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Friday 17th December 9pm and 12am Wed 22nd December THE CELLAR CLUB WITH CAROLINE MUNRO: I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990) Stars: Neil Morrissey and Michael Elphick. Virgin Witch (1972) Stars: Ann Michelle and Vicki Michelle.Shadows of Fear Episode 2: Sugar and Spice (1971) Stars: Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines and Suzanne Togni. A family face conflict when their son disappears one night.Saturday 18th December 9amSATURDAY MORNING PICTURES including: Calamity The Cow (1967) Director: David Eastman. Stars: John Moulder-Brown, Elizabeth Dear and Phil Collins. Farmer Grant’s children work hard to make their cow fit and healthy enough for the show ring. But at the last minute another farmer steals Calamity.Saturday 18th December 4.05pm and Tuesday 28th December 4:05pmBroken Lance (1954) Western. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner and Richard Widmark. A family are torn apart by hatred and greed. A cattle baron who rules with an iron hand and his legacy are destroyed by family conflict.Saturday 18th December 9pm and Mon 20 December 1:05amEyewitness (1981) The 1981 Crime / Drama - Directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. Starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Pamela Reed and Morgan Freeman. A television reporter becomes involved with a murder witness. As they investigate the murder together, both of their lives are put in jeopardy.Sunday 19th December 4pmNew Series of the Footage Detectives and a Lost Episode Discovered of The Dickie Henderson Show Join us for The Footage Detectives with more shorts, your responses – lots of lost films and episodes found and a look behind the scenes of Talking Pictures TV. This week, an episode of a series long thought lost: The Dickie Henderson Show starring Dickie Henderson and June Laverick who appeared in 84 episodes. The show began in 1960 and ran for 10 series. Sadly, not many of the 118 episodes have survived. John Parsons played his son and Lionel Murton his best friend. Stay with us for an episode of the show.

Sunday 19th December 5pmThe Maid (1963) A long lost episode of The Dickie Henderson Show. First broadcast on April 10th 1961, it guest stars Carole Shelley who also starred in The Boston Strangler. Sunday 19th December 10.05pm and Tuesday 21st December 9pmAnna and the King of Siam (1946) Directed by John Cromwell and starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb. Oscar winning film set in 1862. Young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam.

Tuesday 21st December 6.30pmMarty Wilde MBE: 50 Years of Rock and Roll (Live at the Palladium) (2007) Anniversary Concert at The London Palladium with guests Hank Marvin, Jet Harris, Bruce Welch, Justin Hayward and Kim & Roxanne Wilde.Wednesday 22nd December 12pmHome for Christmas (1990) Director: Peter McCubbin. Stars: Mickey Rooney, Simon Richards, Lesley Kelly. Friendship grows for a homeless man and a little girl. Wed 22nd December 5.05pmCarols with Michael Hordern (1983) With readings from Sir Michael Hordern and carols from the Royal Choral Society including The First Noel, O Little Town of Bethlehem and Silent Night.Wed 22nd Dec 9.05am & Fri 24 Dec 7:25pm & Sat 25 Dec 11:55amChristmas 1945: The Homecoming Christmas (1945) Short film featuring family celebrations over Christmas and New Year including traditional songs. Thursday 23rd December 9.10amScrooge (1935) Family. Stars: Seymour Hicks. Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past present and yet-to-come. Thursday 23rd December 4.05pmBig Business (1988) Drama. Director: Jim Abrahams. Stars: Bette Midler & Lily Tomlin. Two pairs of sisters discover an incredible connection.

TPTV December Highlights

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Christmas Eve 8.40am Highly Dangerous (1950) Drama. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: Margaret Lockwood and Dane Clark. When British Intelligence discovers that an Iron Curtain country is developing insects weapons, they send entomologist Frances Gray to collect specimens.Christmas Eve 10.25am The Holly and the Ivy (1952) Drama. Director: George More O’Ferrall. Stars: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton. A heart-warming tale of a minister and his family reunited at Christmas time, recounting their trials. Christmas Eve 12.05pm The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971) Musical. Starring: The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton and Alexander Grant. Mrs. Tiggywinkle, Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin and Pigling Bland all come to life in this colourful and imaginative musical interpretation of the classic tales, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton and performed by The Royal Ballet. Christmas Eve 1.55pm A Service For Christmas Eve (1993) Tom Baker introduces the service from St Andrews United Reform Church, Eastbourne. Christmas Eve 3.05pm and Tuesday 28th December 1:05pm Come to the Stable (1949) Drama. Director: Michael McCarthy. Stars: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe and Elsa Lanchester. Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small Connecticut town with a plan to build a children’s hospital. Christmas Eve 7.30pm The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) Comedy. Director: Basil Dearden. Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Bernard Miles. A couple inherit a decrepit cinema.Christmas Eve 9.05pm and Wednesday 29 December 9:05pm Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1986) Morally ambiguous, bawdy British comedy about working class Yorkshire life. Directed by Alan Clarke and starring Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan & Lesley Sharp. Two teenage babysitters become involved with their married employer.

Christmas Day 7.50am Good Tidings of Great Joy (1996) Gloria Hunniford introduces a Christmas service, with Willard White, Paul Jones and the London Adventist Chorale. Filmed at the Hind Street Methodist Church in East London.Christmas Day 9.30am and Friday 24th December 6:15pm The Christmas Tree (1966) Family. Director: Jim Clark. Stars: Brian Blessed, William Burleigh, Anthony Honour and Kate Nicholls. Gary is determined to get a tree for children in hospital for Christmas.Christmas Day 12.45pm Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (70th Anniversary) (1951) 70th Anniversary of this Christmas classic. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison. Christmas Day 2.30pm and New Year’s Eve 11.40am El Cid (1961) Drama. Director: Anthony Mann. Stars: Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. Story of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar.Christmas Day at 6.35pm and New Year’s Eve 6pm The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Director: Charles Crichton. Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James & Audrey Hepburn. A shy bank clerk and a foundry owner hatch a plan to smuggle gold. Christmas Day 8.15pm Public Eye - Christmas Special : Horse and Carriage (1972) Mystery Drama. Stars Alfred Burke, Pat Heywood & Tony Melody. Frank Marker finds the season of goodwill a little hard to bear when a husband hires him to investigate his wife.Christmas Day 9.15pm and Tuesday 28th December 9pm Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) Starring: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett and Diana Dors. Harold invests his father’s life savings in a greyhound race. When the dog loses and Harold has to pay the debt, he decides to collect his father’s life insurance – but his father must pretend to be dead!

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Boxing Day 10.15am Beyond Christmas (1940) Drama. Director: A Edward Sutherland. Stars: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith and Charles Winninger. The ghosts of three victims of an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple.Boxing Day 11.50am and Thursday 30th Dec 1:20pm Daddy Long Legs (1955) Comedy. Director: Jean Negulesco. Stars: Fred Astaire & Leslie Caron. A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a young French woman and anonymously pays for her education.Boxing Day 2.25pm Dangerous Crossing (1953) Drama. Director: Joseph M. Newman. Stars: Jeanne Crain and Michael Rennie. A young bride is set to begin her honeymoon aboard a luxury liner. Her happiness does not last when she finds that her husband has disappeared.Boxing Day 5.30pm and Christmas Day 12:00pm Mantovani Plays the Music of Christmas (1959) Musical. Directed by Robert Lynn. Mantovani, John Conte & the All Saints Choir perform Christmas favourites including Jingle Bells, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Toy Shop Ballet, Theme from Swan Lake, O Holy Night and, of course, White Christmas.

Boxing Day 7.15pm and Saturday 1st January 4.20pm Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) Drama. Director: Gordon Flemyng. Stars: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir, Roberta Tovey and Sheila Steafel. The Daleks’ plot against 2150 Earth is challenged when Dr. Who and friends arrive from the 20th century.Boxing Day 10.05pm and Thursday 30th December 10:55pm Heavenly Pursuits (1986) Drama. Director: Charles Gormley. Stars: Tom Conti and Helen Mirren. Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Non-believer Mathews wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children, until some possibly miraculous events occur.Boxing Day 11:55pm The Likely Lads (1976) Comedy. Director: Michael Tuchner. Stars: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth and Mary Tamm. Bob, Thelma, Terry and his girlfriend Christina go on a caravan holiday,

but things don’t go according to plan!

Boxing Day on Talking Pictures TV

Boxing Day at 4pm A festive edition of The Footage Detectives with Mike Read and Noel Cronin. This episode includes the ghost of Christmas past – in a 70s Christmas short film: Christmas Round Nan and Granddads. Sam Kydd’s son Jonathon brings in some unseen home movie reels he found in his parents’ loft; plus a very rare lost film of Eartha Kitt.Boxing Day at 5pm UNSEEN LIVE SHOW OF EARTHA KITT Uncovered in a private collection and very special. Possibly filmed in Australia, in 1965. Once called the “most exciting woman in the world” by Orson Welles, Kitt’s suggestive and sensuous performances captured the public imagination in the 1950s. This programme aired on British TV on Wednesday 30th June 1965 just after The Des O’Connor Show.

Footage Detectives Christmas Special and a Previously Lost Live Show Starring Eartha Kitt

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New Year’s Eve 9.20am Let’s Make Love (1960) Comedy. Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand. When a billionaire learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.New Year’s Eve 3.10pm The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000) Mystery. Stars: Jon Newman, Prunella Scales, Marc Danbury and George Cole. A teenager stays at his uncle’s mansion, where he discovers many secrets.New Year’s Eve 7:40pm Out of The Fog (1962) Crime Drama. Director: Montgomery Tully.Stars: David Sumner, Susan Travers, John Arnatt, James Hayter and Jack Watson. An ex-con is the prime suspect when a series of murders occur under a full moon. Every victim is a young blonde woman.

New Year’s Eve 9pm SPEND NEW YEAR’S EVE IN THE CELLAR CLUB WITH CAROLINE MUNRO! This evening, Caroline presents: The Curse of the Fly (1965) Stars: Brian Donlevy, Carole Gray andGeorge Baker. Motorist Martin Delambre attempts to conceal his family’s bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own. The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) Director: Charles Guggenheim. Stars: Steve McQueen, David Clarke andCrahan Denton. A gang’s plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well founded suspicions. Based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis, the film featured some of the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees. Steve McQueen was an unknown actor when filming began.The Black Torment (1964) Director: Robert Hartford-Davis. Stars: Patrick Troughton, John Turner, Heather Sears and Ann Lynn. A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear village rumours that he has committed several murders. Has he lost his mind?

Saturday 1st January 10.10am SATURDAY MORNING PICTURES including: Our Exploits at West Poley (1985) Stars: Sean Bean, Anthony Bate and Brenda Fricker. In the late 1800s, two boys divert a river, causing problems for two local villages.

Saturday 1st January 2.05pm One Million Years BC (1966) Action. Director: Don Chaffey.Stars Raquel Welch, John Richardson and Percy Herbert. Prehistoric man Tumak fights for tribeswoman Loana.

Saturday 1st January 6.35pm I’m All Right Jack (1959) Comedy. Director: John Boulting. Stars: Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas & Ian Carmichael. After leaving the army, upper class Windrush takes a job in industry.

Saturday 1st January 8.45pm Brokedown Palace (1999) Drama. Director: Jonathan Kaplan. Stars: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale. Alice and Darlene travel to Thailand to celebrate graduation, but, find themselves arrested for smuggling.

Sunday 2nd January 10am Shepherd on the Rock (1993) Drama. Director: Bob Keen. Stars: Bernard Hill, John Bowles and Betsy Brantley. A sheep farmer and his family fight for their land.

Sunday 2nd January 12pm Passport to Pimlico (1949) Comedy. Director: Henry Cornelius. Stars: Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Hermione Baddeley. London residents declare independence, requiring a new ‘Passport to Pimlico’.

Sunday 2nd January 1.40pm Genevieve (1953) Comedy. Director: Henry Cornelius. Stars: Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson & Kay Kendall. Alan and Ambrose are not going to let friendship get in the way of winning the London to Brighton rally.

New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day

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