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Thursday 2nd April
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Thursday 2nd April
| 00:35 | Budgie | 24 Thousand Ball Point Pens. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. Budgie always wanted to make money. When he meets Inky Ballantine he gets involved in a financial caper. [S] |
| 01:35 | Captain Apache | 1971. Western. Stars Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker & Stuart Whitman. A Native American becomes an Army officer tasked with investigating a murder. His only clue is buried in the victim's final words. |
| 03:25 | False Colours | 1943. Western. Director: George Archainbaud. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his sidekicks (Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers) expose a scheme to replace a ranch heir with an impostor. [S] |
| 04:40 | Look At Life | 1966. An intriguing look at how British troops are policing the rivers and jungles of Borneo and a glimpse of some of the problems that have to be overcome. |
| 04:50 | Stagecoach West | The Land Beyond. Western starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer & Robert Bray. Luke & Simon foil a gunman who provokes a passenger on their stagecoach run and the vicious gunslinger tracks the stage. [S] |
| 05:50 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April. [S] |
| 06:00 | Black Saddle | 1959. Apache Trail. Western with Peter Breck. After his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer. |
| 06:30 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | 1952. Romance. Directed by Henry King & Roy Ward Baker. Stars Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward. A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari near Mount Kilimanjaro. [S] |
| 08:45 | Look at Life | 1965. This short film investigates the investigators of all the different aspects of today's world. |
| 08:55 | Cottage to Let | 1941. War. Director: Anthony Asquith. Stars Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim & John Mills. Nazi spies learn about a new device created by a British inventor and send an undercover agent to his cottage. [S] |
| 10:40 | The Dark Man | 1951. Drama. Director: Jeffrey Dell. Stars Maxwell Reed, Edward Underdown & Natasha Parry. An inspector hunts a killer who is looking for an actress who witnessed him commit murder. [S] |
| 12:20 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Queen's Knight. 1956. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Queen Guinevere is kidnapped by Sir Mordred who demands King Arthur's kingdom in exchange for the queen's life. [S] |
| 12:50 | Look At Life | ...Inspection. 1965. This short film investigates the investigators of all the different aspects of today's world. |
| 13:05 | That Woman Opposite | 1957. Drama. Director: Compton Bennett. Stars Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy & Wilfrid Hyde-White. Robberies and murder take place in a quiet town and the investigators have a lot of questions. |
| 14:50 | Look At Life | 1968. A wonderful look at the world of the Chinese who have made Britain their home, and in particular London's 'Chinatown'. |
| 15:00 | Crown Court | Hidden Scars - Part 1. 1974. Stars Maureen Lipman, Godfrey Quigley & William Mervyn. The bursar of a charitable school is accused of misusing funds though investments and using the money himself. [S] |
| 15:30 | Crown Court | Hidden Scars - Part 2. 1974. Stars Terrance Hardiman, Stephen Murray & Ann Castle. Cresswell's wife let slip that she advised the defendant to invest in Metalia on behalf of his disabled daughter. [S] |
| 16:00 | Crown Court | Hidden Scars - Part 3. 1974. Stars Liz Smith, Stefan Gryff & Morris Perry. Fowkes says charitable money could be given to his daughter. His wife said the money was from a generous friend. [S] |
| 16:30 | Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | 2021. Documentary. Director: Clelia Cohen. The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood Legend, Clint Eastwood. Dive into a 65-year career from 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly', to 'Cry Macho' in 2021. |
| 17:35 | Dixon of Dock Green | Duffy Calls the Tune. 1959. Stars Jack Warner, Polly Adams & Jennifer Wilson. Music lover, Duffy Clayton winds up in a spot of trouble by keeping the wrong company. Can Dixon help his old friend? [S] |
| 18:20 | Strange But True? | The Rendlesham Incident. 1994. Michael Aspel delves into the story of a UFO sighting at a US airbase in Suffolk, which is claimed to have been covered up by the Ministry of Defence. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Brothers | Snakes and Ladders. 1973. Stars Jennifer Wilson, Julia Goodman & Gabrielle Drake. Carter finally lays out his conditions for the merger. Meanwhile, Ann confronts Brian about his new lady friend. [S] |
| 20:00 | Mark Saber | The Hostage. 1958. Stars Donald Gray, Diana Decker & Dorothy Gordon. Mark Saber feels his duty to act after an unknown woman phones him and threatens to commit suicide. [S] |
| 20:30 | The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club | ...Social Club. Episode 30. 1975. Lyn Paul sings 'Behind Closed Doors' and 'It Oughta Sell a Million'. Miki and Griff and Broken Hearts also perform. [S] |
| 21:10 | Suspect (1987) | 1987. Thriller. Director: Peter Yates. Stars Cher, Dennis Quaid & Liam Neeson. A homeless man is accused of murder and a public defender is tasked with mounting his legal defence. |
| 23:35 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph | 1960. Drama. Directed by Philip Leacock. Stars Burl Ives & Shelley Winters. The residents of a tenement building band together to ensure that a young man does not follow in his father's footsteps. [S] |
Friday 3rd April
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Friday 3rd April
| 01:45 | Doomwatch | The Devil's Sweets. 1970. Stars Simon Oates, Maurice Roëves & John Young. A new brand of chocolate has a sinister side-effect. Doomwatch decide to investigate the matter. [S] |
| 02:45 | Captive | 1980. Sci-Fi. Two survivors of an alien spaceship crash-land on earth and hold two people hostage. Starring Cameron Mitchell. |
| 04:35 | A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection | ... Baim Collection. York. 1972. Valentine Dyall tells us about York, an ancient city steeped in history. Whilst its outlook is to the next century, it retains the atmosphere of its heritage. [S] |
| 05:00 | Burke's Law | 1963. Who Killed Beau Sparrow? Directed by David McDearmon. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Burke sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool, a dive which kills him. |
| 06:00 | Law Of The Plainsman | 1960. Jeb's Daughter. Stars Michael Ansara, John Anderson & Suzanne Lloyd. Sam tries to help a young woman who lives in the backwoods with her father... who has decided to sell her. [S] |
| 06:30 | Look at Life | 1965. A captivating look at how members of the British army are trained to fly helicopters. |
| 06:45 | The Bigamist | 1953. Drama. Directed by Ida Lupino. Stars Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino & Edmund Gwenn. A man secretly married to two women begins to feel the pressure of his deception. [S] |
| 08:20 | Man Accused | 1959. Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars Ronald Howard, Carol Marsh & Ian Fleming. After being arrested for robbery and murder, Jenson breaks jail to find the real criminals to turn them in. [S] |
| 09:30 | Made for Each Other | 1939. Drama. Directed by John Cromwell. Stars Carole Lombard, James Stewart & Charles Coburn. After a whirlwind courtship, a young lawyer and his new wife's love is put to the test. [S] |
| 11:20 | The Big Job | 1965. Comedy. A gang of crooks are caught on a big job. 15 years later they find their loot is now buried under a police station. Stars Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery & Joan Sims. [S] |
| 13:05 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Number Six. 1962. Directed by Robert Tronson. Stars Ivan Desny, Nadja Regin & Joyce Blair. Charles Valentine discovers that he is being followed by a secret agent from Scotland Yard. [S] |
| 14:15 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Dead or Alive. 1955. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf, Archie Duncan. Little John, a serf at Rutland Court, is ordered to capture Robin Hood. Discovering the outlaw's camp, John joins the band. [S] |
| 14:45 | Doctor in Trouble | 1970. Comedy. Directed by Ralph Thomas. Stars Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe & Angela Scoular. A British doctor stows away on a cruise liner in pursuit of the woman he plans to propose to. [S] |
| 16:30 | The Cheaters | The Authentic McCoy. 1961. Stars John Ireland, Bill Nagy, Neil Hallett. When penniless Henry McCoy dies, his lawyer discovers he was once rich and plans to get the cash before his son shows up. [S] |
| 17:00 | Coaching Holiday in 1958 | 1958. Directed by Kenneth Fairbairn. A driver of a coaching tour accounts a wonderful trip across the country with a group of friendly travellers, with glimpses of Stonehenge and the Lake District. |
| 17:25 | The Late Edwina Black | 1951. Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald & Roland Culver. When a Victorian woman dies, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic.[S] |
| 19:00 | Z-Cars | Person Unknown. 1962. Stars Brian Blessed, Joseph Brady & Leslie Sands. Barlow investigates as serial child molester while PC's Smith and Weir discover a young girl who has been attacked. [S] |
| 20:00 | Public Eye | 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. Paid In Full. Stars John Baldwin, Alfred Burke & Peter Cellier. When money goes missing, the finger of suspicion is naturally pointed at the ex-convict. [S] |
| 21:00 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Caroline Munro opens tonight's show with the final episode of Supernatural: Dorabella, a haunting story of capture and escape. [S] |
| 21:05 | Supernatural | Dorabella. 1977. Stars Jeremy Clyde, David Robb & Ania Marson. A handsome young man tells the story of his escape from a female vampire in Eastern Europe. [S] |
| 22:05 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Next up at the Cellar Club, Caroline Munro introduces the classic 1960s French horror film, Les Yeux Sans Le Visage. [S] |
| 22:10 | Les Yeux Sans Le Visage | 1960. Horror. Director: Georges Franju. Stars Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli & Juliette Mayniel. A surgeon causes an accident that disfigures his daughter so he goes to extreme lengths to fix her. |
Saturday 4th April
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Saturday 4th April
| 00:00 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | That is all from the Cellar Club tonight and Caroline Munro is here to bring the night to a close. [S] |
| 00:05 | Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense | ... and Suspense. Tennis Court. 1984. Stars Peter Graves & Hannah Gordan. A couple move into a house they have inherited, but it soon becomes apparent that the old tennis court is far from normal. [S] |
| 01:35 | Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster | the Monster. 2021. Documentary. Directed by Thomas Hamilton. Features Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro. A look at the life and legacy of Boris Karloff, and the history of the genre he personified. |
| 03:40 | The Punching Preacher | An insightful documentary by Peter Williams about George Foreman, a man of great faith who was known as one of the best fighters who ever lived, who twice held the World Heavyweight title. [S] |
| 04:15 | Midnight At Madame Tussauds | 1936. Crime. A financier accepts a bet to spend a night in the Chamber of Horrors. Starring James Carew, Charles Oliver & Lucille Lisle. |
| 05:30 | Out of Town | Market Day/Minnow Trap/Lobster Boat. 1986. Jack Hargreaves goes shopping at a country market and catches small fish in the nearby stream, before heading out to sea on a lobster trawler. [S] |
| 06:00 | Final Appointment | 1954. Crime. Director Terence Fisher and starring John Bentley. Reporters investigate threats against a retired army officer and discover links to a series of murders that occurred during the war. [S] |
| 07:20 | The Black Arrow | Winner Take All. 1975. Stars Simon Cuff, Deddie Davies & John Sanderson. Peterkin deserts his master and runs right into the outlaws! Meanwhile, Sister Alice remains the outlaws' prisoner. [S] |
| 07:50 | Legend of the Hidden City | 1997. Stars Brendan Pollecutt, Fezile Mpela & Robert Finlayson. As Dean and Thabo escape a tribal attack planned by the lord, they continue on their dangerous adventure. |
| 08:25 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Witches Brew. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. A woman with mystical powers convinces King Bors she is working evil. Merlin is enlisted against these powers. [S] |
| 09:00 | Batman | The Wail of the Siren. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Yvonne Craig. The Siren is launching a two part plan to become the richest and most wicked woman in Gotham City. [S] |
| 09:30 | The Roy Rogers Show | The Brothers O'Dell. 1955. Stars Roy Rogers, Trigger and Dale Evans.The O'Dell brothers are at odds when one's outlaw gang robs Mineral City's Wells Fargo office which is managed by the other. [S] |
| 10:00 | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons | White as Snow. 1967. Stars Donald Gray, Elizabeth Morgan & Ed Bishop. When the Mysterons threaten to kill Colonel White, he tries to leave Cloudbase so the other agents aren't in jeopardy. [S] |
| 10:30 | William Tell | The Shrew. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Hedda, lured away by a message that her sister is ill, finds herself an unwilling pawn in Gessler's latest plot. [S] |
| 11:00 | The Buccaneers | Mr. Beamish and the Hangman's Noose. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond & Paul Hansard. A new governor arrives from England and arrests Beamish. A wary Tempest sets out to find answers. [S] |
| 11:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Wager. 1956. Starring: Alexander Gauge, Geoffrey Keen & George Rose. Friar Tuck and Robin bet to see who can raise more money. Robin will dress and act as a beggar. [S] |
| 12:00 | Women of the Prehistoric Planet | 1966. Sci-fi. Directed by Arthur C. Pierce. Stars Wendell Corey, John Agar & Keith Larson. When a starship becomes stranded on an unexplored planet, a mission is launched to save the survivors. [S] |
| 13:50 | Commandos Strike at Dawn | 1942. War. Directed by John Farrow. Stars Anna Lee, Paul Muni & Ray Collins. A Norwegian fisherman, enraged at the Nazi atrocities against his village, sets out to seek revenge and restore peace. [S] |
| 15:55 | Cinebox Memories | Put your dancing shoes on and take a step back in time for Eden Kane's Someone Wants to Know. |
| 16:00 | Whiplash | The Remittance Man. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Tony Wickert & Stuart Wagstaff. A family travel to meet their son who was sent to the colonies years ago, but Chris Cobb discovers something shocking. [S] |
| 16:35 | H.M.S Defiant | 1962. Drama. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde & Maurice Denham. During the French Revolutionary War, Captain Crawford is stuck in a battle of with his second in command. |
| 18:40 | Look At Life | 1962. A look at the progress of the European Common Market during a time in which member countries have started to remove trade barriers. |
| 19:00 | Maigret | The Fontenay Murders. 1963. Stars Rupert Davies, Edward Chapman & Alan Wheatley. Maigret discovers local prejudices run deep when investigating a series of murders in the town of Fontenay. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Duchess of Duke Street | A Nice Class of Premises. 1976. Stars Gemma Jones, Donald Burton & Kate Lansbury. All bets are off when HRH becomes His Majesty, King Edward VII. Louisa and Augustus must plan for what lies ahead. |
| 21:05 | That Summer! | 1979. Drama. Director: Harley Cokeliss. Stars Ray Winstone, Julie Shipley & Tony London. A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a seaside holiday with three friends. |
| 23:00 | Remember My Name | 1978. Drama. Director: Alan Rudolph. Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins & Moses Gunn. Just released from prison, a woman arrives in town to start a new life. Soon starting trouble. [S] |
Sunday 5th April
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Sunday 5th April
| 01:00 | EuroTrash | 1994. Hosted by Antoine de Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier. Latino's do drag best, especially at this beauty contest in Brazil. Watch an interview with Thalia and Lorena, Mexico's top soap stars. |
| 01:35 | La Mariee est Trop Belle | 1956. Drama. Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit. Stars Brigitte Bardot, Micheline Presle & Louis Jourdan. |
| 03:30 | The Starlost | Voyage of Discovery. 1973. Stars Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan & Robin Ward. Devon tours a huge spaceship, The Ark, to discover who built it and where it is taking them... |
| 04:35 | Green Hornet Strikes Again | Flaming Havoc. 1941. Stars Warren Hull & Keye Luke. Staff at 'The Sentinel' become suspicious that their temporary manager might be involved with a crime syndicate that is defrauding the lottery. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Black Castle. 1956. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Torwald holds Lord Trebizond to ransom in the Black Castle. Lorraine, rides to Camelot to seek help. [S] |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. Whatever Lola Wants. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. Honey is hired to escort a man to a charity ball, unaware that he is a murderer. |
| 06:00 | What a Whopper | 1960. Comedy. What a Whopper is a comedy from former documentarist Gilbert Gunn. Adam Faith stars in this tale about a struggling writer who fakes photographs of the Loch Ness monster. [S] |
| 07:45 | Look at Life | 1963. An intriguing look at the men and women of tomorrow who are needed to extend technology. |
| 07:55 | Across The Bridge | 1957. Thriller. Directed by Ken Annakin. Stars Rod Steiger, David Knight & Bernard Lee. An unscrupulous financier absconds to Mexico in an attempt to avoid capture for embezzlement. [S] |
| 10:00 | McLintock | 1963. Western. Director: Andrew V. McLaglen. Stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara & Patrick Wayne. Wealthy rancher McLintock uses his power and influence to keep the peace between conflicting groups. [S] |
| 12:40 | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Critter Doctor. 1964. Stars Irene Ryan, Mark Goddard & Russell Collins. Granny gets frustrated when she confuses a house-to-house insecticide salesman with a critter doctor. [S] |
| 13:10 | Batman | Flop Goes the Joker. 1967. Stars Adam, West Burt Ward & Alan Napier. The Joker makes his move against the Gotham City Museum for a grand extortion scheme. [S] |
| 13:40 | Alice in Wonderland | 1966. Fantasy. Directed by Jonathan Miller. Stars Anne-Marie Mallik, Peter Sellers & Wilfrid Brambell. Young girl Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world full of eccentric characters. [S] |
| 15:15 | Look At Life | 1967. A compelling look at the coastal towns which make up the group of Cinque Ports along the south coast of England. |
| 15:30 | Give Us A Clue | 1985. The classic game show Give us a Clue hosted by Michael Parkinson, this week's guests are Judith Chalmers, Frazer Hines, Ian Ogilvy, Jack Watling, Lizzie Webb & June Whitfield. [S] |
| 16:00 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Deadly Decoy Affair. 1964. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Solo and Kuryakin are told to escort a captured Thursh official to Washington. [S] |
| 17:00 | The Footage Detectives | The Footage Detectives are joined by stunt man extraordinaire Paul Weston, who has some brilliant stories on behind the scenes of Z-Cars Sergeant Cork and Gideons Way. [S] |
| 18:00 | Hannay | Double Jeopardy. 1989. Stars Robert Powell, Cathryn Harrison & Nigel Le Vaillant. When Hannay is entrusted with a dozen diamonds, he little knows the danger and distress they will bring. [S] |
| 19:00 | That's My Boy | A Holiday Romance. 1983. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. Ida meets a gentleman while on holiday with Angie and Robert. Robert takes an instant dislike to him. [S] |
| 19:30 | The Vise | Stranglehold. 1955. Stars John Bentley, Christopher Lee & Maureen Swanson. Peter Stanhope's ex-wife turns up after being presumed dead in the war. Betty and the butler plan a nasty blackmail. [S] |
| 20:00 | Sergeant Cork | The Case of the Great Pearl Robbery. 1964. Stars John Barrie, William Gaunt & Charles Morgan. Marriott investigates after a pearl necklace, worth £130,000, goes missing. [S] |
| 21:05 | Who Do You Do? | 1972. With Freddie Starr and Peter Goodwright, guest acts such as Janet Brown, Johnny More and Paul Melba play a number of roles in a series of sketches and songs! [S] |
| 21:40 | Night of the Big Heat | 1967. Sci-Fi. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing & Patrick Allen. A heatwave forces the atmosphere to boil. It falls on Godfrey Hanson to discover the reason. [S] |
| 23:30 | The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read | A TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview. |
Monday 6th April
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Monday 6th April
| 00:35 | The Case of the Frightened Lady (1983) | 1983. Drama. Director: Christopher Menaul. Stars Virginia McKenna, Warren Clarke & Elizabeth Garvie. Who murdered the young chauffeur? Detective Chief Superintendent Tanner leads the investigation.[S] |
| 02:10 | Look At Life | ... Loud. 1964. A fascinating survey of the advertising industry, with a focus on how it works and what it does. |
| 02:30 | Burke's Law | 1963. Who Killed Alex Debbs? Directed by Don Weis. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs. |
| 03:30 | The Rogues | 1965. Take Me In Paris. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen. [S] |
| 04:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Alchemist. 1955. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Rufus Cruikshank. The Merry Men & Robin Hood protect England from the evil Prince John while King Richard is fighting in the Crusades. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Buccaneers | The Hand of the Hawk. 1956. Stars Robert Shaw, Anthony Dawson & Sid James. Tempest tries to solve the murder of a crew member from another ship. A mysterious clue may just hold the answer. [S] |
| 05:30 | William Tell | The Magic Powder. 1958. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Doctor Klein, a scientist working for Gessler, invents an explosive powder for use in roadmaking. [S] |
| 06:00 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April. [S] |
| 06:10 | Pot O' Gold | 1941. Musical starring James Stewart, Paulette Goddard and Horace Heidt. Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. [S] |
| 07:55 | D.O.A. (1949) | 1949. Mystery. Directed by Rudolph Maté. Stars Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton & Luther Adler. An accountant learns that he has been poisoned, with only a few days to live, he hunts down his enemy. [S] |
| 09:35 | British Intelligence | 1940. War. Director: Terry Morse. Stars Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester & Leonard Mudie. Bennett's home is a hotbed for spies. But no one knows the identity of the German spymaster. [S] |
| 10:50 | The Jackals | 1967. Western. Directed by Robert D. Webb. Stars Vincent Price, Diana Ivarson & Robert Gunner. In South Africa, a wily old gold miner and his granddaughter are besieged by a group of bank robbers. [S] |
| 12:40 | Richard the Lionheart | The Wolf of Banbury. 1962. Stars Dermot Walsh, Frances De Wolff, John Bennett. Richard learns that Baron Giles is giving protection to fugitives from justice and that he has captured Lady Rosalie. [S] |
| 13:10 | Heavens Above! | 1963. Comedy. Directed by John & Roy Boulting. Stars Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker & Eric Sykes. Due to mistaken identity, a minister is accidently appointed to a snobbish parish. [S] |
| 15:30 | Lady in the Fog | 1952. Mystery. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell & Bernadette O'Farrell. A woman enlists the help of an American journalist to solve the mystery of her brother's death. [S] |
| 17:10 | For Those In Peril | 1944. War Drama. Director: Charles Crichton. Stars David Farrar, Ralph Michael & Robert Wyndham. A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. [S] |
| 18:30 | The Vise | Stranglehold. 1955. Stars John Bentley, Christopher Lee & Maureen Swanson. Peter Stanhope's ex-wife turns up after being presumed dead in the war. Betty and the butler plan a nasty blackmail. [S] |
| 19:00 | The Footage Detectives | The Spinners of The Spools bring a real treat for Milkmen, a fabulous reel on JOBS dairy from the 60s! Then tips from 1951, a brilliant reel on the ABC Film Review magazine. [S] |
| 20:00 | Francis Durbridge's: A Game of Murder | ... A Game of Murder. 1966. Stars Gerald Harper, June Barry & Conrad Phillips. More secrets are uncovered by Jack Kerry. Are the pieces of this mystery slowly coming together? |
| 21:05 | Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer | ... Blackmailer. 1992. Director: Peter Hammond. Stars Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke & Robert Hardy. Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer of their clients. [S] |
| 23:10 | The Blob | 1958. Sci fi. Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. Stars Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut & Earl Rowe. Teenagers Steve and Jane attempt to save their town from a gelatinous creature from another planet. [S] |
Tuesday 7th April
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Tuesday 7th April
| 00:50 | Budgie | King for A Day. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. It seems that Budgie has hit the big time when Charlie Endell clothes him in a suit and makes him chief associate. [S] |
| 01:50 | Scarlet Street | 1945. Drama. Director: Fritz Lang. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett & Dan Duryea. A banker in a dying marriage falls for a thug's girlfriend. They find a way to cash in on his infatuation. [S] |
| 03:55 | Mutiny | 1952. Starring Mark Stevens & Angela Lansbury. During the war of 1812, the U.S. arranges to borrow gold from France. A young Captain must navigate through the British blockade. [S] |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. Rockabye The Hard Way. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. A suave master thief starts dating Honey in the hopes of getting inside information. |
| 06:00 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Natchez Trace. 1956. Stars Scott Forbes, Will Wright & Brad Morrow. A group of travellers on their way to Natchez ask Jim to protect them against a bandit who preys on people headed there. [S] |
| 06:35 | Her Favourite Husband | 1950. Comedy. Directed by Mario Soldati. Stars Jean Kent, Robert Beatty & Margaret Rutherford. When a gangster learns that a bank clerk is his exact double, he takes a chance at robbing the bank. [S] |
| 08:15 | The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes | 1935. Mystery. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Stars Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding & Jane Carr. Sherlock Holmes puts his retirement on hold to investigate one last case with his sidekick Dr. Watson. [S] |
| 09:50 | Vicious Circle | 1957. Thriller. Director: Gerald Thomas. Stars John Mills, Wilfrid Hyde-White & Lionel Jeffries. Howard finds himself in a predicament after he finds an actress murdered in his flat. [S] |
| 11:30 | The Hasty Heart | 1949. Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan & Patricia Neal star in this sensitive adaptation of John Patrick's play about a soldier with little time left & the friendships he makes with those around him. [S] |
| 13:30 | William Tell | The Gauntlet of St Gerhardt. 1958. Stars Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. A religious relic, the Gauntlet of St Gerhardt, appears to inspire the Swiss to feats of valour. [S] |
| 14:00 | Au Grand Balcon | 1949. Adventure. Director: Henri Decoin. George Marchal, Suzanne Dehelly & Pierre Fresnay. Carbot, the head of a French aviation company, decides to expand his business into America. |
| 16:20 | The Good Die Young | 1954. Thriller. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Robert Morley, Joan Collins, Laurence Harvey & Stanley Baker. A group of down-and-outs are holding up a post office van but things start to go wrong. [S] |
| 18:20 | Cinebox Memories | Take a step back in time and enjoy the hit 60s tune Runaround Sue by Dion. |
| 18:25 | Whiplash | The Actress. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Jennifer Jayne & Lew Luton. An attractive actress is kidnapped by Mike Upton. Cobb tries to rescue her until they run into some angry gold miners. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Deadly Decoy Affair. 1964. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Solo and Kuryakin are told to escort a captured Thursh official to Washington. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder | 1969. The Stealer of Marble. Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard & Mona Bruce. The case of the disappearance of Billingham, Director of Telfers Trust, who has absconded with £150,000. [S] |
| 21:00 | Murders In... | Murders in Avignon - Meurtres à Avignon. 2015. Director: Stéphane Kappes. Stars Catherine Jacob & Laëtitia Milot. Police investigate a skeleton found in a secret chaimber in the Palais des Papes. [S] |
| 22:50 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Caroline Munro returns with another brilliant episode delving into the World of Hammer. Tonight, we look at Wicked Women including screen legends Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine and Martine Beswick. [S] |
| 22:55 | Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense | ... and Suspense. In Possession. 1984. Stars Carol Lynley, Christopher Cazenove, David Healy. A couple becomes trapped in a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past. [S] |
Wednesday 8th April
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Wednesday 8th April
| 00:25 | Scotland Yard | 1961. The Grand Junction Case. Directed by Peter Duffell. Starring Russell Napier and Howard Pays. A woman's dismembered body is found in a canal and her tattoo gives Duggan a lead. (S1, E36) |
| 01:00 | Budgie | The Outside Man. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. It seems as if Budgie may be going straight at long last when he goes to Charlie Endell and asks for a job reference. [S] |
| 02:00 | Home Sweet Home | 1945. Famous northern comedian Frank Randle stars in this comedy where his sweetheart's parents disapprove of him. [S] |
| 03:50 | Four Star Playhouse | 1953. Drama. Director: Robert Florey. Stars Merle Oberon, Gordon Oliver & Barbara Billingsley. A woman secretly gets a hearing aid, then learns of her husband's affair and his plan to murder her. [S] |
| 04:20 | Look At Life | 1963. Travel the world with the members of the Women's Royal Air Force, including Dame Anne Stephens, Air Commandant Jean Conan Doyle, senior radar technician Carole Nicholson, and Mary McGurk. |
| 04:30 | Target: The Corruptors | The Fix. 1961. Stars Stephen McNally, Robert Harland & Harold J. Stone. Investigative reporters Paul Marino & Jack Flood investigate various cases of industrial corruption. (S1, E13) |
| 05:30 | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Great Crawdad Hunt. 1964. Stars Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan & Donna Douglas. After the Clampetts get a food package, Mr Lucas and Mr Pendleton think they have an ulterior motive. [S] |
| 06:00 | Patterns | 1956. Drama. Directed by Fielder Cook. Stars Van Heflin, Everett Sloane & Ed Begley. Fred Staples finds his ambitions and ethics at odds after being employed by a renowned New York corporation. [S] |
| 07:40 | Make Me An Offer | 1954. Comedy. Directed by Cyril Frankel. Starring Peter Finch. The story of Charlie, who as a boy fell in love with a Portland Vase on a trip to a museum, pursues his dream as an antiques dealer. [S] |
| 09:25 | Someone at the Door | 1950. Crime. Director: Francis Searle. Stars Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh, Hugh Latimer. Ronnie and Sally discover that a secret passage in their new home is also a storeroom for a gang of thieves. [S] |
| 10:40 | Burnt Evidence | 1954. Drama starring Jane Hylton, Duncan Lamont and Donald Gray. Lamont plays the jealous husband of Hylton. When confronting her lover, he accidentally shoots the man and runs for the hills. [S] |
| 11:55 | Assignment K | 1968. Thriller. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv & Michael Redgrave. A toy manufacturer, who doubles as a British Intelligence Agent, becomes entangled with European spies. [S] |
| 13:50 | The Buccaneers | Dan Tempest's War with Spain. 1956. Stars Robert Shaw, Edwin Richfield & Brian Rawlinson. Governor Rogers has left New Providence. Meanwhile, an apparently peaceful Spanish Galleon arrives. [S] |
| 14:20 | October Moth | 1960. Drama. Director: John Kruse. Stars Lee Patterson, Lana Morris & Robert Cawdron, In an isolated Yorkshire farmhouse, a deranged young man imagines a car crash victim is his deceased mother. [S] |
| 15:30 | Dial 999 | Fashions in crime. 1958. Stars Rober Beatty, Gerald Case & Olga Dickie. A top designer claims his work is being plagiarised. Maguire believes the complaint does not warrant immediate attention. [S] |
| 16:00 | H.M.S Defiant | 1962. Drama. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde & Maurice Denham. During the French Revolutionary War, Captain Crawford is stuck in a battle of with his second in command. |
| 18:05 | BFI: Fully Fitted Freight | 1957. Factual. Director: Ralph Keene. The story of the fast freight, 4:48 pm, Bristol-Leeds, vacuum braked throughout. Conveyed in crisp black & white images by veteran cinematographer Ronald Craigen. |
| 18:30 | Those British Faces | 1993. Documentary series that acts as a tribute to the greats of British cinema. This episode focuses on a marvellous tribute to Stanley Holloway. [S] |
| 19:00 | Out of Town | Beach Casting/Bassett Hounds. 1981. On a playing field near the south coast Jack Hargreaves watches a demonstration of beach casting before visiting a pack of Basset Hounds in Somerset. [S] |
| 19:30 | Scotland Yard | 1958. Crime of Honour. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier, Ivan Craig and Jean Lodge. A Thames Estuary dredger drags a man's body from the bed of the river. (S1, E28) |
| 20:05 | Buccaneer | Somebody's Telling Lies. 1980. Stars Bryan Marshall, Clifford Rose & Pamela Salem. Burton's African deal backfires, the board rebels and a wildlife transport idea arrises. [S] |
| 21:10 | The Brave Don't Cry | 1952. Drama. Directed by Philip Leacock. Starring John Gregson, Meg Buchanan & John Rae. Based on a true story. In a small Scots mining-town, a mine cave-in seals the entire crew. [S] |
| 23:00 | Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982. Drama. Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani. Stars Margarita Lozano & Omero Antonutti. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia recounts when her Tuscan town defied their Nazi occupiers. [S] |
Thursday 9th April
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Thursday 9th April
| 01:10 | Budgie | The Man Outside. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. Charlie Endell drives Budgie to a football match in his Rolls Royce. Just after they park, someone tries to shoot Charlie. [S] |
| 02:10 | Auntie Lee's Meat Pies | 1992. Comedy. Director: Joseph F. Robertson. Stars Karen Black, Pat Mortia & Kristine Rose. A woman sends her four children out to lure in men, only for them to be killed and made into meat pies. |
| 04:15 | Four Star Playhouse | 1955. Drama. Directed by Roy Kellino. Stars David Niven, Robert Nichols & Norma Varden. Uncle Fred, reluctantly accompanied by his nephew, disrupts the lives of a family living in the suburbs. [S] |
| 04:50 | Stagecoach West | Dark Return. Western starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer & Robert Bray. Looking to escape a storm, Frankie Niles ducks into a barn and witnesses a murder. [S] |
| 05:50 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April. [S] |
| 06:00 | Black Saddle | 1959. Four From Stillwater. Stars Peter Breck. After his brothers are killed, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer. |
| 06:30 | Topper Returns | 1941. Mystery. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Stars Joan Blondell, Roland Young & Carole Landis. A young woman returns as a ghost after being murdered and seeks help from Topper to find the killer. [S] |
| 08:20 | Father's Little Dividend | 1951. Comedy. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Stars Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy & Joan Bennett. Stanley Banks is still recovering from his daughter's wedding when he learns that she is pregnant. [S] |
| 10:00 | The Professionals | 1960. Crime. Directed by Don Sharp. Stars Andrew Faulds, Stratford Johns & William Lucas. A renowned safecracker and his men attempt to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system. [S] |
| 11:15 | Emergency | 1962. Drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Dermot Walsh. When a young girl is knocked down there are only three donors of the same blood group. A frantic search to find the donors begins. [S] |
| 12:30 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Outcast. 1956. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith, Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Sir Lancelot requests his squire be trained to become a knight of the Round Table and is met with considerable opposition. [S] |
| 13:00 | Blanche Fury | 1948. Crime. Director: Marc Allegret, Stars Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger & Michael Gough. Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. [S] |
| 15:00 | Crown Court | The Flight of the Lapwing - Part 1. 1974. Stars Richard Wilson, Ian Marter & John Barron. The pilot and only survivor of a light aircraft crash is suing a relative of one of the victims for libel. [S] |
| 15:30 | Crown Court | The Flight of the Lapwing - Part 2. 1974. Stars William Gaunt, Mary MacLeod & Christopher Benjamin. The cause of the crash was carbon monoxide, but nothing was found in the tissue of the dead. [S] |
| 16:00 | Crown Court | The Flight of the Lapwing - Part 3. 1974. Stars John Barron, Mary Macleod & William Gaunt. Mrs Simon claims she knew the pilot was prone to epileptic fits. She calls him a liar and a killer. [S] |
| 16:30 | David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and no Cheating | ... and no Cheating. 2010. Jerome De Missolz. David Bailey, a cultural icon who has been at the cutting edge of contemporary art for 50 years. |
| 17:35 | Four Star Playhouse | Command. 1956. Stars Charles Boyer, John Alvin & Hugh Beaumont. The first mate on a merchant ship sees his chance to command after the elderly captain makes a mistake during a moment of danger. |
| 18:05 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April. [S] |
| 18:20 | Strange But True? | Faith Healer/Past Memories. 1995. Michael Aspel delves into stories of the supernatural with healer Lorraine Ham from the last series, and Ray Bryant with his extraordinary journey into his past. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Brothers | Labour Pains. 1973. Stars Jean Anderson, Robin Chadwick & Anna Fox. An uncomfortable evening is in store for Mary and Jennifer at a party and trouble brews between the Carter and Hammond drivers. [S] |
| 20:00 | Mark Saber | Bullets for Saber. 1958. Stars Donald Grey, Diana Decker & Colin Tapley. Mark Saber sets a trap to catch the thug Freddie Keppel after he shoots blackmail victim Tom Wright. [S] |
| 20:30 | The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club | ...Social Club. Episode 31. 1975. It's New Year's Eve! Bernard Manning and Colin Crompton are joined by a variety of acts including Frank Carson, Peter Gordeno, Mike Harding and Russ Conway. [S] |
| 21:20 | That Summer! | 1979. Drama. Director: Harley Cokeliss. Stars Ray Winstone, Julie Shipley & Tony London. A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a seaside holiday with three friends. |
| 23:15 | The Haunted Strangler | 1958. Horror. Directed by Robert Day. Stars Boris Karloff, Jean Kent & Anthony Dawson. A researcher determined to clear a notorious strangler's name becomes possessed by the long dead killer. [S] |
Friday 10th April
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Friday 10th April
| 00:55 | Doomwatch | The Red Sky. 1970. Stars John Paul, Aubrey Richards & Jennifer Daniel. Doomwatch investigates when Captain Tommy Gort dies under mysterious circumstances in front of horrified observers. [S] |
| 01:55 | The Undertaker | 2023. Thriller. Director: Michael Wright. Stars Paul McGann, Tara Fitzgerald & Murray Melvin. An undertaker makes the wrong call at a moral crossroad and has to dispose of a gangster's victims. [S] |
| 03:45 | The Gentle Trap | 1960. A locksmith on his first burglary is on the run when a rival gang wants his haul. Stars Spencer Teakle & Martin Benson. [S] |
| 04:55 | Food Flash Chester Cod Liver Oil | 1945. A short video from the Cheerful Charlie Chester Show in 1945. This describes the health benefits of cod liver oil for children. |
| 05:00 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Jason Shaw? Directed by Stanley Z Cherry. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. |
| 06:00 | Law Of The Plainsman | 1960. Trojan Horse. Stars Michael Ansara, Gene Nelson, James Westerfield & Murvyn Vye. Sam uses a two-man circus and their wagon to go capture an outlaw. [S] |
| 06:30 | BFI: Fully Fitted Freight | 1957. Factual. Director: Ralph Keene. The story of the fast freight, 4:48 pm, Bristol-Leeds, vacuum braked throughout. Conveyed in crisp black & white images by veteran cinematographer Ronald Craigen. |
| 06:55 | Inside The Room | 1935. Crime Drama. Directed by Leslie Hiscott of Mr. Pastry fame. Austin Trevor plays French sleuth, Pierre Santos, solving a series of murders. [S] |
| 08:15 | Autobiography of a Princess | 1975. Drama. Director: James Ivory. Stars James Mason & Madhur Jaffrey. Divorced and living in exile in London, an Indian princess recollects about her past life in Royal India. [S] |
| 09:30 | Passport To Treason | 1956. Crime Drama. Directed by Robert S. Baker. Stars Rod Cameron and Lois Maxwell. Clifford, an American private eye, stationed in London for the sake of a murdered friend, takes over a case. [S] |
| 11:05 | Nowhere To Go | 1958. Crime. Directors: Seth Holt, Basil Dearden. Stars George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee. Paul is released from jail, following a stretch for robbing a woman who falls for his charms. [S] |
| 13:05 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Time to Remember. 1962. Directed by Charles Jarrott. Stars Yvonne Monlaur & Ernest Clark. Jack Burgess, a small-time estate agent, learns more about a deal from a mysterious caller. [S] |
| 14:15 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Friar Tuck. 1955. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Alan Wheatley. Disguised as a monk, Robin visits Friar Tuck, a jovial, fat, holy man and together they organise the escape of Mildred. [S] |
| 14:45 | Laxdale Hall | 1952. Comedy. Car owners of a remote Scottish village refuse to pay road funds until a proper road has been built. Starring Ronald Squire, Fulton Mackay & Prunella Scales. [S] |
| 16:20 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April. [S] |
| 16:30 | The Cheaters | The Legacy. 1961. Stars John Ireland & Peter Butterworth. After suffering from three heart attacks George Connel schemes with a fellow conman to get some cash to leave behind for his relatives. [S] |
| 17:00 | Nobody Runs Forever | 1968. Action. Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars Christopher Plummer, Rod Taylor & Lilli Palmer. An Australian detective arrives in London to arrest a top diplomat for the murder of his first wife. [S] |
| 19:00 | Z-Cars | Ambush. 1962. Stars Kenneth Adams, Peter Bennett & Sydney Bromley. Dick Davies is released from jail and warned not to return to London. Inspector Barlow is determined to get him out of Seaport. [S] |
| 20:00 | Public Eye | 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. My Life's My Own. Stars Alfred Burke, Stephanie Beacham & Katharine Blake. Frank is visited by a young lady who, for the next 36 hours, greatly upsets his life. [S] |
| 21:00 | Night of the Demon | (AKA Curse of the Demon) 1957. Horror. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Stars Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins & Niall MacGinnis. A professor arrives in London and investigates a devil worshipper. [S] |
| 23:00 | 100 Years of Horror | 1998. Documentary. Directed by Ted Newson. King of Horror, Christopher Lee, takes us on a frightening journey from the earliest horror movies to modern day slashers! [S] |
Saturday 11th April
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Saturday 11th April
| 01:05 | Beat Girl | 1960. Drama. Directed by Edmond T. Greville and starring Noelle Adam, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Paul, marries a French lady but his daughter is determined to spoil the relationship. [S] |
| 02:50 | Look At Life | 1967. A wonderful trip to Denmark to look at the Danish way of life. |
| 03:00 | Naked Road | 1959. Crime Drama. Director: William Martin. Stars Jeanne Rainer, Ronald Long & Art Koulias. A young model is kidnapped and threatened into working for a gang. Will she be able to escape? |
| 04:30 | Stagecoach West | A Place of Still Waters. Western with Wayne Rogers & Robert Bray, who run a stagecoach line in the Old West where they come across a wide variety of killers, robbers and ladies in distress. [S] |
| 05:30 | Out of Town | Charcoal Burners/Pigeon Shoot. 1986. Countryman Jack Hargreaves follows the men who produce charcoal and narrates an archive film of one of the largest pigeon flocks he had ever seen. [S] |
| 06:00 | Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer | 1956. Western. Directed by Albert C. Gannaway & Ismael Rodríguez. Stars Bruce Bennett & Lon Chaney Jr. Frontiersman Daniel Boone and his family fight for survival when his settlement is attacked. [S] |
| 07:35 | Look At Life | ...on Space. 1967. A fascinating look at Britain's first spacecraft - UK3, with a glimpse at how it was created, tested and launched. |
| 07:50 | Legend of the Hidden City | 1997. Stars Brendan Pollecutt, Fezile Mpela & Robert Finlayson. Dean and Thabo complete their mission only to be thrown into another dangerous quest straight away! |
| 08:25 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Sir Crustabread. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. King Arthur gives Sir Lancelot a new name and sends him away to help a lady being forced into marriage. [S] |
| 09:00 | Batman | The Sport of Penguins. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Yvonne Craig. The Penguin teams up with Lola Lasagne to switch race horses so they can make their money by betting on the real Parasol. [S] |
| 09:30 | The Roy Rogers Show | Three Masked Men. 1955. Stars Roy Rogers, Trigger and Dale Evans. Outlaws try to kidnap the governor during Mineral City's anniversary celebration but Roy thwarts the plot. [S] |
| 10:00 | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons | The Trap. 1967. Stars Sylvia Anderson, Paul Maxwell & Francis Matthews. Captain Scarlet gets dispatched to supervise security at the International Air Conference after the Mysterons latest threat. [S] |
| 10:30 | William Tell | Manhunt. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Trapped on an island owned by Prince Erik, a man who enjoys hunting prey, Tell's careers appears to be at the end. [S] |
| 11:00 | The Buccaneers | Dead Man's Rock. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Richard Pasco & Edwin Richfield. Spaniards attack while the Sultana is beached, and Governor Beamish is kidnapped. Tempest must find a way to rescue him. [S] |
| 11:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Prisoner. 1956. Starring: Bernadette O'Farrell, Donald Pleasence & Richard Greene. A rumour spreads that Richard is dead and John acts quickly to claim the throne. [S] |
| 12:00 | 12 to the Moon | 1960. Sci-fi. Directed by David Bradley. Stars Ken Clark, Michi Kobi & Tom Conway. An international team embarks on an expedition to the moon where they encounter a dangerous alien intelligence. |
| 13:35 | The Silent Enemy | 1957. Action. Directed by William Fairchild. Stars Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams & Michael Craig. During WWII, the British must prevent the Italian Navy from attaching mines to their warships. [S] |
| 15:55 | Cinebox Memories | A nostalgic look back at British soul band Hot Chocolate as they perform the 1974 song Emma. |
| 16:00 | Whiplash | Sarong. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Anthony Wickert & Joe McCormick. Cobb escorts a group of women on their way to take up servant duties but he is concerned about the honesty of the man organizing. [S] |
| 16:35 | Our Man in Havana | 1960. Comedy. Director: Carol Reed. Stars Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara & Burl Ives. Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim agrees to work as an agent and recruit agents for the British Secret Service. |
| 18:45 | Look At Life | 1967. A magnificent glimpse into the perfume and fragrance industry, with a look at how perfumes and scents are being used more and more in everyday life. |
| 19:00 | Maigret | The Lost Life. 1963. Stars Rupert Davies, Henry Oscar & Olga Lindo. To Inspector Lognon the life lost was just another murder to be solved, but it meant more than that for Maigret. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Duchess of Duke Street | The Bargain. 1976. Stars Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove & John Cater. Heavily in debt, Louisa is on a juggernaut that lands in her in the hospital, after she collapses from exhaustion. [S] |
| 21:05 | X, Y and Zee | 1972. Drama. Director: Brian G. Hutton. Stars Elizabeth Taylor, Micheal Caine & Susannah York. The venomous wife of a wealthy architect tries, at length, to break up her husband and his mistress. |
| 23:20 | Look At Life | 1962. A focus on modern design in Britain, with a look at some of the recent exhibits at the Design Centre. |
| 23:30 | One Step Beyond | The Bride Possessed. 1959. Stars Virginia Leith, Skip Homeier & Harry Townes. Matt Conroy is startled when on their honeymoon his wife Sally suddenly is a determined woman, who denies knowing him. [S] |
Sunday 12th April
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Sunday 12th April
| 00:00 | EuroTrash | 1994. Hosted by Antoine de Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier. EuroTrash takes Japan to explore the Toto Toilet factory, where toilets are scented and heated and meet Japan's favourite weather woman. |
| 00:30 | Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon | 2025. Director: Marc Ball. Reflect on how Bruce Lee revolutionised Hollywood, an industry dominated by racial stereotypes. His legacy has redefined roles and paves a new way for Asian actors. |
| 01:35 | Brides of Blood | 1968. Horror. Directors: Gerardo de Leon & Eddie Romero. Stars John Ashley, Kent Taylor & Mario Montenegro. Tropical island natives must contend with man eating plants and animals! [S] |
| 03:30 | The Starlost | The Starlost |
| 04:35 | Green Hornet Strikes Again | The Plunge of Peril. 1941. Starring: Warren Hull. Brett returns & wants to get to the bottom of the racket. A helpful lead suggests that the crime syndicate has its fingers in more than one pie. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Magic Book. 1956. Stars William Russell, Ronald Leigh-Hunt & Cyril Smith. Sir Lancelot helps to keep safe an Abbey and the occupants from invaders. [S] |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. The Princess and The Paupers. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. A pop singer is being held captive for ransom money, but is all as it seems? |
| 06:00 | My Favourite Brunette | 1947. Comedy. Directed by Elliott Nugent. Stars Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour & Peter Lorre. A photographer on death row recounts the events that led to his conviction to a group of reporters. [S] |
| 07:45 | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | 1947. Action. Director: John Rawlins. Stars Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd & Anne Gwynne. Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas. |
| 09:00 | Kansas Pacific | 1953. Western. Director: Ray Nazarro. Stars Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane. An army engineer is sent to oversee the construction of the Kansas Pacific railroad and stop any saboteurs. [S] |
| 10:30 | Arsenal Stadium Mystery | 1939. Mystery. Director: Thorold Dickinson. Stars Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean. Poison, death and mystery set at the Arsenal Stadium. Detective Slade is called to solve the crime. [S] |
| 12:15 | The Beverly Hillbillies | A Bride for Jed. 1964. Stars Buddy Ebsen, Lester Flatt & Joi Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Drysdale try to help Jed find a wife and they come up with a unique idea with the help of some country musicians. [S] |
| 12:45 | Batman | Ice Spy. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Alan Napier. Mr. Freeze is back in town and he plans to build an icy weapon that will have the world at his control. [S] |
| 13:15 | The End of the Affair | 1955. Drama. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Director: Edward Dmytryk. In WW2 London, a writer falls in love with the wife of a civil servant. Both men suspect her of infidelity. |
| 15:25 | Cinebox Memories | Groove along to British pop group The Avons and their song Do It With You (I Wanna Do It). |
| 15:30 | Give Us A Clue | 1985. The classic game show Give us a Clue hosted by Michael Parkinson, this week's guests are Jim Bowen, Anna Dawson, Paul Jones, Julia McKenzie, Kenneth Williams & Wincey Willis. [S] |
| 16:00 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Fiddlesticks Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Solo and Kuryakin plan to blow up a Thrush treasury containing $55 million. The facility's cover is a casino. [S] |
| 17:00 | The Footage Detectives | Travel to 1964 and take a trip from Oz to London, then to The Rover Factory in Coventry in the 1930s and Mike and Noel have found a brilliant lost reel of The Dave Clark Five. [S] |
| 18:00 | Hannay | The Good Samaritan. 1989. Stars Robert Powell, Sharon Maughan & Marc Zuber. The pleasures of travelling on the Trans Europe Express from Venice are often relished! But not for Hannay... [S] |
| 19:00 | That's My Boy | A Brush with the Law. 1983. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. Ida accidentally steals a blouse. She has to attend court where she makes an unexpected friend! [S] |
| 19:30 | The Vise | Cross Channel. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Patrick Holt & Paula Byrne. Ellen and Charles meet in Paris where they plan to kill her husband. Things take a dark turn when Ellen learns she is in danger. [S] |
| 20:00 | Sergeant Cork | The Case of the Killer's Mark. 1964. Stars John Barrie, William Gaunt & Charles Morgan. A courting couple find the body of a woman in a derelict beach house, her forehead marked with the letter S. [S] |
| 21:05 | Who Do You Do? | 1972. With Freddie Starr and Peter Goodwright, guest acts such as Arthur Mullard, Lance Percival and Johnny More play a number of roles in a series of sketches and songs! [S] |
| 21:40 | The Lineup | 1958. Crime. Directed by Don Siegel. Stars Eli Wallach, Robert Keith & Richard Jaeckel. A ruthless hitman is sent to recover packages of drugs hidden inside the luggage of unsuspecting travellers. [S] |
| 23:25 | The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read | A TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview. |
Monday 13th April
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Monday 13th April
| 00:30 | Every Day's A Holiday | 1964. Musical starring John Leyton, Mike Sarne, Freddie & the Dreamers, Ron Moody, Liz Fraser, Nicholas Parsons and Danny La Rue. A group of high-spirited teens find friendship, love & music. [S] |
| 02:20 | Look At Life | 1961. A light-hearted look at the various relaxation methods on offer to people. |
| 02:30 | Burke's Law | 1963. Who Killed Sweet Betsy? Directed by Hy Averback. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. One of a set of identical sisters with odd personalities is poisoned with cyanide. |
| 03:30 | The Rogues | 1965. Fringe Benefits. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen. [S] |
| 04:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Jongleur. 1956. Stars: Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Rufus Cruickshank. A jongleur apparently on the run from the Sheriff meets up with Robin. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Buccaneers | Marooned. 1956. Stars Robert Shaw, Bill Owen & Peter Hammond. Shortly after capturing Captain Clip West, the tables turn, resulting in Tempest and his men being marooned on an island. [S] |
| 05:30 | William Tell | The Golden Wheel. 1958. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Having discovered where the resistance hides its funds, Gessler make plans to stop further money reaching them. [S] |
| 06:00 | What Every Woman Wants | 1954. Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars Brian Rix, Prunella Scales & Joan Sims. A newlywed couple with no home are forced to live with their parents and are never permitted a moment's privacy. [S] |
| 07:45 | The Crowded Day | 1954. Drama. Director: John Guillermin. Stars Joan Rice, Josephine Griffin, Freda Jackson. The story of the ups and downs of a group of salesgirls at a department store in the run up to Christmas. [S] |
| 09:25 | Operation Diplomat | 1953. Crime. Directed by John Guillermin. Stars Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton. A surgeon is forced to operate on an injured man by a gang of smugglers. [S] |
| 10:45 | Links of Justice | 1958. Drama. Director: Max Varnel. Stars Jack Watling, Sarah Lawson & Robert Raikes. Edgar Mills and his mistress Stella plot to murder Edgar's wealthy wife Clare, but things do not go to plan. |
| 12:05 | Ride in the Whirlwind | 1966. Western. Directed by Monte Hellman. Stars Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell & Millie Perkins. Three cowboys are pursued by a relentless posse after being mistaken for a gang of outlaws. [S] |
| 13:45 | Richard the Lionheart | School for a King. 1962. Stars Dermot Walsh, Peter Illing, David Davies. Determined to learn more about his realms and the plight of his subjects, Richard sets out for the countryside in disguise. [S] |
| 14:15 | The Great Van Robbery | 1959. Crime Drama. Director: Max Varnel. Stars Denis Shaw, Kay Callard & Tony Quinn. An Interpol detective pursues a dangerous thief who has placed his loot into a bank account in Rio de Janeiro. [S] |
| 15:35 | River Patrol | 1948. Crime Drama. Director: Ben R. Hart. Stars John Blythe, Wally Patch & Stan Paskin. Two police officers go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring operating along the Thames. [S] |
| 16:35 | Assignment Paris | 1952. Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars Dana Andrews, Märta Torén & George Sanders. A reporter becomes entangled in a dangerous web when investigating a plot against Hungary's dictatorship. [S] |
| 18:20 | Look At Life | 1968. A fascinating look at the space needed to house the rising population in Britain, including the benefits and problems involved with high rise living. |
| 18:30 | The Vise | Cross Channel. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Patrick Holt & Paula Byrne. Ellen and Charles meet in Paris where they plan to kill her husband. Things take a dark turn when Ellen learns she is in danger. [S] |
| 19:00 | The Footage Detectives | We ride back to Devon in 1955; a reel takes us to Sunderland in the 70s with Sir Tommy Steele! There's footage of British bandleader Henry Hall and we talk Titch & Quackers. [S] |
| 20:00 | Francis Durbridge's: A Game of Murder | ... A Game of Murder. 1966. Stars Gerald Harper, June Barry & David Burke. Kathy is in hospital after being shot and a flustered wife confesses that she knows who linked to the murders... [S] |
| 21:05 | Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide | ...Dominick Hide. 1980. Director: Alan Gibson. Stars Peter Firth, Caroline Langrishe & Pippa Guard. Dominick is a time traveller from Earth's future who is searching for an 'ancestor'. |
| 22:55 | The Anderson Tapes (1971) | 1971. Crime Thriller. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Sean Connery, Christopher Walken. A habitual criminal looks for funding to set up his next robbery. [S] |
Tuesday 14th April
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Tuesday 14th April
| 00:55 | Budgie | Brief Encounter. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. Budgie has a chance encounter with an old friend, Inga, at a railway station. They haven't seen each other for quite a time... [S] |
| 01:55 | The Broken Horseshoe | 1953. Crime drama. A hit and run victim is operated on by Dr. Fenton (Robert Beatty), the victim is later murdered and the doctor is involved. Starring Elizabeth Sellars. [S] |
| 03:30 | Double Confession | 1950. Drama. Starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins & Peter Lorre. Farr visits his ex-wife only to find her murdered. In his attempts to find the killer he meets gang boss William Hartnell. [S] |
| 05:10 | A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection | ... Baim Collection. A Printer's Tale. 1960. A 'fact full' film showing the work at Leeds printer John Waddington, featuring pictures printed for jigsaws, boxes for toothpaste and enormous posters. |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. A Nice Little Till To Tap. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. Honey and Sam journey to Mexico to investigate the drugging of a truck driver. |
| 06:00 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Jim Bowie Comes Home. 1956. Stars Scott Forbes, Minerva Urecal & Peter Hansen. Jim Bowie returns to Opelousas to find the town has been taken over by a gang who plan to drive his family out. [S] |
| 06:35 | Web of Suspicion | 1959. Crime. Directed by Max Varnel. Stars Philip Friend & Susan Beaumont. When a teacher is wrongly accused of murdering a pupil, he must clear his name and save the school from another tragedy. [S] |
| 07:50 | Impact (1949) | 1949. Drama. Directed by Arthur Lubin. Stars Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines & Charles Coburn. An unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. [S] |
| 10:05 | A Matter of Murder | 1949. Crime. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Maureen Riscoe, John Barry & John Le Mesurier. A bank clerk becomes the target of a killer and a detective after embezzling money for his girlfriend. [S] |
| 11:15 | The History Of Mr Polly | 1949. Drama. Director: Anthony Pelissier. Stars John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Moore Marriott & Finlay Currie. Alfred reluctantly uses inherited money on two big ventures. [S] |
| 13:15 | William Tell | The Prisoner. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard, Jennifer Jayne & Michael Caine. On his way to deliver a message to William Tell, a resistance man is captured and taken to a fortress. [S] |
| 13:45 | La Fin du Jour | 1939. Drama. Director: Julien Duvivier. Stars Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon & Victor Francen. A few actors live together in a retirement home. One day an old friend arrives, reigniting old feelings. |
| 15:55 | John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul | 2021. Director: Marie Brunet Debaines. The portrait of a whimsical and rebellious, yet cultured and cosmopolitan actor, screenwriter and director - going against the grain of Hollywood filmmakers. |
| 17:00 | Look At Life | 1964. An eye opening look into how research into the golfer's swing is progressing, with a look at what is involved in the swing of the golf club from a physiological and physical viewpoint. |
| 17:10 | Indiscretion of an American Wife | 1953. Drama. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Stars Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift & Richard Beymer. A married woman gets into an affair in Rome and is torn between her old life and new romance. |
| 18:25 | Whiplash | Divide and Conquer. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Anthony Wickert & Harry Dearth. While on a mapping expedition, the members are captured by local bush rangers who hatch a plan to ransom them. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Fiddlesticks Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Solo and Kuryakin plan to blow up a Thrush treasury containing $55 million. The facility's cover is a casino. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder | 1969. The Green Mamba. Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard & Mona Bruce. The emeralds of Suleiman the Magnificent are stolen when the sentry guarding them dies from a snake bite. [S] |
| 21:00 | Murders In... | Murders on Aix Island - Les Mystères de l’île. 2016. Director: François Guérin. Stars Julie Ferrier & Isabel Otero. Police investigate the murder of a former convict found dead near Fort Boyard. [S] |
| 22:50 | Accident | 1967. Drama. Directed by Joseph Losey. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker & Jacqueline Sassard. An Oxford University professor yearns for an affair with his beautiful and enigmatic student Anna. [S] |
Wednesday 15th April
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Wednesday 15th April
| 00:55 | Budgie | Run Rabbit Run Rabbit. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. Endell is after Budgie and this time he means business and wants blood. It seems that Budgie's friends are getting fewer. [S] |
| 01:55 | Clash By Night | 1963. Drama. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne & Harry Fowler. A prison bus enroute to jail is hijacked by a gang determined to free their leader. [S] |
| 03:25 | A Gunman Has Escaped | 1948. Drama. Stars John Harvey, John Fitzgerald, Robert Cartland. Written by John Gilling. Three armed robbers kill a passer-by in a robbery and flee the city. [S] |
| 04:30 | Target: The Corruptors | Quicksand. 1961. Stars Stephen McNally, Robert Harland & Harold J. Stone. Investigative reporters Paul Marino & Jack Flood investigate various cases of industrial corruption. (S1, E14) |
| 05:30 | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Dress Shop. 1964. Stars Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan & Donna Douglas. Mr Drysdale buys a Beverly Hills dress store and the Clampetts show up to help 'the poor widow and her starving girls'. [S] |
| 06:00 | Woman in the Dark | 1934. Crime drama. Directed by Phil Rosen. Stars Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy & Melvyn Douglas. A woman on the run disrupts the peaceful existence of a man recently released from prison. [S] |
| 07:25 | Death Goes To School | 1953. Crime drama with Barbara Murray and Gordon Jackson in the lead role. A rare, old British mystery surrounding a strangulation at a school that needs Scotland Yard to investigate. [S] |
| 08:40 | The Agitator | 1945. Drama. Director: John Harlow. Stars William Hartnell, Mary Morris & John Laurie. In this 'lost' William Hartnell film, a socialist inherits the British factory where he works as a union mechanic |
| 10:40 | The Adventures of PC 49 | 1949. Crime. Directed by Godfrey Grayson. Stars Hugh Latimer, John Penrose & Annette D. Simmonds. A policeman goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves trading stolen tobacco and whisky. [S] |
| 11:55 | The Story of Robin Hood | 1952. Action. Director: Ken Annakin. Stars Richard Todd, Joan Rice & James Hayter. When King Richard leaves England for the Holy Land, his subjects are left at the mercy of his cunning brother. [S] |
| 13:40 | The Buccaneers | The Wasp. 1956. Stars Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond & Willoughby Gray. A boy left behind on one of Blackbeard's raids is captured and forced to work alongside a crew planning to foil Blackbeard. [S] |
| 14:10 | Out of the Fog | 1962. Crime drama directed by Montgomery Tully. An ex-con is the prime suspect when a series of murders occur under a full moon. Every victim is a blonde young woman. Starring David Sumner. [S] |
| 15:30 | Dial 999 | Old Soldiers Sometimes Die. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, A.J. Brown & Ray Cooney. After a tourist is conned in London, Maguire goes undercover as an American tourist to catch the perpetrators. [S] |
| 16:00 | Food Flash Chester Orange Juice | 1945. In this charming short video Charlie Chester promotes the importance of orange juice for children under five. |
| 16:05 | The End of the Affair | 1955. Drama. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Director: Edward Dmytryk. In WW2 London, a writer falls in love with the wife of a civil servant. Both men suspect her of infidelity. |
| 18:15 | Look At Life | 1967. A captivating look at the revolution in farm machinery and how a farm can be run almost single handed with the help of so many new machines. |
| 18:30 | Those British Faces | 1993. Documentary series that acts as a tribute to the greats of British cinema. This episode focuses on a delightful tribute to Will Hay. [S] |
| 19:00 | Out of Town | Corn Threshing/Eden Vale. 1981. Jack Hargreaves demonstrates some ancient methods of threshing corn. He then continues his diary of fly fishing for trout in the streams of the Pennines. [S] |
| 19:30 | Scotland Yard | 1958. The Cross-Road Gallows. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring John Warwick, David Lodge and Tim Turner. A farmer finds the occupants of a caravan dead inside. (S1, E29) |
| 20:05 | Buccaneer | Private Arrangements. 1980. Stars Bryan Marshall, Clifford Rose & Pamela Salem. Tony is offered a fortune in a shady deal to get someone out of the country. Janet gets elected to the board. [S] |
| 21:10 | Maxwell | 2007. Drama. Director: Colin Barr. Stars David Suchet, Patricia Hodge & Ben Caplan. The final two months of the life of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, as his life is on the brink of collapse. [S] |
| 23:00 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle | ...Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. 2005. Drama. Director: Cilla Ware. Stars Douglas Henshall, Brian Cox & Emily Blunt. The story of Conan Doyle's remarkable life and the birth of Sherlock Holmes. [S] |
Thursday 16th April
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Thursday 16th April
| 00:50 | The Comic | 1969. Comedy/Drama. Directed by Carl Reiner. Stars Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee & Mickey Rooney. The intriguing story of an exceptional silent-film comic whose talent is overshadowed by his ego. [S] |
| 02:45 | D.O.A. (1949) | 1949. Mystery. Directed by Rudolph Maté. Stars Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton & Luther Adler. An accountant learns that he has been poisoned, with only a few days to live, he hunts down his enemy. [S] |
| 04:25 | A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection | ... Baim Collection. Between Those Four Walls. A nostalgic reminder of 1962 interior home decoration overloaded with facts and figures, with an insight into paper, manufacture and wallpaper design. |
| 04:50 | Stagecoach West | The Unwanted. Western starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer & Robert Bray. After killing a man in self defense, his widow forces their young daughter into Luke's care. [S] |
| 05:50 | Look At Life | 1965. A marvelous look at how the film camera is used in science and industry to increase an individual's knowledge. |
| 06:00 | Black Saddle | 1959. The Deal. Stars Peter Breck. After his brothers are killed, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer. |
| 06:30 | Sing Bing Sing | A musical short film from the 1930s in which Bing Crosby is running off to marry a girl against the wishes of her father. |
| 06:40 | A Taste Of Money | 1960. Comedy. Director: Max Varnel. Stars Jean Cadell, Dick Emery and Pete Murray. An elderly spinster plots to rob her employers with the perfect crime! [S] |
| 08:00 | A Question of Suspense | 1961. Crime Drama. Directed by Max Varnel. Stars Peter Reynolds, Noelle Middleton & Yvonne Buckingham. A young woman sets out to get revenge against a rich man who murdered her lover. [S] |
| 09:15 | Inn For Trouble | 1960. Comedy. Based on the hit TV series, The Larkins. Peggy Mount and David Kossoff are given a pub to run but face many problems. [S] |
| 11:00 | Five Days | 1954. Crime. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Stars Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau & Paul Carpenter. A man on the verge of bankruptcy pays his friend to organise a hit on him, but will his plan pay off? [S] |
| 12:30 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Winged Victory. 1956. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. King Arthur entrusts Sir Lancelot with a secret battle plan for Prince Boudwin who is besieged by King Mark. [S] |
| 13:00 | Adam Had Four Sons | 1941. Drama. Directed by Gregory Ratoff. Stars Ingrid Bergman, Susan Hayward & Warner Baxter. A French governess becomes the centre of a wealthy family after the death of her employer's wife. [S] |
| 14:40 | Biscuit Time | 1964. Documentary. A fascinating reel featuring a trip to the CWS Biscuit Factory in Harlow, with a detailed look at the production of their popular biscuits from start to finish. |
| 15:00 | Crown Court | The Getaway - Part 1. 1974. Stars John Barron, Jonathan Elsom & John Flanagan. Phil McDowell is on trial for the abduction of Fiona Sumner, a fourteen year old girl. He denies the offense. [S] |
| 15:30 | Crown Court | The Getaway - Part 2. 1974. Stars Lyndon Brook, Elizabeth Weaver & Tina Heath. Fiona Sumner tells the court she initially agreed to go with McDowell but later changed her mind. [S] |
| 16:00 | Crown Court | The Getaway - Part 3. 1974 Stars John Flanagan, John Barron & Lyndon Brook. Son of Philip McDowell tells the court that Fiona wanted to go on the trip to visit her father who she thought was dead. [S] |
| 16:30 | Went The Day Well? | 1942. War. Director: Cavalcanti. Stars: Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns & Basil Sydney. English villagers stage a fight back when visited by a platoon of german troops. [S] |
| 18:20 | Strange But True? | Time Slip/Haunted Trawler. 1995. Michael Aspel looks at the unexplained stories of a man who had been called out to exorcise a fishing trawler, and three families who had travelled back in time. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Brothers | Negotiations. 1973. Stars Patrick O'Connell, Jean Anderson, Mark McManus. With strike action threatened, the Union is called in to settle the conflict and Ted negotiates a prosperous new contract. [S] |
| 20:00 | Mark Saber | Hi-Jacked. 1958. Stars Donald Grey, Diana Decker & Colin Tapley. Mark Saber thinks he knows the answer when two people are found murdered after a gangster Sheik Babson's Bentley is hi-jacked. [S] |
| 20:30 | The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club | ...Social Club. Episode 32. 1976. The Caravelles perform 'One of Those Songs' and 'You Made Me Love You'. Josef Locke performs 'Blaze Away' and 'My Way'. Eddie Flanagan and Judy Moxon also star. [S] |
| 21:20 | The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) | 1978. Crime. Director: Don Sharp. Stars Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, David Warner & John Mills. An engineer attempts to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination. [S] |
| 23:25 | X, Y and Zee | 1972. Drama. Director: Brian G. Hutton. Stars Elizabeth Taylor, Micheal Caine & Susannah York. The venomous wife of a wealthy architect tries, at length, to break up her husband and his mistress. |
Friday 17th April
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Friday 17th April
| 01:40 | Doomwatch | Train and De-Train. 1970. Stars Robert Powell & David Markham. There has been a mass extermination of wildlife in Somerset. Doomwatch investigate whether it could be a new type of pesticide. [S] |
| 02:40 | The Gentleman Bandit | 1981. Crime drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan. Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano who was arrested for a series of hold-ups. [S] |
| 04:40 | Cornwall Calling | 1930. Excellently photographed film of an Austin engine being filled into a yacht, then sailing around Cornwall visiting coastal villages from Rye to The Lizard. Some villages by Austin Motorcar. |
| 05:00 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Snookie Martinelli? Directed by Robert Ellis Miller. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Can it be that Amos Burke himself has been murdered? |
| 06:00 | Look At Life | 1961. An expansive look at ice, not only in the home, but also at the various sports on ice. |
| 06:10 | Murder in Eden | 1961. Thriller. Director: Max Varnel. Stars: Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Buckingham. After discovering a famous painting is a forgery, a noted art critic is killed by driver. [S] |
| 07:30 | The Man Who Stayed Alive | Directed by Paul Dickson. Stars Adrienne Corri, Brian Worth & Steven Vercoe. A story of three young artists who believe artists only reach fame when they die and so come up with a strange plan. |
| 08:05 | Look At Life | 1968. A look at how British weeks are planned in cities abroad to help promote trade. |
| 08:15 | Blind Date | 1959. Thriller. Directed by Joseph Losey. Starring Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker & Micheline Presle. The mistress of a struggling artist is killed and Inspector Morgan investigates a complex case. [S] |
| 10:05 | Account Rendered | 1957. Thriller. Directed by Peter Graham Scott. Stars Honor Blackman, Griffith Jones & Ursula Howells. When a wealthy banker's wife is found murdered, the police find many suspects with a motive. [S] |
| 11:20 | Appointment with Venus | 1951. War. Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: David Niven, Glynis Johns & George Coulouris. During WWII, a British Major is tasked with rescuing a pedigree cow from a German-occupied Channel Island. [S] |
| 13:05 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Solo For Sparrow. 1962. Directed by Gordon Flemyng. Stars Anthony Newlands, Glyn Houston & Michael Coles. A gang of thieves get caught up in a murder whilst trying to rob a jewellery store. [S] |
| 14:15 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Maid Marian. 1955. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Alan Wheatley. Having ambushed the Sheriff's courier, Robin's life is placed in danger. [S] |
| 14:45 | The Ghost of Greville Lodge | 2000. Mystery. Directed by Niall Johnson. Starring Jon Newman, Prunella Scales, Marc Danbury and George Cole. A teenager stays at his uncle's mansion, where he discovers the house's many secrets. [S] |
| 16:30 | The Cheaters | For the Price of Two. 1961. Stars John Ireland & Rosemary Dorken. When Laura Desmond's twin sister is found dead and a heavy payout is due, Hunter suspects things are not as they seem. [S] |
| 17:00 | Walk a Crooked Mile | 1948. Crime. Director: Gordon Douglas. Stars Louis Hayward, Dennie O'Keefe & Carl Esmond. An FBI agent and a Scotland Yard sleuth join forces to track down a spy ring targeting an atomic plant. [S] |
| 18:45 | Celebrity Crazy Cricket in the 1950s | ... 1950s. Jon Pertwee, Richard Hearne, Tommy Cooper, Jerry Desmond, Edmundo Ros & Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. Filmed in Edgware, Mr Pastry performs various routines & Tommy Cooper bats in his fez. |
| 19:00 | Z-Cars | Train of Events. 1962. Stars James Ellis, Colin Welland & Stratford Johns. Barlow and Watt investigate a robbery of mail bags from outside an hospital convinced it is an inside job. [S] |
| 20:00 | Public Eye | 1969. Case for the Defence. Stars Alfred Burke, William Lucas & Stanley Meadows. Frank joins an enquiry agency to find working for a firm is quite different to the old days. [S] |
| 21:00 | Whistle Down the Wind | 1961. Drama. Directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Bernard Lee, Alan Bates and Hayley Mills. Three young children encounter a murderer on the run. |
| 23:00 | Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | 1954. Adventure. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Stars Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández & Felipe de Alba. The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is stranded on a desert island after a shipwreck. [S] |
Saturday 18th April
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Saturday 18th April
| 00:50 | The Seventh Commandment | 1961. Drama. Director: Irvin Berwick. Stars Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten & Frank Arvidson. A car crash victim turns to religion after losing his memory but his girlfriend reappears to cause trouble. [S] |
| 02:30 | Not Tonight Darling | 1971. Drama. Directed by Anthony Sloman. Stars Luan Peters, Vincent Ball & Jason Twelvetrees. Karen is tired of her solicitor spouse and her empty, suburban lifestyle and wants something more. [S] |
| 04:15 | Echo of Barbara | 1961. Director: Sidney Hayers. Stars Mervyn Johns, Ronald Hines & Tom Bell. Paula is as stripper whom Mike hires as part of a scheme to fool Mike's ex-convict dad into revealing hidden loot. [S] |
| 05:30 | Out of Town | Tidal Mill/Ice Fishing. 1986. After visiting Ely Mill, Jack recounts the story of his unwise attempt to win a bet by catching fish on a frozen Kent river in mid-Winter. [S] |
| 06:00 | Jack London | 1943. Adventure. Directed by Alfred Santell. Stars Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward and Virginia Mayo. Biopic of the thrill-seeking writer and his travels in the late 19th and early 20th Century. [S] |
| 07:45 | Food Flash Chester Cod Liver Oil | 1945. A short video from the Cheerful Charlie Chester Show in 1945. This describes the health benefits of cod liver oil for children. |
| 07:50 | Legend of the Hidden City | 1997. Stars Brendan Pollecutt, Fezile Mpela & Robert Finlayson. Dean and Thabo are rescued and recover with the help of a forest healer. As their quest continues they walk into more danger. |
| 08:25 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Maid of Somerset. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. A girl ask for Sir Lancelot's help with the evil King Meliot who is selling the young men of Cheddar into slavery. [S] |
| 09:00 | Batman | A Horse of Another Colour. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Yvonne Craig. After stealing a priceless folio, the Penguin rigs a high stakes horse race until Batgirl foils his daring scheme. [S] |
| 09:30 | The Roy Rogers Show | Ambush. 1955. Stars Roy Rogers, Trigger and Dale Evans. Hired gunmen ambush a friend at the Double-R Bar and Roy investigates the motive. [S] |
| 10:00 | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons | Operation Time. 1967. Stars Jeremy Wilkin, Francis Matthews & Cy Grant. Captain Magenta realises that the Mysterons' newest target is General Tiempo, Commander of Western Region World Defence. [S] |
| 10:30 | William Tell | The Killer. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Accused of murdering a partisan helper and stealing his gold, Tell must find a way to prove his innocence. [S] |
| 11:00 | The Buccaneers | Blood Will Tell. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Dawson France & John Dearth. The trader's estate, Gresham Island, is in jeopardy. A lawyer arrives at the colony in search of the last remaining heir. [S] |
| 11:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | A Village Wooing. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Alexander Gauge & Bernadette O'Farrell. Robin attempts to help Wat Longfellow, a man who became an outlaw to escape a life of indentured servitude. [S] |
| 12:00 | Zontar - Thing From Venus | 1967. Sci-fi. Directed by Larry Buchanan. Stars John Agar, Susan Bjurman & Tony Huston. A young scientist believes an alien from Venus can help Earth but soon discovers it has a malevolent plan. [S] |
| 13:40 | The Naked Truth | 1957. Comedy. Director: Mario Zampi. Stars Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount & Dennis Price. Nigel Dennis, a magazine publisher, blackmails high-profile politicians & celebrities. |
| 15:30 | Dial 999 | Robbery With Violence. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Robert Rietty & Therese Burton. Maguire struggles to find leads when investigating an armed raid on a pawn-shop where a passer-by was killed. [S] |
| 16:00 | Whiplash | The Solid Gold Brigade. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, John Gray & Tony Arpino. Chris Cobb is hired to ride to a gold mining area and collect all the gold but the man he meets is not the right person. [S] |
| 16:35 | Hobson's Choice | 1954. Drama. Director: David Lean. Stars Charles Laughton, John Mills & Brenda de Banzie. Henry Hobson's three daughters want to marry, but he refuses as traditions require him to pay settlements. [S] |
| 18:45 | Look At Life | ...Living In. 1968. A response to the Buchanan Report, with a focus on Bath and Norwich, as to how British towns and cities are dealing with the impact of traffic on the environment. |
| 19:00 | Maigret | The Cellars of the Majestic. 1963. Stars Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon & Victor Lucas. An American millionaire's French wife is murdered at the luxurious Majestic Hotel. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Duchess of Duke Street | A Bed of Roses. 1976. Stars Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove & John Cater. Hotelier Louisa falls for charming guest Charlie, then faces heartbreak, pregnancy and his life changing return. [S] |
| 21:05 | Eyewitness (1971) | 1970. Drama. Directed by John Hough. Stars Mark Lester, Susan George & Lionel Jeffries. A boy is a witness to a killing. He goes on the run with his older sister, helped by their grandfather. [S] |
| 22:55 | Fortean TV | 1997. Hosted by Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe. Swim with miracle fish, hunt for a vampire-like creature in Puerto Rico and cut deep into the mystery of the mermaid. |
| 23:30 | One Step Beyond | Night of April 14th. 1959. Stars Barbara Lord, Isobel Elsom & Patrick Macnee. Jeanne has recurring nightmares of drowning and is surprised by a honeymoon trip on the passenger liner, RMS Titanic. [S] |
Sunday 19th April
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Sunday 19th April
| 00:05 | EuroTrash | 1994. Hosted by Antoine de Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier. Explore Japanese Museums and take a look at Britain re-created in miniature complete with red telephone boxes and policemen. |
| 00:40 | Night of the Demon | (AKA Curse of the Demon) 1957. Horror. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Stars Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins & Niall MacGinnis. A professor arrives in London and investigates a devil worshipper. [S] |
| 02:40 | The Rogues | The Golden Ocean. 1965. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer. The Rogues are members of two related families of international forgers and well-known conmen. [S] |
| 03:35 | The Starlost | The Starlost |
| 04:35 | Green Hornet Strikes Again | The Avenging Heavens. 1941. Starring Warren Hull. Following the Kolton Munitions Plant being sold, Brett Reid’s attentions turn to the Aluminium Products Company and its new owner Francis Grayson. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Ruby of Radnor. 1957. Stars: William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. As punishment Squire Brian is sent on an errand delivering a crate of pigeons to a neighbouring castle. [S] |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. In The Bag. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. Honey loses a child she is escorting between divorced parents in a crowded airport. |
| 06:00 | Dick Tracy's Dilemma | 1947. Crime mystery. Directed by John Rawlins and starring Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell and Kay Christopher. Tracy investigates the theft of coats and an insurance swindle linked to a hook handed thug. [S] |
| 07:15 | Up River | 1979. Drama. Murder, violence and greed haunt a young man's dream of forming a life from the untamed wilds of British Columbia at the turn of the century. [S] |
| 09:00 | Unknown World | 1951. Sci-fi. Directed by Terry O. Morse. Stars Bruce Kellogg & Otto Waldis. A group of scientists travel to the centre of the Earth to seek a habitable space in the event of a nuclear war. [S] |
| 10:35 | The Sundowners | 1950. Western. Directed by George Templeton. Stars Robert Preston, Robert Sterling & Chill Wills. Brothers on opposite sides of the law unite to save the family cattle ranch from rustlers. [S] |
| 12:20 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Granny Versus the Weather Bureau. 1964. Stars Irene Ryan, John McGiver & Quinn O'Hara. Granny's old-fashioned ways of predicting the weather are pitted against the Weather Bureau's technology. [S] |
| 12:50 | Batman | The Duo Defy. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Alan Napier. Mr. Freeze gives Professor Isaacson an ultimatum: meet his demands, or he will begin to freeze the entire country. [S] |
| 13:20 | Tawny Pipit | 1944. Drama. Directed by Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders. Starring Bernard Miles, Rosamund John and Niall MacGinnis. A village bands together to save its wildlife from road development. |
| 15:00 | Dial 999 | Death Ride. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Patrick Barr & Humphrey Heathcote. A man is suspected of murdering his wife; Maguire starts investigating, which motivates someone to try to run him over. [S] |
| 15:30 | Give Us A Clue | 1985. The classic game show Give us a Clue hosted by Michael Parkinson, this week's guests are Debbie Arnold, Lennie Bennett, Angela Douglas, Derek Griffiths, Maggie Moone & Roy Walker. [S] |
| 16:00 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Yellow Scarf Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. An U.N.C.L.E agent is killed while transporting a Thrush device. Solo picks up the trail of the murdered agent. [S] |
| 17:00 | The Footage Detectives | The Footage Detectives |
| 18:00 | Hannay | The Rough Music. 1989. Stars Robert Powell, Richard Pasco, Caroline Lee-John. On the death of his friend, Hannay inherits a walking-stick, field glasses and the lighthouse on a Fenland marsh. [S] |
| 19:00 | That's My Boy | Down Under. 1983. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. Ida's name ends up on the computer of an employment agency and she is sick of getting calls from ''fancy drawers''. [S] |
| 19:30 | The Vise | Death in White. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Jill Clifford & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Geraldine is a nasty person who wants to have the perfect wedding but the night before her wedding she is found dead. [S] |
| 20:00 | Sergeant Cork | The Case of the Cynical Traitor. 1964. Stars John Barrie, William Gaunt & Charles Morgan. Marriott is undercover to find who is selling plans about a field gun, stolen from the War Office. [S] |
| 21:05 | Who Do You Do? | 1972. With Freddie Starr and Peter Goodwright, guest acts such as Janet Brown, Benny Yorke and Little & Large play a number of roles in a series of sketches and songs! [S] |
| 21:40 | Killer Fish | 1979. Horror. Directed by Antonio Margheriti. Stars Lee Majors, Karen Black & Margaux Hemingway. Thieves try to recover treasure from piranha infested waters, but there's a traitor amongst them. [S] |
| 23:40 | The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read | A TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview. |
Monday 20th April
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Monday 20th April
| 00:45 | Casbah | 1948. Musical. John Berry. Stars Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin & Peter Lorre. Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment. [S] |
| 02:25 | Fuel Limerick Bath Water | 1942. A short limerick about a man who slips on a bar of soap and meets an untimely death. |
| 02:30 | Burke's Law | 1963. Who Killed Billy Jo? Directed by Hy Averback. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, sister, music arranger, or someone else? |
| 03:30 | The Rogues | 1965. Plavonia, Hail & Farewell. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen. [S] |
| 04:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Brothers. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Alexander Guage. A poor young serf is helped into a monastery by Robin and Friar Tuck but flees when he discovers his brother is in prison. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Buccaneers | Gentleman Jack and the Lady. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Hazel Court & Peter Hammond. Tempest clashes with a French privateer as they scheme against each other to win a prize. [S] |
| 05:30 | William Tell | The Bride. 1958. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Maddelenna is being forcibly taken to Altdorf Castle as a bride for Gessler. [S] |
| 06:00 | Look At Life | 1967. A fascinating look at the increasing mechanisation of hop picking. |
| 06:10 | The Hills Of Donegal | 1947. Drama. Stars Irene Handle, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, James Etherington, Moore Marriott. Eileen is the star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe. [S] |
| 07:50 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April and May. [S] |
| 08:00 | Women Without Men | 1956. Drama. Directors: Elmo Williams & Bert Glazer. Stars Beverly Michaels & Joan Rice. Angie plans to meet her boyfriend on New Years Eve but winds up in jail. Can she find a way to get to him? [S] |
| 09:30 | Recoil | 1953. Directed by John Gilling. Filmed at Alliance Studios, Twickenham. Stars Elizabeth Sellars, Kieron Moore. A jeweller's daughter seeks revenge on a gang that robbed and killed her father. [S] |
| 11:00 | Orders Are Orders | 1954. Comedy. An American film crew are making a film in a British army camp, but the soldiers chase the film unit's girls. Starring Tony Hancock, Sid James & Peter Sellers. [S] |
| 12:35 | Cover Girl Killer | 1959. Crime. Someone is murdering cover girl models, leaving them in the same pose and place as featured in 'Wow' magazine. Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Felicity Young. [S] |
| 13:55 | Richard the Lionheart | Crown in Danger. 1962. Stars Dermot Walsh, Peter Reynolds & Kevin Brennan. Three prisoners escape and take Sir Gilbert with them as hostage. Richard and his comrades set off to hunt them down. [S] |
| 14:25 | Goldeneye | 1989. Biography. Director: Don Boyd. Stars Charles Dance, Phyllis Logan & Patrick Ryecart. The story of Ian Fleming and how his work in the intelligence services inspired him to create James Bond. [S] |
| 16:30 | Whistle Down the Wind | 1961. Drama. Directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Bernard Lee, Alan Bates and Hayley Mills. Three young children encounter a murderer on the run. |
| 18:30 | The Vise | Death in White. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Jill Clifford & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Geraldine is a nasty person who wants to have the perfect wedding but the night before her wedding she is found dead. [S] |
| 19:00 | The Footage Detectives | Slide into the 1950s for charming reel at a playground, take a trip to 1966 for some fascinating tales of London's traffic and there's some brilliant adverts from the usherettes. [S] |
| 20:00 | Francis Durbridge's: Bat Out of Hell | ... Bat Out of Hell. 1966. Stars Sylvia Syms, John Thaw & Dudley Foster. On the surface Geoffrey and Diana live a happy life, but one of them plans the death of the other to be with their lover. |
| 20:30 | Eyewitness (1971) | 1970. Drama. Directed by John Hough. Stars Mark Lester, Susan George & Lionel Jeffries. A boy is a witness to a killing. He goes on the run with his older sister, helped by their grandfather. [S] |
| 22:20 | The Lady From Shanghai | 1948. Drama. Directed by & stars Orson Welles. Features Rita Hayworth & Everett Sloane. A seaman is lured into joining a yachting cruise but becomes tangled up in a web of lies, deceit and murder. [S] |
Tuesday 21st April
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Tuesday 21st April
| 00:05 | The Shakedown | 1960. Drama. Terence Morgan plays 'Augie' a crook just released from prison and intent on getting his rackets back from 'Collar' (Harry H Corbett). Stars Bill Owen, Robert Beatty and Hazel Court. [S] |
| 01:55 | Mohawk | 1956. Adventure. Director: Kurt Neumann. Stars Scott Brady, Rita Gam & Neville Brand. An artist is torn between his love for two women and is thrown into the middle of a Mohawk-Iroquois-American. [S] |
| 03:30 | You Will Remember | 1941. Musical drama. Directed by Jack Raymond. Stars: Robert Morley, Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Hyson. Based on the life of the English composer Leslie Stuart, famous in the British music halls. [S] |
| 05:20 | Look At Life | 1959. A look at the SOHO bohemian coffee bars of London in the 1950s. Visit the 2 I's and many more with not a cup of tea in sight! |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. How Brilling, Obeamish Boy. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. A man kidnaps Sam for a ransom of a parcel that Honey has been hired to guard. |
| 06:00 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | The Ghost of Jean Battoo. 1956. Stars Scott Forbes & Dorothy Neumann. Jim helps farmers who are paying protection money to a woman who threatens to unleash the ghost of a Louisiana pirate on them. [S] |
| 06:35 | No Resting Place | 1951. Drama. Director: Paul Rotha. Stars Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne & Noel Purcell. Garda Officer Mannigan is determined that Alex Kyle will not escape justice for the killing of a gamekeeper. [S] |
| 08:10 | A Woman's Temptation | 1959. Drama. Director: Godfrey Grayson. Stars Patricia Driscoll, Robert Ayres & John Pike. A widow struggling as a single mother is tempted by stolen money, but the thieves return to find it. [S] |
| 09:25 | The Gambler and the Lady | 1952. Crime. Directed by Patrick Jenkins & Sam Newfield. Stars Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron & Naomi Chance. A gambler attempts to put his past behind him to impress a wealthy girl he has fallen for. [S] |
| 10:55 | Jane Eyre | 1997. Drama. Directed by Robert Young. Stars Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds & Gemma Jones. A young woman's life is shattered when scandals are revealed on the day she is to marry her employer. [S] |
| 13:10 | William Tell | Voice in The Night. 1958. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. After a disagreement with Gessler, Judge Furst is thrown into a dungeon. [S] |
| 13:40 | The Captain's Paradise | 1953. Comedy. Directed by Anthony Kimmins. Stars Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson & Miles Malleson. The Captain of a ferry boat between Gibraltar & Morocco has a woman in each port. [S] |
| 15:25 | Fuel Limerick No Fire in Bedroom | 1942. A short limerick imploring you not to have a fire in your bedroom. |
| 15:30 | The Affairs of a Rogue | 1949. Romance. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Stars Jean-Pierre Aumont & Joan Hopkins. As the Prince Regent tries to marry off his unruly daughter, she falls in love with an impoverished prince. |
| 17:20 | Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin | 2021. Director: Camille Juza & Yal Sadat. From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story is a feminist struggle, fought on and off screen. [S] |
| 18:25 | Whiplash | The Remittance Man. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Tony Wickert & Stuart Wagstaff. A family travel to meet their son who was sent to the colonies years ago, but Chris Cobb discovers something shocking. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Yellow Scarf Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. An U.N.C.L.E agent is killed while transporting a Thrush device. Solo picks up the trail of the murdered agent. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder | 1969. Sheer Melodrama. Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard & Mona Bruce. Tommy Fenalow is an infamous forger, and always one step ahead of Reeder, but who's helping him? [S] |
| 21:00 | Murders In... | Murders in Martinique - Meurtres en Martinique. 2016. Director: Philippe Niang. Stars Sara Martins & Olivier Marchal. Parisian forensic specialist helps in an investigation near Mount Pelée. [S] |
| 22:50 | She Played with Fire | 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Jack Hawkins, Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An investigator finds himself involved in blackmail and murder after running into his ex. [S] |
Wednesday 22nd April
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Wednesday 22nd April
| 00:45 | House on Haunted Hill | 1959. Horror. Directed by William Castle. Starring Vincent Price & Carol Ohmart. A millionaire invites five people to a 'haunted house' party, and whoever makes it through the night earns $10,000. |
| 02:20 | The Black Book | 1949. Thriller. Directed by Anthony Mann. Stars Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart & Richard Hart. A powerful man desperately searches for his black book, a list of those marked for the guillotine. [S] |
| 04:10 | A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection | ... Baim Collection. Enchanted Cities. 1957. Narrated by Kenneth Macleod. A tour of the beautiful Italian cities of Florence and Venice. |
| 04:30 | Target: The Corruptors | A Man Is Waiting to Be Murdered. 1961. Stars Stephen McNally, Robert Harland & Harold J. Stone. Investigative reporters Paul & Jack investigate various cases of industrial corruption. (S1, E15) |
| 05:30 | The Beverly Hillbillies | The House of Granny. 1964. Stars Irene Ryan, Maurice Marsac & Edna Skinner. The Clampetts new exclusive dress shop becomes a country store known as 'The House of Granny'. [S] |
| 06:00 | A Good Read with Mike Read | The Ides of March - Part 1. Mike Read reads classic Raffles stories from The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung and begins with the exciting tale The Ides of March. |
| 06:35 | Doctor Morelle | 1949. Mystery. Directed by Godfrey Grayson. Stars Valentine Dyall, Julia Lang & Hugh Griffith. When a young woman mysteriously disappears, her friend turns to Doctor Morelle to help investigate. [S] |
| 08:05 | A Woman of Mystery | 1958. Crime Drama. Director: Ernest Morris. Stars Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court & Jennifer Jayne. Ray Savage is assigned to uncover the intricate web of crimes behind Jayne Hayle's sudden death. [S] |
| 09:25 | The Limping Man | 1953. Crime. Frank (Lloyd Bridges), an American, returns to England to see his war-time sweetheart (Moira Lister) but witnesses a shooting whilst leaving the plane. [S] |
| 10:55 | Jassy | 1947. Drama. Director: Bernard Knowles. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc & Dennis Price. In the 17th century, Jassy is believed to be a witch after receiving visions of approaching disasters. [S] |
| 12:55 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April and May. [S] |
| 13:10 | The Buccaneers | Whale Gold. 1956. Stars Robert Shaw, Noel Purcell & Wilfred Downing. The crew learn that ambergris, used to make perfume, is worth more than gold, causing greed to spread through the group. [S] |
| 13:40 | Woman to Woman | 1947. Drama. Director: Maclean Rogers. Stars Douglass Montgomerty & Joyce Howard. An amnesiac adopts his forgotten daughter from a past relationship when his wife is unable to have children. |
| 15:30 | Dial 999 | Commando Crook. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Richard Bird & Arthur Goullet. Maguire investigates a series of robberies; however, his prime suspect is a crook everyone believes has gone straight. [S] |
| 16:00 | Charade | 1963. Drama. Stars Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn & Walter Matthau. Romance and suspense in Paris as a woman is pursued for her murdered husband's stolen fortune. [S] |
| 18:20 | Look At Life | 1967. A wonderful look at the world of flag makers and their flags. |
| 18:30 | Those British Faces | 1993. Documentary series that acts as a tribute to the greats of British cinema. This episode focuses on a splendid tribute to Yvonne Mitchell. [S] |
| 19:00 | Out of Town | Blackmore Vale/Breeding Lurchers. 1981. Deep in Thomas Hardy country Jack Hargreaves reflects on the history of the Blackmore Vale. He then visits a man who breeds lurchers. [S] |
| 19:30 | Scotland Yard | 1959. The Unseeing Eye. Directed by Geoffrey Muller. Starring Russell Napier, John Stone and Denny Dayviss. A night worker returning home sees smoke and flames coming from a building. (S1, E30) |
| 20:05 | Buccaneer | Intruders. 1980. Stars Bryan Marshall, Clifford Rose & Pamela Salem. Double booking jeopardises a lucrative contract. Tony's relationship with Burton's wife reaches a decision point. [S] |
| 21:10 | Lost Command | 1966. Action. Director: Mark Robson. Stars Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon & George Segal. French Army colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers into battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina. |
| 23:45 | Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | ...Damn Thing. 1973. Comedy. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Stars Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms & May Heatherly. A prim English spinster meets a college drop-out while on a bus trip through Spain. [S] |
Thursday 23rd April
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Thursday 23rd April
| 02:00 | Indiscretion of an American Wife | 1953. Drama. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Stars Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift & Richard Beymer. A married woman gets into an affair in Rome and is torn between her old life and new romance. |
| 03:15 | Fighting Mad | 1957. Drama. Muscles Tanner (Joe Robinson), a boxer, gives up the ring after two fatalities and emigrates to Canada and gets involved with two crooked lumbermen. [S] |
| 04:20 | 1961 Superjet To The USA | 1961. A fascinating reel all about a Superjet and the experience of travelling in it to the United States of America in 1961. |
| 04:50 | Stagecoach West | Fork in the Road. Western starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer & Robert Bray. While on their regular stagecoach run Simon and Davey Kane pick up a man walking by the road in the middle of nowhere. [S] |
| 05:50 | Look At Life | 1967. A compelling look at the evening papers and how science is helping them to cut costs. |
| 06:00 | Black Saddle | 1959. Change Of Venue. Stars Peter Breck. After his brothers are killed, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer. |
| 06:30 | Life with the Lyons | 1954. Comedy. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon & Richard Lyon. Ben and Bebe Lyon, along with their family, move into a new home but face some unexpected teething problems. [S] |
| 08:10 | Don't Say Die | 1950. Comedy. Director: Vivian Milroy. Stars Charles Heap, Sandra Dome & Desmond Walter-Ellis. An Irish nobleman and his faithful butler attempt to regain a haunted castle. [S] |
| 09:20 | Moment of Indiscretion | 1958. Drama. Director: Max Varnel. Stars Ronald Howard, Lana Morris & John Van Eyssen. Not wanting to report a murder that she witnessed to her husband, Janet ends up being accused of the crime. [S] |
| 10:40 | The End of the Affair | 1955. Drama. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Stars Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson & John Mills. In WW2 London, a writer falls in love with the wife of a civil servant. Both men suspect her of infidelity. [S] |
| 12:50 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Sir Bliant. 1956. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Sir Bliant's three sons decide to break the truce King Arthur arranged between their father and Sir Rolf. [S] |
| 13:20 | Law and Disorder (1940) | 1940. Comedy/Crime. Directed by David MacDonald. Stars Alastair Sim, Barry K. Barnes & Diana Churchill. A young solicitor takes to defending successfully a number of thugs accused of sabotage. [S] |
| 14:55 | Cinebox Memories | Master the art of dancing and groove along to Vince Taylor as he performs Peppermint Twist. |
| 15:00 | Crown Court | The Woman Least Likely - Part 1. 1974. Stars David Ashford, William Mervyn & William Simons. Irene Rutland is in court facing charges of theft, criminal damage and wounding a police officer. [S] |
| 15:30 | Crown Court | The Woman Least Likely - Part 2. 1974. Stars Katharine Blake, David Troughton & Sara Clee. Linda Brightson accuses the defendant of taking her handbag but Mrs Rutland denies the charge. [S] |
| 16:00 | Crown Court | The Woman Least Likely - Part 3. 1974. Stars Griffith Jones, William Marlowe & David Ashford. Bryan Hodge admits that after the death of Irene's husband, she began to drink alcohol after work. [S] |
| 16:30 | The Naked Truth | 1957. Comedy. Director: Mario Zampi. Stars Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount & Dennis Price. Nigel Dennis, a magazine publisher, blackmails high-profile politicians & celebrities. |
| 18:20 | Strange But True? | Pet Healers/Muncaster Castle. 1995. Michael Aspel presents two unusual stories - the first, about a faith healer who treats pets and the other, about one of Britain's most haunted castles. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Brothers | Declarations of Independence. 1973. Stars Richard Easton, Hilary Tindall & Julia Goodman. Ted pressures Brian into keeping the firm afloat. Meanwhile, Barbara and her mother clash over Nicholas. [S] |
| 20:00 | Mark Saber | Bishops Sometimes Bite. 1958. Stars Donald Grey, Diana Decker & Colin Tapley. Crime fan Bishop of Tricester overhears a hit being planned and follows the man. His secretary calls Saber for help. [S] |
| 20:30 | The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club | ...Social Club. Episode 33. 1976. Alex Welch and His Jazz Band perform 'Sweet Georgie Brown', The Vernons sing 'Mama Temba's Wedding', Roger Whitaker and Saffron sing 'Last Farewell'. [S] |
| 21:20 | Killer Fish | 1979. Horror. Directed by Antonio Margheriti. Stars Lee Majors, Karen Black & Margaux Hemingway. Thieves try to recover treasure from piranha infested waters, but there's a traitor amongst them. [S] |
| 23:20 | The Deadly Affair | 1966. Thriller. Directed by Sidney Lumet Stars: James Mason, Simone Signoret. A British secret agent is puzzled by the sudden death of a man he's recently investigated. [S] |
Friday 24th April
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Friday 24th April
| 01:30 | Doomwatch | The Battery People. 1970. Stars Simon Oates, Jeremy Young & Emrys Jones. The Doomwatch team look into serious health issues experienced by workers at a Welsh factory farm. [S] |
| 02:30 | Penny Gold | 1973. Drama. Director Jack Cardiff. Stars James Booth, Francesca Annis & Nicky Henson. Mathew is determined to crack the murder of a young woman whose body is identified by her identical twin. [S] |
| 04:15 | Gold Is Where You... | Director: Francis Searle. Stars Eddie Byrne, Dermot Kelly. Steve returns to Ireland after 20 years a millionaire. When he gets drunk and loses his gold nuggets, everyone thinks there's a gold rush. |
| 04:45 | Look At Life | 1968. A short film following the work of the Coastguards who secure Britain's coasts. |
| 05:00 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed What's His Name? Directed by Don Taylor. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner. |
| 06:00 | Emergency Call | 1952. Drama. A young child must have a blood transfusion, but she has a rare blood group. Can a donor be found? Starring Jack Warner and Anthony Steel. [S] |
| 07:45 | To Have And To Hold | 1951. Drama. Director: Godfrey Grayson. Stars Avis Scott, Patrick Barr & Robert Ayres. Following a riding accident, a countryman spends his final days arranging the future security of his family. [S] |
| 09:00 | The Red House | 1947. Drama. Director Delmer Daves and starring Edward G Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson and Rory Calhoun. Two girls, when told not to, explore mysterious woodland and discover secrets. [S] |
| 11:00 | Poldark | 1996. Drama. Director: Richard Laxton. Stars John Bowe, Mel Martin, Michael Attwell. Set in the 19th century, this epic tale follows the Poldark family, their tangled destinies and a family feud. [S] |
| 13:05 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Playback. 1962. Directed by Quentin Lawrence. Stars Margit Saad, Barry Foster & Victoria Platt. A Police officer awaits a life-changing verdict and reflects on his own arrest. [S] |
| 14:15 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | A Guest for The Gallows. 1955. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Archie Duncan. For obvious reasons, Robin and the Sheriff are sworn enemies. Why then should the Sheriff seek Robin's help? [S] |
| 14:45 | Last Holiday | 1950. Drama. Directed by Henry Cass. Stars Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell & Kay Walsh. A salesman who learns he has months to live cashes in his savings to live in a fancy hotel. [S] |
| 16:30 | The Cheaters | The Man Who Wouldn't Be Paid. 1961. Stars John Ireland & Ian Fleming. Benjamin Clarke buys a rare book for a fraction of its real worth and puts himself at the mercy of his gold-digging family. [S] |
| 17:00 | Cactus Flower | 1969. Comedy. Directed by Gene Saks. Stars Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman & Goldie Hawn. A dentist convinces his assistant to pose as his wife so he can avoid marrying his girlfriend. [S] |
| 19:00 | Z-Cars | By the Book. 1963. Stars Joseph Brady, Brian Blessed & John Phillips. While Barlow leads the inquiry into the murder of an 8 year old boy, PC Weir and Smith are tasked with finding a green bike. [S] |
| 20:00 | Public Eye | 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. The Comedian's Graveyard. Stars Alfred Burke, Peter Badger & Mona Bruce. Frank is instructed to find a stage-struck teenager who has run away from home. [S] |
| 21:05 | The Reckless Moment | 1949. Drama. Director: Max Ophuls. Stars James Mason, Joan Bennett & Geraldine Brooks. Finding her daughter's lover dead, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal. |
| 22:45 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Caroline Munro opens the Cellar Club, introducing The Omega Factor! Enjoy this strange and supernatural series to begin tonight's show. [S] |
| 22:50 | The Omega Factor | The Undiscovered Country. 1979. Stars James Hazeldine, Louise Jameson & John Carlisle. John Crane is fascinated with the occult. He challenges the dangerous Drexil but comes to a tragic result. [S] |
| 23:50 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Up next, Caroline Munro is here to introduce the 1977 film, A Saint, A Woman, A Devil. [S] |
| 23:55 | A Saint, A Woman, A Devil | 1977. Drama. Director: Peter Savage. Stars Joanna Bell, Marc Stevens & Sonny Landham. Sylvia is a seemingly quiet and saintly person. But she is hiding a promiscuous multiple personality disorder. |
Saturday 25th April
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Saturday 25th April
| 01:45 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Caroline Munro closes the Cellar Club tonight, but not before giving us a peak into what is coming up next week. [S] |
| 01:50 | Too Young To Love | 1959. Directed by Muriel Box. Stars Jess Conrad, Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller & Austin Willis. Based on the play, Pickup Girl by Elsa Shelley. A story of a young girl's lapse into sex delinquency. [S] |
| 03:30 | As Long as They're Happy | 1955. Comedy. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Stars Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jean Carson. In England, an American singer causes havoc when he stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake. [S] |
| 05:20 | Look At Life | ... and Gold. 1969. A fascinating look at the challenge provided by the Duke Of Edinburgh's Award scheme to children in Britain. |
| 05:30 | Out of Town | Sweetheart Story/Tyring a Cart. 1986. Jack shows a film of a house sale he attended in Berkshire and recounts the story of two lovers at opposite ends of the Edwardian social ladder. [S] |
| 06:00 | Captain Scarlett | 1953. Adventure. Director: Thomas Carr. Stars Richard Greene, Leonora Amar & Manolo Fabregas. Scarlett returns to France to find the Duke of Corlaine seizing property and terrorising resistors. [S] |
| 07:35 | What's On TPTV With Noel | Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout April and May. [S] |
| 07:50 | Legend of the Hidden City | 1997. Stars Brendan Pollecutt, Fezile Mpela & Robert Finlayson. Things get scary for Dean and Thabo. They start to loose hope of returning safely. |
| 08:25 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Knight Errant. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Two sisters are left a small kingdom by the father, but the older girl is being set up to marry by her guardian. [S] |
| 09:00 | Batman | The Unkindest Tut of All. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Yvonne Craig. Tut fakes crime predictions to gain police trust, then lures them away to steal scrolls tied to a statue of cosmic power. [S] |
| 09:30 | The Roy Rogers Show | Johnny Rover. 1955. Stars Roy Rogers, Trigger and Dale Evans. A tyrannical Boston financier travels to Mineral City to confront his son and stirs up trouble. [S] |
| 10:00 | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons | Spectrum Strikes Back. 1967. Stars Sylvia Anderson, Ed Bishop & Paul Maxwell. Spectrum leaders go to a secret conference to present new anti-Mysteron devices, but the Mysterons plan to interfere. [S] |
| 10:30 | William Tell | The Surgeon. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Seriously wounded, Tell is taken to the home of a Swiss surgeon. To throw Gessler off their trail. [S] |
| 11:00 | The Buccaneers | Dangerous Cargo. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Sarah Lawson & Ivan Craig. Tempest is tasked with transferring a very important passenger to Barbados under the watchful eye of the Spanish. [S] |
| 11:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Scientist. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Alan Wheatley & Archie Duncan. A scientist who is being hunted down, after developing a terrifying new weapon, seeks Robin's help. [S] |
| 12:00 | Destination Space | 1959. Sci-fi. Directed by Joseph Penvey. Stars Harry Townes, John Agar & Charles Aidman. The U.S. attempts to launch a mission to the Moon, but the plan is disrupted when a meteor strikes. [S] |
| 13:05 | Dial 999 | Missing Person. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Barbara Steele & Vera Day. Maguire must adopt unusual tactics when the bodies of three girls are found in the Thames, with no obvious reason why. [S] |
| 13:35 | My Brother's Keeper | 1948. Thriller. Directed by Alfred Roome and starring Jack Warner, George Cole, David Tomlinson and Bill Owen. Two convicts escape, handcuffed to each other, and things get worse when they're seen. |
| 15:20 | Scotland Yard | 1961. The Never Never Murder. Directed by Peter Duffell. Starring Russell Napier, Genine Graham and Maurice Good. A dead body sets the police on the track of a fraudster. (S1, E37) |
| 16:00 | Whiplash | Stage for Two. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Leonard Teale & Peter Guest. Cobb is hijacked by a bank robber running from the law and his gang. When the gang catch up, it is unclear who is the threat. [S] |
| 16:30 | Reach For The Sky | 1956. War drama. Directed by Lewis Gilbert and stars Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow and Lyndon Brook. This is the true story of Douglas Bader, who loses his legs but returns to flight during WW2. [S] |
| 19:00 | Maigret | A Man Condemned. 1963. Stars Rupert Davies, Patricia Laffan & Terence de Marney. Tomorrow a man must die on the guillotine, unless Maigret can demolish the case he himself built up against him. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Duchess of Duke Street | For Love or Money. 1976. Stars Gemma Jones, Leigh Lawson & Angharad Rees. A con artist who is posing as a Baron, dupes a greedy American guest and seduces a lonely young bride. [S] |
| 21:05 | Honest, Decent and True | 1986. Drama. Director: Les Blair. Stars Derrick O'Connor & Adrian Edmondson. The launch of Chaser lager could be big if the Alun shows some commitment and Mike's lifestyle doesn’t catch up with him. |
| 23:00 | Fortean TV | 1997. Hosted by Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe. Tonight, meet a cow that some people believe to be holy, a couple who saw a vision of a 100 year old Monk and watch rare footage of the Swedish lake monster. |
| 23:35 | One Step Beyond | Emergency Only. 1959. Starring Lin McCarthy, Paula Raymond and Jocelyn Brando. Whilst at a party, Ellen predicts a series of events that tests a sceptical witness's belief to the full. [S] |
Sunday 26th April
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Sunday 26th April
| 00:10 | EuroTrash | 1994. Hosted by Antoine de Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier. Eurotrash are in Australia to meet Skippy, Australia's most famous and dextrous bush kangaroo who was immortalised in a TV series. |
| 00:45 | Borsalino & Co | 1974. Director: Jacques Deray. Stars Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla & Daniel Ivernel. Francois Capela of the Marseilles' Mafia is being buried and his friend Roch Siffredi swears to avenge him. |
| 02:55 | The Starlost | The Return - Part 2. 1973. Stars Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan & Robin Ward. The Ark's chief astronomer altered the ships course so he could study a comet: now the debris is seriously damaging the Ark. |
| 04:00 | A Lifetime Ago with The Baim Collection | ... Baim Collection. Magic Carpet. 1972. A look at the intricate process of making a carpet, including a visit to a carpet-weaving factory to observe the modern day methods. |
| 04:35 | Green Hornet Strikes Again | A Night of Terror. 1941. Starring: Wade Boteler. The racketeers are determined to hatch a scheme to destroy the Aluminium Products Company electric plant, & the Green Hornet wants to help them. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Lesser Breed. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. A village is being terrorised; King Arthur sends Sir Lancelot who discovers the Vikings are doing the terrorizing. [S] |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. The Flame and The Pussycat. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and stars Anne Francis. Honey and Sam must catch an arsonist to secure a contract with an insurance company. |
| 06:00 | Never Look Back | 1952. Drama. Director: Francis Searle. Stars Rosamund John, Hugh Sinclair, Guy Middleton. A female lawyer puts her reputation on the line to defend her ex-boyfriend who has been accused of murder. [S] |
| 07:30 | The Dark Road | 1948. Drama. Directed by Alfred J. Goulding. Stars Farnham Baxter, Cyril Chamberlain & Sydney Bromley. The story of Sidney Robertson and his rise from a petty thief to an underworld crime boss. [S] |
| 09:00 | Roy Rogers Brooklyn Buckaroo 1947 | 1947. Enjoy two charming songs from 1947 played and sung by Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. |
| 09:05 | The Desperate Mission | 1969. Western. Director: Earl Bellamy. Stars Ricardo Montalban, Slim Pickens & Roosevelt Grier. A man who has lost everything joins a group paid to relocate a wealthy man's wife to San Francisco. [S] |
| 10:55 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Another Neighbour. 1964. Stars Irene Ryan, Jean Willes & Susan Hart. The more prominent residents of Beverly Hills become more than a little affected when they sample Granny's spring tonic. [S] |
| 11:30 | Marilyn | 1953. Crime drama directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Maxwell Reed and Sandra Dorne. The wife of the garage owner is caught with the mechanic, when he is accidentally killed and a cover up begins. [S] |
| 12:50 | Batman | Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Yvonne Craig. Batman and Robin find out just how valuable their new ally is when they are hopelessly strung up in Penguin's lair. [S] |
| 13:25 | The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) | 1978. Crime. Director: Don Sharp. Stars Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, David Warner & John Mills. An engineer attempts to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination. [S] |
| 15:30 | Give Us A Clue | 1985. The classic game show Give us a Clue hosted by Michael Parkinson, this week's guests are Bella Emberg, William Gaunt, John Inman, Rula Lenska, Anna Quayle & Spike Milligan. [S] |
| 16:00 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Mad, Mad Tea Party Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Hemingway sabotages U.N.C.L.E HQ before a conference as Solo and Kuryakin race to stop a Thrush plot. [S] |
| 17:00 | The Footage Detectives | |
| 18:00 | Hannay | The Confidence Man. 1989. Stars Robert Powell, Diane Bull & Ron Pember. An East End gang demand protection money for Sal Alford's music-hall, she turns to Hannay for help. [S] |
| 19:00 | That's My Boy | To Catch a Thief. 1983. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. The TV set breaks down and a man arrives. Ida assumes he is a repair man, but she soon realises he is not! [S] |
| 19:30 | The Vise | Never Let Me Die. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Phil Brown & Kay Callard. Crime boss Vince thought he was invincible until Tom Duggan escapes jail and Vince is unable to flee the country. [S] |
| 20:00 | Sergeant Cork | The Case of the Pious Patriarch. 1964. Stars John Barrie, William Gaunt & Charles Morgan. Moral crusader calls on the help of Cork and Marriott after receiving a series of poison pen letters. [S] |
| 21:05 | Who Do You Do? | 1972. With Freddie Starr and Peter Goodwright, guest acts such as Barry Cryer, Paula Scott and Roger Kitter play a number of roles in a series of sketches and songs! [S] |
| 21:40 | Borsalino & Co | 1974. Director: Jacques Deray. Stars Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla & Daniel Ivernel. Francois Capela of the Marseilles' Mafia is being buried and his friend Roch Siffredi swears to avenge him. |
| 23:50 | The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read | A TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview. |
Monday 27th April
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Monday 27th April
| 00:55 | Gorgo | 1961. Sci-Fi. An undersea earthquake causes some sea-monsters to surface. Gorgo is captured and taken to be displayed in London, but Gorgo's mother is looking for her baby. Starring Bill Travers. [S] |
| 02:30 | Burke's Law | 1963. Who Killed Wade Walker? Directed by Stanley Z Cherry. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Wealthy Wade Walker is killed when his plane blows up in mid-air. |
| 03:30 | The Rogues | 1965. The Boston Money Party. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen. [S] |
| 04:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Intruders. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Rufus Cruikshank. Robin Hood discovers two students have been committing robberies in his name. Robin and Marian teach them both a lesson. [S] |
| 05:00 | The Buccaneers | Mr. Beamish and the Hangman's Noose. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond & Paul Hansard. A new governor arrives from England and arrests Beamish. A wary Tempest sets out to find answers. [S] |
| 05:30 | William Tell | Boy Slaves. 1958. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Can Tell trust the word of his enemy? He must, if he's to obtain the release of young boys whom Gessler is holding. [S] |
| 06:00 | Ghost Town Law | 1942. Western. Directed by Howard Bretherton. Stars Buck Jones, Tim McCoy & Raymond Hatton. When two U.S. marshals are killed, the Rough Riders are sent to a ghost town to hunt down the killers. [S] |
| 07:15 | Saloon Bar | 1940. Thriller. Director: Walter Forde. Stars: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan & Mervyn Johns. A group of pub locals set out to prove that a local is not guilty of murder to prevent a hanging. [S] |
| 08:45 | Look At Life | 1959. A look into British Railways' technology, how its changing and the phasing-out of coal-powered steam with oil-powered and electrified trains. |
| 09:00 | Star Performance: Marked Down | 1952. Director: William A. Seiter. Stars: Ida Lupino, Sarah Selby & Lyn Guild. A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. [S] |
| 09:35 | Bullet Scars | 1942. Crime Drama. Directed by D. Ross Lederman. Stars Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire & Howard Da Silva. A doctor and a nurse are forced to treat a wounded gangster who was injured during a robbery. [S] |
| 10:50 | Rebecca | 1940. Mystery. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders. A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. [S] |
| 13:25 | Richard the Lionheart | The Pirate King. 1962. Stars Dermot Walsh, Martin Benson & Trader Faulkner. Richard's skill at chess and duelling is put to the test when he is challenged by the infamous pirate Forked Beard. [S] |
| 13:55 | The Young Land | 1959. Western. Director: Ted Tetzlaff. Stars Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig & Dennis Hopper. American gunslinger kills a Mexican man. He is arrested and the Hispanic population wait for justice. |
| 15:45 | The Vise | Never Let Me Die. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Phil Brown & Kay Callard. Crime boss Vince thought he was invincible until Tom Duggan escapes jail and Vince is unable to flee the country. [S] |
| 16:20 | The Bargee | 1964. Comedy. Directed by Duncan Wood. Stars Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith & Ronnie Barker. The film charts the course of love of a Casanova who lives and works on the canals, breaking hearts. [S] |
| 18:30 | The Veil | The Vestris. 1958. Stars Boris Karloff, Torin Thatcher & Rita Lynn. A ship captain's wife has a vivid vision at sea urging him to change course before tragedy strikes. |
| 19:00 | The Footage Detectives | The Footage Detectives are joined by stunt man extraordinaire Paul Weston, who has some brilliant stories on behind the scenes of Z-Cars Sergeant Cork and Gideons Way. [S] |
| 20:00 | Francis Durbridge's: Bat Out of Hell | ... Bat Out of Hell. 1966. Stars Sylvia Syms, John Thaw & Dudley Foster. A cigarette case, that Diana has never seen, appears in her coat. The police know the body is not Geoffrey. |
| 20:30 | Lost Command | 1966. Action. Director: Mark Robson. Stars Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon & George Segal. French Army colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers into battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina. |
| 23:05 | Open Fire | 1994. Crime. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Stars Rupert Graves, Kate Hardie & Jim Carter. A compelling drama capturing the life of one of Britain's most wanted men during the 1980s - David Martin. [S] |
Tuesday 28th April
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Tuesday 28th April
| 01:15 | Salome | 1953. Drama. Directed by William Dieterle. Stars Rita Hayworth & Stewart Granger. Princess Salome is banished from Rome and returns to meet John the Baptist, whom she tries to save from execution. [S] |
| 03:20 | Hunting Venus | 1999. Comedy. Directed by and stars Martin Clunes. Also featuring Neil Morrissey & Jane Horrocks. A one-hit-wonder 1980s band are forced against their will to re-form for one last performance. [S] |
| 05:20 | Look At Life | 1959. Driving school tuition, including the innovative mock-up car, the junior driver course and the training of police drivers and London Bus drivers. |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. King Of The Mountain. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. Honey goes undercover as a nurse. |
| 06:00 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | The Secessionist. 1956. Stars Scott Forbes, Robert Lynn, Robert Ellis. A friend of Jim's is asked by President Andrew Jackson to dissuade a group of French planters out of seceding from the Union. [S] |
| 06:35 | Look At Life | 1959. Made in the 60s. Narrated by Sidney James - a day in the life of a 'dusty' and an insight at the particular problems of refuse disposal. |
| 06:45 | Jane Eyre | 1997. Drama. Directed by Robert Young. Stars Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds & Gemma Jones. A young woman's life is shattered when scandals are revealed on the day she is to marry her employer. [S] |
| 09:00 | Star Performance | The Doctor and the Countess. 1954. Drama. Directed by Roy Kellino. Stars Charles Boyer, Paula Raymond & Carleton Young. A plastic surgeon is asked to disfigure the face of a countess. [S] |
| 09:30 | The Frightened Man | 1952. Crime Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray & Thora Hird. Julius (Walsh) is sent down from Oxford to join a gang of jewel thieves who plan a foolhardy raid. [S] |
| 10:50 | Run Wild, Run Free | 1969. Drama. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian. Stars John Mills, Sylvia Syms & Gordon Jackson. A psychosomatically mute young boy finds an emotional release through his love for a wild white colt. [S] |
| 12:55 | William Tell | The Assassins. 1958. Stars Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Swiss collaborators, arrested by Gessler for murder, are given a chance to save their necks from the noose. [S] |
| 13:25 | The Stranger | 1946. Drama nominated for an Oscar. Directed by Orson Welles. A war crimes investigator is on the trail of an infamous Nazi. Stars Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson & Loretta Young. [S] |
| 15:20 | Look At Life | 1959. A look into different styles of dancing and how they have changed. Also, a look at the ballroom championships, showing that, there indeed, is a dance for everybody. |
| 15:30 | That Beryl Marston! | Say It with Flowers. 1981. Comedy. Stars Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt & Jonathon Morris. The owner of a novelty shop in Brighton begins to suspect that her husband is having an affair. [S] (S1, E1) |
| 16:00 | Brad Pitt: More Than a Pretty Face | 2022. Director: Adrien Denouette, Thibaut Seve. Dive into the brain of a complex, brilliant and endearing personality, far from the cliche of a world famous movie icon. |
| 17:05 | The Sicilians | 1964. Crime. Stars Robert Hutton, Reginald Marsh & Ursula Howells. An aide at the U.S. Embassy finds himself involved with Scotland Yard and the French police after a mafia boss' son is kidnapped. [S] |
| 18:25 | Whiplash | Sarong. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Anthony Wickert & Joe McCormick. Cobb escorts a group of women on their way to take up servant duties but he is concerned about the honesty of the man organizing. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Mad, Mad Tea Party Affair. 1965. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Hemingway sabotages U.N.C.L.E HQ before a conference as Solo and Kuryakin race to stop a Thrush plot. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder | 1969. The Strange Case. Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard & Mona Bruce. Reeder is involved in a duel of wits with Lassard, who has accused the son of Lord Sellington of stealing £5000. [S] |
| 21:00 | Murders In... | Murders in Sarlat - Meurtres à Sarlat. 2017. Director: Delphine Lemoine. Stars Cecile Bois & Thierry Godard. The son of the region's largest manufacturer of preserved foods has been murdered. [S] |
| 23:00 | The Story of Esther Costello | 1957. Drama. Director: David Miller. Stars Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears. A wealthy woman with a broken marriage finds purpose after taking in a young, deaf and blind girl. [S] |
Wednesday 29th April
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Wednesday 29th April
| 01:00 | Hot Money | 2001. Crime Drama. Directed by Terry Winsor. Stars Caroline Quentin, Melanie Hill & Georgia Mackenzie. Three women plot to steal thousands of pounds from the Bank of England's incinerators. [S] |
| 03:05 | Marked Men | 1940. Crime. Director: Sam Newfield. Stars Warren Hull, Isabel Jewell & Paul Bryar. A young medical-school graduate escapes prison and finds a small haven in Arizona until gangsters show up. [S] |
| 04:15 | Look At Life | 1960. A look into what it takes to replenish an 83,000 ton liner, the Queen Elizabeth, before her next voyage. |
| 04:30 | Target: The Corruptors | One for the Road. 1961. Stars Stephen McNally, Robert Harland & Harold J. Stone. Investigative reporters Paul Marino & Jack Flood investigate various cases of industrial corruption. (S1, E16) |
| 05:30 | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Continental Touch. 1964. Stars Buddy Ebson, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas. Elly learns how to be a lady at the old dress boutique and Drysdale mistakes her for royalty. [S] |
| 06:00 | A Good Read with Mike Read | The Ides of March - Part 2. Mike Read continues with the second part of the fascinating tale The Ides of March in which Bunny becomes involved in a life of crime as Raffles' junior partner. |
| 06:40 | Road to Bali | 1952. Comedy. Directed by Hal Walker. Stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope & Dorothy Lamour. Two vaudeville performers accept diving work in Bali and find treasure, love and trouble along the way. [S] |
| 08:30 | The Vise | One Just Man. 1954. Stars Joan Haythorne & Alexander Knox. Judge Craig had always been ruthless to the criminals he sentenced but when dealing with his own family will he be as unrelenting? [S] |
| 09:00 | Four Star Playhouse | 1953. Drama. Director: Robert Florey. Stars Merle Oberon, Gordon Oliver & Barbara Billingsley. A woman secretly gets a hearing aid, then learns of her husband's affair and his plan to murder her. [S] |
| 09:35 | Becoming Cary Grant | 2017. Director: Mark Kidel. Cary Grant, one of Hollywood's greatest stars, was troubled most of his life with self doubt and insecurity. In his fifties he began taking LSD to exorcise his demons. [S] |
| 10:40 | The Passing Stranger | 1954. Drama. Directed by John Arnold. Stars Diane Cilento, Lee Patterson & Duncan Lamont. Diane Cilento runs a café in a small English town and is swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger. [S] |
| 12:00 | It Happened In Soho | 1948. Drama. Director: Frank Chisnell. Stars Richard Murdoch, Patricia Raine & Henry Oscar. Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl. [S] |
| 13:00 | The Buccaneers | The Slave Ship. 1956. Stars Robert Shaw, Roy Purcell & Earl Cameron. Three slaves escape and take to the sea where they capture a ship for themselves, but they know the British will soon catch up. [S] |
| 13:30 | The Lamp Still Burns | 1943. Drama. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars Rosamund John, Stewart Granger, Godfrey Tearle. Architect Hilary Clark decides to become a nurse. Follow her battle between her heart and her vocation. [S] |
| 15:15 | Look At Life | August 1959. A look at the modern phenomenon of the well-equipped motor coach, with a view of life from the back of a coach with a tour of Blackpool and Italy with young Eric. |
| 15:30 | Dial 999 | Night Mail. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Marianne Benet & Victor Brooks. Maguire works with the railway police to track down a gang that has stolen mail from a London to Glasgow train. [S] |
| 16:00 | My Brother's Keeper | 1948. Thriller. Directed by Alfred Roome and starring Jack Warner, George Cole, David Tomlinson and Bill Owen. Two convicts escape, handcuffed to each other, and things get worse when they're seen. |
| 17:45 | Danger By My Side | 1963. Crime. Stars Anthony Oliver, Maureen Connell, Bill Nagy. With the help of the Met police a girl tracks down the killers of her detective brother. [S] |
| 19:00 | Out of Town | Annual Agricultural Show/Pheasant Shooting. 1981. Jack visits an agricultural show to watch a display of trade carts before going on to a pheasant shoot at Gurston Down near Salisbury Plain. [S] |
| 19:30 | Scotland Yard | 1959. The Ghost Train Murder. Directed by Geoffrey Muller. Starring Russell Napier, Gorgon Needham and Mary Laura Wood. A Hungarian girl is found murdered; stabbed by knitting needles. (S1, E31) |
| 20:05 | Buccaneer | Feet of Clay. 1980. Stars Bryan Marshall, Clifford Rose & Pamela Salem. Burton plots to exploit Redair's finances. The Britannia may be being tampered with. [S] |
| 21:10 | Odd Man Out | 1947. Thriller. Director: Carol Reed. Stars Robert Newton, James Mason, Fay Compton & William Hartnell. Johnny McQueen, the idealist leader of an illegal organisation, has escaped from prison. |
| 23:30 | The Siege of Sidney Street | 1960. Drama. Directors: Monty Berman & Robert S. Baker. Stars Donald Sinden & Nicole Berger. As armed police surround a house in East London, a girl recalls the events that lead to the situation. [S] |
Thursday 30th April
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Thursday 30th April
| 01:25 | The Weak and the Wicked | 1954. Drama. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Stars Glynis Johns, Diana Dors & John Gregson. A powerful drama about the lives of several inmates within a women's prison. [S] |
| 03:10 | The Alien Factor | 1978. A spaceship containing dangerous specimens crashes on earth near a small backwards town. Directed by Don Dohler, his first film. |
| 04:40 | Stagecoach West | A Time To Run. Western starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer & Cesar Romero. A wounded man tries to hijack Luke's stagecoach, but passes out from loss of blood before he can ride away. [S] |
| 05:40 | Rover Cars 1931 | 1931. A charming short about the Rover Company's cars. Learn how they were built, watch safety checks and the delivery of the final product. |
| 06:00 | Black Saddle | 1959. Blood Money. Stars Peter Breck. After his brothers are killed, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer. |
| 06:30 | Somewhere on Leave | 1943. War Comedy. Stars Frank Randle, Harry Korris & Dan Young. Wealthy Private Roy takes his soldier friends Randle, Enoch and Young to his palatial home to help him get his dream girl. [S] |
| 08:20 | Scotland Yard | 1953. The Missing Man. Directed by Ken Hughes. Stars Tristan Rawson & Evelyn Moore. The Dream of a Retired Vicar's wife sets police on the trail of a man who has been missing since 1938. (S1, E2) |
| 09:00 | Four Star Playhouse: Award | 1955. Drama. Directed by Roy Kellino. Stars Ida Lupino & Franchot Tone. After failing her first Broadway attempt, a famous movie actress must complete a challenge before she is granted help. [S] |
| 09:30 | The Quiet Woman | 1951. Crime drama directed By John Gilling and starring Derek Bond, Jane Hylton and Dora Bryan. A proprietress of a country inn becomes involved with smugglers. [S] |
| 11:00 | Pit of Darkness | 1961. Crime drama. A partner of a safe making firm is found unconscious on a bomb site. A large safe his company installed has been robbed. Starring William Franklyn and Nigel Green. [S] |
| 12:35 | Pete Murray Takes You To Coventry | 1983. See the beautiful sights and fascinating scenes of Coventry as Pete Murray travels through this historical city. |
| 13:00 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | The Magic Sword. 1956. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. When he announces that Sir Lancelot's sword has magical powers, Merlin courts trouble. [S] |
| 13:30 | Highway to Battle | 1961. Thriller. Directed by Ernest Morris. Stars Gerard Heinz, Margaret Tyzack & Ferdy Mayne. Before WWII, a German ambassador starts to rethink his Nazi allegiance, but is it too late to escape? [S] |
| 14:50 | Look At Life | 1959. A look into London's street markets, who are suffering to compete with today's modern supermarkets and their convenience. |
| 15:00 | Crown Court | The Assault on Choga Sar - Part 1. 1974. Stars William Mervyn, John Flanagan & David Ashford. Two mountaineers died in an unsuccessful attempt to scale the Choga Sar in the Himalayas. [S] |
| 15:30 | Crown Court | The Assault on Choga Sar - Part 2. 1974. Stars Keith Buckley, John Flanagan & Kenneth Cope. Captain Bowman claims that Wainwright lied about Nielsen dying in a fall... [S] |
| 16:00 | Crown Court | The Assault on Choga Sar - Part 3. 1974. Stars William Mervyn, John Flanagan & Keith Buckley. Lloyd accuses the group of blaming Wainwright for Bowman's failures that lead to the two deaths. [S] |
| 16:30 | Beyond Christmas | 1940. Drama. Director: A Edward Sutherland. Stars Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith & Charles Winninger. The ghosts of three victims of an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple. [S] |
| 18:05 | Look At Life | 1959. A look into the going on's, the experiences and the atmosphere at the races on Derby Day at Epsom Downs. |
| 18:20 | Strange But True? | Miracles. 1995. For two thousand years miracle stories have been part of Christian tradition. Michael Aspel introduces two case studies of what believers claim are modern day miracles. [S] |
| 18:55 | The Brothers | Errors of Judgement. 1973. Stars Jean Anderson, Patrick O'Connell & Jonathan Newth. Hammond Transport is struggling. Brian and Edward attempt to conceal the company's debt from the board members. [S] |
| 20:00 | Mark Saber | Short, Dark and Handsome. 1958. Stars Donald Grey, Diana Decker & Colin Tapley. Tommy Wilson is set up to take the fall for a murder. Mark Saber is asked to help and he thinks someone is lying. [S] |
| 20:30 | The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club | ...Social Club. Episode 34. 1976. The Swinging Blue Jeans sing 'Hippy, Hippy Shake' and 'You're No Good'. Bernie Clifton and Madame also star. [S] |
| 21:20 | Flic Story | 1975. Drama. Director: Jacques Deray. Stars Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant & Renato Salvatori. The hunt for a seasoned killer becomes a matter of life for a policeman. |
| 23:35 | And Then There Were None (1974) | 1974. Thriller. Director: Peter Collinson. Stars Charles Aznavour, Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough & Herbert Lom. Ten people are invited to a hotel and are accused of murder. [S] |
Friday 1st May
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Friday 1st May
| 01:35 | Doomwatch | You Killed Toby Wren. 1970. Stars Robert Powell, Vivien Sherrard & Elizabeth Weaver. Toby Wren's death throws the team into chaos and troubles Quist. Ridge investigates genetic experiments. [S] |
| 02:35 | Harold Shipman: Dr. Death | 2001. Drama. Directed by Roger Bamford. Stars Michael Stainton & Olive Pendleton. Compelling drama based on the real life story of the respected doctor who became Britain's biggest serial killer. [S] |
| 04:30 | Tell Me Another | True Stories About Family and Relations. 1976. Personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills. This episode stars Arthur Askey, Michael Bentine and Diana Dors. [S] |
| 05:00 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Madison Cooper? Directed by Jeffrey Hayden. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. A shady attorney carrying a lot of money is murdered after making a telephone call. |
| 06:00 | Woman to Woman | 1947. Drama. Director: Maclean Rogers. Stars Douglass Montgomerty & Joyce Howard. An amnesiac adopts his forgotten daughter from a past relationship when his wife is unable to have children. |
| 07:55 | Road to the Isles 1946 | 1946. Enjoy a fascinating journey through the Isles of Scotland. See the River Ness, the village of Dornie, the beautiful Armadale Castle and so much more. |
| 08:35 | The Rossiter Case | 1951. Drama. Directed by Francis Searle. Stars Helen Shingler, Clement McCallin & Sheila Burrell. After an accident results in her paralysis, a woman fears that her husband will abandon her. [S] |
| 10:10 | The Writing on the Wall | Mike Read embarks on an intriguing journey exploring the Blue Plaques across Britain, bringing to life the numerous people who have contributed something unique to the making of our country. [S] |
| 11:15 | The Bells Go Down | 1943. Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars Tommy Trinder, James Mason & Philip Friend. A bettor, a bridegroom, and a thief volunteer for the London Auxiliary Fire Service during World War Two. [S] |
| 13:05 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Locker Sixty-Nine. 1962. Directed by Norman Harrison. Stars Eddie Byrne, Paul Daneman & Penelope Horner. A private detective is knocked unconscious after finding the body of his employer. [S] |
| 14:15 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Challenge. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Archie Duncan. Little John and Friar Tuck capture a knight, but are concerned about his value judging by his equipment. [S] |
| 14:45 | Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer | 1956. Western. Directed by Albert C. Gannaway & Ismael Rodríguez. Stars Bruce Bennett & Lon Chaney Jr. Frontiersman Daniel Boone and his family fight for survival when his settlement is attacked. [S] |
| 16:20 | Look At Life | 1959. Following the reflections of a student nurse over her three years of training. |
| 16:30 | The Cheaters | Libel. 1961. Stars John Ireland & Philip Latham. Two investment brokers sue a newspaper for an article claiming they worked for the Nazis. Eastern Insurance must prove the story is not libellous. [S] |
| 17:00 | The Card | 1952. Comedy. Director: Ronald Neame. Stars Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns & Valerie Hobson. A man finds ways to rise through the ranks in business and social standing, some honest, some not. [S] |
| 18:50 | Look At Life | 1959. A look at the changes being made at Hyde Park Corner in London, in particular the construction of a new underpass. |
| 19:00 | Z-Cars | Quiet Confidence. 1963. Stars Jean Alexander, Bernard Archard & Stephen Ashworth. Fancy Smith makes a visit to the father of young smoker Lonnie Charlton, a disturbed man with a big secret. [S] |
| 20:00 | Public Eye | 1969. Detective & Mystery Drama. A Fixed Address. Stars Philip Brack, Alfred Burke & Pauline Delaney. Mrs Mortimer's ex-husband calls and disrupts the routine of the household. [S] |
| 21:05 | The Reckless Moment | 1949. Drama. Director: Max Ophuls. Stars James Mason, Joan Bennett & Geraldine Brooks. Finding her daughter's lover dead, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal. |
| 22:45 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Join Caroline Munro as she introduces the second episode of The Omega Factor - Visitations, a frightening episode with paranormal happenings and murder. [S] |
| 22:50 | The Omega Factor | Visitations. 1979. Stars James Hazeldine, Louise Jameson & John Carlisle. Tom gets involved in one of Department 7's investigations and curious things result in a murder and paranormal goings on. [S] |
| 23:50 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Continuing into the feature film of this week, Caroline Munro introduces the 1964 film Castle of the Living Dead. [S] |
| 23:55 | Castle of the Living Dead | 1964. Horror. Director: Warren Kiefer & Luciano Ricci. Stars Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani & Philippe Leroy. Count Drago invites guests to his castle, unaware that he mummifies animals and humans. [S] |
Saturday 2nd May
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Saturday 2nd May
| 01:45 | Cellar Club with Caroline Munro | Take a look at what is on next week at the Cellar Club with Caroline Munro. [S] |
| 01:50 | Planespotting | 2005. Drama. Director: Christopher Menaul. Stars Lesley Sharp, Mark Benton & Ross Boatman. A group of aircraft enthusiasts are wrongly convicted of spying during a plane spotting trip to Greece. [S] |
| 03:45 | Port of New York | 1949. Drama. Director: Laslo Benedek. Stars Scott Brady, Yul Brynner & Richard Rober. Two narcotics agents go after killer drug dealers who use the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband. [S] |
| 05:30 | Out of Town | Forest Fire/Farm Sale/Fishing in a Gale. 1986. Jack Hargreaves reflects on his large collection of country films made during his long career in television and chooses three more to show us. [S] |
| 06:00 | The Case of Charles Peace | 1949. Drama. Made at Merton Park Studios, based on a true story, directed by Norman Lee. The film recounts the exploits through the trial of Charles Peace. Starring Michael Martin-Harvey. [S] |
| 07:45 | ABC Refreshment Time Carousel | A short glimpse at some confectionery available to enjoy at the cinema. |
| 07:50 | Legend of the Hidden City | 1997. Stars Brendan Pollecutt, Fezile Mpela & Robert Finlayson. The boys return after a great victory and Nina is saved from the tribe and taken to the Lord. |
| 08:25 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Double Identity. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Sir Richard is waylaid just as he is set to marry Lady Margret. Sir Lancelot suspect foul play. [S] |
| 09:00 | Batman | Louie, The Lilac. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Yvonne Craig. Louie the Lilac has cornered the flower market in Gotham City, hoping to gain control over the entire ''flower generation''. [S] |
| 09:30 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | Hawkeye's Homecoming. 1957. Directed by Sidney Salkow. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Michael Ansara. Hawkeye finds out that his brother has joined the British army and is now a 'redcoat'. [S] |
| 10:00 | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons | Special Assignment. 1967. Stars Paul Maxwell, Francis Matthews & David Healy. Captain Scarlet is dismissed for gambling offences just as the Mysterons threaten to obliterate North America. [S] |
| 10:30 | William Tell | The Ensign. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. When faced with conflict between duty and conscience, Fritz, a Austrian soldier, unexpectedly turns not to Gessler. [S] |
| 11:00 | The Buccaneers | The Return of Calico Jack. 1957. Stars Brian Worth, Jan Miller & Anne Blake. Calico Jack arrives in the colony while Tempest is away on business, resulting in tension between the two crews. [S] |
| 11:30 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Blackmail. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Bernadette O'Farrell & Ian Hunter. A stranger attempts to blackmail Robin after overhearing an important conversation he had with Lady Marian. [S] |
| 12:00 | Teenagers from Outer Space | 1959. Sci-fi. Directed by Tom Graeff. Stars David Love, Dawn Bender & Bryan Grant. A teenage girl teams up with a young alien to prevent Earth from becoming a breeding ground for giant lobsters. [S] |
| 13:40 | Ski Troop Attack | 1960. Action. Director: Roger Corman. Stars Michael Forest, Frank Wolff & Wally Campo. An American patrol must cross enemy lines to blow up a railroad bridge. The task is made harder by attacks. |
| 14:55 | Le Poulet | Le Poulet (The Chicken). 1965. A child becomes attached to a chicken. To stop his parents from eating it, he places an egg near the animal every morning, making it seem like a hen. |
| 15:15 | The Last Film Show | The Last Film Show. A fascinating short film about the end of the era of the Silver Screen, through the poignant eye of Howard Stean. |
| 15:30 | Dial 999 | Illegal Entry. 1958. Stars Robert Beatty, Walter Gotell & Adrienne Corri. Maguire gains insight into a recent wave of robberies after a man is arrested for skulking around on the roof of a shop. [S] |
| 16:00 | Whiplash | The Bone that Whispered. 1961. Stars Peter Graves, Anthony Wickert & Nigel Lovell. Mystery ensues when Chris Cobb gets word that one of his stages has been robbed and the driver is probably dead. [S] |
| 16:35 | From Here to Eternity | 1953. Drama. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Stars Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift & Deborah Kerr. A private is punished for refusing to join a boxing team. Meanwhile a torrid love affair is occurring. |
| 18:55 | Cinebox Memories | Join the amazing Vince Taylor as he performs the entrancing hit Twenty Flight Rock. |
| 19:00 | Maigret | The Flemish Shop. 1963. Stars Rupert Davies, Margaret Tyzack & Joyce Carey. Maigret discovers similarities between himself and a killer, finding there is only one way to gain a confession. [S] |
| 20:00 | The Duchess of Duke Street | A Lady of Virtue. 1976. Stars Gemma Jones, Robert Hardy & Elizabeth Shepherd. A Liberal politician convinces a colleague that he can seduce a married lady of impeccable virtue. [S] |
| 21:05 | Play for Today: Leeds United! | Leeds United! 1974. Stars Lynne Perrie, Elizabeth Spriggs & Lori Wells. The true story of a strike by female factory workers fighting for equal pay from their trade union in 1970. |
| 23:20 | Fortean TV | 1997. Hosted by Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe. Tonight unveil that story of how Hitler's hair came to life, unravel the secret talents of Taiwan's human magnets and uncover the lost city of ancient Egypt. |
| 23:55 | EuroTrash | 1994. Hosted by Antoine de Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier. EuroTrash goes down under to meet Australia’s queen of yodelling and to explore the TV show responsible for the career of Kylie Minogue. |
Sunday 3rd May
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Sunday 3rd May
| 00:30 | Ski Troop Attack | 1960. Action. Director: Roger Corman. Stars Michael Forest, Frank Wolff & Wally Campo. An American patrol must cross enemy lines to blow up a railroad bridge. The task is made harder by attacks. |
| 01:45 | Brad Pitt: More Than a Pretty Face | 2022. Director: Adrien Denouette, Thibaut Seve. Dive into the brain of a complex, brilliant and endearing personality, far from the cliche of a world famous movie icon. |
| 02:50 | The Lawless Years | The Nick Joseph Story. 1959. Stars James Gregory, Vic Morrow & Jan Merlin. Ruditsky flips an ex-con to expose a new racketeering play. |
| 03:20 | The Starlost | Deception - Part 1. 1973. Stars Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan & Robin Ward. The trio blunder into a sealed, highly industrialised biosphere. The city is ruled by a paranoid leader preparing for war. |
| 04:25 | Look At Life | 1960. A look into what it takes to replenish an 83,000 ton liner, the Queen Elizabeth, before her next voyage. |
| 04:35 | Green Hornet Strikes Again | Shattering Doom. 1941. Stars Warren Hull. Two reporters are sent to the border where they uncover a group of smugglers. The Green Hornet forces them to reveal the warehouse with explosive results! [S] |
| 05:00 | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot | Witches Brew. 1957. Stars William Russell, Cyril Smith & Ronald Leigh-Hunt. A woman with mystical powers convinces King Bors she is working evil. Merlin is enlisted against these powers. [S] |
| 05:30 | Honey West | 1965. A Neat Little Package. Classic crime series produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Anne Francis. A newsdealer survives a car wreck with amnesia and a mysterious $175,000. |
| 06:00 | Stars In Your Eyes | 1956. Musical. Directed by Maurice Elvey. Stars Nat Jackley, Pat Kirkwood & Bonar Colleano. A group of talented entertainers band together to purchase a run-down theatre to put on a show. [S] |
| 07:55 | The Hostage | 1956. Drama. A South American revolutionary is facing death for murder but the President's daughter in London is taken hostage. Starring Ron Randell. [S] |
| 09:25 | House of Blackmail | 1953. Crime. Directed by Maurice Elvey. An Army officer (William Sylvester) and Carol (Mary Germaine) must solve the murder of a blackmailer or be charged themselves. [S] |
| 10:50 | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Bank Raising. 1964. Stars Buddy Ebsen, Raymond Bailey & Lester Matthews. Invited to the groundbreaking for a new bank, the Clampetts confuse the event with an old-fashioned barn raising. [S] |
| 11:25 | Kentucky Rifle | 1955. Western. Directed by Carl K. Hittleman. Stars Chill Wills & Lance Fuller. While escorting a wagon of rifles, a cowboy must find a way to outsmart the Comanche Indians who plan to steal them. [S] |
| 13:00 | Batman | Ring Around the Riddler. 1967. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig & Joan Collins. The Riddler challenges Batman to a fight in a boxing champion. The Riddler has no plans to play fair. [S] |
| 13:30 | Smokescreen (1964) | 1964. Drama. Directed by Jim O'Connolly. Starring Peter Vaughan, John Carson & Yvonne Romain. A blazing car goes over the cliff to the east of Brighton. Suspicions mount when no body can be found. [S] |
| 15:00 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | The Coming of Robin Hood. 1955. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Alan Wheatley. When Robin of Locksley returns home from the Holy Land, he finds Normans are in control everywhere. [S] |
| 15:30 | Give Us A Clue | 1985. The classic game show Give us a Clue hosted by Michael Parkinson, this week's guests are Ronald Allen, Janet Brown, Leslie Crowther, Sue Lloyd, Hank Marvin & Julie Rogers. [S] |
| 16:00 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E | The Secret Sceptre Affair. 1968. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Solo is on a personal mission to help Morgan, who was Solo's commanding officer during the Korean War. [S] |
| 17:00 | The Footage Detectives | Enjoy exclusive and rare footage from the 1968 premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang featuring Dick Van Dyke, as well as a great reel of Melbourne's street cleaners in 1964. [S] |
| 18:00 | Hannay | The Bells of Shoreditch. 1989. Stars: Robert Powell, Paul Rogers & Karen Archer. When his goddaughter is jilted on her wedding day, Hannay finds himself searching for a missing bridegroom. [S] |
| 19:00 | That's My Boy | Go Jump in the Fountain. 1983. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. Angie insists Robert should go out ''with the boys'', not knowing how far out of his rut he will get! [S] |
| 19:30 | The Vise | Side Entrance. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, John Loder & Thea Gregory. Tom wants a divorce. He pretends to go to Paris but he sneaks back to murder his wife and frame it as Barney. [S] |
| 20:00 | Sergeant Cork | The Case of the Vengeful Garnet. 1964. Stars John Barrie, William Gaunt & Charles Morgan. Sergeant Cork is a victim of a minor crime when his wallet was stolen but things take a serious turn. [S] |
| 21:05 | Who Do You Do? | 1972. With Freddie Starr and Peter Goodwright, guest acts such as Janet Brown, Johnny More and Bazz Harris play a number of roles in a series of sketches and songs! [S] |
| 21:40 | The Devil's Hand | 1961. Horror. Directed by William J. Hole Jr. Stars Linda Christian, Robert Alda & Ariadne Welter. A man, haunted by visions of a beautiful woman, winds up in a Satanic cult after meeting her. [S] |
| 23:10 | The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read | A TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview. |
