Talking Pictures (United Kingdom): TV Schedule for Today

1971. Comedy. Director: Bob Kellett. Stars: Frankie Howerd, Eartha Kitt, Anna Quayle, Roy Hudd. Lurkalot is a serf who sells chastity belts and love potions at the local market place. [S]

1968. Fantasy. Directed by Cliff Owen. Stars John Richardson, Olga Schoberová & Edward Judd. A young girl is drawn to the ancient city of Kuma to succeed the lost former ruler Ayesha as empress. [S]

Circus Painting and Fishing for Pollock. 1980. Jack Hargreaves visits his circus family friends where a travelling artist is at work, and then he goes sea fishing off the coast of Poole. [S]

1951. Crime drama directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey and Sydney Tafler. Two high flying crooks take part in a robbery that goes very wrong. [S]

1950. Action. Director: Godfrey Grayson. Stars Don Stannard, Tamara Desni & George Ford. Dick Barton is assigned to find a kidnapped professor and deactivate a death ray before catastrophe occurs. [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]

1965. Comedy. A gang of crooks are caught on a big job. 15 years later they find their loot is now buried under a police station. Stars Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery & Joan Sims. [S]

... the Butterflies Gone? 1968. An enchanting look into the natural world of the butterfly and the reasons for the apparent shortage of them.

Jethro Goes to School. 1962. Stars Buddy Ebsen, Frank Wilcox & Eleanor Audley. Jed attempts to enrol Jethro at an exclusive elementary school, but the proprietor is convinced it is a hoax. [S]

British Rock 'n' Roll icon Russ Sainty performs Go Away Little Girl in this brilliant musical short.

1965. Fantasy. Directed by Bert I. Gordon. Stars Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford & Beau Bridges. A group of teens grow into giants after eating a boy genius's invention and decide to terrorise a town. [S]

The Clock King's Crazy Crimes. 1966. Stars Adam West & Walter Slezak. The Clock King arranges for one of his trick timepieces to be sold to the Harry Hummert Jewellery Shop so he can loot it. [S]

1956. Western. Directed by Richard Fleisher. Stars Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess & Gilbert Roland. An adventurer teams up with a rebel leader to steal an arms shipment due for government troops. [S]

1968. An intriguing look at the efforts being made to prevent Venice from sinking into the mud.

A Bushel of Apples. 1960. Stars Richard Greene & Harry H. Corbett. Friar Tuck learns that a Sir Watkyn is extorting wages and livestock from the serfs and turns to the church for a solution. [S]

The Shooting Master. 1986. Lock, stock and barrel Jack explains the working of his great-grandfather's shotgun. Then he visits a shooting school on a disused railway line. [S]

We start with a trip to Durham's beaches in the 1960s and a look at the life of a sea coal man, we keep up with the fashions and products of 1949 and boogie with the 'The Avons' in 1962. [S]

1949. Drama. Directed by Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton and Basil Dearden. Starring Jack Warner, Susan Shaw and Gladys Henson. A train disaster is told as four short stories. [S]

1969. An insight into the life of Britain's top models, with a look at the rewards of the job.

The Tin God. Stars John Gregson Alexander Davion and Daphne Anderson. Two criminals make a murderous escape from prison with a carefully executed plan. [S]

Episode 19. 1975. The Flirtations perform 'Put Your Hands Together', Joe Henderson (Mr Piano) sings 'Trudi' and 'Some of These Days' and George Melly sings 'Boogie Woogie Man'. [S]

Everybody loves a baby. Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson & Lynn Dalby. Budgie starts a farming business, but not one that employs a farm or animals. [S]

1963. Comedy. Directed by John & Roy Boulting. Stars Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker & Eric Sykes. Due to mistaken identity, a minister is accidently appointed to a snobbish parish. [S]