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
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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
Um operário de 22 anos se solta nos finais de semana: bebendo, brigando e namorando duas mulheres, uma das quais é mais velha e casada, mas grávida de seu filho. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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
Uma escritora de mistério se envolve numa emaranhada teia de engano e assassinato, não muito diferente das tramas de seus romances. A escritora de mistério Janet Frobisher vive sozinha numa isolada e obscura casa de campo, isso quando não está paquerando o noivo de sua secretária. Em um momento extremamente embaraçoso, ela recebe um visitante indesejável: George Bates, que afirma ser o parceiro no crime do marido de Janet. George se insinua na casa e na vida de Janet, apesar dos esforços dela para se livrar dele; os relacionamentos emaranhados se transformam em um macabro e assassino jogo de gato e rato.
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)
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
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.
