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Series 4, Episode 5
25th December 1970
The Christmas 1970 episode. Originally filmed in Black & White
The shop floor becomes the dance floor. The ladies' and gentlemen's staff combine to enter a ballroom dancing competition at young Mr Grace's suggestion.
Young Mr Grace is going into semi-retirement and his brother Old Mr Grace is to replace him. Mr Humphries has contracted Marine's Disease. It means the staff must go into isolation.
Hyacinth wants a new car and, much to Richard's disgust, test drives a Rolls-Royce in her efforts to take Lydia Hawksworth down a peg.
Harold picks up some old records and plans to spend the evening listening to music, but of course Albert has other plans.
Bill and Eddie get into an argument about voodoo. When Eddie makes a voodoo doll of Bill, Bill scares Eddie when he pretends it's worked.
Why would an American who desperately needs the Pimpernel's help challenge him in a duel to the death? Sir Percy must find a way to protect his second identity and protect the man, at the same time.
The lovely Comtesse la Valliere, formerly a spy for Chauvelin, changes sides when she learns of the impending execution of dozens of moderate French revolutionaries. Teaming with the Scarlet Pimpernel and his men, the Comtesse plans to rescue the condemned men - from under Chauvelin's nose. Air Date : 27th-Dec-1955
In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas, hoping to publish his concerto; he meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a broadway show. Ken's affairs take a turn for the better when he falls for singer Bonnie Watson. But while he labors on orchestration, O'Mara is surreptitiously adapting his tunes to the Greenwich Village Gaieties.
McHale and The Boys go all out, to try to help Parker win the attention of a very attractive Nurse he's infatuated with.
McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network.
A famous detective and his assistant are called in by the war office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man during an air raid.
Stars: David Farrar, John Varley & Jean Simmons.
Director: John Harlow.
Mr Humphries is late for work again. He has personal problems, he's fallen out with his mother, left home, and now he's been accused of stealing from the till.
The ladies and gents department refuses to picket as most of the staff strikes for better wages. Their actions infuriate the other employees and Mr Grace tells the ladies and gents department to hold a party for the children of employees.
Harold plans to travel the world, so Albert goes into a home, but the future holds surprises for them both.
When Barbie convinces join that she should become more alluring to eddie, the plan backfires leading to a misunderstanding between eddie and bill and a drunken showdown in the street .
For Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas (Vincent Price), seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter (Connie Marshall), to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Initial release: 10 April 1946
The Upturned Glass is a 1947 British film noir psychological thriller directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring James Mason, Rosamund John and Pamela Kellino. The screenplay concerns a leading brain surgeon who murders a woman he believes to be responsible for the death of the woman he loved.
It was made at Gainsborough Pictures' Islington Studios, with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. It was made as an independent production overseen by Sydney Box, then head of Gainsborough.
Cast:
James Mason as Michael Joyce
Rosamund John as Emma Wright
Pamela Kellino as Kate Howard
Ann Stephens as Ann Wright
Morland Graham as Clay
Brefni O'Rorke as Dr. Farrell
Henry Oscar as Coroner
Jane Hylton as Miss Marsh
Nurse Anne Graham (Margaret Lockwood) is controversially, but rightly, acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies under suspicious circumstances. Changing her name, she gets a position nursing wheelchair-bound Edward Bentley (Wyndham Goldie), little suspecting that his wife and the butler are lovers setting Anne up so that when Bentley is found dead, it looks like a repeat of the earlier case.
Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams & Basil Radford.
Uncredited: Leo Genn & Michael Hordern.
After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Stars: Richard Burton, Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen & Archie Duncan.
Director: Derek N. Twist.
While the Martin's are Christmas shopping, Lassie saves a child from getting hit by a truck and is struck herself. Dr. Weaver is uncertain if he can do the operation to save her and the specialist who can is unreachable.
When Mr Grainger's temper becomes extremely short the staff decide he must go, until the real reason for his behaviour is revealed.
When sales figures begin to drop, the staff have to come up with increasingly outrageous ways of improving the takings, and it looks like a fashion show might be on the cards, but who will be the models?
It is young Mr. Grace's birthday and he's in for a surprise courtesy of the Gentlemen's and Ladies' departments at Grace Brothers.
Hyacinth's visit to her favourite stately home goes wrong when her less-than-blue-blooded relatives tag along.
Training continues, and the boys are perplexed to the point of anger when Marsh appears to actually have some knowledge.