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- A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
- A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- In 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
- Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
- After World War II is over, two Army pals take opposite paths in civilian life. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
- What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
- Series of television plays performed live.
- An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.
- In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
- Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the village of Little Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
- In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. narrated, produced, and frequently starred in this anthology series, which presented everything from drama to mystery to farce.
- Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
- A Disney-produced anthology covering many different genres.
- A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.
- In the North Sea in 1944, passengers of a downed Royal Air Force transport aircraft talk about their lives while awaiting rescue in their dinghy.
- Johnny Victor, an actress living with Louis Galt on the Riviera, becomes involved with Pierre Clemont and learns he is a dangerous criminal.
- A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.
- In the Irish village of Rathbarney, the aged squire is killed while hunting. His successor, O'Leary arrives in Rathbarney to take over his dead great uncle's estate.
- A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den just when it's being raided by the Police.
- Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman.
- 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.
- The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers the story of their life, featuring guest appearances by members of their family, friends and colleagues.
- An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes come true.
- Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
- As he is about to retire, a police officer discovers that his daughter is mixed up with a criminal gang and is about to go to prison for a crime she didn't commit. Against his better judgment, he comes up with a plan to keep her from going to prison.
- The Joneses compete for a cottage offered by a British lord to the couple with the most grandchildren.
- A young female reporter, tired of the lightweight women's stories her editor keeps assigning her, pesters him to give her an assignment with more substance. When an artist's rich wife is murdered, the pair try to help a detective--who doesn't want their help at all--solve the case.
- Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII.
- An Afghan outlaw finally saves a British officer at the cost of his own life.
- This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- A TV series adaptated from the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
- It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time of need.
- The final scene of a film has been lost and the extras have to be rounded up for it to be re-shot.
- Years ago in Sicily, the young Edmund -- before he became the Count of Monte Cristo -- confronts a corrupt banker and restores to its rightful owner a farm stolen by that banker.
- A young boy runs away when he learns that his father is about to remarry.
- One of two crime partners becomes invisible after an accidental blast at an atomic-energy plant.
- In 1905, Lord Henry Loam and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
- A ship's officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.
- Just after a young singer comes out with his first hit record, he is drafted into the Army.
- The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself.
- A woman witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
- The series adapted for television some true tales from press correspondents from around the world.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.2 (28)TV EpisodeHaving heard that Lord Humphrey intends to expel the Celts from the Forest of Dean, Frier Tuck seeks Robin's advice and together they force the knight to rethink his motives.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.8 (27)TV EpisodeWord reaches Marion, that her uncle Sir Edward is in danger over in Ireland. Marion, Robin and his merry men head to save the man. What starts as a simple task quickly develops into a complicated situation involving the clash of old and new Gods
- A comic story of how a Polish orphan boy is adopted by an American sergeant while fighting in Germany. After the war, the boy must stay behind until he's processed, but in the mean time makes lots of trouble.
- The first part of Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy. Set in 1920, as the Irish War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donald Davoren and Seamus Shields, who share a flat in Dublin.
- A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
- Robert Beatty stars as Detective Inspector Mike Maguire, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard, in this popular 1950s series depicting London's fight against crime.
- Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away in the current along with their guard. The three of them wind up in an isolated house whose flooded interior contains a frightened woman.
- The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
- No longer able to make a living as a fisherman, Gibraltan Carmelo goes to London to seek his fortune.
- An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
- A gang tries to kill one of its members but a policeman gets shot by mistake.
- Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four hour race.
- The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.
- In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
- Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.
- Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and authoritative manner. A range of classic cases but gritty it isn't. Each case centres on one crime and one criminal.
- An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.
- A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
- Four men: a British politician, an American journalist in Paris, a lawyer in the U.S., and a Roman hotelier, band together to fight injustice wherever they find it.
- Glencannon is the chief engineer on the old Inchcliff Castle. Each week he connived to get rich on some outlandish scheme. Montgomery is the only 1 who is really on to him and is forever trying to put a stop to him, however that is not so easy!
- Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
- Adam Knight's agency is there to help people in all kinds of ways.
- Two lonely souls find romance together as London is threatened by a satellite in space.
- When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.
- After being released from prison, Augie Cortona sets up a blackmail operation, fronted by a model agency. When the authorities get wind of his activities, they send in an undercover police woman, but when she is recognised, the police need to move in on the operation, before Cortona can take his revenge.
- A safe in 'The Jackpot Club' is robbed of £6,000. The police and the owner of the club want to track down the safecracker, but for very different reasons.
- A weekly TV comedy series of a British household with Dickie Henderson as the head of the family. Every week would feature a guest star
- Ryder travels to Rome to locate the missing wife and daughter of gangster Nick Pompey in exchange for Pompey's account books. Poccari assists him.