Murray Matheson

The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa who experiences quite an epiphany on Christmas Eve. And “Five Characters in search of an exit”.

첫번째 이야기, '빌에게 생긴 일'(존 랜디스 감독) 중년의 세일즈맨, 빌은 승진에 누락되어 심한 좌절감을 느끼고, 친구들에게 그동안 쌓인 불만을 늘어놓는다. 유태인인 골드만 때문에 승진에서 밀려났다고 생각하고 있는 빌. 그는 유태인 뿐만 아니라 유색 인종들에 대한 심한 반감을 큰소리로 떠들어 댄다. 혼자 술집을 나선 빌은 갑자기 자신이 낯선 곳에 와 있음을 깨닫게 되는데... 두번째 이야기, '꿈을 심어주는 노인'(스티븐 스필버그 감독) 퇴직한 늙은이들이 모여 사는 서니베일 양로원에는 각각 다른 성격의 노인들이 TV앞에 모여 앉아, 의미 없는 수다를 떨고, 지난날을 그리워하며 단조로운 일상을 보내고 있다. 어느날, 새로 들어온 볼룸씨는 어릴때 그들이 하던 깡통차기 놀이를 해 보자고 제안한다. 놀이를 시작하자마자 노인들은 다시 어린 시절의 모습으로 돌아가게 되지만... 세 번째 이야기, '이상한 소년'(죠 단테 감독) 일상적인 생활에 염증을 느끼던 헬렌은 허무하고 공허한 자신의 생활을 새롭게 해 줄 그 무언가를 찾아 여행을 떠난다. 여행 도중에 헬렌은 어느 조그만 간이 식당에서 안소니라는 소년을 만나게 된다. 그녀의 차에 부딪혀 넘어진 안소니를 집까지 데려다 주게 된다. 헬렌은 안소니 가족의 어색하리만큼 과장된 친절에 다소 당혹감을 느끼고... 네 번째 이야기, '발렌타인의 악몽'(죠지 밀러 감독) 심한 폭우와 짙은 구름을 뚫고, 요란한 소리를 내며, 비행기 한 대가 그 거대한 몸체를 움직이고 있다. 비행 공포증이 있는 발렌타인은 겁에 질려 화장실에 웅크리고 앉아 있다. 승무원의 도움으로 자리에 앉아 잠을 청해보지만, 심하게 흔들리는 기체의 진동과 요란한 번개 소리로 공포감에 사로잡힌다. 무심히 창 밖을 내다 본 그는 비행기 날개 끝에 매달려 있는 소름 끼치는 뭔가를 보고, 그 괴물이 엔진을 부수고 있다며 흥분하는데...

A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.

A religious drama about Christ's parents, the events leading up to his birth, and the effect on the lives of the well-known biblical figures of the time.

Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.

During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're being chased by the police, accused of murdering several police officers.

A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.

A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home.

The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.

At the Tangier airport, a group of people await the arrival of a mysterious plane from behind the Iron Curtain. The reception committee includes Susan, an American; Gil Walker, a free-booting pilot; Danzer, a black market operator; and Danzer's girlfriend, Nicki. The plane crashes and burns. No survivors are found, nor are any corpses. Soon the search begins for a missing courier worth $3 million.

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.

Based on the story of Australia's colonization, this atmospheric drama stars Alan Ladd as Hugh Tallant, an American medical student falsely convicted of robbery and sent on a torturous voyage with other prisoners to the penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.

South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.

Storyline Roger Henderson, the young son of a wealthy British gentleman, lives in one of those grand British country estates surrounded by huge gardens. When a Rembrandt painting is stolen from the vault in the basement of the mansion, Roger and John Wilson (young son of the butler) discover a secret tunnel leading from the vault to another building on the estate. They then set out on a dangerous mission to bring the smugglers to justice.

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

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 offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.