Talking Pictures TV Saturday

Shows and films not to be missed throughout December

Christmas special of the children's game show from 1979, hosted by Mike Reid, and featuring a guest appearance by Barbara Dickson

The jungle hero foils the schemes of a hunter illegally capturing animals for zoos, but then has to deal with his vengeful brother. Adventure, starring Gordon Scott and Eve Brent

A village is devastated by a food shortage, and the outlaws hatch their plan against Sir Daniel

First episode of the Arthurian adventure series, with William Russell. Sir Lancelot undergoes a series of challenges to prove he is worthy of becoming a Knight of the Round Table

Part one of two. Gotham City Bank starts issuing counterfeit money, and the caped crusader suspects the culprit is the Joker. Cesar Romero guest stars

Roy investigates when a law-abiding bank employee is accused of embezzlement is identified as a member of an outlaw gang

The submarine is stranded in an alien region

The outlaw must foil Gessler's plan to undermine Swiss morale by stealing a venerated religious relic and killing the abbot who protects it

First episode of the swashbuckling drama. A newly appointed governor offers a pardon to all who will give up piracy - an offer the infamous Blackbeard plots to exploit

A man is due to be hanged for his loyalty to the king in a city that only women are allowed to enter - so Robin and Will Scarlett adopt female disguises to rescue him

A former Army officer forces a scientist to develop an invisibility potion. Sci-fi drama, starring Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith and Ivan Triesault

A businessman travels back in time to the First World War and helps a British flying ace destroy a German secret weapon. Sci-fi adventure, with Neil Dickson and Alex Hyde-White

The survivors of a sea-plane accident share their life stories while awaiting rescue in a dinghy. Drama, starring Dirk Bogarde, Michael Redgrave and Bonar Colleano

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

A Polish spy switches places with an assassin

The detective untangles a strange secret after a man who usually leaves for and returns from work like clockwork fails to return

Drama following the lives of a Liverpool family during the Second World War

Fact-based drama about the Profumo Affair which rocked the British government in the early 1960s. Starring Joanne Whalley, John Hurt and Ian McKellen

Lolo Ferrari, the adult film star who claimed to be the owner of the world's largest breasts until her mysterious death in 2000

A tribute to French pop icon Claude Francois, including a visit to his grave in the company of a group of fans

A man must prove he has been framed for murder by the jealous husband of a woman he had a one-night stand with. Crime thriller, starring Petros Fyssoun and Giannis Fertis. In Greek

A cave explosion in the Greek mountains unleashes an invisible prehistoric monster that had been buried for eons. Horror, starring James Philbrook and Arturo Fernández

An unhappily married woman tries to gain evidence of her husband's secrets in the hope that it will give her grounds for divorce. Crime drama, with Rona Anderson and Patrick Holt

This 1962 film takes a visit to London's clubland, from the smoky rooms of Soho to the traditional clubs in St James