TPTV Schedule Dec 24th - 30th 2018 DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS Mon 24 Night Before A beautiful adaptation of the famous poem, with a mixture of animation 6:00 Dec 18 Christmas and live action made in 1946. 1935. Drama. Directed by Walter Forde. Stars John Mills, Betty Balfour, Mon 24 6:15 Forever England Barry MacKay & Jimmy Hanley. During WW1, a group of British troops Dec 18 are captured by Germans after their ship sinks. 1933. Comedy. Directed by Lloyd French. Stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Mon 24 7:45 Busy Bodies Hardy. Stan & Ollie do battle with inanimate objects & their co-workers Dec 18 during a routine work day at the saw mill. 1935. Family. Ebenezer Scrooge (Seymour Hicks) is persuaded to Mon 24 8:10 Scrooge change his ways one Christmas by visitations from the ghosts of Dec 18 Christmas past, present and yet-to-come. Also stars Donald Calthrop. 1943. Drama. Directed by Gordon Wellesley. Stars Vera Lynn, Peter Mon 24 9:45 Rhythm Serenade Murray-Hill, Julien Mitchell, Jimmy Jewel & Ben Warriss. A teacher is Dec 18 persuaded to organise a nursery for a military factory. 1932. Comedy. Directed by George Marshall. Stars Stan Laurel, Oliver Mon 24 11:30 Towed In A Hole Hardy & Billy Gilbert. Stan convinces Ollie that they should become Dec 18 fishermen, but making a boat seaworthy is not an easy task. 1990. Drama. Directed by Peter McCubbin. Mickey Rooney is an old Mon 24 Home For thief who befriends a child. Good performances and a touch of 11:55 Dec 18 Christmas supernatural bring a solid sentimental journey. Starring Simon Richards. 1957. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Mon 24 13:55 High Flight Kenneth Haigh & Anthony Newley. An R.A.F C.O must deal with a Dec 18 testing cadet, but the Cadet reminds the C.O of his younger self. 1966. Family. Starring Brian Blessed, William Burleigh, Anthony Honour Mon 24 BFI: The Christmas 15:40 & Kate Nicholls. Gary determines to get a tree for children who will be in Dec 18 Tree hospital for Christmas. Directed by Jim Clark. Christmas special with Ada. Starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles & Mon 24 16:50 For the Love of Ada Barbara Mitchell. A Christmas special of the gentle 70s sitcom about Dec 18 Ada and Walter, who find love. 1974. Drama. Directed by Joseph Hardy. Stars Michael York, Sarah Mon 24 Miles, Margaret Leighton, James Mason & Anthony Quayle. Charles 17:30 Great Expectations Dec 18 Dickens' tale of an orphan given the opportunity to escape from poverty (Subtitles Available) Bad Company. 1979. Stars Anthony Andrews, Judy Geeson & Kenneth Mon 24 20:00 Danger UXB Farrington. A new commanding officer's method of discipline border on Dec 18 psychotic, the men consider mutiny (S1, E8) 1951. Animation. This delightful silhouette animation may not be the Mon 24 Post Early for 21:00 most logical argument for helping the Post Office out, but who cares Dec 18 Christmas when it's so charmingly packaged. 1952. Drama. A heart-warming tale of a minister and his family reunited Mon 24 The Holly and the 21:05 at Christmas time recounting their trials. Directed by George More Dec 18 Ivy O'Ferrall. Stars Ralph Richardson & Celia Johnson. ​(Subtitles Available) Mon 24 Night Before A beautiful adaptation of the famous poem, with a mixture of animation 22:45 Dec 18 Christmas and live action made in 1946. 1984. Crime Drama. Exit Laughing. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe Mon 24 23:00 The Gentle Touch & Paul Moriarty. A minor civil servant is found dead in rather exotic. (S5, Dec 18 E13) 1941. Drama. Starring James Craig as Jabez Stone. As a Mon 24 The Devil & Daniel 0:00 down-on-his-luck New England farmer, Stone makes a deal with the Dec 18 Webster Devil to give up his soul for seven years of prosperity and good luck. 1955. Comedy. Director: J Lee Thompson. Stars Donald Sinden, Mon 24 An Alligator Named 2:00 Jeannie Carson, James Robertson. When Peter Weston returns to Dec 18 Daisy England he finds that Daisy, a tame alligator, has been left in his care. 1963. Drama. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Terence Longdon, Mon 24 3:45 Clash By Night Jennifer Jayne & Harry Fowler. A prison bus enroute to jail is hijacked Dec 18 by a gang determined to free their leader. 1962 Drama. Directed by Robert Ellis Miller. Mr Jones (James Mon 24 Christmas Is a Whitmore), a lawyer who pursues the case of the underdog with 5:15 Dec 18 Legal Holiday determination and his own style. Barbara Bain, Don Beddoe & Hope Cameron. Mon 24 Christmas Carols 5:45 Glimpses: Join us in a Christmas Carol sing along filmed in 1947. Dec 18 in 1947 DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS 1937. Comedy. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Stars Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Tue 25 Good Morning, 6:00 Lilli Palmer, Charles Hawtrey & Peter Gawthorne. The headmaster of a Dec 18 Boys boy's school unwittingly helps an escaped convict. Join the festive cheer all over the country in this short film showing how Tue 25 Christmas In 7:35 Christmases past were celebrated in London the great British Dec 18 Britain countryside & a traditional British home. 1944. Drama. Director: Sidney Gilliat. Stars Stewart Granger, John Mills, Tue 25 7:45 Waterloo Road Alastair Sim & Joy Shelton. After Jim reports for military duty, he Dec 18 suspects that his bride has been seeing another man. 1959. Drama. Directed by Lance Comfort. Stars Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Tue 25 9:20 The Ugly Duckling Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith & Richard Wattis. Henry is an outsider Dec 18 waiting for a purpose in life until he discovers a formula. 1939. A history of the origins of Silent Night in a glimpse of a film Tue 25 11:00 Starlight Night Produced under the supervision of The Rt. Rv. Archbishop Dr. Ignatius Dec 18 Ridder on the site where the original events took place. 1960. Comedy. Director: Robert Asher. Stars Norman Wisdom, Edward Tue 25 11:15 Bulldog Breed Chapman, Terence Alexander & David Lodge. Norman Puckle joins the Dec 18 Navy under the same Admiral he refused to yield to in the harbour. Tue 25 1961. Drama. Directed by John Schlesinger. Iconic short of a day in the 13:15 BFI: Terminus Dec 18 life of a London Railway Station. 1951. Drama. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Starring Alastair Sim, Tue 25 Scrooge: A Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison & Sir Michael Hordern. Christmas is not 13:50 Dec 18 Christmas Carol a time of celebration for the tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge. ​(Subtitles Available) 1969. Drama. Directed by Jack Couffer. Stars Bill Travers, Virginia Tue 25 McKenna & Peter Jeffrey. Graham buys a frisky otter but soon realizes 15:35 Ring of Brightwater Dec 18 that a cramped London bathtub is no place for such a creature. (Subtitles Available) 1948. Drama. Directed by David Lean. Stars Alec Guinness, Robert Tue 25 Newton & Kay Walsh. Oliver Twist is an orphaned boy in London, who 17:40 Oliver Twist Dec 18 joins a household of boys trained to steal for their master. ​(Subtitles Available) Seventeen Seconds to Glory. 1979. Stars Anthony Andrews, Judy Tue 25 20:00 Danger UXB Geeson & Nick Tate. Ash learns how to dispose the new German land Dec 18 mines, thanks to the help of naval experts. (S1, E9) 1970. Horror. Director: Robert Fuest. Stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Tue 25 And Soon the 21:00 Dotrice & Sandor Eles. Two young women go cycling in the French Dec 18 Darkness countryside, but one goes missing... 1971. Drama. Director: Frank Nesbitt. Stars John Mills, Carol White & Tue 25 23:05 Dulcima Stuart Wilson. Dulcima, a girl treated as a drudge by her family, lifts Dec 18 herself from her environment by becoming a housekeeper. 1985. Drama. Directed by John Huston. Stars Jack Nicholson, William Tue 25 1:05 Prizzi's Honour Hickey, Anjelica Huston & Kathleen Turner. Life in the Prizzi family is Dec 18 good as long as you honour the wishes of the Godfather. 1971. Directed by Malcolm Leigh. Two 'Madams' Joanna Lumley as Tue 25 Games That Lovers 3:40 'Fanny Hill' and Penny Brahms as 'Lady Chatterley' have a wager as to Dec 18 Play who has the best brothel. Tue 25 Three Wise Boys - 1953. Family. When times get tough at their remote farm, three young 5:20 Dec 18 Glimpses brothers discover the real meaning of Christmas in this Christian Film. Glimpses Tue 25 Charming glimpse of Christmas in London in the 50s; the lights, famous 5:55 Christmas In Dec 18 shop windows, the fashions and all the hustle and bustle. London in 1957 DATE TIME PROGRAMME SYNOPSIS 1942. War. Director: Harold French. Stars James Mason, Michael Wed 26 6:00 Secret Mission Wilding, Carla Lehmann & Hugh Williams. British intelligence are sent to Dec 18 assess the German defence of Nazi occupied France. 1939. A history of the origins of Silent Night in a glimpse of a film Wed 26 7:50 Starlight Night Produced under the supervision of The Rt. Rv. Archbishop Dr. Ignatius Dec 18 Ridder on the site where the original events took place. 1944. Drama. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Anne Wed 26 8:05 Bell Bottom George Firth & Reginald Purdell. Rejected by the military 3 times, a hapless Dec 18 waiter gets a job on a ship but is mistaken for a real sailor ... in the World. Starring The Chuckle Brothers, David Essex, Jordan Wed 26 Grimaldi: The 10:05 Conway & Vicki Michelle.