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Staff that have reached a certain age have been made redundant, including Mrs Slocombe. Refusing to leave Grace Brothers, she becomes a cleaner and her position is filled by a younger woman.
Dangerous Afternoon is a 1961 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Ruth Dunning.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Although he hasn't decided to take the job, the blackmailers believe that he already has, and he is marked for murder.
Stars: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers, Stephanie Bachelor, Richard Fraser, Roy Barcroft, George J. Lewis & Eva Novak.
Uncredited: Tom London & Robert J. Wilke.
Director: Lesley Selander.
Series 4, Episode 5
25th December 1970
The Christmas 1970 episode. Originally filmed in Black & White
Ludicrus Sextus explains that plans for a new weapon have been stolen, an agent is killed before he can utter the name of the traitor, and Lurcio persuades Ammonia to make the most of her womanly wiles.
Mr Hedges (Alderton), is only allowed to bring his unruly class, '5C' to the School Camp, if he takes full responsibility for their behaviour.
Starring John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson
Ammonia orders Lurcio to get rid of Senator Lecherous, Nausius wants to help a girl that he picks up in the street, and Ludicrus Sextus receives news of a special visitor from Rome.
Barbie announces that she's pregnant, Bill brags, and Eddie tries to convince Joan to start a family as well, believing that anything Bill can do, he can do better.
British spy John Preston (Michael Caine), recently demoted by his boss for a well-intentioned but unsanctioned mission, stumbles onto a covert plot by KGB agent Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan), who is attempting to build and detonate a nuclear bomb on British soil and blame it on the Americans. With the support of the ailing MI5 director, Preston, who is still at odds with several of his superiors, attempts to uncover and thwart the plot before it's too late.
Directed by John Mackenzie
Story by Frederick Forsyth
Starring
Michael Caine
Pierce Brosnan
Ned Beatty
Ian Richardson
Joanna Cassidy
Highlight of this show is young Evelyn Rudie, a child actress and a complete charmer, who went on to have a long career as co-artistic director of the Santa Monica Playhouse. Don't miss the waltz at 13:40, during which Groucho's daughter Melinda makes a brief appearance to dance with her father.
When Ludicrus loses his seat in the senate, he decides to move the family to Rome, but Lurcio worries about who might be his next master when he finds out that they cannot afford to take him with them.
Giving one of Sir Percy's agents false information, Chauvelin hopes to lure the man he thinks is the Pimpernel into the open. He achieves his aim but is astonished when a 'simple minded' farmer's boy (the Pimpernel in disguise) arrives.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Stars: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Based on the old radio series of the same name, we see the lives of several people attending a popular radio show, including a young couple who meet and fall in love at the show. Great musical acts including Nat King Cole and Spike Jones, but ZaSu Pitts almost steals the show!
Joan tries some of Barbie's exotic food on Eddie. After joining the works social club, Bill challenges Eddie to see who's best at Limbo dancing.
The Abbey of Nanterre has been plundered by Chauvelin, and many of its monks lie dead. Sir Percy decides to rescue the remaining monks, including the Father Guardian, who Percy discovers to be quite a handful.
Ralph tries to remould his character, only to have Alice ask him to return to his old self.
A conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Starring - Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond M****ey, Edmund Breon
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, the film is about a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score for Hans J. Salter.