If you love old films then there really is only one television channel in the UK to watch, Talking Pictures TV. It’s full of rarely seen films along with many classics with the likes of Peter Sellers, Stanley Baker, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim & Will Hay for instance. Plus comedy from the great Laurel and Hardy. But that’s not all as they also show old TV series such as Scotland Yard, Public Eye, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, The Gentle Touch & A Family At War.
You can find Talking Pictures TV on Sky 328 | Virgin 445 | Freeview 81 | Freesat 306
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These are the highlights for this month:
| Day | Date | Time | Film / TV Series | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed | 08/01/2020 | 04:45 | The Flying Deuces (1939) | Laurel & Hardy |
| Wed | 08/01/2020 | 11:30 | Crooks Anonymous (1962) | Comedy - Stars Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter & Wilfrid Hyde-White |
| Wed | 08/01/2020 | 13:15 | On the Fiddle (1961) | Comedy - Stars Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery & Cecil Parker |
| Wed | 08/01/2020 | 15:15 | It Should Happen To You (1954) | Comedy - Stars Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford & Jack Lemmon |
| Wed | 08/01/2020 | 17:00 | They Came From Beyond Space (1967) | Sci-fi |
| Thu | 09/01/2020 | 14:30 | I Didn't Do It (1945) | Comedy - Stars George Formby, Billy Caryll, Hilda Mundy & Wally Patch |
| Thu | 09/01/2020 | 00:00 | Psyche 59 (1964) | Drama |
| Fri | 10/01/2020 | 14:30 | Notorious (1946) | Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman & Claude Rains |
| Fri | 10/01/2020 | 21:00 | Hazell | TV Series |
| Fri | 10/01/2020 | 22:00 | Horror of Frankenstein (1971) | Hammer Horror - Stars Ralph Bates |
| Fri | 10/01/2020 | 00:00 | Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) | Hammer Horror - Stars Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley & Andrew Keir |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 12:00 | No Kidding (1960) | Comedy - Leslie Phillips, Geraldine Mcewan, Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell & Irene Handl |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 13:40 | The Teckman Mystery (1954) | Drama - Stars Margaret Leighton, John Justin & Roland Culver |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 15:30 | Catweazle | TV Series |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 16:00 | Warlords of Atlantis (1978) | Adventure - Stars Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore & Cyd Charisse |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 18:00 | They Came From Beyond Space (1967) | Sci-fi |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 21:30 | The Medusa Touch (1978) | Horror - Stars Richard Burton, Lee Remick & Lino Ventura |
| Sat | 11/01/2020 | 23:40 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | Stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon & Barry Bostwick |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 07:20 | Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) | Comedy - Stars Will Hay, Graham Moffatt & Moore Marriott |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 09:25 | You Must Be Joking (1965) | Comedy - Stars Michael Callan, Denholm Elliot, Terry-Thomas & James Robertson Justice |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 15:30 | Catweazle | TV Series |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 16:00 | Vote for Huggett (1949) | Comedy - Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, Diana Dors |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 18:00 | Get Some In! | TV Series |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 18:30 | Tell Me Another | TV Series |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 19:10 | Up The Chastity Belt (1971) | Stars Frankie Howerd, Eartha Kitt, Anna Quayle |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 21:00 | Mystery and Imagination | TV Series - The Curse of the Mummy |
| Sun | 12/01/2020 | 22:50 | The Beauty Jungle (1964) | Comedy - Stars Janette Scott, Ian Hendry, Edmund Purdom & Sid James |
| Mon | 13/01/2020 | 11:30 | The Old Dark House (1963) | Comedy. Directed by William Castle. Stars Fenella Fielding, Tom Poston, Robert Morley & Janette Scott |
| Mon | 13/01/2020 | 15:20 | Cash on Demand (1961) | Drama - Stars Peter Cushing, Andre Morell & Richard Vernon |
| Mon | 13/01/2020 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Tue | 14/01/2020 | 22:00 | Nowhere to Run (1978) | Drama - Stars David Janssen, Stefanie Powers, Linda Evans & Allen Garfield |
| Tue | 14/01/2020 | 00:00 | Man in the Middle (1964) | Drama - Stars Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen & Barry Sullivan |
| Wed | 15/01/2020 | 07:25 | The Love Lottery (1954) | Comedy - Stars David Niven, Peggy Cummins and Herbert Lom |
| Wed | 15/01/2020 | 09:10 | The Games (1970) | Drama - Directed Michael Winner. Stars Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Jeremy Kemp & Charles Aznavour |
| Wed | 15/01/2020 | 14:55 | Magic Town (1947) | Comedy - James Stewart, Jane Wyman & Kent Smith |
| Wed | 15/01/2020 | 18:55 | Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949) | Comedy - Stars Alec Guinness, Dennis Price & Valerie Hobson |
| Thu | 16/01/2020 | 18:50 | Malta Story (1953) | War - Stars Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Muriel Pavlow, Anthony Steel & Flora Robson |
| Thu | 16/01/2020 | 22:00 | They Were Sisters (1945) | Drama - Stars Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair, Anne Crawford & Dulcie Gray |
| Fri | 17/01/2020 | 21:00 | Hazell | TV Series |
| Fri | 17/01/2020 | 23:50 | The Mind Of Mr Soames (1970) | Drama - Stars Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn & Nigel Davenport |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 08:00 | Target Earth (1954) | Sci-fi |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 09:50 | The Terrornauts (1967) | Sci-fi |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 12:00 | On the Night of the Fire (1939) | Drama - Stars Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard & Romney Bren |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 14:10 | The Flying Deuces (1939) | Laurel & Hardy |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 15:30 | Catweazle | TV Series |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 19:25 | The October Man (1947) | Crime Drama - Stars John Mills, Edward Chapman, Joan Greenwood |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 23:25 | The Comedy Man (1964) | Drama - Stars Kenneth More, Cecil Parker & Dennis Price. Charles Byrd |
| Sat | 18/01/2020 | 01:15 | The Deadly Affair (1966) | Thriller - Directed by Sidney Lumet Stars James Mason, Simone Signoret |
| Sun | 19/01/2020 | 10:40 | The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) | Comedy - Stars Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer |
| Sun | 19/01/2020 | 12:20 | A Run For Your Money (1949) | Comedy - Stars Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister & Hugh Griffith |
| Sun | 19/01/2020 | 15:30 | Catweazle | TV Series |
| Sun | 19/01/2020 | 18:00 | Get Some In! | TV Series |
| Mon | 20/01/2020 | 09:10 | Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) | Comedy - Stars James Booth, Barbara Windsor & Roy Kinnear |
| Mon | 20/01/2020 | 13:30 | The Square Peg (1958) | Comedy - Stars Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Honor Blackman & Hattie Jacques |
| Mon | 20/01/2020 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Mon | 20/01/2020 | 22:00 | Hell Drivers (1957) | Drama - Stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Sid James and Sean Connery |
| Tue | 21/01/2020 | 09:30 | Doublecross (1955) | Drama - Stars Donald Houston, Fay Compton, William Hartnell |
| Tue | 21/01/2020 | 15:30 | Sleeping Tiger (1954) | Drama - Stars Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith & Alexander Knox |
| Wed | 22/01/2020 | 22:05 | Personal Services (1987) | Comedy - Directed by Terry Jones. Stars Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox |
| Thu | 23/01/2020 | 11:55 | The Pickwick Papers (1952) | Comedy - Stars James Hayter, Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison & Harry Fowler |
| Thu | 23/01/2020 | 00:00 | Silkwood (1983) | Drama - Stars Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell & Craig T Nelson |
| Fri | 24/01/2020 | 11:40 | Heavens Above! (1963) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker & Eric Sykes |
| Fri | 24/01/2020 | 21:00 | Hazell | TV Series |
| Fri | 24/01/2020 | 22:00 | Sewers of Gold (1979) | Crime Thriller - Stars Ian McShane, Christopher Matthew & Warren Clarke |
| Sat | 25/01/2020 | 06:55 | The Frightened Man (1952) | Crime Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray & Thora Hird |
| Sat | 25/01/2020 | 08:20 | The Ghost Train (1941) | Comedy Horror - Stars Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch & Kathleen Harrison |
| Sat | 25/01/2020 | 15:30 | Catweazle | TV Series |
| Sat | 25/01/2020 | 22:20 | Town on Trial (1957) | Drama - Directed by John Guillermin. Stars John Mills, Charles Coburn, Derek Farr & Barbara Bates |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 07:15 | Secret Mission (1942) | War - Stars James Mason, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann & Hugh Williams |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 09:10 | The Iron Maiden (1962) | Comedy - Stars Michael Craig & Joan Sims |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 11:15 | I See a Dark Stranger (1946) | War - Stars Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 13:35 | The Wrong Arm Of the Law (1963) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins & Nanette Newman |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 15:30 | Catweazle | TV Series |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 18:00 | Get Some In! | TV Series |
| Sun | 26/01/2020 | 22:00 | Nothing But the Night (1972) | Mystery - Stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors |
| Mon | 27/01/2020 | 08:30 | Odd Man Out (1947) | Thriller - Stars Robert Newton, James Mason, Fay Compton & William Hartnell |
| Mon | 27/01/2020 | 11:30 | Bell Bottom George (1944) | Drama - Stars George Formby, Anne Firth & Reginald Purdell |
| Mon | 27/01/2020 | 18:25 | Rebecca (1940) | Mystery - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontanie & George Sanders |
| Mon | 27/01/2020 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Tue | 28/01/2020 | 13:20 | Follow A Star (1959) | Comedy - Stars Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Fenella Fielding |
| Tue | 28/01/2020 | 15:30 | Raise the Titanic (1980) | Drama - Stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer & Alec Guinness |
| Tue | 28/01/2020 | 17:50 | The Monkey's Paw (1948) | Horror - Stars Michael Martin-Harvey, Sydney Tafler & Alfie Bass |
| Tue | 28/01/2020 | 22:00 | The Big Gamble (1961) | Comedy - Stars Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne & Sybil Thorndike |
| Wed | 29/01/2020 | 13:10 | The Shiralee (1957) | Drama - Stars Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars & Sid James |
| Wed | 29/01/2020 | 18:50 | Hell Drivers (1957) | Drama - Stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Sid James and Sean Connery |
| Thu | 30/01/2020 | 14:45 | The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941) | Drama - Stars James Craig as Jabez Stone |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 08:25 | The Ghost Camera (1933) | Crime Drama |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 09:45 | Night Was Our Friend (1951) | Crime Drama |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 11:45 | Spellbound (1945) | Drama - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck & Michael Chekhov |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 19:00 | Crooks In Cloisters (1964) | Comedy - Stars Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins & Melvyn Hayes |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 21:00 | Hazell | TV Series |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 22:00 | Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (1971) | Horror - Stars Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers |
| Fri | 31/01/2020 | 23:50 | A Man Called Sledge (1970) | Western - Stars James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins |
| Sat | 01/02/2020 | 08:55 | Demobbed (1944) | Comedy - Stars Norman Evans, Nat Jackley and Dan Young |
| Sat | 01/02/2020 | 12:20 | Devil Girl From Mars (1954) | Sci-fi |
| Sat | 01/02/2020 | 17:30 | A Canterbury Tale (1944) | War - Stars Eric Portman, Shelia Sim, Dennis Price |
| Sat | 01/02/2020 | 20:05 | Nor the Moon By Night (1958) | Adventure - Stars Michael Craig, Belinda Lee, Patrick McGoohan |
| Sat | 01/02/2020 | 22:05 | And Soon the Darkness (1970) | Horror - Stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice & Sandor Eles |
| Sun | 02/02/2020 | 07:40 | The Stranger (1946) | Directed by Orson Welle - Stars Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson & Loretta Young |
| Sun | 02/02/2020 | 16:00 | Rockets Galore (1958) | Comedy - Stars Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver |
| Sun | 02/02/2020 | 18:00 | Get Some In! | TV Series |
| Sun | 02/02/2020 | 18:30 | Tell Me Another | TV Series |
| Sun | 02/02/2020 | 22:00 | True As A Turtle (1957) | Comedy - Stars John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn |
| Sun | 02/02/2020 | 00:00 | What A Crazy World (1963) | Musical - Stars Joe Brown, Susan Maughan, Harry H Corbett & Marty Wilde |
Many of the films shown are also now available on Blu-ray and DVD.