{"end_date": "2026-09-01", "name": "TalkingPictures", "info_url": "https://epg.pw/channels/12561/20260831.html", "country": "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "description": null, "error_message": "", "provider": "SkyTV", "source_url": "https://epg.pw/api/epg.json?channel_id=12561&date=20260831&timezone=None", "epg_list": [{"desc": "Mike and Noel spend time at the historic Amberley Museum and meet their dedicated team. Also, meet Alan Lambert whose life has been 'On the Buses' and watch some fascinating reels of lost footage. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Footage Detectives"}, {"desc": "1956. Drama. Directed by Charles Frend. Stars Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison & Michael Brooke. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T01:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Long Arm"}, {"desc": "1953. War. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Muriel Pavlow, Anthony Steel & Flora Robson. British RAF face invasion on the strategic island of Malta during WW2. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T03:00:00+00:00", "title": "Malta Story"}, {"desc": "1975. Comedy. Director: Norman Cohen. Stars Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth & Bill Maynard. The adventures of accident-prone, amorously inclined Timmy Lea, as he tries to achieve pop music stardom.", "start_date": "2026-08-31T05:05:00+00:00", "title": "Confessions of a Pop Performer"}, {"desc": "A TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview.", "start_date": "2026-08-31T06:50:00+00:00", "title": "The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read"}, {"desc": "1957. Horror. Directed by Val Guest. Stars Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing & Maureen Connell. Scientists on an expedition in the Himalayas discover a legendary creature may be real after all. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T07:55:00+00:00", "title": "The Abominable Snowman"}, {"desc": "1952. Comedy. Director: Charles Saunders. Stars Patrick Holt, Peter Hammond, Humphrey Lestocq & Kathleen Boutall. Pandemonium is created in a home when various relatives come to stay. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T09:40:00+00:00", "title": "Come Back Peter"}, {"desc": "1960. A look at the fascinating work of the Earl Marshal of England and the College of Arms, who are behind every full state ceremonial.", "start_date": "2026-08-31T11:15:00+00:00", "title": "Look At Life State Occasions"}, {"desc": "The Thorkil Ghost. 1956. Stars Richard Greene, Victor Woolf & Barbara Mullen. A young man tells Robin of hidden treasure in a castle that his late father had an encounter with a Viking ghost. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T11:30:00+00:00", "title": "The Adventures of Robin Hood"}, {"desc": "To the Rescue. 1957. Stars Robert Shaw, Ewen Solon & Andre Charisse. Tempest arrives in Savannah with the promise of valuable cargo but winds up attempting to smuggle a tobacco crop out. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T12:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Buccaneers"}, {"desc": "Keep It Cool. 1961. Stars Graydon Gould & David Graham. Dr Beaker is escorting a dangerous load of explosives when Masterspy sets a trap that forces the truck to become lost then disabled. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T12:30:00+00:00", "title": "Supercar"}, {"desc": "Death on the Boards. 1955. Stars Ron Randell, Robert Parker, Joan Schofield. A jealous wife plots revenge on her husband and their starlet ballerina, who she fears are having an affair. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T13:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Vise"}, {"desc": "1958. Thriller. Directed by John Pomeroy. Stars William Sylvester & Marla Landi. A photographer investigates the murder of his friend, which occurred during a bank robbery for The Cause. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T13:35:00+00:00", "title": "Dublin Nightmare"}, {"desc": "1962. Drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Dermot Walsh. When a young girl is knocked down there are only three donors of the same blood group. A frantic search to find the donors begins. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T14:50:00+00:00", "title": "Emergency"}, {"desc": "1953. A splendid day out at a coronation fete and garden party in Sutton at Hone, Kent - opened by Jasmine Bligh of BBC television fame.", "start_date": "2026-08-31T16:05:00+00:00", "title": "Coronation Fair Day 1953"}, {"desc": "1951. Crime. Director: Terence Fisher. Stars Alan Wheatley, Guy Rolfe & Stanley Baker. Barbara returns from abroad after her father ended his life. A changed will leaves Barbara in mortal danger. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T16:10:00+00:00", "title": "Home to Danger"}, {"desc": "Occupation. 1974. Stars Douglas Fielding & Wendy Wax. PC Quilley guards a coach works subject to a sit-in by recently laid off employees, keeping the peace, waiting for someone to break it... [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T17:30:00+00:00", "title": "Z-Cars"}, {"desc": "1954. Crime. Directed by John Gilling. Stars Charles Victor, Peggy Mount and Michael Craig. An elderly bank cashier with two years to live absconds with the contents of a bank safe. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T18:35:00+00:00", "title": "The Embezzler"}, {"desc": "1960. A look into the thrills of training as a parachutist; from joining the school run by the Royal Air Force at Abingdon, to the first time ever jumping out of an aircraft with 59 other soldiers.", "start_date": "2026-08-31T19:50:00+00:00", "title": "Look At Life A Piece of Cake"}, {"desc": "The Fugitive. 1963. Stars Dermot Walsh, Elwyn Brook-Jones & David Davenport. Surviving a shipwreck, Richard thinks he has found safety, only to find he is on the land of his sworn enemy. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T20:00:00+00:00", "title": "Richard the Lionheart"}, {"desc": "1947. Crime. Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: John Mills, Edward Chapman, Joan Greenwood. A man is suspected of murder, and due to a previous brain injury, he begins to doubt his own innocence. [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T20:35:00+00:00", "title": "The October Man"}, {"desc": "1958. Crime of Honour. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Starring Russell Napier, Ivan Craig and Jean Lodge. A Thames Estuary dredger drags a man's body from the bed of the river. (S1, E28)", "start_date": "2026-08-31T22:25:00+00:00", "title": "Scotland Yard"}, {"desc": "Think Thin. 1981. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. Robert thinks that he, Angie and Ida need to lose weight, so he plans a diet for them all to follow. Ida is not happy! [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T23:00:00+00:00", "title": "That's My Boy"}, {"desc": "1955. Drama. Director: Anthony Asquith. Stars David Niven, Margaret Leighton & Noelle Middleton. An Army Major is court martialled. Did he take monies he was owed, or was it theft? [S]", "start_date": "2026-08-31T23:35:00+00:00", "title": "Carrington VC"}, {"desc": "1983. Travel to Nottingham with Pete Murray, a city which in medieval times was enclosed by walls. See the beautiful River Trent, the towering Trent Polytechnic and so much more. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T01:40:00+00:00", "title": "Peter Murray Takes you to Nottingham"}, {"desc": "This week, head underground in 1960s County Durham, watch what happens in the kitchen at parties in the 70s, see a home movie shot in the South of France & Charlton Heston wants you to drink milk! [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T02:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Footage Detectives"}, {"desc": "Maigret's Mistake. 1994. Stars Bruno Cremer, Dani\u00e8le Lebrun & Bernadette Lafont. Maigret takes on a new case after a young prostitute is found shot in her apartment. Who killed her and why? [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T03:00:00+00:00", "title": "Maigret"}, {"desc": "1974. Director: Jacques Deray. Stars Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla & Daniel Ivernel. Francois Capela of the Marseilles' Mafia is being buried and his friend Roch Siffredi swears to avenge him. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T04:50:00+00:00", "title": "Borsalino & Co"}, {"desc": "1959. Action. Director: Terence Fisher. Stars Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson & Andrew Cruickshank. A captain lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organised crime group. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T07:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Stranglers of Bombay"}, {"desc": "1960. Drama. Directed by Edmond T. Greville and starring Noelle Adam, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Paul, marries a French lady but his daughter is determined to spoil the relationship. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T08:40:00+00:00", "title": "Beat Girl"}, {"desc": "Origins of Noir. 2022. The origins of Film Noir begin with the industrial revolution and with the ideas that that form of mechanised production produces. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T10:25:00+00:00", "title": "Film Noir"}, {"desc": "The Crystal Ball. 1958. Stars Boris Karloff, Booth Colman & Roxane Berard. A Parisian girl leaves her lover for his wealthy boss, gifting him a crystal ball that shows unsettling visions. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T11:25:00+00:00", "title": "The Veil"}, {"desc": "The Neptune Affair. 1964. Stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum & Leo G. Carroll. Solo seeks to find a group of scientists who are trying to start World War 3. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T12:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Man from U.N.C.L.E"}, {"desc": "1941. Drama. Directed by John Baxter. Starring Greta Gynt, Raymond Lovell, Percy Walsh and Bernard Miles. When his father dies, young Peter leaves school and takes over the family firm. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T13:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Common Touch"}, {"desc": "Charming short piece, featuring Reginald Foort on the organ, playing 'Sunshine of Your smile' a hit song from 1913.", "start_date": "2026-09-01T15:05:00+00:00", "title": "Sunshine of Your Smile"}, {"desc": "1953. Crime drama directed by Bernard Knowles. A private detective solves a murder, which he was accused of. Starring Tom Conway, Eva Bartok and Sid James. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T15:10:00+00:00", "title": "Park Plaza 605"}, {"desc": "1939. Directed by Carol Reed. Starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T16:45:00+00:00", "title": "The Stars Look Down"}, {"desc": "Glimpses: A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948, from a lost news piece.", "start_date": "2026-09-01T18:35:00+00:00", "title": "Petula Clark: The Day Begins Early"}, {"desc": "1961. Thriller. Directed by Ernest Morris. Stars Gerard Heinz, Margaret Tyzack & Ferdy Mayne. Before WWII, a German ambassador starts to rethink his Nazi allegiance, but is it too late to escape? [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T18:40:00+00:00", "title": "Highway to Battle"}, {"desc": "The Unwelcome Stranger. 1959. Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard & Jennifer Jayne. Investigating why people from the swordmaking village of Linzon have stopped sending arms. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T20:00:00+00:00", "title": "William Tell"}, {"desc": "1958. Drama. Directed by Ralph Thomas. Stars Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker & Stephen Murray. During the French Revolution, Lucie Manette falls in love with a duplicitous Englishman. [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T20:35:00+00:00", "title": "A Tale Of Two Cities"}, {"desc": "Charming amateur footage of steam trains chuffing along in the 1950s, set to music.", "start_date": "2026-09-01T22:55:00+00:00", "title": "Symphony for Steam"}, {"desc": "Only When it Hurts. 1983. Stars Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake & Jennifer Lonsdale. Ida breaks her tooth on Mrs Price's sausage rolls. How will she get on at her first dentist trip in 28 years? [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T23:00:00+00:00", "title": "That's My Boy"}, {"desc": "1963. Crime Drama. Director: Lance Comfort. When writer Greg Parker (Tony Britton) goes on holiday, little does he expect to be lodging in the same B&B as an escaped murderer (William Lucas). [S]", "start_date": "2026-09-01T23:35:00+00:00", "title": "The Break"}], "offset": "+00:00", "timezone": "UTC", "error_code": -1, "start_date": "2026-08-31", "icon": ""}