Tudor Carry On’s ‘King great

TUESDAY

– ITV, 11.40pm

A WORLD without Carry On films would be a sad world indeed – and this is one of the best.

King Henry VIII plots to rid himself of his new French wife when her craving for garlic becomes too much to cope with.

However, he cannot afford to anger the king of France, and tries to make it look as if his queen has had an affair.

Comedy, starring all the greats: Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Terry Scott, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor. BEN Macintyre concludes his brilliant history of formation of the British Army special forces unit.

With David Stirling locked away in Colditz, Hitler’s most secure prison, the leadership of the SAS passed to Paddy Mayne, a man who built his reputation on the battlefield as a warrior of the first rank.

In 1943, the SAS leaves the desert for Europe to enter a darker and far more complex theatre of war, where they face the threat of execution and the trauma of civilian casualties, as well as being the first to witness the nightmare of Bergen- Belsen concentration camp. NEW series. Drama set in an alternate history of the WWII where Germany won the Battle of Britain and has gone on to occupy the UK.

In 1941, two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a nuclear scientist, under constant surveillance from the SS.

The arrival of an American journalist leaves one of the policemen convinced something more dangerous is at work – while a contact in a resistance movement reveals a threat to his own son.

IF, like me, you have absolutely no idea about what’s “going down” ( as I believe the young people say), in the Hit Parade these days, this is a good place to catch up. It will almost certainly feature nice – if rather shouty – young ladies in very...