Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 23rd November 2020 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Upstairs Downstairs on Talking Pictures TV Stars: David Langton, Rachel Gurney, Simon Williams, Nicola Pagett, Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Jean Marsh, Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Christopher Beeny, Jenny Tomasin, Meg Wynn Owen, Lesley-Anne Down, Hannah Gordon, Gareth Hunt, Karen Dotrice, Joan Benham. Coming to Talking Pictures TV, the iconic series Upstairs, Donwstairs. This hugely popular series ran from 1971-1975. Set in a townhouse in London’s Belgravia, the story followed the lives of the servants, ”downstairs” and their masters, the family, ”upstairs”, between the years 1903 and 1930, and depicted the slow decline of the British aristocracy. Great events feature prominently in each episode and gradual social changes are also noted. The show is a document of the social and technological changes that occurred during the three decades that included the Edwardian period, women’s suffrage, the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, and the Wall Street Crash. It received worldwide acclaim, winning many awards. Starts Sunday 29th November and continues EVERY SUNDAY at 6pm. Monday 23rd November 10.55am Tuesday 24th November 10pm Inn For Trouble (1960) The Rat Race (1960) Comedy. Drama. Director: Robert Mulligan. Director: C. M. Pennington-Richards. Stars: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Stars: Peggy Mount and David Kossoff. Jack Oakie and Don Rickles. Based on the hit TV series The Larkins. A saxophonist leaves Milwaukee to The Larkin family are given a pub to try and make it in New York. run but face many problems. Wednesday 25th November 12.20pm There Was a Young Lady (1953) Monday 23rd November 3:55pm Comedy. They Were Not Divided (1950) Director: Lawrence Huntington. War. Director: Terence Young. Stars: Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray Edward Underdown, Ralph Clanton, and Sydney Tafler. A diamond Helen Cherry and Christopher Lee. In merchant’s secretary is fired by her a World War II training depot, recruits new boss for being too efficient. from all walks of life learn to survive. Wednesday 25th November 7:20pm Monday 23rd November 6:30pm Checkpoint (1956) The Kidnappers (1953) Drama. Director: Ralph Thomas. Drama. Director: Philip Leacock. Stars: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Stanley Baker , James Robertson Adrienne Corri, Duncan Macrae, Justice, Maurice Denham, Michael Jean Anderson. Two Canadian orphans Medwin. An agent is sent to lure an ‘borrow’ a baby to raise as their own. Italian designer away from his firm, leading to corruption and murder. Tuesday 24th November 7:40am Wednesday 25th November 4:30pm The Stars Look Down (1939) No Hiding Place NEW EPISODE Drama. Director: Carol Reed. Dead Ringer (1961) Stars: Michael Redgrave and Crime. Director: Richard West. Margaret Lockwood. Davey Fenwick Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, leaves his mining village on a university Hamilton Dyce, Peter Vaughan. scholarship intent on returning to Newly discovered episode, previously better support the miners. lost but uncovered on 16mm film. Tuesday 24th November 6:45pm Thursday 26th November 11:05am School For Secrets (1946) Small Hotel (1957) War. Director: Peter Ustinov. Comedy. Director: David Mcdonald. Stars: Ralph Richardson and Stars: Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, Richard Attenborough. During World Billie Whitelaw, Irene Handl. War II, British scientists develop the At a small, hotel, Albert, the waiter, is first radar systems. a past master at the art of fiddling. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Mon 23rd November 2020 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Thursday 26th November 6:30pm Saturday 28th November 1:50pm Doctor in Love (1960) This England (1941) Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Drama. Director: David MacDonald. Stars: James Robertson Justice, Stars: Emlyn Williams, Michael Craig, Leslie Phillips, John Clements, Roddy McDowall Joan Sims, Liz Fraser, Virginia Maskell. Constance Cummings. A doctor falls in love with a nurse while The proud tradition of the English undergoing treatment. struggle for freedom is portrayed through one village’s history, as Thursday 26th November 8:30pm related by a country squire to an Vengeance (1984) American journalist. Crime Drama. Stars: Edward Hardwicke Saturday 28th November 3:30pm and Ron Berglas. Carmody is on the The Spider and the Fly (1949) run, having stolen money from a Crime. Director: Robert Hamer. firm of London gangsters where he Stars: Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, once worked. Nadia Gray, George Cole. Thursday 26th November 10pm An unusual love triangle develops Under Suspicion (1992) between two criminals and a Drama. Director: Simon Moore. policeman on the eve of the Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura San First World War. Giacomo, Maggie O’Neill. Saturday 28th November 6pm In 1950s England, a divorce detective Violent Playground (1958) becomes a suspect when his wife Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. and a client are murdered. Stars: Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Anne Heywood & Peter Cushing. Friday 27th November 11:50am A policeman enters a romance with Scotland Yard Investigator (1945) the sister of an infamous gang leader. Thriller. Director: George Blair. Stars: C. Aubrey Smith, Stephanie Bachelor Saturday 28th November 8:10pm and Erich von Stroheim. During WWII, The Quiller Memorandum (1966) a German art collector tries to steal the Espionage. Director: Michael Anderson. Mona Lisa from a London gallery. Stars: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger. Friday 27th November 1:10pm Spy-thriller set in 1960s West Berlin, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) where agent Quiller is sent to Drama. Director: Harold Young. investigate a neo-Nazi organisation. Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Sunday 29th November 11:20am Anthony Bushell. A mysterious Highly Dangerous (1950) Englishman travels to Paris to rescue Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. French aristocrats from the guillotine. Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring. An entomologist Friday 27th November 7pm travels to a Balkan country to The Punch and Judy Man (1963) investigate germ warfare. Comedy. Director: Jeremy Summers. Sunday 29th November 3:25pm Stars: Tony Hancock, Sylvia Syms and Doctor in Distress (1963) Ronald Fraser. A seaside Punch & Judy Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. man is driven to distraction Stars: Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson by his social climbing wife and his Justice, Samantha Eggar, Barbara local government. Murray. Dr. Simon Sparrow’s love life Saturday 28th November 12:15pm improves dramatically when the lovely A Window in London (1940) Delia Mallory is brought into casualty Thriller. Director: Herbert Mason. with a sprained ankle. Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Sunday 29th November 10pm Paul Lukas, Hartley Power, Patricia Roc. The Angry Silence (1960) On his way to work, a man looks Drama. Director: Guy Green. Stars: through the window of his train and Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli thinks he sees a young woman being Michael Craig & Bernard Lee. Tom murdered. (AKA Lady in Distress.) Curtis works at a factory but refuses to participate in an unofficial strike..