Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 13th January 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Sunday Night at the Palladium on Talking Pictures TV Debuting on ITV’s opening weekend in 1955, Sunday Night at the became one of the weekly TV highlights which today’s variety shows can only aspire to. The British public had never seen anything so spectacular on their TV sets as an extravaganza of music, dance and comedy was brought into their living rooms. From Sunday January 19th 2020 those days return as we bring the show back to your screens. Originally hosted by Tommy Trinder, with and Jimmy Tarbuck later taking over, the guests included: Norman Wisdom, Adam Faith, Sid James, Frankie Howerd, , Hughie Green, The Hollies, The Beatles, Mike & Bernie Winters, Cliff Richard & the Shadows, Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore, The Searchers, Des O’Connor, Michael Bentine, Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth, David Nixon, Charlie Drake, Spike Milligan and Roy Orbison. The show will air on Sundays at 9pm.

Mon 13th Jan 17:00 Wed 15th Jan 13:10 The Hypnotist (1957) Vote for Huggett (1949) Drama, directed by Montgomery Comedy, directed by: Tully. Stars: Roland Culver, Patricia . Stars: , Roc, Paul Carpenter. A hypnotist tries Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, to convince his patient to murder his Petula Clark, . Pa Huggett own wife. decide to enter the world of politics. Mon 13th Jan 18:50 Wed 15th Jan 16:55 High Tide at Noon (1957) and Thurs 16th Jan 03:45 Drama, directed by: Philip Leacock. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Stars: Betta St. John, Michael Craig, Comedy. Director: Robert Hamer. William Sylvester. Returning to Stars: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price & Nova Scotia, Joanne MacKenzie Valerie Hobson. A poor relative of a marries, but her gambler husband wealthy Duke plots to inherit a title by murdering the heirs. squanders their savings. Tues 14th Jan 09:15 Wed 15th Jan 22:05 Madness of the Heart (1949) Here Comes the Sun (1946) Drama, directed by Charles Bennett. Comedy, directed by Herbert Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Wilcox. Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Paul Dupuis, Kathleen Byron and Allen, John Baxter and Elsa Tee. Maxwell Reed. Lydia Garth’s romance A sports reporter on the run from the is plagued by recurring blurred vision. police tries to clear his name. Thurs 16th Jan 11:30 Tues 14th Jan 15:30 The Courtneys of Curzon Street So Long At The Fair (1950) (1947) Mystery, directed by: Drama, directed by Herbert Wilcox. Antony Darnborough, . Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Stars: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, Wilding, Gladys Young, Bernard Lee. . A brother disappears The story of the Courtney family. in Paris at the Great Exhibition; no one believes his sister except a young artist. Thurs 16th Jan 16:45 Tues 14th Jan 22:00 Warlords of Atlantis (1978) Nowhere to Run (1978) Adventure Fantasy, directed by: Drama. Directed by Richard Lang. Stars: Kevin Connor. Stars: Doug McClure, David Janssen, Stefanie Powers, Linda Peter Gilmore, Cyd Charisse, Daniel Evans & Allen Garfield. Harry executes Massey. A professor of archaeology a 15-year plan to accumulate enough and his son discover a mysterious wealth to start a new life. underwater realm. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 13th January 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

Thurs 16th Jan 22:00 Sat 18th Jan 21:30 (1945) Personal Services (1987) Drama, directed by Arthur Crabtree. Comedy, directed by Terry Jones. Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stars: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Hugh Sinclair, Anne Crawford & Dulcie Shirley Stelfox, Danny Schiller, Gray. The story of three sisters who Victoria Hardcastle, Tim Woodward. marry men of widely different character. A waitress sublets bedsits to Fri 17th Jan 16:40 prostitutes and is soon running a brothel that caters to middle-aged John and Julie (1955) men with kinky requirements. Loosely Comedy, directed by William based on the notorious activities of Fairchild. Stars: Colin Gibson, Lesley Cynthia Payne (aka ‘Madame Cyn’) Dudley, Noelle Middleton, Megs Jenkins, whose respectable clients could pay Sid James & Peter Sellers. Two children using luncheon vouchers. Directed by run away to London so they can visit Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. the Queen. Fri 17th Jan 18:20 Sun 19th Jan 16:00 Northwest Frontier (1959) The Kidnappers (1953) Adventure, directed by J. Lee Drama, directed by Philip Leacock. Thompson. Starring Kenneth More, Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom. In 1905 Adrienne Corri, Duncan Macrae, India, British army officer Captain Scott Jean Anderson. Two Canadian is charged with protecting a six-year-old orphans are starved for affection by Hindu prince from would-be assassins. their grandfather. They ‘borrow’ a baby Fri 17th Jan 22:00 to raise as their own, while the real Forbidden (1949) parents (and the police) scour the countryside. Drama, directed by George King. (AKA The Little Kidnappers) Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Sun 19th Jan 19:10 Hazel Court & Patricia Burke. Highly Dangerous (1950) An ex-serviceman plans to escape Thriller, directed by Roy Ward Baker. his faithless wife. Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring. An entomologist travels Sat 18th Jan 17:35 to a Balkan country to investigate Night Without Stars (1951) germ warfare, only to find herself in Drama, directed by Anthony Pélissier. the midst of a deadly spy game. Stars: David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Sun 19th Jan 21:00 Maurice Teynac. A partially blind Sunday Night at the Englishman retires to the French London Palladium Riviera where he falls for the widow of a The groundbreaking original British French Resistance fighter. variety show is brought back to TV However, he is horrified to discover screens. Featuring the Tiller Girls, she is involved with smugglers... cabaret, comedy and showbiz stars, Sat 18th Jan 19:25 the show was compèred by The October Man (1947) Tommy Trinder, Bruce Forsyth, Crime thriller, directed by Roy Ward Jimmy Tarbuck and many more. Baker. Stars: John Mills, Edward Sun 19th Jan 22:00 Chapman, Joan Greenwood. Venetian Bird (1952) A man is suspected of murder, and due Mystery, directed by: Ralph Thomas . to a previous brain injury and intense Stars: Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John police investigation, he begins to doubt Gregson. A private detective travels to his own innocence. Venice to find an Italian veteran of the Second World War. However, both the police and a group of partisans are hot on his trail. (AKA The Assassin)