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- Generous but broke Henry Popple suddenly finds he always has a pound note in his pocket.
- An American pilot in the WW2 Pacific Theater crash lands in 1942. He awakens on an unknown island where the residents are from many countries. They have been out of touch with civilization since 1939 so they know nothing of the war.
- A small island always welcomes the day when the ship arrives with goods, but on this particular day they need a doctor.
- A minor bureaucratic functionary in a soulless totalitarian regime is ashamed of his tattered overcoat. He scrimps to save money for a new one, and the new one changes his life. He is suddenly respected, admired, and valued, and when the new coat is stolen, his life becomes worse than it was before. He goes against the bureaucracy in hopes of getting the government to help him get his coat, and discovers that he can no longer accept the world he lives in as it is.
- When a group of East German refugees arrive at an Allied border crossing, the C.O. receives word that one of the refugees is a dangerous spy. The C.O. must ferret out the spy or lose his command.
- Neglected little girl whose parents are in a bad marriage befriends an old man who is being evicted from his flat. She finds shelter for the old man in a bombed-out London building.
- Karoff, the once-great knife thrower, is down and out after he killed his previous assistant during his act. When a blind girl comes to Karoff willing to be his new assistant, he begins to get his confidence back.
- A thwarted attempt to steal a passport leads to the meeting of three strange people in a French border town: Hank who lives only for himself, Tommy, a criminal desperate to get an American passport and Teresa, a beautiful Italian girl.
- Slottery is the richest man in British North Borneo but he is ostracised by the other settlers. When an attractive girl asks him for an advance on a valuable diamond watch, he sees a chance to get back at them.
- A general in a South American revolutionary army makes his brother head of the university.
- 1953–195730m6.0 (26)TV EpisodeBulldog Drummond is contacted by a Mrs Harriet Ludlow, wife of an old friend; her husband has invented a new antibiotic formula potentially worth a fortune, but he has been kidnapped and held for ransom. Drummond sets out to prevent the formula from reaching the hands of the villains -- with or without his client's co-operation!
- In an unspecified but occupied Iron Curtain capital, not far from the border, Rudi is on the run following a change-of-policy broadcast. But where can he run?
- Two gypsy children escape from a refugee camp and are taken in by a kindly baron.
- David and Phyllis Butler call their eight-year-old daughter "Miss Mitty" because in the secret world of her imagination she is so many different people, never just Susan Butler. However, they are worried because she seems incapable of distinguishing between the truth and falsehood. When she comes home with the story of a man who jumped out of the hedge with a pair of scissors and tried to snip off her pigtails, they don't know whether or not she is telling the truth.
- After pleading his innocence, Villon is offered refuge from the searching authorities by an old soldier. During the night an incident causes the soldier to regret his decision. Villon has until the morning light to prove he is an honest man.
- When Susan Braden, a young doctor, joins a medical mission in Malaya, she is appalled by the harsh methods employed by Doctor Lambert, the old fashioned doctor in charge of the mission. She decides to take action.
- Handsome Canadian pilot Hugh Ross gets badly injured and facially burned during a test flight. His injuries are being treated and plastic surgery will help restore his face, but he is reluctant to see his pretty wife again.
- Visiting Heidelberg, Sam, an American, is challenged to a duel by Franz, one of the best swordsmen in Europe. But the weapons Sam selects for the duel are unusual.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Claire is told she only has a short time to live. She calls her husband and best friend to her side and says they should marry after as she can see they are growing attached to each other. Then comes news about a drug from Canada which can cure her.
- Hank Steiger, a brilliant electronic engineer, is vague and impractical. When his wife discovers that she is going to have a baby, she decides that he must change his ways and start making money. However, she doesn't reckon on the awful change that money-making will have on him.
- When a former American gangster retires to his native Italy, he finds its not that easy to escape from his past.
- Captain Hugh Diamond, a Special Branch officer, tracks an agent of a South American monarchist party on a ship from Tangiers bound for London. The agent, Felipe Nagy, and his female accomplice plan to steal the Crown of Destiny from the Trafalgar museum, where it is on show. They plan then to return it to a South American republic and exploit it to destabilise the country. When Diamond is knocked unconscious by Nagy, the latter succeeds in stealing the crown. His plot to smuggle the crown out of the country by helicopter is foiled by Diamond with the help of Ronnie, a photographer.
- A small Greek guerrilla band operates in the mountains above an important road. Dimitrios is a member of the gang, and his lone wolf tactics are not very popular. The other members decide to do a little investigating.
- It seems a routine, uneventful train journey on the Orient Express from Paris to Milan. But some of the passengers are strange people.
- Two young strangers bump into each other at a house that is for sale. Both determined to buy it, both for different reasons.
- Duncan is an American college student living in a rooming house with his rather plain country wife Alice. He does not realise how unhappy she feels when she sees the pretty girls around her.
- A young doctor feeling his feet in a new town is suddenly drawn to a doll in a shop window.
- It's Carol's first day in her first job: secretary at an advertising agency. However, she didn't realise what exciting - and amusing - events it was to bring her.
- What would you do if you found that the plane you were travelling in was flying on the automatic pilot and all members of the crew drugged into insensibility? This is the problem which faces a young air hostess travelling from Basra to London. Only another pilot can cope with this, and the only man available is a badly injured, neurotic man on his way home to face a Court of Inquiry.
- Miss Ellen is responding to a job advertisement for the position of a house keeper in a lighthouse. When she gets to the lighthouse to apply for the job, she is welcomed by the current housekeeper, Mrs. Murdock, who tells her that the lighthouse keeper has some "foolish notions."
- Among the visitors to the Tower of London comes Captain Mark Conyers, USAF. A crest on one of the walls of a cell resembles the crest on a ring he wears. In his imagination, he goes back to the cell in the time when Oliver Cromwell was Lord Protector of England.
- An archduke romances four lovely Venetian ladies. The only problem is their suspecting husbands, who join forces to trap him.
- A middle aged woman sees murder done. She is determined to help justice and calls the police. She then discovers the identity of the killer and finds she is more deeply involved than she thought.
- A Canadian insurance salesman marries an American girl with trepidation.
- Wanda, a young Frenchwoman, is haunted by a prediction that she will die before she is 30. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Pete, a young American student, fights to save her from her obsession.
- The captain of an escort of Canadian corvettes does not return from a convoy battle. His grief stricken wife refuses to believe that her husband is dead and is determined to find out what really did happen.
- A mother and father in a working class village in Wales await the arrival of their son who is being released from prison after serving a two-year sentence. The man, however, has written to his parents saying that he may go to London instead of returning home. The couple wait anxiously at home to see what their son will do.
- Murder and romance do not mix, and Peg and Dick Hardy witness a murder just at the wrong time - on the first evening of their honeymoon.
- Down and out trumpeter Johnny Blue is offered the chance to play a mysterious trumpet with a warning that he must never hit the highest note or the world will suffer.
- When forced into exile, the King and Queen of Sabinia are comforted by their love for each other. Their adventures in exile, and the difficult decision that they have to make is told in this tale.
- Martha reflects on her life as she awaits in her prison cell.
- Timothy and Henry, two brothers, live in a small American town. Timothy has two main aims in life: one, to look after his brother as he promised his mother; the other to become an outstanding cook. However, a mix-up of recipes and romance leads to misunderstandings galore.
- A lovelorn shop assistant, dressing the window with Scottish tweed, dreams of how he would pursue his lady love, if he were the dashing Lochinvar.
- Walter McHarry, a miserly Scots grocer, does not approve of his son's romance with Maureen, the daughter of the feckless Paddy O'Clafferty. However, the Irishman knows a way of making the old skinflint change his mind.
- After an accident, Charlie finds his powers of hearing have miraculously increased to a point that he is hearing things he does not want to hear.
- A famous bullfighter faces shame and financial ruin after he looses his nerve. Through love a rich and beautiful American girl offers him a way out.
- Two women, one man. And it seems he has to marry one of them. Unfortunately, he asks them to decide who is to be the bride, and that sort of decision can create a lot of friction between sisters.
- Sullivan is a professional blackmailer, a crook and a murderer whose domestic affairs are not going too well. Another man hires him to kill someone else's husband - which turns out to be himself.
- In the early 20th Century, a French Foreign Legion fort is under siege by North African tribesman.
- Two gangsters, Harry Jordan and Jimmy Fraser, are on the run from the police. They decide to call on a wealthy aunt of Jimmy's whom they have never met. Jimmy never manages to see his aunt but Harry does - and a frightened Harry wishes that he never had.
- Pandora Lexington goes to great lengths to break up her young sister's association with an older man. Strangely, he seems to enjoy Pandora's efforts to make his life unbearable.
- Myra, a young American school teacher, meets a fascinating black market money-changer in Paris in the spring.
- The small Bavarian village of Katzenhausen boasts an unusual attraction in Kurt "Scarface" Remo, a deported American Public Enemy No. 1, now restricted to the confines of his birthplace for the remainder of his days. The quiet of the village is shattered when an American newpaperwoman arrives there to interview the former gangster - and uncovers the most fantastic story of her career.
- Christmas visitors to Ricky Wagner finds he insists on living sparsely on a tropical island. What is stopping him and his wife returning to civilization?
- Fred Waldman has set a time bomb to go off in the night at his workplace, but on his way home he gets a nasty surprise.
- Clinton Farley was once a famous playwright and now he's planning his comeback. However,0 many people are going to get hurt because his leading lady is going to ruin her reputation by playing the part that he creates for her.
- At a seldom visited art museum, a lonely old couple share a love for a particular landscape.
- The obsession with rare butterflies leads the captain and his men further and further into a jungle they may not be able to escape from.
- Nicol Pascal (Marius Goring) is a retired ballet star who now runs a ballet school with his wife, former prima ballerina Nanette (Lucie Mannheim). Nicol has become obsessed with his young star pupil, Marguerite (Maureen Swanson) leading to conflict with his wife and their old friend, impresario Vanderhof (Frederick Valk). Marguerite, has had a crush on her teacher since she saw him dance in ther teens and things come to a head when Nicol contemplates a comeback to the dance stage after more than 10 years.
- An American newspaper reporter in Munich, Steve, scents a good story when Riley, an American steel magnate, flies in with his daughter to meet Dr Shaeffer. The story is even better than he expected but also very different.
- The city of Baghdad in the days of the Arabian Nights endures a reign of terror when the ruler, Shayer. discovers that his wife has been unfaithful. Following the executions of his wife and her lover, Shayer has taken more than 700 of Islam's most beautiful women for his brides. However, because he believes that the only chaste wife is a dead one, he has all of his wives beheaded the morning after the wedding. He then meets Scheherezade.
- A happily married middle aged couple learn that their young married daughter is about to have a baby. The prospect of becoming grandparents makes them take stock of their lives. In the midst of making plans for retirement and travel, the wife makes an unexpected discovery which results in a complete upheaval.
- A young American doctor performs an operation on the artist's wife but she dies. The artist then decides to take revenge on the doctor's girlfriend.
- Mark Terry, an American talent scout in Paris, hears of an unknown singer in a small night club. He endeavours to further her career, but becomes ensnared by his own ruthlessness.
- George Bailey is normally a calm man who never gets angry, one day a wrongly dialed phone number changes all that.
- Dan, an insurance agent, is about to take his dog for its nightly walk when his wife comments bitterly upon their monotonous life of routine. Little do they realise that their dull lives are shortly to be involved with murder.
- A man, hidden in an attic without food for six days, suffers hallucinations. In this state, an apple seems more valuable and desirable than a suitcase full of money.
- A famous writer is best man at his friend's wedding. He is in love with the girl himself and decides to wreck the marriage. He sets about his evil plan - with very strange results.
- Tom O'Farrell, a New York moneylender, wants to find Kathleen, an Irish girl, whom he has treated badly. However, the priest who knows where she is says that he will not tell Tom until he proves he is worth helping.
- Two children find a secret room in a huge house which has a strange clock. The clock has only one hand.
- In an Eastern Bloc country, a firing squad is doing its duty executing enemies of the state. When the shooting is over, one of the soldiers goes to check on the bodies of the executed men. To his surprise, he sees that one of them, Michael Turbin, is still alive.
- After a chance meeting in a Berlin park, a new life begins for a pretty German girl orphaned in World War II. Is it to be a life of happiness - or of terror?
- Paul Nueller, a slow-witted merchant seaman, returns after fifteen years to the Austrian village that nicknamed him "Dunce." He has come to avenge the death of his sole benefactor, found dead in the street six months before. His old persecutors and his fists soon land him in trouble.
- A five-pound note changes hands nine times in London, affecting the life of each person who touches it.
- A young woman discovers her grandfather owns the true Aladdin's lamp.
- Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian artist and inventor, dreams of conquering space. He engages the help of a young student who, if his experiments are a success, will be the first man on Earth to fly.
- The very happy McBains put on an act for others that they are an arguing, sour couple. However, their new neighbors become concerned as they take the act rather too seriously.
- A man from Texas arrives at a shipping office with an old letter. Had Morgan (a partner in the office) known what was in it earlier it would have changed his life.
- The story of an unselfish woman's efforts to protect her simple-minded sister from reality, the reality which could end her dream-world and even her life.
- A Polish man plans to jump ship as it reaches London and make a new life. However, on board the ship, there might be someone who will thwart his plans and report him to the authorities. Konrad ponders on who that might be.
- Baron von Eisson has never left his ancient castle in Austria and does not intend ever to do so. However, the baron is hard up, the castle is falling into ruin and the wages are unpaid. Then comes a letter. If he will go to Berlin, his fortunes will be saved. The baron starts to make fantastic preparations for his long journey to Berlin, where his black sheep brother has disgraced the family by becoming a successful businessman.
- Scientist George Griffin finds that his invention of a miracle drug brings him not only world wide fame, but renewed attention from his sister. She decides to re-mould his life to her own ends.
- Julia sacrificed everything to be a success in Hollywood. On returning home to Hamburg, she is offered second rate work in Munich. She does not need to take it but Munich is the home of her estranged husband and daughter.
- A gangster on the run from both his men and the police hides in a judge's house the last place anyone would look.
- Grace, a devoted nurse of many years, receives a doctor's report that turns her life upside down.
- Angie has promised her young daughter that they will find a lovely place where they will be together and live happily. But how can it be a really lovely place without the man of the family?
- Will Porter has never been a minute late on his milk round for ten years and now his employers have arranged a presentation for him. So has his wife.
- A young girl finds 400 dollars on a park bench and her father hands the money to the police. However, if the money is not claimed within 90 days, it will be his.
- Arthur's skill at slicing meat in the grocery store where he works suddenly causes a major crisis in the small town where he lives.
- An 18-year-old boy believes that he has committed a murder. He panics and as a result there is nearly a second tragedy.
- Megan buys a new dress and goes on holiday after her husband is missing presumed dead in a mining accident. She meets Ted who helps her enjoy life again. However, courtesy of the dress, her miserable first marriage comes back to haunt her.
- Ben works for a loan company whose policy it is not to provide loans to their employees. When his wife is expecting a child, he is driven to desperate measures.
- The Selincourts buy a house they discover is haunted by the scream of a woman in agony. While out one day, Mr Selincourt hears a strange story which causes him to rush home as quick as he can.
- Special agent Dick Bosworth travels to Eastern Europe in search of a missing American journalist, Ben Cummings.
- A woman is waiting in a isolated snow bound cabin. She is suppose to be meeting her lover and he is the only one who knows she is there.
- Pan Yusef, the ruthless leader of a band of revolutionaries, becomes incensed when the inhabitants of a small village ignore him.
- A surgeon discovers that he is going to be operating on his wife's lover.
- A young couple struggling to live on a low income suddenly bump into an old friend who gives them a new prospective on life.
- The story of John Malcolm, curator of an American museum, and his journey to Urbano to search for part of a valuable altar screen. It is a journey which takes him into the past - to wartime and the company of smugglers and brings him face-to-face with murder.
- Rachel Carver has just been released after three years' imprisonment in China. Physically, she is healthy; mentally, she feels a little unbalanced and afraid of the outside world. However, there must come a day when she has to face that world, and when it comes, she'll have to face it alone.
- Mary with her fiance now has to face visiting an old house she has feared since she was young, her aunt lives there but is now dying.
- Gribble has to contend with the wrath of his girlfriend when he breaks a date to work late. It's during that evening at work that he spots an opportunity to make a fortune but someone may have to die for it.
- A young boy runs away when he learns that his father is about to remarry.
- Royal Belfont, a U.S. war hero and Air Force General, whose hobby is mountaineering, celebrates his retirement into civilian life by taking his 15 year-old son, Tony, on a climbing holiday in the Bavarian Alps. Tony hero worships his famous father and is desperately anxious not to disappoint him. He dare not confess that he suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights, but determines to try and conquer his fear secretly.
- On a Saturday afternoon in Rome, a boy and girl pass on the Spanish Steps, each alone in a city pairing off for the evening. Throughout the day, their paths cross and recross.
- The source of a Margaret's guilt and continuing distress lies in an empty room which is about to reveal it's secrets.
- A pearl necklace worth nothing, a bargain sale, and pangs of conscience. These are the things that Mrs Mintern has to contend with when she finds a necklace in the litter at the store where she works, a necklace which proves to be very troublesome.
- The villagers of Tickelmacloragh are staggered to find out that their most eligible bachelor is really married but they are willing to let the lady in question welcome.
- Two spinsters receive a letter from their nephew asking for a loan.
- 1953–1957TV Episode
- Rock Richard, a once top-name jazz pianist, is making a comeback after a year of not doing very well. Delta, his girlfriend, has gotten him the chance - but she wasn't reckoning on a teenage fan ruining her plans.
- A family wants to exploit the celebrity opportunities of having a 105 year old relative. But the old woman just wants to be left in peace and quiet.
- When Edmund P Jossop, a Canadian financier, buys a castle in Scotland, there is one feature of the place not listed in the inventory- the resident ghost. The third Earl of Ballantyre has waited 350 years for the perfect woman and now that he has found her, the course of true love is not running smoothly. No wonder his patience is exhausted.
- Gideon, a young poacher, wants to marry Betsy, a farmer's daughter. He seems doomed to failure until a gypsy gives him a love potion to be mixed with a hair from Betsy's head. Betsy's young brother supplies the hair- without revealing that it came from his father's cow.
- Mountie Warren wanted his man - at any price. But how could he leave an exhausted man to die in a blizzard, even though he were guilty of murder?
- Con Cregan sees his golden opportunity when crusty old farmer Henry McCabe quarrels with his son Shamus.
- US Counter Intelligence Officer Bill Campbell stumbles upon the identity of a gang of counterfeiters. However, Campbell is in love with an Austrian girl, a girl desperately in need of money.
- Paul and Victor are Canadian cousins living in London and jointly owning a family business which Paul, the more businesslike of the two, handles. Victor is an artist and he suffered a head wound during World War II. Suddenly, curious things begin to happen to Victor which make him wonder if his brain has been affected.
- Young David sets out to find his mother who left him and his father while he was still a baby.
- Peter Prentiss thinks that he has rescued Patricia from a cad in Monte Carlo but comes to realise that she is quite capable of taking care of herself.
- Navy wives often have to live a lonely, anxious life. Joan has been a sailor's fiancé for three years, and now a message has come for her to join Bill in Malta. She flies out, happy that at last she can be married but once again duty is about to upset her plans.
- Alone in a strange dark room, Laura watches terrified as the door swings slowly open - to admit death.
- A smell of gas. A room broken into by neighbours fearing the worst. However, the couple who rent the room are not to be found. The policeman who calls to investigate asks a lot of questions, but nobody's story fits in with anybody else's story. What can the confused man do next?
- Alastair Duncan imagines himself to be the star witness for the police in a hold-up. The results are almost disastrous for himself and his loyal and adoring grandson.
- A young scientist is at first grateful for the guide he is given to show him to his new isolated posting in the mountains.However this later turns to alarm when his guide shows signs of manic depression with suicidal tendencies.
- Elopement to Gretna Green in the 1880s was an adventure. Much could happen to travellers on the road.
- Mike Shannon, a widower, lives with his young son Brian in a cottage in the Irish midlands. When Molly arrives on the scene, the boy resents Mike's interest in her and tries to break up his father's new romance.
- An down-on-his-luck race handicapper touts a beautiful American into buying losing thoroughbred but changes heart and tries to train it to be a winner.
- At an 1840 auction, Roberts bids furiously on an old desk that holds a dark secret.
- A man waiting to be hanged, desperately waits for further evidence.
- Jealous of the bride's beauty, Colonel Anna Marova swears to smash the marriage at all costs.
- Hairdresser Raphael is popular with all the aging ladies in the neighborhood. But one day a new client notices a disturbing pattern among Raphael's clientele -- they are getting robbed and some are even turning up dead.
- Stephen Young has lived for three years on a primitive island in the East Indies. He is lazy and selfish and makes his living beachcombing. But now a new interest comes into his life. Two women are in love with him, and he makes the most of this interesting situation - until he finds that he has released a force that he cannot control.
- Joey Anderson is an American merchant seaman who has signed off his ship in Tangier. He goes into a bar on the waterfront, but there is something wrong with his drink. When he recovers consciousness, he finds that someone has tattooed a scorpion on the back of his left hand. Why should anyone do this?
- Joe was the first man in Ohio to join the army after Pearl Harbor and he became his town's hero. Now, he is married and is about to go to Europe, the scene of his deeds of valour.
- Sam Harper finds an unpublished manuscript by a long dead writer and decides to pass it off as his own. He finds his newfound fame a double edged sword as he attracts a ghostly female companion.