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- After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
- Rupert Street, a piano player and composer, decides to write a musical and marry before he reaches his thirtieth birthday. One minor problem: he'll be 30 in six weeks...
- On 1 May 1928, LNER locomotive 4472 'Flying Scotsman' made the inaugural run of a non-stop service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Now, exactly forty years later on 1 May 1968, Alan Pegler, owner of the locomotive Flying Scotsman since British Railways sold her in 1963, attempts to recreate the run. Various passengers, including Rev W Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, talk about their memories of the locomotive.
- Part of the BBC's celebrated 'Wednesday Play' series of the 1960s, this early work by Dennis Potter is set in an isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
- A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
- This movie was based on Quintin Reynolds' lawsuit against Westbrook Pegler. Pegler was a character assassin of the first order. Pegler claimed that Reynolds was a Communist and a coward. Reynolds defended himself, sued, and won big. Reynolds was exonerated and continued writing. Pegler, like most other people like him, eventually imploded.
- The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.
- 1965–199615mTV Episode
- Roland and Rattfink clash at the roller skating rink.
- 1959–199438m8.3 (7)TV EpisodeAlan Whicker talks to people in the "horror industry" to find out why we like being frightened. Among the interviewees are Hammer Horror star Christopher Lee and Dalek creator Terry Nation.
- Documentary following the history of British Music Hall, its stars and architecture, interspersed with revivals of old favourites by todays performers.
- The adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with fairies come to light in a moonlit forest.
- A British road safety film advising people to remember "MSM": Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.
- A violent pupil returns to the school.
- A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.
- Rattfink, the bad spy, attempts to obtain an envelope from Roland, the good spy.
- A picture of Sharon in the nude appears in art - who is the artist?
- The Smedhursts, buy the old Bellingham House which is rumoured to be haunted by a maiden believed to have been murdered by her guardians.
- John Betjeman examines the architecture of the city of Leeds.
- When a man is found poisoned in an abandoned building with the word "RACHE" written in blood on the wall. LaStrade confidently declares, "Cherchez la femme!"
- Rattfink pursues a wealthy widow to gain her fortune
- A series of 13 monologues for famous actresses.