Henry Higgins, a pompous phonetic professor (Sir Rex Harrison), is so confident in his ability that he decides to make a Cockney girl from working class into a member of…
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered…
Up to a house high on a mountain top have been invited ten people who are strangers to each other. When they are all gathered, they hear from their host…
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in…
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber…
Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva, though not in the buff. This leads…
The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession. The young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls…
Episodic telling of 20 years of the working-class Gibbons family in their South London rental house from 1919 to 1939–from just after the conclusion of WWI to just before the…
