Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 26th August 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 WIDOWS on Talking Pictures TV A gritty crime series with strong female characters played by Ann Mitchell, Maureen O’Farrell, Fiona Hendley, and Eva Mottley with Debby Bishop, Maurice O’Connell and David Calder, Widows was one of the most influential dramas of the 1980s. It was a smash hit for ITV and the career breakthrough for Lynda La Plante who became one of television’s highest profile writers, later to write Prime Suspect. La Plante had played small roles in The Sweeney and Out. Frustrated with the way women were depicted for TV drama, she submitted a pilot script and was encouraged by script editor Linda Agran to complete the serial. The series features the wives of a London gang who decide to carry out the plans of their deceased husbands and execute an armed robbery. Episode 1 airs Wed 28th August at 21:00; the series continues every Wednesday at the same time. Mon 26th Aug 2019 10:25 Tues 27th Aug 19 14:40 Hand in Hand (1962) A Tale of Two Cities (1958) Drama, directed by Philip Leacock. Drama, directed by Ralph Thomas. Stars: John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, & Loretta Parry. A Roman Catholic Cecil Parker & Stephen Murray. boy and a Jewish girl become During the French Revolution, best friends despite the prejudice Lucie Manette falls in love with a around them. duplicitous Englishman. NEW SERIES Wed 28th Aug 19 18:10 Mon 26th Aug 2019 21:00 Do You Know This Voice (1964) SPECIAL BRANCH Drama, directed by Frank Nesbitt. Episode 1: Troika (1969) Stars: Dan Duryea, Isa Miranda Crime Drama Stars: Wensley Pithey, Gwen Watford & Peter Madden. Derren Nesbitt, Jennifer Wilson. John In this great murder mystery the Morrisey meets to discuss the arrest only clue to the killer’s identity is of three people who have broken his shoes! the official secrets act. Special Branch was made by Thames Television for ITV NEW SERIES and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, Wed 28th Aug 19 21:00 the action was centred on members of the Special Branch WIDOWS (1983) anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Crime drama, written by Lynda Metropolitan Police. la Plante, directed by Ian Toynton New series begins today at 9pm & continues Stars: Ann Mitchell, Maureen every Monday at the same time. O’Farrell, Fiona Hendley, Eva Mottley. Three members of a Tues 27th Aug 19 10:10 top British gang are accidentally April Love (1957) killed as they are about to raid Drama, directed by Henry Levin. a security wagon. Their widows, Stars: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Shirley Miller, Linda Perelli and Dolores Michaels and Arthur Dolly Rawlins decide to continue O’Connell. A city boy moves to their husbands’ criminal plans. Kentucky where he courts a This new series begins today neighbour and takes part in a race at 9pm and continues every day at the same time. Wednesday at the same time. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 26th August 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Thurs 29th Aug 19 17:20 Sat 31st Aug 19 15:20 A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) Five Golden Dragons (1968) Comedy, directed by Ralph Smart. Action adventure, directed by Stars John McCallum, Honor Jeremy Summers. Blackman, Diana Dors & Patrick Holt. Stars: Robert Cummings, A bike club invites new members to Margaret Lee, Christopher Lee, join who will soon be mixed up in a George Raft. An American play- world of illegal dealings. boy in Hong Kong finds himself caught in a power struggle Thurs 29th Aug 19 19:10 between a crime syndicate and The Duke Wore Jeans (1958) local mobsters. Musical comedy directed by Gerald Thomas. Stars: Tommy Steele, Sat 31st Aug 19 17:25 June Laverick, Michael Medwin The Constant Husband (1955) A Cockney lad who looks just like a Comedy, directed by local duke is sent in the duke’s place Sidney Gilliat Stars: Rex Harrison, to woo a princess from an oil-rich Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker. A man South American monarchy. wakes up on the Welsh coast with no idea who he is or how he got Thurs 29th Aug 19 22:00 there. He traces his life back to a Hard Times (1975) London home and beautiful wife, Crime drama, directed by Walter only to find he has a string of lovely wives and homes, Hill. Stars: Charles Bronson, James and a shocking pattern of past bad behaviour. Coburn & Jill Ireland. A depression era streetfighter joins a promoter of Sun 1st Sept 19 14:10 no-holds-barred street boxing bouts The Dancing Years (1950) in New Orleans. Musical drama, directed by Harold French. Stars: Dennis Price, Friday 30th Aug 19 19:15 Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton. The Card (1952) Film adaptation of Ivor Novello’s Comedy, directed by Ronald Neame. musical romance set in Vienna Starring: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, in 1910 and a popular West End Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark show during the war. and Joan Hickson. A charming, A band of army officers bid for ambitious man finds many ways a poor composer’s opera, but to rise through the ranks – a woman outbids them all... some honest, some not. Sun 1st Sept 19 16:10 NEW SERIES Oliver Twist (1948) Friday 30th Aug 19 21:00 Drama, directed by David Lean. SHADOWS OF FEAR (1970) Stars: John Howard Davies, Episode 1: Did You Lock Up? Alec Guinness, Robert Newton & Thriller series; Episode 1 directed by Kay Walsh. An orphaned boy Kim Mills. Stars: Michael Craig, joins a London household of boys Gwen Watford, Ray Smith. After his trained to steal for their master. home is burgled, a writer becomes Sun 1st Sept 19 19:00 obsessed with ensuring that it Above Us the Waves (1955) doesn’t happen again, his obsession escalating to absurd and sinister War Drama, directed by Ralph Thomas. proportions. The series focused on Stars: John Gregson, John Mills psychological horror and suspense and Donald Sinden. and featured some of the best actors Dramatisation of the British attack of the day including: on the German battleship ‘Tirpitz’ Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, in a Norwegian fjord during George Sewell, George Cole and World War II. Edward Fox. This new series begins today at 9pm, continuing every Friday at the same time..