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- Whilst building a rabbit hutch, a group of children break Dad's saw. Needing to replace it, the children do odd jobs all across London.
- About an inefficient grocer's boy and his passion for eating
- A young boy's lucky t-shirt is transformed through a power surge and gives its wearer super-powers.
- John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and falls asleep during a lesson about electricity so his teacher sends him home. On the 'tube' there is a sudden flash, and John, the train and all of the passengers turn yellow. With the help of Nick (short for 'Electronic') John learns about electricity, invades the Tower of London and saves his pet mouse ... or was it a dream. This is the Powell & Pressburger touch applied to children's films.
- Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children decide that they must prevent this.
- Gavin, Jean and Peter meet Danny the Dragon, an unintentional visitor from outer space. Danny and the children encounter many adventures.
- Two teenage boys try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership, while the army and a devious petty crook pursue the creature for its wonderful powers.
- Joe and Michael, 13-year-old Brits, become separated from their class outing, stranded on a small island, and captured by armed men.
- A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
- Adventure film involving two boys who wage a battle against diamond smugglers with radio controlled model Spitfire aeroplanes loaded with darts. When their model plane crashes Mike and Harry are befriended by ex-pilot Charlie Bradford and his niece Maggie, who teach them how to fly radio-controlled planes. When crooks steal Charlie's latest model in an attempt to smuggle a stolen diamond across the Channel, the children embark on an ingenious and exciting plan to thwart them.
- Outpatient Gary determines to get a tree for the children who will be in hospital for Christmas. He enlists the aid of brother and sister and they set out to find one.
- Gang go round solving things.
- Two children in wartime England find a German fighter pilot.
- Head Ranger Matt Hammond (Ed Devereaux) and Flight Ranger Jerry King (Tony Bonner) dealing with two suspicious divers seeking permits to fish off the coasts of Waratah National Park. Their real motives, however, are more nefarious.
- Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The crooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police.
- A group of children on holiday in Malta join an aqua-lung diving class. One of them discovers a wreck, and disobeying instructions decides to investigate on his own, with near serious consequences.
- A group of petless children secretly build a zoo behind an old manor, unaware it hides jewel thieves. The children find the crooks, then join forces with their animals to defeat them.
- Colonel Audacious is an inventor and with the help of his young assistant, Barnstuffer, he invents a model aeroplane with a TV camera attached that can then fly around revealing all sorts of goings on. After a few slapstick goofs the flying eye reveals the activities of a gang of spies.
- An Imaginative young boy called Tony whose Dad is the Town Mayor, isn't believed when he might actually be telling the truth for once.
- Two boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is Pehta. In the morning, Kekec, Rozle and Mojca go to an Alpine cottage and Kekec promises Mojca that he will find her a remedy for her eyes. As the girl is picking flowers, Pehta arrives and takes Mojca into her cottage. She wants to keep Mojca because of her singing. Pehta is a woman herbalist and she finds a rare flower in the mountain, from which she makes a remedy for Mojca's eyes. Kekec and Rozle start looking for Mojca and they find Pehta's cottage. Rozle is so frightened that he runs away, but brave Kekec climbs trough the thatched roof of Pehta's cottage and runs away with Mojca. Pehta sends her dog - Volk (Wolf) to hunt them down, but they manage to escape it. The timid Rozle tells at home that Pehta's dog probably ate Kekec and Mojca. Mojca's father and villagers start looking for them. Pehta's sees them coming, burns her cottage down and hides. Meanwhile, Kekec brings Mojca home and as she is telling her mother that Pehta has a cure for her blindness, Kekec runs out of the house and lets himself be caught by Pehta. She takes him into her cave and tells him that she would have cured Mojca if he didn't took her away. She keeps Kekec as a servant and tells Volk to watch him as she leaves to collect flowers. Kekec makes friends with Volk and starts searching the cave for the remedy. Pehta catches him in the act, beats her dog for not obeying her and shows to Kekec that she's carrying the bottle with the remedy around her neck. The villagers are looking for Kekec, Pehta hears them and Kekec tries to get the bottle, but she throws it in the abyss in anger. Kekec escapes from the cave and finds the bottle undamaged. Pehta sets her dog on him but Volk starts barking on her. Kekec returns to the cave, shows the bottle to Pehta and she tells him, how to use the remedy - just three drops in each eye. Kekec returns home with Volk, find Mojca sleeping and pours the remedy in her eyes. She wakes up and finds out that she can see. Kekec leaves the farm with his dog.
- On their way to school Paul and Fiona find and help a Professor Wagstaff who's trapped inside his new, untested time machine, so beginning an adventure that will send them back and forth through their local history.
- (from the rear of the DVD cover) When the Famous Five are asked to look after Wilfred, a lonely orphan with a magical ability to communicate with animals, they have no idea of what exciting adventures lie in store. Wilfred is determined to investigate rumours of dastard deeds at a supposed animal 'sanctuary' on the mysterious Whispering Island. He sets off to investigate with four-footed Famous Five member Tim the dog, and the rest of the gang are not far behind. But will they be in time to save the day?
- Three children enter a big store and steal a battery. The three had intended to replace the battery but forget when they realize that they've been locked in. Eventually they get out through a skylight.
- Four children living on a sheep station help to catch escaped convicts.
- Bob Ketley is a young boy whose older brother is a research scientist working with fish. He helps catch criminals who are poaching salmon by dropping dynamite into the river.
- Ordinary English family visits Safari Park and, through a series of mishsps, meets Duke of Bedford.
- Robin Hood Junior helps Maid Marion to escape from her wicked uncle.
- Six children lose a toy plane in a high ruined tower.
- Three children track their lost piano with one note missing through London.
- In an English village, three youths see the spirit of a child who died in a 17th-century plague epidemic. They decide to learn about the town's history to find out how they can help set the child's ghost free.
- Two children on holiday in Alderney, along with two local children catch men stealing bird eggs on the uninhabited island of Burhou but discover more than they bargained for.
- Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
- A group of youngsters have fun using their ingenuity to build their own go-kart - with the hope of eclipsing a rival children's gang, and beating them at the local race track.
- In 1860, a young orphaned girl is sent to live with her uncle, but she is troubled by a shadowy figure that appears and disappears.
- A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.
- One Irish boys adventures with his beloved donkey.
- A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.
- Helicopter pilots help children to track down cattle rustlers.
- Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
- Swanky Clarke (Barry MacGregor) and his gang of chums take on a gang of bike thieves with the help of the local police.
- The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants the team his son plays for to win instead so he makes life as difficult as he can for them. However, Barton United are offered help by the local professional team that just happens to be Manchester United with its manager Matt Busby.
- School children save an old junk collector from being accused of a theft and try to prevent his partner from stealing a valuable painting.
- The various misadventures that occur when you have Alice the chimp as a pet. Judy and Joey Graham along with friend Josh Peters have to cope with their English environment and friends while keeping the ape out of mischief.
- A superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice) which follows orphaned Polish refugee Janek, who runs into trouble in the shape of two scheming thieves. Starring popular character actor Sydney Tafler (Carve Her Name with Pride, The Spy who Loved Me) as a cunning spiv, and featuring an appearance from John Laurie (The 39 Steps, Dad's Army), Johnny on the Run is an action-packed adventure with a remarkable performance from its young lead.
- Professor Popper develops a shrinking formula which he and a group of school kids take by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory. But that's not the only problem that faces the professor and his friends.
- Four young children are shipwrecked on an island but they are not alone.