What’s On

Monday, 26^th October

Child’s Play (1972)

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• Monday at 12.45am on Talking Pictures TV

In a Catholic boarding school for boys, an unpopular master is hounded and discredited by another whose motives may be more diabolic.

On the Night of the Fire (1939)

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• Monday at 6am on Talking Pictures TV

A barber kills the blackmailer of his wife.

Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)

Operation Safecrack (1982, S5, Ep 3)

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• Monday at 9am on Sky Arts HD

A famous British safe-cracker is used by an advertising executive in an elaborate live television stunt.

Jassy (1947)

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• Monday at 10am on Talking Pictures TV

A gypsy servant girl falls in love with her master but is accused of murder.

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

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• Monday at 10.20am on TCM Movies HD
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• Monday at 11.20am on TCM Movies Plus 1

During World War II, seven British paratroopers land in the Bavarian Alps to rescue a high-ranking officer from an impregnable castle.

Murder Most Foul (1964)

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• Monday at 1.30pm on TCM Movies HD
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• Monday at 2.30pm on TCM Movies Plus 1

Refusing to return a guilty verdict, juror Miss Marple makes her own murder investigation backstage at a third-rate repertory company.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)

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• Monday at 2pm on Paramount Network HD
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• Monday at 3.05pm on Paramount Network HD

Survivors of an seaplane crash await rescue in a dinghy.

Law and Disorder (1958)

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• Monday at 4.25pm on Talking Pictures TV

Crooks rally around a confederate about to be arrested, to prevent his son from learning of his father’s real career.

Sir Francis Drake

Boy Jack

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• Monday at 6pm on Talking Pictures TV

The seafarer accompanies the queen’s godson on a diplomatic mission to Portugal – unaware that the Spanish have just invaded.

A Good Read

Rebecca Abrams and Matt Ridley

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• Monday at 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Kate Saunders is joined by Matt Ridley and Rebecca Abrams to discuss books by by Elizabeth Taylor, Gerald Durrell and Charles Dickens.

Tales That Witness Madness (1973)

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• Monday at 10.50pm on horror channel
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• Monday at 11.50pm on horror channel Plus 1

Five ghostly tales linked by an old bookshop.