Talking Pictures TV Podcast

Five films, four reviewers, three weeks of Talking Pictures TV – and one very special guest. We're back with another trawl through the Talking Pictures TV schedules, picking out some of the films we think deserve a place on your watchlist over the next three weeks. Mel kicks things off with the glorious screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936), starring William Powell and Carole Lombard – a wonderfully sharp, funny tale of the idle rich, an unexpected butler and a family with rather more money than sense. Scott heads into altogether more sobering waters with A Night to Remember (1958), Roy Ward Baker's superbly restrained account of the sinking of the Titanic. Still one of the finest British disaster films ever made, and proof that sometimes understatement can be far more powerful than spectacle. Gareth, meanwhile, has clearly been spending too much time near the shoreline and brings us Behemoth the Sea Monster (1959) – a wonderfully enjoyable slice of British monster-movie mayhem involving radiation, destruction and a very large creature making a terrible nuisance of itself. And Sarah ventures down into The Cellar Club with Caroline Munro, choosing the first two films in its latest season: Hammer's gloriously strange Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) and Michael Powell's disturbing, controversial and now rightly celebrated Peeping Tom (1960). Expect the usual mixture of recommendations, memories, trivia, disagreements, diversions and affectionate appreciation of the films that make Talking Pictures TV such an essential destination for lovers of classic cinema. And don't switch off when the main episode finishes. We've got a very special feature immediately afterwards as Sarah chats with Ian Ogilvy about his latest movie, along with a look back at a remarkable career that has taken him through some memorable corners of British film and television. This episode, and every previous edition of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, is available here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/talkingpicturestvpodcast #TalkingPicturesTV #TalkingPicturesTVPodcast #ClassicFilm #BritishCinema #MyManGodfrey #ANightToRemember #BehemothTheSeaMonster #DrJekyllAndSisterHyde #PeepingTom #TheCellarClub #CarolineMunro #IanOgilvy #ClassicMovies #FilmPodcast

No Mel or Sarah this week, so the boys have been left unsupervised with the Talking Pictures TV schedules. What could possibly go wrong? With three weeks of cinematic treasures to choose from, Scott, Hal, Daniel and this week's host, Gareth, have each been rummaging through the listings in search of something they think deserves a place on your watchlist.   Scott has selected Tomorrow at Ten, Lance Comfort's cracking 1963 British thriller starring John Gregson, Alec Clunes and a splendidly sinister Robert Shaw. Shaw plays Marlow, a kidnapper whose scheme involving the young son of a wealthy businessman comes with a particularly nasty ticking deadline. John Gregson is the detective faced with finding the boy before time runs out. Lean, tense and running at around 80 minutes, it is the sort of economical British thriller that gets on with the job without feeling the need to hang around for another half-hour explaining itself.   Daniel, meanwhile, has gone for Green for Danger, Sidney Gilliat's marvellous 1946 murder mystery set in a wartime hospital during the Blitz. When a patient dies on the operating table, the arrival of Scotland Yard's Inspector Cockrill, played with enormous relish by Alastair Sim, suggests that something rather more sinister than medical misfortune may be involved. Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John and Leo Genn are among the suspects in a film adapted from Christianna Brand's novel and combining a proper murder mystery with a wonderfully dry streak of British humour.   And apparently one Alastair Sim film wasn't enough.   Hal has selected The Green Man, the gloriously dark 1956 comedy in which Sim plays Harry Hawkins, an outwardly respectable watchmaker who has found a rather more lucrative sideline as a professional assassin. Unfortunately for Hawkins, his latest carefully arranged murder keeps being interrupted by George Cole's enthusiastic vacuum cleaner salesman. Add Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Dora Bryan, Arthur Lowe and Richard Wattis to the proceedings and you have ninety minutes of beautifully controlled comic chaos. Directed by Robert Day and written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, it also gives this week's choices a neat little connection with Green for Danger.   Finally, Gareth has decided that Britain simply isn't big enough for him this week and has gone continental with Georges Franju's extraordinary Les Yeux sans visage, better known as Eyes Without a Face. Made in 1960 and starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli and Edith Scob, Franju's French horror classic concerns a brilliant surgeon desperately trying to restore the face of his disfigured daughter. Unfortunately, his chosen method of doing so makes even the most questionable private cosmetic clinic look reassuringly respectable. Beautiful, eerie and genuinely unsettling, it mixes fairy-tale imagery, medical horror and dreamlike black-and-white photography into something that still feels strikingly modern more than sixty years later.   So that's four films, two Alastair Sims, one psychopathic Robert Shaw, a professional hitman, a deeply worrying surgeon and a vacuum cleaner salesman. Just another perfectly normal week at The Official Talking Pictures TV Podcast.

Join Mel and the team as they discuss the best of what's coming your way on Talking Pictures TV, the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel. Daniel kicks things off with 'Flic Story' from 1975. A true story of murder, madness, and the manhunt of a lifetime starring the legendary Alain Delon. Scott's next with the wonderful Waris Hussein directed 'Melody ' from 1971. Puppy love, playground politics, and a full-scale classroom rebellion - starring Mark Lester and Jack Wild. Sarah's choice is the classic 'Carve Her Name With Pride ' (1958) starring Virginia McKenna. The true story of the London shopgirl who became one of the war's greatest heroes. And last, but not least, Mel brings us ' The Winslow Boy' (1948) starring Robert Donat. A five-shilling theft. A national scandal. One family's relentless fight for the truth. You can watch Talking Pictures TV on Virgin 445, Freesat 306, Freely 36, Freeview or Youview 82 or on the Sky digital satellite platform, channel 324.

Daniel is in the chair this week alongside Sarah, Gareth, Hal and Mel to bring you the highlights of what's in store on the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel - Talking Pictures TV   Watch Talking Pictures TV on Freeview 82, Virgin 445, Freesat 306, Freely 36 or Sky 324. And don't forget that you can catch up – or watch again – for free on TPTV Encore! Go to www.tptvencore.co.uk

Hal is in the chair this week alongside Scott, Sarah, and Gareth to bring you the highlights of what's in store on the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel - Talking Pictures TV   Watch Talking Pictures TV on Freeview 82, Virgin 445, Freesat 306, Freely 36 or Sky 324. And don't forget that you can catch up – or watch again – for free on TPTV Encore! Go to www.tptvencore.co.uk

Scott is joined this week by a host of wonderful guests who have got together to bring you their recommendations of the best entertainment on Talking Pictures TV - the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel. Powell & Pressburger, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve, Quatermass, classic Hammer horror and much more.

As Spring blossoms, Talking Pictures TV provides vintage television, Hammer horror, an Irish film with ties to neo realism and much more!

Mel Byron guides us through another three week's worth of Talking Pictures TV goodness, featuring a sci-fi Play For Today, a Gainsborough classic and much more!

Welcome once again to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast, the podcast that is dedicated to the nations favourite archive TV and movie channel.  As usual we have enlisted the help of you, the viewers and once again, you have come up trumps with sending in your thoughts and your reviews of what is coming up on the channel over the next three weeks.  In this month's episode we have duchesses, Dracula and a disaster movie. Frankenstein , fraudulent seances and fearless giant killers. We are also joined by our friends from the Reel Britannia podcast with their favourites from all the cracking movies and tv shows coming up in March.

Eartha Kitt, Kenneth More, Roger Moore, Jean Seberg - they're all here in another round-up of Talking Pictures TV highlights!

The TPTV podcast is back for a new season! Mel Byron and the team recommend their favourite upcoming shows and films for you. With lots of much-loved stars, including Thora Hird, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker and more.  We also welcome our friends from the Reel Britannia podcast for their insight into three very different films!

Welcome you once again to the podcast dedicated to the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel – Talking Pictures TV.  The podcast where you, the viewer make our job just that little bit easier by sending in your reviews of some of the wonderful movies and tv shows we have lined up for your over the next three weeks.  On today's show, Scott brings you Western action with the legendary John Wayne, classic Hollywood comedy from Frank Capra starring Gary Cooper, and not one, but two trips to Brighton as Jack Warner dives head first into a 1960s murder mystery and Richard Attenborough stars in one of the greatet British movies ever made. All this plus Petula Clark, Googie Withers, Lionel Jeffries and Robin Hood and much more on the official Talking Pictures TV Podcast. 

This episode's recommendations from the Talking Pictures TV schedule include a brilliant, and unusual, Sherlock Holmes film; a little something from Ed Wood; an early Hammer sci-fi; and a John Mills thriller. All courtesy of Mel Byron and the TPTV podcast team.

Lots of noir this time around, but we also make space for an adaptation of a well loved tale and a vintage Gainsborough melodrama. Keep listening for Talking Pictures TV highlights!

Welcome to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast - dedicated to the nation's favourite archive movie and TV channel. This week, runaway buses, ticking timebombs, drugged disco dancers, Frankie Howerd, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra plus much more.

Autumn is upon us and Mel Byron and the team choose some of the season's finest offerings from Talking Pictures TV, from 1940s British noir to Biggles, via a couple of top 1960s crime series.

Even the Summer heat cannot stop Talking Pictures TV! Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through the month's offerings.

Hi everybody, Scott here once again to welcome you to the podcast dedicated to the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel, Talking Pictures TV. This is the podcast that brings you behind-the-scenes stories, special features, and the latest highlights from the wonderful world of classic cinema and beloved television shows. Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering these gems for the first time, settle in as we explore the unforgettable stars, hidden treasures, and fascinating history that make Talking Pictures TV such a unique part of our viewing lives.  It won't just be my voice you'll be hearing over the next 60 minutes—thank goodness, I can almost hear you say. Instead, I'll be handing over the reins to you, the viewers, who will share your thoughts, memories, and recommendations for the upcoming schedule. This proves once again that it's your voices, stories, and passion that truly bring the Talking Pictures TV community to life.  On this episode, we have wartime drama, classic film noir, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and even naked space vampires! We also have a very special interview from the archive with the much-loved and much-missed actor John Challis, probably best known to most of us as Boycie from Only Fools and Horses.  So, stay tuned as we embark on another journey through television's golden archive, celebrating the unforgettable moments that continue to inspire and enchant us all. 

Some hot summer selections from Mel Byron and the reviewing team. Stay at home, close the curtains and settle down in front of the telly with John Mills, Frankie Howerd, Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth, Warren Beaaty and Caroline Munro. What a party!

Let us lead you through the early Summer programming of the world's greatest TV channel.

Hi everybody – Scott here welcoming you once again to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast – the podcast dedicated to the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel And what's more it's you, the viewers who are front and centre of the show as you send in your reviews of all your favourite entertainment coming up on the channel over the next three weeks.   In this episode: zombies, soldiers, elephants, Jacques Tati...and much more!  

Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Leigh Lawson are among just a few of the glittering stars we meet as Mel Byron and the team take a look at what's coming up on TPTV Over late April and early May. It's Easter treats galore for classic film and TV fans!

Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through another three weeks of top Talking Pictures TV content with the aid of a trusty band of reviewers.

Hi everybody – Scott here welcoming you once again to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast – the podcast dedicated to the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel. And what's more it's you, the viewers who are front and centre of the show as you send in your reviews of all your favourite entertainment coming up on the channel over the next three weeks.     In store this week... court room dramas, war time adventures, Boston cops and menacing robots alongside Matt Monro and Vera Lynn.   

The shortest month of the year, but not short on great telly - from spaghetti westerns to film noir, war films to kid's tv.

Welcome to the latest episode of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast - the podcast presented by the viewers of the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel. In this episode: Doomwatch (1970 - 1972) The Last Man on Earth (1964) Orders are Orders (1955) Nowhere To Go (1958) So Long At The Fair (1950) The Green Cockatoo (1937) Plus a little something from Johnnie Ray thrown in for good measure    

In this episode we are covering what to look out for on the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel in the second half of November running into the first half of December. We have a classic Christmas ghost story from the legendary MR James, mysterious lakeside neighbours, the return of King Kong as he is miraculously brought back from the dead, and prehistoric women from the planet Venus. How about that eh?  You'd never get that that lot on the iPlayer.  There's Angela Lansbury and Worzel Gummidge , plus Mel will be along with a very special interview with Kate Garner the daughter of the much missed Chas Hodges, one half of the wonderful duo, Chas and Dave, to chat about her new show.

As the days grow short and rainy, we're here to give you the lowdown on all the best Talking Picture TV highlights to cozy up to at home. Norman Wisdom, Nigel Bruce and killer shrews await!

The Talking Pictures TV Podcast is back, reviewing films and shows from September 2024! Join the team and their special guests, Steve McQueen, Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Diane Cilento and many more. Let's hope they can all fit in the studio. 

A very special bonus episode of the podcast as Scott is joined by Cev and Smokey from the wonderful House of Hammer podcast to celebrate Talking Pictures TV as they unlock The Vaults Of Hammer.     With over 30 rare British films, many unseen in decades. Comedy, noir, crime and more!     Talking Pictures TV - the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel. You can watch Talking Pictures TV on Virgin 445, Freesat 306, Freeview or Youview 82 or on the Sky digital satellite platform, channel 328.   Reel Britannia A very British podcast about very British movies, hosted by Scott is available at: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/reelbritannia   House of Hammer A Definitive Guide Of The Films, The Figures & The Folklore Of One Of The 20th Century's Greatest Cinematic Legacies Brought to you by Adam Roche, Ben Taylorson, Cev Moore and Smokey All episodes available at: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-house-of-hammer/id1562467810 

Welcome to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast - the podcast brought to you by the viewers of the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel. Lots in store this week including classic French comedy starring Jaques Tati, classic British comedy from Sid James and Arthur Askey, 1950s British sci fi, a controverial movie from the mid sixties starring Oliver Reed and back to the 1930s for a little bit of Edward G Robinson  And wait for it, a prison escape drama starring Thora Hird. That's right -  Thora Hird behind bars in Women Without Men from 1956. Plus music from Diana Dors and Nat King Cole as well as a very special announcement for fans of the legendary Hammer studios. 

From American westerns to quota quickies, from Calvacanti to Carpenter, we guide you through what's good during the next few weeks on Talking Pictures TV.

The bad guys don't stand a chance in this episode. Not with Batman, Captain Scarlet and Sherlock Holmes around. Join Mel Byron and the team as they introduce your favourite fighters of evil, along with John Gregson, Jean Kent and Laurence Harvey.

Welcome to the Talking Pictures TV Podcast - the official podcast of the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel. This week, your host, Scott and the viewers of TPTV bring you Dutch detectives, Max Bygraves, classic British sci fi from the 30s. Western adventure with Lee Van Cleef as well as an underseen movie starring the great Peter Sellers

Happy Easter from the TPTV Podcast crew! We're looking at the next two weeks of great programming. 

 In this early spring episode, Mel Byron and the team introduce Liberace, James Stewart, Frankenstein's bride (not that one!) and some British favourites.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Talking Pictures TV podcast  The show which is made possible by you, the viewers of Talking Pictures TV, the nation's favourite archive tv This week we've got hidden Nazi treasure and Helen Shapiro (two things I can guarantee you've probably never heard in the same sentence before), we have an elephant crossing the Alps, a Brighton murder mystery, and the wonderful Michael Dennison and Dulcie Gray.

We're back to guide you through the holidays! The last episode of 2023. 

Mel Byron and the team bring you drama, fear and some classic tunes. Stars featured this episode include Vincent Price, Margaret Lockwood and George Formby. Everyone's favourite scarecrow, Worzel gummidge joins us too, as he makes his debut on Talking Pictures TV.

Talking Pictures TV, the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel – bringing you classic movies and television programmes 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.  In this episode we have, have Soviet spies, Alfred Hitchcock, a fifties British murder mystery, an eighties psychological drama from the author of The Exorcist, classic comedy with Frank Randle, Gracie Fields, and something special from Alma Cogan 

In this episode, we bring some horror and noir to greet the colder days, and highlight a Talking Pictures TV feature!

The official Talking Pictures TV Podcast, hosted by Mel, Daniel and Scott and featuring reviews, recommendations, interviews, special guests and fascinating insights into the stars and creatives who've turned Talking Pictures TV into the biggest independent TV channel in Great Britain! Follow the show at @tptvpodcast In this episode: Michael Caine, Betty Grable, horror movies, Humphrey Bogart, naked French aliens and Steve's Greatest Hits...plus much, much more.

Daniel Reifferscheid is back to guide you through three more weeks of top Talking Pictures TV programming, as reviewed by our great contributors! Capra, the Boultings, a Corman production and a whole lotta Hammer in this episode.

Hi everybody, Scott here, welcoming you to the latest edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast The podcast dedicated to the nations favourite archive tv and movie channel and brought to you with contributions from the people that matter – you the viewers. On this episode we have movies directed by Brian de Palma, John Frankenheimer and Powell and Pressburger; we have a classic and much loved Ealing comedy; movies starring Peter O'Toole, Jack Warner and Hardy Kruger; Egyptian terror with a horror movie from the Hammer studios, plus some exciting news that definitely has, shall we say, some strings attached – some might even say it's F.A.B.  

What a Carry On! Join Mel Byron and the team as they dive into some of the delights on Talking Pictures TV this July. With Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, a Ring of Spies, some worms (ugh!) and, yes, a Carry On classic.

Not a hoax, not an imaginary story! Shameful Steve Noble has taken over the podcast. Don't ask, just listen!

We're ringing in the hot weather with another great episode! From 50's noir to 60's supermarionation, from spy thrillers to cozy comedies, it's all here.

Orson Welles, Joan Collins, George Peppard and Margaret Lockwood. This latest episode is like your fantasy dinner party, as Mel Byron and the team of reviewers introduce all these stars and more. Also coming up on your favourite UK TV channel this month are rarities such as the Lone Wolf films and Ealing Studios' production set in The Wirral.

The podcast that is dedicated to the nations favourite archive tv and movie channel with contributions and reviews by you, the viewers. Coming up on today's show we've got Laurel and Hardy, Peter Fonda, Stanley Baker and Googie Withers. There's tv favourites, Crown Court and Danger UXB. We've got a 50s prisoner of war drama, a sixties British crime thriller and classic horror from the legendary Jess Franco.

Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through upcoming highlights on the Talking Pictures TV Podcast. If you'd like to submit a review, e-mail [email protected]