Talking Pictures TV Friday, 8 December Find out what's on TV.
- 5:50am
Drama (1957)
Flight from ViennaWhen a Hungarian official asks for asylum in the west, he is forced to go back home to prove his sincerity.
- 7:00am
Comedy (1942) Bob's Your UncleFollowing the adventures of enthusiastic members of the Home Guard.
- 8:30am
Historical drama (1936) The Prisoner of Shark IslandDr. Samuel Mudd is arrested for being an accomplice to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln when he unknowingly aids an injured John Wilkes Booth. He's sentenced to life and sent to a treacherous penal colony on a remote island in the Dry Tortugas.
- 10:20am
Thriller (1957) Mark of the PhoenixCrooks steal a secret metal formula and plan to smuggle it into East Germany.
- 11:35am
Adventure (1967) Slave GirlsA jungle guide is kidnapped by natives who want to sacrifice him, but just as he's about to be killed he's transported to a land where prehistoric women rule.
- 1:20pm
Thriller (1952) Sudden FearFollowing a whirlwind courtship, an acclaimed playwright marries a slick actor she has just fired from her latest play. Shortly after the honeymoon, she overhears her new husband and his lover plotting to murder her for her inheritance.
- 3:30pm
- 4:00pm
- 5:05pm
- 5:15pm
Drama (1952) Train of EventsA train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
- 7:00pm
- 7:30pm
- 8:10pm
Crime drama (1975) RansomA Norwegian security chief is called in to save the British ambassador when he is held to ransom in his home. However, a terrorist hijacks a plane and demands the kidnappers are allowed to leave the besieged compound.
- 10:00pm
- 10:05pm
Thriller (1987) The StepfatherA teenager is suspicious of her mother's new husband, whose obsession with having the perfect family leads to violence.
- 11:50pm
- 11:55pm
Horror (1988) Cellar DwellerThe promising career of a horror comic book artist of the 1930s meets a fiery death when he confronts the bloody carnage of his own imagination in his studio. Years later, an ardent devotee of the artist's work becomes a resident in his house, now an art academy, unaware of the lurking evil.
- 1:30am
- 1:35am
Western (1981) The Legend of the Lone RangerMasked Man and Tonto derail a criminal mastermind's plot to hold President Grant and his train.
- 3:30am
Comedy (1963) CharadeA woman returns to her Paris flat to find her estranged husband's body and the CIA demanding answers to some baffling questions. She learns that her husband stole a huge sum of gold during the war and tricked four of his wartime buddies in order to keep it all for himself. The police are convinced that she knows the whereabouts of the loot.
- 5:50am