Episode list

Dan, an insurance agent, is about to take his dog for its nightly walk when his wife comments bitterly upon their monotonous life of routine. Little do they realise that their dull lives are shortly to be involved with murder.

The Selincourts buy a house they discover is haunted by the scream of a woman in agony. While out one day, Mr Selincourt hears a strange story which causes him to rush home as quick as he can.

Timothy and Henry, two brothers, live in a small American town. Timothy has two main aims in life: one, to look after his brother as he promised his mother; the other to become an outstanding cook. However, a mix-up of recipes and romance leads to misunderstandings galore.

Two children find a secret room in a huge house which has a strange clock. The clock has only one hand.

Two young strangers bump into each other at a house that is for sale. Both determined to buy it, both for different reasons.

A surgeon discovers that he is going to be operating on his wife's lover.

A lovelorn shop assistant, dressing the window with Scottish tweed, dreams of how he would pursue his lady love, if he were the dashing Lochinvar.

George Bailey is normally a calm man who never gets angry, one day a wrongly dialed phone number changes all that.

Gribble has to contend with the wrath of his girlfriend when he breaks a date to work late. It's during that evening at work that he spots an opportunity to make a fortune but someone may have to die for it.

Wanda, a young Frenchwoman, is haunted by a prediction that she will die before she is 30. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Pete, a young American student, fights to save her from her obsession.

A five-pound note changes hands nine times in London, affecting the life of each person who touches it.

It seems a routine, uneventful train journey on the Orient Express from Paris to Milan. But some of the passengers are strange people.

Miss Ellen is responding to a job advertisement for the position of a house keeper in a lighthouse. When she gets to the lighthouse to apply for the job, she is welcomed by the current housekeeper, Mrs. Murdock, who tells her that the lighthouse keeper has some "foolish notions."

Visiting Heidelberg, Sam, an American, is challenged to a duel by Franz, one of the best swordsmen in Europe. But the weapons Sam selects for the duel are unusual.

Scientist George Griffin finds that his invention of a miracle drug brings him not only world wide fame, but renewed attention from his sister. She decides to re-mould his life to her own ends.

Arthur's skill at slicing meat in the grocery store where he works suddenly causes a major crisis in the small town where he lives.

A young scientist is at first grateful for the guide he is given to show him to his new isolated posting in the mountains.However this later turns to alarm when his guide shows signs of manic depression with suicidal tendencies.

Pandora Lexington goes to great lengths to break up her young sister's association with an older man. Strangely, he seems to enjoy Pandora's efforts to make his life unbearable.

After pleading his innocence, Villon is offered refuge from the searching authorities by an old soldier. During the night an incident causes the soldier to regret his decision. Villon has until the morning light to prove he is an honest man.

Generous but broke Henry Popple suddenly finds he always has a pound note in his pocket.

Megan buys a new dress and goes on holiday after her husband is missing presumed dead in a mining accident. She meets Ted who helps her enjoy life again. However, courtesy of the dress, her miserable first marriage comes back to haunt her.

Elopement to Gretna Green in the 1880s was an adventure. Much could happen to travellers on the road.

Baron von Eisson has never left his ancient castle in Austria and does not intend ever to do so. However, the baron is hard up, the castle is falling into ruin and the wages are unpaid. Then comes a letter. If he will go to Berlin, his fortunes will be saved. The baron starts to make fantastic preparations for his long journey to Berlin, where his black sheep brother has disgraced the family by becoming a successful businessman.

Walter McHarry, a miserly Scots grocer, does not approve of his son's romance with Maureen, the daughter of the feckless Paddy O'Clafferty. However, the Irishman knows a way of making the old skinflint change his mind.

Mike Shannon, a widower, lives with his young son Brian in a cottage in the Irish midlands. When Molly arrives on the scene, the boy resents Mike's interest in her and tries to break up his father's new romance.

A young woman discovers her grandfather owns the true Aladdin's lamp.

A man from Texas arrives at a shipping office with an old letter. Had Morgan (a partner in the office) known what was in it earlier it would have changed his life.

Two gangsters, Harry Jordan and Jimmy Fraser, are on the run from the police. They decide to call on a wealthy aunt of Jimmy's whom they have never met. Jimmy never manages to see his aunt but Harry does - and a frightened Harry wishes that he never had.