What’s On

Sunday, 27^th September

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

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• 27^th September at 2.50am on Legend Xtra
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• 27^th September at 3.50am on Legend Xtra Plus 1

A beggar rapes a servant girl and their offspring grows up to be a werewolf. Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain.

Where There’s a Will (1936)

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• 27^th September at 3.25am on Rewind TV

A seedy education expert sponges on his rich relations but redeems himself by rounding up gangsters at a Christmas party. Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, H F Maltby.

Dial 999

The Killing Job

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• 27^th September at 5.30am on Talking Pictures TV

First episode of the 1950s crime drama, starring Robert Beatty as a Canadian Mountie in London.

Arthur (1981)

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• 27^th September at 6am on Sky Cinema Greats HD

Boozy playboy Arthur Bach is content to drift through life without ambition and await the multimillion-dollar inheritance due to him following an arranged high-society wedding.

For the Love of Ada (1970–71)

Sunday Tea (1970, S1)

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• 27^th September at 8.25am on That’s TV 2

Ada invites Walter for Sunday tea with the family, but when Mrs Bingley answers his front door the next day Ada gets the wrong idea. Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell.

Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)

The Vorpal Blade (1983, S6 E8)

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• 27^th September at 9.30am on Sky Arts HD

An elderly aristocrat recalls a duel fought in Germany in the 1920s, and reveals a shocking secret. Peter Cushing, Anthony Higgins, John Bailey.

Futtock’s End (1970)

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• 27^th September at 12.30pm on Together TV
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• 27^th September at 1.30pm on Together TV Plus 1

A general invites a motley group of guests to stay at his country estate – and chaos ensues.

The 39 Steps (1935)

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• 27^th September at 12.40pm on BBC Two HD

A spy is murdered; the man who has befriended her is suspected, but eludes the police until a chase across Scotland produces the real villains. Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.

Our Man in Havana (1959)

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• 27^th September at 12.55pm on Talking Pictures TV

A British vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana allows himself to be recruited as a spy, and wishes he hadn’t. Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara.

Zulu Dawn (1980)

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• 27^th September at 2pm on Great! Action

Fact-based drama, chronicling the rising tensions between British colonial forces and Zulu tribes in 1879, culminating in the massacre at Isandlwana in which more than 1,500 British soldiers died shortly before the attack on Rorke’s Drift.

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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• 27^th September at 2.05pm on BBC Two HD

En route back to England by train from Switzerland, an old lady disappears and two young people investigate. Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty.

Bean (1997)

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• 27^th September at 3.15pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD HD

An accident-prone attendant at London’s Royal National Gallery accompanies Whistler’s Mother to America. Peter MacNicol, John Mills, Pamela Reed.

For the Love of Ada (1970–71)

The Journey

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• 27^th September at 3.30pm on Talking Pictures TV

Walter visits his son and daughter-in-law, while Leslie takes Ruth to see his parents in Manchester.

Hobson’s Choice (1954)

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• 27^th September at 4.10pm on Great! TV

In the 1890s a tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker is brought to heel by his plain-speaking daughter and her simple-minded husband. Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie.

Khartoum (1966)

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• 27^th September at 4.35pm on Great! Action

The last years of General Gordon. Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson.

The Wild Geese (1978)

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• 27^th September at 5.30pm on Together TV
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• 27^th September at 6.30pm on Together TV Plus 1

Adventures of four British mercenaries in a central African state. Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris.

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)

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• 27^th September at 7pm on Talking Pictures TV

Among the colourful characters of London’s Petticoat Market moves a boy whose pet goat seems to have the magical power of a unicorn. Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff.

Midsomer Murders (1997–To Date)

Birds of Prey (2003, S6)

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• 27^th September at 8.05pm on ITV3 HD

A book dealer is found drowned, having seemingly committed suicide in despair at having sunk all his cash in a local inventor’s revolutionary new transport system – but the discovery of a second body makes it clear that there is a murderer at large. John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark.

Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976)

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• 27^th September at 10pm on Talking Pictures TV

A cabby’s hectic sex life suddenly becomes even more complicated than usual thanks to his unwitting involvement in a jewel robbery.