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- A look at the creation and cultural significance of the British cult classic The Prisoner (1967), starring Patrick McGoohan.
- In Berlin, 1938, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun have a love-hate relationship with their Jewish neighbours in this bizarre spoof of 'fifties American sitcoms.
- Neville Chamberlain is coming to Germany and Adolf has to host. But will his Jewish neighbors wreck his plans to impress?
- Veteran actress Joyce Carey was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at London's Waldorf Hotel. Carey, then 87, was best known for her roles in the works of Noel Coward on both stage and screen. She is joined by many fellow greats in person and on film to celebrate her life and career.
- Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.
- Maurice, who was once employed by Ponsonby's Hairdressing in London's West End, has been left with a set of values that have no place in the tatty East End establishment he now runs. The carping remarks of his disillusioned wife, Phoebe, her shady relatives and Petal, her daughter by a previous marriage, all serve to make his life pretty unbearable. Will going unisex really help matters?
- The Italian-born British actress is surprised in Rome by Eamonn Andrews, who then relates the story of his life, with the help of the 'Big Red Book'.
- A British TV show where every week a team of celebrities would play Charades
- 1978–1980TV Episode
- 1976–1978TV Episode
- Patrick Glover's brother, who is living in Australia, has to leave home suddenly in connection with his work. Worried about leaving his two teenage daughters alone to fend for themselves during his absence, he makes an urgent telephone call to Patrick, in England, to ask for his help. Patrick agrees to come to the rescue - and he and Nanny travel to Australia, where they find Patrick's stunning brunette-haired nieces are very similar, in nature, to Patrick's own daughters - and that they even have the same breed of dog, as their own 'H.G.', as a pet. The girls are not at first impressed with having their uncle staying in the house with them, as they had been looking forward to the freedom of being left to their own devices without any adult supervision.
- At the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black and white). But what they really want is stay at one place and open up a cinema.
- Kenneth More hosted this gala performance to celebrate HM Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. It was held in the presence of Princess Alexandra.
- Patrick Woodford has been married six times. All of his marriages have failed. Now he's planning to divorce his sixth wife, Helen. Later, he thinks of remarrying his first wife, Elizabeth. Meanwhile, his other ex-wives keep popping in and out of his life.
- British version of "Hollywood Squares" with nine celebrities of different stature arranged in a grid.
- Australian version of Hollywood Squares.
- Millionaire's son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) just wants to live a life free from responsibility (and work) and the film opens with him taking part in a mass sleep-in outside Windsor Castle. His father is not happy with this and hires Nancy (Lulu) to dupe him into leaving his hippy friends and entering the world of work, which she does, bringing him into contact with her own elderly father Dobson played by Wilfrid Hyde-White and a variety of other English eccentrics all played by well-known comic actors. But while doing so Nancy falls for James and they get married. The marriage is quickly on the rocks, though, due to the couple's very different attitudes to life, and James embarks on a series of affairs with, among others, his father's mistress Maureen (Fiona Curzon) who becomes his surrogate wife, Lulu's character having vanished from the film by that stage. A new-look Lulu returns at the end to take James back and renew her efforts to get him to adopt the life of duty and responsibility his father -- and she -- wanted for him.
- Raymonde suspects her husband Chandebise of being unfaithful and plots with her friend Lucienne to set a trap and catch him at a notorious hotel. Chandebise however sends his friend Tournel in his place. To everyone's embarrassment it soon becomes apparent that the 'Inn and Out' hotel is more popular than expected.
- Spin-off movie version of the British sitcom of the same name.
- Marcel will inherit one million francs - on his wedding day. Unwilling to give up his bachelorhood, but in dire need of cash, he persuades Amélie, a coquette and his friend's mistress, to act as his fiancée.
- Rather than go on a big family holiday the Glovers decide that each couple will go somewhere on their own but begin to regret it and ultimately they all change their tickets in order to have a mass trip to Tenerife. The airport is fogbound but when the fog clears Patrick discovers that his passport has expired so that ultimately they all end up in Frinton-on-Sea.
- Karen and Howard are going to a weekend pop festival where they will be camping. Patrick gets the impression they are going to get married and can only afford to live in a tent. Bill and Barbara are happy to go to the festival and arrive in hippy clothes at the same moment as the wedding cars and the wedding cake arrive.
- Film mogul Muswell Lemming is coming to talk about filming one of Patrick's books. Unfortunately, whilst discussing a theoretical literary situation involving handcuffs, Patrick and Tim get handcuffed together and, after various attempts to get free, are like that when Lemming arrives so Tim has to hide behind the sofa. Fortunately Nanny has a bright idea.
- After reading a book on self-assertiveness, Patrick tells Tim that, if he wants a raise, he should be more forceful but, when Tim tells his boss, Mr. Fletcher, he'll leave if he doesn't get the pay rise, Fletcher, who has also read the book, calls his bluff and lets him go. Patrick gets everybody to ring the office to give the impression Tim is indispensable and he gets his job back but, sadly, has got the impression he is so in demand he can go elsewhere.
- Bill has a younger girlfriend, Gloria, whom he is seeing at a holiday cabin and asks Patrick to keep his secret. Having mistaken a charity collector for Gloria, and attempted to hide her in a closet, Patrick has to pretend that she is his date and not Bill's, for Barbara's benefit, ending up with her girdle.
- Returning from their honeymoon Anna and Tim see a flat that is suitable but they are four thousand pounds short of the price. Patrick supplies the difference but,fearing the young couple will refuse his charity,claims it's a legacy from recently deceased Uncle Emlyn in Wales. They send a wreath for his funeral - but then Uncle Emlyn turns up,wanting to know what is going on.
- Jimmy Tarbuck hosts another All Star Comedy Carnival, this time with skits from Love Thy Neighbour, Rod Hull and Emu, Nearest and Dearest, Moira Anderson, Father Dear Father, Thirty Minutes Worth, Christmas with Wogan, Wandsworth School Choir, Bob Todd, On The Buses, David Nixon, Sez Les, Tony Jacklin and The Fenn Street Gang.
- Tim is severely hung over after his stag night and Patrick gets him some head-ache pills. Unfortunately he mixes them up with sleeping pills,making the groom even drowsier. After walking him up and down Patrick and Bill get him to the church on time but after the wedding there is further bad news meaning that the happy couple will have to stay with Patrick until they can find their own place.
- Anxious to marry Anna, Tim wants to please Patrick and invites him to lunch at a restaurant but leaves his wallet on the table. When Patrick goes looking for him the manager assumes he is trying to run off without paying and makes him wash dishes,thereby missing a garden party at Buckingham Palace. At least Patrick agrees to the wedding.
- Karen and Anna fall out over Tim,an advertisement photographer,who Patrick initially meets dressed as a tramp for a fancy dress party,leading Patrick to believe he is a down-and-out. The girls patch things up and Tim pays Patrick to pose as a tramp for a photo shoot when the hired actor fails to show. Unfortunately for Patrick,a policeman mistakes him for the real thing.
- An old school friend of Patrick,Basil,asks him to give a speech at the school's founders day and a nervous Patrick practices by speaking into a tape recorder. On the day Patrick is persuaded to play for the school cricket team and is hit in the throat by a ball,losing his voice.Basil suggests he mime to his speech on the tape recorder but Nanny has been using it to exercise her singing voice.
- With his daughters away for a few days, Patrick is looking forward to some quiet and peaceful time on his own with no female interruptions. However when Georgie, Barbara and his mother all contact him in succession ,each one of them seeking his help and advice, he ends up with a house full of women after all.
- Patrick slips whilst visiting his brother Philip in hospital, falls down a laundry chute and ends up as a patient on the same ward. The brothers' charts are accidentally switched and Patrick bears the wrath of the disapproving mother of Philip's girl-friend before taking another tumble down the same laundry chute.
- A misconstrued telephone conversation from his agent Georgie leads Patrick to believe that he is to be cited as the guilty party in a divorce for an incident which happened many years earlier but has now come back to haunt him. He decides to remedy the situation but only succeeds in getting himself into further trouble.
- British variety show featuring live performances, comedy sketches, and interviews with special guests.