What’s On Talking Pictures TV
Today Friday 17 March 2023
A full run down of everything airing on Talking Pictures TV
today.
06:00
Topper Returns
Supernatural comic mystery, starring Roland Young
1941 – Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
07:50
Driving The Train 1959
Instructional film on driving diesel trains
08:15
Anna and the King of Siam
Romantic drama, starring Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison
1946 – Drama, Romance
A widowed English schoolteacher begins a relationship with the powerful monarch of Siam while tutoring his 67 children. Romantic drama, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison and Lee J Cobb
10:50
Thunder in the City
Crime comedy, starring Edward G Robinson
1937 – Comedy, Drama, Romance
12:30
Daisy Kenyon
Romantic drama, starring Joan Crawford
1947 – Drama, Romance
14:30
Crown Court
S01E27
Part two of three. The jury reaches its verdict
15:00
Androcles and the Lion
Satirical fable, starring Alan Young
1952 – Comedy
A Christian tailor is moved to help a lion with a thorn stuck painfully in its paw. His unthinking act of kindness looks set to pay off when Caesar’s campaign of persecution leaves him and a host of other worshippers facing death at the claws of the beasts in the Roman arena. Satirical fable based on George Bernard Shaw’s play, starring Alan Young, Jean Simmons, Robert Newton and Victor Mature
16:55
Crazy Motoring
A fascinating look at some new and unusual ideas of fuelling our engines
17:05
Dry Rot
Comedy, starring Brian Rix
1956 – Comedy
18:50
Passport to Pimlico
Ealing comedy, starring Stanley Holloway
1949 – Comedy
The residents of a London suburb discover documents proving their neighbourhood is not part of Britain, and declare independence. Appointing their own head of state, they begin erecting borders as the government resorts to desperate measures to bring the community back under British rule. Ealing comedy, starring Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford
20:30
Dial 999
S01E02
A gang of career criminals carry out a payroll robbery in Fleet Street
21:00
Cellar Club with Caroline Munro
The cult movie star introduces The Curse of Frankenstein
21:05
The Curse of Frankenstein
Hammer horror, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
1957 – Horror, Science Fiction
An obsessive scientist is determined to create life and builds a creature using parts taken from various corpses. He succeeds in animating the monster, but its brain is damaged in the process, driving it mad and causing it to embark on a killing spree. The first in Hammer’s series of horror films inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
22:45
Cellar Club with Caroline Munro
The cult movie star introduces A Bucket of Blood
22:50
A Bucket of Blood
Comedy horror, starring Dick Miller
1959
00:10
Cellar Club with Caroline Munro
The cult movie star presents a preview of next week’s films
00:15
The Knack and How to Get It
Comedy, starring Michael Crawford
1965 – Comedy, Romance
An uptight teacher asks his womanising flatmate for advice on kick-starting his non-existent sex life. As the duo set out to procure a suitably large bed, they encounter a woman recently arrived in the city, who becomes the focus of rivalry between the two friends. Comedy, starring Michael Crawford, Ray Brooks and Rita Tushingham
02:00
Kiss of Death
Gangster thriller, starring Richard Widmark
1947 – Crime, Drama, Thriller
A psychopathic killer is sent to silence a small-time crook who has informed on the former accomplices threatening his children. Gangster thriller, starring Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Karl Malden and Coleen Gray
