Dresser
Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.
Mrs. Muller
A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.
Lil
Horace Pope y Pedlar Pascoe son dos soldados de la RAF, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero no destacan precisamente por su interés por hacer méritos. Son más aficionados a realizar pequeñas estafas con las que sacar algún dinero de sus inocentes víctimas. Aunque intentan evitar a toda costa cualquier esfuerzo extraordinario, acaban siendo enviados a realizar una misión secreta de cierta importancia. A pesar de su torpeza, y casi por casualidad, acaban teniendo éxito en la misión, y a su vuelta son considerados héroes.
Cook
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
Mrs. Bull
Arthur Seaton es un joven inglés de carácter agrio y rebelde que trabaja en una fábrica. Trata de huir de su rutinaria y aburrida vida bebiendo y divirtiéndose cuanto puede los fines de semana. Ésa es la única meta de su vida: pasarlo lo mejor posible. Al mismo tiempo, mantiene una relación con la mujer de un compañero, y todo se complica cuando se queda embarazada. Mientras tanto, se enamora de una joven de estrictos principios morales que le exige un compromiso serio.
Aunt Morrison
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
Second Landlady
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Mrs. Northropp
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.
Mrs. Bunting
Una escritora de novelas de misterio (Bette Davis) está enamorada de un muchacho (Anthony Steel). Su marido, un presidiario, se fuga de la cárcel y se reúne con ella en los páramos del Yorkshire. Se enzarzan en una pelea y el marido muere. Otro presidiario (Gary Merrill, marido en la vida real de Bette Davis), que también se había fugado, ha visto lo ocurrido y llega a un pacto con la escritora: ocultará el cadáver y no la denunciará, si ella acepta que él se haga pasar por su marido hasta que las cosas se calmen...
Mrs Bott
A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
Mrs. Duncan (voice) (uncredited)
Un marinero deja a su familia abandonada en las calles de Liverpool. Su hija crece y se convierte en una mujer, pero vive con la esperanza de que su padre regrese.
Mrs. Kipling
Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."
Mrs. Harrison
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern instead.
The Landlady
The audience are invited to solve crimes. The two cases depicted are The Case of the Stolen Boy and The Hairless Boarder.
