Talking Pictures TV Programme Schedule
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July 9th to 15th
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TPTV Schedule July 9th to 15th 2018
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1954. Passenger to Tokyo. Director: Ken Hughes. Stars Kenneth Henry, Ken Marshall & Peter Penn. An unusual operation helps track down the killer of a wealthy woman sent to Tokyo in a trunk. (S1, E10) |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 6:35 | 20 Questions Murder Mystery | 1950. Crime. Director: Paul L. Stein. Stars Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson & Clifford Evans. Someone sends in a question to the B.B.C.'s 20 Questions" programme prior to committing a crime" |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 8:25 | Port of Escape | 1956. Crime drama directed by Anthony Young. Two men on the run hide out in a Thames boat and take the woman owner hostage. Starring Bill Kerr, Googie Withers and Joan Hickson. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Return of Frank James | 1940. Western. Director: Fritz Lang. Stars Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney & Jackie Cooper. When Jesse James's murderers are set free, his brother Frank vows revenge. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 11:50 | Death Drums Along the River | 1963. Adventure. Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Stars Richard Todd, Marianne Koch & Albert Lieven. Inspector Sanders is investigating a murder in an African hospital when he is lead to a silver mine |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 13:30 | Home to Danger | 1951. Crime directed by Terence Fisher. Barbara (Rona Anderson) returns from abroad after her father's suicide. A changed will leaves Barbara in mortal danger. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 14:50 | Who Goes Next | 1938. War. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart & Jack Hawkins. During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Andy Zygmunt? Directed by Don Taylor. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Pop artist Andy Zygmunt is fatally impaled on the spikes of one of his creations. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1963. Undesirable Neighbour. Stars Vanda Godsell & Bridget Armstrong. Based on a real case, a newly married woman becomes very friendly with her male neighbours. (S1, E5) |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 18:05 | Marlborough Theatre, Holloway 1962 – Glimpses | Glimpses: Rare footage of Holloway in the 1960s and the sad demolition of the iconic theatre in 1962. The Last film to play there was 'Hell Drivers' in 1957. Filmed by Wilf Watters. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 18:10 | Spare the Rod | 1961. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen & Donald Pleasence. A new teacher arrives at an East London school to find that his modern education methods are not welcome. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Gentle Touch | Shock. 1980. Directed by Tony Wharmby. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. When a woman is found dead in a 'love nest', Det. Insp. Maggie Forbes is handed the case. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 21:00 | Dead Man's Kit | 1980. Thriller. Directed by Colin Bucksey and starring Larry Lamb, Cherie Lunghi, Philip Locke and Clive Merrison. An investigation into a strange death gets more complicated when another body appears |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 22:45 | Dulcima | 1971. Drama. Director: Frank Nesbitt. Stars John Mills, Carol White & Stuart Wilson. Dulcima, a girl treated as a drudge by her family, lifts herself from her environment by becoming a housekeeper. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 0:45 | Hoodlum | 1951. Crime drama. Directed by Max Nosseck and starring Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts and Marjorie Riordan. Career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust. (Subtitles Available) |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 2:00 | Damnation Alley | 1977. Sci-Fi. Director Jack Smight. Stars Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard and Dominique Sanda. A group who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the wasteland hoping to find survivors. |
| Mon 09 Jul 18 | 3:50 | Hungry Hill | 1947. Drama. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price & Cecil Parker. Tragedy hits the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud that has lasted for 50 years. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1955. Night Plane to Amsterdam. Director: Ken Hughes. Stars Gerald Case, Shay Gorman, Selma Vas Dias & Andreas Malandrinos. The case of a murder which baffled the police of two countries. (S1, E11) |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Down Among The Z Men | 1952. Comedy directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Michael Bentine, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. Prof. Pureheart loses a secret formula in the grocery shop. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 8:00 | Those People Next Door | 1953. Drama. Directed by John Harlow and starring Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Jimmy James & Anthony Newley. A young man's titled parents object to his working-class fiancé. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 9:35 | Gasbags | 1941. Comedy. Directed by Walter Forde and Marcel Varnel. Starring The Crazy Gang, Moore Marriott and Wally Patch. A mobile fish and chip shop is accidentally dragged to Nazi Germany. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 11:10 | Sky West & Crooked | 1966. Drama. Directed by John Mills and starring Hayley Mills, Ian MacShane, Annette Crosbie and Geoffrey Bayldon. A young, lonely teenage girl is traumatised after the death of a childhood friend. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 13:15 | 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. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 14:45 | Rooney | 1958. Comedy. Directed by George Pollock. Stars John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow & Barry Fitzgerald. The life of Rooney, a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends and a Dublin rubbish collector during the week. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed the Paper Dragon? Directed by Marc Daniels. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. During Chinese New Year celebrations, a body is found concealed in a car. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1963. The Invisible Asset. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Kenneth J. Warren. A restaurant owner bugs one of his tables with a hidden microphone to blackmail his customers. (S1, E6) |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 18:05 | The Golden Salamander | 1950. Drama. Directed by Ronald Neame. Stars Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimee & Herbert Lom. A British archaeologist is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Gentle Touch | Blade. 1980. Directed by Christopher Hodson. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Brian Gwaspari. Maggie has a row with her collegues after a young man is found murdered in the London Underground. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 21:00 | Yield to the Night | 1956. Drama. Director: J Lee Thompson. Stars Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig & Geoffrey Keen. A condemned murderess relives key events while waiting for the hangman's noose. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 23:00 | Port of New York | 1949. Drama. Directed by Laslo Benedek. Stars Scott Brady, Yul Brynner & Richard Rober. Two narcotics agents go after murderous drug dealers who use the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband. (Subtitles Available) |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 0:40 | Esther Waters | 1948. Drama. Director: Ian Dalrymple & Peter Proud. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Kathleen Ryan, Cyril Cusack & Ivor Barnard. Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by footman William |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 2:50 | The Wicked Lady | 1945. Drama. Directed by Leslie Arliss. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones & James Mason. 17th Century beauty Barbara Worth leads a double life to relieve her boredom. |
| Tue 10 Jul 18 | 5:00 | Dick Powell Theatre | A Swiss Affair. Dick Powell served as host to this hugely popular 60s series with a glittering cast of guest stars. Starring Hazel Court & Cecil Kellaway. (S1, E7) |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1955. The Stateless Man. Director: Paul Gherzo. Stars Frank Leighton, Robin Wentworth, Theodore Wilhelm, Tom Clegg, May Hallett & Anna Doran. A crime in London's dockland baffles the police. (S1, E12) |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Our Girl Friday | 1953. Comedy. Directed by Noel Langley. A British cast lead this story about a shipwrecked group on a tropical island. Stars Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More & Peter Sellers voices the Parrot |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 8:05 | The Delavine Affair | 1955. Crime drama starring Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman and Gordon Jackson. The death of a local man leads a local reporter, and the dead man's wife (Honor Blackman), to seek his killer. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 9:20 | Three Men In A Boat | 1956. Comedy. Director: Ken Annakin. Stars Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards & David Tomlinson. Based on the Jerome K Jerome novel. The story follows three men who decide to go on holiday on the Thames. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 11:10 | Master Spy | 1964. Drama. Directed By Montgomery Tully. Starring Stephen Murray. A Russian scientist working for the British is suspected of being a 'plant', sent to monitor nuclear secrets for the Communists. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 12:35 | Ferry to Hong Kong | 1958. Adventure. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Orson Welles. An adventure at sea ensues when Captain Hart has to accept a Hong Kong deportee. Also stars Curt Jurgens, Sylvia Syms and Jeremy Spencer |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 14:50 | The Square Ring | 1953. Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed & Joan Collins. Follow the lives of five boxers and their reasons for getting to where they are now. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Molly? Directed by Don Weis. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. When investigating a murder case, autopsy reveal the first indications of the victim's busy secret life. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1965. Personal and Confidential. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Ellen McIntosh. Police investigating a suspicious death find a file marked 'Top Secret' in the victim's briefcase. (S1, E7) |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 18:05 | The Long Memory | 1953. Drama. Directed by Robert Hamer. Stars John Mills, Elizabeth Sellars, John McCallum & Geoffrey Keen. Released from prison after 12 years, a man seeks revenge on those who lied at his trial. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 20:00 | A Family At War | Two Fathers. 1971. Directed by Gerry Mill. Stars Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn & Coral Atkins. The iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series. (S3, E18) |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 21:00 | Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie | 1969. Drama. Director: Ronald Neame. Stars Maggie Smith, Celia Johnson, Robert Stephens & Gordon Jackson. A teacher wants her pupils to embrace romantic ideals rather than hard facts. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 23:15 | 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. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 0:50 | The League of Gentlemen | 1960. Crime Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick & Roger Livesey. Ex-army men are recruited for a bank robbery plan that requires military precision. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 3:05 | 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. |
| Wed 11 Jul 18 | 4:50 | Rock You Sinners | 1957. Musical. A disc-jockey gets his own TV show and becomes a star. Starring Jackie Collins and featuring many musical acts of the 50's. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1954. The Mysterious Bullet. Directed by Paul Gherzo. Starring Robert Raglan, John Warwick and Christine Adrian. A ballistics expert tracks down the killer of a widow's fiance. (S1, E13) |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Greed of William Hart | 1948. Horror. Directed by Oswald Mitchell and screenplay by John Gilling. Set in Edinburgh in the 1800s and starring Tod Slaughter as William Hart the infamous grave robber. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 8:05 | Freedom To Die | 1961. Crime drama directed by Francis Searle. Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 9:20 | Love Me Tender | 1956. Drama. Director: Robert D Webb. Stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget & introducing Elvis Presley. At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 11:05 | Esther Waters | 1948. Drama. Director: Ian Dalrymple & Peter Proud. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Kathleen Ryan, Cyril Cusack & Ivor Barnard. Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by footman William |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 13:15 | 13 East Street | 1952. Drama. Directed by Robert Baker. Starring Patrick Holt, Dora Bryan & Michael Balfour. A detective poses as an escaped convict to catch a gang of warehouse robbers. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 14:25 | The Glass Mountain | 1949. Drama. The classic tale of a war romance featuring the smash hit music of The Legend of The Glass Mountain. Starring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray, with vocals from Tito Gobbi. (Subtitles Available) |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Who IV? Directed by Don Weis. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Burke's old flame is a suspect for the murder of Socialite equestrian William Henry Otis IV. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1965. The Hidden Face. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Pamela Abbott. When a member of parliament commits suicide, his son seeks the author of the book that triggered the tragedy. (S1, E8) |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 18:05 | Glimpses: Cambridge in 1945 | A Glimpse at The University of Cambridge and student's life in 1945 and the surrounding streets and the town itself. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 18:30 | Mr Peabody and the Mermaid | 1948. Comedy. Arthur Peabody (William Powell) undergoes a mid-life crisis. Peabody goes on vacation with his wife Polly (Irene Hervey), but he is seduced by a beautiful mermaid played by Ann Blyth. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Gentle Touch | Rogue. 1980. Directed by David Askey. Stars Jill Gascoine, Moira Redmond & James Smillie. Maggie is offended when offered a bribe. But stranger offers are waiting around the corner. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Boston Strangler | 1968. Drama. Director: Richard Fleischer. Stars Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy & Sally Kellerman. When a string of women in Boston start turning up dead, the police launch an investigation. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 23:20 | Jassy | 1947. Drama. Director: Bernard Knowles. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc & Dennis Price. During the 17th century, Jassy is believed to be a witch after receiving visions of approaching disasters. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 1:20 | Boy on A Dolphin | 1957. Drama. Director: Jean Negulesco. Stars Sophia Loren, Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb and Alexis Minotis. A sponge diver on a Greek island discovers a sunken ship filled with artefacts. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 3:35 | Androcles and the Lion | 1953. Drama. Starring Alan Young as Androcles, a Christian who lives in ancient Rome. Upon seeing a lion in severe pain, he manages to remove a massive thorn from the beast's paw. |
| Thu 12 Jul 18 | 5:30 | The Private Life Of Oliver the Eighth | 1934. Comedy. Director: Lloyd French. Stars Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jack Barty & Mae Busch. Laurel and Hardy both reply to a wealthy widow's newspaper ad searching for a new husband. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1955. Murder Anonymous. Directed by Ken Hughes. Starring Peter Arne, Ewen Solon and Jill Bennett. An inspector sets out to prove that a blind man murdered his wife's lover. (S1, E14) |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Carry On Admiral | 1957. Comedy directed by Val Guest and starring David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins & Alfie Bass. An MP is mistaken for his naval friend and put in charge of the fighting ship HMS Sherwood! |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 8:15 | Blackout | 1950. Crime Noir with Maxwell Reed and Dinah Sheridan. An ambulance drops a blind patient to the wrong address, where he stumbles over a dead body. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 9:40 | The Southerner | 1945. Drama. Director: Jean Renoir. Stars Zachary Scott, Betty Field and J. Carrol Naish. Nature decides to go against a family of cotton pickers after they decide to get their own ground. (Subtitles Available) |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 11:30 | Stranger In Town | 1957. Drama. Directed George Pollock. Starring Alex Nicol, Anne Paige & Mary Laura Wood. In a sleepy village, a composer is shot dead and a woman is found gassed. Who killed them and why? |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 13:00 | Man From Tangier | 1957. Drama. Directed by Lance Comfort. Starring Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni & Martin Benson. Chuck Collins finds himself involved in a passport and forgery racket, just through taking the wrong coat! |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 14:20 | 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 out settlements |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Annie Foran? Directed by Lewis Allen. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Party girl, Annie Foran, is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1965. The Material Witness. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & John Carlin. A younger executive plots to replace a firm's manager, and turns him in to police as a drunk driver. (S1, E9) |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 18:05 | Brighton in the 30s – Glimpses | Amateur footage giving a glimpse of Brighton in the late 30s early 40s. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 18:10 | The First Travelling Saleslady | 1956. Comedy Western. A corset store owner goes broke and becomes a traveling sales lady in Texas 1897. Starring Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson and a young Clint Eastwood. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Gentle Touch | Melody. 1980. Directed by Paul Annett. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie investigates the death of Melody. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 21:00 | Bedazzled | 1967. Comedy. Director: Stanley Donen. Stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron & Raquel Welch. A hapless short order cook sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 23:00 | Damnation Alley | 1977. Sci-Fi. Director Jack Smight. Stars Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard and Dominique Sanda. A group who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the wasteland hoping to find survivors. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 0:50 | Sky West & Crooked | 1966. Drama. Directed by John Mills and starring Hayley Mills, Ian MacShane, Annette Crosbie and Geoffrey Bayldon. A young, lonely teenage girl is traumatised after the death of a childhood friend. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 2:55 | Three Cases of Murder | 1955. Crime. Three stories of murder and the supernatural. Starring Orson Welles, John Gregson & Elizabeth Sellars. Introduced by Eamonn Andrews. Directed by David Eady & George More O'Ferrall. |
| Fri 13 Jul 18 | 5:00 | Dick Powell Theatre | The Fifth Caller. Dick Powell served as host to this hugely popular 60s series with a glittering cast of guest stars. Starring Michael Rennie & Eva Gabor. (S1, E8) |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 6:00 | She Knows Y'Know | 1962. Comedy. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars Hylda Baker, Cyril Smith, Joan Sanderson & Alfred Burke. A young girl's sudden pregnancy unfolds dramas between two families. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 7:30 | Our Weekends in 1949 | Narrated by Ralph Richardson. A Charming short film made in 1949 following London workers on their weekends in the country. Cricket of The Green, Picnics at the Lido, Boating, Bowling & Fishing. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 8:00 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | The Prisoner. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Brian Smyth. Lt. Briggs breaks the treaty by chasing a Native American beyond the recognized border. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 8:30 | The Strange World Of Planet X | 1958. Sci-fi. A British laboratory studying magnetic fields is warned by a cosmic visitor of the dangers in their experiments. Starring Forrest Tucker and Martin Benson. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | Down Shadow Street. 1967. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Jarrod & Nick launch a search to find Victoria in a grisly madhouse. (S2, E19) |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 11:00 | Settled At The Seaside | 1915. Early Keystone comedy set around two couple's trip to the seaside. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 11:10 | The Night We Dropped a Clanger | 1959. A Wing Commander (Brian Rix) is on a mission to find out about the flying bomb. Stars William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn & Liz Fraser. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 12:55 | It Always Rains On Sunday | 1947. Drama. Director: Robert Hamer. Stars Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner & Susan Shaw. Rose wants to escape the drudgery of her daily life when an old lover escapes from prison. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 14:45 | Counter-Attack | 1945. Drama. Directed by Zoltan Korda. Stars Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman & Larry Parks. A Russian paratrooper and eight Nazi soldiers are trapped inside the basement of a bombed-out building. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 16:35 | The Southern Star | 1969. Comedy. Directed by Sidney Hayers. Stars George Segal, Ursula Andress & Orson Welles. Jules Verne's classic story of the world's largest diamond and the motley crew suspected of stealing it. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 18:45 | The League of Gentlemen | 1960. Crime Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick & Roger Livesey. Ex-army men are recruited for a bank robbery plan that requires military precision. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Camp On Blood Island | 1958. Drama. Directed Val Guest. Stars Andre Morell, Carl Mohner & Walter Fitzgerald. Deep in Malaya, as WW2 comes to an end, men, women and children as still trapped by the Japanese invasion. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 22:45 | The Return of Frank James | 1940. Western. Director: Fritz Lang. Stars Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney & Jackie Cooper. When Jesse James's murderers are set free, his brother Frank vows revenge. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 0:35 | Ferry to Hong Kong | 1958. Adventure. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Orson Welles. An adventure at sea ensues when Captain Hart has to accept a Hong Kong deportee. Also stars Curt Jurgens, Sylvia Syms and Jeremy Spencer |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 2:50 | Vendetta For The Saint | 1969. Action. Director: Jim O'Connolly. Stars Roger Moore, Aimi MacDonald, Ian Hendry & Rosemary Dexter. Set in Naples, an elegant thief is outraged after witnessing the murder of a British banker. |
| Sat 14 Jul 18 | 4:50 | Breaking Point | 1961. The nephew of a printer gets involved with foreign spies intent on making counterfeit money. Stars Peter Reynolds & Dermot Walsh. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 6:00 | All In Good Fun | 1956. Comedy. Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy. Mack Sennett, Chaplin, The Keystone Kops and many more. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 6:50 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | False Faces. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Bill Walsh. A series of thefts are falsely attributed to the innocent. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 7:20 | Monster From Green Hell | 1957. Sci-fi. Directed by Kenneth G. Crane. A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 8:45 | Date With Disaster | 1957. Crime drama directed by Charles Saunders and starring Tom Drake, William Hartnell and Shirley Eaton. One of the two owners of a Car Business plans to embezzle the company's funds. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | The Stallion. 1967. Directed by Paul Henreid. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Nick Attempts to round up a prize wild stallion single-handed. (S2, E20) |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 11:00 | Where There's A Will (1955) | 1955. Comedy. Director: Vernon Sewell. A cockney family inherit a ramshackle farm. Alfie (Leslie Dwyer) wants to make a go of it. Starring George Cole and Kathleen Harrison. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 12:30 | The Green Man | 1956. Comedy. Stars Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, George Cole & Terry-Thomas. A watchmaker turns out to be an assassin whose target is a leading politician but his plans are stalled. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 14:05 | The Devil & Daniel Webster | 1941. Drama. Starring James Craig as Jabez Stone. As a down-on-his-luck New England farmer, Stone makes a deal with the Devil to give up his soul for seven years of prosperity and good luck. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 16:05 | The Last Man To Hang | 1956. Drama. Directed by Terence Fisher. Stars Tom Conway, Hugh Latimer & Eunice Gayson. Conway is on trial for the murder of his neurotic wife, Sellars, by means of a sedative overdose. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 17:40 | The Winslow Boy | 1948. Drama. Directed by Anthony Asquith. Stars Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke & Basil Radford. Pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a theft. His parents demand a trial. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 20:00 | A Family At War | The Old Order Changeth. 1971. Directed by Gerry Mill. Stars Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn & Coral Atkins. The iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series. (S3, E19) |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Never Back Losers. 1961. Directed by Robert Tronson. Stars Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis & Patrick Magee. An insurance investigator tackles a vicious gambling ring. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 22:10 | Duffy | 1968. Comedy. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars James Coburn, James Mason & James Fox. An adventurer living in Tangiers is persuaded to help pirate a million-dollar cash shipment. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 0:15 | Love Me Tender | 1956. Drama. Director: Robert D Webb. Stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget & introducing Elvis Presley. At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 2:00 | Three Men In A Boat | 1956. Comedy. Director: Ken Annakin. Stars Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards & David Tomlinson. Based on the Jerome K Jerome novel. The story follows three men who decide to go on holiday on the Thames. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 3:50 | Mr Peabody and the Mermaid | 1948. Comedy. Arthur Peabody (William Powell) undergoes a mid-life crisis. Peabody goes on vacation with his wife Polly (Irene Hervey), but he is seduced by a beautiful mermaid played by Ann Blyth. |
| Sun 15 Jul 18 | 5:20 | Musical Masquerade | 1946. Musical. A Lost British short detailing where a composer's inspiration comes from and The London Symphony Orchestra. |
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TPTV Schedule July 16th to 22nd 2018
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1956. The Wall of Death. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Cyril Chamberlain, Vernon Greeves and Vanda Godsell. A murder at a fairground proves a puzzling case for the police. (S1, E15) |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 6:35 | The Steel Key | 1953. Directed By Robert S. Baker and starring Terence Morgan, Joan Rice and Raymond Lovell. A professor working on a steel formula is murdered. Those after the formula will stop at nothing. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 8:00 | Child in the House | 1956. Drama. Director: Cy Endfield. Stars Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman & Stanley Baker. A young girl is left with her relatives while her mother is in hospital. Her father, a crook, pays her a visit. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 9:40 | The Gilded Cage | 1955. Directed by John Gilling and starring Alex Nicol. Two brothers are embroiled in a racket to smuggle a valuable painting. When a murder is committed they must try and clear their names. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 11:15 | Pygmalion | 1938. Drama. Directed by Anthony Asquith. Starring Leslie Howard & Wendy Hiller. Higgins, an expert in the study of phonetics, bets that he can turn Eliza, a 'worthless guttersnipe', into a duchess. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 13:15 | Lost Hours | 1952. Crime drama filmed at Denham Studios. Starring Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, John Bentley and Thora Hird. An American test pilot is framed for killing a wartime comrade. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 14:45 | Silver Fleet | 1943. War. Directors: Vernon Sewell & Gordon Wellesley. Stars Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers & Esmond Knight. The Gestapo, anxious for operational submarines, meet with the owner of a Dutch port. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed My Girl? Directed by Don Taylor. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Using a .38 revolver with a silencer, an assailant murders heiress Diana Mercer in her bedroom. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1966. Company of Fools. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Barrie Ingham. Five strangers band together to exact revenge on a man who ruined them financially. (S1, E10) |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 18:05 | A Cry From The Streets | 1958. Drama starring Max Bygraves, Barbara Murray and Colin Petersen. A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with a group of homeless children. Music by Larry Adler. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 20:00 | Top of the Bill | 1971. Lost Documentary feature about the great days of variety with Ben Warris, Davey Kaye, Sally Barnes, Peter Cavanagh, Ken Goodwin & more. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Something Blue. 1980. Directed by John Reardon. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie is in a moral dilemma, when she overhears her son talk about watching a 'Dirty' movie. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 22:00 | The Whole Truth | 1958. Drama. Directed by John Guillermin & Dan Cohen. Stars Stewart Granger, Donna Reed & George Sanders. A film producer becomes a suspect to the stabbing of an actress after his recent affair. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 23:45 | Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie | 1969. Drama. Director: Ronald Neame. Stars Maggie Smith, Celia Johnson, Robert Stephens & Gordon Jackson. A teacher wants her pupils to embrace romantic ideals rather than hard facts. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 2:05 | The Demon | 1980. Horror directed by Percival Rubens and starring Jennifer Holmes, Cameron Mitchell and Craig Gardner. The screams you hear may be your own! |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 3:50 | Gasbags | 1941. Comedy. Directed by Walter Forde and Marcel Varnel. Starring The Crazy Gang, Moore Marriott and Wally Patch. A mobile fish and chip shop is accidentally dragged to Nazi Germany. |
| Mon 16 Jul 18 | 5:25 | The Talk of The Town Story | Glitz, Glamour and Showgirls Memories of the iconic London entertainment venue The Talk of the Town, with Sir Bruce Forsyth, Anita Harris and Vince Hill hosted by Neil Sean |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1956. The Case of the River Morgue. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Hugh Moxey, Gorgon Needham and Jane Welsh. The police are summoned when a dead body is stolen. (S1, E16) |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Three Silent Men | 1940. Crime. An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of his plot. Stars Derrick De Marney |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 8:00 | The Flemish Farm | 1943. War drama. Directed by Jeffery Dell and starring Jane Baxter, Clifford Evans and Philip Friend. An injured pilot and his nurse are separated when Belgium surrenders to the Nazis. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 9:40 | Flood Tide (1934) | 1934. Drama directed by John Baxter and starring George Carney, Peggy Novak and Leslie Hatton. Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple. Filmed at Twickenham Studios |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 10:55 | Meet Mr Callaghan | 1954. Crime drama directed by Charles Saunders. Private detective Slim Callaghan (Derrick De Marney) is hired to find out why a rich uncle changed his will. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 12:40 | The Magnificent Two | 1967. Comedy. Director: Cliff Owen. Stars Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Margit Saad & Isobel Black. Two salesmen travel to a small South American country to peddle their wares. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 14:35 | Androcles and the Lion | 1953. Drama. Starring Alan Young as Androcles, a Christian who lives in ancient Rome. Upon seeing a lion in severe pain, he manages to remove a massive thorn from the beast's paw. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World? Directed by Don Weis. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. A notorious husband stealer, is found murdered in the mud bath. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1966. The Haunted Man. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Keith Barron. An actor receives a head injury breaking up a robbery. The injury effects his memory and he can no longer remember his part. (S1, E11) |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 18:05 | Counter-Attack | 1945. Drama. Directed by Zoltan Korda. Stars Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman & Larry Parks. A Russian paratrooper and eight Nazi soldiers are trapped inside the basement of a bombed-out building. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 19:55 | A Little of What You Fancy | 1968. A loving tribute to British Music Hall with Lily Morris and Gus Elen. Featuring original archive film, rare prints, portraits and photographs, it traces what remains of the great music halls. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Decoy. 1980. Directed by John Reardon. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. When a series of rapes on women plague the area, Maggie Forbes must go undercover as a barmaid. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 22:00 | Walk on the Wild Side | 1962. Drama. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Stars Laurence Harvey, Capucine & Jane Fonda. A young Texan leaves his depression-ravaged town for New Orleans in search of his lost love. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 0:20 | Death Drums Along the River | 1963. Adventure. Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Stars Richard Todd, Marianne Koch & Albert Lieven. Inspector Sanders is investigating a murder in an African hospital when he is lead to a silver mine |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 2:00 | Hoodlum | 1951. Crime drama. Directed by Max Nosseck and starring Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts and Marjorie Riordan. Career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family's trust. (Subtitles Available) |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 3:15 | Up With the Lark | 1943. Musical. Directed by Phil Brandon. Starring Ethel Revnell, Gracie West & Adrienne Fancey. Ethel and Gracie pursue a gang of robbers to their secret headquarters in the countryside. |
| Tue 17 Jul 18 | 4:25 | The Trollenberg Terror | 1958. Sci-Fi. A series of deaths on a Swiss mountain-side appear to be connected to a mysterious cloud. Stars: Forrest Tucker, Warren Mitchell & Andrew Faulds. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1956. Destination Death. Director: Montgomery Tully. Stars Russell Napier, Paula Byrne and Melissa Stribling. A body at a London airport, and a flask of poison leads Scotland Yard to Lisbon. (S1, E17) |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Three Steps to the Gallows | 1953. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. American cargo ship Officer Stevens (Scott Brady), finds out that his brother is the frame-up victim of a smuggling gang and is due to be executed for murder. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 8:15 | Mark of The Phoenix | 1957. Crime drama directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Anton Diffring. Crooks steal a secret metal formula and plan to smuggle it into East Germany. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 9:30 | Send For Paul Temple | 1946. Crime drama directed by John Argyle and starring Anthony Hulme and Joy Shelton. Scotland Yard calls in novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple to help track down a gang of diamond robbers. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 11:15 | Echo Of Diana | 1963. Joan is distraught at the death of her husband in a plane crash but all is not what it seems. Stars: Vincent Ball & Betty McDowall. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 12:30 | Vendetta For The Saint | 1969. Action. Director: Jim O'Connolly. Stars Roger Moore, Aimi MacDonald, Ian Hendry & Rosemary Dexter. Set in Naples, an elegant thief is outraged after witnessing the murder of a British banker. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 14:30 | Panic In The Streets | 1950. Drama. Director: Elia Kazan. Stars Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes & Paul Douglas. A Doctor and Policeman have 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed Don Pablo? Directed by Richard Kinon. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. A waxwork in a museum turns out not to be a waxwork at all… |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scales of Justice | 1966. Infamous Conduct. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Dermot Walsh. A famous surgeon losses his license (and his wife) after a female patient accuses him of conduct unbecoming a physician. (S1, E12) |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 18:10 | The Other Love | 1947. Romantic drama. Seriously ill concert pianist Karen (Barbara Stanwyck) is admitted to a Swiss sanatorium, where she is attracted to the suave Doctor Stanton (David Niven). |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 20:00 | A Family At War | The Old Order Changeth. 1971. Directed by Gerry Mill. Stars Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn & Coral Atkins. The iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series. (S3, E19) |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Break-In. 1980. Directed by Tony Wharmby. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. A burglary at the office of a solicitor who prosecutors for the police leads to a crisis situation. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 22:00 | The Snorkel | 1958. Drama. Directed by Guy Green. Stars Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John & Mandy Miller. A teenager suspects that her wealthy mother's suicide was a cleverly planned murder by her diabolical stepfather |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 23:40 | Diana Dors… | Diana Dors talks to Dick Hills in 1976 and discusses her time in the film Yield to The Night – a film she was immensely proud of. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 23:45 | Yield to the Night | 1956. Drama. Director: J Lee Thompson. Stars Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig & Geoffrey Keen. A condemned murderess relives key events while waiting for the hangman's noose. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 1:45 | Rooney | 1958. Comedy. Directed by George Pollock. Stars John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow & Barry Fitzgerald. The life of Rooney, a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends and a Dublin rubbish collector during the week. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 3:25 | Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire | 1952. Comedy. A mad scientist known as 'The Vampire' (Bela Lugosi) comes to England to further his evil plans. Starring Arthur Lucan and Dora Bryan. |
| Wed 18 Jul 18 | 4:50 | Smart Alec | 1951. Drama. Director: John Guillermin. Stars Peter Reynolds, Leslie Dwyer, Mercy Haystead & Charles Hawtrey. An unscrupulous bounder is to become the heir to a large fortune. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1956. Person Unknown. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier, Edward Cast and Alan Robinson. A Polish spy changed places with a would-be assassin. (S1, E18) |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 6:35 | The Shipbuilders | 1943. Drama. Director: John Baxter. Stars Clive Brook, Finlay Currie, Moira Lister & John Turnbull. Set in a Clyde dockyard, a millionaire shipbuilder & his best riveter symbolize British unity in WW2 |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 8:10 | Murder on Campus | 1961. Crime drama directed by Michael Winner and starring Terence Longden, Donald Gray and Diane Clare. A reporter learns that his brother, a student at Cambridge, has killed himself or so it seems. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 9:25 | A Tale of Five Cities | 1951. Drama. Stars Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok & Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his gruelling combat experiences result in a loss of memory. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 11:10 | The Screening Room: The Servant | Neil Jones discusses the series 'The Servant' (1963) and takes a look at the script and the cast and crew behind it. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 11:20 | The Flaw | 1955. Crime directed by Terence Fisher. A racing driver (John Bentley) plans to murder his heiress wife (Rona Anderson). The lawyer (Donald Houston) discovers the plot. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 12:35 | The Blue Parrot | 1954. Crime Drama starring Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ferdy Mayne and John Le Mesurier. A Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation after the murder of a small time crook. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 13:55 | The Boys | 1962. Crime drama starring Richard Todd, Robert Morley and Jess Conrad OBE. When a nightwatchman is murdered, four young men are put on trial. Cleverly directed by Sidney J. Furie. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 16:25 | The Boys: Locations Now & Then | A look at the locations from Sidney J Furie's, 'The Boys', both back when the film was made in the 60s, and now. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1964. Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee? Directed by Don Weis. Stars Gene Barry, Gary Conway & Regis Toomey. Ben, who owns half of the Glory Lee fashion house, is found dead in an elevator after it crashes. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 17:30 | War Time London – Glimpses | Footage of London in war time. Focussing on Piccadilly Circus, then The Strand and Westminster. Shot around 1944. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 17:40 | The Winslow Boy | 1948. Drama. Directed by Anthony Asquith. Stars Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke & Basil Radford. Pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a theft. His parents demand a trial. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Forbidden Frontier | Made by Sir Philip Gibbs, one of five British reporters during the First World War & Directed by Hans Nieter. The crew go around Europe's Cities in 1937 to discuss current events with the locals. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 20:25 | Scales of Justice | 1967. Payment In Kind. Stars Edgar Lustgarten & Maxine Audley. Debt collectors suggest 'payment in kind' after the wife of a struggling businessman falls behind on hire purchase payments. (S1, E13) |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Menaces. 1980. Directed by Paul Annett. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Ivor Stocker, JP and successful businessman, is being blackmailed. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 22:00 | The Man Inside | 1958. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg & Nigel Patrick. A detective and a beautiful jewel thief chase a stolen diamond from New York to Europe. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 23:50 | Bedazzled | 1967. Comedy. Director: Stanley Donen. Stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron & Raquel Welch. A hapless short order cook sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 1:55 | Hungry Hill | 1947. Drama. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price & Cecil Parker. Tragedy hits the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud that has lasted for 50 years. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 4:00 | Broken Blossoms | 1936. Directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Dolly Hass and Arthur Margetson. A Chinese missionary comes to England where he helps a young girl who is ill-treated by her father. |
| Thu 19 Jul 18 | 5:45 | A Pilgrimage Through Palestine – Glimpses | Glimpses: 1944. Director: Philip Brown. Visit Haifa, the Sea of Galilee, Tiberius, Capernium, Jericho, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the daily lives of the local fishermen, shepherds and townspeople. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. The Lonely House. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier, Dorothy Bramhall and Bettina Dickson. A trap is laid for a couple running a murderous dating agency. (S1, E19) |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 6:35 | The Wedding Of Lilli Marlene | 1953. War Time Drama. Lilli will not marry her love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star. Starring Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott and Sid James. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 8:20 | Tiger By The Tail | 1955. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. John Desmond, (Larry Parks) meets a mysterious woman (Lisa Daniely) who turns out to be part of a counterfeit ring and Desmond is caught up in the whole affair. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 10:05 | Once A Sinner | 1950. Drama. A lowly bank clerk marries a good time girl but she two-times him for her old crooked boyfriend (Sydney Tafler). Starring Jack Watling, Pat Kirkwood and Thora Hird. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 11:45 | Dateline Diamonds | 1965. Directed By Jeremy Summers. Comedy musical stars The Small Faces, The Chantelles and Kiki Dee. Lester Benson (Kenneth Cope) the manager of top rock band The Small Faces, is hiding a secret. (Subtitles Available) |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 13:15 | Profile | 1954. Drama directed by Francis Searle and starring John Bentley, Kathleen Byron and Thea Gregory. The editor of a magazine (John Bentley) is keen on the boss's daughter but her mother is keen on him. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 14:35 | Treasure Island | 1972. Adventure. Directors: John Hough, Andrea Bianchi & Antonio Margheriti. Stars Orson Welles, Lionel Stander & Kim Burfield. Young Jim Hawkins has a map to a pirate's buried treasure. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed the Surf Broad? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Radio Cab Murder | 1954. Crime drama directed by Vernon Sewell and filmed at Nettelfold. An ex-convict taxi driver poses as a crook to catch a bank robber. Starring Jimmy Hanley and Sam Kydd. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 19:00 | My Foolish Heart | 1949. Drama. Director: Mark Robson. Stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward & Lois Wheeler. Mary Jane travels to Connecticut to visit her old friend Eloise, whom she hasn't seen for seven years. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Hammer. 1980. Directed by Tony Wharmby. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. After a series of robberies, maggie must uncover if these were commited by a team or one person. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 22:00 | The Camp On Blood Island | 1958. Drama. Directed Val Guest. Stars Andre Morell, Carl Mohner & Walter Fitzgerald. Deep in Malaya, as WW2 comes to an end, men, women and children as still trapped by the Japanese invasion. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 23:45 | The Golden Salamander | 1950. Drama. Directed by Ronald Neame. Stars Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimee & Herbert Lom. A British archaeologist is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 1:40 | Mix Me A Person | 1962. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Carole Ann Ford & Adam Faith. A barrister's wife, who is a psychiatrist, takes on one of the cases that he has failed to win. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 3:45 | Soho Conspiracy | 1950. Drama. Restaurant owners' daughter Dora (Zena Marshall) and press agent Guy (John Witty) plan a concert to restore a bombed church, but their plans are thwarted by a lawyer who has other plans. |
| Fri 20 Jul 18 | 5:25 | Haunted Palace | 1949. Directed by Richard Fisher. This short film documentary features Shaw Desmond, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research. Shaw relates several famous British hauntings. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Undercover Agent | 1953. Crime Drama. An auditor (Dermot Walsh) is caught up in a murder and espionage whilst visiting a company. Starring Hazel Court. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 7:20 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | The Morristown Story. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & George Barnes. Hawkeye has tracked outlaw Simon Girty to Morristown but he and Chingachgook are turned away. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 7:50 | Blind Date | 1959. Thriller. Directed by Joseph Losey. Starring Hardy Krüger & Micheline Presle. The Mistress of a struggling artist is killed and inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) investigates a complex case. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 9:45 | Wool To Clothing in 1947- Glimpses | Life on The Range in 1947 as a Sheep farmer living in his covered wagon with 'Boots' the sheepdog. Then follow the interesting process from sheep to cardigan. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | The Haunted Gun. 1967. Directed by Bernard McEveety. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A Barkley family friend travels to Stockton in fear of being assassinated (S2, E21) |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 11:00 | Night Of The Prowler | 1962. Crime Drama. Directed by Francis Searle. When the director of a successful racing company is shot dead, the other directors wonder who is next. Starring Bill Nagy & Patrick Holt. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 12:15 | The Last Man To Hang | 1956. Drama. Directed by Terence Fisher. Stars Tom Conway, Hugh Latimer & Eunice Gayson. Conway is on trial for the murder of his neurotic wife, Sellars, by means of a sedative overdose. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 13:50 | And The Same To You | 1959. Comedy starring Sid James, Brian Rix, Leo Franklyn, Tommy Cooper and Vera Day. The boxing-mad nephew of a pious clergyman embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his boxing career a secret. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 15:15 | Interlude | 1968. Drama. Directed by Kevin Billington. Stars Alan Webb, Oskar Werner & Barbara Ferris. A world famous Symphony conductor is attracted to a young journalist, despite the fact he is married. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 17:35 | You Must Be Joking | 1965. Comedy. Directed by Michael Winner. Stars Michael Callan, Denholm Elliot & James Robertson. An eccentric psychiatrist oversees a 48-hour army-initiation test. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 19:40 | High Tide | 1980. Thriller. A man just released from prison for manslaughter heads to the West Country to solve the mystery behind his victim's cryptic last words. Stars Ian McShane, Wendy Morgan & John Bird. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 21:30 | Mackenna's Gold | 1969. Adventure. Directed by J Lee Thompson. Stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif & Telly Savalas. A US Marshal is forced to lead a gang of bandits to a hidden valley of gold. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 0:10 | The Long Memory | 1953. Drama. Directed by Robert Hamer. Stars John Mills, Elizabeth Sellars, John McCallum & Geoffrey Keen. Released from prison after 12 years, a man seeks revenge on those who lied at his trial. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 2:10 | Port of New York | 1949. Drama. Directed by Laslo Benedek. Stars Scott Brady, Yul Brynner & Richard Rober. Two narcotics agents go after murderous drug dealers who use the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 3:50 | King of the Underworld | 1952. Crime. Director: Victor M. Gover. Stars Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire & Ingeborg Von Kusserow. A crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. |
| Sat 21 Jul 18 | 5:30 | HG Wells' Invisible Man | Secret Experiment. 1958. Stars Tim Turner, Deborah Watling & Lisa Daniely. A young scientist, Dr. Peter Brady, has been working on a theory of invisibility |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 6:00 | The Balloon Goes Up | 1942. Musical. Comedy duo Ethel Revnell and Gracie West star in this comedy musical. The double act masquerade as WAAFs on a balloon site to help the authorities capture a group of fifth columnists. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 7:10 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | Revenge. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Rodney Bunker. A young lieutenant seeks blind vengeance for the brutal murders of his parents. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 7:40 | God's Little Acre | 1958. Comedy Drama. Directed by Anthony Mann. Starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise & Aldo Ray. A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 9:50 | A Ramble Around London – Glimpses | Insightful film of 1940s London. The docks, the cars, a barge on the Thames, big ships docking, Tower Bridge and ending up inside Westminster Abbey. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | Price of Victory. 1967. Directed by Bernard McEveety. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A boxer can't avoid one more fight, even though it endangers his life. (S2, E22) |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 11:00 | The Golden Disc | 1958. Pop drama starring Lee Patterson, Mary Steele, Terry Dene & Linda Gray. A young pop composer and singer opens a coffee bar. They are joined by budding singer Terry Dene as himself. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 12:35 | Three Cases of Murder | 1955. Crime. Three stories of murder and the supernatural. Starring Orson Welles, John Gregson & Elizabeth Sellars. Introduced by Eamonn Andrews. Directed by David Eady & George More O'Ferrall. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 14:35 | The Wicked Lady | 1945. Drama. Directed by Leslie Arliss. Stars Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones & James Mason. 17th Century beauty Barbara Worth leads a double life to relieve her boredom. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 16:40 | The Southern Star | 1969. Comedy. Directed by Sidney Hayers. Stars George Segal, Ursula Andress & Orson Welles. Jules Verne's classic story of the world's largest diamond and the motley crew suspected of stealing it. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 18:50 | 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. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 20:00 | A Family At War | … Yielding Place to New. 1971. Directed by Gerry Mill. Stars Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn & Coral Atkins. The iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series. (S3, E20) |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Sinister Man. 1961. Directed by Clive Donner. Stars John Bentley, Patricia Allen & John Glyn-Jones. Superintendent Wills investigates the theft of some mysterious oriental tablets. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 22:10 | These Are The Damned | 1962. Horror. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field & Viveca Lindfors. The sister of a motorbike gang leader and her boyfriend discover a military base when on the run. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 0:00 | The Boston Strangler | 1968. Drama. Director: Richard Fleischer. Stars Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy & Sally Kellerman. When a string of women in Boston start turning up dead, the police launch an investigation. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 2:20 | The Square Ring | 1953. Drama. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed & Joan Collins. Follow the lives of five boxers and their reasons for getting to where they are now. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 4:00 | The Flemish Farm | 1943. War drama. Directed by Jeffery Dell and starring Jane Baxter, Clifford Evans and Philip Friend. An injured pilot and his nurse are separated when Belgium surrenders to the Nazis. |
| Sun 22 Jul 18 | 5:40 | Arctic Highway – Glimpses | Short vintage documentary film about Finland following the 1000-mile road from its historic capital via the farms and traditional people of the countryside to the Arctic coast. |
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| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. Bullet from the Past. Director: Kenneth Hume. Stars Ballard Berkeley, Robert Sansom and Philippa Hyatt. An inspector investigates the shooting of a man connected to an old cold case. (S1, E20) |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Patricia Dainton Presents… | Third Alibi. Exclusive interview with Patricia Dainton who discusses her time on this film and her career in general. (S1, E4) |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 6:40 | Third Alibi | 1961. Drama. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Laurence Payne, Patricia Dainton. A married composer finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her death. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 8:00 | 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. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 9:30 | 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. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 11:20 | Sailor Beware! | 1956. Comedy. Director: Gordon Parry. Stars Gordon Jackson, Peggy Mount, Ronald Lewis & Shirley Eaton. A seaman gets cold feet about his wedding when his mother-in-law to be takes control. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 13:00 | The Cariboo Trail | 1950. Western. Director: Edwin L. Marin. Stars Randolph Scott, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Bill Williams. Jim & Mike head into Canada via the Cariboo Trail to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 14:45 | I'll Get You For This | 1951. Drama. Director Joseph M. Newman. Stars George Raft, Coleen Gray & Enzo Staiola. A gambler discovers he has been framed for the murder of a Treasury Agent and goes on a journey to clear his name |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Vaudeville? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Grand National Night | 1953. Crime drama filmed at Nettlefold and a George Minter production. A horse-trainer kills his spiteful wife after a bitter fight and tries to cover up the murder. Starring Nigel Patrick. (Subtitles Available) |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 19:05 | Bundle Of Joy | 1956. Musical Comedy. After being fired from her job, Polly (Debbie Reynolds) finds an abandoned baby. People believe the baby is hers. Directed by Norman Taurog. Starring Eddie Fisher. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Chance. 1980. Directed by David Askey. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & John Gregg. Maggie finds a clue to a major crime in her paperword. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 22:00 | All Night Long | 1962. Directed by Basil Dearden and stars Richard Attenborough, Patrick McGoohan and Keith Mitchell. An East End party is the scene where rival jazz musicians fight over a performer. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 23:50 | Kill Me Tomorrow | 1957. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Tommy Steele & Pat O'Brien. Crosbie is sacked, but needs his job to fund an operation for his son, only to find his old editor has been murdered. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 1:30 | Games That Lovers Play | 1971. Directed by Malcolm Leigh. Two 'Madams' Joanna Lumley as 'Fanny Hill' and Penny Brahms as 'Lady Chatterley' have a wager as to who has the best brothel. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 3:10 | Midnight Fear | 1990. Crime thriller directed by Bill Crain and starring David Carradine, Pete Atkins and Mark Carlton. Detective Hanks must track down two psychotic killers before they kill again. |
| Mon 23 Jul 18 | 5:00 | Dick Powell Theatre | Open Season. Dick Powell served as host to this hugely popular 60s series with a glittering cast of guest stars. Starring Dorothy Malone. (S1, E9) |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. Inside Information. Director: Montgomery Tully. Starring Ronald Adam, Basil Hendon and Colette Wilde. A murder hunt is launched after a real body is used as the 'guy' on bonfire night. (S1, E21) |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Life In Emergency Ward 10 | 1959. Drama. Based on the smash hit TV series about the daily life and the ups and downs of a hospital. Stars Michael Craig, Wilfred Hyde-White and Joan Sims. (Subtitles Available) |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 8:20 | Plagues and Puppy Love | 1917. Short Comedy. Stars Florence Curtis, Joe Simberg & Larry Semon who produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 8:35 | River Beat | 1954. Crime drama directed by Guy Green. A radio operator is duped into smuggling diamonds and is caught by Customs Detective Baker (John Bentley). Starring Phyllis Kirk and Bill Nagy. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 9:55 | The Madame Gambles | 1951. Comedy. The owner of a dress shop gambles the shop away to her bookie who inherits, not only the shop, but the manager. Directed by Maclean Rogers. Starring Richard Hearne and Petula Clark. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 11:30 | Best Years of Our Lives | 1946. Drama. Director: William Wyler. Stars Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Harold Russell & Myrna Loy. After WW2, the Greatest Generation returned home to great, but bittersweet, fanfare. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 14:45 | Dry Rot | 1956. Comedy. Director: Maurice Elvey. Stars Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Peggy Mount & Sid James. Three bookies attempt to recoup their losses by attempting to rig a horse race. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Cassandra Cass? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 17:30 | The Screening Room: The Servant | Neil Jones discusses the series 'The Servant' (1963) and takes a look at the script and the cast and crew behind it. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 17:40 | Dentist In The Chair | 1960. Comedy. Stars Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor. A burglar breaks into the wrong shop and steals medical instruments instead of silver. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 19:15 | The Mob | 1951. Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars Betty Buehler, Broderick Crafword & Richard Kiley. An undercover cop poses as a dock worker in order to get the goods on the mobsters. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Loyalties . 1980. Directed by James Gatward. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. The wife of a wealthy and respected businessman, is threatened with a knife by a masked figure. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 22:00 | The Servant | 1963. Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles & Wendy Craig. A British aristocrat, hires the mysterious household servant who causes unrest in the household. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 0:15 | Inner Sanctum | 1948. Thriller. Director: Lew Landers. Stars Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes & Dale Belding. A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 1:30 | Invasion of the Bee Girls | 1973. Sci-Fi Horror. Starring William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri. A cosmic force is turning earth girls into queen bees who 'love' their men to death. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 3:15 | 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 terrorizing those who resist. |
| Tue 24 Jul 18 | 4:50 | The Black Abbot | 1934. Crime Comedy. Directed by George A. Cooper. Stars John Stuart, Judy Kelly & Edgar Norfolk. A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. The Case of the Smiling Widow. Director: Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier and Vernon Greeves. Police question the circumstances of an apparent suicide. (S1, E22) |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 6:35 | The Marked One | 1963. Crime. Director: Francis Searle. Stars William Lucas, Zena Walker & Patrick Jordan. Criminals kidnap a man's daughter in order to obtain forgery plates which they believe to be in his possession |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 7:50 | Calling All Cars | 1954. Starring Cardew Robinson, Adrienne Fancey, John Fitzgerald and Pauline Olsen. Comedy documentary, centring on the Dover Harbour car terminal. Directed by Maclean Rogers. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 8:40 | Birmingham & The Road Patrol Bikes in the 1950s – Glimpses | Glimpses: 1950s. We start in Birmingham at the famous BSA factory where we follow the annual Road Patrol. Marvel at their side chassis and box carriers and follow them to Exeter, Abroath & Belfast. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 8:55 | Cuckoo Patrol | 1967. Comedy. Freddie Garrity of Freddie and the Dreamers fame is the scout cub leader of a bunch of misfits. Stars: Kenneth Connor, John Le Mesurier and Bernie Dwyer |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 10:30 | 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. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 11:50 | The Pickwick Papers | 1954. Comedy. In this British classic the Pickwick Club send a group to find interesting things around England. Stars James Hayter, Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison & Harry Fowler. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 13:55 | Glimpses: Screenagers! | Early 1960s documentary into the spending habit of 'screenagers' and the cinema goers of the 60s. Brilliant footage of 50s and 60s cinemas and the 'screenagers' themselves. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 14:10 | The Little Foxes | 1941. Drama. Director: William Wyler. Stars Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson & Teresa Wright. Aristocrat, Regina Giddens, will let nothing stand in the way of achieving wealth & power. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 16:25 | Petula Clark 'The Day Begins Early' – Glimpses | Glimpses: A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948, from a lost news piece. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed the Horne of Plenty? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 17:30 | The Private Life Of Oliver the Eighth | 1934. Comedy. Director: Lloyd French. Stars Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jack Barty & Mae Busch. Laurel and Hardy both reply to a wealthy widow's newspaper ad searching for a new husband. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 18:00 | Enchantment | 1948. Drama. Director: Irving Reis. Stars David Niven, Farley Granger, Evelyn Keyes & Teresa Wright. An American ambulance driver stationed in London visits her reclusive grand-uncle. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 20:00 | A Family At War | … Yielding Place to New. 1971. Directed by Gerry Mill. Stars Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn & Coral Atkins. The iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series. (S3, E20) |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Maggie's Luck. 1980. Directed by Nic Phillips. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Brian Gwaspari. Maggie is looking forward to a weekend break when help arrives from an unexpected source. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 22:00 | Tread Softly Stranger | 1958. Crime Drama. Sizzling Calico (Diana Dors) plans a robbery to cover-up embezzlement and gambling debts of brothers John (George Baker) and Dave (Terence Morgan). |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 23:45 | Beat Girl | 1960. Drama. Directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Paul, a divorcee, marries a French lady but his daughter is determined to spoil the relationship. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 1:30 | Climb Up the Wall | 1960. Musical & Variety. Directed by Michael Winner. Featuring performers such as George 'Calypso' Browne, Russ Conway and Frances Day. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 2:50 | Suddenly | 1954. Drama. Director: Lewis Allen. Stars Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden & James Gleason. Three gangsters trap a family in their own house, with the intention of killing the president of the USA. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 4:25 | Incident in Shanghai | 1938. Drama. An unhappy wife of the head of The Red Cross in Shanghai falls for a pilot (Patrick Barr). The pilot is wounded and the husband must operate. |
| Wed 25 Jul 18 | 5:45 | Hit the Road – Glimpses | Comedy short. Very early silent made by Signet Films. Cars, trains, motorbikes, split screen shots and unbelievable stunts. It didn't matter what was being chased! As long as it was fast! |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. The Mail Van Murder. Directed by John Knight. Starring Hy Hazell, Dennis Castle and Gordon Needham. Supt. Hammond hunts down the boss of a gang that stole a mail van. (S1, E23) |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Not Wanted On Voyage | 1957. Comedy. The rollicking adventures of two stewards aboard a pleasure cruiser. Starring Ronald Shiner and Brian Rix. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 8:15 | Land Without Music | 1936. Based on a true story. A singer is disliked by a princess who bans his music. Stars Richard Tauber, Jimmy Durante & Derrick De Marney. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 9:50 | The Blue Bird | 1940. Drama. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Shirley Temple, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard & Spring Byington. Two children are led on a trip through past, present and future, to locate a blue bird |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 11:30 | 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. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 13:00 | Rose of Cimmaron | 1952. Western. Director: Harry Keller. Stars Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams. Rose, a young girl fostered by a Cherokee family, seeks revenge after her foster parents are murdered by outlaws |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 14:35 | The Browning Version | 1951. Drama. Directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Michael Redgrave. Crocker-Harris is a teacher at an English public school who must retire early due to ill health. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Everybody? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Memories of Hoxton in the 1960s – Glimpses | Glimpses: Filmed by Wilf Watters in the 1960s. We listen to stories of living in Hoxton during the bombing. Endearing personal account by one elderly resident. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 17:40 | Angel Who Pawned Her Harp | 1954. Drama starring Felix Aylmer, Diane Cilento and Jerry Desmond. A beautiful angel is sent to The Angel, London, to help people with problems, but she has no money to support herself. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 19:15 | Lancashire, Home of Industry – Glimpses | Glimpses: 1930s The History of Lancashire's Industries. We go down the pits, see inside a Cotton factory, Paper Mill, Hat Factory, Glass works, Wireless sets factory, ship building, aeroplanes & more |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 19:30 | Address Unknown | 1944. Drama. Directed by William Cameron Menzies. Stars Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond & Peter Van Eyk. US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | Shame. 1980. Directed by Peter Moffatt. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & Derek Thompson. Maggie investigates when a badly beaten boy refuses to name his attackers. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 22:00 | Terror of the Tongs | 1961. Drama. Directed by Anthony Bushell. Stars Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee & Yvonne Monlaur. A British merchant sea captain sets out to crush the Red Dragon Tong, a society terrorizing Hong Kong. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 23:35 | Blonde Fist | 1991. Drama. Director: Frank Clarke. Stars Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker, Ken Hutchison & Angela Clarke. Ronnie flees domestic life to find her father in New York, and ends up boxing to make ends meet. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 1:40 | Too Late For Tears | 1949. Drama. Director: Byron Haskin. Stars Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea & Arthur Kennedy. A ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 3:40 | The Last Journey | 1935. Drama directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Bob (Julien Mitchell) is distraught with his upcoming compulsory retirement and believes his wife is having an affair. The day arrives for his final journey. |
| Thu 26 Jul 18 | 5:00 | The Rogues | 1965. The Personal Touch. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. The Tyburn Case. Director: David Paltenghi. Stars John Warwick, Patricia Marmont and Howard Marion Crawford. Supt. Reynolds suspects a lawyer drowned a widow for the insurance money. (S1, E24) |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 6:35 | When You Come Home | 1947. Comedy. A Grandad (Frank Randle) recounts to his granddaughter his life as a music hall odd job man. Directed by John Baxter. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 8:25 | 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 cruel way to cash in on his infatuation |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 10:30 | Six Candles | Made in 1960 by the British Insurance Association, this short film warns of the dangers of driving a motorcar. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 10:55 | Shadow of A Man | 1954. Crime drama. A town drunk is found dead and the police suspect murder. Starring Paul Carpenter. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 12:15 | Pygmalion | 1938. Drama. Directed by Anthony Asquith. Starring Leslie Howard & Wendy Hiller. Higgins, an expert in the study of phonetics, bets that he can turn Eliza, a 'worthless guttersnipe', into a duchess. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 14:10 | The Miracle Of The Bells | 1948. Drama. Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress back to her hometown for burial. Starring Frank Sinatra & Fred MacMurray. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Pride Of the Yankees | 1942. Drama. Director: Sam Wood. Stars Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth, Teresa Wright & Walter Brennan. A biographical drama based on the life of baseball hall of famer Lou Gehrig. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 20:00 | Beyond The Truth | The Lost Ark. The Search For The 'Lost Ark' – An insightful documentary searching for the resting place of The Lost Ark Of The Covenant containing exclusive interviews and footage. (S1, E1) |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Gentle Touch | The Ring. 1980, Directed by Paul Annett. Stars Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe & George Sewell. Maggie's delight at being courted by the rich Dave Connolly soon changes to suspicion. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 22:00 | Mackenna's Gold | 1969. Adventure. Directed by J Lee Thompson. Stars Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif & Telly Savalas. A US Marshal is forced to lead a gang of bandits to a hidden valley of gold. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 0:40 | Shoot to Kill | 1947. Crime drama. Directed by William Berke and starring Russell Wade, Luana Walters and Edmund MacDonald. A woman marries a corrupt D.A. to get evidence to help on a recent murder. (Subtitles Available) |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 1:55 | 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. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 3:30 | Fear And Desire | 1953. War. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Stars Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp & Paul Mazursky. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires. |
| Fri 27 Jul 18 | 4:45 | Just Like Heaven | 1930. Tobey Mitchell, a young Parisian balloon vendor with ambitions to become a designer of pageants, guards his stand in the Street of the Poor. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Marlborough Theatre, Holloway 1962 – Glimpses | Glimpses: Rare footage of Holloway in the 1960s and the sad demolition of the iconic theatre in 1962. The Last film to play there was 'Hell Drivers' in 1957. Filmed by Wilf Watters. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 6:05 | Vengeance Is Mine | 1949. Drama. Director: Alan Cullimore. Stars Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden & Sam Kydd. A dying man hires an assassin to kill so he can frame his death on an enemy. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 7:15 | Air Enterprises: The Flying Boats – Glimpses | Glimpses: An Insightful 1930s documentary on the history of Empire Air Services and the flying Boat situated at Croydon Airfield. 32 of these great flying boats were ordered to service the Empire. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 7:40 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | The Contest. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & James Barron. Hawkeye and Chingachcook match their wits against two thieves who have phony identities. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 8:10 | The Giant Gila Monster | 1959. Sci-Fi. Directed by Ray Kellogg. Starring Don Sullivan, Fred Graham & Lisa Simone. A giant lizard terrorises a small town. Can the police and a hot rod gang stop the monster? |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 9:40 | Comedy Cocktail | 1951. EJ Fancey presents Cavalcade of some of Charlie Chaplin's most famous comedies. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | Brother Love. 1967. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A 'faith healer' has Audra convinced he is in Stockton to do good. (S2, E23) |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 11:00 | Your Voice on the Telephone – Glimpses | Glimpses: Early 1950s Instructional film on how to use the Telephone and how it works. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 11:15 | Blood of The Vampire | 1958. Horror directed by Henry Cass and starring Sir Donald Wolfit. In the late 19th Century, the anaemic Dr Callistratus is the governor of a brutal penal institution in a remote castle. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 13:00 | Address Unknown | 1944. Drama. Directed by William Cameron Menzies. Stars Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond & Peter Van Eyk. US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 14:30 | The Mob | 1951. Drama. Directed by Robert Parrish. Stars Betty Buehler, Broderick Crafword & Richard Kiley. An undercover cop poses as a dock worker in order to get the goods on the mobsters. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 16:15 | She Played With Fire | 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An insurance investigator finds himself involved in arson, blackmail & murder after running into his ex. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 18:15 | Idol On Parade | 1959. Comedy. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Anthony Newley, William Bendix & Anne Aubrey. Newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the British army. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Sand Pebbles (Part 1) | 1966. Adventure. Director Robert Wise. Stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough. In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 21:50 | The Sand Pebbles (Part 2) | 1966. Adventure. Director Robert Wise. Stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough. In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 23:40 | Psyche 59 | 1964. Drama. Directed by Alexandre Singer. Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 1:40 | Terror of the Tongs | 1961. Drama. Directed by Anthony Bushell. Stars Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee & Yvonne Monlaur. A British merchant sea captain sets out to crush the Red Dragon Tong, a society terrorizing Hong Kong. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 3:15 | 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. |
| Sat 28 Jul 18 | 5:00 | The Rogues | 1965. The Day They Gave The Diamonds Away. Gig Young, David Niven and Charles Boyer are The Rogues, members of two related families of international forgers and conmen. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Plagues and Puppy Love | 1917. Short Comedy. Stars Florence Curtis, Joe Simberg & Larry Semon who produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 6:15 | 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. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 7:20 | The Worker & War – Front Magazine | A wartime magazine made to motivate and inform war workers, commissioned by the Ministry of Information and screened in factories, this was the final issue made in 1945. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 7:35 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | The Truant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & David Hastings. Hawkeye and Chingachgook escort young Greg to the boy's Aunt. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 8:05 | We Three | Documentary made in the 1950s about life on a sheep station in the isolated outback, Australia. Great to see the boundary dogs on motorcycles & the counting methods of the herds along with daily life. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 8:20 | Talkies – Vera Day | Our guest star is the beautiful Vera Day who discusses her interesting life and career in film. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 8:35 | Woman Eater | 1958. Sci-Fi. Directed By Charles Saunders. Stars George Coulouris & Vera Day. A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh eating tree. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 9:45 | Talkies – Vera Day | Our guest star is the beautiful Vera Day who discusses her interesting life and career in film. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | Court Martial. 1967. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A retired Union general is tried for war crimes by ex-confederates. (S2, E24) |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 11:00 | Dreamland | 1998. Docu-drama. An explosive investigation into Area 51 and the story of Bob Lazar. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 13:00 | Midnight Around the Globe in 1945 | Glimpses: A WW2 propaganda film made by US Army. Released as part of the 7th War Loan in May 1945. This film tracks war activities around the globe as Big Ben strikes midnight in London. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 13:15 | The Purple Plain | 1954. War. Director: Robert Parrish. Stars Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee & Win Min Than. Canadian RAF pilot Forrester is a loner whose bravery can't cover a streak of reckless instability. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 15:15 | You Must Be Joking | 1965. Comedy. Directed by Michael Winner. Stars Michael Callan, Denholm Elliot & James Robertson. An eccentric psychiatrist oversees a 48-hour army-initiation test. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 17:20 | Interlude | 1968. Drama. Directed by Kevin Billington. Stars Alan Webb, Oskar Werner & Barbara Ferris. A world famous Symphony conductor is attracted to a young journalist, despite the fact he is married. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 19:40 | 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 |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 21:00 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Backfire. 1961. Directed by Paul Almond. Stars Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall, Oliver Johnston & Noel Treverthen. Everything points to prosperity in this luxurious factory! Or so it seems… |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 22:10 | The Man Outside | 1933. Drama. Directed by George A. Cooper. Starring Henry Kendall. When private eye Kendall investigates a case of stolen jewels he finds that the police inspector is at the head of the heist. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 23:15 | The Servant | 1963. Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles & Wendy Craig. A British aristocrat, hires the mysterious household servant who causes unrest in the household. |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 1:30 | 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 |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 3:20 | Frail Women | 1932. Drama directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Mary Newcomb and Owen Nares. The story of Lillian who has an illegitimate war baby adopted by a wealthy spinster. Filmed at Twickenham Studios |
| Sun 29 Jul 18 | 4:50 | Riders of the Rockies | 1937. Director: Robert N Bradbury. Stars Tex Ritter, Louise Stanley, Horace Murphy & Snub Pollard. Formerly a 'lost' western. Tex joins an outlaw gang to clear the names of his framed & jailed pals. |
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| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. The White Cliffs Mystery. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier, Yvonne Andre and Peter Bathurst. A dead rocket engineer was being blackmailed. But why – and by whom? (S1, E25) |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 6:35 | Sailor Beware! | 1956. Comedy. Director: Gordon Parry. Stars Gordon Jackson, Peggy Mount, Ronald Lewis & Shirley Eaton. A seaman gets cold feet about his wedding when his mother-in-law to be takes control. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 8:15 | Treasure Island | 1972. Adventure. Directors: John Hough, Andrea Bianchi & Antonio Margheriti. Stars Orson Welles, Lionel Stander & Kim Burfield. Young Jim Hawkins has a map to a pirate's buried treasure. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 10:05 | Our Weekends in 1949 | Narrated by Ralph Richardson. A Charming short film made in 1949 following London workers on their weekends in the country. Cricket of The Green, Picnics at the Lido, Boating, Bowling & Fishing. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 10:35 | Della | 1964. Directed by Robert Gist and starring Joan Crawford. Della (Crawford), a reclusive, wealthy matriarch of Royal Bay, watches over the affluent coastal town. Possession, for her, is everything. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 11:55 | Defence Of The Realm | 1985. Thriller. Directed by David Drury and stars Gabriel Bryne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott and Robbie Coltrane. After an expose article is published, an MP dies in mysterious circumstances. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 13:55 | 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. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 16:05 | Below Zero | 1930. Comedy. Director: James Parrott. Stars Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy & Charlie Hall. Laurel and Hardy play street musicians struggling to earn money on a cold winter day. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Cornelius Gilbert? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire . |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 17:30 | Scotland Yard | 1953. The Drayton Case. Directed by Ken Hughes. Stars Victor Platt & Vincent Ball. The aftermath of a wartime air raid reveals the body of a murdered woman. (S1, E1) |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 18:05 | The Steel Works in the 50s – Glimpses | Glimpses: A rare glimpse into the workings of a Steel works in the UK in the 1950s. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 18:10 | The Gentle Sex | 1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie Howard. Stars Joan Gates, Jean Gillie, Lilli Palmer, Rosamund John & Joan Greenwood. During WW2, seven women find themselves in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. (Subtitles Available) |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Human Jungle | The Vacant Chair. 1963. Stars Herbert Lom. When a managing director dies during a meeting, two men immediately compete for the position. Guest stars Lloyd Lamble and Hazel Hughes. (S1, E1) |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 21:00 | Psyche 59 | 1964. Drama. Directed by Alexandre Singer. Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar. The blind wife of an industrialist begins to learn that her malady may not be the result of an injury. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 23:00 | Blonde Fist | 1991. Drama. Director: Frank Clarke. Stars Margi Clarke, Carroll Baker, Ken Hutchison & Angela Clarke. Ronnie flees domestic life to find her father in New York, and ends up boxing to make ends meet. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 1:05 | They Can't Hang Me | 1955. Drama. Director: Val Guest. Stars Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan & Anthony Oliver. A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 2:35 | Man In The Moon | 1960. Comedy. Directed by Basil Dearden and starring Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field and Michael Hordern. Scientists are looking for the perfect man to send to the moon. |
| Mon 30 Jul 18 | 4:35 | 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. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1957. Night Crossing. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier, John Serret and Andre Maranne. The quiet of an idyllic port town is shattered when a body is found on the beach. (S1, E26) |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 6:35 | My Foolish Heart | 1949. Drama. Director: Mark Robson. Stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward & Lois Wheeler. Mary Jane travels to Connecticut to visit her old friend Eloise, whom she hasn't seen for seven years. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 8:35 | Patricia Dainton Presents… | House in Marsh Road. Exclusive interview with Patricia Dainton who discusses her time on this film and her career in general. (S1, E7) |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 8:40 | The House In Marsh Road | 1960. Horror directed By Montgomery Tully and starring Patricia Dainton, Sam Kydd and Sandra Dorne. Jean is left a house and hopes it will be the fresh start they need but the house has other ideas. (Subtitles Available) |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 10:00 | The Traitor | 1957. Drama. Directed by Michael McCarthy. Starring Anton Diffring & Christopher Lee. Survivors of a WW2 resistance group meet at a country house to find out which of them had betrayed their leader. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 11:40 | Beautiful Dreamer | 1935. Musical. Director: Joseph Santley. Stars Douglass Montgomery, Evelyn Venable & Adrienne Ames. The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 12:05 | Man In The Moon | 1960. Comedy. Directed by Basil Dearden and starring Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field and Michael Hordern. Scientists are looking for the perfect man to send to the moon. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 14:05 | The Purple Plain | 1954. War. Director: Robert Parrish. Stars Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee & Win Min Than. Canadian RAF pilot Forrester is a loner whose bravery can't cover a streak of reckless instability. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 16:05 | BFI: Holiday | 1957. Documentary. Directed by John Taylor. Charming music-driven documentary about Blackpool. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Lenore Wingfield? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 17:30 | 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) |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 18:05 | The Royal Visit to Birmingham | It's the 9th of June, 1951, and we follow the princess Elizabeth on a tour of Birmingham including a visit to Villa and some excellent gymnastic displays. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 18:15 | Idol On Parade | 1959. Comedy. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Anthony Newley, William Bendix & Anne Aubrey. Newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the British army. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 20:00 | The Human Jungle | The Flip Side Man. 1963. Stars Herbert Lom. A successful pop singer fears for his career and he is convinced he has a doppelganger. Guest stars Jess Conrad and Annette Carell Laurie. (S1, E2) |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 21:00 | Butch & Sundance: The Early Days | 1979. Western. Director: Richard Lester. Stars Tom Berenger, William Katt, Peter Weller & Christopher Lloyd. A gang of bank robbers arrive in a small town disguised as preachers. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 23:10 | Mix Me A Person | 1962. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Carole Ann Ford & Adam Faith. A barrister's wife, who is a psychiatrist, takes on one of the cases that he has failed to win. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 1:15 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968. Adventure. Directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. During World War II, an American pilot and a Japanese navy captain are deserted on an island in the Pacific Ocean |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 3:20 | 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. |
| Tue 31 Jul 18 | 4:55 | Sing As You Swing | 1937. Musical. Directed by Redd Davis. Starring Evelyn Dall, Claude Dampier & Lu Ann Meredith. Top British radio stars perform in this musical revue. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 6:00 | Scotland Yard | 1958. Print of Death. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring John Warwick, Tim Turner and Phil Brown. A payroll van is pulled over by a police car, the guards shot and the payroll stolen. (S1, E27) |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 6:35 | Beyond the Curtain | 1960. Drama. Directed by Compton Bennett. Starring Richard Greene, Eva Bartok and Marius Goring. East German refugee Karen finds herself back at home when the flight she works on is forced down. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 8:20 | The Gay Nineties – Glimpses | 1942. Stars Johnny Downs, Susan Miller & Clyde Cook. Songs popular in 'The Gay Nineties' are performed by Johnny Downs, Susan Miller & Clyde Cook in this short film |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 8:40 | Thunder In The City | 1937. Comedy. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier & Ralph Richardson. A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have never seen. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 10:20 | Once In a New Moon | 1935. SCi-Fi. Stars Eliot Makeham, Rene Ray & Derrick de Marney. A small town gets dragged out into space and the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 11:40 | They Can't Hang Me | 1955. Drama. Director: Val Guest. Stars Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan & Anthony Oliver. A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 13:10 | BFI: Night Mail | 1936. Directors: Harry Watt & Basil Wright. Narrated by Pat Jackson. A critically acclaimed British documentary film about the operation of the 30s Royal Mail train delivery service. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 13:35 | Can-Can | 1960. Musical. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan & Maurice Chevalier. Simone's Parisian Nightclub performs the can-can every night, despite being outlawed. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 16:15 | Queen Cotton – Glimpses | 1941. Short film about the workings of the 200-year-old cotton industry in Lancashire culminating in a fashion show displaying the latest cotton designs. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed 711? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 17:30 | Scotland Yard | 1953. The Candlelight Murder. Directed by Ken Hughes. Stars Jack Lambert, Gerald Case, Robert Cawdron & Clifford Buckton. An inspector unmasks the killer of an elderly hermit. (S1, E3) |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 18:05 | Sheffield Anglers 1960s – Glimpses | Charming documentary made in the 1960s following the exodus of 100s of men every Sunday from Sheffield to Lincolnshire, Kirkstead for the weekly fishing competition. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 18:20 | Interrupted Journey | 1949. Thriller. Director: Daniel Birt. Stars Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden & Tom Walls. John's wife appears to have been shot after finding her body in the wreckage of a train crash. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 20:00 | The Human Jungle | Run with the Devil. 1963. Stars Herbert Lom. A religious man is suffering from amnesia. His wife however seems to be more liberated sexually. Guest stars Derek Farr & Iris Russell. (S1, E3) |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 21:00 | Penny Gold | 1973. Drama. Director: Jack Cardiff. Stars James Booth, Francesca Annis & Nicky Henson. Mathew is determined to crack the brutal murder of a young woman whose body is identified by her identical twin. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 22:45 | The Servant | 1963. Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles & Wendy Craig. A British aristocrat, hires the mysterious household servant who causes unrest in the household. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 1:00 | Duel in the Sun | 1946. Western. Directed by King Vidor and starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. When her father is hanged, the beautiful Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 3:35 | Thunder Rock | 1942. Supernatural drama starring Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen & James Mason. One of The Boulting Brothers' finest, a disillusioned writer becomes a lighthouse keeper living in solitude. |
| Wed 01 Aug 18 | 5:40 | A Cornish Holiday – Glimpses | Beautiful footage of Porthleven, Cornwall June 1950. A parade in the high street, a family trip to a small local beach, a boat trip and frolics on the shore. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 6:00 | 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) |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 6:35 | Johnny On The Spot | 1954. Crime directed by Maclean Rogers. Johnny (Hugh McDermott) returns from a prison sentence to get the man who framed him. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 8:05 | Bond of Fear | 1956. Crime Drama directed by Henry Cass and starring Dermot Walsh and Jane Barrett. Filmed at Nettlefold. A man and his family on a caravan holiday in France are taken hostage by an escaped convict. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 9:25 | Unpublished Story | 1942. War. Director: Harold French. Stars Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson & Basil Radford. A war correspondent during WW2 returns to London and becomes suspicious of a peace organisation. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 11:05 | Call Me Mister | 1951. Musical. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Stars Betty Grable, Danny Thomas, Richard Boone & Dan Dailey. Former stage star, Shep, awaits discharge in post-war Tokyo when he meets his estranged love, Kay. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 13:05 | Them Thar Hills | 1934. Comedy. Director: Charley Rogers. Stars Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert & Mae Busch. Laurel and Hardy visit the mountains to relieve Ollie's gout, but local bootleggers disrupt the trip |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 13:30 | The Beachcomber | 1954. Comedy-drama. Directed by Muriel Box and starring Glynis Johns, Robert Newton and Donald Sinden. Drunken womaniser, Ted, is sent to a tropical island by his family where he meets new friends. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 15:10 | Final Appointment | 1954. Crime. Directed by 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. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. Who Killed Super Sleuth? The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 17:30 | Scotland Yard | 1954. The Blazing Caravan. Director: Ken Hughes. Stars Edgar Driver, Alan Robinson & Betty Carter. A Salesman turns murderer after learning that his client has just won the football pools. (S1, E4) |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 18:05 | The Great Milk Bottle Mystery | 1950s short film made by the British Milk association on the loss of 6.4 million milk bottles a week. It's time to do your bit before the coal runs out. Can you help Mrs Jones of 22 Acacia Grove? |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 18:15 | The Million Pound Note | 1954. Comedy. Director: Ronald Neame. Stars Gregory Peck, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ronald Squire & Joyce Grenfell. Two wealthy brothers loan a penniless man 1 million pounds, in the form of one note. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 20:00 | The Human Jungle | Thin Ice. 1963. Director: John Ainsworth. Stars Herbert Lom. A teenaged ice skater feels her family are pushing her beyond her limits. Guest stars Janina Faye and George A. Cooper. (S1, E4) |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 21:00 | The Sand Pebbles (Part 1) | 1966. Adventure. Director Robert Wise. Stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough. In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 22:50 | The Sand Pebbles (Part 2) | 1966. Adventure. Director Robert Wise. Stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough. In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 0:35 | All Night Long | 1962. Directed by Basil Dearden and stars Richard Attenborough, Patrick McGoohan and Keith Mitchell. An East End party is the scene where rival jazz musicians fight over a performer. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 2:25 | Jigsaw | 1962. Directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner. A woman is murdered and it's up to Detective Fellows to sift through the clues and solve the 'Jigsaw'. Great shots of Brighton in the 60s. |
| Thu 02 Aug 18 | 4:25 | Mutiny | 1952. Starring Mark Stevens & Angela Lansbury. During the war of 1812, the U.S., in need of gold, arranges to borrow it from France. A young Captain must navigate through the British blockade. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 6:00 | 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) |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 6:35 | Silver Fleet | 1943. War. Directors: Vernon Sewell & Gordon Wellesley. Stars Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers & Esmond Knight. The Gestapo, anxious for operational submarines, meet with the owner of a Dutch port. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 8:20 | Cotton Queen | 1937. Comedy directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Stars Will Fyffe, Stanley Holloway & Jimmy Hanley. Rival cotton mill owners work together to win a contract when love blossoms between the rival's siblings. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 9:55 | Hot Enough For June | 1964. Comedy. Directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley and Leo McKern. British Intelligence sends a Czech-speaking British writer to Prague on a mission. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 11:55 | Rebecca | 1940. Mystery. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontanie and George Sanders. A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. (Subtitles Available) |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 14:30 | 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. (Subtitles Available) |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 16:30 | Burke's Law | 1967. The crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair Amos Burke (Gene Barry ), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who is also a millionaire. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 17:30 | Scotland Yard | 1954. The Dark Stairway. Director: Ken Hughes. Stars Vincent Ball & George Manship. A blind man who is witness to a murder on a darkened stairway is asked to identify the killer. (S1, E5) |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 18:05 | St Pauls Cathedral in 1942 – Glimpses | Glimpses: Directed by Horace Shepherd. A guide around St Pauls Cathedral filmed in the early 1940s. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 18:15 | Portrait of Jennie | 1949. Romance. Directed by Willian Dieterle and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten and Ethel Barrymore. A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 20:00 | The Human Jungle | The Lost Hours. 1963. Stars Herbert Lom. A neurotic wife tries to commit suicide. Dr. Corder learns she is the least neurotic of the family. Guest stars Leonard Sachs and Ursula Howell. (S1, E5) |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 21:00 | She Played With Fire | 1958. Drama. Directed by Sidney Gilliat. Stars Ian Hunter, Arlene Dahl & Dennis Price. An insurance investigator finds himself involved in arson, blackmail & murder after running into his ex. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 23:00 | Panic In The Streets | 1950. Drama. Director: Elia Kazan. Stars Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes & Paul Douglas. A Doctor and Policeman have 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 1:00 | 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. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 2:45 | Madeleine | 1950. Drama. Directed by David Lean. Stars Ann Todd, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks & Elizabeth Sellars. The true story of Madeleine Smith, a Scotswoman on trial for murder. |
| Fri 03 Aug 18 | 5:05 | Crazy Days | 1962. Comedy. Directed by James M. Anderson. Scenes from the silent era greats. Including Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin plus many more. Narrated by Hughie Green |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 6:00 | Night Was Our Friend | 1951. Crime Drama. Missing for two years, Martin (Michael Gough) returns home to his wife who is now with another man. Starring Elizabeth Sellars & Michael Gough. |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 7:15 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | The Royal Grant. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Brian Smyth. Cressing claims to have a royal grant giving him ownership of the town. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 7:45 | Action Stations | 1957. Drama. Directed by Cecil H. Williamson and starring Paul Carpenter and Mary Martin. A forger flees to Spain but his daughter is kidnapped by a gang. |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 8:45 | Stock Car | 1955. Drama. After the death of her father while motor racing, the daughter (Rona Anderson) is dissuaded from selling his garage by fellow racer Larry (Paul Carpenter) who helps her run the garage |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | Plunder. 1967. Directed by Richard Long. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. Heath is deputised to stop looters when the town is evacuated due to a weakened dam. (S2, E25) |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 11:00 | Stormy Crossing | 1958. Drama directed by CM Pennington-Richards. Stars John Ireland, Derek Bond & Joy Webster. A story of a fateful cross channel swim. Great shots of Dover in the 50s. |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 12:25 | The Flying Scot | 1957. Crime. Director: Compton Bennett. Stars Lee Patterson, Kay Callard & Alan Gifford. After learning what's being transported on the Flying Scot, Ronnie Cowan plans the biggest robbery of all time |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 13:55 | Green For Danger | 1947. Thriller. Director. Sidney Gilliat. Stars Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John & Alastair Sim. Against a background of bombing raids, a series of murders take place in a hospital during WW2 |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 15:45 | Too Many Crooks | 1959. Comedy. Directed by Mario Zampi and starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole and Sidney James. 'Fingers' runs an unsuccessful gang. When they decide to rob a wealthy man, things don't go to plan. |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 17:25 | Duel in the Sun | 1946. Western. Directed by King Vidor and starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. When her father is hanged, the beautiful Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 20:00 | Life at the Top | 1965. Drama. Director: Ted Kotcheff. Stars Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman & Michael Craig. This sequel to 'Room At the Top' finds a social climber having an affair with an anchor-woman |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 22:20 | Brubaker | 1980. Drama. Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Stars Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander & Morgan Freeman. The new warden of an Arkansas prison farm attempts to clean up the corruption of the staff |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 1:00 | Defence Of The Realm | 1985. Thriller. Directed by David Drury and stars Gabriel Bryne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott and Robbie Coltrane. After an expose article is published, an MP dies in mysterious circumstances. |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 3:00 | The Gentle Sex | 1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie Howard. Stars Joan Gates, Jean Gillie, Lilli Palmer, Rosamund John & Joan Greenwood. During WW2, seven women find themselves in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sat 04 Aug 18 | 4:50 | Men Against the Sun | 1952. Adventure. Stars John Bentley, Zena Marshall & Liam O'Leary. An engineer undertakes to oversee the building of a railway from Mombasa to Uganda. A Kenya- Britain coproduction, the first in fact. |
| DATE | TIME | PROGRAMME | SYNOPSIS |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 6:00 | Smart Alec | 1951. Drama. Director: John Guillermin. Stars Peter Reynolds, Leslie Dwyer, Mercy Haystead & Charles Hawtrey. An unscrupulous bounder is to become the heir to a large fortune. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 7:15 | Hawkeye & the Last of the Mohicans | The Long Rifles. 1957. Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr & Brendan Dillon. Someone is selling illegal guns to the Native Americans. The townspeople blame gunsmith Eben Cotten. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 7:45 | Be My Guest | 1965. Comedy. Directed by Lance Comfort. Stars Steve Marriott, David Hemmings, Andrea Monet. Jobless Dave, ex-member of pop group 'The Smart Alecs', meets Erica, an attractive young woman seeking fame |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 9:30 | Talkies: Michael Craig Interview | 2018. Directed by Sarah Cronin-Stanley. After a short teaser last month, Talking Pictures TV brings you the full and exclusive interview with the legendary actor Michael Craig. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 10:00 | The Big Valley | Turn of a Card. 1967. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. Stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck & Lee Majors. A gambler attempts to strip Heath of the money he is transporting. (S2, E26) |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 11:00 | 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. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 12:45 | Jigsaw | 1962. Directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner. A woman is murdered and it's up to Detective Fellows to sift through the clues and solve the 'Jigsaw'. Great shots of Brighton in the 60s. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 14:50 | Surprise Package | 1960. Comedy. Directed by Stanley Donen. Stars Yul Brynner, Noel Coward, Mitzi Gaynor, Lyndon Brook & Eric Pohlmann. A devil-may-care gambler and a small-time hood plan to steal an exiled king's crown |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 16:50 | Pirates of Blood River | 1962. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Kerwin Mathews, Christopher Lee, Marie Devereux & Oliver Reed. Pirates force Jonathon to lead them to his settlement after hearing about hidden treasures. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 18:35 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968. Adventure. Directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. During World War II, an American pilot and a Japanese navy captain are deserted on an island in the Pacific Ocean |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 20:40 | BFI: Holiday | 1957. Documentary. Directed by John Taylor. Charming music-driven documentary about Blackpool. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 21:00 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Candidate for Murder. 1961. Directed by David Villiers. Stars Michael Gough, Erika Remberg & John Justin. Kersten, a professional killer, is brought in by a jealous husband to kill his wife. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 22:10 | There's a Girl in My Soup | 1970. Comedy. Directed by Roy Boulting. Stars Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors, Tony Britton & Nicky Henson. Robert is known to have an eye for the ladies but fails to stay with them for long. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 0:10 | The Servant | 1963. Drama. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles & Wendy Craig. A British aristocrat, hires the mysterious household servant who causes unrest in the household. |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 2:25 | 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. (Subtitles Available) |
| Sun 05 Aug 18 | 4:25 | 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. |
