A playwright and his slaphappy wife share a house with a super-efficient couple.
A Cumberland farmer’s faithful dog is accused of killing sheep.
In Edwardian times, a retired tradesman purchases an old haunted mansion, unaware of its reputation. Troubles start when the housekeeper is possessed by the spirit of the former owner who seeks revenge on those responsible for her death.
A nightclub mind-reader persuades one of his hostesses to give him a murder alibi.
An 1850 chimney sweep evades his pursuers by jumping into a pool, where he becomes involved in a underwater adventure.
67-year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people’s home, but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
During World War II, a ship full of whisky is wrecked on a small Hebridean island where the local customs and excise man has his hands full.
In 1900, songwriters fight with copyright pirates.
The tragic love affair of Konigsmark and Sophie Dorothea, wife of the Elector of Hanover who later became George I.
The lives of various people intertwine during a day out at Bexborough.
French Anne and her boxing lover are characters on the Javanese waterfront; he kills her after she falls for a sea captain.
A blind girl marries a French aristocrat and has to cope with a jealous neighbour.
A nurse is framed for the death of her employer.
A little girl who is the only survivor of a wagon train massacre is looked after by the Canadian Mounties.
Seven girls from different backgrounds are conscripted into the ATS.
Byron lies dying and imagines his life and loves under review in a heavenly court.
The vicar of Dymchurch in 1800 is really a pirate believed dead.
Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of a supernatural hound threatening the life of a Dartmoor baronet.
Having divorced a nagging wife, a chemist marries a dumb girl, but when he cures her…
Problems surround the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic.
In Cromwellian England, royalists commisson a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.
In 1890s Paris a mad sculptor murders his fiancée and hides her inside his latest exhibit.
In the days of Charles II, Lady Skelton befriends a highwayman and takes to crime.
A psychotic woman is discovered to have poisoned three husbands.
The son of a coal miner struggles to become an MP.