November / December 2026

Five more treasures from the Talking Pictures TV schedules

Gareth is back with another edition of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, joined this time by Mel, Scott, Sarah and Hal as the team pick out five more highlights from the channel’s wonderfully varied schedules.

There’s romantic comedy with a decidedly dark edge in the 1984 remake of Unfaithfully Yours, starring Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski, in which jealousy and suspicion send one increasingly fraught husband’s imagination into overdrive.

British television science fiction is represented by Object Z, a fascinating slice of small-screen genre television, while Bellman & True brings us a very different kind of British drama, with Bernard Hill caught up in a tense and gritty crime thriller.

The team also travel back to wartime Britain for This Happy Breed, Noël Coward and David Lean’s beautifully observed portrait of an ordinary London family living through the years between the two World Wars. Completing this episode’s selection is Call Northside 777, starring James Stewart in a gripping fact-based drama about a newspaper reporter investigating the case of a man who may have been wrongly convicted of murder.

As ever, Gareth and the team share their thoughts, recommendations and a few diversions along the way as they explore another wonderfully eclectic selection from the nation’s favourite archive television and movie channel.

Whether your taste runs to comedy, science fiction, British crime drama, classic cinema or vintage television, there should be something here to add to your viewing list.

Join Gareth, Mel, Scott, Sarah and Hal for another trip through the Talking Pictures TV schedules.