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Dear Supporters of Film and TV History,
Happy New Year to all our patrons, here’s to 2021! Welcome
to the first newsletter of the new year and a big hello to all
the new supporters who have joined us over the last few
months. We are so grateful to those who sent us Christmas
cards, they were greatly appreciated and such lovely words!
Did anyone spot the recent news about efforts to save
the ruin of The National Picture House cinema in Hull,
destroyed by German bombs during the Blitz? All 150 people
inside watching The Great Dictator survived. Plans are under
way to make the ruin safe for children to visit.
This month we bring you a very
special DVD release. For the first time ever, the entire series
of STAGECOACH WEST is available as a box set with optional
subtitles. That’s all 38 episodes, in an 8-DVD Box Set. It’s such a good
series, starring Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer and Robert Bray, with
guest stars including James Coburn, DeForest Kelley, Robert Vaughn,
Hazel Court, Beverly Garland and James Drury.
Good news for Old Mother Riley fans! On pages 22-23 there’s news of
seven ‘lost’ films to be shown on Talking Pictures TV, the first on Friday
22nd January at 7:50am, after an Old Mother Riley documentary.
A little-known fact about Noël Coward is his involvement with the
Actors Orphanage, which he championed and raised money for,
bringing joy to the lives of many children. This month we feature a new
book which tells the story, see page 9 for details.
We are so sad to hear the news of some of our film
and TV stars who have recently gone to the great
cinema in the sky, including Dame Barbara Windsor,
Jeremy Bulloch, Mark Eden, Rosalind Knight and
‘Queen of Hammer’ Barbara Shelley. We will continue
to keep their memories alive. This month also marks the
centenary of Kathleen Byron, (11 Jan 1921–18 Jan 2009)
seen, among many others, in Madness of the Heart,
The Small Back Room and, of course, Together.
There are some excellent premieres on Talking Pictures TV over the coming weeks, see pages
32-33 for highlights, including Laugh It Off with Tommy Trinder, Peter Sellers in Battle of the
Sexes, the 1938 version of Mr Reeder in Room 13; Flanagan & Allen in We’ll Smile Again;
Jungle Street with David McCallum and Jill Ireland; The Plank with Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper
and Jimmy Edwards and Calculated Risk, shot in the freezing winter of 1963.
For all you 60+ kids, Saturday Morning Pictures are BACK, starting Saturday
6th February, 9am to 12 midday, see page 31.
Please, stay safe and watch your DVDs and Talking Pictures TV! Until next
month, thank you as always for your support - we hope you find something of
interest in the following pages, it all helps to keep those projectors whirring!
Best wishes, Sarah, Noel and Neill
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The Complete Series! All 38 episodes
STAGECOACH WEST es Stagecoach West starred
TV Wayne Rogers, Richard
Eyer and Robert Bray,
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON DVD! airing from 1960–1961.
Filmed in and around the
EXCLUSIVE PRICE 8-DVD Sierrita Mountains and
Old Tucson Arizona, USA,
JUST £30 Box Set the series portrayed frontier
life in the vast landscape
with optional that is the hallmark of all
FOR ALL EIGHT DISCS! subtitles good westerns.
WITH FREE UK POSTAGE With guest stars including:
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Kane are American Civil War McCoy in Star Trek), English actress
veterans who operate a stage- Hazel Court, Beverly Garland,
coach line on the American television’s first policewoman in Decoy,
frontier. They share driving Robert Vaughn, (Napoleon Solo in
duties during stagecoach runs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), tough guy
and Sime’s son Davey often
James Coburn; James Drury
accompanies them on their
trips. Based in the frontier (The Virginian), Spaghetti Western actor
town of Outpost in Wyoming, Lee Van Cleef and Mary Tyler Moore.
their adventures include Vincent M. Fennelly produced the series,
murder, robbery, swindles, he was closely involved in the production
range wars, hijackings, attacks of western films for Monogram Pictures
by renegade soldiers, Indians and Allied Artists. George Blair, Harry
and Mexican revolutionaries. Harris, Jr., Donald McDougall and
Other characters include: Thomas Carr all directed various episodes.
Dan Murchison, proprietor of Veteran film & TV writer D.D. Beauchamp,
the general store in Outpost; (Gunsmoke, The Man from the Alamo, Cheyenne,
Zeke Bonner who operates a The Virginian), and Mary M. Beauchamp
way station called The Halfway wrote many episodes. Other writers
House; Cal, the clerk in the include Bob Barbash, Will C. Brown,
stagecoach line’s office in the Roy Chanslor, Herman Epstein, Kenneth
town of Timberline; Hugh Gamet, Ward Hawkins and Paul King.
Strickland, United States
Marshal and Doc Apperson.
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The Land Memories of a life in films:
Beyond Battling the BARB system.
Part 17, by Noel Cronin
the Sun
CD
Having realised the BARB System may not be the
DEFINITIVE WESTERN THEMES, best, but it was the only game in town, we had to
CLASSICS & RARITIES work with it. Given that the advertisers
demanded the BARB ratings, our viewing
OUR PRICE MUSIC CD numbers were soon to plateau on Sky and Freesat
£15.99 and we needed to consider how we could reach a wider viewing
31 Tracks on 1 CD
audience. The options were difficult and expensive. Virgin was an
WITH FREE UK POSTAGE option, but costly, and the criteria for being allowed on the platform
This Western-themed music CD showcases great artists of the 40s, 50s, & were difficult. Thank goodness Sarah had the patience and tenacity
60s. The collection features Elton Britt, including his re-make of There’s a to see us through, but short term it was a further drain on our limited
Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere. Classic Western TV themes also income. TPTV still managed to acquire new programming – some
include: Gunsmoke, Jim Bowie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Broken Arrow and the suppliers were very helpful, some less so, and some, to this day,
inimitable Sons of the Pioneers – eight tracks including Heartbreak Hill, The downright hostile. Others just kicked the can into the long grass!
Land Beyond the Sun and the classic How Great Thou Art. There are also four
rarities from Jimmy Wakely including Sugar Plum Kisses and Let Me Go, I must say the hostile and unhelpful didn’t cover themselves in glory
Lover! Other artists include the Ames Brothers with four classic songs of the and time will tell if they were right.
old Western Territory, Gordon MacRae, the Andrews Sisters and Dale Evans. The next big decision was how on earth we could get on Freeview –
costly but vital for TPTV if we wanted to go nationwide.
ELTON BRITT TWILIGHT ON THE TRAIL; THERE’S A VAUGHN MONROE WESTWARD HO THE WAGONS!;
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER WAVING SOMEWHERE; THE WRINGLE, WRANGLE. Producer Noel Cronin founded Talking Pictures TV and Renown Pictures and is
contributing his memories to the newsletter. Ever since his entrance into the world of
LEGEND OF THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN; BEYOND DALE EVANS WHEN THE WHITE ROSES BLOOM IN film as a young man, Noel has been interested in preserving the heritage of lost and
THE SUNSET. RED RIVER VALLEY. forgotten films, shorts and programmes, and for many years has gathered, restored
SONS OF THE PIONEERS THE LAND BEYOND THE JIMMY WAKELY OKLAHOMA HILLS; SUGAR PLUM and preserved this wonderful heritage which would otherwise be lost. Noel worked for
SUN; WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS; HEARTBREAK HILL; KISSES; LET ME GO, LOVER!; IT’S LONELY ON THE the Rank Organisation and the Central Office of Information, and bought the rights to
LEAD ME GENTLY HOME, FATHER; THE WONDROUS WORD TRAIL TONIGHT. several libraries that owned films which now air on Talking Pictures TV. His career as a
(of the Lord); THE THREE OF US; MONTANA; THE PRAIRIE CHIEFS GUNSMOKE; JIM BOWIE – producer and editor of films, documentaries and TV series spans several decades.
HOW GREAT THOU ART. ADVENTURIN’ MAN; TALES OF WELLS FARGO; BROKEN
ARROW.
THE ANDREWS SISTERS CARELESS HANDS;
BUTTONS AND BOWS.
THE AMES BROTHERS STRAWBERRY ROAN;
OLE FAITHFUL; RYE WHISKY; THE LAST ROUND-UP.
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Matt Monro Dead of Night
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CD Directors: Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti,
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£12.99 CD Year: 1945; Black & White.
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MUSIC CD Running Time approx: 1hour 39mins.
60 Tracks on 3 CDs
Cast: Anthony Baird, Roland Culver,
Known as “The Man With The Golden
Voice” this collection contains 60 prime Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes,
tracks showcasing Matt Monro’s velvety baritone. This set concentrates on his Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers,
late 50s/early 60s period, including his early UK hits and also a selection of Anthony Baird, Miles Malleson,
effortlessly interpreted versions of several Hoagy Carmichael songs. Robert Wyndham, Basil Radford, Naunton
Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 Wayne, Peter Jones, Elisabeth Welch.
1. A Portrait Of My Love 1. My Kind Of Girl 1. Softly As I leave You
2. Gonna Build A Mountain 2. Why Not Now? 2. When Love Comes Along “A Classic of English Cinema” 5* Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
3. The Garden Of Eden 3. Can This Be Love? 3. There Are No Words For Love
4. Everybody Falls In Love With 4. A Story Of Ireland 4. No One Will Ever Know Dead of Night stood out among British films
Someone 5. Another Time, Another Place 5. Is There Anything I Can Do? of the 1940s, influencing many subsequent
5. Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind 6. Prisoner Of Love 6. Tahiti British films in the horror genre.
6. Gone With The Wind 7. Have Guitar, Will Travel 7. My Love And Devotion A portmanteau work from four of Ealing’s best
7. My Old Flame 8. Bound For Texas 8. By The Way
8. Love Me Do 9. You’re The Top Of My 9. Stardust directors, the film is a spooky psychological
9. My House Is Your House Hit Parade 10. Small Fry thriller made up of four chilling ghost stories
10. You Always Hurt The One 10. The Ghost Of Your Past 11. How Little We Know set against the background of a weekend house
You Love 11. This Time 12. The Nearness Of You party, where the guests entertain each other
11. A Cottage For Sale 12. I’ll Dream Of You 13. Georgia On My Mind with tales of uncanny or supernatural events,
12. That Old Feeling 13. Love Is The Same Anywhere 14. Skylark telling stories which make up four segments
13. Memories Of You 14. Jeannie 15. One Morning In May
14. What Can I Say After I Say 15. Such Is My Love 16. I Get Along Without You within the film: The Hearse Driver,
I’m Sorry? 16. The Thing About Love Very Well The Christmas Party, The Haunted Mirror
15. Do You Ever Think Of Me? 17. Come Sta 17. Memphis In June and The Golfer’s Story.
16. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 18. Cheek to Cheek 18. I Guess It Was You All Extras: Remembering Dead of Night Featurette
17. Once In A While 19. April Fool The Time
18. I Cried For You 20. Mirage 19. Blue Orchids
(75 mins). Restoration Comparison.
19. The One I Love Belongs To 20. Rocking Chair Stills Gallery. Trailer.
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The Importance
60 tracks 3 CDs £12.99
Sir Noël Coward, the English playwright,
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of Happiness:
NOËL COWARD
composer, director, actor and singer was
known for his wit, style and flamboyance.
As well as screenplays and theatre works,
he composed hundreds of songs, and his
stage, film acting and directing career CD & the Actors’
spanned six decades.
Disc One CD
Orphanage
1 A Room with a View
2 Mad Dogs and Englishmen
by Elliot James
3 There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner CD The Actors’ Orphanage was a home for
4 London Pride the abandoned children of incapacitated
5 I’ll See You Again
6 Twentieth Century Blues or struggling actors, a harsh and brutal
7 Mary Make-believe institution. Noël Coward, the playwright
8 Try to Learn to Love and cultural phenomenon, was looking
9 The Dream is Over for more meaning in his life. After each
10 Zigeuner success, he would always ask...
11 Half-caste Women Disc Three
12 Any Little Fish 1 Mrs. Worthington “What now?”
13 Lover of My Dreams (Mirabelle Waltz) (Don’t Put Your Daughter The Importance of Happiness, an
14 Let’s Say Goodbye On the Stage) inspiring true story, shows how Noël
15 I Travel Alone 2 Poor Little Rich Girl Coward and his committee of famous
16 Most of Ev’ry day 3 Dance, Little Lady actors transformed the austere Actors’
17 Love in Bloom
18 We Were So Young
4 Something To Do With Spring
5 Sail Away Orphanage into a place of love and laughter. PAPERBACK BOOK
19 Where Are the Songs we Sung? 6 Sigh No More Using documents from the archives, we see how
20 Dearest Love 7 I Wonder What Happened to Him? Noël fixed serious problems and ended a reign of terror within the orphanage.
Disc Two 8 Bright Was the Day He created a rural idyll and led glamorous fundraisers, such as Theatrical Garden
1 Mad About the Boy 9 This is a Changing World
2 I Went To a Marvellous Party Parties, midnight matinees at the London Palladium, cabaret at the Café de Paris
10 His Excellency Regrets
3 The Stately Homes of England 11 Josephine and charity galas at West End theatres. When World War II and the Blitz arrived
4 The Party’s Over Now 12 Don’t Make Fun of the Fair the orphanage was evacuated to the United States. The New York years were a
5 Parisian Pierrot 13 I Like America happy period for the children, as they put on a Broadway show and met stars
6 World Weary
7 Lorelei
14 Why Does Love Get in the Way? such as Charlie Chaplin and Gertrude Lawrence. During the post-war years
15 Uncle Harry Noël struggled to make the orphanage solvent and successful once again.
8 Gipsy Melody 16 Alice Is At It Again
9 Just Let Me Look at You
17 A Bar On the Piccola Marina (Live) There were more problem children, monstrous staff and glamorous
10 The Last Time I Saw Paris fundraisers before Noël could finally hand over the reins to his young protégé,
11 Could You Please Oblige Us With a 18 Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love
Bren Gun? (Live) Richard Attenborough. This is a timeless story of altruism, family, love and home.
12 There Have Been Songs in England 19 Wait a Bit, Joe
13 Imagine the Duchess’s Feelings! 20 Time and Again
14 It’s Only You
15 Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans
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Across Down WHITE
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the part of Officer McShane in character actor in films such as Green for You will receive
12 across (5) Danger (1946) (6)
9. First name of the leading actress in Park 4. Kidnapping drama of 1956 with both DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
Plaza 605 (1953) (3) Glenn Ford and Donna Reed (6) Year: 1924. Silent with music.
10. ------- of London. Acclaimed 1936 film 5. The 1947 film in which the popular Black/white and tinted.
starring Tyrone Power and Madeleine Huggett family first featured (7,4) Running Time approx: 196 min.
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13. Robert -----. Distinguished American actor 11. The ------ with the Trumpet. British drama most breathtaking and awe-inspiring documentaries ever made. Herbert Ponting’s
of many villainous roles who died in 1973 of 1949 starring Basil Sydney and The Great White Silence is the official record of Captain Scott’s heroic journey to
(4) Eileen Herlie (5) the South Pole. Captain John Noel’s The Epic of Everest is the official
16. The Marx Brother whose frequent foil in 12. ------ by the Tail. 1955 thriller with record of Mallory and Irvine’s fateful 1924 expedition. Capturing vast and extreme
films was Margaret Dumont (7) Larry Parks and Constance Smith (5) landscapes, the beauty and savagery of nature and the endurance of the human
17. The Romantic -----. British comedy of 14. Hell’s Half -----. 1954 American drama spirit, these remarkable films have been restored by the BFI National Archive, and
1949 starring Mai Zetterling (3) starring Wendell Corey (4)
18. Surname of the British actor who played 15. Surname of Australian born actress who
feature new soundtracks by the acclaimed film composer Simon Fisher Turner.
P.C. 49 for both radio and film (5) played Leslie Howard’s mother in Extras:
Both films presented in both High Definition Alternative score for The Epic of Everest: a
19. Alfred Hitchcock chiller of 1948 and his Pygmalion (1938) (4) (Blu-ray) and Standard Definition (DVD). reconstruction of the 1924 accompaniment.
first in Technicolor (4) 90 Degrees South (1933, 72 min): Herbert Additional musical pieces which
Ponting’s final sound version of The Great accompanied original Epic of Everest
White Silence. screenings.
The Great White Silence: How Did They Fully illustrated booklets with essays and
Do It? Discovery Channel documentary complete film credits.
Answers to the Nov-Dec crossword. (2011 23 min).
Archive newsreel items (1910-1925, 5 min,
DVD only).
The Sound of Silence documentary about
Simon Fisher Turner’s Great White Silence
score (2011, 12 min).
Three documentary featurettes:
Introducing The Epic of Everest (2013,
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(2013, 8 mins); and Scoring The Epic
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From the British
Film Institute Wonderful LONDON 1 DVD £15
A collection of silent films from 1924, painstakingly restored by Directors Harry B Parkinson and Frank Miller created
the BFI National Archive to reinstate their original tinting and travelogues for cinema screenings. This collection features 12
toning, with new piano accompaniments by world-renowned short films, six of which have been digitally restored by experts
silent film pianist John Sweeney. The six films in this collection from the BFI National Archive and six more black and white
offer a fascinating glimpse of London life during the mid-1920s. prints made by the BFI using traditional film printing methods.
Black/white and tinted. Wander past the long gone Crystal Palace and the recently vanished gates of the
Silent with music White City and London’s first Olympic stadium, now lying under the new Westfield
and Intertitles. Shopping Centre. Take a trip on a barge from Limehouse to Paddington Basin,
Running Time approx: via King’s Cross and the Zoo, peering into urban back gardens.
Visit the Sunday street markets and wander down narrow
57min. Year: 1924.
alleys, past pot-bellied pubs, the inns of court and the
Wonderful London captured some of buildings that Dickens knew.
the most evocative images of the
Wander through a capital where donkey carts co-exist with
capital in the 1920s. These films
electric trams and stylish flappers shimmy past flower girls
contrasted different aspects of city life:
straight out of Shaw’s Pygmalion. Wonderful London
the East End and the West End, poor
reveals a city as familiar as it is different: full of life, and
and rich, natives and immigrants; often
fascinating.
looking beyond the stereotypes to show
surprising views of the city. This collection includes six restorations by the BFI National
Archive: Barging Through London, Cosmopolitan London,
As well as familiar landmarks of
London’s Sunday, Flowers of London, London’s Free
London town, the Thames, Big Ben,
Shows and London off the Track; all of which reintroduce
Tower Bridge and St Paul’s, Wonderful
the films’ original tinting and toning.
London reveals the lesser known
areas; the over-populated districts of Special Features: Dickens’ London, London’s Outer Ring,
Clerkenwell, London’s original London Old and New, London’s Contrasts, Known London,
Chinatown or the South Asian and Along Father Thames to Shepperton.
African seaman who worked in the Extras: Newly recorded piano accompaniments.
Port of London. Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays.
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Doris Day
THE ABSOLUTELY
How I became frightened of television!
by Richard Girdler
Around 1956/57, I was about 3yrs old. I lived in The
ESSENTIAL COLLECTION Barons in Twickenham and just at the end of the street
was Twickenham Studios. I was allowed to ride my
MUSIC CD Triang pedal car to the corner of street and watch what
60 Tracks on 3 CDs CD was going on at the studios, which fascinated me.
As I was watching the prop boys, my attention was
CD
OUR PRICE drawn to the left, where there was none other than a gang
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of pirates walking towards me! I peddled home as fast as I
CD could, yelling, ‘dad there’s pirates, dad, pirates!’. He came
out to console me and everything settled down and of
WITH FREE UK POSTAGE course the pirates were now nowhere to be seen. For 50 years I have been trying
to find out what pirate film was being made, but nothing, until I received a box set of
Doris Day began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving The Buccaneers with Robert Shaw and Edwin Richfield and
two No. 1 recordings in 1945 with “Sentimental Journey” and “My Dreams sat down to watch it. I thought maybe I’d cracked it, but
Are Getting Better All the Time” with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. by the end of first volume I discovered it was shot in
During her solo career she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to Walton-on-Thames. I got onto
1967 and was one of the biggest film stars in the 1950s-1960s era. the second volume, Nettlefold
Disc 1 1. Blame My Absent-Minded Heart 2. Hold Me In Your Arms 3. Dream A Little Dream Of Me must have closed as they switched
to Twickenham Studios to record
4. If I Were A Bell 5. I Got The Sun In The Morning 6. Again 7. It’s Magic 8. It Could Happen To You the series and the mystery was
9. The Best Thing For You 10. It’s Better To Conceal Than Reveal (With Dinah Shore) 11. It Had To Be You finally solved, that was it, where
12. Do Do Do 13. I Know That You Know 14. Everywhere You Go 15. Secret Love 16. Sentimental Journey the pirates could be found!
17. Aren’t You Glad You’re You? 18. If I Give My Heart To You 19. Hoop-Dee-Doo 20. Domino How I became frightened of television: as a cinema manager my
father would not have a television in the house. His father was also
Disc 2 1. Autumn Leaves 2. Imagination 3. It’s A Great Feeling 4. Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) a cinema manager, but he didn’t mind, so he had a TV. We lived
5. It’s A Lovely Day Today 6. It’s You Or No One 7. A Full Time Job 8. If You Were The Only Girl In The World in St Margaret’s in London, my grandparents in grand Mortlake,
9. But Beautiful 10. I’ve Never Been In Love Before 11. I’ll Be Around 12. Let’s Take An Old-Fashioned Walk not far on the train. We used to get off the train and walk to my
grandparents’ house to “Watch with Mother” in the afternoon.
13. But Not For Me 14. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be) 15. (Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To) Everything was fine, until during one visit, there was a film on the
Shanghai 16. Let’s Face The Music And Dance 17. Pillow Talk television called The Interrupted Journey with Richard Todd.
18. A Bushel And A Peck 19. Love Me Or Leave Me Mr Todd had been a naughty boy, playing around on his wife.
20. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was He hopped on the train, went out into the corridor, looked down
the carriage, saw smoke and yanked on the communication cord.
Disc 3 1. Day By Day 2. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) The train stopped, he jumped off and, as he walked down the side
3. I Didn’t Slip, I Wasn’t Pushed, I Fell 4. The Black Hills Of Dakota of the train, a woman’s arm flopped out of the
5. I’m Not At All In Love 6. Gently Johnny (With Guy Mitchell) window! As a small child, I was convinced that the
7. Love Somebody 8. I’ll See You In My Dreams 9. Sugarbush arm belonged to my mother! From then on, I would
only watch TV through the window – I can distinctly
10. Confess 11. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered remember watching Buccaneers through the window!
12. The Deadwood Stage 13. Cheek To Cheek Every time we stayed at my grandparents house the film
14. I’ll Never Stop Loving You 15. It All Depends On You seemed to be on and each time I would only watch it
through the window and only up to the part where the
16. Crazy Rhythm 17. Gone With The Wind 18. Everybody Loves A Lover woman’s arm appeared. Years later, as I was preparing
19. Pennies From Heaven 20. Over The Rainbow to watch a film from 40 years ago, I didn’t know the title,
but as soon as it started, it jogged my memory to recall
my fear of watching TV.
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Ferdinand Fairfax, Director
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premiere of the film Nate & Hayes at the Empire Cinema, Now the weather is cold and the nights are frosty, why
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Gareth, as my late father was a good friend of the film’s director, enduring classics, to be watched again and again. They also make fantastic gifts!
Ferdinand Fairfax, known to his friends as Ferdy. Soho Conspiracy (1950) Director: Cecil H. Williamson.
The premiere was on a Sunday morning on a boiling hot day Cast: Zena Marshall, Jacques Labrecque, John Witty, Tito Gobbi,
during the school holidays. Dad drove us up in his bright yellow Peter Gawthorne, Max Harrison, Syd Harrison. After a local church
Renault 12 and parked a ten minute walk away (long before the congestion charge). is bombed, a press agent plans a charity concert to help fund the
The premiere was packed, everyone loved the film and dad drove home via Docklands restoration. However, the locals of Soho have to save the show.
as he wanted to show me & Gareth what it looked like before it was redeveloped. Ferdy Black and White. Running Time: 80 mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99
died in 2008, and my father ten years later, so any time I see this exciting swashbuckler
movie, it brings back happy memories. Together on one disc! Booby Trap (1956) Director: Henry Cass.
Ferdy always maintained that the distributors, Paramount, decided not to promote it Cast: Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan, Harry Fowler, Tony Quinn,
as it was too similar to another Paramount production filming at Elstree studios that Richard Shaw, Jacques Cey, Fred McNaughton, Michael Moore.
summer – Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom… Whilst Ferdy made a few more films, An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the
none of them were huge hits. A few years prior to sound of bells, but he leaves his invention in a taxi.
Nate & Hayes he directed quite a few episodes of Four Days (1951) Director: John Guillermin. Cast: Hugh McDermott,
Danger UXB, a series TPTV have shown. He also Kathleen Byron, Peter Reynolds, Gordon McLeod, John Harvey,
directed many episodes of the Stephen Fry/Hugh H.G. Stoker, Francis Roberts. Black & White. Normal Price: £8.99
Laurie series Jeeves and Wooster in the early 1990s.
Nate & Hayes was filmed in New Zealand and Together on one disc! Emergency (1962) Director: Francis Searle.
Australia with editing and production in England. Cast: Candy Pibworth, Glyn Houston, Zena Walker, Dermot Walsh,
It was based on real characters (Bully Hayes was a Colin Tapley, Garard Green. A sick little girl with a rare blood type
19th century pirate and scoundrel in competition needs a blood transfusion to live. The search begins for one of three
with Ben Pease). Years later Ferdy told my father he people in the country: a football player, a fugitive killer and a traitor.
wished the film had ended up at Warner Brothers, as Black and White.
they would have treated it better, while Paramount Landslide (1937) Director: Donovan Pedelty. Cast: Jimmy Hanley,
wouldn’t risk damaging the potential box office for Dinah Sheridan, Jimmy Mageean, Bruno Barnabe, Ann Cavanagh,
Indiana Jones. Instead it was quietly released in the Dora Mayfield. A troupe of actors are trapped in a theatre after a
autumn of 1983. landslide. When the dust settles, the cashier is found dead and the
Ferdy also made a marvellous mini series for ITV in cash box is missing. Black & White. Normal Price: £8.99
the mid 1980s called The Last Place on Earth, which Lilli Marlene (1950) Director: Arthur Crabtree.
starred Martin Shaw, about Robert Falcon Scott’s ill Cast: Lisa Daniely, Stanley Baker, Hugh McDermott. The French girl
fated trip to the Antarctic. Having directed Shaw in whose song ‘Lilli Marlene’ is loved by Germans and allies alike, is
an The Professionals a few years earlier he jumped at captured by the Nazis and rescued by the British after being forced
the chance to work with him again. to broadcast the song for the Germans. Black & White.
I still have the storyboards he gave me, some from a Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins mins approx. Normal Price: £7.99
film he made for Touchstone (a Disney subsidiary) called The Rescue in 1988 and others
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I have recently discovered that Ferdy
Ferdinand Fairfax (31 July 1944 - 7 March 2008) was hired to direct the Arnold
was a film and TV director, BAFTA- Schwarzenegger film The Running Man
nominated for projects as diverse as Winston after the original director was fired.
Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1982) and Jeeves Ferdy was fired for the same reason,
& Wooster (1993). Other television work includes i.e. rewriting the screenplay, as he too
The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming (1990), Murder In was unhappy with it. He just wasn’t
Mind (2001-02) and Egypt (2005). meant for Hollywood! To order, call us on Freephone 0808 178 8212 Or 01923 290555
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SPARROWS Spotlight on: Dame Barbara Windsor 6th August 1937 – 10th December 2020
The news that Barbara Windsor had died peacefully from
CAN’T SING
Alzheimer’s in her London care home on Thursday 10th
December 2020 saddened the nation. Ms Windsor had been
a tremendous supporter of Talking Pictures TV since the very
beginning and she was a great friend of the channel.
OUR PRICE Barbara Ann Deeks was born in Shoreditch, London on 6
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Her mother paid for her to have elocution lessons and she
trained at the Aida Foster School in Golders Green, making
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Director: Joan Littlewood part of the chorus in Love from Judy. She took the stage
name Windsor the following year, inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Year: 1963; Black & White. Barbara joined Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford
Number of discs: 1. East, achieving prominence in their stage production Fings Ain’t Wot They Used to Be
Running Time approx: 87mins. and Littlewood’s film Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963), receiving a BAFTA nomination for
Best British Film Actress. She had been in films since The Belles of St Trinians (1954).
Cast: James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Her theatre career was prolific. She starred on Broadway in the Theatre Workshop’s
Roy Kinnear, Avis Bunnage, Oh, What a Lovely War and received a 1965 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured
Barbara Ferris, Brian Murphy, Actress in a Musical. She also appeared in the successful comedy-musical, Come Spy
George Sewell, Griffith Davies, with Me with Danny La Rue, who became a close friend. In 1970 she landed the role
of music hall legend Marie Lloyd in the musical-biopic Sing A Rude Song, followed in
Murray Melvin, Arthur Mullard, Peggy Ann Clifford, Wally Patch, 1972 by Tony Richardson’s The Threepenny Opera with Vanessa Redgrave. By 1975 she
Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Victor Spinetti, Jenny Sontag, May Scagnelli, was touring the UK, New Zealand and South Africa in her own show, Carry On Barbara
Fanny Carby, Yootha Joyce, Janet Howse, Queenie Watts, John Junkin, and followed this with the role of Maria in Twelfth Night at the Chichester Festival
Harry H. Corbett, Marjie Lawrence, Glynn Edwards, Rita Webb. Theatre. She played the sex-mad landlady in Joe Orton’s black comedy Entertaining
Mr Sloane at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1981, directed by her friend Kenneth Williams,
Sparrows Can’t Sing, stars Barbara Windsor reprising the role for a national tour in 1993.
Windsor is perhaps best remembered for her portrayals of a ‘good time girl’ in nine
in her BAFTA nominated role as Maggie. The Carry On films. Her first was Carry On Spying in 1964 and her last Carry On Dick in
kitchen sink classic was filmed in the East End 1974. She also appeared in several Carry On... television and compilation specials, as
on location in Limehouse, the Isle of Dogs, well as a successful West End production and subsequent tour in Carry On London.
Other films of note include Crooks in Cloisters (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Stepney around the theatre in Stratford and at and TV sitcoms The Rag Trade and Wild, Wild Women. Windsor appeared as ‘Saucy
Elstree Studios. Cockney sailor Charlie comes Nancy’ in the 2nd series of the ITV children’s show, Worzel Gummidge (1980).
home from a long sea voyage to find his house Her lasting success in the BBC soap EastEnders came to an end when she decided to
kill off her character Peggy Mitchell, to spend more time at home with husband Scott.
gone and his wife Maggie missing. There’s Her two previous marriages to Ronnie Knight and Stephen Hollins had seen tabloid
panic in Stepney; from the stalls in the street headlines along with spectacular career highs and lows, but Barbara was now fighting
to the bar of the Red Lion, but his friends a battle with Alzheimer’s and made the brave decision to
go public, doing all she could for charities and appealing
won’t tell him where Maggie is, because he is for funding for research into the disease. She was made a
known to have a foul temper. Dame in 2016.
Barbara Windsor was a national treasure. Although only
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Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950)
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were among the highest-paid variety COMING SOON TO Talking Pictures TV
artistes in Britain during the 1930s and 40s.
Their popularity with the public resulted in packed Old Mother Riley’s Ghosts
theatres throughout the land and a string of slapstick, (1941) The 8th film in the series
miniscule-budget film comedies, with Lucan as the (if you count Stars On Parade:
belligerent washerwoman, Old Mother Riley and his Bridget’s Night Out, as the first)
wife Kitty, playing his flighty daughter – all of which made finds Old Mother Riley inheriting
good box office sales. Of these films, seven have been a haunted Scottish castle, but the
‘lost’ in the vaults and unseen for many decades… until ghosts are not all they seem to be.
now. In January, Talking Pictures TV are delighted to be This is also the only time Arthur
able to blow away the dust from the film cans, so we can appeared in a male role on film. Spooky laughs galore with
enjoy them once more. John Laurie of Dad’s Army fame co-starring as McAdam.
Old Mother Riley Overseas (1943)
Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1940) A much underrated film, Mother Riley is cheated out of
Doing her bit for the war effort, Old Mother Riley who is her pub licence, so she heads abroad, seeking advice
working as a nurse, is forced to volunteer for the ATS. from daughter Kitty who is working in the wine
Chaos ensues, but through the madness she manages to business in Portugal. The plot includes mistaken
prevent secret documents from falling into the hands of identity, a kidnapping plan and stolen port wine.
the Nazis. This Riley film helped keep English fires A favourite line when Riley, spots someone
burning during the early part of WWII. pretending to be her; “Take a look at that woman
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Old Mother Riley in Society (1940) Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
Mother Riley messes up a pantomime routine, which Riley investigates the disappearance of food from the
results in the star leaving the show and daughter Kitty District Food Controller Offices during the war, to
taking over the lead role. A wealthy society boy prove her innocence and save the day. Directed by
congratulates Kitty on her performance, but the new Lance Comfort, the role of Lily in the story is played
found romance causes Riley to leave home, fearing her by Peggy Cummins.
working class background will spoil her daughter’s
future. The film features the screen debut of Old Mother Riley at Home (1945)
Jimmy Clitheroe as the society households ‘boot boy.’ Daughter Kitty has run off with “her no-good
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runaways and shows Kitty the error of her choice. Willer Neal (formerly Billy Breach)
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Mother Riley’ takes over as ringmaster and discovers that the star of the circus is in
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fact, her long-lost daughter. This was the final film for Thomas Bentley, a leading
director in both silent and sound eras. The atmosphere throughout is jollied along There would be four more films in the Old Mother Riley series before Arthur sadly
with the Riley humour and some great circus acts of the era. collapsed and died in the wings of the Tivoli Theatre in Hull in 1954. Another film,
Airs on 12th February 9:20am Old Mother Riley’s Trip to Mars, was never made.
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snake. Man-Size In Marble by E. Nesbit: newlyweds find the cottage of a woman enjoys a visit with an old friend, only to find afterwards that the
their dreams, but the previous evil (and dead) owners threaten to return. friend died the day before her visit. Transformation by Mary Shelley:
The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce: the tale of the murder of Julia a young man exchanges bodies with a dwarf. The Mysterious Mansion
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Kettering Northants. During my time there I jotted down assorted ‘happenings’ on whatever
was to hand at the time. Here is one anecdote from those early notes. With Optional Subtitles
One evening while walking through the Savoy foyer area, I found a couple, perhaps in their Director: Jack Arnold
late forties or early fifties, having a contretemps with one of our usherettes and as I passed I Year: 1953; Black & White.
was asked by the usherette if I could clear a matter up regarding the film they had just seen. Number of discs: 1.
It seemed that the man was upset as he had just ‘paid good money’ to Running Time approx:
see Richard Todd starring as RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the 1 hour and 57 minutes.
film The Dambusters, and he was put out because it was shown in black Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush,
and white. This film had first seen the cinema silver screen in 1954 or Charles Drake, Kathleen Hughes,
1955 depending on where you lived as they were released in the London Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson.
area before they went to the provinces. This was the mid 1960’s, but
The Dambusters had yet to appear on television as it still had some Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard
‘pulling power’ on the cinema circuits and was doing healthy business. Carlson) and his fiancé Ellen Fields (Barbara
Back to our man who was upset because it was in black and white. Rush) are stargazing in the desert when a
He asked me to accompany him outside to show me something that backed up his thinking spaceship bursts from the sky and crashes
that it was in colour and we were ‘short changing him’ – and so I went out there with him to the ground. Just before a landslide buries
and his lady friend. As we stood there, he pointed a finger at the quad size poster promoting the ship, a mysterious creature emerges and
the film, and, as he so rightly pointed out, the poster was in full colour. “Tricky,” I thought. disappears into the darkness. When he tells
My mind wandered into maybe asking how he expected to see Charlie Chaplin films promoted. his story to the sheriff (Charles Drake), John is
Help came from his lady friend, wife or trainee social worker, who then added her input. branded a crackpot; but before long, strange
She said that the film had to be in black and white as they dropped the bouncing bombs at things begin to happen, and the tide of
midnight when it was dark, otherwise if it was in colour the Germans would have seen them disbelief turns... Based on a story by
coming earlier on in the film. There was a moment of silence at this point as we both stood acclaimed writer Ray Bradbury, It Came From
there looking at her; I couldn’t think of anything to say and even her male friend was Outer Space is a science-fiction classic that is
at a loss. She then surpassed herself as she offered a comparison by way of further as thought provoking and tantalising today as
explanation which even now I find hard to believe! She explained that they had seen it was when it first landed on the silver screen.
The Great Escape about allied prisoners of war escaping from the Germans, but that film BONUS FEATURES Commentary with film
was in colour, something we all agreed on. She said that because it was in colour, when the historian Tom Weaver. The Universe
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THE On this page we bring you some of the interesting letters that have arrived at
PLEASURE Talking Pictures HQ this month. We receive many letters every day about film and
series requests; please be assured that we do make a note of them all. We acquire new
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films and series every month, so ‘never say never’! is our motto – but sadly we can’t
just play those we’d like to play, without proper licensing and rights in place.
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Edition with Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill,
Optional Subtitles. You may remember the 1985 advert for Levi
You will receive jeans in which Nick Kamen walks into a
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Year: 1965. them in a washing machine while being watched
Black/white. by interested ladies. Surely its author John
Running Time approx: 85min. Hegarty got the main plot from Hazell Bangs the
Drum, the 1979 episode of Hazell you showed on
Director: Gerry O’Hara. Monday 23rd November in which he gets very
Cast: Francesca Annis, dirty, returns to a launderette and its female
Anneke Wills, Suzanna Leigh, proprietor and proceeds to undress in front of her
Ian McShane, Klaus Kinski. down to his underpants and shove his clothes in a
When Sally moves to London to pursue a washing machine, arousing her interest. Should I write this up in a learned journal?!
You get better and better, best wishes, Mark
modelling career, she moves in with
Angela and Dee and discovers the world of Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill, Dear Sarah, Noel and Neill,
the carefree bachelor girl in Swinging During the sixties, my Grandma, who When I was 8 years old in 1970, a few of us were
London. Over one weekend filled with lived in Blackpool, told us that she’d been playing in the Bensham area of Gatehead in a
parties, blossoming friendships, and in a film, as an extra with Freddie and the place called Windmill Hills. An estate had recently
romantic encounters the vivacious girls Dreamers, who were in summer season been built, designed by a Scandinavian with split
learn about life’s pleasures and pains. in Blackpool that year. She used to watch level apartments and roof gardens. We went to
Shot on location, with sparkling dialogue the wrestling at the tower and the film was play in the car park and noticed a crowd standing
and lively performances from its young cast, to do with wrestling. We didn’t take much behind a ‘taped off‘ area. We also watched as a
this engaging drama bears the hallmarks of notice, in fact I’m not sure we believed couple went to a car carrying something wrapped
director Gerry O’Hara’s (That Kind of Girl, her! Years later I switched on TPTV part up, and put it in the boot. Although we didnt
The Brute) assured style. way through a film called Cuckoo Patrol realise at the time, we were watching Michael
and saw Freddie and the Dreamers. Caine in a scene from Get Carter! The apartments
Extras: There was a poster on a wall behind them were used quite a lot in the film. Close by was also
All films presented in both High Definition and advertising ‘Wrestling tonight’. I watched
Standard Definition. Alternative complete export cut (Blu-ray only). Export version scenes
the infamous concrete Gateshead Town Centre
(DVD only) 12 mins. Original theatrical trailer. The Rocking Horse (1962, 24 mins).
the rest of the film and spotted my carpark where Alf ‘Coronation St’ Roberts met his
The Meeting (Mamoun Hassan, 1964, 10 mins). Fully illustrated booklet featuring new Grandma in the front row of the audience demise. We used to play there too.
pieces by Gerry O’Hara, Professor Sue Harper and Mamoun Hassan. during the wrestling sequence! Regards & best wishes, Rob
Quite a thrill for me, especially as she
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LARRY PARNES, manager/agent/ Home, directed by Oswald Mitchell in 1945. The 11th
impresario/entrepreneur, known as film in the series, in which Mother Riley’s daughter Kitty runs off with her new boyfriend.
“Parnes, Shillings And Pence”, was perhaps the most important non-performing
figure in UK Rock ‘n’ Roll. He discovered and managed Britain’s first genuine Wednesday Crime Double Bills
Rock ‘n’ Roller, Tommy Steele, in 1956, after which he steadily built his famous Look out for a crime double bill every Wednesday evening
“Stable Of Stars”, whose frontline members included Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, featuring The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
Dickie Pride (all three widely acknowledged as Britain’s finest rockers) and the
irrepressible Joe Brown. His ‘stable’ also included Jess Conrad, Terry Dene, followed by Rumpole of the Bailey.
Vince Eager, Steele’s younger brother Colin Hicks, Johnny Gentle, Duffy Power, Wednesday evenings just before 7pm!
Peter Wynne, Julian X, The Viscounts, Lance Fortune, Danny Rivers, Nelson
Keene, and of course The Tornados, whose multi-million selling ‘Telstar’ reached Good news for fans of William Tell & Sir Francis Drake
number 1 in both the UK and US charts. All are featured on this compilation, Look out for NEW episodes of William Tell, on Mondays at 9.30am (starts 11th
which includes hits, well-known near misses, and a couple of collectors’ rarities. Jan). New episodes of Sir Francis Drake are also to air, starting Thursday 14th Jan!
TOMMY STEELE: ROCK WITH THE CAVEMAN; SINGING THE DANNY RIVERS: HAWK.
BLUES; COME ON LET’S GO.
MARTY WILDE: ENDLESS SLEEP; A TEENAGER IN LOVE; BAD BOY.
TERRY DENE: GERALDINE.
NELSON KEENE: IMAGE OF A GIRL.
Saturday Morning Flicks!
VINCE EAGER: YEA YEA; NO MORE; LONELY BLUE BOY. JESS CONRAD: MYSTERY GIRL. Talking Pictures TV are delighted to announce the
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BILLY FURY: MAYBE TOMORROW; WONDROUS PLACE; THE TORNADOS: LOVE AND FURY; TELSTAR.
you 60-plus kids! Meet Bill and Smudge early to
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LAST NIGHT WAS MADE FOR LOVE.
Relive the thrill of Saturday morning pictures!
JOHNNY GENTLE: WENDY; I LIKE THE WAY.
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DUFFY POWER: DREAM LOVER; WHAT NOW.
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PETER WYNNE: CHAPEL OF DREAMS. Foundation: Cup Fever (1965)
JULIAN X: SUE SATURDAY. George Best, Nobby Stiles and Bobby
THE VISCOUNTS: ROCKIN’ LITTLE ANGEL. Charlton at Manchester United, with
LANCE FORTUNE: BE MINE. Bernard Cribbins and David Lodge.
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