What’s On

Sunday, 28^th April

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969–71)

When Did You Start to Stop Seeing Things? (1969, S1)

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• Sunday at 3am on GREAT! tv
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• Sunday at 4am on GREAT tv Plus 1

Jeff is hired by a company to discover who is leaking confidential information, while Marty worries why his partner is unable to see him. Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre.

England, Their England

Season 1, episode 2

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• Sunday at 4am on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Donald Cameron learns more about the eccentric English, and surviving a weekend house-party.

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)

Vanity Dies Hard (Part 1 of 2)

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• Sunday at 8.55am on ITV3 HD

Part one of three.

The World at War (1973–74)

A New Germany (1973, E1)

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• Sunday at 10am on Yesterday HD

The rebirth of Germany and growth in power of the Nazi Party leading up to the outbreak of war. Laurence Olivier, Christabel Bielenberg, Emmi Bonhoeffer.

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)

Vanity Dies Hard (Part 2 of 2)

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• Sunday at 10.05am on ITV3 HD

Part two of a moody whodunit from the pen of Britain’s queen of crime fiction, starring Eleanor David as bride-to-be Alice Whittaker, whose marriage plans are thrown into turmoil by the disappearance of a close friend opposed to her impending nuptials.

The World at War (1973–74)

Distant War (1973, E2)

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• Sunday at 11am on Yesterday HD

The invasions of Poland, the Winter War, the sinking of the Graf Spee, the ‘phony war’, failure in Norway and the elevation of Winston Churchill to Prime Minister. Laurence Olivier, Robert Boothby, R A Butler.

Carry on Cabby (1963)

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• Sunday at 11am on Film4 HD

The neglected wife of the owner of a taxi firm sets up a rival firm with women drivers. Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor.

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)

Vanity Dies Hard (Part 3 of 3)

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• Sunday at 11.25am on ITV3 HD

Part three of three.

Shortscreen: Toy Soldiers (1991)

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• Sunday at 11.50am on Sky Cinema Action HD

Terrorists demanding the release of a South American drugs baron seize the pupils of an exclusive boarding school as hostages, but a small group of rebellious youngsters succeeds in turning the tables on the captors.

Twice Round the Daffodils (1962)

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• Sunday at 12pm on London Live

Comic and serious episodes in the lives of male patients at a TB sanatorium. Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

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• Sunday at 1.50pm on London Live

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s centre. Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl.

Island of Terror (1966)

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• Sunday at 2pm on Legend Xtra
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• Sunday at 3pm on Legend Xtra Plus 1

On an Irish island, a scientist makes monsters who thrive on bone. Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray.

Androcles and the Lion (1952)

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• Sunday at 2.35pm on Talking Pictures TV

A slave takes a thorn from the paw of a lion, which later, in the arena, refuses to eat him. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young.

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

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• Sunday at 2.55pm on Film4 HD

Life for identical twins Jared and Simon, and their sister Mallory, begins afresh when their mother inherits a spooky mansion. Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte.

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

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• Sunday at 3pm on Legend

Almost everyone in the world is blinded by meteorites prior to being taken over by intelligent plants. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott.

Jurassic Park (1993)

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• Sunday at 3.45pm on Sky Cinema Hits HD

Genetically re-created from blood taken from ancient mosquitoes, dinosaurs run amok in a theme park. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum.

The Lost Continent (1968)

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• Sunday at 4.55pm on Legend

The captain of a tramp steamer illegally carries explosives, and he and his passengers are stranded in a weird Sargasso Sea colony run by the Spanish Inquisition. Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh.

The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959)

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• Sunday at 5.10pm on London Live

A man resorts to blackmailing the families of the recently deceased to raise funds to save a youth club.

Time Without Pity (1957)

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• Sunday at 6pm on Talking Pictures TV

An alcoholic arrives in London to seek new evidence that will prevent his son from being executed for murder. Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern.

Coast of Skeletons (1964)

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• Sunday at 6.40pm on Legend

British inspector Harry Sanders investigates diamond and gold fraud in Africa, uncovering a plot involving smugglers raiding a sunken ship.

Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (1994)

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• Sunday at 7.25pm on Comedy Central HD

Commandant Lassard sends the incompetent cops to Russia to help their counterparts capture an elusive criminal mastermind who uses his genius with computers to pull off a series of daring robberies.

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)

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• Sunday at 9pm on Legend

Blood-sucking Transylvanian Count Dracula rises from the grave to terrorise Seventies London, with a plan to unleash a deadly plague on the world.

Classic Movies: The Story Of (2023)

The Story of Brighton Rock (2023, S1 E3)

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• Sunday at 9.25pm on Sky Arts HD

Movie critic Ian Nathan examines the qualities that made this 1948 gangster film noir – starring Richard Attenborough – an enduring British classic. Ian Nathan.

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

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• Sunday at 10.05pm on Talking Pictures TV

A family flees into the hills when their city is destroyed by a nuclear attack, and try to find a way to survive.

The Fiend (1972)

[as Beware My Brethren]

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• Sunday at 10.50pm on Legend

A journalist finds herself in danger when she infiltrates a sinister religious cult and finds that one of its members has homicidal tendencies. Ann Todd, Patrick Magee, Tony Beckley.