Talking Pictures TV Podcast
The official Talking Pictures TV Podcast, hosted by Mel, Daniel and Scott and featuring reviews, recommendations, interviews, special guests and fascinating insights into the stars and creatives who've turned Talking Pictures TV into the biggest independent TV channel in Great Britain! Follow the show at @tptvpodcast
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May 2023
05/08/2023
May 2023
Orson Welles, Joan Collins, George Peppard and Margaret Lockwood. This latest episode is like your fantasy dinner party, as Mel Byron and the team of reviewers introduce all these stars and more. Also coming up on your favourite UK TV channel this month are rarities such as the Lone Wolf films and Ealing Studios' production set in The Wirral.
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April 2023
04/16/2023
April 2023
The podcast that is dedicated to the nations favourite archive tv and movie channel with contributions and reviews by you, the viewers. Coming up on today’s show we’ve got Laurel and Hardy, Peter Fonda, Stanley Baker and Googie Withers. There’s tv favourites, Crown Court and Danger UXB. We’ve got a 50s prisoner of war drama, a sixties British crime thriller and classic horror from the legendary Jess Franco.
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March/April 2023
03/27/2023
March/April 2023
Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through upcoming highlights on the Talking Pictures TV Podcast. If you'd like to submit a review, e-mail [email protected]
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Late March 2023
03/06/2023
Late March 2023
Mel Byron and the TPTV Podcast Team take you into Spring wthe a varied selection of the best of Talking Pictures TV from 7th-26th March. There are trains and planes, Homes & Watson, Hammer and...yet more Hammer. Stanley Baker, Alastair Sim, Valerie Hobson, and a pre-Star Trek William Shatner, are among the stars whose films we recommend.
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Late February / Early March 2023
02/12/2023
Late February / Early March 2023
We're back! After gremlins in our email system nearly managed to close us down forever, it's the return of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast. This week join Scott and a host of guest reviewers as they bring you all the news and reviews from the nation's favourite archive tv and movie channel. How's this for a line up? Boris Karloff, Matt Monro, Dick Powell, Sylvia Syms and Peter Sellers - all here on his week's show. If you would like to take part in a future episode, drop us a line at our new email address: We'd love to hear from you.
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TPTV Podcast - Special Announcement - NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
01/15/2023
TPTV Podcast - Special Announcement - NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
Hi everybody Apologies but technical issues over the new year have resulted in the complete loss of our email account. Yep...everything - sent items, received items, any reviews that have been sent in etc. Most importantly, we have also lost all of your contact details, your email addresses. We have therefore set up a new email address for anyone that wishes to contribute a review, either now or in the near future. Our new email address is Please drop us a line at this new address if you wish to continue to take part in future episodes and we will continue to include you on the mailing list. Apologies to those that have sent in reviews over the last week or so - it looks like we will be postponing our next episode until mid to late February unfortunately. Many thanks for your understanding Scott, Mel and Daniel
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BONUS Episode - Dearest Joy - Interview with Jonathan Tafler
12/04/2022
BONUS Episode - Dearest Joy - Interview with Jonathan Tafler
Mel Byron talks to actor, Jonathan Tafler, son of TPTV favourites, Sydney Tafler and Joy Shelton. Sydney starred in 'It Always Rains on Sunday' (1947), 'Reach for the Sky' (1956) and many other classic films. Joy's films include ' Waterloo Road' (1945) and 'Millions Like Us' (1943). Jonathan's new book, 'Dearest Joy' shares letters between the newly-married Sydney and Joy as work commitments see them separated at the end of World War 2. Pregnant Joy is working in the West End, whilst Sydney is touring with Olivier's Old Vic company. Sydney's travels take him to, among other places, Germany just after VE Day. Jonathan also shares his own latest acting projects with us.
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November/December 2022
11/28/2022
November/December 2022
As 2022 winds down, Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through what Talking Pictures TV has in store for the remaining months - including some saucy 70's cinema, a 50's office drama and the conclusion of a beloved sci-fi series.
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November 2022
11/07/2022
November 2022
The earliest Hammer film still in existence, some Technicolor noir, a lesser-known Alec Guinness film and more make up what's on offer in this edition of the podcast dedicated to the UK's favourite television channel. Join Mel Byron and the team as they discuss these and more gems showing on TPTV between 7th and 27th November 2022.
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Late October 2022
10/16/2022
Late October 2022
Welcome to the latest edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast This week featuring movies starring Sylvia Syms, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Attenborough and Danny la Rue and with music from Cilla Black and Frank Sinatra. Who said variety was dead eh...?
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October 2022
10/03/2022
October 2022
Alistair Sim, Yul Brynner, Emma Thompson - they're all here in the latest episode of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast!
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September/October 2022
09/12/2022
September/October 2022
Go behind the scenes with The Projectionists. Journey to Marseille in pursuit of drug barons. Fight for Khartoum with General Gordon. Join Mel Byron and the team for all of this and more as they look at what's coming up on Talking Pictures TV from mid-Sept to early October. Look out for Boris Karloff and Leo McKern too!
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Late August / Early September 2022
08/22/2022
Late August / Early September 2022
Join Scott for the latest edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast, the show dedicated to the UK’s favourite archive tv and movie channel. This week, we have naval nonsense with David Tomlinson, Hammer glamour with Ingrid Pitt and classic BBC drama set on the high seas. There’s a slice of chilling Edgar Allen Poe horror directed by the legendary Roger Corman, and James Mason takes us on a tour of London that nobody knows.
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BONUS - Ghost Of Greville Lodge
08/04/2022
BONUS - Ghost Of Greville Lodge
Steve Noble interviews Niall Johnson, the director of "Ghost Of Greville Lodge", playing on Talking Pictures TV at 18:10 on Friday the 5th of August.
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July/August 2022
07/18/2022
July/August 2022
Summer at Talking Pictures TV means a combo of vintage cinema classics and classic TV of fine vintage. We guide you through it.
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June/July 2022
06/27/2022
June/July 2022
Vintage cartoons, film noir, aliens, Joan Crawford and much more. Mel Byron and the team take you through a hugely varied selection from the films and shows coming up on Talking Pictures TV in June and July. Includes LOTS of Hammer films.
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June 2022
06/05/2022
June 2022
A huge thanks to our good friend Cevin Moore for taking over the hosting chair for this episode. Cev has brought along Nigel Patrick, Raquel Welch and Terry Scott this week as he and the Talking Pictures TV viewers give us an insight into what to expect on the nation's favourite archive TV and movie channel over the next three weeks.
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Late May 2022
05/15/2022
Late May 2022
Welcome to the latest edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast – the podcast that brings you all the news of what is coming up on the nation’s favourite archive tv and movie channel. On this episode we’ve got cowboys, aliens, Andy Williams and the Brat Pack. Also popping by, there’s Nicolas Cage, Roy Scheider, Michael Redgrave and the French resistance.
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April/May 2022
04/25/2022
April/May 2022
Hollywood classics, vintage telly and a new strand in this episode of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast.
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April 2022
04/04/2022
April 2022
Monsters, Musicals and Murder. We have quite a few monsters, as it turns out, in this episode of the podcast that celebrates the UK favourite vintage film and television channel. Join Mel Byron and the team for a look at what's coming up on Talking Pictures TV in April, along with some surprise facts, music and maybe a laugh or two.
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Bonus Episode - ITC
03/20/2022
Bonus Episode - ITC
This bonus episode is a must for fans of classic TV. TPTV podcast regulars and classic telly experts, Cev Moore and Gareth Preston, are joined by very special guest, Jaz Wiseman. Host of the ITC Entertained the World podcast, Jaz is one of the world's leading experts on the company that produced The Champions, The Saint, Gideon's Way and countless other classic series. With your host, Mel Byron.
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March 2022
03/14/2022
March 2022
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February/March 2022
02/21/2022
February/March 2022
We've got a new release schedule, but the content remains the same: from Carry On to Ken Loach, Hollywood classics to homegrown fare, and of course lots of classic telly, we are guiding you through the best Talking Pictures TV has to offer.
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TPTV Encore - February 2022
02/07/2022
TPTV Encore - February 2022
A special episode of the podcast this week featuring your regular hosts Scott, Mel and Daniel guiding you through everything you need to know about Talking Pictures TV's exciting new online on demand service, TPTV Encore tptvencore.co.uk
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Late January 2022
01/14/2022
Late January 2022
The first show of 2022 is here! Mel Byron and the team bring their wit and wisdom to some of the finest films and shows making up the Talking Pictures TV schedule in January. From The Outer Limits to Maigret. From Violent Playground to Secret Army. There are appearances from Danny Kaye and Ed Wood along with some very fine music.
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Christmas 2021
12/18/2021
Christmas 2021
Welcome to the Christmas edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast. The podcast that is brought to you with the help of the viewers of the nation’s favourite archive tv and movie channel.
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Mid December 2021
12/10/2021
Mid December 2021
As we rev up for our big Christmas episode, here's a little stocking filler to tide you over, featuring reviews for this week on Talking Pictures TV.
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Early December 2021
11/26/2021
Early December 2021
Join Mel Byron and the team of reviewers as they descend into the Cellar Club, talk classic swashbucklers and look at a classic 'social problem' film. Tyrone Power, Rita Tushingham and John Mills all make an appearance. Plus news of TPTV's new streaming service!
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Late November 2021
11/12/2021
Late November 2021
Welcome once again to the Late November edition of the official Talking Pictures TV podcast. The podcast for the nations favourite archive tv and movie channel. The podcast that is controlled chiefly by your good selves, the Talking Pictures tv viewers.
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Early November 2021
10/29/2021
Early November 2021
We head into November with all sorts of delight - from homegrown classics to Hollywood extravaganzas, knockabout comedies to spooky documentaries, big screen epics and classic telly.
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