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- Charles Drummond thought he had it made, with an understanding wife and a talented artistic mistress.But when he asked his mistress to paint his mother he had not taken into account the sisterhood, and discovers his habits and foibles provide extensive conversation and much merriment amongst the women.
- University educated Audrey Inskip is tired of life in the RAF and particularly the constant attention of her senior office. During an afternoon in a pub she become intrigued by Bill Hemmings, a failed salesman who supplies toppings.
- The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This could be Callan's last chance to prove he's still a worthy agent.
- Mother's boy Albert finally rebels, and goes to a works party. But things start to go wrong when he is accused of molesting a female colleague.
- A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.
- 1956–19741h8.0 (13)TV EpisodeTwo partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.
- Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken her engagement but is attracted to one of the servants, Jean. They spend the midsummer night together, telling each other their memories and of their dreams. Realizing that an affair between a man of the people and an aristocrat is impossible, they plan to escape to Switzerland.
- A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.
- Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
- Essentially a piece about wife and husband swapping, partially used for revenge.
- A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.
- Nobody takes Edward seriously causing him to seek attention by regularly visiting the police station to confess to the latest murder. However a new guest at his landlady's house is about to give him all attention he seeks.
- June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference she is visited and interrogated her about her past. June begins to put things together and fears Sage in a spy.
- As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.
- A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
- A short tempered Irishman returns home after his brother was hanged for murder during a robbery. Though at first determined he was actually innocent, family and friends slowly convince him otherwise.
- Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.
- A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.
- Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.
- Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest with full honours, but only the president and a few high officials know just what sort of a man their hero was.
- A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.
- A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently reveals to his boss that he has been fraudulently claiming expenses.
- Robert and Claire are troubled that their home is also housing somebody else they don't know.
- In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.
- Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.
- When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
- Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean?
- After a London premiere, a psychologically troubled Hollywood starlet in a luxury hotel suite meets several men, including a critic, an agent, a bell hop and a photographer, desperately seeking understanding.
- A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
- Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
- With the help of her sister and daughter, Mrs Davenport lures her husband's lover to her country house. However the girl denies ever having met him, and Mrs Davenport begins to doubt herself.
- Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.
- Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.
- Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
- A dangerous game of oneupmanship develops between three women - a wife, her mother, and her mother-in-law - when they gather around the newest born addition to the family.
- Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.
- Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.
- Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - he's now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.
- 1956–19746.8 (42)TV EpisodeIn this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
- Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.
- After his wife miscarries, a doctor hires on a private live-in nurse to look after her. As their marriage becomes more strained, the relationship between the two women becomes increasingly close.
- An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.
- A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.
- Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.
- An elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors.
- An aging businessman's squabbling children object to his proposed marriage to his much younger assistant, and each for his or her own selfish reasons manoeuvres against it.
- The peace of an aristocratic cricketing weekend at a large English country mansion in the early 20th century is disturbed when the wayward Bohemian son of the owning family returns unexpectedly to claim his inheritance.
- A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.
- An agent invites his young starlet to a party so she can meet all the right people and have a chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and possible stardom. However while she is there, she realizes that there is a price to pay.
- Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellowes in the bedroom and calls Dr Clarkeson, but finds his behaviour very strange.
- Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together. the more their age difference becomes a rift between them.
- Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.
- An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medical Corps major assigned to investigate his case.
- Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.
- Two well meaning spinsters plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint.
- The night before the wedding, the Bride-to-be can't stop worrying about foolish doubts about her future husband, keeping her parents up all night. Meanwhile, the Groom is having second thoughts as his flatmate and a party girl distract him.
- A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.
- Pompous film director David lives a boring life with his children's books writer wife Hilary but also has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline she decides to befriend her and then update him.
- When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case will likely have consequences for the policeman and his family.
- A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles as the authorities demand him to identify himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.
- When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic centre, only Emma Mannering's corset shoppe stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead he's double crossed.
- 1956–19745.7 (31)TV EpisodeThey write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
- A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter's life. Her husband understands what is going on but invariably blames the daughter for his wife's disappointments.
- A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down, when his son, a young radical and his associates brings modern interpretations of art into his life.
- An affluent, happy and conventionally married couple have their preconceptions about life questioned by their guest (an underground American film maker ) as they get more and more involved in his latest project.
- Mandy is in a dark place on the brink of suicide, can Geoffrey persuade her otherwise?.
- Gustave meets a man called Adolph, who tries to show him that Gustave's fiancee doesn't love him.
- Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.
- A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.
- In the year 2110, Stanley Frelaine is urged by his boss to improve his social connections by taking up hunting.
- A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.
- A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.
- On Mars, Withers a gruff, bigoted pioneer buys himself a Martian wife for company. Like all her race, Lellie cannot speak and Withers treats her like a slave. But he becomes jealous when Weaver, a young scientist, lodges at his camp and treats Lellie sympathetically.
- A satire set in the advertising industry.
- Jack Palmer, a strong union man, is forced to confront his principles when his daughter wants to marry a black man.
- An elderly man is rescued from Iceland. Why would an elderly man need to escape from Iceland? Unless of course its Adolf Hitler.
- Three sailors arrive at their home town, Liverpool, in a drama about the problems of Anglo-Welsh/Anglo-Irish identity, and coming to terms with conflicts with their fathers.
- This is a performance of the play "The Time of Your Life" that was telecast on British television.
- Dad has been living with daughter Jessy for years and she needs a break. She suggests he could live with her prosperous brother George whom Dad constantly praises but George refuses. Dad realises he has been rejected by both his children.
- The romantic entanglements of a hairdresser, a driving instructor and a wife.
- Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.
- At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to the guests.
- Agnes realizes 'the other woman' in her and Bob's family life is the company he works for. 'The Company' demands total priority and loyalty in Bob's life.
- Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene.
- A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.
- After a calamitous space trip, an astronaut returns to Earth to say that he has spoken to God and God wants the world destroyed by a secret organization with nuclear weapons.
- Essentially a British TV remake of Christmas in Connecticut, in which a decorated war hero is invited to enjoy the holidays hosted by a Martha Stewart type famous for her cooking. But the hostess' fame is undeserved, and she cannot cook.
- When someone is killed in a road accident, Bob Slater wants to "do the right thing". But will he?
- Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
- Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. She becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and recaptures her youth.
- A New York businessman and his wife on a much holiday needed in Miami find the staff are treating him as if it's his very last holiday.
- A black comedy in which Mr Potz, a rich man who longs to die, hires his own assassin. He chooses Miss Higgins, an eccentric author of detective fiction, to carry out the grim task.
- Stanley Marsden is putting himself forward for a top job in the Civil Service, however he is only a grammar school boy, will the old public school boy network hamper his chances?..he must get by that somehow.
- Angela, whose husband is abroad, wakes to find she has been sharing a bed with a strange man....and he's dead.
- A marriage bureau pairs a three times married, alcoholic titled lady with an able seaman from the navy. On visiting her villa he finds it also occupied by an eccentric ex-husband, a daughter and another man she calls her 'companion'
- Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps his own set of performing fleas. One day a flea speaks to him and persuades him to go public with a microphone. The flea's act is a great success, but not everybody is pleased with its message.
- Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big trouble.
- Young miner's widow Nancy Harper works in a sweet shop to support her little daughter, who is killed when accidentally struck by the car driven by Walter Daymer. Nancy drifts into an affair with Walter, not suspecting that he is already married.
- David's mother thinks he would make a good salesman, but he looses his nerve every time he meets a new customer.
- Ledbetter works for 'The Ministry of Social Welfare' he is very enthusiastic about getting old people to use the many facilities available to him.
- It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestures have not gone unnoticed with her employers and friends joining together to give her night to remember.
- While the owners of a country house are away, the servants play a game of impersonating their employers.
- Eddie the son that made good in Canada, returns on a trip to see his London Mum, he has been quite happy to contribute to her welfare but discovers she has a young tenant that has been living rent free for several months.
- A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.
- A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.
- Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.
- Honeybone is an engineer and is contacted by Killick to be told that he is a test for a possible mole in the department and Honeybone's role is to say that he will give away secrets. Meanwhile Honeybone meets and befriends a new contact - it turns out to be the mole. The mole's girl comments 'I feel like a prostitute' and the mole replied - 'that is exactly what you are my dear.' Killik later contacts Honeybone and tells him to get on with the job that he will give up secrets. He then lets slip to the mole that he is on his way to Strasbourg where he disappears. Honeybone has said he will give away secrets to the mole The final scene is a phone call taken by the mole- 'oh you have got him. Well treat him nicely I was at school with him. oh and by the way I have just met someone who may be of use to you.' The mole is a mole and has given away Killik's movement so he can be kidnapped and has passed on the name of Honeybone. Plot very reliant on Kim Philby who was then very much in the public consciousness.
- A loner, possibly autistic, is able to relate to the world through his pet monkey.
- The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited for drinks but things don't quite go as they imagined it would.
- Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her.
- Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried.
- Nurse Marjorie and young tycoon Bernard play an unusual game of cards.
- Peter Baynes's business is doing well until he has a visitor from his past.
- Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
- A barmaid returns home to Dublin, to find things are not quite what she expected to be.
- Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and Fleming is on the ground.
- A grieving widow returns home from a holiday, to find her flat occupied by an amiable young man.
- Felix visits a health farm with his third wife, only to discover that his second wife, his daughter by his first marriage, and his stepdaughter are also present.
- During a general election a politician impedes his performance because he has placed a bet against himself winning.
- Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.
- A girl's Cinderella existence crashes to an abrupt end when her wealthy, cantankerous aunt dies on a cruise ship.
- Brian a young man, gatecrashes a lively party and intrigues some of the guests with his sombre stories which involves them. There is something ethereal about Brian but is he worth taking seriously?
- A chance meeting enables Arthur to confront his past.
- The Prime Minister's career starts to suffer from his daughter's antics and peccadilloes ..but he loves her.
- The girls in his native Australia regard Morrie as a joke, but on a trip abroad he finds there is much more to life than his home town.
- The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
- Handbag maker and shy bachelor Henry Sunday is enticed by his landlady and daughter into joining a computer dating agency.
- Adjusting to a new life in South Africa is no easy walk for Adrian.
- A man admits to the police a murder in London's busy Soho district, but cannot remember where he left the body.
- A man is facing a crisis with his neurotic wife, dropout son and bullying, oily boss, who he must suffer while facing office personnel cutbacks. When his job and wife slip away,he finds some redemption in his son's plans for a new life.
- Wendy is reluctant to take her new boyfriend home, as there are certain aspects of her family that she is embarrassed about.
- Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
- Fisherman Manny Barnes comes into conflict with the local clergy as he tries to halt the decline in his fishing town by turning it into a gambling spot.
- A rather intellectual young woman who has just broken off an affair with a married man meets a rather uncouth pop singer on a train journey.
- As an experiment, an army junior officer is allowed to join a club of high ranking aristocrat officers. He quickly finds himself out of his depth and humiliated.
- A famous pop singer becomes involved in a murder trial.
- A department store closes for the night and instead of going home, the staff realize a musical fantasy amongst the store set pieces.
- Its near the end of World War 2, and a young green officer takes over a war weary platoon, he is ordered to take some of them on a raid, but he cannot rouse any volunteers.
- After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.
- A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbour acquires a fast-growing creeper
- We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.
- A highly-influential religious celebrity's public image is in danger of shattering when a plane must make an unexpected landing.
- A housewife finds herself pregnant again just as she is due to attend her daughter's marriage. She recalls her politician husband's reaction to the birth of her daughter over twenty years ago, and contemplates whether she wants to go through it all again.
- In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?
- In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
- Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, where he stands before one mirror in particular, one that magnifies his image many, many times.
- A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in his house and be subject to his preaching. He ignores the protests of his wife and son.
- Arnold, a soldier who has deserted after a traumatic event on the Berlin Wall, is drowning his sorrows in a pub. A Spanish boy who can speak little English enters the pub begging for help against a lynch mob chasing him, accusing him of molesting the daughter of a local businessman. After recent events, Arnold wants no involvement, but Cissy persuades him otherwise.
- A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.
- A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.
- A soldier can escape from a trap, but only if he leaves a dying officer and his wounded NCO.
- Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.
- A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
- Ex-Sergeant Blanco White trying to adjust to civilian life after 31 years in the Guards Regiment goes into partnership with Mrs Klein, a local greengrocer.
- A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.
- A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.
- A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.
- An elderly woman and her spinster niece are accused of kidnapping.
- The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child. Her friends are also on the way as more unexpected visitors.
- A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.
- A spoof on Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' as three Irish labourers take on Birmingham.
- Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four hour race.
- Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.
- A new magistrate takes up a post in a British colony in Africa aiming to uphold justice against corruption.