Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Mon 21st December 2020 SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Christmas Week Monday 21st December 7:25am Tuesday 22nd December 4:20pm Escape By Night (1953) Man on the Run (1949) Crime. Director: John Gilling. Crime Drama. Director: Lawrence Stars: Bonar Colleano, Sid James, Huntington. Stars: Valentine Dyall, Andrew Ray, Ted Ray, Simone Silva. Derek Farr and Leslie Perrins. Having An ace reporter with a drinking deserted the army, Peter Burdon is problem tracks a gangster on the run. continually on the run. Monday 21st December 9am and Tuesday 22nd December 6:50pm Wednesday 23rd December 4:30pm The Night My Number Came Up Stars, Cars & Guitars (1955) Talking Christmas – Mystery. Director: Leslie Norman. a Talking Pictures TV Exclusive! Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Singer Tony Hadley, legendary Denholm Elliott and Alexander Knox. rock guitarist Jim Cregan and The fate of a military aircraft may broadcaster Alex Dyke bring their depend on a prophetic nightmare. Stars, Cars, Guitars show to Talking Tuesday 22nd December 9pm Pictures TV for a Christmas special. Shout at the Devil (1976) They’re joined by guests Marty and War. Director: Peter R. Hunt. Kim Wilde, Suzi Quatro and Mike Read Stars: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, for a nostalgic look back at Christmas Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, in the fifties and sixties as well as live Reinhard Kolldehoff. An American performances and festive fun. ex-military man and a British aristocrat are partners in the ivory Monday 21st December 12:15pm trade. On the eve of World War I, and Christmas Eve 6:10am they join battle against a German Scrooge (1935) Commander and his men. Family. Director: Henry Edwards. Stars: Sir Edward Seymour Hicks, Wednesday 23rd December 9:05am Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran and and 2:10pm Christmas Day Mary Glynne. Ebenezer Scrooge is Carols for Christmas with persuaded to change his ways one Sir Michael Hordern (1983) Christmas by the ghosts of Christmas Sir Michael Hordern reads biblical past, present and yet-to-come. lessons at the Royal Albert Hall, with Monday 21st December 10pm The Royal Choral Society and friends Flame in the Streets (1961) performing traditional Christmas Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. carols, including: A Saviour Born Stars: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Today, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, The First Noel, Good King Wenceslas Johnny Sekka, Wilfrid Brambell. and Silent Night. Racial tensions manifest at home, and on the streets in post-war Britain. Wednesday 23rd December Tuesday 22nd December 6am 12:00pm To Catch a Yeti (1995) Doctor In Clover (1966) Family. Director: Bob Keen. Comedy. Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: Meat Loaf, Chantellese Kent, Stars: James Robertson Justice, Rick Howland, Jim Gordon. Mercenary Leslie Phillips, Shirley Anne Field. hunter Big Jake is hired to catch the Gaston Grimsdyke enrols on a course fabled Yeti. A madcap chase starts in run by Sir Lancelot Spratt. the Himalayas and ends up in the city. Wednesday 23rd December 6:35pm Tuesday 22nd December 2:20pm The Holly and the Ivy (1952) Above Us The Waves (1955) Drama. Director: George More War Drama. Director: Ralph O’Ferrall. Stars: Ralph Richardson, Thomas. Stars: John Gregson, Celia Johnson, Denholm Elliott, John Mills and Donald Sinden. War Margaret Leighton, John Gregson, Drama about the British attack on the William Hartnell, Dandy Nichols. German battleship ‘Tirpitz’ in a A heart-warming tale of a minister Norwegian fjord during World War II. and his family reunited at Christmas time. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Mon 21st December 2020 continued SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Christmas Week Wednesday 23rd December 8:15pm Thursday 24th December For the Love of Ada (1971) Christmas Eve 8pm Christmas Special with Ada Ooh... You Are Awful! (1972) Stars: Irene Handl ,Wilfred Pickles Comedy. Director: Cliff Owen. and Barbara Mitchell. A special Stars: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Christmas edition of the gentle 70s Ronald Fraser, Cheryl Kennedy. sitcom about Ada and Walter, who To recover a stolen fortune, Charlie find love late in life. has to find a bank account number – tattooed on four girls’ bottoms! Wednesday 23rd December 10pm Who Dares Wins (1982) Thriller. Director: Ian Sharp. Friday 25th December Stars: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Christmas Day 10:30am Richard Widmark, Tony Doyle, An Inspector Calls (1954) John Duttine. An anti-nuclear Crime. Director: Guy Hamilton. group plan to kill the U.S. Stars: Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, ambassador at the Iranian embassy, Eileen Moore. The Birling family leading to a siege. are rich and complacent. It is 1912 and the impending war has yet to Thursday 24th December impact on their lives. Christmas Eve 7:45am Get Some In! Christmas Special Friday 25th December Christmas at the Camp (1975) Christmas Day 12:05pm Stars: Tony Selby, Robert Lindsay, Please Sir! (1971) David Janson. C Flight must stay Comedy. Director: Mark Stuart. behind when they’re picked for Stars: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, maintenance duty. Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Carol Hawkins. Film version of the Thursday 24th December popular TV sitcom. Teacher Christmas Eve 10:30am Bernard Hedges takes his trouble- Oliver Twist (1948) some class from Fenn Street School to a holiday camp. Drama. Director: David Lean. Stars: John Howard Davies, Friday 25th December Alec Guinness, Robert Newton and Kay Christmas Day 3:05pm Walsh. An orphaned boy in London Scrooge: A Christmas joins a household of boys trained to Carol (1951) steal for their master. Drama. Director: Brian Desmond Thursday 24th December Hurst. Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Christmas Eve 12:50pm Warner, Kathleen Harrison and Sir The Christmas Tree (1966) Michael Hordern. Christmas is not a Family. Director: Jim Clark. Stars: Brian time of celebration for the Blessed, William Burleigh, Anthony tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge. Honour and Kate Nicholls. Gary is determined to get a tree for children who will be in hospital for Christmas. Friday 25th December Christmas Day 6pm El Cid (1961) Thursday 24th December Epic. Director: Anthony Mann. Christmas Eve 4:25pm Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia An Evening with Matt Monro Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, Music Special (1967) Herbert Lom. Spain is overrun by Director: Kenny Clayton. the Moors and the country’s only For nearly forty years a film reel of hope rests in a heroic knight known Matt Monro performing live lay as El Cid. unknown in the family garage. Its discovery by his daughter Michele was momentous: the only known film of Britain’s greatest singer had at last been found. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Mon 21st December 2020 continued SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Christmas Week Friday 25th December Sunday 27th December 11:00am Christmas Day 9:30pm The Way We Live (1946) Without a Clue (1988) Drama and documentary are Comedy. Director: Thom Eberhardt. combined in this stylish and Stars: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, ambitious film in which 3,000 local Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony. people took part. The film delves A farcical take on Sherlock Holmes, into the complexities of rebuilding which proposes that the world’s a city after the Second World War, greatest detective is merely the showing frustrations along the way fictional creation of Dr Watson. as well as vivid scenes of family life in trying circumstances. The plans for rebuilding Plymouth using Friday 25th December the Watson-Abercrombie town-planning system, are told Christmas Day 11:40pm by a visiting journalist and through the experiences of a The Best of the Adventures (1981) local family made homeless by the bombing. Comedy. Director: Stanley Long. Stars: Barry Evans, Harry H. Corbett, Sunday 27th December 3:25pm Diana Dors, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser Please Sir! (1971) Willie Rushton, Christopher Biggins. Comedy. Director: Mark Stuart. Feature-length compilation of the Stars: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, ‘Adventures of’ series! Bawdy British fun at its cheekiest! Carol Hawkins. Film version of the popular TV sitcom. Teacher Bernard Saturday 26th December 9am Hedges takes his troublesome class and Sunday 27th December 9am to a holiday camp. Runaround: Sunday 27th December 7:05pm Christmas Special (1979) The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) Director: Colin Nutley. Family. Director: Lionel Jeffries. Classic children’s gameshow. Stars: Laurence Naismith, Graham Hosted by Mike Reid and featuring Crowden Dorothy Alison and Barbara Dickson, The Band of the Irish Diana Dors. Dickensian ghost story. Guards, Russell Brandon, Two young children move into a Head Chorister, Winchester haunted old mansion. Cathedral Choir and Lynn Harrison and her Siberian Huskies. Sunday 27th December 10pm Saturday 26th December 11:15am Ten Little Indians (1965) The Likely Lads (1976) Mystery. Director: George Pollock. Comedy. Director: Michael Tuchner. Stars: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Stars: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, and Brigit Forsyth. Bob, Thelma, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Dennis Price, Terry and his girlfriend Christina Daliah Lavi, Hugh O’Brian. go on a touring caravan holiday. Film version of Agatha Christie’s 1939 detective novel. When a Saturday 26th December 3:10pm group of 10 strangers is invited The Winslow Boy (1948) to a party at a mansion in the Drama. Director: Anthony Asquith. Alps, each arrives expecting Stars: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke entertainment. However, a and Basil Radford. Pre-WWI England; recorded message from their a youngster is expelled from a naval absent host informs them that academy over a theft. His parents each guest has been responsible demand a trial. for someone’s death, and each will be killed. American Hugh Lombard Saturday 26th December 8:10pm (Hugh O’Brian) and the beautiful Went The Day Well? (1942) Ann Clyde (Shirley Eaton) try to War.