A northern parson with proletarian sympathies is accidentally appointed to a snobby village where he converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity. Eventually he has the whole country in an uproar and takes the place of an astronaut.
A rich, ineffectual young man is gradually debased and overruled by his sinister manservant and his sexy ‘sister’
In Edwardian London a magical nanny teaches two slightly naughty children to make life enjoyable for themselves and others.
A medieval Italian prince practices devil worship while the plague rages outside, but when he holds a ball, death is an uninvited guest.
After poisoning the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his mad son Commodus succumbs to dissipation and allows Rome to be ravaged by pestilence and the Barbarians.
Two contenders for a presidential nomination seek the support of the dying ex-president.
At the time of the Armada, Spanish privateers terrorise a Cornish seaside village.
In the trenches during World War I, a private is court-martialled and shot for desertion.
A canal barge Casanova is trapped into marriage.
An astronaut returns to Earth to find the planet has been ravaged by killer robots, and joins the few human survivors in a desperate fight for freedom.
A middle-aged actor on the skids despearately rounds up his contacts and becomes the star of a TV commercial.
During World War II five convicted criminals become commandos.
A typist enters a beauty contest and step-by-step becomes Miss Globe; but her descent is equally rapid.
A fake medium persuades her husband to kidnap a child so that she can become famous by revealing its whereabouts in a trance.
An insurance assessor solves a murder.
Old Surehand and Winnetou investigate the murders of a mother and daughter.
Oblomov, a young Russian nobleman, seems incapable of making decisions and spends most of his life in bed.
A Victorian eccentric makes a voyage to the moon and is forced to stay there.
A young man depressed by his urban environment turns to crime.
The headquarters of an Anglo-African regiment is threatened by rebels.
A woman is accused of shooting her lover; accident-prone Inspector Clouseau investigates.
A wife and mistress discover their old friendship as the son tries to supplant his father.
An incompetent Sûreté inspector is in Switzerland on the trail of a jewel thief called The Phantom.
In India during World War II, an American lieutenant is indicted for murder and the defence counsel in instructed to lose the case.
In 1944, Mosquito aircraft try to collapse a cliff overhanging a munitions factory in a Norwegian fjord.