Talking Pictures (United Kingdom): TV Schedule for Today

1988. Drama. Directed by Peter Masterson. Stars Gene Hackman, Teri Garr & Burgess Meredith. A lonely widower with a failing bar encounters a bus driver who is determined to turn it all around. [S]

1965. Drama. Directed by Guy Hamilton. A controversial film of its time. A young American girl is caught up in the wild London scene. Starring Oliver Reed.

1955. Drama. Directed by Harry Keller. Stars Jan Sterling & Mary Anderson. A woman's fiancé disappears on the eve of their wedding, but there's one clue that may help her find him.

1961. Directed by Francis Searle Stars Bruce Seton, Felicity Young, Kay Callard & Paul Maxwell. Neat Crime drama of a hidden underworld where crime really doesn't pay. [S]

1937. Drama. Director: John Paddy Carstairs. Stars Jimmy Hanley, Wally Patch, Julian Vedey & Joan Ponsford. Two drivers, sacked by the trucking company they work for, decide to form their own. [S]

1968. Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Alec Rose have shown what it means to sail around the world single-handed - and ten men set out to prove it can be done without any stop at all.

1934. Drama. Directed by John Cromwell. Stars Bette Davis, Leslie Howard & Frances Dee. A young man becomes attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both. [S]

1955. Comedy. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Stars Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jean Carson. In England, an American singer causes havoc when he stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake. [S]

1948. Drama. Directors: Ken Annakin & Michael C Chorlton. Stars Phyllis Calvert, James Donald & David Tomlinson. A plane crash lands miles from civilisation. The passengers must prevail. [S]

Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed at the beginning of April. [S]

1958. Drama. Directed by Ralph Thomas. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker & Stephen Murray. During the French Revolution, Lucie Manette falls in love with a duplicitous Englishman. [S]

1977. Adventure. Director: Mike Newell. Stars Richard Chamberlain & Patrick McGoohan. D'Artagnan and the musketeers plot to replace the hated King Louis XIV with his imprisoned twin brother. [S]

1953. Comedy. Director Henry Cornelius. Stars Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan and Kay Kendall. Alan and Ambrose are not going to let friendship get in the way of winning the London to Brighton rally. [S]

Cursed Stone/Phantom Hitch Hiker. 1995. Michael Aspel explores two strange tales; the modern myth of the phantom hitchhiker and a cursed burial place on one of the Outer Hebrides islands. [S]

Wander down into The Cellar Club if you dare, as tonight there is a great selection of horror and thrills. Caroline Munro introduces the first offering, from 1971, Doomwatch - No Room for Error. [S]

No Room for Error. 1971. Stars Jean Trend, Simon Oates & Angus MacKay. Doomwatch investigates when the 'wonder drug' Stellamycin is linked to the deaths of several children. [S]

Caroline Munro continues the night with the fascinating Spanish horror, The Vampires Night Orgy. From 1972, this supernatural feature full of bloodthirsty vampires is directed by León Klimovsky. [S]

1972. Horror. Directed by León Klimovsky. Stars Jack Taylor & Dyanik Zurakowska. A busload of workers stop off in a small town after their driver dies, unaware the town is overrun with vampires. [S]

Join Caroline Munro as she takes a look at what's coming up next week. [S]

2000. Romance. Director: Michael Winterbottom. Stars Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich & Wes Bentley. A man who sold his wife and daughter to get ahead in business has his past come back to haunt him. [S]