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- An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
- A young woman is appalled when she inherits a nudist camp, but she falls in love with the camp director, who has another secret admirer.
- When an intruder is killed in her house, the comfortable life of Clarissa Hailsham-Browne is turned upside-down.
- While called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name.
- Three criminals decide to rob a bank by drilling through the party wall from the general store next door. The store owner is already going through a personal crisis.
- This British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.
- A psychiatrist and nurse overthrow the abusive heads of a girls' reform school in order to teach the unfortunate young women that they have a chance at healthy lives.
- The British launch the world's first orbital vehicle. Their military sends a super-bomb along, which goes wrong and threatens the crew and a stowaway.
- U.S. Army captain stationed in England has an affair with a local married woman. Together they hatch a plan to kill her husband.
- An engaged couple's pre-marital bliss is shattered by the future bride's domineering mother. Unable to withstand the horrible woman, the husband to be tries to weasel out of the marriage by suing for breach of promise.
- 7-year old Ted has diabetes. When he leaves the hospital, the doctor tells his mother Ann not to forget the insulin injections twice a day, which for Ted is a matter of life and death. At the same time as Ted leaves hospital, his father Roy leaves prison. During his six months in jail Roy has written a letter every week to his wife, but his mother-in-law has torn them up, to prevent her daughter from reading them. She has also convinced Ann to divorce. Roy rents a room in London, and then goes to Ann's house to visit her and their son. The mother-in-law tells him to stay away, because Ann and Ted don't want to see him anymore. In his despair Roy involves an old sweetheart in a plan to kidnap Ted. If she accompany them on the night train to Inverness, they will be perceived as a family, and thereby not evoke any suspicions. He doesn't know that Ted has diabetes and needs his injections. The police soon find out that Roy has kidnapped Ted, but they don't know where they have gone. Ann, the doctor and the chief inspector wait nervously at Scotland Yard for information, while the night hours are passing by. Ted must soon be found and get insulin, otherwise he will die.
- Richard the First, king, soldier, poet and political intriguer - and one of the most romantic figures in history - was the hero of 'Richard the Lionheart', a series that first aired in February 1962. The series, was firmly set in that short period in 1194 and follows the king as he tries to thwart Prince John's attempt to hold onto power by joining forces with Richard's enemies. This results in a series of swashbuckling adventures as Richard is constantly in fear for his life from the likes of Leopold, Philip of France and the Saracen, Saladin.
- John Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.
- Hassan, the Kadi of Bagdad, has a harem housing twelve beauties, but concentrates his attention on Zohara. A newcomer, Kyra, introduces rebellion into the by the unheard of act of complaining to the Caliph about the lot of the women in the harem. Hassan suffers a greater shock when his God-son, Ezar, asserts that women are the equal of men. They make a wager under which Ezar must settle down with a conventional harem unless Zohara can outwit Hassan within ten days.
- Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
- For an innocent goodbye, the married Janet meets her one-time fiance leaving the country forever and witnesses a murder. Not wanting to report the matter to her jealous husband, a lawyer, she ends up being accused of the crime.
- John and Ann want to marry but John's possessive mother is a bit overbearing and jealous. How far will mother go to come between them?
- Cases of an Insurance Claims Investigator.
- A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands.
- John and Pam have bought a terrace house in a village, and move into it with their little son. In the middle of the night Pam notices that a man is peeping at them from the pavement outside. When he reemerges on the same spot in daytime, she starts becoming nervous. When she later bumps into the same man in the local supermarket, she gets terrified. She tells her husband that when she was 14 years old and lived in an orphanage, a 25 year old man courted her, gave her lots of presents and finally wanted to marry her. She tried to avoid him, he raped her, and it all ended with him being imprisoned. She is sure that he now has come back. Step by step the foreigner escalates his terror against the couple, ending in an attempt to murder John. By sheer luck John is saved, while a colleague happens to be killed instead of him. As a final stroke the stranger tries to capture Pam in her home at night and kidnap her. When John and Pam try to call for help, they find out that their telephone line is cut off, and their car tires punctured. They can just sit in the darkness and wait for the stranger to arrive.
- Man inherits a harem of three wives from his Uncle which he brings home to his wife in England.
- Dr. Wayne is a brilliant surgeon. He is jealous of his friend Bowen, who may be paying too much attention to Pat, the surgeon's seductive spouse. When Wayne must perform an emergency operation, and the patient dies, he is suspected of murder.
- Feature writer Ray Savage is assigned to uncover the facts leading to the sudden death of Jayne Hayle. His investigations expose an intricate web of crimes and characters involved in a kidnapping, murder, and counterfeiting.
- The series followed the globetrotting adventures of Anthony Smith (The Man From Interpol) as he sought to bring master criminals from all corners of the globe to justice.
- A young girl is framed for a robbery, and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
- During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed.
- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is played in modern dress with Caesar as the chairman of a board of directors considering a merger with another company. The conspirators are his fellow directors and the people of Rome are the company's shareholders.
- A husband "loans" his wife to a friend who needs to make a good impression.
- Unemployed actor Steve gets a job with Miss Kennedy's agency as an escort-bodyguard, but ends up being framed for murder after a wealthy client, Miss Elizabeth Quinn, is killed.
- A dangerous drug-smuggling case becomes even more dangerous when an investigating lawyer discovers that the individual behind the operation is a police probation officer.
- A group of young women staying at hostel try to keep a vamp from taking a wealthy man for a ride.
- The stripper Rita is trying to blackmail her former lover, the wealthy Carlos Branco, threatening to reveal his illegal dope trade for the police. Branco responds by hiring the hit man Perkel, an eccentric technician, who has invented a sophisticated technical device for killing people at some distance with the help of a transmitter. Perkel sneaks into the Flamingo Club during daytime, and attaches a transistor to the microphone Rita is going to use in her act the same evening. Before the show starts there is a fierce quarrel between Rita and another girl, and Rita leaves the Club. Another stripper, Diana, has to replace her, and when she performs Rita's act, she suddenly drops dead at the stage. A doctor investigates Diana's body, and thinks there were natural causes for her death, probably a congenital heart defect. Diana's husband Bert, who is the comic announcer between the acts of the show, cannot believe this. He is convinced that his 24 year old wife was murdered, although there is nothing that proves this at the moment. When Scotland Yard refuses to investigate the case, he starts the investigation himself.
- A king's knight fights against a treasonous baron.
- A mail bag stolen in a robbery 15 years ago, is found and the post office decide that the letters should be delivered. A newspaper reporter, accompanied by a post office security officer decide to follow up several of the letters, that could change the lives of the recipients.
- When society hostess Ethel Durant dies leaving a vast estate, the search begins for the rightful heir. It was believed that Ethel died childless, but it soon becomes clear that her life before her rise to fortune was shrouded in mystery and controversy.
- A small town in France must adopt ingenious methods to cope with occupying German forces. A Canadian pilot crashes nearby and is invaluable in helping the villagers fight their own private war.
- An international race car driver is informed he'll never walk again, then regains his will to live through the efforts of his wife and a sympathetic race care manufacturer.
- Tom and his new bride's big day takes a turn for the worse when a Frenchwoman arrives uninvited, claiming to be Tom's wife Annette, with whom Tom had a romance at the end of the war when he was injured near Normandy and she nursed him back to health. It is then that Annette claims the marriage took place, something Tom doesn't remember, She is willing to divorce Tom, but only with a £10,000 settlement. With a promising career in the balance, he must find out if Annette is really telling the truth.
- An Allied pilot is captured by the Germans during the war. During his imprisonment, he is blinded by his captors. Realizing that one of his fellow officers betrayed him to the enemy, after the war, despite his disability, he vows to find the traitor.
- On-the-run psychopathic escaped murderer Mather (Ryck Rydon) sweet-talks a very imaginative small boy Tommy (played by 11-year-old Richard Williams) into believing that if he quietly fetches him a gun and food, Mather will give him a favorable introduction to outlaw Jesse James.
- Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
- An ambitious and unscrupulous young woman joins an advertising agency.
- Band Leader Frank Martin is accused of murdering the shady owner of the club where he's performing. He is innocent of the crime, but his only alibi is Ruth Chapman, a sexy blonde singer who was with him at the time of the murder. When Ruth disappears, and cannot be found, Frank is tried, convicted and sentenced to death. As the time for his execution draws near, his fiancée Judy and friends search desperately for the missing woman.
- A compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and later shown in the US on NBC's "Adventure Theatre" in 1956, hosted by Paul Douglas.
- A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret meeting in Paris they discuss what to do with the former Auschwitz commandant Karl Brochmann, who since 12 years lives in London under the false identity of Karl Luther. They decide to take the law in their own hands, and send their member David to London. He starts his commission by scaring Luther, to see his reactions. Luther is already nervous, because the newspapers are writing about the capture of Eichmann. When he finds out that somebody has broken into his apartment and painted a swastika on his mirror, he gets terrified. He empties his bank account, packs a bag with all his cash and runs away, followed by David. He stumbles into a night club, where the criminal owner soon finds out that Luther is an expedient target for extortion. The singer Jenny feels pity for him, and offers him to hide in her apartment. It turns out that she is a Jew and was a prisoner in Auschwitz as a child. Pursued not only by the Nazi hunters but also the gangsters, Luther makes a last attempt to flee the country.
- A stubborn couple plan to defend a treasured lamp from those who want to remove it from its rightful place.
- An ex-boxer on the run from gangsters for refusing to throw a fight, helps a garage owner and his daughter to improve their business.
- A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard" and shown on US TV in 1956 as "Adventure Theatre" hosted by Paul Douglas.
- First episode of the television series "The Vise" (1954) q.v.