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- Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
- CBS begins television transmission as W2XAB (later W2XAX, renamed WCBW in July 1941, WCBS since November 1946) with a variety program. The audio portion was broadcast on short wave radio station W2XE.
- The ghosts of various murder victims tell their terrifying and haunting stories.
- A young Englishman abroad, Michael, visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal protection racketeer targets a Chinese nightclub, and falls in love with the owner's young English foster-sister.
- A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
- The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town.
- After their car breaks down, two men-about-town and their girlfriends are obliged to spend a night in a manor house owned by the fearsome Lady Clara.
- A blackmailer with many enemies is murdered and his body placed in a trunk. A gentleman sleuth sets out to prove the innocence of a falsely accused man.
- Paul, artistically-inclined son of an American millionaire, moves to Paris where he can find inspiration and study the masters. While there, he finds inspiration of a different sort in the form of the beautiful Jacqueline.
- George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
- Bob, a railroad engineer on his final trip before retiring, deals with suspicions about his wife and fireman while transporting peculiar passengers. Unanticipated occurrences lead to unforeseen character interactions and resolutions.
- A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
- A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the Irish War for Independence in 1921.
- While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
- Secret information that might foil an enemy invasion is entrusted to a Naval commander alone.
- A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
- Soho's Cotton Club is proudly run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve's past, Joe had to be murdered. Steve was not going to have anyone destroy what had taken years to build.
- Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
- A waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman.
- J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the strange disappearance of 27 well-to-do people, who all vanished under similar circumstances.
- A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".
- Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
- Work colleagues Potty and Minnie (Stanley Lupino and Barbara Blair) marry in secret. Then on the wedding night they are sent to give financial advice to a wealthy client who also has romantic problems.
- A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- Margaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) faces trial by Coroner's Court, an archaic British institution where justice can't be guaranteed.
- An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
- Inept Secret Agent on a job in the South of France is followed by his suspicious wife. She masquerades as a maid and chaos ensues.
- Dedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. Hindering his investigation is pretty Ann Perryman who has been convinced by McGill that Bradley is responsible for her brother's death. In reality McGill has murdered her brother, which Bradley is trying to prove.
- Biopic of Victorian songwriter Leslie Stuart who achieved fame and international success as a composer of Edwardian musical comedy, but with the coming of the Jazz Age sank back into poverty and obscurity.
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- The homicidal maniac,who is strangling young women in London's West Side, is being sought by both Scotland Yard and a young reporter/writer, Penny Sutton. She had found one of the murder victims and had set out to get the story for both her newspaper, and for the thriller yarns she writes. The trail leads to an eccentric millionaire living under an assumed name. Penny uncovers enough evidence to convict the man, but a new clue turns up in time to save him and unmask the real killer.
- Contestants must perform an embarrassing stunt if they fail to answer a question correctly.
- A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
- Appearing are comedian Hank Henry, impressionist Jack Gilford, singer/actress Jean Casto, Spanish dancer Jose Fernandez, juggler Frank Martinet, and the roller skating Lightning Duo.
- "Men At Work" was a 1941-1942 television series. During any given show, viewers might watch singers, dancers, bicyclists, acrobats, roller skaters, and other entertainers.
- When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
- A pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
- The mastermind behind money stolen from an American bank takes it to London. He is then pursued by the gangsters he tried to cheat and have convicted Stateside, as well as by the Met Police.
- Family tensions arise after a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.
- During the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They will have an agent pose as Lord Buckley, who owns a large estate that Churchill frequently visits to "get away from it all", abduct Churchill with the help of Nazi agents and sympathizers already in England and take him back to Germany.
- During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
- Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
- Sweet innocent Moya arrives in Liverpool from her native Cork and immediately gets mixed up with handsome-but-dodgy Canadian seaman Tom. Both the rozzers and the bad guys are after him. Will true love prevail?
- One of television's first game shows. The host, John Reed King, supervised activities from various New York City supermarkets with the help of his assistant, Jimmy Brown. Riddles with a "jingle", puzzles for the audience to solve and other games were played.