Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 30th September 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 The Lovers! on Talking Pictures TV Directed by: Herbert Wise Stars: Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, Susan Littler, Rosalind Ayres and Anthony Naylor. Last glimpsed on television in the late ‘80s, The Lovers! follows the progress of the relationship between Geoffrey and Beryl, a hesitant, inexperienced young couple attempting to negotiate the minefield of the ‘permissive’ society – such as it was in Manchester in the early 1970s! Jack Rosenthal adapted his popular sitcom into a film with a warm nostalgic glow, a genuine portrayal of 1970s Britain with every detail: the cars, the clothes, the wall-paper, even the music... He captured the same wistful mood as films like Billy Liar and A Kind of Loving, albeit with a more gentle tone. Wilcox & Beckinsale both enjoyed further success, as did Rosenthal; unfortunately, Richard Beckinsale’s career was cut tragically short. Here they are perfectly paired, and together with Rosenthal’s tender scriptwriting, they make a winning combination. Airs: Sat 5th Oct 10:35pm Mon 30th Sept 19 12:00 Tues 1st Oct 19 18:30 Jassy (1947) The Courtneys of Curzon Street Drama, directed by Bernard (1947) Knowles. Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Drama, directed by Herbert Patricia Roc & Dennis Price. During Wilcox. Stars: Anna Neagle, the 17th century, Jassy is believed to Michael Wilding, Gladys Young, be a witch after receiving visions of Bernard Lee, Jack Watling, approaching disasters. Coral Browne, Thora Hird. The story of three generations Mon 30th Sept 19 14:35 of the Courtney family, from the Much Too Shy (1942) late nineteenth century, when Comedy, directed by Marcel Varnel. Edward Courtney’s marriage to his Stars: George Formby, mother’s maid horrifies Victorian Kathleen Harrison Hilda Bayley & society, to the closing days of the Jimmy Clitheroe. A handyman with Second World War. well-meaning intentions gets into trouble with a nude painting. Wed 2nd Oct 19 09:25 Saloon Bar (1940) Mon 30th Sept 19 22:00 Thriller, directed by Walter Forde. The Go Between (1971) Stars: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth, Drama, directed by Joseph Losey. Allan & Mervyn Johns. A group of Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, pub locals set out to prove that Margaret Leighton. A tale of torrid a local is not guilty of murder to and forbidden love between a prevent a hanging. couple in the English countryside. Wed 2nd Oct 19 22:00 Tues 1st Oct 19 14:40 The Cotton Club (1984) Dance Hall (1950) Drama, directed by Francis Ford Drama, directed by Charles Coppola. Stars: Richard Gere, Crichton. Stars: Diana Dors, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane & Petula Clark, Jane Hylton & Nicholas Cage. Story of the Natasha Parry. Four young female Cotton Club, a night club in 1930s factory workers escape the Harlem, renowned for its jazz monotony of their jobs at the music, famous clientele and Chiswick Palais. underworld connections. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 30th September 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Thurs 3rd Oct 19 12:00 Sat 5th Oct 19 19:25 Romantic Undertaking (1996) The Terror (1938) Romantic comedy, directed by: Crime drama, directed by Peter McCubbin. Stars: William Katt, Richard Bird. Stars: Wilfrid Valerie Buhagiar. A daughter takes Lawson, Richard Murdoch, over a funeral business after her Bernard Lee, Alistair Sim. No-one father’s death, but has to bring in a among the guests at Monk’s Hall lodger to make ends meet. Priory suspects that The Terror is Thurs 3rd Oct 19 18:25 in their midst... The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) Sat 5th Oct 19 21:00 Drama, directed by Harry Watt. Law and Disorder (1958) Stars: Aldo Ray, Heather Sears and Comedy directed by Charles Neil McCallum. Matt Kirk escapes Crichton. Stars: Michael from prison in order to prove his Redgrave, Robert Morley, innocence, but heads into trouble. Ronald Squire. Colin’s clergyman (AKA Four Desperate Men) father is actually a confidence Fri 4th Oct 19 19:10 trickster. When Colin studies law, his father retires, but soon he’s Diamond City (1949) involved in brandy smuggling... Drama, directed by David MacDonald. Stars: David Farrar, Sat 5th Oct 19 22:35 Honor Blackman & Diana Dors. The Lovers! (1973) Set in the diamond fields of South Comedy directed by Herbert Africa, a lawman is trying to maintain Wise. Starring: Richard Beckinsale, a semblance of law and order. Paula Wilcox, Joan Scott, Fri 4th Oct 19 22:00 Susan Littler, Anthony Naylor. Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall Circus of Fear (1967) in love. Like everyone else, since Crime Drama, directed by John Adam & Eve. But Adam & Eve Llewellyn Moxey. Stars: Suzy Kendall, didn’t live in Manchester in 1972... Christopher Lee, Anthony Newlands, Cecil Parker. Following an audacious Sun 6th Oct 19 12:30 theft, Inspector Elliott of Scotland The Pickwick Papers (1952) Yard visits a circus which is involved Comedy, directed by Noel in the crime, and becomes aware of Langley. Stars: James Hayter, deeply sinister forces at work. Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison & (AKA Psycho Circus) Harry Fowler. In this British classic Sat 5th Oct 19 09:55 Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends travel across England. Go to Blazes (1962) Comedy, directed by Michael Sun 6th Oct 19 16:15 Truman. Stars: Dave King, Robert The Cracksman (1963) Morley, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Comedy, directed by Maggie Smith. After another smash- Peter Graham Scott. Stars: Charlie and-grab goes wrong the crooks Drake, Nyree Dawn Porter, use a fire engine to escape. George Sanders. A naive lock- Sat 5th Oct 19 14:30 smith is persuaded by a burglar to rob a car and open a safe. The Ringer (1953) Crime drama, directed by Guy Sun 6th Oct 19 22:00 Hamilton. Stars: Herbert Lom, The Best of Everything (1959) Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Drama, directed by Jean William Hartnell. A criminal master Negulesco. Stars: Joan Crawford, of disguise nicknamed ‘The Ringer’ Louis Jourdan, Hope Lange, is out for deadly revenge against a Stephen Boyd & Suzy Parker. treacherous London lawyer who is Three women share a small under police protection. apartment in New York City..