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- During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
- Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
- Four bus mechanics and a stowaway travel Europe as a hotel, picking up singers. In Athens, the stowaway's mother has them arrested for kidnapping but then accepts her daughter's love for a mechanic and they vacation in Greece.
- After a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.
- Woman abused by men meets a man she thinks loves her. He cheats, she kills his mistress. Based on Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in Britain. Less than
- When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.
- In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
- In post-war London, a small boy who blames himself for the accidental death of a friend, falls under the bad influence of a street criminal.
- A lock-keeper entrusts his daughter with a canal Casanova, and she soon falls pregnant. He refuses to open his locks until the guilty party confesses.
- Tony Hancock gives up his day job to become an artist. He's a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics dislike his work. Nevertheless, he impresses a talented artist.
- In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
- A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.
- Jimmy Edwards reprises his TV and radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys.
- When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final one of their number winds up with a lady of the night. As they talk, the unsophisticated and naive lad starts to believe he has found true love.
- After a mix-up at a music hall, a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who hypnotizes him into losing all of his inhibitions.
- Obam finds himself caught in the middle of hostility between British colonists and African villagers who want to reclaim their land. He sets out to save his country before tensions get out of control.
- A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new lodger becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.
- During WW2, an RAF pilot from coastal command is accused of sinking a British submarine that he mistook for a German one.
- An aspiring musician from London's East End pursues his dreams while navigating a rocky romance.
- Distraught after her parents' divorce, nine-year-old Jennifer becomes increasingly neurotic and is sent to a center for maladjusted children.
- In postwar London, young graduate Tony (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and his girlfriend Anne (Susan Stephen) decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newlyweds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbors a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea leaves, except down the sink?
- A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down to earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune. Re-launched with Miss Trant's money, they tour England, at first with little success. Inigo falls in love with the troupe's talented and pretty young girl singer, Susie Dean. The troupe is threatened with disharmony, but, due to Inigo's intervention, and the marriage of the principal dancer (Jerry Jerningham) to Lady Parlitt (whose family "own a chain of theatres"), all turns out well for Susie by the end, when she triumphs in a lavish London revue, with the other members of "The Good Companions" in the audience, cheering her triumph.
- A young woman with amnesia finds herself in London during the second world war. She falls in love and marries a Polish man in the R.A.F. He gets killed and then a crippled man comes to her and says she is his wife. She goes with him to his mansion and her bedroom door is a panelled door. Slowly she remembers her husband was cruel to her after his accident, but she falls in love with him again and regains her memory.
- Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.
- In London, a man is blackmailed by his landlord-neighbor after he accidentally kills, in his flat, a woman he picked up in a nightclub.
- Locksmith duped by burglar to commit crimes, jailed. Fellow inmates befriend him to exploit his skills for prison break. Plot revolves around his naivety being taken advantage of, leading to criminal entanglements.
- A group of Wrens rebel because they have been turned down for service on a warship.
- The never-ending struggle of an Egyptian Narcotics Bureau unit. This time around,the murder of a rich Arab named Bashiri leads colonel Yussef Bey and his right-hand man Lieutenant Mourad to a berthed ship in the harbor of Port Saïd. An amazing quantity of hashish is found on board and two suspicious passengers, Humble and Lombardi, are kept under surveillance. But Humble, whose real name is Rico Pavlis, manages to run away after killing Lombardi. Yussef decides to set a trap for Pavlis, his brother and the other traffickers...
- The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, operetta star, first patron and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years.
- In England, alcoholic Uncle Willie vexes his family. They let him buy a bike shop to woo American heiress Virginia, who loves Willie's nephew Frank.
- After a failed bank robbery the getaway driver flees to the Devon countryside and the farm of his uncle.