Monday 25th October 10amFive Guns West (1955) Western. Director: Roger Corman. Stars John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors. Shalee Jethro helps to run a desert stagecoach station but comes into trouble with bandits.

Monday 25th October 5pmHidden Truth (New DiscoveredEpisode) - Sweets to the Sweet (1964) Crime Drama. Lost episode now discovered for the first time. The crime drama series focussed on a team of forensic scientists working for the Department of Forensic Medicine. The team was headed up by Professor Lazard who also worked closely with Dr Ruth Colton and Dr Henry Fox. One of the first such series to cover forensic medicine in a crime drama setting. Stars: Alexander KnoxJames Maxwel, Elizabeth Weaver andZia Mohyeddin.

Monday 25th October 9pmThe Four Feathers (1939) Adventure. Directed by Zoltan Korda. Starring John Clements Ralph Rich-ardson & C. Aubrey Smith. A British officer seeks to redeem his cowardice ‘feathers’ by secretly aiding his former comrades

Tuesday 26th October 7.45amWhat a Whopper (1960) Comedy. What a Whopper is a comedy from former documentarist Gilbert Gunn. Adam Faith stars in this tale about a struggling writer who fakes photographs of the Loch Ness monster.

Tuesday 26th October 10amNow and Forever (1956) Drama. Directed by Mario Zampi. Stars Janette Scott Vernon Gray Kay Walsh & Jack Warner. A schoolgirl falls in love with the son of a local garage owner and they hatch a plan to elope.

Tuesday 26th October 1.35pmEvery Day’s a Holiday (1964) Musical starring John Leyton Mike Sarne Freddie & the Dreamers Ron Moody Liz Fraser Nicholas Parsons and Danny La Rue. A group of high-spirited teens find friendship love & music.

Wednesday 27th October 7.50amPop Pirates (1984) Directed by Joe Grossman and starring Roger Daltrey, George Sweeny and Joe Melia. A group’s rise is hampered when a member gets involved with video piracy.

Wednesday 27th October 12pmThe Secret Place (1957)Crime. Director: Clive Donner. Stars: Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis A gang plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.

Wednesday 27th October 5pmFootage Detectives - Episode 2 This week Mike and Noel uncover a short film of holiday snapshots from 1958 and look at a recently discov-ered episode of the British court and legal drama series Boyd QC.

Wednesday 27th October 9.05pmI Believe In You (1952) Drama. Directed by Basil Dearden. Stars Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker & Joan Collins. Retired bachelor Henry becomes a probation officer and seeks to reform some of the criminals.

Thursday 28th October 9.40amThe Foreman Went To France (1942) Drama. Directed by Charles Frend. Stars Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings. An aircraft factory foreman is sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Highlights for week beginning Mon 25th October 2021

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This fascinating documentary features music legends Matt Monro,Sir George Martin,Don Black,Tony Christie,Bruce Forsyth,Sir Cliff Richard,Mickey Monro,Michele Monro and many more.

The true story of the singing bus driver who rose to fame recording the first Bond film theme and was Britain’s answer to Frank Sinatra. Features unique performances and interviewees such as Sir George Martin and Tony Christie.

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Matt Monro - A Portrait Of Matt Monro on Talking Pictures TV

Thursday 28th October 2.50pmMother Wore Tights (1947) Comedy. Director: Walter Lang. Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey. Boy and girl team up as a Vaudeville team and then marry. Story of their rise to fame and their children; told in flashback.

Thursday 28th October 5pmThe Hidden Truth (New Discovered Episode) A Question of Involvement (1964) Crime Drama. Lost episode now discovered for the first time. Stars: Alexander Knox, James Maxwel, Elizabeth Weaver. The crime drama series focussed on the Department of Forensic Medicine.

Thursday 28th October 9pmPrivate Function (1986) Comedy. The BAFTA award winning film directed by Malcolm Mowbray and starring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith. The war has been won two years ago, but there’s still rationing of meat.

Friday 29th October 9amCalling Paul Temple (1948) Crime Drama starring John Bentley & Dinah Sheridan. Scotland Yard is unable to unravel the ‘Rex’ murders and cannot manage without the help of Paul Temple and his sidekick ‘Steve’.

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Highlights for week beginning Mon 25th October 2021

Join Caroline Munro at ‘The Cellar Club’. In this weeks first film, we are showing 1955 Hammer filmThe Quatermass Experiment, the film was based on the successful BBC series. This has an excellent cast, Brian Donlevy as the obsessed scientist, Jack Warner Thora Hird and Lionel Jeffries.

Our next film is a haunting tale of a mermaid - NightTide (1961) and starring Dennis Hopper in a pre Easy Rider  role. You get the real feeling of eerie desolateness’

and perhaps most of all loneliness, Hopper gives a great performance.

We finish tonight with a good little horror The Bat made in 1959 starring horror supremo Vincent Price  and Agnes Morehead, what’s not to love?

Films showing from 9pm on Friday 29th October.

on Talking Pictures TVWeek 9

09:00 ABC Minors Song - Join us as we sing The ABC minors song and get ready for this Saturdays show!

09.05 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957) Episode 3: Franklin Story - Directed by Sam Newfield. Stars John Hart Lon Chaney Jr & Stan Francis. After several people are murdered Hawkeye seeks the help of his friend Benjamin Franklin.09.35 Yoyo Competition (1952) - Saturday morning Pictures Yoyo Competition with Art Pickles.09.40 The Phantom Creeps (1939) Episode 4 - Invisible Terror10.05 The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961) Drama. Stars Rachel Clay, Michael Wade & Terry Raven. Young David guards a strange egg for his uncle, but when a baby monster hatches, mayhem ensues. 11.10 Dick Tracy (1937) Episode 8: Harbour Pursuit. Stars: Ralph Byrd.11.35 Trail of the Royal Mounted (1940) Episode 5: Escape from Danger.

Saturday Morning Pictures

Friday 29th October 2.45pmFloodtide (1949) Drama. Directed by Frederick Wilson. Starring Gordon Jackson Rona Anderson John Laurie and Elizabeth Sellars. David becomes a ship designer and falls in love with his boss’s daughter.

Friday 29th October 6pmHell and Highwater (1954) Action. Director: Samuel Fuller. Starring: Richard Widmark Bella Darvi & Victor Francen. A scientific team refits a Japanese submarine to find a secret Chinese atomic island base. Saturday 30th October 3.35pmSubmarine Command (1951) War. Director: John Farrow. Stars: William Holden Nancy Olson William Bendix. A Lieutenant Commander is called back to active duty and asked to lead his old submarine in the Korean war.

Saturday 30th October 5.20pmTheirs Is The Glory (1946) War. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. The story of the armies’ heroic struggle to hold the vital Arnheim Bridge during World War II. Over 200 veterans took part although no credits appear. September 1944. Operation Market Garden, the Allied plan to advance into Germany via Holland through the use of three airborne divisions and an armour-lead corps, is underway. The point of furtherest Allied advance is the town of Arnhem, held by the British 1st Airborne Division. This is its story.

Saturday 30th October 9pmThe Gods Must Be Crazy (1984) Action, Adventure. Stars: N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Louw Verwey. A Coca Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

Sunday 31st October 9amRunaround Halloween Special with Charles Hawtrey (New Discovered Episode) (1976) Entertainment. Children’s quiz show presented by Mike Reid where the kids would run to the answer then ‘runaround’ if they changed their minds at the last minute..

Sunday 31st October 12.20pmHoly Matrimony (1943) Comedy. Director: John M. Stahl.Stars: Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields. To avoid notoriety, an unassuming artist takes on the identity of his dead butler only to experience some real complications when he is accused of bigamy by the butler’s wife. From Arnold Bennett’s novel “Buried Alive.”

Sunday 31st October 7pmThe Late George Apley (1947) Drama, Romance. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Stars: Ronald Colman Vanessa Brown.Delightful interplay of staid Boston families, their marriageable young people, and a “Nouveau Riche” manufacturer’s daughter. Based on novel by John P. Marquand.

Highlights for week beginning Mon 25th October 2021

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Directed by Nunnally Johnson. Starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March and Marisa Pavan.

Tom Rath commutes to work every day in Manhattan. He’s happily married and has a loving wife and three children. Money is a bit tight and when the opportunity arises, he applies for a public relations job with a major television network. During his long commute to work everyday, Tom reminisces about the war. Although 10 years have gone by, he is still haunted by the violence and the men he killed. He also thinks of Maria, an Italian girl with whom he had an affair while stationed in Rome. Based on novel by Sloan Wilson. Sunday 31st October at 10.05pm

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit