackman was born in Plaistow on 22 August 1925, one of four children. Her father, Frederick Blackman, was a civil service statistician. She attended North Ealing Primary School and Ealing County Grammar School for Girls. At age 15, her parents permitted her to take acting lessons and she started training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940. While attending the school, she worked as a clerical assistant for the Home Office and during World War II, she was a dispatch driver. Blackman’s film debut was a non-speaking role inFame is the Spur (1947), after which she was signed with the Rank Organisation. Other films of note include:Quartet (1948), A Boy, A Girl and a Bike (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), The Delavine Affair (1955), Breakaway (1956), You Pay Your Money (1957), A Night to Remember (1958), The Square Peg (1958), Serena (1962), Jason & The Argonauts (1963), Life at the Top (1965) and the Western filmsShalako (1968) with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot and Something Big (1971) with Dean Martin. Her fame rocketed in England when she took the role in TV series The Avengers, opposite Patrick Macnee. Her role in this series was so iconic that she was given a special BAFTA award for it in 2000, which she shared with the other Avenger’s women, Linda Thorson, and Joanna Lumley. However, the role many remember her for is Pussy Galore in the film,Goldfinger (1964). Blackman practised judo at the famous Budokwai Dojo which helped her prepare for the roles of both Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. At 38, she was one of the oldest actresses to play a Bond girl! Her theatrical career was as spectacular as her television and film work. In 1968 she appeared opposite John Neville and Hylda Baker in the musical play, Mr & Mrs, based on the plays of Noël Coward. In the late 1970s she toured Australia and New Zealand with Michael Craig and Colleen Clifford in the comedy Move Over, Mrs Markham. In February 1979, she starred in Stephen Barry’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day at the Perth Playhouse. In 1981, she was cast in the London revival of opposite . The production opened to rave reviews and the largest advance sale in British theatre history. In 1987 she starred as the Mother Superior in the West End production of Nunsense and returned to the theatre in 2005, with a production of My Fair Lady, playing Mrs. Higgins. She developed one-woman shows, Word of Honor and Wayward Ladies and played Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. Honor was featured twice in This is Your Life, and made many appearances on TV including Dr Who, Midsummer Murders, , The Verdict, , Columbo, The Four Just Men and The Saint, The Upper Hand and You, Me and Them (2015). She returned to film in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown (2001). She was married twice, to Bill Sankey from 1948–56 and later to British actor Maurice Kaufmann (1961–75). They appeared together in the horror film Fright (1971) and on stage. They gave a home to two adopted children, Lottie and Barnaby. Honor Blackman refused a CBE in 2002 and in 2015 she stated in the that she objected to being labelled a Bond Girl. Yet despite her strong opinions – she was also very political – the glamorous Ms Blackman, even in her 90s, was still adored by legions of fans and her passing will create further interest in the life and career of this legendary lady. 23 What’s on Talking Pictures TV over the coming weeks? Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Monday 18th May 3:40pm Thursday 21st May 12pm Burma Victory (1945) Viva Max (1969) Director: Roy Boulting. World War II Comedy. Director: Jerry Paris. feature-length documentary on the Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Allied victory in Burma. An account Jonathan Winters. A Mexican of military events, including the drive General leads his troops over the on Mandalay and the offensive of the border to recapture the Alamo. Americans and Chinese. Thursday 21st May 6:55pm Tuesday 19th May 12pm Spring and Port Wine (1970) The Proud Valley (1940) Comedy. Director: Peter Musical drama. Director: Hammond. Stars: James Mason, . Stars: Paul Robeson, , , , Rachel Thomas. Hannah Gordon, Rodney Bewes. A Black American wins the respect of The Crompton family live and a Welsh community facing work in a changing society. unemployment and mining accidents, Friday 22nd May 2:30pm with them, becoming a hero. Lucy Gallant (1955) Tuesday 19th May 3:25pm and Drama. Director: Robert Parrish. Saturday 23rd May 1:50pm Starring: , Charlton Lady from Lisbon (1943) Heston, Claire Trevor. Jilted Lucy Comedy. Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. opens a gown shop in an oil town. Stars: Jane Carr, Francis L. Sullivan, Rancher Casey Cole disdains Martita Hunt and Charles Victor. “working women”, but loves Lucy. An art lover agrees to spy for the Friday 22nd May 5:30pm Germans in return for Leonardo da The Small Voice (1948) Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’. Drama. Director: Fergus Mc- Wednesday 20th May 9am donell, starring James Donald, Rotten to the Core (1965) Valerie Hobson, David Greene, Comedy. Director: John Boulting. . A couple find a Stars: Anton Rodgers, and crashed car and take the Charlotte Rampling. After 18 months occupants home with them. in jail, the gang are released and are Saturday 23rd May 10:30am eager for their share of the stash. Model for Murder (1959) Wednesday 20th May 12:50pm Crime, directed by: Terry Bishop. City Under the Sea (1965) Stars: Keith Andes, Hazel Court, Science Fiction. Director: Michael Gough, Julia Arnall. A Jacques Tourneur. Stars: Vincent Price, Mayfair dress designer arranges Tab Hunter, Susan Hart, for the theft of jewellery on loan . An under sea city is to his salon. discovered off the Cornish coast. Saturday 23rd May 3:25pm Wednesday 20th May 10:05pm and Tuesday 26th May 5:30pm The Molly Maguires (1970) Hurricane Smith (1952) Drama. Director: Martin Ritt. Adventure. Director: Jerry Hopper. Stars: Sean Connery, , Stars: Yvonne de Carlo, Samantha Eggar. John Ireland, James Craig, Embittered Irish miners retaliate Forrest Tucker. An oil-field worker against cruel mine owners’. looks for his sister in Australia. NEW SERIES: QUATERMASS (1979) Stars: Sir John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman. Directed by: Piers Haggard Professor Quatermass, now retired, arrives in London in search of his missing granddaughter. Law and order has broken down and gangs terrorise the streets. The fall of civilization has spread across the world. Appearing as a guest on a television programme covering a United States and Russian space mission, he is horrified when both spacecraft are destroyed by an unknown force. Airs: Tuesday evenings at 9pm from 19th May. 24 What’s on Talking Pictures TV over the coming weeks? Watch Talking Pictures on: FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Saturday 23rd May 7pm and Wednesday 27th May 7:45pm Monday 25th May 12:10pm Never Back Losers (1962) (1944) Crime. Director: Robert Tronson. Comedy. Director: . Stars: Kiri Le Clown, Jack Hedley, Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Jeanne de Casalis, Jacqueline Ellis, Patrick Magee. Petula Clark. An-over-the-hill WWI An insurance investigator general finds a new meaning in life researching death of a jockey when six slum children are evacuated uncovers illegal gambling. to his home. (AKA The Gay Intruders) Friday 29th May 10pm Saturday 23rd May 8:50pm and The Hand of Night (1968) Thursday 28th May 9:30pm Fantasy horror. Director: Frederic Passport to Shame (1958) Goode. Stars: William Sylvester, Thriller. Director: . Diane Clare, William Dexter. In Stars: Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, , Paul Carver meets the Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors. mysterious Marisa. Next day a A young French girl on the run falls vampire tomb is discovered. prey to a violent, scheming pimp. Saturday 30th May 9:30pm Sunday 24th May 3:40pm and I Walk Alone (1948) Monday 25th May 2pm Drama. Director: Byron Haski. The Five Pennies (1959) Stars: Kirk Douglas, Semi-biographical drama. Burt Lancaster. A mobster is Director: Melville Shavelson. Stars: released from prison to find his Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis partner running a night club. Armstrong. The story of cornet player Sunday 31st May 6:30pm and bandleader Loring Red Nichols. and Friday 5th June 5:30pm Sunday 24th May 6:40pm and Forever Female (1954) Wed 27th May 3:10pm Comedy. Director: Irving Copacabana (1947) Rapper. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Musical comedy. Director: Alfred E. William Holden, Paul Douglas. Green. Stars: Carmen Miranda and A writer sells his play to a Broad- Groucho Marx. An agent and his client way producer who transforms it plot to fool a nightclub owner. into a vehicle for his ex-wife. Sunday 24th May 10pm Thursday 4th June 7:20pm The Enforcer (1951) The Rebel (1961) Adventure. Director: Bretaigne Comedy. Director: Robert Day. Windust. Stars: Humphrey Stars: Tony Hancock, George Bogart, , Sanders, Paul Massie. A self- Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia. taught artist throws in his office DA Martin Ferguson hunts for crime job to live among the beatniks boss Albert Mendoza. and bohemians of Paris. Monday 25th May 10pm Saturday 6th June 8:10pm The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Eight O’Clock Walk (1954) Biographical Drama. Drama. Director: Lance Comfort Director: Jack Gold. Stars: John Hurt, Stars: Richard Attenborough, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge. Cathy O’Donnell, Maurice The life of Quentin Crisp, openly gay Denham. A taxi-driver is accused in an intolerant era. of murdering an eight-year-old girl on a derelict bomb-site. So Little Time on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Gabrielle Dorziat, John Bailey, Barbara Mullen, Lucie Mannheim. Directed by Compton Bennett, and released in 1952. When war arrives in Europe for the second time in a generation, the Belgians again suffer the humiliation of enemy occupation. Madam de Malvines and her daughter Nicole are forced to share their home with military commander Colonel von Hohensee. Nicole realizes that she has fallen in love with him, and that he, too, loves her. Airs: Saturday 30th May 9:30pm and Friday 5th June 3pm. 25 Subtitled Films Available May-June FREEVIEW 81 | SKY 328 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Monday 18th May Thursday 28th May Saturday 6th June 06:00am Port of New York (1949) 00:15am Circle of Deception (1960) 02:50am Flight From Vienna (1956) 02:05pm Second Fiddle (1957) 07:50am Life In 06:00am Mark of The Phoenix (1957) 03:40pm IWM: Burma Victory (1945) (1959) 07:15am The Balloon Goes Up (1942) 05:30pm Suddenly (1954) 09:35am The Steel Key (1953) 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the 07:00pm (1939) 07:30pm Halfway House (1944) Mohicans: The Ethan Allen Story Tuesday 19th May Friday 29th May (1957) 12:00pm The Proud Valley (1940) 06:00am The Monkey’s Paw (1980) 02:55pm An Inspector Calls (1954) 01:35pm The Duke Wore Jeans (1958) 01:25am Killings At Outpost Zeta (1948) Sunday 7th June Wednesday 20th May 07:15am Lost Horizon (1973) 03:30am The Villain (1979) 02:30am The Secret Man (1958) 02:30pm The Stable Door (1966) 06:00am The Marked One (1963) 07:25am Laxdale Hall (1952) 05:30pm Blackout (1950) 08:20am The Trollenberg Terror (1958) 05:30am Kipps (1941) Saturday 30th May 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the Thursday 21st May 01:30am Nomads (1986) Mohicans: The Witch (1957) 06:00am Thunder In The City (1937) 06:35am Scarlet Street (1945) 08:30pm Tell Me Another (1976) 03:10pm Mandy (1952) 08:40am The Ghost Camera (1933) Monday 8th June 05:30pm Child’s Play (1954) 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the 02:05am I Walk the Line (1970) 06:55pm Spring and Port Wine (1970) Mohicans: Delaware Hoax (1957) 06:00am Bond of Fear (1956) Friday 22nd May 03:30pm The Rainbow Jacket (1954) 07:45am The Key Man (1957) 00:00am The Cat and the Canary (1978) Sunday 31st May 12:00am Operation Diplomat (1953) 02:00am Dakota Lil (1950) 03:00am Fire Maidens From Outer Space 03:10pm Some People (1962) 06:00am Demobbed (1944) (1956) 07:10pm Sundown (1941) 07:50am Noose (1948) 04:35am Master Spy (1964) Tuesday 9th June 09:40am Stormy Crossing (1958) 06:40am Assignment Redhead (1956) 02:20am Shoot to Kill (1947) 01:40am Penny Serenade (1941) 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the 06:00am The Southerner (1945) Saturday 23rd May Mohicans: The Coward (1957) 08:00am Calling Paul Temple (1948) 06:00am The Pirates of Blood River (1962) 06:30pm Forever Female (1954) 12:00pm The Fast Lady (1963) 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the 11:50pm Life at the Top (1965) 07:15pm Last Holiday (1950) Mohicans: Franklin Story (1957) Monday 1st June 11:45pm Penny Gold (1973) 10:40am The Boys From Brazil (1978) 02:05am Mr Kingstreet’s War (1972) Wednesday 10th June Sunday 24th May 03:55am Dentist In The Chair (1960) 01:30am Dementia 13 (1963) 04:50am Sing As You Swing (1937) 09:20am Mad About Men (1954) 06:05am Tons of Trouble (1956) 06:00am Ambush In Leopard Street (1962) 05:30pm The Grayson Case (1955) 02:00pm Behemoth The Seamonster (1959) 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the 10:00pm These Dangerous Years (1957) 03:30pm Blind Spot (1958) Mohicans: The Wild One (1957) Tuesday 2nd June 05:30pm Arabian Adventure (1979) 10:30am Ha’penny Breeze (1951) 06:00am Emergency Call (1952) Thursday 11th June 12:20pm Nurse on Wheels (1963) 02:50pm The Bargee (1964) 00:20am Blonde Fist (1991) 03:40pm The Five Pennies (1959) 05:00pm For the Love of Ada: 06:15am The Red House (1947) 10:00pm The Enforcer (1951) Special With Ada 08:15am You Pay Your Money (1957) Monday 25th May 07:00pm Men In War (1957) 05:35pm The Black Rose (1950) 06:00am The Cariboo Trail (1950) Wednesday 3rd June 08:00pm Girl With A Pistol (1968) 07:40am BFI: The Christmas Tree (1966) 06:00am Private Information (1952) Friday 12th June 02:00pm The Five Pennies (1959) 07:20am The Other Man (1956) 02:00am The Giant Gila Monster (1959) 05:30pm  (1974) 09:15am The Land that Time Forgot (1975) 06:00am The Scamp (1957) Tuesday 26th May 01:55pm She Knows Y’Know (1962) 07:40am Impact (1963) 01:20am Salute the Toff (1952) Thursday 4th June 05:30pm (1953) 02:50pm A Gunman Has Escaped (1948) 06:00am Shadow of Fear (1963) Saturday 13th June 09:15pm Second Woman (1950) 07:10am The Frightened Man (1952) 02:15am The Traitor (1957) 03:00pm Now and Forever (1956) 08:30am Gentle Trap (1960) 06:00am Hyde Park Corner (1935) 23:50pm See No Evil (1971) 09:40am Colonel March Investigates 10:00am Hawkeye & the Last of the Wednesday 27th May (1953) Mohicans: The Medicine Man 12:00pm They Who Dare (1954) Friday 5th June (1957) 02:05pm A Gunman Has Escaped (1948) 02:40am Once A Thief (1935) 09:00pm Up the Junction (1967) 10:05pm The Looking Glass War (1970) 06:00am Night Was Our Friend (1951) 23:30pm These Dangerous Years (1957) 05:30pm Forever Female (1954) POPULARBACK REQUEST! BY Sunday Night at the LONDON PALLADIUM Volumes 1 & 2 5-Disc Box Set OUR PRICE £20.00 RRP: £40.00 with FREE UK POSTAGE Call Us Now On Freephone: 0808 178 8212 Run Time: 980 mins approx 5 DVD Box Set | Year: 1957-1974 Colour/Black & White Debuting on ITV’s opening weekend in 1955, Sunday Night at the London Palladium established itself as one of the weekly TV highlights which today’s variety shows can only aspire to. Hosted mainly by Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck, this 5 DVD box set features guests including: Norman Wisdom, Adam Faith, Sid James, Jim Dale, Paul Anka, Frankie Howerd, Rod Hull & Emu, Ted Rogers, Sacha Distel, David Nixon, Hughie Green, Bob Monkhouse, , Clodagh Rodgers, Mike & Bernie Winters, Cliff Richard & the Shadows, The Searchers, The Hollies, Arthur Haynes, Des O’Connor, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, Pete & Dud, Frankie Vaughan, Russ Conway, Bobby Darin, Cleo Laine & the Johnny Dankworth Seven, Roy Orbison – and many more. Special Features • The Norman Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth two-hander show, a previously unseen edition from 1974 and an incomplete show from 1961 • Extensive image galleries featuring pictures of performers from shows that no longer exist, plus numerous behind-the-scenes images. • Original production & promotional paperwork, and an exhaustive guide to the show (PDF). Catchphrase T-Shirt please tick size: S M L XL XXL XXXL TPTV Needs You T-Shirt please tick size: S M L XL XXL XXXL Mouse Mats - please tick your 2 chosen designs: 1 2 3 4 5