Josh Holman encounters the ghost of a child mine worker with a special warning on the headlands of his Cornish home town, as an old tin mine is about to be re-opened after the discovery of valuable deposits of ore.
Отчаянный сержант нью-йоркской полиции Дик Де Сильва привык ловить преступников в экстремальной ситуации «на живца», в роли которого всегда выступал он сам. Но «адреналиновой» службе приходит конец, после того, как героя переводят во вновь созданное антитеррористическое подразделение. Однако скучать в новой должности Де Сильве не пришлось. В Нью-Йорке объявился самый разыскиваемой террорист на Земле — безжалостный убийца Хеймар Райнхардт, известный всему миру, как Вульфгар, который захватывает заложников прямо в воздухе, в вагончике фуникулера, следующего на Рузвельт — Айленд. Теперь самый бесстрашный коп должен будет сразиться с самым жестоким террористом!
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way.
