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?

In 17th. century England, Jassy is believed a witch because she has sometimes visions of approaching disasters.

When Barney Hatton, an impoverished gentry whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him have his property back - at any price?

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.

The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel 'The Wrong Box' by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.

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

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

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.

Series 4, Episode 5
25th December 1970

The Christmas 1970 episode. Originally filmed in Black & White

Sales figures are down and profits are down so young Mr. Grace orders Mr. Rumbold to make staff cut backs. Someone has to go and Mr. Rumbold decides the staff must decide who.

Full Western Movie, Full Length Cowboy Film, English: (1958)
The Bravados (original title), 1h 38min, Drama, Western.

The Bravados is a 1958 American western film (colour by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. The CinemaScope film was based on a novel of the same name, written by Frank O'Rourke.

A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail but they escape to Mexico.

Director: Henry King
Writers: Philip Yordan (screenplay), Frank O'Rourke (novel)
Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd

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

⁣Internationally-acclaimed comedy starring Reg Varney as bus driver Stan Butler. Life at home has its problems for Stan, but so does work at the bus depot.

⁣As a tenth anniversary present Aunt Maud sends Olive and Arthur a dog, which Olive names Scruffy,but he eats Arthur's food and gives him a sneezing allergy,so Olive takes him back to Aunt Maud by bus. The dog goes for Blakey,tearing his trousers, and he fines Olive a fiver,but Jack anticipates that if they have a whip-round at the depot everyone will want to support the dog that bit the inspector.

Series 4, Episode 817th January 1971Originally filmed in black and white due to the ITV colour strike

Lord Richard Hastings's eye for a pretty girl places him and Sir Percy in the spotlight - and right under Chauvelin's nose. Will the gossip prove to be their undoing, or can the Pimpernel save the day?

Writer: Rod Serling
Stars: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
Director: Fielder Cook

In Rod Serling's tale of corporate greed, when a young man is recruited onto the board of a high-powered corporation, he finds his ethics at odds with his ambition. Watch for an unbilled Lauren Bacall in a lobby scene... or is it a look-a-like?

The staff are short of money and can't afford the new executive dining menu that is being forced on them. Mrs. Slocombe has a side-line, however, a home made perfume that will attract the opposite sex!

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

The Life...The Loves...The Crimes of Jack the Ripper!
A mysterious lodger in Victorian London becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders reminiscent of Jack the Ripper. As tension mounts, a young woman living in the same boarding house becomes increasingly suspicious of the man upstairs, leading to a suspenseful cat-and-mouse game to uncover the truth behind the chilling crimes.

Original title: Man in the Attic (1953)

Black & White version: https://youtu.be/LJ3CjiDHcDs

Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Robert Presnell Jr.
Stars: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier
Genres: Colorized classics, Mystery, Thriller
Budget: $500,000


0:00 A man named Mr. Slade visits a house to inquire about renting rooms.
09:43 A pathologist named Mr. Slade rents rooms in a house to study and conduct experiments, while the owners are in need of money due to business reverses and become nervous about the recent Jack the Ripper murders.
14:59 A group of people prepare for a theater show while the city is plagued by the Ripper murders.
25:09 Inspector Warwick from Scotland Yard questions Miss Bonner about a woman named Annie Rowley who is believed to be a victim of Jack the Ripper.
30:55 Mr. Slade discusses the Ripper case with Inspector Warwick and shares his theories on the killer's profile.
36:18 A man and a woman discuss their feelings and the woman suspects that a man they know is the Ripper.
45:06 A tour of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard and a discussion about murderers and their crimes.
47:21 A discussion about Jack the Ripper's crimes and the possibility of another murder.
59:09 The characters discuss their suspicions about Dr. Slade and his involvement in the recent crimes.
1:04:32 Inspector Harley investigates Mr. Slade's possible connection to the Ripper murders.
1:11:30 A doctor becomes convinced that an actress is the daughter of Jack the Ripper and tries to save her from her evil tendencies.


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