Talking Pictures August 2020: For the Love of Ada, Shadows, Monty Nash and Stagecoach West

7 July 2020 Rob Buckley Classic TV, Talking Pictures, UK TV, US TV Post a comment
Shadows

An occasional look at what classic TV shows Talking Pictures (Sky 328 | Freeview 81 | Freesat 306 | Virgin 445) is going to be airing soon

There are plenty of ‘new’ shows starting on Talking Pictures in August. Details for the highlights of the first couple of weeks (it’s all I’ve got!), including For the Love of Ada, Shadows, Monty Nash and Stagecoach West, are after the jump.

For the Love of Ada

Starts: Tuesday, August 4, 5.30am (weekdays)

1970-1971 ITV sitcom that stars Irene Handl as Ada Cresswell, a Cockney widow, a pensioner who is prone to malapropisms. She lives with her daughter Ruth Pollitt (Barbara Mitchell) and son-in-law Leslie (Jack Smethurst). Ada starts a relationship with Walter Bingley (Wilfred Pickles), the gravedigger who buried her husband, after meeting him at the cemetery while laying flowers on her husband’s grave.

Shadows

Starts: Saturday, August 8, 7.25am (Saturday and Sunday – not week two for some reason)

British supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children.

Guest actors included John Nettleton, Gareth Thomas, Jenny Agutter, Pauline Quirke, Brian Glover, June Brown, Rachel Herbert, Jacqueline Pearce and Gwyneth Strong. The series was also notable for reviving the character of Mr Stabs.

Notable writers for the series included JB Priestley, Fay Weldon, PJ Hammond, Joan Aiken, Jacquetta Hawkes and Penelope Lively.

Stagecoach West

Starts: Saturday, August 8, 9.30am (Saturdays and Sundays)

Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series that ran for 38 episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Luke Perry (Wayne Rogers) and Simon Kane (Robert Bray) operate the Timberland Stage Line from Missouri to San Francisco. Simon’s 15-year-old son, David “Davey” Kane (Richard Eyer), joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and less sensational events as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnuwAlC-XcQ&list=PLSHyiJylJCkWjDmK391sZqZC1nXE438su

Monty Nash

Starts: Tuesday, August 11, 5am (weekdays)

American drama series that aired in syndication from 1971 to 1972 and was based on a series of spy novels by Richard Telfair. It centres on Monty Nash (Harry Guardino), a government investigator who went undercover to catch criminals, including counterfeiters and smugglers.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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