Talking Pictures TV Wednesday

A look into the business of Christmas and the individuals who spend most of the year contributing to the festivities

Christmas special of the 1970s sitcom, starring Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles about the romance between two retired people, one from London and the other from Yorkshire

A journalist becomes the prime suspect when a rival is murdered, and fights to prove his innocence. Detective drama, starring Paul Carpenter and Hazel Court

Tributes to some of the stars who died during the last year

Three friends n a hunting trip play an ancient Chinese game that causes one of them to undergo a strange transformation

A detective is hired to dig up dirt on a rich man's wife, unaware that he is being set up to take the fall for her murder. Crime drama, starring Franchot Tone and Janet Blair

A girl goes to live with her stern aunt after the death of her father and her sunny nature has an astonishing effect on those around her. Heart-warming tale, starring Amanda Burton

Denhom Elliott stars in this adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story about a lonely signalman haunted by a spectral figure

Jill wonders if David is having an affair with Julie, and is asked by Brian to try and influence her husband into changing his mind on the Dover depot plan

Pantomime TV special from 1986, starring Danny La Rue as the Wicked Stepmother to Cheryl Baker's Cinderella

Stage performances from 1955, featuring Tessie O'Shea, Eddie Gray, Max Bygraves, Hattie Jacques and Jean Carson

A sailor returns from sea and embarks on a trail of vengeance after finding his wife has taken a lover. Comedy drama, starring James Booth and Barbara Windsor

Tributes to some of the stars who died during the last year

An old man is viciously assaulted on his doorstep, and Render and Braithwaite pursue the attackers across town and into the country

Vincent is forced to kill two militia members while trying to flee into the unoccupied zone - but the bodies are later found by a German patrol

A Roman slave gets mixed up in a planned assassination just as a nearby volcano is about to erupt. Comedy based on the TV series, with Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern

Bernard Hill stars in a dramatisation of the case of a Dutch art dealer in London, who was secretly a Czech spy on a mission to track down supporters of a dissident group

The inspector believes a man in custody for murder is innocent, so lets him go in the hope he will lead him to the real killer

Isabelle and Gilles put aside their differences to help Jacques flee the police and find Rose. Final episode of the drama. In French

A nymphomaniac heiress tries to change when she marries a kindly farmer, but struggles to control her desires for other men. Drama, with Suzanne Pleshette and Bradford Dillman

An amateur archaeologist awakens a vengeful spirit while investigating an ancient legend. Dramatisation of the ghost story, starring Peter Vaughan and Clive Swift

The role women play in the police force

International Rescue is called in to save a bank employee trapped in a time-lock vault set to remain closed for two years