Talking Pictures TV TV Guide — Tuesday, 1 September 2026

A teenager discovers her hated new stepmother was once a dancer in a strip club, and gets a job there, hoping to dig up some dirt - but soon has to contend with the unwanted advances of the sleazy owner, who ends up forcing her to help conceal a murder. Drama, starring Gillian Hills and Christopher Lee

The exploration of the movie genre begins with a look at the origins of the cinematic term, stemming from pulp fiction crime novels and owing a visual debt to the German expressionist films of the silent era

A writer's ex-girlfriend gives him a crystal ball as a parting gift, and it grants him visions of her cheating on her new husband

Napoleon races to find the source of rockets spreading a deadly fungus through the Soviet wheat crop, aware that a war between Russia and America is inevitable if he fails

A teenager who inherit's his late father's construction company poses as a down-and-out at a London hostel to investigate the firm's suspect motives for serving a notice to quit the building. Shamed to witness the company's fixation with profit at the expense of the poor and destitute, he decides the business must put people first, and to use his wealth to help improve their lot in life. British drama, with Geoffrey Hibbert, Joyce Howard and Greta Gynt

A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948, from a lost news piece

A previously friendly village stops providing supplies to the resistance. When William investigates, he finds the locals have turned against him

Ida breaks a tooth on one of Mrs Price's sausage rolls, and has to go to the dentist for the first time in 28 years