Talking Pictures (United Kingdom): TV Schedule for Today

1961. Crime Drama. Directed by William Whitney. Stars Jack Hogan, June Kenney & John Baer. A burglar becomes a valuable target after stealing a briefcase that contains a secret formula. [S]

1949. Western. Stars Randolph Scott, Bill Williams & Victor Jory. Jim Dancer, one of Quantrill's Raiders, stages attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy. [S]

1959. Western. Directed by John English. Stars Danny Thomas, Nick Adams & James Coburn. An immigrant and his son are met with hostility when they open a tailor shop in a new town.

1959. Thriller. Director: Jack Cardiff. Stars Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Bernard Lee & Jean Kent. A WW2 evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison and framed for murder. [S]

1954. Crime drama directed by Charles Saunders. Private detective Slim Callaghan (Derrick De Marney) is hired to find out why a rich uncle changed his will. [S]

1953. Drama. Director John Gilling. American cargo ship Officer Stevens (Scott Brady), finds out that his brother is the frame-up victim of a smuggling gang and is due to be executed for murder. [S]

1947. Crime drama. Directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond and Frank Hawkins. A solicitors' clerk is sent to deliver a will and finds the recipient murdered. [S]

1948. Crime Drama. Director: Ben R. Hart. Stars John Blythe, Wally Patch & Stan Paskin. Two police officers go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring operating along the Thames. [S]

(AKA PT Raiders) 1955. Thriller. Director Basil Dearden. Stars Richard Attenborough, George Baker and Bill Owen. A trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling black market items into post-war Britain. [S]

1951. Drama. Directed by Pat Jackson. Stars Googie Withers, James Donald & Petula Clark. An insightful story about the day to day activities within Yeoman's Hospital during the early 1950s. [S]

Mike Read embarks on an intriguing journey exploring the Blue Plaques across Britain, bringing to life the numerous people who have contributed something unique to the making of our country. [S]

1952. Drama. Directed by Philip Leacock. Starring John Gregson, Meg Buchanan & John Rae. Based on a true story. In a small Scots mining-town, a mine cave-in seals the entire crew. [S]

Dowsing/Near Death Experience. 1995. Michael Aspel introduces extraordinary stories including a man whose predictions started to come true and a woman who was brought back from the brink of death. [S]

Join Caroline Munro for an evening of investigations and a bit of horror. The first offering of the evening is the 70s series Doomwatch and the captivating episode By the Pricking of My Thumbs. [S]

By the Pricking of My Thumbs. 1971. Stars John Nolan, Jean Trend, Sally Thomsett & Colin Jeavons. A schoolboy is expelled because of his genes. Can people be labelled for life by science? [S]

Next up, we remain in the 70s with a spine tingling feature! Caroline Munro introduces the 1978 sci-fi horror The Alpha Incident, about a deadly alien organism that threatens to end humanity. [S]

1978. Sci-fi. Directed by Bill Rebane. Stars Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan & John F. Goff. An alien organism with the potential to destroy all life on Earth is accidently released in a small town. [S]