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 –
These are the highlights for this month:
| Day | Date | Time | Film / TV Series | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu | 02/04/2020 | 14:30 | A Stitch in Time (1963) | Comedy - Stars Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke |
| Thu | 02/04/2020 | 22:00 | Jack The Ripper Part 2 of 2 (1988) | Stars Michael Caine |
| Fri | 03/04/2020 | 12:00 | The Iron Maiden (1962) | Comedy - Stars Michael Craig & Joan Sims |
| Fri | 03/04/2020 | 16:30 | The Flying Squad (1940) | Crime - Stars Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks, Jack Hawkins |
| Fri | 03/04/2020 | 21:00 | Hazell | TV Series |
| Fri | 03/04/2020 | 22:00 | Villain (1971) | Drama - Stars Richard Burton, Ian McShane & Nigel Davenport |
| Sat | 04/04/2020 | 10:25 | The Ghost Train (1941) | Comedy - Stars Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch & Kathleen Harrison |
| Sat | 04/04/2020 | 17:20 | Flight to Mars (1951) | Sci-fi Stars Marguerite Chapman Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz |
| Sat | 04/04/2020 | 18:50 | The Rainmaker (1957) | Romance - Stars Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn |
| Sun | 05/04/2020 | 06:15 | Monster From Green Hell (1957) | Sci-fi |
| Sun | 05/04/2020 | 07:40 | The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) | Horror |
| Sun | 05/04/2020 | 11:15 | Sabotage (1937) | Thriller - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder |
| Sun | 05/04/2020 | 15:45 | The Man in Grey (1943) | Drama - Stars Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert |
| Sun | 05/04/2020 | 21:00 | Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1965) | Featuring Jimmy Tarbuck, Des O'Connor, Tony Martin, Sid James, Cleo Laine |
| Sun | 05/04/2020 | 23:05 | The One That Got Away (1957) | Drama - Stars Hardy Kruger |
| Mon | 06/04/2020 | 07:10 | The Big Job (1965) | Comedy - Stars Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery & Joan Sims |
| Mon | 06/04/2020 | 08:55 | Thunder Rock (1942) | Supernatural Drama - Stars Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen & James Mason |
| Mon | 06/04/2020 | 16:05 | My Brother's Keeper (1948) | Thriller - Stars Jack Warner, George Cole, David Tomlinson & Bill Owen |
| Mon | 06/04/2020 | 17:50 | Hell Drivers (1957) | Drama - Stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Sid James & Sean Connery |
| Tue | 07/04/2020 | 07:40 | Unearthly Stranger (1963) | Sci-fi |
| Tue | 07/04/2020 | 16:00 | Flight to Mars (1951) | Sci-fi |
| Tue | 07/04/2020 | 22:00 | Rockets Galore (1958) | Comedy |
| Wed | 08/04/2020 | 07:40 | At The Earth's Core (1976) | Adventure - Stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro & Cy Grant |
| Wed | 08/04/2020 | 09:30 | Phantom From Space (1953) | Sci-fi |
| Wed | 08/04/2020 | 18:20 | Rebecca (1940) | Mystery - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontanie & George Sanders |
| Wed | 08/04/2020 | 22:05 | And Soon the Darkness (1970) | Horror - Stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice & Sandor Eles |
| Thu | 09/04/2020 | 09:25 | The Goose Steps Out (1942) | Comedy - Stars Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey & Peter Croft |
| Thu | 09/04/2020 | 14:30 | Dr. Crippen (1963) | Horror - Stars Donald Pleasence |
| Thu | 09/04/2020 | 16:30 | The Man in Grey (1943) | Drama - Stars Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert |
| Thu | 09/04/2020 | 18:45 | The Cracksman (1963) | Comedy - Stars Charlie Drake, Nyree Dawn Porter, George Sanders |
| Fri | 10/04/2020 | 16:40 | Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) | Robert Newton, John Howard Davis, Sir Michael Hordern & Max Bygrave |
| Fri | 10/04/2020 | 22:00 | The Skull (1965) | Horror - Stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett |
| Sat | 11/04/2020 | 06:00 | The Headless Ghost (1959) | Comedy - Stars Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose |
| Sat | 11/04/2020 | 09:10 | Diamond City (1949) | Drama - Stars David Farrar, Honor Blackman & Diana Dors |
| Sat | 11/04/2020 | 10:50 | Gorgo (1961) | Sci-fi |
| Sat | 11/04/2020 | 21:00 | The Magic Christian (1969) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr |
| Sun | 12/04/2020 | 09:00 | Custer of the West (1968) | Western - Stars Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Ty Hardin |
| Sun | 12/04/2020 | 13:45 | Spellbound (1945) | Drama. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck & Michael Chekhov |
| Sun | 12/04/2020 | 16:00 | Challenge For Robin Hood (1967) | Adventure - Stars Barrie Ingham, James Hayter & Leon Greene |
| Sun | 12/04/2020 | 18:30 | Tell Me Another (1976) | TV Series |
| Sun | 12/04/2020 | 21:00 | Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1973) | Featuring Larry Grayson, Paul Anka, Rod Hull and Emu, & The Tiller Girls |
| Mon | 13/04/2020 | 13:50 | Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) | Comedy - Stars James Booth, Barbara Windsor & Roy Kinnear |
| Mon | 13/04/2020 | 18:00 | The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) | Stars Laurence Naismith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison & Diana Dors |
| Mon | 13/04/2020 | 22:00 | The Hunter (1980) | Drama - Stars Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton |
| Mon | 13/04/2020 | 00:00 | The Skull (1965) | Horror - Stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett |
| Tue | 14/04/2020 | 13:50 | Saloon Bar (1940) | Thriller - Stars: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan & Mervyn Johns |
| Tue | 14/04/2020 | 00:00 | Silkwood (1983) | Drama - Stars Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell & Craig T Nelson |
| Wed | 15/04/2020 | 07:40 | Park Plaza 605 (1953) | Crime Drama - Stars Tom Conway, Eva Bartok and Sid James |
| Wed | 15/04/2020 | 14:25 | Once Upon a Dream (1949) | Comedy - Stars Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton |
| Wed | 15/04/2020 | 19:05 | The Stranger (1946) | Drama - Directed by Orson Welles - Stars Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson & Loretta Young |
| Wed | 15/04/2020 | 22:05 | A Touch of Larceny (1959) | Comedy - Stars James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles |
| Thu | 16/04/2020 | 19:00 | Corridor Of Mirrors (1948) | Drama - Stars Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen & Christopher Lee |
| Thu | 16/04/2020 | 22:00 | The Magic Christian (1969) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr |
| Fri | 17/04/2020 | 07:30 | The Strange World Of Planet X (1958) | Sci-fi |
| Fri | 17/04/2020 | 19:00 | Hangar 18 (1980) | Stars Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, James Hampton |
| Fri | 17/04/2020 | 22:00 | Killing Of Sister George (1968) | Drama - Stars Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Patricia Medina & Ronald Fraser |
| Sat | 18/04/2020 | 10:40 | On The Beat (1962) | Comedy - Stars Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne & Raymond Huntley |
| Sat | 18/04/2020 | 12:50 | The Sound Barrier (1952) | War - Stars Ralph Richardson, Nigel Patrick |
| Sat | 18/04/2020 | 15:10 | Time Flies (1944) | Comedy - Stars Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, George Moon and Felix Aylmer |
| Sat | 18/04/2020 | 16:55 | Battle of the V1 (1958) | War - Stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina & Christopher Lee |
| Sat | 18/04/2020 | 20:45 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) | Drama - Stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom & Oskar Werner |
| Sun | 19/04/2020 | 12:35 | The Court Jester (1956) | Musical-Comedy - Stars Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury |
| Sun | 19/04/2020 | 16:30 | The Big Noise (1944) | Laurel & Hardy |
| Sun | 19/04/2020 | 18:40 | Raise the Titanic (1980) | Drama |
| Sun | 19/04/2020 | 21:00 | Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1974) | Featuring Ted Rogers, Sacha Distel, The Drifters, Penny Lane, Nino Frediani, and The Second Generation. |
| Mon | 20/04/2020 | 12:00 | Bottoms Up (1960) | Comedy - Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard and Martita Hunt |
| Mon | 20/04/2020 | 17:55 | The Brinks Job (1978) | Comedy - Stars Peter Falk, Peter Boyle and Allen Garfield |
| Tue | 21/04/2020 | 13:35 | The Man Upstairs (1958) | Drama - Stars Bernard Lee & Richard Attenborough |
| Tue | 21/04/2020 | 22:00 | The Day Of The Triffids (1962) | Sci-fi |
| Wed | 22/04/2020 | 22:05 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) | Drama - Stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom & Oskar Werner |
| Thu | 23/04/2020 | 07:45 | Who Done It (1956) | Comedy - Stars Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff |
| Thu | 23/04/2020 | 09:25 | Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) | |
| Fri | 24/04/2020 | 22:00 | Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) | Comedy-Drama - Stars Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery Jr. & Lucille Benson |
| Sat | 25/04/2020 | 10:55 | Don't Ever Leave Me (1949) | Comedy - Stars Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Linden Travers & Hugh Sinclair. |
| Sat | 25/04/2020 | 14:10 | The House In Nightmare Park (1973) | Comedy Horror - Stars Frankie Howerd |
| Sat | 25/04/2020 | 21:10 | Up the Junction (1967) | Drama - Stars Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman & Adrienne Posta |
| Sun | 26/04/2020 | 21:00 | Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1974) | Featuring Mike and Bernie Winters, Clodagh Rodgers, Allan Stewart and The New Dollys. |
| Sun | 26/04/2020 | 22:00 | The Property is Condemned (1966) | Drama - Stars Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid & Charles Bronson. |
Many of the films shown are also now available on Blu-ray and DVD.