What’s On Talking Pictures TV
Today Monday 9 January 2023
A full run down of everything airing on Talking Pictures TV
today.
06:00
Get Some In!
S04E05
The recruits prepare for their final exams
06:30
The Blind Goddess
Drama, starring Eric Portman
1947
08:15
Turn of Fate
S01E19
A writer is forced at gunpoint to write the story of a perfect crime
08:50
Unpublished Story
Drama, starring Richard Greene
1942 – Drama, War
Two reporters find their lives in danger when they investigate a pacifist organisation which turns out to be a cover for a Nazi group. Wartime drama, starring Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford and Roland Culver
10:25
Only Two Can Play
Comedy, starring Peter Sellers
1962 – Comedy, Drama
A small-town librarian foolishly embarks on an affair with a local councillor’s wife. His depressed wife soon reveals her own unfaithful streak, as she flirts with a local poet. Comedy based on the novel That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, starring Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell and Richard Attenborough
12:35
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Drama, starring Steve McQueen
1964
A newly released ex-con returns to the bosom of his family, intent on going straight, but the pressures and temptations of everyday life soon become too much for him to bear. Drama, starring Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray and Josephine Hutchinson
14:30
Crown Court
S01E01
First episode of the classic courtroom drama anthology series
First episode of the classic courtroom drama anthology series. Each case plays out over three episodes, with a jury of members of the public deciding the verdict. The first case is of a man who died during brain surgery, and whose widow is suing the hospital for neglect
15:00
Harriet Craig
Drama, starring Joan Crawford
1950 – Drama
A selfish, meticulous housewife cares far more about her house and possessions than she does about the people in her life – including her husband, whom she routinely deceives and manipulates. However, her meddling in her cousin’s love life has disastrous consequences. Drama, starring Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey and Allyn Joslyn
16:55
The London Nobody Knows
James Mason explores the capital
1969
18:00
The Footage Detectives
Featuring footage of weddings in the 1950s and 1960s
19:00
In Suspicious Circumstances
An abused woman accused of murder
Edward Woodward presents dramatisations of two true-life crime stories. The case of an amorous doctor who loved one woman too many in pre-war Southport and an accused woman convicted of murder. Dudley Sutton, Geraldine James and Julia Ford star.
20:00
The Main Chance
S02E10
A client wants to thwart a local councillor’s plans
21:00
The Nanny
Hammer thriller, starring Bette Davis
1965 – Drama, Thriller
A mysterious woman takes a job as nanny to a 10-year-old boy who believes she is a murderess – with good reason. Hammer thriller, starring Bette Davis, William Dix, Wendy Craig, Maurice Denham and Pamela Franklin
22:50
Look at Life
How cinema has evolved in terms of comfort and types of film
23:00
Secret Army
S02E02
Two Russians insist on being smuggled to England
00:05
The Bed Sitting Room
Surreal comedy, starring Spike Milligan
1969 – Comedy, Science Fiction
A handful of bizarre characters struggle with the remnants of their lives in a post-nuclear-holocaust Britain. Surreal comedy, based on the play by Spike Milligan, who also stars. With Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Michael Hordern, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
01:50
Genghis Khan
Historical adventure, starring Omar Sharif
1965 – History
The story of the legendary Mongol chieftain who rose from captive slave boy to become one of history’s most powerful and influential military leaders, uniting nomadic hordes into a nation and conquering Asia and the west. Historical adventure, starring Omar Sharif, James Mason, Stephen Boyd, Telly Savalas, Eli Wallach and Robert Morley
