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Monday 28th December 12:10pm Wednesday 30th December 7:55am The Lady is a Square (1959) (1956) Musical. Director: . Drama. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Stars: , Frankie Vaughan, Stars: Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Janette Scott. Frances Baring, a socialite Wilfrid Hyde-White. A mother tries widow, attempts to keep her late to deal with her teenage daughter’s husband’s symphony orchestra going. descent into delinquency. Monday 28th December 6:55pm Wednesday 30th December 2:30pm (1951) & Sunday 3rd January 3:55pm Drama. Director: Herbert Wilcox. Stars: The Green Man (1956) Anna Neagle, and Comedy. Director: Robert Day. Stars: Gladys Young. Based on the Reginald Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, Berkeley stage play, this compelling George Cole and Terry-Thomas. drama offers a depiction of A watchmaker turns out to be an Florence Nightingale. assassin targetting is a politician. Monday 28th December 10pm Wednesday 30th December 6.50pm Yesterday’s Hero (1979) The Edgar Wallace Mystery Drama. Director: Neil Leifer Theatre (1959) Stars: Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers Episode 1: Urge to Kill and Adam Faith. Written by Jackie Crime. Director: Vernon Sewell. Collins. A has-been alcoholic former Stars: Patrick Barr, Howard Pays and soccer star is determined to make a Ruth Dunning. A pub owner’s comeback with the help of his daughter is found dead in the docks. ex-girlfriend. Continues every Wednesday. Tuesday 29th December 7:50am Wednesday 30th December 8pm The Way We Live (1946) Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) Combined drama and documentary Episode 1: Rumpole and the which delves into the complexities of Younger Generation rebuilding Plymouth after World War Crime. Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy II, showing frustrations along the way Thorpe-Bates. Rumpole defends a as well as vivid scenes of family life in teenager accused of violent robbery. trying circumstances. Continues Wednesdays at 8pm. Tuesday 29th December 10:30am Wednesday 30th December 9:05pm The Baby and the Battleship (1956) Money Movers (1978) Comedy. Director: Jay Lewis. Stars: Crime. Director: Bruce Beresford. John Mills, Andre Morell, Lionel Jeffries, Stars: Terence Donovan, Bryan Richard Attenborough, Barry Foster, Brown, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux. Michael Hordern, and Sam Kydd. When a company running armoured A sailor smuggles a baby aboard ship. cars is repeatedly targeted by robbers, drastic measures are taken Tuesday 29th December 3:55pm to tighten security. Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Drama. Director: Alberto Cavalcanti. New Year’s Eve Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Derek Bond, Thursday 31st December 10:30am Stanley Holloway. Robbed of his Jumping For Joy (1956) inheritance, Nicholas is forced to seek Comedy. Director: John Paddy his fortune as a travelling entertainer. Carstairs. Stars: Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson and Tuesday 29th December 9pm Lionel Jeffries. A young dog racer Quatermass (1979) Episode 1: loses his job and his honour. Huffity Puffity Ringstone Round Sci-Fi. Stars: John Mills, Thursday 31st December 6:50pm Simon MacCorkindale and Barbara Dead Of Night (1945) Kellermann. Professor Quatermass is Thriller. Director: Alberto horrified when a United States and Cavalcanti. Stars: Charles Crichton, Russian spacecraft are destroyed by Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, an unknown force. Mervyn Johns and Michael Redgrave. Continues Tuesdays at 9pm. An architect senses doom as his dreams become reality. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Mon 28th December 2020 continued SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 New Year Week

New Year’s Day Saturday 2nd January 11am They Came From Beyond Space Friday 1st January 7:15am (1967) Folly To Be Wise (1952) Sci-Fi. Director: Freddie Francis. Comedy. Stars: Alastair Sim, Stars: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Elizabeth Allan and Roland Culver. Zia Mohyeddin and Bernard Kay. Newly arrived Army Chaplin Captain Scientists investigating an unusual Paris attempts to book various acts for meteor shower are possessed by an the entertainment of a troop alien force. of soldiers. Saturday 2nd January 12:45pm Friday 1st January 11.55am They Were Not Divided (1950) In The Doghouse (1961) War. Director: Terence Young. Stars: Comedy. Director: Darcy Conyers. Edward Underdown, Ralph Clanton, Stars: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins Helen Cherry and Christopher Lee. Hattie Jacques. A newly qualified vet In a World War II training depot, with a heart of gold takes over an recruits come from all walks of life. old practice and becomes rivals with another vet. Saturday 2nd January 6pm El Cid (1961) Friday 1st January 6pm Epic. Director: Anthony Mann. The Water Babies (1978) Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Action-animation. Director: Lionel Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, Jeffries. Stars: James Mason, Herbert Lom. Spain is overrun by Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, the Moors and the country’s only Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson, hope rests in the knight, El Cid. Tommy Pender, Samantha Gates. Based on Charles Kingsley’s book The Saturday 2nd January 9:30pm Water-Babies. Framed for a crime he Hud (1963) didn’t commit, Tom runs away and Director: Martin Ritt. Stars: jumps into a river where he finds Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, himself transformed into a mystical Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde. aquatic creature. When a cow dies from hoof- and-mouth disease, Hud declares Friday 1st January 7:50pm his father mentally incompetent in Stars We Have Lost (2020) order to save the herd. A celebration and remembrance of the stars we have sadly lost during Sunday 3rd January 12:30pm the last year. The Shillingbury Blowers (1979) Drama. Director: Val Guest Stars: Friday 1st January 8pm Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen and Ten Little Indians (1965) Trevor Howard. A pop star and his Mystery. Director: George Pollock. wife upsets the status quo of the Stars: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Shillingbury village brass band. Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Dennis Price. Sunday 3rd January 7:10pm A group of 10 strangers invited to a The Anniversary (1967) mansion in the Alps hear that each Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. has been responsible for a death, and Stars: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock each will be killed. and Jack Hedley. To celebrate her wedding anniversary, the family Friday 1st January 9:50pm gathers to endure ‘Mother’. Witchfinder General (1968) Sunday 3rd January 6pm Horror. Director: Michael Reeves. Stars: Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Episode 6: A Cry For Help Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Brambell, Drama. Director: Derek Bennett. Patrick Wymark, Robert Russell. Stars: David Langton, Gordon The witch-hunting exploits of Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Raymond Matthew Hopkins, a lawyer who Huntley. Richard Bellamy discovers claimed to have been appointed as Mary the housemaid crying and a “Witch Finder Generall” during the promises to help her. English Civil War. Repeated the following Friday 5pm.