Philip Shipway

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins

After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

유럽의 초소국 그랜드 펜윅. 수출품이라고는 '피놋 그랜드 펜윅'이라는 와인이 전부인 이 작은 나라가 미국에서 만든 유사품 와인 때문에 경제 상태가 어려워지자 미국에 대대적인 선전포고를 하려고 한다. 꾀 많은 마운트조이 수상(Prime Minister Count Mountjoy: 피터 셀러스 분)이 만든 이 계획은 선전포고를 한 후 재빨리 패배를 인정하여 대외원조를 받고 그 돈으로 나라 경제를 살리자는 것이었다. 그랜드 펜윅의 지배자 글로리아나 여공(Grand Duchess Gloriana XII: 피터 셀러스 분)은 처음에는 회의적이었지만 수상의 말에 넘어가 실수투성이인 탈리 배스콤(Tully Bascombe: 피터 셀러스 분)에게 군사 지휘를 맡기고 계획을 실행에 옮긴다. 하지만 구식 나무 배를 타고 맨해튼에 도착한 탈리 일행이 본 뉴욕은 황량함 그 자체. 공습 훈련 중이라 모두들 지하에서 대피 훈련을 하던 중이었다. 이들은 뉴욕 시내에서 길을 잃고 헤매던 중 원자 폭탄 제작자인 코킨스 박사(Professor Kokintz: 데이비드 코소프 분)와 그의 예쁜 딸, 헬렌(Helen Kokintz: 진 시버그 분)과 마주치게 되는데...

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...

In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.