next couple of days or so.


Oct 18    6:00    Ambush In Leopard Street    1962. Crime Thriller. Stars James Kenney & Bruce Seton. A retired thief forms a gang for one last job, a diamond shipment. With good locations and a British cast it’s an enjoyable British B film.
Sat 27 Oct 18    7:10    The Hi-jackers    1963. Drama. Directed by Jim O’Connolly. Starring Anthony Booth & Jacqueline Ellis. A lorry driver meets Shirley at a cafe and offers her a lift. His truck carrying valuable whiskey is later hijacked.
Sat 27 Oct 18    8:30    Not Wanted On Voyage    1957. Comedy. The rollicking adventures of two stewards aboard a pleasure cruiser. Starring Ronald Shiner and Brian Rix.
Sat 27 Oct 18    10:10    The Strange World Of Planet X    1958. Sci-fi. A British laboratory studying magnetic fields is warned by a cosmic visitor of the dangers in their experiments. Starring Forrest Tucker and Martin Benson.
Sat 27 Oct 18    11:40    Get Cracking    1943. Comedy. Directed by Marcel Varnel. Starring George Formby, Dinah Sheridan & Ronald Shiner. Formby joins the Home Guard and launches his own style of commando raid wallop to steal a machine gun.
Sat 27 Oct 18    13:40    Wanted For Murder    1946. Drama. Directed by Lawrence Huntington Starring Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr & Roland Culver. The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father’s profession… (Subtitles Available)
Sat 27 Oct 18    15:45    Weekend With Lulu    1961. Comedy. Directed by John Paddy Carstairs. Starring Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks & Shirley Eaton. Three friends plan a fun weekend, but they have surprise company tagging along.
Sat 27 Oct 18    17:35    The Detective    1954. Comedy. Directed by Robert Hamer. Starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch & Cecil Parker. Works of art are being stolen by a master thief who Father Brown must catch!
Sat 27 Oct 18    19:20    Yesterday’s Enemy    1959. War. Director: Val Guest. Stars Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Gordon Jackson & Leo McKern. During the Japanese invasion of Burma, the remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ escapes through the jungle.
Sat 27 Oct 18    21:20    The Sand Pebbles (Part 1)    1966. Adventure. Director Robert Wise. Stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough. In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River.
Sat 27 Oct 18    23:10    The Sand Pebbles (Part 2)    1966. Adventure. Director Robert Wise. Stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough. In 1926, the USS San Pablo patrols the Yangtze River.
Sat 27 Oct 18    0:55    Invasion of the Bee Girls    1973. Sci-Fi Horror. Starring William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri. A cosmic force is turning earth girls into queen bees who ‘love’ their men to death.
Sat 27 Oct 18    1:40    Legend Of The Witches    1969. Docu-drama. Directed by Malcolm Leigh. Originally X-rated, the famous cult film about witches and witchcraft in Britain.
Sat 27 Oct 18    3:05    Mysterious Mr Nicholson    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.
Sat 27 Oct 18    4:40    Third Alibi    1961. Drama. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Laurence Payne, Patricia Dainton. A married composer finds that his affair with his wife’s half-sister has resulted in her death.
DATE    TIME    PROGRAMME    SYNOPSIS
Sun 28 Oct 18    6:00    Wilf Watters Presents Final Performance    A short documentary based around the closing day of The Regent Cinema, Amersham in 1962
Sun 28 Oct 18    6:15    Dateline Diamonds    1965. Directed By Jeremy Summers. Comedy musical stars The Small Faces, The Chantelles and Kiki Dee. Lester Benson (Kenneth Cope) the manager of top rock band The Small Faces, is hiding a secret. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 28 Oct 18    7:45    Old Mother Riley’s Jungle Treasure    1952. Comedy. A pirates’ ghost-ship takes Old Mother Riley across the world in search of treasure. Starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and Peter Butterworth.
Sun 28 Oct 18    9:15    The Marked One    1963. Crime. Director: Francis Searle. Stars William Lucas, Zena Walker & Patrick Jordan. Criminals kidnap a man’s daughter in order to obtain forgery plates which they believe to be in his possession
Sun 28 Oct 18    10:30    Liz Fraser’s Life in Film    Liz Fraser Exclusively discusses her life in film.
Sun 28 Oct 18    10:50    Desert Mice    1959. Comedy. Set in WW2, this is the story of an ENSA troupe of entertainers. Starring Sid James, Dora Bryan, Alfred Marks and Liz Fraser. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 28 Oct 18    12:30    Down Among The Z Men    1952. Comedy directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Michael Bentine, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. Prof. Pureheart loses a secret formula in the grocery shop.
Sun 28 Oct 18    13:55    Fire Over England    1937. Drama. Directed by William K. Howard. Stars Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson & Vivien Leigh. Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 28 Oct 18    15:40    We’ll Meet Again    1943. Musical. Directed by Philip Brandon Stars Vera Lynn, Patricia Roc & Donald Gray. A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people also like her singing voice!
Sun 28 Oct 18    17:20    Cast a Dark Shadow    1955. Thriller. Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Starring Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh & Kathleen Harrison. A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, rich, wife. (Subtitles Available)
Sun 28 Oct 18    19:00    Paper Tiger    1975. Drama. Directed by Ken Annakin and starring David Niven. An English man is hired as a tutor to the son of a Japanese ambassador. Life changes when the pair are kidnapped for political reasons.
Sun 28 Oct 18    21:00    The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre    On The Run. 1963. Directed by Robert Tronson. Stars Emrys Jones, Sarah Lawson, Patrick Barr, Delphi Lawrence & Kevin Stoney. The Governor is puzzled after Stewart makes a break from Prison.
Sun 28 Oct 18    22:10    You Can’t Do Without Love    1944. Comedy. Directed by Walter Forde. Stars Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart, Mary Clare & Frederick Leister. A singer meets the victim of a kidnap plot and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
Sun 28 Oct 18    23:40    Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie    1969. Drama. Director: Ronald Neame. Stars Maggie Smith, Celia Johnson, Robert Stephens & Gordon Jackson. A teacher wants her pupils to embrace romantic ideals rather than hard facts.
Sun 28 Oct 18    1:55    Beat Girl    1960. Drama. Directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Paul, a divorcee, marries a French lady but his daughter is determined to spoil the relationship.
Sun 28 Oct 18    3:40    Fall of the House of Usher    1950. Horror. A traveller arrives at Usher mansion to visit his friend Roderick (Kaye Tendeter) and discovers that Roderick and his sister (Gwen Watford) have been inflicted with a strange disease.
Sun 28 Oct 18    5:00    Top of the Bill    1971. Lost Documentary feature about the great days of variety with Ben Warriss, Davey Kaye, Sally Barnes, Peter Cavanagh, Ken Goodwin & more.

some lovely young chicks in beat girl, 3rd from bottom, tmm.

Public Eye box set -- after the first 11 DVDs (so midway through 1973) I can report there are some good yarns in there, mixed in with some duff episodes. It is a shame only two episodes survive of the first two series.