Talking Pictures Schedule, Today (United Kingdom)

1987. Crime. Directed by Mike Hodges. Stars Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins & Alan Bates. An IRA hitman wants out, but the price for his freedom is one last job and it won't be as easy as he thinks. [S]

1965. Drama. Directed by Guy Hamilton. A controversial film of its time. A young American girl is caught up in the wild London scene. Starring Oliver Reed.

1963. Drama. Jack Moir (Conrad Phillips of 'William Tell' fame), a newspaper reporter, is framed by 'The Duke' (George Pastell), a Soho racketeer against whom he has written a series of articles. [S]

1966. A trip up London's Post Office Tower to gain an insight into what it takes to run a restaurant up in the sky, one in which goes round once every 23 minutes.

1961. Lethal Weapons. Created by Sy Gomberg. Stars James Whitmore, Janet De Gore & Conlan Carter. A famous boxer who is a friend of Jones, is accused of assaulting someone outside the ring.

1945. Drama. Director: John Harlow. Stars William Hartnell, Mary Morris & John Laurie. In this 'lost' William Hartnell film, a socialist inherits the British factory where he works as a union mechanic

1959. Drama. Directed by Cy Endfield. Stars Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Baddeley & Diane Cilento. A man who lost his daughter in a hit-&-run accident tracks the man responsible. [S]

Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not be missed at the end of June and the beginning of July. [S]

To Know The End. 1960. Starring Elen Willard, Alexander Davion & Sally Fraser. A young woman begins to have strange visions that not only threaten the man closest to her, but the entire country. [S]

1948. Crime Drama. Director: Ben R. Hart. Stars John Blythe, Wally Patch & Stan Paskin. Two police officers go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring operating along the Thames. [S]

1948. Western. Director: George Sherman. Stars Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman & Willard Parker. A cowboy framed for a murder he didn't commit hunts the real killer and stays ahead of the law. [S]

Batman is Riled. 1966. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward & Cesar Romero. The Joker takes Batman and Robin back to his lair, demanding that the S.S. Gotham be handed over to him or he will behead them. [S]

The Profiteer. 1958. Stars Richard Greene, Gordon Jackson & Barbara Archer. Robin Hood comes to the rescue when a large area of failed grain crops leave villagers starving with nowhere to turn. [S]

1965. Comedy. A gang of crooks are caught on a big job. 15 years later they find their loot is now buried under a police station. Stars Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery & Joan Sims. [S]

1967. An incredible look at piped music, with a focus on how it is produced and networked.

Pigeon Decoy/Fishing with a Dog Nobbler. 1980. Jack Hargreaves demonstrates the use of a mechanical pigeon decoy before going trout fishing with an artificial minnow called a 'dog nobbler'. [S]

Take a look at Tommy Trinder as the headline act and Frankie Vaughn opening a dancing competition, there's inventions for the garden in the 60s and the history of Charles Laughton and Scarborough. [S]

1993. Documentary series that acts as a tribute to the greats of British cinema. This episode focuses on a wonderful tribute to Margaret Leighton. [S]

1966. A look at the unlikely buildings that have been made into homes, with a glimpse of a house built like a child construction set.

1945. Mystery. Director: René Clair. Stars Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston & Louis Hayward. 10 strangers are invited to a mansion on a desolate island and soon become targets of an unknown killer. [S]

Transport Command. 1961. A gripping film about the men of Britain's Transport Command, a division of the Royal Air Force, travelling to the Middle East.

White House Farm Murders. 1993. Stars Neil Roberts, Diane Keen & Fiona Dolman. The shocking story of a wealthy family who were gunned down in cold blood in their Essex farmhouse in 1985. [S]

1997. Adventure. Directed by Suri Krishnamma. Stars Greg Wise, Simon Dutton & Dougray Scott. A group of soldiers on a British Army expedition attempt to navigate an unexplored Malaysian gully.