Open All Hours
Season One, Episode One - 20 Feb. 1976

Stuttering shopkeeper Arkwright, assisted by his much put upon nephew Granville runs the corner shop in a suburb of Doncaster, boasting that it is open all hours. When not pursuing Gladys Emanuel, the district nurse who lives opposite the shop, Arkwright is ever on the look-out to save money, such as buying a load of fire-damaged tinned food. Unfortunately the damage means that all the labels have come off so nobody knows exactly what they are meant to be buying.

A suspicious Captain Peacock thinks his wife is having an extra marital affair with Mr Rumbold behind his back.

Nellie Pickersgill moves to London to take the reins of her Ailing fathers Chelsea pub.

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

The club outing is Saturday and Selwyn want to go to the Taj Mahal. The committee vote for Blackpool, but Selwyn secretly books Stratford on Avon. When the coach does not show up, he sends the club members to his mother's to watch TV while they wait.

Series 4, Episode 5
25th December 1970

The Christmas 1970 episode. Originally filmed in Black & White

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.

Boxing Day at Pledge's Purer Pickles. The factory is quite. The last consignment of special gift-wrapped gherkins for Christmas has long gone.


Nellie and Eli find time to spend a few peaceful hours with the family. It is a small family circle these days and the Pledge's are left with Lily and Walter, affectionately known - by Eli at least - as the Christmas Fairy and King Rat. But is it a good idea to hold a séance to try to get in touch with old Joshua Pledge who has been dead these two years? Is Lily really a medium? Can the ghosts of picklers long departed really roam the factory? Is dad trying to get in touch with Nellie from that great pickle factory in the sky?

Chauvelin uses the Pimpernel's strong sense of chivalry to bait a trap with the beautiful Cecille as the bait. Informed that Madame la Guillotine awaits her pretty neck, Sir Percy plans a rescue.

⁣After Regan's car is stolen with invaluable surveillance photos from a stakeout, the thief gives a heads-up to Sweeney's target.
Director: Terry Green
Writers: Trevor Preston, Ian Kennedy Martin
Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan

As Selwyn is digging a hole, he is throwing the dirt all over Clive's car and Clive challenges him to a duel. Selwyn's clumsiness upsets everyone at the club, then he runs for a place on the committee.

The day of the Triffids, 1962 Full movie. Classic science fiction film about invaders from outer space, man eating plants! After a meteor storm hits the earth & blinds most of the people, carnivorous plants known as Triffids emerge from the craters and begin to take over the planet. Classic Sci-fi movie based on the book by John Wyndham.

Lurcio becomes involved in attempts to prevent Pompeii from going to war with the Barbarians. One of his anti-war activities involves trying to persuade the women of Pompeii to deny conjugal rights if their husbands get involved in the war.

Mrs Slocombe's 50th birthday is approaching. The staff pull out all the stops to ensure it is an occasion to remember - but is she really 50, and where does her cat fit into all the kerfuffle?

Eli finds out that Nellie has had him insured and accuses her of trying to kill him off for his money.

⁣A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.

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

When an airline pilot is framed for drug smuggling, a killer comes to his home to silence him... and the pilot's blind wife is the only witness.

⁣Rather undiplomatic British diplomat Harrington Brande (Sir Michael Hordern) takes up his new post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas (Jon Whiteley). The posting is something of a disappointment to Harrington, who was hoping for a promotion. That his wife had left him seems to have affected his career. Nicholas sees it all as something of an adventure, and soon becomes fast friends with the new gardener, José (Sir Dirk Bogarde).

Sleeping Car to Trieste is a 1948 British comedy thriller film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney and Rona Anderson. It was shot at Denham Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ralph Brinton. It is a remake of the 1932 film Rome Express.

Plot
The setting is almost entirely on a train travelling between Paris and Trieste after World War II. Two rather mysterious people, Zurta (Albert Lieven) and Valya (Jean Kent), are at ease in sophisticated society. Zurta steals a diary from the safe of an embassy in Paris while they are guests at a reception there, killing a servant who walks in on the robbery. Poole, an accomplice, is passed the diary, but he double-crosses them and attempts to escape with it on the Orient Express. Just in time, Valya and Zurta board the train.

They start looking for Poole, who seeks to conceal himself and the diary. Other travellers become involved, including a US Army sergeant with an eye for the ladies, an adulterous couple, an idiot stockbroker, a wealthy, autocratic writer and his brow-beaten secretary, an ornithologist, and a French police inspector. Staff and other passengers provide light-hearted scenes. The diary passes through the hands of several people while the police investigate a mysterious death.