Talking Pictures Schedule Today (United Kingdom)

1953. Drama. Directed by William Dieterle. Stars Rita Hayworth & Stewart Granger. Princess Salome is banished from Rome and returns to meet John the Baptist, whom she tries to save from execution. [S]

1935. Musical about a cafe proprietress, a radio salesman and a composer who set up a pirate radio station. Starring Leslie French, Hughie Green & Mary Lawson. [S]

Italian saxophonist Riccardo Rauchi and his ensemble of musicians perform Okay Madison.

Caballero. 1959. Stars Rory Calhoun, Cesar Romero & Mari Blanchard. Longley and Acosta travel to San Thomas to bid on a shipment of rifles and ammunition being sold at auction. [S]

Trading Stampede. 1963. Stars Peggy Mount, David Kossoff & Victor Maddern. Ada's gotten into trading stamps to get a free steam iron and Vic tricks her into offering stamps at the café. [S]

1941. Drama. Directed by Germain Burger. Stars David Farrar, Philip Friend & Helen Perry. Farmers are all losing sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his 'great' sheepdog? Or... [S]

1955. Drama. Director: Peter Godfrey. Stars Ann Harding & Regis Toomey. The owner of a gift shop decides to search for her former admirer who had left their small town long ago.

1957. Thriller. Directed by Peter Graham Scott. Stars Honor Blackman, Griffith Jones & Ursula Howells. When a wealthy banker's wife is found murdered, the police find many suspects with a motive. [S]

1951. Thriller. Director: Vernon Sewell. Stars Albert Lieven, David Greene & Norman MacOwen. The crew of a lighthouse bring a boat to safety, unaware that it carries a gang of robbers on the run. [S]

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

1955. Crime drama starring Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman and Gordon Jackson. The death of a local man leads a local reporter to seek his killer. [S]

1960. Crime. Directed by Don Sharp. Stars Andrew Faulds, Stratford Johns & William Lucas. A renowned safecracker and his men attempt to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system. [S]

1961. War. Directed by Ernest Morris. Stars Dermot Walsh & Patrick McAlinney. Major Bell and a ragtag team undertake a dangerous mission to destroy a bridge of strategic importance to the enemy. [S]

1954. Mystery. Directed by Terence Fisher. Stars Paulette Goddard & William Sylvester. A man returns home after being missing for three years to find those responsible for the attempt on his life. [S]

Christmas at the Clampetts. 1963. Stars Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas & Arthur Gould-Porter. The Clampetts are confused on Christmas when they find a tree in their foyer surrounded by gifts. [S]

Episode #13
1954. The Mysterious Bullet. Directed by Paul Gherzo. Starring Robert Raglan, John Warwick and Christine Adrian. A ballistics expert tracks down the killer of a widow's fiance. (S1, E13)

Everybody's Business. 1976. Stars Jack Warner, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Cheryl Hall & Queenie Watts. Two tenants play a joke on their landlady by planting fake robbery plans, then a real thief turns up. [S]

Hacienda/Bullfight. 1986. Leaving behind a cold and wet England, Jack Hargreaves jets off to Nueva Andalucía where 13-year old Jimmy is learning horsemanship the Spanish way. [S]

We watch the lost films from the Ovaltine factory's heyday, and we have a special guest with some rare items. The Easter Bunny is here! And we have a reel of England's 'rebirth' after the war. [S]

1973. Mystery Drama. A Family Affair. Stars Alfred Burke, Ralph Michael & Norman Henry. Marker is hired to find out if a woman put pressure on her deceased employer to leave her his entire wealth. [S]

1950. Drama. Directed by Henry Cass. Stars Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell & Kay Walsh. A salesman who learns he has months to live cashes in his savings to live in a fancy hotel. [S]

1972. Thriller. Directed by Michael Hodges. Stars Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney & Lionel Stander. A pulp novelist gets mixed up with gangsters after being hired to write an ex-actor's biography. [S]

1946. Drama nominated for an Oscar. Directed by Orson Welles. A war crimes investigator is on the trail of an infamous Nazi. Stars Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson & Loretta Young. [S]