Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 17th August 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Punch and Judy Man on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Tony Hancock, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Fraser, Barbara Murray. Directed by Jeremy Summers in 1963. A seaside Punch and Judy man is driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbish local government. Hancock’s second and last starring role in a film, he co-wrote the screenplay with Philip Oakes, the gentle but bitter-sweet comedy providing some insight into Hancock himself. Several actors from his earlier television series, Hancock’s Half Hour, appear including John Le Mesurier, Hugh Lloyd, Mario Fabrizi and Hattie Jacques. Airs: Saturday 22nd August at 1:50pm. Monday 17th August 9:30am Tuesday 18th August 10:00pm A Touch of the Sun (1956) Stardust (1974) Comedy. Director: Gordon Parry. Musical Drama. Director: Stars: Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray Michael Apted. Stars: David Essex, Alfie Bass and Dennis Price. Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, In London’s swanky hotel the Royal Rosalind Ayres, Karl Howman, Connaught, if you need anything ask Ines Des Longchamps. Sequel to for Mr. Darling the ‘ Mr. Fix-it’. That’ll Be the Day, Stardust chronicles Jim MacLaine’s rise and Monday 17th August 16:10pm fall as a rock star. Lucy Gallant (1955) Wednesday 19th August 9:30am Drama. Director: Robert Parrish. You Will Remember (1941) Stars: Jane Wyman, Claire Trevor, Musical drama. Director: Charlton Heston. Jilted at the altar, Jack Raymond. Stars: Robert Morley, Lucy retreats to an oil town, where she Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Hyson. opens up a gown shop. Rancher Casey Based on the life of the English Cole disdains “working women”, composer Leslie Stuart, famous in but he is madly in love with Lucy. the British music halls. Monday 17th August 11:00pm Wednesday 19th August 4:45pm The Go Between (1971) The Prince and the Pauper (1978) Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Drama. Director: Richard Fleischer. Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Stars: Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, Margaret Leighton. A tale of torrid and Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, forbidden love between a couple in Rex Harrison. An English prince and a the English countryside. pauper discover that they have identical appearances and decide to Tuesday 18th August 1:10pm trade places. Danger Tomorrow (1960) Wednesday 19th August 10:05pm Crime. Director: Terry Bishop. The Rat Race (1960) Stars: Zena Walker, Robert Urquhart, Drama. Director: Robert Mulligan. Rupert Davies. A doctor and his wife Stars: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, move to an old house in a village, Jack Oakie, Don Rickles. but the wife begins to experience A saxophonist leaves Milwaukee to try strange visions. and make it in New York. Tuesday 18th August 2:25pm Thursday 20th August 11:10pm Small Hotel (1957) Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) Comedy. Director: David Mcdonald. Comedy. Director: Don Sharp. Stars: Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, Stars: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, John Loder, Billie Whitelaw, Irene Handl, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Janet Munro, Francis Matthews. Terry Thomas. One of the travellers Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter, on a bus to Marrakesh is carrying is a past master at the art of fiddling. $2 million to fix a vote. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 17th August 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Likely Lads on Talking Pictures TV Stars: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth, Mary Tamm. Directed by Michael Tuchner in 1976. Bob, Thelma, Terry and his girlfriend Christina go on a touring caravan holiday – with disastrous results, leading to separation, bed-hopping and an unexpected voyage! Airs Saturday 22nd August 6:00pm. Thursday 20th August 1:00pm Saturday 22nd August 7:50pm NO HIDING PLACE - The Angry Silence (1960) NEWLY DISCOVERED EPISODE. Drama. Director: Guy Green. A Pocketful of Bones (1963) Stars: Richard Attenborough, Directors: Peter Croft, Richard Sidwell Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Stars: Eric Lander, Raymond Francis, Lee, Alfred Burke, Oliver Reed. Tom Frank Henderson, Charles Morgan, Curtis works at a factory but refuses Patricia Brake, Olwen Brookes, to participate in an unofficial strike. June Watts, Julian Somers, John Scott, Graham Leaman, Jean Kent, Sunday 23rd August 11:00am Peter Hoare. A bag of bones, old human Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1951) remains, are found down a disused Drama. Director: Gordon Parry. well – are there enough clues to solve Stars: Robert Newton, John Howard the mystery? Davis, Sir Michael Horden and Max Bygraves. A faithful rendition of the Thursday 20th August 7:10pm Thomas Hughes book of life at the The Bliss of Mrs Blossom (1968) famed Rugby School for Boys. Comedy. Director: Joseph McGrath. Stars: Richard Attenborough, Sunday 23rd August 6:00pm Shirley MacLaine, James Booth. Yangste Incident: The Story of A bored housewife strikes up an affair H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) with one of her husband’s employees. War. Director: Michael Anderson. Friday 21st August 11:10pm Stars: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Viva Max (1969) Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Comedy, directed by Jerry Paris. Sam Kydd, Alfred Burke and Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Bernard Cribbins in his feature film Jonathan Winters. General Maximilian debut. The story of the British sloop Rodrigues recaptures the Alamo. HMS Amethyst caught up in the Friday 21st August 1:10pm Chinese Civil War and involved in IWM: Now It Can Be Told (1946) the 1949 Yangtze Incident. Feature reconstruction of the secret Sunday 23rd August 8:30pm wartime work of the Special Star Treatment: Cannon & Ball Operations Executive, with the main (1979) characters played by actual agents Southern Television show where Harry Ree and Jacqueline Nearne. young entertainers are given the Friday 21st August 10:00pm full production treatment to Lust for a Vampire (1971) showcase their talent. Horror. Director: Jimmy Sangster. Stars: Yutte Stensgaard, Ralph Bates, Sunday 23rd August 10:00pm Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh. Downhill Racer (1969) When Mircalla arrives at a finishing Drama. Director: Michael Ritchie. school, no-one realises she is a vampire. Stars: Robert Redford, Saturday 22nd August 12:10pm Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv. It’s All Over Town (1964) Dave, an ambitious young skier, Musical. Director: Douglas Hickox. Stars: is determined to break all Frankie Vaughan, Lance Percival and existing records. Willie Rushton. A technician and his friend try to see all the London shows. .