The Astonished Heart

12:40 on Monday 7th March on Channel 4.

Drawing-room melodrama about a married psychiatrist who succumbs to the wiles of another woman, an old schoolmate of his wife, with unhappy results.

Director: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher

Starring: Celia Johnson, Noel Coward, Margaret Leighton, Joyce Carey, Graham Payn, Amy Veness

(Subtitles, Black and White, 1949)



Nurse on Wheels

12:40 on Tuesday 08th March on Channel 4.

Peter Rogers and his wife Betty Box seem to have had an obsession with medical matters. She produced the popular Doctor series, while he was responsible for four hospital-based Carry Ons and this charming comedy that reunited him with Juliet Mills, who had played a nurse in the previous year's Twice round the Daffodils. As it was scripted by Norman Hudis and directed by Gerald Thomas, both of whom were Carry On regulars, it has its moments of broad humour, but old-fashioned family fun is to the fore as district nurse Mills encounters a range of eccentrics in a conservative farming village.

Directed by: Gerald Thomas

Juliet Mills, Joan Sims



Very Important Person

12:30 on Wednesday 9th March on Channel 4.

Lively comedy sending up British stiff-upper-lip prisoner-of-war dramas, starring James Robertson Justice as a bombastic scientist who ends up in a German POW camp during the Second World War. The inmates, led by Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter, are forced to help him escape.

Director: Ken Annakin

Starring: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Godfrey Winn

(Subtitles, Black and White, 1961)



Waking Ned

20:00 on Thursday 10th March on ITV2.

Gentle comedy in which a lottery winner in an Irish village dies of a heart attack upon hearing of his win - prompting a frantic race among the villagers to claim the money.

Director: Kirk Jones

Starring: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, James Nesbitt

(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999)



The Land Girls

19:30 on Friday 11th March on Channel 4.

Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel are three very different girls in the Land Army, the volunteer force that replaced agricultural workers called up for service in the Second World War. Sent to Tom Georgeson's Dorset farm, they all fall for his son Steven MacKintosh and the scene is set for romance, heartbreak and tragedy. David Leland's genuinely moving film evokes not just the spirit of the times but also the beautiful Dorset countryside in winter. Edited for violence and language.

Director: David Leland

Starring: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh, Tom Georgeson, Maureen O'Brien

(Subtitles, Widescreen, 1998)



Tomorrow Never Dies

20:00 on Friday 11th March on ITV1 London.

James Bond 007 action thriller in which a media baron sets about triggering World War III so that his 24-hour news network can profit from exclusive coverage of the conflict. As an international crisis looms, Bond is shaken from his extracurricular duties and stirred into action.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Ricky Jay, Götz Otto

(Widescreen, Subtitles, Stereo, Audio Described, 1997)



Where's Jack?

00:05 on Sunday 13th March on BBC 2.

An exciting historical adventure charting the career of the infamous highwayman Jack Sheppard. With his brother facing the gallows, young Jack is himself forced into a life of crime as a burglar for the notorious villain Jonathan Wild. But soon Jack's daring escapades make him a prime target for the hangman.

Director: James Clavell

Starring: Stanley Baker, Fiona Lewis, Tommy Steele, Alan Badel, Sue Lloyd, Dudley Foster

(Subtitles, 1969)