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- An American gambler on a trans-Atlantic liner goes into the pool that bets on how far ship sails each day. Expecting bad weather, he bets a low distance, but then the weather fines up. He must come up with a plan to slow the ship down.
- 1979–198825mTV-146.9 (234)TV EpisodeSuzy and Pat are struggling actresses in a touring company. Herbert's a wealthy, middle-aged widower, who puts money into the production and falls for Suzy, who snaps up the expensive gifts he gives her. They get married but she is only using him and is having affairs with other men, leading Herbert to request a divorce.
- Jack comes home after a year away only to announce to Joanna that they are finished and he is moving to Australia.
- Mary discovers her husband is having an affair so has a life-changing makeover.
- Calculating Janet reckons she will benefit from helping 'Man with a fortune' John Smith find out about his ancestors.
- Frank Jesmond is on hard times and in danger of losing his family when a man named Laughlin gives him a job as a hitman, the mark being Peter Madison, a school contemporary of Frank who has done very well for himself in the States and is back on a visit. Frank arrives at Peter's hotel and introduces himself, and, for old times sake, the two men go to Peter's room for a drink. As they talk, Frank's purpose starts to waver and he finds himself susceptible to a new deal.
- A con artist travels the countryside, telling unsuspecting elderly people their valuable art treasure's worthless. He meets Hazel, whose son's struggling to keep on their run-down old farm, he thinks he can get her to part with an Old Master for nothing.
- Claire Hawksworth and her boyfriend Dave are struggling to keep up the payments on their Caribbean hotel and had always counted on Claire's wealthy Aunt Alicia leaving her all her money. However, Alicia informs the couple that she is changing her will in favour of her new grand-child. The pair decide that Alicia should meet with an unfortunate swimming accident before the will can be altered and duly despatch her. However, they had reckoned without a letter Alicia had sent to her solicitor.
- Yves Drouard is a wealthy man but his marriage has gone stale. His wife Marthe has been unable to have children and she, like him, is being unfaithful. Yves' mistress Violette is younger and has just announced that she is pregnant. Yves decides he will kill his wife by rigging up an explosive device which will go off if she tries to leave the building. But then he changes his mind. . .fatally.
- Arnold Bourdon has a habit of falling for his disabled wife's attractive home helps. Can Mrs Bourdon find one without a sunny disposition?
- Steve and Jane are a couple of thieves who travel the country pretending to be market researchers for Silvertone metal polish whilst they find suitable homes to burgle. In a hotel bar they meet the eccentric old Percy, who, despite his tatty appearance, is rumoured to have a hidden fortune. The couple decide to break into his house but Percy has caught an earlier bus home and surprises them. He will cause them more trouble than they could have imagined.
- Surgeon James loves his orchids and other ladies. A trip to America gives him and his wife an opportunity for improvements.
- Jack and Edna's pet parrot dies after laying an unusually large egg which hatches out into a very ugly and fairly large black bird. Initially it does not speak but Jack comes to like it, unlike his wife. Jack suspects Edna of infidelity and comes to see the bird as an ally who will check up on her behaviour for him. Needless to say he is in for a surprise.
- Myra is an actor and the face--but not the voice--of Blue Marigold perfume, which leads to feelings of dejection.
- When Nell invites Emma to come to visit she realizes she is a 'friend in need'.
- Whilst winding up his late father's affairs for his invalid mother Paul Standing comes across an invoice from a London book-shop and goes to meet the owners, the Carey brothers, who claim that Paul's father owes them money for pornographic books they sent him. In fact the brothers are crooks who scour the obituary columns for the names of deceased worthies and then hit their relatives with the lie that the dead man owed them for erotic reading material, knowing that the ignorant next of kin will pay up to avoid a scandal. However Paul and his mother invite the Careys to their house and greet them with a shot-gun and some very incontrovertible news that certainly scuppers the proposed scam.
- A husband and wife each greedily make plans to get as much as they can from their divorce.
- High-flying Oliver has a scam to make his firm, and himself, rich. Can death add?
- Newly married young wife Karen seeks to discover and overcome a malign presence in her new abode.
- Chief Inspector McLintock sets up WPC Mary Bryan as a decoy to catch a serial killer.
- Hearing from his old friend Gladys Ponsonby of the talented if unconventional artist John Roydon, art dealer Lionel gets Roydon to visualize Lionel's fiancee Janet nude and paint her accordingly. Janet, however, does not see the joke, for which Lionel pays bitterly, in the literal sense.
- 1979–198824mTV-146.7 (188)TV EpisodeSim and Bob find their friend David filling a hole in his cellar and conclude he has killed and buried his wife.
- 1979–198826mTV-145.9 (174)TV EpisodeGerry T Armstrong is on holiday in England, revisiting some of the places he saw when he was a young GI. The old dance hall is now a tawdry nightclub but Gerry is still looking for a girl he met there during the war. Why does he become increasingly desperate as the night drags on?
- A musically appreciative stray cat comes between an elderly husband and wife.
- Legal secretary Frances is having an affair with Pharmacist John Burge and is tiring of him not leaving his wife. Can John come up with a professional solution to the problem?
- American Stephen Baker has cracked open many a safe in his time but he now lives a peaceful existence with his Arab wife Soroya in her native country. The local police come to the house and arrest him for a crime he swears he did not do and take him to meet two Scotland Yard detectives with a view to his extradition. Soroya has to think fast to come up with a plan to convince the police that her husband is innocent.
- On a train journey William Perkins is convinced that the passenger seated opposite him is 'Galloping' Foxley, who made his life a misery when they were at school together and relives the unpleasant experience before the stranger identifies himself.
- In 1889, Austrian customs officer Alois is desperate his wife Klara will pull through a difficult labour and both she and baby will survive.
- Attractive vicar George Duckworth had an unusual childhood which leads to problems with the insatiable spinsters of his parish.
- In New York to promote his new book 'Women Weeping', British author Sam Luke jauntily dismisses claims that it is sexist in a television interview. However, when he returns to his hotel suite unpleasant things start to happen. A phone caller rings to say "Have a nice death," after which a package containing one of his books arrives and explodes upon opening. Sam is starting to get scared. If only he was at home with his wife everything would be all right. Wouldn't it?
- One of rich uncle George's identical nephews has murdered him. How can the sheriff identify the guilty one?
- A plane is hijacked by a mysterious man.
- Dr. Roger Ashburn is heart-broken when his beloved but selfish wife Mary leaves him, in highly public fashion, leaving her wedding ring to be found during a dinner party Roger is giving for a colleague and his wife. In order to get his life back together he decides to get a job in a hospital in a different town, to make a new start. Then, one day, an all too familiar patient is brought in. . .
- 1979–198826mTV-145.6 (133)TV EpisodeGarment manufacturer Harry Elton is in big trouble. Thanks to his business partner Marvin's lack of foresight in predicting the next season's fashions, he stands to lose all his cash and face bankruptcy. But Harry likes it in the town of Wilmington, where he and his wife Roberta enjoy a very good life-style. He does not want to see it go. However, if his wife 'went' and he collected on her life insurance policy, he could maintain his comfortable existence. . .
- Unhappily married Roland needs to finance eye surgery for his girlfriend but what benefit would his wife see in it?
- Sam is an expert safe cracker - 'a professional'. His accomplice, however, is an anxious amateur.
- Charlie comes to town without a cent, and he and fortune teller Myra look for a fortune.
- Artist Graham is dejected after continual exploitation by a gallery owner. Meeting a waitress gives him new life.
- When her policeman husband Patrick callously announces that he is leaving her, Mary Marney hits and kills him with the frozen leg of lamb she has bought for their dinner. Thinking quickly, she calls his colleagues, claiming that she came in from the shops and found him dead. Whilst they speculate over what kind of weapon killed him she considers how to dispose of the evidence.
- Ralph Stackpole runs a glove factory but gloves are being stolen on a regular basis, throwing suspicion on all those employed there, including Cotter, his designer. Henry brings in Semple, a private detective who comes up with a plan to trap the thief and at breakfast Henry explains it to his usually disinterested wife Joan. As a consequence stolen items start to crop up in the most unlikely places.
- 1979–198825mTV-145.3 (240)TV EpisodeMr Botibol is socially inept and, by his own admission, a failure. But he's a rich man who has dreams of being a great conductor.
- Elly Somerton is working for the summer as a hotel receptionist. She is intrigued by Max Kelada, a roguish archeology professor who is disarmingly honest with her about the tricks he uses to get women into bed. But when a rival of Kelada attempts to humiliate him, it turns out that Mr Know-All may not he the heartless seducer he professes to be.
- 1979–198825mTV-147.1 (451)TV EpisodeUnable to show her dentist husband Cyril the fur coat her lover has given her Mrs. Bixby pawns it and pretends that she found the ticket. She gives it to Cyril to redeem on her behalf but is taught that two can play at her game when he comes home with rather less than she expected, and she sees that his dental assistant will be warm for the winter.
- The Beauchamps have invited a young couple stay with them and Pamela Beauchamp has an idea to spice up her life.
- Invited to a weekend house party by Sir Basil Turton and his younger wife Natalia, John Bannister is struck by the lady's infidelity. She tries to undo his pyjamas and is plainly having an affair with another guest Major Haddock. Jelks, Sir Basil's loyal butler, has also noticed and when Natalia gets her head stuck in an abstract sculpture he knows precisely how to cut her down to size.
- 1979–198825mTV-147.2 (192)TV EpisodeA couple argue whether they are being overcharged in a remote gas station. The old banger has the final say.
- A driver picks up a hitch-hiker, perhaps not the wisest thing to do when the radio is full of the news of serial murderer the 'Will-o-the-Wisp' killer and the description given of him fits that of the hitcher. Furthermore the passenger seems quite obsessed with the killer to the driver's discomfort. He even knows how many victims there have been. Or does he?
- Holdwell Safes do a publicity stunt featuring a top safe-cracker but now he has changed career.
- 'Parson' Cyril Boggis has a method of getting antiques on the cheap. - Maybe too cheap.
- A man desperate to divorce his wife takes drastic action to rid himself of her.