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  • 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Mike Read joins Talking Pictures TV founder Noel Cronin on his quest to track down old films.

45 episodes

Season Premiere

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

4x01 59 New Year's Day Special

Season Premiere

4x01 59 New Year's Day Special

  • 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z1h

This week's special episode features a reel of film of Petula Clark welcoming in the new year singing, a reel on 'How to keep your teeth!' from the 50s and who remembers safety Sam?

2023-01-08T00:00:00Z

4x02 60 Caravanning, Money Box

4x02 60 Caravanning, Money Box

  • 2023-01-08T00:00:00Z1h

This week there's brilliant 60s caravanning footage, then who remembers their first money box? Footage for all you vintage rail enthusiasts and we look at a popular dance band but who are they?

4x03 61 Tony Blackburn & Motor Boats

  • 2023-01-15T00:00:00Z1h

This week, we look at a lost reel of Tony Blackburn, we take a look at Model Boats - did you build one? Did you race yours? There's a special motorbike race and who remembers Tooth Powder?

This week, we look back on the children's TV of our childhoods with some fascinating reels. There's also a 1950s car rally, a short on The Highway Code and we look at The Green Cross Code man.

This week we ask who remembers 'Music, Movement and Mime'? We have a reel to share of a 60s beauty pageant parading some very famous faces and we look at the history of Sangers Belle Vue Circus.

4x06 64 1950s Car Rally, Woolies

  • 2023-02-05T00:00:00Z1h

This week we go on a 1950s car rally, remember good old fashioned Woolies, go gliding across England and look at the only Bobby used as the driver in almost every film or TV episode made the 50s.

2023-02-12T00:00:00Z

4x07 65 Biscuit Factory

4x07 65 Biscuit Factory

  • 2023-02-12T00:00:00Z1h

This week we take a trip round a biscuit factory in the 60s, take our Austin van and our Ford Consul on a skid course, talk about Choppers and go to Venice and the premiere of Lawrence of Arabia!

2023-02-19T00:00:00Z

4x08 66 Outdoor Games

4x08 66 Outdoor Games

  • 2023-02-19T00:00:00Z1h

Mike and Noel take us back to our childhoods with our simple outdoor games - who remembers Knock Down Ginger? There's a fascinating motorsport reel, we go on a hovercraft and look at Ration Books.

4x09 67 Sewing Machines & Tall Ships

  • 2023-02-26T00:00:00Z1h

This week we celebrate the machinist and those wondrous peddle activated sewing machines, there's footage of beautiful tall ships on the Thames and an unknown reel with a very young Cliff Richard.

4x10 68 Sam Pig Books, Mackeral Fishing

  • 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z1h

This week, we remember Sam Pig Books, we go mackerel fishing but when and where? Is that Buster Keaton with Laurel and Hardy? Then its radio memories - can you recognise these theme tunes?

4x11 69 Vernon's Pools & Usherette

  • 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z1h

We look at the history of Vernon's Pools with a fascinating reel, celebrate The Usherette with some training tips. Do you remember the Mr Pastry Target game? And who remembers cinema programmes?

2023-03-19T00:00:00Z

4x12 70 Model Trains, QE1

4x12 70 Model Trains, QE1

  • 2023-03-19T00:00:00Z1h

This week spring is in the air! It's time for model trains, a trip on the QE1 in the 50s or 60s, we have a reel of a St. Patrick's Day celebration and is that Peter Cushing with Laurel and Hardy?

This week, we celebrate the Telegram Boys, we have a reel for those involved in battle re-enactments, there's a brilliant story about Coco The Clowns shoes and who remembers Mike Read's Pop Quiz?

2023-04-01T23:00:00Z

4x14 72 Hop Picking

4x14 72 Hop Picking

  • 2023-04-01T23:00:00Z1h

This week we have a nostalgic reminder of hop picking on holidays in Kent, then it's off to Burnham-on-Sea to see the shortest railway in the west and there's memories to share about Woolworths.

This week we take a look at fascinating Dolls Hospitals, there's great footage of 60s Toy Soldiers, we take a nostalgic trip on the Clyde, and we look back at the different Tarzans over the years.

Mike and Noel look at 60s model planes and plane spotting. There's a great lost reel of wartime London we go on a trip in our Talbot Ten and can you spot The Dave Clark Five?

2023-04-22T23:00:00Z

4x17 75 Manners & Theme Parks

4x17 75 Manners & Theme Parks

  • 2023-04-22T23:00:00Z1h

The celluloid quest continues! There's a short film about manners with Pete Murray and Dennis Price, we look at the launch of early theme parks in the 50s and who remembers Roy Rogers and Trigger?

4x18 76 A50, Hair, and Works Canteens

  • 2023-04-29T23:00:00Z1h

Mike and Noel take a trip on the A50 in the 50s or 60s, then its footage of the 'new' hair crazes of 1955, we celebrate the work canteen & we have a memory jogger reel of Midlands County Dairies.

2023-05-06T23:00:00Z

4x19 77 Roller Skating

4x19 77 Roller Skating

  • 2023-05-06T23:00:00Z1h

Mike and Noel go roller skating back in time to the 50s, there's a look at driving in London in the 60s, we have a reel of a local pageant and garden party, and who remembers P.C. 49?

2023-05-13T23:00:00Z

4x20 78

4x20 78

  • 2023-05-13T23:00:00Z1h

Join Mike and Noel as they share unseen footage of Frankie Howerd. Nursery Rhymes, who remembers their favourites? There's more footage from a biscuit factory and an old reel of 1950s magicians.

4x21 79 60s Newsroom & Summer Holidays

  • 2023-05-20T23:00:00Z1h

Mike and Noel step back to the newsroom in the 60s, there's a charming reel of summer holidays, incredible footage of rural England but when and where? And finally, did you keep an autograph book?

2023-05-27T23:00:00Z

4x22 80 Badges & Boys Brigade

4x22 80 Badges & Boys Brigade

  • 2023-05-27T23:00:00Z1h

Who remembers all the fantastic pin badges we used to collect? Then it's off to Manchester to the site of Mather and Platt, we join the Boys' Brigade, and we travel from London to Kent.

2023-06-03T23:00:00Z

4x23 81 Doll Factory, Butlins

4x23 81 Doll Factory, Butlins

  • 2023-06-03T23:00:00Z1h

We visit a doll making factory in the 50s, then ask, were you a waitress at Butlins, Clacton in 1964? We celebrate the telephonists and the 'Hello Girls' and reveal a secret about chocolate!

4x24 82 Cartoons & Roadside Cafes

  • 2023-06-10T23:00:00Z1h

Join Mike and Noel on a nostalgic jaunt through the archives of cartoons, we also remember roadside cafès there's more trains, boats and planes and also a brilliant 'Unknown Reel'.

We look at buying our first home in the 60s and 70s. Then, who remembers the Buccaneer Bar? There's lost footage of Jack Buchanan and we reunite an 80 year old lady with footage of her magic act.

Hi De Hi campers, join us as we look at good old fashioned holiday camps, special guest Jamie Anderson shares secrets about Fireball XL5, we look at the Compton Cinema Organ and reels of Vespas.

Forget tea and biscuits, let's unzip a banana - who remembers the song? We look at how air travel has changed over the years, a reel of The Triumph Car Club and who remembers Reels on Rails?

Let's celebrate 'The Clippy' and The Bus Conductors. We've found the last episode of a Des O'Connor show one lady spots her father on TPTV, and we visit the Bournemouth Fire brigade in the 60s.

Come and meet us where the Roxy used to be, then, were you a member of The Bimbo Club? We look at Patricia Dainton's career and a reel of the 'dos and don'ts of living with parents when married'.

Join Mike and Noel as they unearth an old review show featuring Muriel Pavlow, then we get Fizzical and talk Pop, we go off on an exciting day out on a coach and who remembers Kunzle cakes?

We discuss ABC cinema trading cards, there's footage of a special open top bus ride from 1962, we have a special letter from the daughter of dear Ballard Berkeley and there's footage of crackers.

We go behind the scenes of Nettlefold Studios, watch the TA in action and on parade, sadly, it's goodbye to Noel's old school St Dominic's, Gospel Oak and who remembers their first wage packet?

We share a lost TV episode of The Alma Cogan show. Then, who remembers cardboard Milk Bottle Tops? There's a fascinating reel that belonged to George Collins and a reel of Autumn in times gone by.

We remember the good old-fashioned Barbers - anyone for Brylcreem? We present the lost series Glencannon, and we have more advice from Pete Murray and a host of stars on table manners.

We celebrate the 70th anniversary of Genevieve with a special guest, look at Dinah Sheridan at Pinewood, we have an exclusive reel of Marjory Cornelius, and look at the London to Brighton run.

4x37 95 Guy Fawkes & 60s TV history

  • 2023-11-05T00:00:00Z1h

Featuring footage of Guy Fawkes Nights from years gone by, and a rare piece of 1960s TV history.

4x38 96 Early Cinema Slides & Bloopers

  • 2023-11-12T00:00:00Z1h

Noel presents a glimpse behind the scenes on the series, plus some early cinema slides and continuity film bloopers.

2023-11-19T00:00:00Z

4x39 97 Baim Collection travel

4x39 97 Baim Collection travel

  • 2023-11-19T00:00:00Z1h

We're travelling across Britain cinematically, courtesy of the Baim Collection and curator, Richard Jeffs. Noel tells us about his meeting with rock royalty and who remembers the cockle man?

4x40 98 60s Cruises, Wine & Dave Mackay

  • 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z1h

Footage of cruises in the 1960s and serving wine in the 1970s. Plus, footballer Dave Mackay is spotted in Desert Mice with Sid James.

Footage of journalists covering the Second World War. Plus, a look back at owning a car in the 1960s and keeping warm during harsh winters.

2023-12-10T00:00:00Z

4x42 100 Peter Byrne Archive

4x42 100 Peter Byrne Archive

  • 2023-12-10T00:00:00Z1h

The show's 100th episode features a look at the private archives of Peter Byrne, with special footage, scripts and letters.

A special guest talks about advertising magazines. Plus, lost TV shows uncovered and a look back at winters in years gone by.

2023-12-24T00:00:00Z

4x44 102 Christmas

4x44 102 Christmas

  • 2023-12-24T00:00:00Z1h

Featuring a festive reel of Tommy Steele, and footage of parties, presents and shopping advice from Christmases gone by.

2023-12-31T00:00:00Z

4x45 103 New Year's Eve

4x45 103 New Year's Eve

  • 2023-12-31T00:00:00Z1h

Featuring footage of the Rolling Stones, and memories of Jamboree bags and the Packbeats.

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