Marius Goring, one of British cinema's most gifted and versatile actors, brings his remarkable talents to the role of the enigmatic adventurer risking his life to save innocent French aristocrats from the guillotine during Robespierre's revolutionary Terror. Switching between the flamboyant Pimpernel and his foppish, outwardly simple alter ego Sir Percy Blakeney with consummate ease, Goring is ably supported by Patrick Troughton in another of ITC's mid '50's swashbuckler series which, though not seen in sixty years, easily holds its own alongside stablemates 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 'William Tell' and 'The Buccaneers'. This classic adventure series also features a guest cast that includes Robert Shaw, Christopher Lee, Conrad Phillips, Ivor Dean, William Franklyn, Alfie Bass and John Laurie.
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this cracking mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston.
Novelist Peter Darwin (Robert Urquhart) is engaged to heiress Kay March (Noelle Middleton). When he accidentally kills Claire (Elizabeth Kentish), his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime...
The definitive adaptation of Alan Gamer's award-winning novel, combining mystery, adventure, history and the legend surrounding a complex set of human relationships. Alison (Gillian Hills) and her step-brother Roger (Francis Wallis) go for the Summer family holiday to a remote cottage in the Welsh Valleys. After hearing a scratching noise coming from the attic, Alison discovers some old dinner plates which have a strange floral pattern on them and, when she traces the pattern on paper, discovers that the flowers turn into owls. But what is the connection between the plates, the gardener, the angry housekeeper and the mysterious local legend? Gradually the weird power of the valley takes over and the legend begins to unfold...
A security guard is murdered during a mail-van robbery and one of the van crew overhears the killer's name: Angelo (Peter Reynolds). Before he can phone his boss to confirm that the job has been successfully accomplished, the elderly Miss Crystal (Olive Sloane) mistakenly dials the same number and hears a girl ask if it is Angelo speaking. The next day, seeing the newspaper headlines, Miss Crystal realises she may have a valuable clue - but can she remember the incorrect number she dialled...?
Dr. Peter Brady, who has become invisible as a consequence of d scientific experiment on the reflection of light, is now dealing with murder when Barbara Crane, a celebrated actress, finds a still body on d cliff road. Her driver persuades her, in the interest of her career, to let him throw the body over the cliff. Soon afterwards, she is blackmailed over the telephone by a man who claims to have witnessed the accident, he demands that $1,000 should be left for him to collect at Paddinqton Station. Peter Brady overhears part of the conversation and uses his invisibility to trick the criminals and solve the mystery of the body on the road.
Episodes Comprise:
- Play to Kill
- Point of Destruction
- Death Cell
- The Vanishing Evidence
- The Prize
- Flight into Darkness
Dr. Peter Brady, made invisible by his own experiment on the principles that govern the refraction of light, decides to make the best of his condition and fight organised crime and injustice. Brady is fascinated by the reports of a man who repeatedly tries to escape from prison having been sentenced for violent robbery at his own factory. When Dr. Brady goes to visit him in prison, Joe Green protests his innocence and reveals that he has an alibi. Brady decides to help clear the innocent man Subsequently Brady gets involved with an attempted murder, the kidnapping of his niece Sally and other adventures in which his invisibility proves an incredible advantage in fighting crime and helping people in difficulty.
Episodes Comprise:
- Jailbreak
- Blind Justice
- Bunk Raid
- Strange Partners
- Odds Against Death
- Picnic with Death
Young lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison) is called on in desperation by two women, mother and daughter, who live in a large, isolated house known as The Franchise, and have been questioned by the police in connection with a peculiar accusation. As feelings in the local village run high, the police build up a case on a formidable amount of circumstantial evidence - against which Blair can put only the improbability of the charge, and some unsuccessful amateur detection...
Dr. Peter Brady (Tim Turner) is a brilliant English scientist who, working with the principles that govern the reflection of light, has developed a theory that every form of matter can be reduced to invisibility, just as a jellyfish becomes invisible in water. During an accident in the laboratory, Brady himself becomes invisible, but his experiments have not yet gone far enough for him to reverse the process and regain visibility! Taken to the hospital as a high security risk, Brady is kept under surveillance, but his invisibility makes it easy for him to escape. Meanwhile, a fellow scientist, Dr, Compton, attempts to steal Brady's technical notes. In trying to outwit his dishonest colleague, Brady realises the true value of his discovery.
Episodes Comprise:
- Secret Experiment
- Crisis in the Desert
- Behind the Mask
- Shadow on the Screen
- The Mink Coat
- The Locked Room
This British thriller, thought lost for decades, stars Donald Houston, Alan Wheatley and Susan Shaw in a gripping story of love and deception in the world of British association football. 'Small Town Story' includes appearances from sporting legend Denis Compton along with players from Millwall, Arsenal and Hayes football clubs. Though there is noticeable film damage in the first reel, this is the only copy known to exist. Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan (Kent Walton) returns to the English town where he was posted during the war. He discovers that the local football club stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division - a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...
Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor (David Bradley) is sent, along with some friends, to an Outward Bound centre. On his first day there Terry is taken potholing by the senior instructor, Alex. All goes well until, 100 feet underground, Alex goes to search for the torch that Terry has dropped. Hours pass, and, to Terry's shock, when Alex (Tony Wright) finally returns he has no recollection of having been absent. Terry suspects something sinister is taking place - it is surely no coincidence that there is a secret Ministry of Defence establishment nearby. But just how dangerous his curiosity will be becomes clear when he learns the truth about the 'Jensen Code'...'The Jensen Code' was a highly unusual children's thriller, written by Carey Harrison (author son of actor Rex Harrison), and starring David (Dai) Bradley, the BAFTA-winning young star of Kes as the teenager who unwittingly uncovers a terrifying space-age espionage project. This complete 13-part series, rarely seen since its original transmission in 1973, is released here for the first time in any format. Originally made in colour, 'The Jensen Code' now exists only as black and white telerecordings made for overseas sales, the colour episodes having been junked many years ago.
Vicki (Diana Dors), a young French girl on the run from the Parisian police, arrives in London. Believing herself to be safe, she is horrified to discover that Nick (Herbert Lom) - a violent, scheming pimp - has designs on making her the latest acquisition to his "girls of the night"...
A highly popular sequel to ABC's smash-hit 'Pathfinders' trilogy, the two 'Beneath the Sea' series once again star Gerald Flood - this time as intrepid reporter Mark Bannerman. Created by cult favourite writer John Lucarotti both series see scientific journalist Mark Bannerman and his assistant Peter Blake get into (and out of!) all manner of aquatic scrapes. When Bannerman and Blake are invited aboard an atomic submarine to observe the trials of a new underwater transmitter, they embark on an adventure which leads them into the depths of inner space...
One of ITV's earliest dramas written specifically for children and a precursor to the development of 'Doctor Who', Sydney Newman's 'Pathfinders' series is one of the most eagerly awaited archive television releases of all time. Over three series the 'Pathfinders' journeyed to the Moon and other worlds, proving tremendously successful with the viewing public and even getting into the regional top ten on occasion - unheard of for a children's programme. With intelligent and engaging scripts by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice, the 'Pathfinders' faced drama at every turn - from space hazards to Venusian dinosaurs! - and this set contains all three series: 'Pathfinders in Space', 'Pathfinders to Mars' and 'Pathfinders to Venus'.
Oscar-winning stage and screen veteran Wendy Hiller brings characteristic subtlety, grace and quiet determination to the role of a recently widowed woman who intends to relish her newfound freedom in this acclaimed three-part drama. Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sits beside the body of her husband in a bedroom of their elegant home. The handsome, distinguished Henry Holland, Prime Minister, Viceroy of India and Earl of Slane (John Bott), has died at the age of 94. As her children ponder what is to be done with mother, 85-year-old Lady Slane realises that for the first time in her life, she is free to live where, and how, she chooses. And after more than half a century as a dutiful and loving wife, she revels in her new-found independence and the company of new friends...despite the wishes of her family.
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