Talking Pictures TV

[Jukebag]

Not something I watch (I don't watch much TV anyway) but switched over to Talking Pictures TV on Freeview and caught TV series from what looked like 70s or early 80s called Shadows.Looked very cheesy and not very well acted. Can't find anything in IMDB which is strange. On now there's a another series I've never heard called Freewheelers, set in a remote island (presumably the UK). Don't recognise any actors except one who's appeared in British comedies like St Trinians.

There seems to be some very obscure and long forgotten stuff on there. I've never seen the above on UKGold. You can find it on DVD, though it's very inexpensive:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=freewheelers+dvd&...

[vixen1700]

I usually go through my planner for Talking Pictures every few weeks as the tend not to change their schedules weekly.

There are sone great old flicks on there and some real dross that you'll only get five minutes into.

Lots of old films with London footage which I love.

Favourite little gem recently was The Frightened City with a quite nasty Alfred Marx as a gangster.

[LuS1fer]

Lots of films on there which are basically a mish-mash of 50s core actors, interchanging between films - you know, Alistair Sim, Sid James, Alfred Marx, Jon Pertwee, the pre-Carry-On actors etc etc. Many have very banal plots.

Funnily enough, Francis Rossi was on morning TV last week saying he spends time watching this and the Retro Channel.

[cuprabob]

Yes, there are sometimes some really good classic british films being shown, so it's always worth a look.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Have you seen Forces TV?

A mix of programming seemingly devised for the sad old git in your life who just wants to go back to a simpler time (round about 1976 - 1982.) when men were men and women just stood there either flirting or crying.

Check it out, a whole afternoon of Space 1999 today!

[FourWheelDrift]

Jukebag said:

Not something I watch (I don't watch much TV anyway) but switched over to Talking Pictures TV on Freeview and caught TV series from what looked like 70s or early 80s called Shadows.Looked very cheesy and not very well acted. Can't find anything in IMDB which is strange.

Is this it? - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398561/

[Sporky]

The Hypno-Toad said:

A mix of programming seemingly devised for the sad old git in your life who just wants to go back to a simpler time (round about 1976 - 1982.) when men were men and women just stood there either flirting or crying.

I found that very funny. I might perhaps just venture "for the sad old git who imagines he was in the Special Forces..."

But it's hard to knock Space 1999 and The Equalizer. Well, it's fairly easy, but you know what I mean.

[vixen1700]

Forces TV shows UFO too.

[williamp]

vixen1700 said:

I usually go through my planner for Talking Pictures every few weeks as the tend not to change their schedules weekly.

There are sone great old flicks on there and some real dross that you'll only get five minutes into.

Lots of old films with London footage which I love.

Favourite little gem recently was The Frightened City with a quite nasty Alfred Marx as a gangster.

Villian is great. Rover P5, lovejoy in an early Capri and period shots of Bracknell!

[vixen1700]

There was a great recently that was very Get Carter like, but the name of it escapes me.

Instead of Newcastle the main bloke goes up to Liverpool in his Jag 420 .

There was even a pub fight between two women.

Think it was made before Get Carter.

Found it!

The Reckoning

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064881/

Edited by vixen1700 on Sunday 22 September 15:01

[vixen1700]

williamp said:

Villian is great. Rover P5, lovejoy in an early Capri and period shots of Bracknell!

Probably mentioned before...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=11...

Which is why I love Talking Pictures.

[Jukebag]

FourWheelDrift said:

Is this it? - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398561/

Yeah I think that could be it. Not sure I'd highly rate it as I thought the acting was very wooden, and the few mins I watched it it I couldn't understand what the foggiest was going on. I've seen better acting in health and safety videos lol.

[Jukebag]

Talking Pictures TV should be called "Nostalgia Pictures TV for the 70-90 year olds".

Theres a British film on now starring James Robertson Justice set in an airport. Proper lovvie duvvie "oh Darling" cheesy melodramatic stuff, all the characters talk in Queens English and act all gentlemanly. Watching films from this period makes you realise just how messed up, corrupt, fascist and controlling our society has become. Manipulated wars, maipulated terrorism, internet surveillance and censorship (people getting arrested all because they have an opinion on Twiiter), Big Brother, all this divide and rule crap etc. These oldie movies are like a window into a past that we will never go back to.

[cuprabob]

Jukebag said:

Talking Pictures TV should be called "Nostalgia Pictures TV for the 70-90 year olds".

Theres a British film on now starring James Robertson Justice set in an airport. Proper lovvie duvvie "oh Darling" cheesy melodramatic stuff, all the characters talk in Queens English and act all gentlemanly. Watching films from this period makes you realise just how messed up, corrupt, fascist and controlling our society has become. Manipulated wars, maipulated terrorism, internet surveillance and censorship (people getting arrested all because they have an opinion on Twiiter), Big Brother, all this divide and rule crap etc. These oldie movies are like a window into a past that we will never go back to.

I loves these films and I don't fall into the 70 to 90 age range

I believe the airport in that film you refer to is London Airport, now called Heathrow.

[LuS1fer]

I love old films where, no matter if the part is a lowly Cornish fisherman ora Scottish lassie, they all speak like they went to Eton.

[TimJMS]

cuprabob said:

Jukebag said:

Talking Pictures TV should be called "Nostalgia Pictures TV for the 70-90 year olds".

Theres a British film on now starring James Robertson Justice set in an airport. Proper lovvie duvvie "oh Darling" cheesy melodramatic stuff, all the characters talk in Queens English and act all gentlemanly. Watching films from this period makes you realise just how messed up, corrupt, fascist and controlling our society has become. Manipulated wars, maipulated terrorism, internet surveillance and censorship (people getting arrested all because they have an opinion on Twiiter), Big Brother, all this divide and rule crap etc. These oldie movies are like a window into a past that we will never go back to.

I loves these films and I don't fall into the 70 to 90 age range

I believe the airport in that film you refer to is London Airport, now called Heathrow.

The film in question is "Out of the Clouds" (1955).

I'm also not ashamed to say I'm a Talking Pictures fanboi.

[megaphone]

One of my favourite channels. Always take a look to see what's on, some of the 50's stuff is good. I like watching some of the old London street scenes.

Just watching the original 'Widows' series which was first on in the 80's. Thought it was really good first time around....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085111/

[tobinen]

I've watched Callan and Rumpole of the Bailey a few months ago but I haven't lately seen any series which grab me

[motco]

'Scotland Yard' narrated by Edgar Lustgarten is always a good yarn. Said to be true stories but obviously names and place names are changed. Lustgarten is the best narrator I can think of; his delivery is clear, well enunciated, and brilliantly timed.

[megaphone]

motco said:

'Scotland Yard' narrated by Edgar Lustgarten is always a good yarn. Said to be true stories but obviously names and place names are changed. Lustgarten is the best narrator I can think of; his delivery is clear, well enunciated, and brilliantly timed.

He also introduces 'The Scales Of Justice', worth a look when it comes on again, some good scenes from the 60's. They used the outside of the main building at Merton Studios for a few episodes, now housing .