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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri | 06/09/2019 | 21:00 | Shadows of Fear | TV Series |
| Fri | 06/09/2019 | 22:00 | Dracula: Prince of Darkness | Hammer |
| Fri | 06/09/2019 | 23:50 | The Green Man (1956) | Comedy - Stars Alastair Sim, Raymond Huntley, George Cole & Terry-Thomas |
| Sat | 07/09/2019 | 09:35 | Five Golden Dragons (1968) | Stars Robert Cummings, Margaret Lee & Christopher Lee. |
| Sat | 07/09/2019 | 14:20 | Soldier of Fortune (1955) | Drama - Stars Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Gene Barry & Michael Rennie |
| Sat | 07/09/2019 | 19:50 | Hombre (1967) | Western. Stars Paul Newman, Richard Boone, Fredric March & Diane Cilento |
| Sat | 07/09/2019 | 22:05 | This Sporting Life (1963) | Drama - Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts & Alan Badel. |
| Sun | 08/09/2019 | 09:30 | Magic Town (1947) | Comedy - Stars James Stewart, Jane Wyman & Kent Smith |
| Sun | 08/09/2019 | 21:45 | Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) | Horror - Directed by Jeremy Summers. Stars Christopher Lee |
| Mon | 09/09/2019 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Mon | 09/09/2019 | 01:40 | The Passenger (1975) | Drama - Stars Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre |
| Tue | 10/09/2019 | 12:40 | It's a Great Day (1955) | Comedy - Stars Ruth Dunning, Edward Evans, Sidney James, Sheila Sweet, Peter Bryant, Nancy Roberts & Vera Day |
| Tue | 10/09/2019 | 17:30 | You Can't Do Without Love (1944) (AKA: One Exciting Night) | Comedy. Directed by Walter Forde. Stars Vera Lynn & Donald Stewart |
| Tue | 10/09/2019 | 19:00 | SOS Titanic (1979) | rama. Directed by William Hale. Stars David Janssen, Cloris Leachman & Harry Andrews |
| Tue | 10/09/2019 | 21:00 | Gideon's Way | TV Series |
| Tue | 10/09/2019 | 22:00 | This Sporting Life (1963) | Drama. Directed by Lindsay Anderson. Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts & Alan Badel |
| Wed | 11/09/2019 | 10:50 | Father's Doing Fine (1952) | Comedy - Directed by Henry Cass. Stars Richard Attenborough, Heather Thatcher & Virginia Mckenna |
| Wed | 11/09/2019 | 14:35 | Notorious (1946) | Drama - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman & Claude Rains |
| Wed | 11/09/2019 | 21:00 | Widows | TV Series - (1983) |
| Wed | 11/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Chase (1966) | Drama - Stars Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson & Robert Duvall |
| Wed | 11/09/2019 | 00:40 | 100 Rifles (1969) | War - Stars Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas & Jim Brown |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 12:15 | Up In The World (1956) | Comedy - Stars Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson & Jerry Desmonde |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series (1975) |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 14:30 | Twice 'Round the Daffodils (1962) | Drama - Stars Juliet Mills, Donald Houston, Donald Sinden & Kenneth Williams |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 16:20 | Mr. Winkle Goes To War (1944) | Comedy - Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick and Ted Donaldson |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 21:00 | The Human Jungle | TV Serie (1963) Stars Herbert Lom |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 22:00 | Georgy Girl (1966) | Comedy - Stars James Mason, Alan Bates & Lynn Redgrave |
| Thu | 12/09/2019 | 00:00 | Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) | Hammer Horror - Stars Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley & Andrew Keir |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 09:10 | The Stars Look Down (1939) | Directed by Carol Reed. Stars Michael Redgrave & Margaret Lockwood |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series (1975) |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 17:05 | Geordie (1955) | Comedy - Stars Bill Travers, Alastair Sim, Miles Malleson & Raymond Huntley |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 21:00 | Shadows of Fear | TV Series (1971) |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | Comedy - Stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon & Barry Bostwick |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 00:00 | Bedazzled (1967) | Comedy - Stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron & Raquel Welch |
| Fri | 13/09/2019 | 02:00 | White Cargo (1973) | Comedy - Stars David Jason |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 08:10 | The Black Sheep Of Whitehall (1942) | Comedy. Directed by Basil Dearden & Will Hay. Stars Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney & Felix Aylmer |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 10:00 | The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) | Drama - Stars Elaine Benson, Ben Webster & Hay Petrie |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 12:30 | You Must Be Joking (1965) | Comedy - Comedy. Directed by Michael Winner. Stars Michael Callan, Denholm Elliot, Terry-Thomas & James Robertson Justice |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 14:30 | The Captain's Table (1959) | Comedy - Stars John Gregson, Peggy Cummins & Donald Sinden |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 16:15 | Ring of Spies (1964) | Drama - Stars Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, David Kossoff & Margaret Tyzack |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 18:00 | On the Fiddle (1961) | Comedy - Directed by Cyril Frankel. Stars Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery & Cecil Parker |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 20:00 | Voyage of the Damned (1976) | War Drama - Stars Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner & Lee Grant |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 23:10 | Horror of Frankenstein (1971) | Horror. Directed by Jimmy Sangster. Stars Dennis Price, Kate O'Mara & Ralph Bates |
| Sat | 14/09/2019 | 01:10 | Blackout (1950) | Crime Noir - Stars Maxwell Reed & Dinah Sheridan |
| Sun | 15/09/2019 | 08:30 | The Monkey's Paw (1948) | Horror - Stars Michael Martin-Harvey, Sydney Tafler & Alfie Bass |
| Sun | 15/09/2019 | 09:45 | Don't Panic Chaps (1959) | Comedy - Directed by George Pollock. Stars Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters & Terence Alexander |
| Sun | 15/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Beauty Jungle (1964) | Comedy - Director: Val Guest. Stars Janette Scott, Ian Hendry, Edmund Purdom & Sid James |
| Sun | 15/09/2019 | 00:15 | Psyche 59 (1964) | Drama - Stars Patricia Neal, Curt Jurgens & Samantha Eggar |
| Mon | 16/09/2019 | 08:15 | The Old Dark House (1963) | Comedy - Directed by William Castle. Stars Fenella Fielding, Tom Poston, Robert Morley & Janette Scott |
| Mon | 16/09/2019 | 10:00 | The Night My Number Came Up (1955) | Mystery. Directed by Leslie Norman and starring Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Denholm Elliott & Alexander Knox |
| Mon | 16/09/2019 | 18:30 | The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961) | Sci-Fi Drama. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd and Michael Goodliffe |
| Mon | 16/09/2019 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Mon | 16/09/2019 | 22:00 | Villain (1971) | Drama - Stars Richard Burton, Ian McShane & Nigel Davenport. |
| Tue | 17/09/2019 | 12:10 | Green For Danger (1947) | Thriller - Stars Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John & Alastair Sim |
| Tue | 17/09/2019 | 14:35 | The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) | Adventure - Directed by Jack Sher. Starring Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow and June Thorburn |
| Tue | 17/09/2019 | 18:25 | Summertime (1955) | Drama - Stars Katharine Hepburn |
| Tue | 17/09/2019 | 21:00 | Gideon's Way | TV Series |
| Tue | 17/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Cassandra Crossing (1976) | Drama - Stars Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster & Martin Sheen |
| Wed | 18/09/2019 | 14:35 | Corridor Of Mirrors (1948) | Drama - Directed by Terence Young. Starring Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen & Christopher Lee |
| Wed | 18/09/2019 | 18:30 | The One That Got Away (1957) | Drama. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Stars Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon & Michael Goodliffe |
| Wed | 18/09/2019 | 21:00 | Widows | TV Series (1983) |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 10:15 | On the Fiddle (1961) | Comedy. Directed by Cyril Frankel. Stars Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery & Cecil Parker |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 12:15 | The Scamp (1957) | Crime Drama - Stars Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison, Colin Petersen. Todd Dawson |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 17:25 | Davy (1958) | Comedy - Stars Harry Secombe, Ron Randell and George Relph |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 19:05 | No Highway in the Sky (1951) | Drama - Stars James Stewart, Jack Hawkins, Marlene Dietrich & Glynis Johns |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 21:00 | The Human Jungle | TV Series |
| Thu | 19/09/2019 | 23:45 | A Severed Head (1971) | Comedy - Directed by Dick Clement. Stars Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Clive Revill & Claire Bloom |
| Fri | 20/09/2019 | 12:00 | Notorious (1946) | Drama. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman & Claude Rains |
| Fri | 20/09/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series |
| Fri | 20/09/2019 | 21:00 | Shadows of Fear | TV Series |
| Fri | 20/09/2019 | 22:00 | Horror of Frankenstein (1971) | Hammer Horror |
| Sat | 21/09/2019 | 08:05 | At The Earth's Core (1976) | Adventure. Directed by Kevin Connor. Stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro & Cy Grant |
| Sat | 21/09/2019 | 16:10 | Unearthly Stranger (1963) | ci-Fi Horror. Directed by John Krish. Stars John Neville, Phillip Stone, Gabriella Licudi & Warren Mitchell |
| Sat | 21/09/2019 | 19:30 | Ghost Ship (1953) | Thriller. Directed by Vernon Sewell. Starring Hazel Court & Dermot Walsh |
| Sun | 22/09/2019 | 06:00 | Fire Maidens From Outerspace (1956) | Sci-Fi Comedy - Stars Harry Fowler, Paul Carpenter & Sydney Tafler |
| Sun | 22/09/2019 | 19:00 | Lost in the Desert (1969) | Drama - Wynand Uys & Jamie Uys |
| Sun | 22/09/2019 | 00:00 | The Day After (1983) | Drama - Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Stars Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, John Lithgow & JoBeth Williams |
| Mon | 23/09/2019 | 09:00 | Challenge For Robin Hood (1967) | Adventure - Stars Barrie Ingham, James Hayter & Leon Greene |
| Mon | 23/09/2019 | 12:00 | The Big Job (1965) | Comedy - Stars Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery & Joan Sims |
| Mon | 23/09/2019 | 17:00 | The House In Nightmare Park (1973) | Comedy. Director Peter Sykes. Stars Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burde |
| Mon | 23/09/2019 | 18:55 | I'm All Right Jack (1959) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas & Ian Carmichael |
| Mon | 23/09/2019 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Mon | 23/09/2019 | 23:20 | Fear in the Night (1972) | Hammer Horror - Stars Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates & Peter Cushing |
| Tue | 24/09/2019 | 21:00 | Gideon's Way | TV Series |
| Tue | 24/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Criminal (1960) | Drama - Stars Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee & Margit Saad |
| Wed | 25/09/2019 | 19:10 | Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000) | Mystery - Stars Jon Newman, Prunella Scales, Marc Danbury & George Cole |
| Wed | 25/09/2019 | 21:00 | Widows | TV Series (1983) |
| Wed | 25/09/2019 | 00:00 | The Night Strangler (1972) | Horror - Stars Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug and Simon Oakland |
| Wed | 25/09/2019 | 01:50 | Green For Danger (1947) | Thriller - Stars Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John & Alastair Sim |
| Thu | 26/09/2019 | 12:15 | Hunted (1952) | Drama - Directed by Charles Crichton. Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Sellars, Geoffrey Keen & Kay Walsh |
| Thu | 26/09/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series |
| Thu | 26/09/2019 | 18:40 | Raise the Titanic (1980) | Drama - Stars Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer & Alec Guinness |
| Thu | 26/09/2019 | 21:00 | The Human Jungle | TV Series |
| Thu | 26/09/2019 | 23:45 | D.O.A. (1988) | Thriller - Stars Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan |
| Fri | 27/09/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series |
| Fri | 27/09/2019 | 19:15 | Passport To Pimlico (1949) | Comedy - Stars Stanley Holloway, Irene Handl & Margaret Rutherford |
| Fri | 27/09/2019 | 21:00 | Shadows of Fear | TV Series |
| Fri | 27/09/2019 | 22:00 | These Are The Damned (1962) | Horror - Stars Stars Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field & Viveca Lindfors |
| Fri | 27/09/2019 | 23:50 | Night of the Demon (1957) | Horror - Stars Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis |
| Sat | 28/09/2019 | 06:00 | The Goose Steps Out (1942) | Comedy - Stars Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey & Peter Croft |
| Sat | 28/09/2019 | 18:50 | Clockwise (1986) | Comedy - Stars John Cleese, Penelope Wilton & Alison Steadman |
| Sun | 29/09/2019 | 06:35 | Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) | Comedy - Stars Will Hay, Graham Moffatt & Moore Marriott |
| Sun | 29/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Swimmer (1968) | Drama - Stars Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule & Marge Champion |
| Mon | 30/09/2019 | 07:20 | Devil Girl From Mars (1954) | Sci-fi |
| Mon | 30/09/2019 | 09:10 | Target Earth (1954) | Sci-fi |
| Mon | 30/09/2019 | 21:00 | Special Branch | TV Series |
| Mon | 30/09/2019 | 22:00 | The Go Between (1971) | Drama - Stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton |
| Tue | 01/10/2019 | 07:30 | The Traitor (1957) | Drama - Stars Anton Diffring & Christopher Lee |
| Tue | 01/10/2019 | 16:20 | Hell Drivers (1957) | Drama - Stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Sid James & Sean Connery |
| Tue | 01/10/2019 | 21:00 | Gideon's Way | TV Series |
| Tue | 01/10/2019 | 01:45 | Double X (1992) | Crime Drama - Stars Bernard Hill & Norman Wisdom |
| Wed | 02/10/2019 | 17:00 | The Shiralee (1957) | Drama - Stars Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars & Sid James |
| Wed | 02/10/2019 | 21:00 | Widows | TV Series |
| Wed | 02/10/2019 | 22:00 | The Cotton Club (1984) | Drama - Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane & Nicholas Cage |
| Thu | 03/10/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series |
| Thu | 03/10/2019 | 21:00 | The Human Jungle | TV Series |
| Thu | 03/10/2019 | 22:00 | A Man Called Sledge (1970) | Western - Stars: James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins |
| Fri | 04/10/2019 | 14:00 | Rooms | TV Series |
| Fri | 04/10/2019 | 14:30 | Happy Go Lovely (1951) | Musical Comedy - Stars David Niven, Vera-Ellen & Cesar Romero |
| Fri | 04/10/2019 | 16:20 | Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) | Comedy - Stars James Booth, Barbara Windsor & Roy Kinnear |
| Fri | 04/10/2019 | 21:00 | Shadows of Fear | TV Series |
| Fri | 04/10/2019 | 22:00 | Circus of Fear (1967) | Drama - Stars: Suzy Kendall, Christopher Lee, Anthony Newlands |
| Fri | 04/10/2019 | 01:45 | Convoy (1978) | Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw & Ernest Borgnine |
| Sat | 05/10/2019 | 08:00 | The Night Caller (1965) | Sci-fi - Stars John Saxon, Maurice Denham & Patricia Haines |
| Sat | 05/10/2019 | 19:10 | The Terror (1938) | Drama - Stars Wilfrid Lawson, Richard Murdoch, Bernard Lee, Alistair Sim |
| Sat | 05/10/2019 | 22:20 | The Lovers! (1973) | Comedy - Stars Richard Beckinsale, Paula Wilcox, Joan Scott |
| Sat | 05/10/2019 | 00:10 | Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (1971) | Horror - Stars: Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers |
| Sun | 06/10/2019 | 12:30 | The Pickwick Papers (1952) | Comedy - Stars James Hayter, Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison & Harry Fowler |
| Sun | 06/10/2019 | 22:00 | The Best of Everything (1959) | Drama - Stars Joan Crawford, Louis Jourdan, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd & Suzy Parker |
| Sun | 06/10/2019 | 00:20 | Shampoo (1975) | Comedy - Stars Warren Beatty, Lee Grant, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn & Carrie Fisher |
Many of the films shown are also now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
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