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- A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
- Robin of Loxley, otherwise known as Robin Hood, and his band of Merry Men protect England from the evil machinations of Prince John while King Richard the Lionheart is away fighting in the Crusades.
- Smilie that is. A tramp cures a teenager's amnesia and she fails to recognise him afterwards.
- News reporter John Desmond acquires operative Anna Ray's contact list after her shooting. Her criminal organization pursues him, entangling him in their illegal activities and a perilous chase.
- Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.
- A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
- An American Treasury agent teams up with a Scotland Yard inspector to track down a group of thieves that are creating artificial diamonds out of sugar.
- A private detective solves a murder of which he has been accused, and tracks down a gang of jewel smugglers.
- An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
- Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
- A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.
- In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
- The Crown takes Tempest's stronghold. The ex-pirate wins a pardon and becomes a privateer. He and Deputy Gov. Beamish fight Spanish raiders despite their unease. They defend the Caribbean.
- A college student returns home to attend her father's funeral and begins to suspect her stepmother of foul play.
- A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
- A newly wed couple have no option to move in with parents.Whilst trying to maintain their relationship without any privacy.
- Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
- Vampire seeks world domination via experiments. Mistakenly delivered radar-controlled Robot transports him and Mother Riley, leading to confrontation as she tries stopping Vampire's scheme.
- In 1943, an Allied hospital ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.
- In all of Arthurian legend, the most famous of the Knights of the Round Table is undoubtedly Sir Lancelot. This series, painstakingly researched by the History and Literature Departments of Oxford University, re-creates some of the notable exploits of the famous knight, as well as the deeds of the other members of King Arthur's court.
- A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.
- The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.
- A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into the gang's activities. When he finds himself being drawn into a murder plot, he finally realizes that his lover is only using him, and determines to escape the gang - but things don't turn out the way he planned.
- During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
- A maniac is murdering the patients of a doctor who specializes in nervous disorders. A detective is called in to catch the killer.
- Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
- A London police inspector becomes attracted to a ship's radio operator and discovers smuggled gems. He must arrest her if guilty, protect her from the smuggling gang, and protect her from the silenced gang.
- An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
- A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
- After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Coates insists that she didn't come home after the big race, but the police begin to suspect him, after a train ticket is found in his coat. About to be arrested, he receives help from an unexpected source.
- A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
- 1956. Drama. Starring Hollywood's Richard Denning as the secret agent, Carole Mathews as the luscious nightclub vocalist and Ronald Adam as the chameleon-like criminal. A story of money and crime.
- Tom Brown (John Howard Davies) starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman (John Forrest), the school bully.
- This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his causes he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.
- The story about a prizefighter and a motorcycle daredevil that vie for the beautiful girl from the Carnival.
- 1953. Crime drama directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Maxwell Reed and Sandra Dorne. The wife of the garage owner is caught with the mechanic, when he is accidentally killed and a cover up begins.
- The Temples investigate a series of gruesome murders attributed to a mysterious figure known as "The Marquis".
- After leading nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
- An aspiring composer and pilot is shot down over Italy and rescued by a girl who tells him about a local legend. Returning home to his loving wife, he is inspired to write an opera about the tale, but he longs to meet his rescuer again.
- After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.
- Young Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in the hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. One day her father, an often-absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret.
- A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir Maurice Lawes sees a gendarme beaten to death and the killer, who also sees Lawes, escape in a car. The next evening, the residents hear a shattering scream from Janice Lawes when she finds her father murdered. Chief Inspector Garon of the French police and private investigator Dermot Kinross are puzzled as to who would want to kill the kind Lawes: Was it divorcée Eve Atwood, whose bloodstained nightdress was found by the police? Or Toby, the son of the house, who had been secretly robbing his father to close the lips of his blackmailing mistress? Or was it a case of Robbery With Violence, as a valuable necklace was stolen from Sir Maurice's famous collection? Or was it the burglar who feared that Sir Maurice saw him kill the gendarme?
- A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
- 1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory.
- Three episodes of "Colonel March of Scotland Yard" edited together for theatrical release.
- A London Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation into the murder of a small-time crook.
- The story of a successful dancer's fight with her husband for the attention of their daughter.
- Katie attempts to save her fathers failing garage after he is killed during a stock car race, but one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
- A bizarre attempt at a humorous murder mystery. A fat rich man snoozing on a balcony is bludgeoned to death while the Smart Alec of the title has one of the dumbest alibis ever. Antics from Kynaston Reeves and young Charles Hawtrey involve lots of shouting.
- A book entitled "Hell Is Sold Out" is sent to the publishers under the name of "Danges", a popular writer long believed to be dead. Then, the real and very much alive Dominic Danges turns up and meets the authoress who has been using his name.