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Thursday 31st December New Year’s Eve Friday 1st January New Year’s Day 06:00 Man Who Changed His Name (1934) Drama. 06:00 Incident in Shanghai (1938) Drama. Lyn Harding plays Shelby Clive, who has shortened his The unhappy wife of the head of The Red Cross in last name so that he won’t be mistaken for a murderer. Shanghai falls for a pilot who is wounded. 07:35 Scotland Yard: Wings of Death (1961) 07:15 Folly To Be Wise (1952) Comedy. Stars: Director: Allan Davis. Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Peter Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan & Roland Culver. Army Bowles & Simon Lack. A light aeroplane comes down in Chaplin, Captain Paris attempts to book acts for a troop Kent, killing the pilot. It was no accident... (S1, E38) of soldiers’ entertainment. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE) 08:10 in the Sky (1951) Drama. 09:00 Penny and the Pownall Case (1948) Directed by . Stars: , Jack Drama. Director: Slim Hand. Stars: Ralph Michael, Peggy Hawkins, & Glynis Johns. An aero- Evans and Christopher Lee. A glamour model helps nautical engineer predicts that a new plane will fail Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang. catastrophically. 10:00 Robin’s Nest: The Long Distance Runners 10:00 Robin’s Nest: Day Trippers Stars: Tony Britton, Stars: Richard O’Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton. Richard O’Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt. Vicky and Robin Albert has been feeding a friendly mouse in the kitchen. take the day off so they can go out for a peaceful picnic. 10:30 End of the Line (1957) 10:30 Jumping For Joy (1956) Comedy. Director John Director: Charles Saunders. Stars: Alan Baxter, Barbara Paddy Carstairs. Stars: Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway. Shelley & Jennifer Jayne. Mike robs a ‘fence’ of stolen A young dog racer loses his job and his honour. jewels. The fence is found dead and Mike is 12:10 The Passionate Stranger (1957) Director: blackmailed. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE) Muriel Box. Stars: Margaret Leighton, Carlo Giustini, 11:50 IWM: Albert’s Savings (1940) An appeal to Patricia Dainton and Ralph Richardson. A happily married the public to save for the war effort, in the form of an writer of pens a book about an affair with a chauffeur. ‘Albert’ monologue recited by Stanley Holloway 14:00 Rooms: Paul & Lynda P1 (1975) 11:55 In The Doghouse (1961) Comedy. Director: 14:30 The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947) Darcy Conyers. Stars: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Comedy. Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars: Robert Morley, Hattie Jacques. A newly qualified vet takes over an old Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Arnaud. At a court in the afterlife practice and becomes rivals with another vet. two 18th century soldiers are sentenced to haunt 13:45 An Evening With Matt Monro (1967) Director: a mansion. Kenny Clayton. Forgotten in his family’s garage for 16:20 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: nearly forty years, a film reel of Matt Monro performing The Set-Up (1962) Stars: Maurice Denham, John live, the only known film of Britain’s greatest singer. Carson & Brian Peck. A benevolent act leads to 14:50 IWM: Miss Knowall (1940) WWII anti-gossip something more sinister. film, with Martita Hunt and Kenneth Griffiths. 17:30 Rooms: Paul & Lynda P2 (1975) 15:00 The Long Arm (1956) Drama. Director: Charles 18:00 Scotland Yard: The Mysterious Bullet (1954) Frend. Stars Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison Directed by Paul Gherzo. Stars: Robert Raglan, John & Michael Brooke. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to Warwick and Christine Adrian. A ballistics expert tracks solve a series of burglaries. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE) down the killer of a widow’s fiance. (S1, E13) 17:00 Upstairs Downstairs: A Suitable Marriage 18:35 The Telephone at Work 1970s A host of (1971) Stars: Gordon Jackson, David Langton and familiar faces warn us of the excessive use of telephones. Jean Marsh. Deciding not to marry Angus, Elizabeth 18:50 Dead of Night (1945) Thriller. Stars: Charles becomes captivated by a visiting German baron . Crichton, Basil Dearden, Mervyn Johns, Michael 18:00 The Water Babies (1978) Action-animation. Redgrave. An architect senses doom as his dreams Directed by Lionel Jeffries. Stars: James Mason, Bernard become reality. Cribbins & Billie Whitelaw. Framed for a crime, Tom 20:55 Report On Litter 1950s Public Information Film jumps into a river, transforming into an aquatic creature. on the rising concern of litter. Take your litter home! 19:50 Stars We Have Lost 2020 A celebration of 21:00 Public Eye: Transatlantic Cousins (1971) some of the stars we have sadly lost during the last year. Detective Drama. Stars: Alfred Burke, Brenda Cavendish 20:00 Ten Little Indians (1965) Mystery. Director: & Una Brandon-Jones. Marker finds a case involving an George Pollock. Stars: Hugh O’Brian and Shirley Eaton. old reprobate and a young American visiting Britain. Film version of Agatha Christie’s novel. Strangers invited 22:00 Without a Clue (1988) Comedy. Director: to a party are told they will die. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE) Thom Eberhardt. Stars: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley & 21:45 Witchfinder General (1968) Horror. Director: Lysette Anthony. Could the world’s greatest detective Michael Reeves. Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy & Rupert merely be the fictional creation of Dr Watson? Davies. A lawyer claims to have been appointed as a 00:10 First Monday in October (1981) Comedy. Witchfinder General during the English Civil War. Director: Ronald Neame. Stars: Walter Matthau, Jill 23:25 Play It Cool (1962) Drama. Stars: Billy Fury, Clayburgh. The Supreme Court’s first woman Associate Dennis Price, Ray Brooks, Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro. Justice dates her political opposed colleague. Beatles-era musical, one of Michael Winner’s earliest. (SUBTITLES AVAILABLE)