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Air Marshall Hardie is a guest at a society dinner party in Hong Kong on the eve of his flight to Tokyo. During the course of the night, another guest is persuaded to share the details of a strange dream he had, which involved a plane crash in the mountains of Japan.

Hardie takes little notice of the story until the following day, when he discovers the plane he had been intending to fly has been swapped for a Dakota, the very plane that featured in the mysterious dream. Stranger still, two last minute passengers arrive, taking the number of passengers up to match with that which the dream foretold. Hardie begins to wonder if it was indeed merely a dream — or a premonition which is about to become a deadly reality.

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American Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) arrives in London to pick up the threads of a wartime romance. As he disembarks, fellow passenger Kendall Brown is assassinated and Pryor finds himself caught up in a murder inquiry. The victim was killed by a mysterious sniper, known as the 'limping man'.

Pryor's wartime amour is actress Pauline French (Moira Lister) who he hasn't seen in six years. She happens to be a crack shot with a rifle, and the dead man had a picture of her in his possession... Scotland Yard Detective Cameron (Leslie Phillips) is assigned to the case, and Pryor and his sweetheart become his chief suspects.

When film-star heartthrob Rex Allerton (David Niven) jokingly suggests that he'll marry the winner of a competition to win a week as his guest, he sets in motion a train of events that threaten to turn his life upside down!

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Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this gripping drama follows the lives of the dedicated team of doctors and nurses staffing Emergency Ward 10 and dealing with life-and-death decisions every day.

When a new surgeon arrives from America with a new heart-lung machine to treat a desperately ill young boy, there is friction between the newcomer and a jealous rival at the hospital. When an elderly patient dies while on the new machine, the tension explodes between the more traditional members of staff and those favouring new and experimental techniques.

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All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.

Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum) are two detectives on a mission to safeguard the structure of Time. Not human, and hot quite alien, the mysterious couple grapple with Time, shown here as an eerie and frightening force. With uncanny powers they protect the present from invading evils of the past and future in a series of unforgettable and mysterious adventures.

Assignment IV
An evil amorphous entity uses photographs to move between time dimensions. It takes over a junkshop and entraps the inhabitants. Sapphire and Steel investigate their disappearance.
Assignment V
A golden anniversary party unleashes Time's worst instincts. Lord Arthur Mullrine is celebrating fifty years in business but the years are rolled back and guests start being killed off.
Assignment VI
Sapphire and Steel meet Silver at an abandoned petrol station. They also meet several people from different decades acting suspiciously.

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Lucy (Phyllis Calvert), Charlotte (Dulcie Gray) and Vera (Anne Crawford) are three sisters who are pursued by three very different kinds of men asking for their hand in marriage.

Geoffrey (James Mason) is an ambitious, carousing businessman who pursues Charlotte because he believes a demure, stay-at-home wife will make his career progress more rapidly and his extra-marital social activities more pleasant. William (Peter Murray-Hill) is a dependable, kindly man who recognises in Lucy a kindred spirit. Vera is a social butterfly with no interest in anyone but herself, so when Brian (Barry Livesey) offers to marry her, she accepts as a marriage of convenience and takes lovers when she desires. As time passes the three sisters suffer joy and heartache, but as the cruel, sadistic behaviour of Geoffrey threatens to send Charlotte insane, the sisters decide to unite together with momentous consequences...

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Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home.

Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his own...and teaching mortal Henry an immortal lesson in romance isn't all he's got planned!

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As World War Two rages, Jim Colter (John Mills) finds himself called up to serve in the Army - but he's soon to find himself at war on two fronts.

While he's away, his lovely wife Tillie (Joy Shelton) attracts the amorous attention of Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger), a vicious local spiv and self-acclaimed ladies man. When Jim's sister writes informing him of what is happening, Jim decides that the Nazis can wait and that an even more insidious enemy needs to be dealt with first. He breaks out of camp, goes AWOL and sets off to find his wife. With the military hot on his tail, Jim must make his way through war torn London to settle things once and for all.

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Look on a map and you won't find it. Look in your heart and there it will be. Vincente Minnelli directs this otherworldly tale of vacationing New Yorkers (Kelly and Van Johnson) who discover a Scottish village that comes to life once every 100 years for one day only.

There, Kelly and a town lass (Cyd Charisse) share the love of a lifetime - one seemingly allotted just 24 hours.

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Armistice day 1918 and a young Vivian Kenway is befriended by soldiers returning from France. They tell him it's the fighters like themselves that make the difference in life and give him a 'lucky' pin to remember them by. And remember them he does.

Not for young Vivian is it to be a life of struggle. Once he has been sent down from Oxford for a schoolboy prank his existence turns into a life of upper class decadence. Sent to work in South America, he soon rebels against routine of life on the coffee plantation. He tries his hand at being a racing driver before his life becomes one of philandering and drunkenness, which eventually leads to the death of his father. The outbreak of World War 2 offers Vivian the chance of ultimate salvation and the opportunity to finally earn the respect and admiration of his peers.

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Seriously ill concert pianist Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck) is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. She is attracted to her suave Doctor Stanton (David Niven) who prescribes lots of rest and fresh air.

Karen decides to enjoy whatever life she has left in the night clubs of Monte Carlo in the presence of dashing Paul Clermont (Richard Conte). Doctor Stanton does all he can to save Karen.

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A dark and dramatic adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story, Laurence Payne stars as Edgar Marsh, a shy and awkward librarian who becomes obsessed with his new neighbour Betty Clare.

Despite Marsh's infatuation and determination to win her affections, Betty Clare falls for Marsh's close friend Carl Loomis, a charismatic man of the world. Discovering their affair, Marsh's obsession turns to murderous rage and he kills Loomis. Consumed with guilt Marsh's mind begins to crumble as the sound of Loomis's still-beating heart haunts his every waking hour.

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A psychiatrist, Clive Esmond (Alexander Knox), catches young gunman Frank Clements (Dirk Bogarde) breaking into his house. Rather than send him to prison he invites the delinquent to stay at his home as a social guinea pig - Esmond believes he can curb the fugitives criminal tendencies.

Further tensions arise however when the young begins an afair with Esmonds wife (Alexis Smith).

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When she witnesses a gang of three crooks brutally murdering her father in the course of a robbery, beautiful young Jean Talbot (Elizabeth Sellars) vows to avenge him and to bring the perpetrators to justice.

In the case of two of the three, fate beats her to it when they perish in a car crash fleeing the scene but the third survives and invents an alibi the cops just can't break. Desperate to lead the killer to incriminate himself, she finds herself playing a deadly game of seduction, using sex as the bait to entrap him, gaining his trust and that of his underworld cohorts by playing Bonnie to his Clyde while feeding back Information to the cops.

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When a young girl vanishes near a derelict naval station in St. Oswald, a fantastic series of events is set in motion which sends teenagers Simon Randall and Liz Skinner back in time.

It also re-awakens the nightmare faced by Liz's father who was stationed there at the time as his former commanding officer turns up in St. Oswald seeking answers to the situation and creating questions about his true motives.