Talking Pictures TV Today

Documentary about boys undergoing training to work in mines

Drama focusing on a woman's passion for an idle man and her marriage to his uncle, the family benefactor. With Peggy Simpson, Ian Fleming and Tod Slaughter

A look at a jet that can take off like a helicopter

The fabled 17th-century swashbuckler tricks a king into allowing him to escort a treasure ship from India. Adventure, starring Charles Laughton

Drysdale needs a bank employee who is a crack shot to enter in a skeet shooting contest against a hated rival - so is forced to offer Jed a job

A farmer's lust for gold turns family and friends against him. Western, starring David Wayne and Keenan Wynn

How the Salvation Army has adjusted to the different needs of society

Worzel and Aunt Sally go looking for employment. By a mix-up the agency sends them as butler and maid to the home of Lady Bloomsbury-Barton

Part one of two. The Penguin opens a restaurant as a front for his latest nefarious scheme - which involves getting himself sent to prison. Guest starring Burgess Meredith

A girl goes to live with her aunt, and her sunny nature has an astonishing effect on those around her. Simon Nye's adaptation of Eleanor H Porter's novel, starring Amanda Burton

Friar Tuck's identical twin offers to lead the Sheriff to the outlaws' camp, unaware that he will be placing his own brother's life in peril

Two successful businessmen have a monopoly of the market in their particular field come under threat from a new competitor. Starring Honor Blackman

Footage of famous faces from the 1940s going shopping and a family of pools winners on a trip to Skegness. Plus, memories of early 1980s children's show Chock-A-Block

British troops are besieged by Chinese forces in a hilltop temple toward the end of the Korean War. Drama based on Max Catto's novel, starring George Baker and Harry Andrews

How the Post Office tower was built and what goes on inside it

The sleuth hunts for the killer of an aristocrat who hired him to guard a priceless diamond. Mystery, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

Featuring the National Club Acts Awards, with contenders including Cannon and Ball, Mark Channing, Paul Daniels and Pete Price, and the final of Miss Nightclub 1977

A former GI finds himself caught up in the crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry. Drama, starring Victor Mature and Diana Dors

Charlie and Budgie flee for their lives when a hitman shoots at them, and take refuge in the home of a family divided by dark secrets. Guest starring Joan Hickson

Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview

A spaceship carrying wild animals from another planet crash lands in a small town, leaving the creatures free to hunt human prey. Sci-fi horror, with Don Leifert and Tom Griffith

After a terrible car accident, a presidential candidate awakens in a New Mexico clinic without a trace of injury. Sci-fi drama, starring Leslie Nielsen and Bradford Dillman

With Arthur Askey, Bill Maynard and Barbara Windsor

A man acquitted for a murder charge is hounded by locals despite Ringo's efforts on his behalf

A police inspector infiltrates a gang of crooks, but his cover is jeopardised when the leader's girlfriend falls for him. Thriller, starring Patrick Holt and Sandra Dorne