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
Talking Pictures TV – January Highlights
These are the highlights for this month:
| Day | Date | Time | Film / TV Series | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 15/04/2019 | 8:00 | Time Without Pity (1957) | Crime - Stars Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing & Alec McCowan |
| Mon | 15/04/2019 | 10:15 | The Dark Man (1951) | Drama - Stars Maxwell Reed, Edward Underdown, Natasha Parry & William Hartnell |
| Mon | 15/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Mon | 15/04/2019 | 21:00 | Callan | TV Series - Stars Edward Woodward |
| Mon | 15/04/2019 | 22:00 | The Day Of The Triffids (1962) | Sci-fi - Stars Nicole Maurey, Howard Keel, Janette Scott & Kieron Moore |
| Mon | 15/04/2019 | 0:00 | The Brain Machine 1955) | Thriller - Stars Maxwell Reed, Patrick Barr, Elizabeth Allen & Russell Napier |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 8:15 | Great Day In The Morning (1956) | Western - Stars Robert Stack, Virginia Mayo & Ruth Roman |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 11:55 | They Who Dare (1954) | War Drama |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 18:00 | Double Bunk (1961) | Comedy - Stars Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James & Liz Fraser |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 21:00 | Callan | TV Series - Stars Edward Woodward |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 22:00 | Man In The Attic (1953) | Thriller - Stars Jack Palance, Constance Smith & Byron Palmer |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 23:40 | Impulse (1984) | Horror - Stars Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly & Hume Cronyn |
| Tue | 16/04/2019 | 1:30 | Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) | Sci-fi - Stars William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri |
| Wed | 17/04/2019 | 6:00 | Man In The Mirror (1936) | Drama - Stars Edward Everett-Horton & Alastair Sim |
| Wed | 17/04/2019 | 15:30 | The Purple Plain (1954) | War - Stars Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee & Win Min Than |
| Wed | 17/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Wed | 17/04/2019 | 1:15 | Kipps (1941) | Comedy - Stars Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert & Philip Frost |
| Thu | 18/04/2019 | 10:15 | Cone of Silence (1960) | Drama - Stars Michael Craig, Peter Cushing & Bernard Lee |
| Thu | 18/04/2019 | 15:30 | Crooks In Cloisters (1964) | Comedy - Stars Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins & Melvyn Hayes |
| Thu | 18/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Thu | 18/04/2019 | 18:00 | Lost Horizon (1973) | Adventure - Stars Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann & Sally Kellerman |
| Thu | 18/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Thu | 18/04/2019 | 22:00 | The Mob (1951) | Drama - Stars Betty Buehler, Broderick Crawford & Richard Kiley |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 9:40 | When the Whales Came (1989) | Drama - Stars Paul Scofield, Helen Mirren, David Threlfall, David Suchet & Jeremy Kemp |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 15:10 | Treasure Island (1972) | Adventure - Stars Orson Welles, Lionel Stander & Kim Burfield |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 18:00 | The Jazz Singer (1980) | Musical - Stars Neil Diamond |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 22:00 | The Snorkel (1958) | Thriller - Stars Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John & Mandy Miller |
| Fri | 19/04/2019 | 23:50 | Nomads (1986) | Horror - Stars Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down & Anna Maria Monticelli |
| Sat | 20/04/2019 | 7:15 | The Final Test (1954) | Comedy - Stars Jack Warner, Robert Morley & George Relph |
| Sat | 20/04/2019 | 16:40 | Smallest Show On Earth (1957) | Comedy - Stars Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna & Bill Travers |
| Sat | 20/04/2019 | 21:00 | Boys From Brazil (1978) | Drama - Stars Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier & James Mason |
| Sun | 21/04/2019 | 6:40 | Man In The Moon (1960) | Comedy - Stars Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field & Michael Hordern |
| Sun | 21/04/2019 | 9:10 | For Those In Peril (1944) | War Drama - Stars David Farrar, Ralph Michael & Robert Wyndham |
| Sun | 21/04/2019 | 10:30 | Androcles and the Lion (1953) | Drama - Stars Alan Young |
| Sun | 21/04/2019 | 22:00 | The Anderson Tapes (1971) | Crime Thriller - Stars Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Christopher Walken |
| Mon | 22/04/2019 | 9:00 | Much Too Shy (1942) | Comedy - Stars George Formby |
| Mon | 22/04/2019 | 15:25 | The Wicked Lady (1945) | Drama - Stars Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones & James Mason |
| Mon | 22/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Mon | 22/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Mon | 22/04/2019 | 0:30 | The Innocents (1961) | Horror - Stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin & Peter Wyngarde |
| Tue | 23/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Tue | 23/04/2019 | 18:10 | The Jazz Singer (1980) | Musical - Stars Neil Diamond |
| Tue | 23/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Tue | 23/04/2019 | 22:00 | The Cat and the Canary (1978) | Thriller - Stars Honor Blackman, Michael Callan & Edward Fox |
| Wed | 24/04/2019 | 10:05 | The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960) | Comedy - Stars Maurice Reyna, George Coulouris & Warren Mitchell |
| Wed | 24/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Thu | 25/04/2019 | 10:40 | Boys Will Be Boys (1935) | Comedy - Will Hay |
| Thu | 25/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Thu | 25/04/2019 | 18:00 | Dr. Crippen (1963) | Horror - Stars Donald Pleasence & Coral Browne |
| Thu | 25/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Thu | 25/04/2019 | 22:00 | The Anderson Tapes (1971) | Crime Thriller - Stars Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Dyan Cannon, Christopher Walken |
| Thu | 25/04/2019 | 0:00 | The Snorkel (1958) | Thriller - Stars Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John & Mandy Miller |
| Fri | 26/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Fri | 26/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Fri | 26/04/2019 | 22:00 | Boys From Brazil (1978) | Drama - Stars Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier & James Mason |
| Fri | 26/04/2019 | 0:35 | The Boston Strangler (1968) | Drama - Stars Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy & Sally Kellerman |
| Sat | 27/04/2019 | 11:15 | The Galloping Major (1951) | Stars Basil Radford, Sidney James, Jimmy Hanley & Janette Scott |
| Sat | 27/04/2019 | 15:10 | The Villain (1979) | Comedy - Stars Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger & Ann-Margret |
| Sat | 27/04/2019 | 16:55 | The League of Gentlemen (1960) | Crime, Drama - Stars Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick & Roger Livesey |
| Sat | 27/04/2019 | 21:00 | Oklahoma Crude (1973) | Comedy - Stars George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway & John Mills |
| Sun | 28/04/2019 | 10:55 | Since You Went Away (1944) | Drama - Stars Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple & Joseph Cotten |
| Sun | 28/04/2019 | 22:00 | Billy Liar (1963) | Comedy - Stars Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie & Wilfred Pickles |
| Sun | 28/04/2019 | 0:00 | The Running Man (1963) | Drama - Stars Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates & Felix Aylmer |
| Mon | 29/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Mon | 29/04/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Mon | 29/04/2019 | 22:00 | Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) | Horror - Stars Christopher Lee |
| Tue | 30/04/2019 | 8:15 | Counter-Attack (1945) | War Drama - Stars Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman & Larry Parks |
| Tue | 30/04/2019 | 10:05 | The Golden Salamander (1950) | Drama - Stars Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimee & Herbert Lom |
| Tue | 30/04/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Tue | 30/04/2019 | 19:45 | Murder on Campus (1961) | Crime Drama - Directed by Michael Winner, Stars Terence Longden, Donald Gray & Diane Clare |
| Wed | 01/05/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Wed | 01/05/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Wed | 01/05/2019 | 22:00 | Oklahoma Crude (1973) | Comedy - Stars George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway & John Mills |
| Wed | 01/05/2019 | 0:15 | Bedazzled (1967) | Comedy - Stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron & Raquel Welch |
| Wed | 01/05/2019 | 4:25 | The Green Man (1956) | Comedy - Stars Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, George Cole & Terry-Thomas |
| Thu | 02/05/2019 | 8:20 | Spare the Rod (1961) | Drama - Stars Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen & Donald Pleasence |
| Thu | 02/05/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Thu | 02/05/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series (1972) Starring Barry Foster |
| Thu | 02/05/2019 | 22:00 | Billy Liar (1963) | Comedy - Stars Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie & Wilfred Pickles |
| Thu | 02/05/2019 | 0:00 | The Informers (1963) | Drama - Stars Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Katherine Woodville & Colin Blakely |
| Fri | 03/05/2019 | 15:10 | Boys in Brown (1949) | Drama - Stars Richard Attenborough, Jack Warner & Dirk Bogarde |
| Fri | 03/05/2019 | 17:30 | Robin's Nest | TV Series - Stars Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt & Tony Britton |
| Fri | 03/05/2019 | 19:45 | The Flaw (1955) | Crime. Drama |
| Fri | 03/05/2019 | 21:00 | Van Der Valk | TV Series Starring Barry Foster |
| Sat | 04/05/2019 | 15:20 | The Green Man (1956) | Comedy - Stars Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, George Cole & Terry-Thomas |
| Sat | 04/05/2019 | 17:00 | It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) | Drama - Stars Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner & Susan Shaw |
| Sat | 04/05/2019 | 21:00 | The Passenger (1975) | Drama - Stars Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre |
| Sat | 04/05/2019 | 23:30 | Gumshoe (1971) | Comedy Drama - Stars Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw & Frank Finlay |
| Sat | 04/05/2019 | 1:10 | The Last Valley (1971) | Drama - Stars Michael Caine, Omar Sharif & Nigel Davenport |
| Sun | 05/05/2019 | 10:50 | The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941) | Drama - Stars James Craig as Jabez Stone |
| Sun | 05/05/2019 | 14:10 | It Should Happen To You (1954) | Stars Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford & Jack Lemmon |
| Sun | 05/05/2019 | 22:00 | The Deep (1977) | Adventure - Stars Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte & Dick Anthony Williams |
Many of the films shown are also now available on Blu-ray and DVD.