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Anyone else watch Talking Pictures TV channel? These days its my go to channel with best change of finding something worth watching. Shows mostly old british films; war, crime, thrillers, comedy; classics such as Bedazzzled, The Servant, Friday Night Saturday Morning but lots more obscure stuff as well.

Quite often feature some interesting period cars. Specifically mini, they aired a film called Richard's Things, 1980, where women finds deceased husband was having an affair with very young Amanda Redman, the wife is running round in a clubman estate. Yesterday they showed Nobody Runs for Ever, 1968 Christopher Plummer, with a bad guy in a red mk1 super deluxe.

Dont know why i get so excited when I see a mini on the road or on TV.

Haven't seen this channel but have heard about it elsewhere - I love all the old stuff, some of the more obscure stuff is well worth a look, especially from the '60s and '70s because of the cars, locations, soundtracks and cinematogrphy. Recently I've been watching loads of The Persuaders, Sweeney, Professionals, Minder, The Saint, Department S, Randall & Hopkirk Deceased etc, there are Minis everywhere in these. 'BAP 245B' the famous red Mk1 850 driven by Anette Andre in Randall & Hopkirk also turns up in The Saint and The Persuaders, also in The Persuaders is a black Mk2 Austin Cooper 998 with blacked out glass driven by Ian Hendry, and a beige coloured Radford Mk1 S . Pretty much all of my favourite films are from the same period too, Wrong Arm Of The Law, The Ipcress File, Robbery, Villain, Get Carter, Performance, The Man Who Haunted Himself etc, there are some great cars in these too which turn up elsewhere sometimes, they're a car spotters paradise - the Rover P5B Coupe 'HXC 802H' is used as the main car in Villain and gets loads of screen time, it was also used in an episode of The Persuaders as well as another one reg'd 'JJO 725F' which also appears in at least two other films and in Some Mothers Do Have 'Em. The same car is also used as a getaway motor in an old ATV series from 1972 called Villains, a thirteen parter with a great cast including Martin Shaw and Bob Hoskins about a gang who spring one of their mates from a prison van in an underpass with the aid of a MkX Jag and an early XJ6.

With one or two exceptions, the old stuff is miles better than anything else on the box these days.

WMU 211G wrote: the Rover P5B Coupe 'HXC 802H' is used as the main car in Villain

"Make a phone call Terry"

"Who to?"

"Your fairy sodding Godmother, I dunno"

"But I ain't got a Godmother"

'rolls eyes'

"So that we three are here with intent to commit a telephone call"

Brilliant film - Burton absolutely nailed it.

WMU 211G wrote: an old ATV series from 1972 called Villains, a thirteen parter with a great cast including Martin Shaw and Bob Hoskins about a gang who spring one of their mates from a prison van in an underpass with the aid of a MkX Jag and an early XJ6.

The episode with the marvellous Alun Armstrong is the best - he gets picked up by the the much younger Gorden Kaye (allo allo) playing a very openly gay sales rep in a Cortina Mark 3 estate. Great TV, you're quite right.

The film ROBBERY has been talked about recently and its Mini Cooper content.......... Where can a total techno illiterate like me see/watch this film again?

Peter Laidler wrote:The film ROBBERY has been talked about recently and its Mini Cooper content.......... Where can a total techno illiterate like me see/watch this film again?

I've just bought it off ebay on DVD for £3.99........I'll pass it onto you when I've watched it Peter ...

Yes I'm a fan of said channel, there was one recently where a young Adam faith stole a new anglia, and peter sellers was a quite sinister garage boss.

spoon.450 wrote:

Peter Laidler wrote:The film ROBBERY has been talked about recently and its Mini Cooper content.......... Where can a total techno illiterate like me see/watch this film again?

I've just bought it off ebay on DVD for £3.99........I'll pass it onto you when I've watched it Peter ...

Good film Dave & Peter, perhaps when we all see it again we can have a more detailed discussion

Alan

Costafortune wrote:

WMU 211G wrote: an old ATV series from 1972 called Villains, a thirteen parter with a great cast including Martin Shaw and Bob Hoskins about a gang who spring one of their mates from a prison van in an underpass with the aid of a MkX Jag and an early XJ6.

The episode with the marvellous Alun Armstrong is the best - he gets picked up by the the much younger Gorden Kaye (allo allo) playing a very openly gay sales rep in a Cortina Mark 3 estate. Great TV, you're quite right.

Yes a good episode that. The series is also memorable for Martin Shaw poncing about in his Y-fronts and tooling about the smoke in a series 1 XJ6 with a 'WMU' reg' number!

For anyone who hasn't seen Robbery or Villain give them both a try, although slow paced compared to today's films they're both excellent period pieces. Both had an influence o nthe team behind The Sweeney and had cast members who appeared in it later on, plus ace Sweeney & Professionals stuntman Pete Brayham plays one of the gang members in Robbery. Another one from the early '70s worth a look is 'The Offense' from 1972, it's a bit bleak to say the least but Sean Connery's performance as a jaded copper with violant tendencies is really good, It was filmed around the same part of Bracknell as Villain was a couple of years earlier, Connery insisted on making the film as part of his contract for returning as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever.

I've already mentioned this in the Minisprint thread but it's worth a go in here - this Stewart & Ardern Sprint appears for all of two seconds in the cult film 'The Killing Of Sister George'... BAP 245B in The Saint...

Talking Pictures TV channel is great if you like older colour and B&W films which rarely get shown anymore on the mainstream channels. The channel recently became available on Freeview (Ch 82)/Freesat (Ch 306)(from last September?) if you retune your set, as well as Sky and Virgin and seems to be quite a small family run concern so needs as many viewers as it can get to survive.
Details here and they send you the monthly schedule by email if you register:-
http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/

wantafaster1 wrote:Yes I'm a fan of said channel, there was one recently where a young Adam faith stole a new anglia, and peter sellers was a quite sinister garage boss.

Indeed, that somes it up, a film about stealing a ford Anglia to order, they don't make em like that anymore.

Some nice late 1960's period scenes, cars and backgrounds in this film rarely seen on TV in recent years to be shown this weekend on the TPTV channel. 'Up the Junction' a 1968 British film directed by Peter Collinson (Director of The Italian Job 1969) and starring Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman and Liz Fraser. The film's soundtrack was made by Manfred Mann.
Talking Pictures TV (Watch on Sky 328 | Freeview 82 | Freesat 306 | Virgin 445)
https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/this-months-trailers/

haynes wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:26 pm

wantafaster1 wrote:Yes I'm a fan of said channel, there was one recently where a young Adam faith stole a new anglia, and peter sellers was a quite sinister garage boss.

Indeed, that somes it up, a film about stealing a ford Anglia to order, they don't make em like that anymore.

It’s called Never give up , great film,

Got it wrong , Never let go . Doh!

roymck wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:24 am

haynes wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:26 pm

wantafaster1 wrote:Yes I'm a fan of said channel, there was one recently where a young Adam faith stole a new anglia, and peter sellers was a quite sinister garage boss.

Indeed, that somes it up, a film about stealing a ford Anglia to order, they don't make em like that anymore.

It’s called Never give up , great film

Looks worth a watch!

Never Let Go (1960) - Peter Sellers/ Adam Faith:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7f5m16UYpI

"Sellers plays car salesman Lionel Meadows, whose activities are just a front for a major car-theft operation. However, when cosmetics salesman John Cummings (Richard Todd) has his car stolen by one of Meadows' gang of car thieves, he initiates a one-man vendetta against a ruthless and brutal criminal who will go to extreme lengths to keep his criminal activities hidden from the eyes of the police and the public. When his brand new 1959 Ford Anglia is stolen right outside the door of his workplace at Berger's cosmetics, Cummings -- already under pressure from his boss to keep up with modern sales techniques and a younger, hungrier workforce -- finds the loss of the most important tool hard to bear. With the tenacity of a true salesman he tries both hard and soft sell techniques to uncover the operation that is removing cars from the street, giving them new plates and a paint job and ensuring that their whereabouts is never traced. But his interference has consequences, not just for the criminals involved -- for Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) and the gang of youths who hang out at the corner café, ready to steal cars to demand."

You've just reminded me, the resprays are decidedly ropey

Some nice early 1960's London period scenes, cars (see Minivan below) and East End backgrounds in this nostalgic comedy film rarely seen on TV for many years but recently being shown on the TPTV channel....look out for future showings.
'Sparrows Can't Sing' a 1963 British film based on a stage play by Stephen Lewis (The Inspector in 'On the Buses') who also appears as a caretaker and starring Barbara Windsor, James Booth, Roy Kinnear and Brian Murphy. The film tells the story of a sailor (James Booth), returning to his home in the East End of London to find the house demolished as part of a 1960's slum clearance programme. He sets off to look for his wife (Barbara Windsor), but friends and neighbours try to hinder his search, because they know he has a short temper and a violent streak and she has moved into a new tower block council flat with a married bus driver (George Sewell) and her baby, of unknown parentage....(many of the shiny new 60's tower blocks shown were themselves demolished in the late 1990's).
Barbara Windsor (before her Carry On fame) earned a BAFTA nomination for her convincing and sympathetic performance as a confident young woman, finding ways to cope in a rapidly-changing but still male-dominated society.
Talking Pictures TV (Watch on Sky 328 | Freeview 82 | Freesat 306 | Virgin 445)
https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/

Reelstreets - Film Locations:-
https://www.reelstreets.com/films/sparrows-cant-sing/

Interesting article below about Talking Pictures TV....
Inside Talking Pictures
The retro TV channel that resurrects forgotten movies and cult series is celebrating its fifth birthday with 3.5 million weekly viewers - and it’s all run from a family home in Watford:-
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... comfort-tv

Talking Pictures TV, 1967 Film: Smashing Time
Stars: Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl, Ian Carmichael
The film follows a story of two hapless Northern 'lasses' who come to London , having read all the stories about swinging scene. They quickly get lost in a world of dodgy bedsits and even dodgier strip clubs. Smashing Time was described by many as "Carry On Swinging London". It flopped at the time of its cinematic release in 1967. Includes footage of Carnaby Street at its height.
https://www.reelstreets.com/films/smashing-time/


Screen shot from the film of Minis on Kings Road, Chelsea, London SW3 1967 looking towards Wellington Square.

Anyone know what happened to the Sno-White Toothpaste Mini?

470 VRA as featured in the 1970 Film: Every Home Should Have One.
Stars: Marty Feldman, Judy Cornwell, Patrick Cargill, Jack Watson, Patience Collier, Penelope Keith, Dinsdale Landen.


"Back in advertising land where a Toothpaste Tube pulls up outside Teddy's workplace.
Alan Field identifies this as St Georges Square (the forecourt of C. I. Tower),
on the corner of High Street and Dukes Avenue, New Malden, Surrey . . ."











Some screenshots 'Now and Then' from the film are on the Reel Streets website in link below:-
https://www.reelstreets.com/films/every ... -have-one/

Internet Movie Cars database:-
https://www.imcdb.org/v001295016.html

mab01uk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:58 am Some nice late 1960's period scenes, cars and backgrounds in this film rarely seen on TV in recent years to be shown this weekend on the TPTV channel. 'Up the Junction' a 1968 British film directed by Peter Collinson (Director of The Italian Job 1969) and starring Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman and Liz Fraser. The film's soundtrack was made by Manfred Mann.
Talking Pictures TV (Watch on Sky 328 | Freeview 81 | Freesat 306 | Virgin 445)
https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/this-months-trailers/

Great film this and a nice period piece, quite controversial at the time too. During filming around Battersea and Clapham Dennis paid a visit to his dad who worked at Clapham Junction station....