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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 18/05/2020 | 22:00 | The Go Between (1971) | Drama - Stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton |
| Tue | 19/05/2020 | 00:20 | The Masque of the Red Death (1964) | Horror - Directed by Roger Corman. Starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court & Jane Asher |
| Tue | 19/05/2020 | 06:00 | The Terror (1938) | Drama - Stars Wilfrid Lawson, Richard Murdoch, Bernard Lee, Alistair Sim |
| Tue | 19/05/2020 | 17:30 | Are You Being Served? (1977) | Comedy - Stars John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton |
| Tue | 19/05/2020 | 21:00 | Quatermass | Sci-fi - Stars John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale & Barbara Kellermann |
| Wed | 20/05/2020 | 09:00 | Rotten to the Core (1965) | Comedy - Stars Anton Rodgers, Eric Sykes & Charlotte Rampling |
| Wed | 20/05/2020 | 12:50 | City Under the Sea (1965) | Fantasy. Director. Jacques Tourneur. Stars Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart |
| Thu | 21/05/2020 | 00:40 | The Snorkel (1958) | Thriller - Stars Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John & Mandy Miller |
| Thu | 21/05/2020 | 15:10 | Mandy (1952) | Drama - Stars Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins & Terence Morgan |
| Fri | 22/05/2020 | 22:00 | To the Devil a Daughter (1976) | Hammer Horror - Stars Christopher Lee, Richard Widmark, Honor Blackman & Denholm Elliot |
| Fri | 22/05/2020 | 23:50 | Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966) | Hammer Horror - Stars Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews |
| Sat | 23/05/2020 | 10:30 | Model For Murder (1959) | Drama - Stars Keith Andes, Hazel Court, Michael Gough, Julia Arnall & Patricia Jessel |
| Sat | 23/05/2020 | 17:15 | Two Way Stretch (1960) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, David Lodge & Bernard Cribbins |
| Sun | 24/05/2020 | 12:20 | Nurse on Wheels (1963) | Comedy - Stars Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims |
| Sun | 24/05/2020 | 14:05 | Spare a Copper (1940) | Comedy - Stars George Formby, Dorothy Hyson, George Merritt |
| Sun | 24/05/2020 | 21:00 | Sunday Night at the London Palladium | Bruce Forsyth. Bobby Darin, Art Lund, Libi Staiger, Helen Scott, Inia Wiata, Jack Delon, Trio Rayros |
Many of the films shown are also now available on Blu-ray and DVD.