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A Cockney lad who pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess

When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German actress that he had just met at London Airport murdered in his flat It leads him into the world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam

The orderly suburban life of a 1950s English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population They begin to see th

In 1970s English suburbia, middle aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whiskey still, but is frustrated by his work shy son and otherworldly daughter When rude, arrogant Ronald Baines and his famil

Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesa

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much Snogging on the Green Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called The Wit to

Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there Lo and behold, its right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish

An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen and which George had hidden in a ho

A top secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH the Society for the Total Extinction of Non Conforming Humans, and so Agent Simpkins and his three trainees are hot on the trail, chasing the villains across the world There

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantic

A bogus legionnaire proves his mettle during an Arab attack

An American airline firm plans to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the planes designer, Jack Hopkins Michael Craig, and Kathy Fisher Anne Helm, the daughter of the Airline owner, take an instant

Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long lost baby Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide Prof Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp

After having just wed Marie of Normandy, Henry VIIIs eager to consummate their marriage Unfortunately, shes always eating garlic, and refuses to stop Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry must find some way of d

Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares The rivals are Glamcabs, and they ha

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of c

This is the tale of Albert Poop Decker, a newly commissioned Midshipman although he took 8 12 years to qualify He joins the frigate Venus, and adventures through Spanish waters, mutinee and Pirates taking his Captain, his sweet h

Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khyber Pass Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas

Captain Crowthers lot is not a happy one Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isnt much to choose from Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs Lavatory factory Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat eventually everyone has to get fed up with him This is also the ideal opportunity

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain mens ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together The formidable Matrons debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her Th

When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist

A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together They get into quite a few scraps and adventures, including impersonating a celebrity quin

A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children

Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and dont want to lose him

History is only slightly rewritten instead of experienced sailors, there are only convicts whose last and only meeting with H2O was their prison diet of bread and water And Columbus doesnt have his own map

The beautiful and sex starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husbands ardour In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador A jealous lover gives a list of all he

Sergeant Grimshaw wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called up National Servicemen But what a motley bunch they turn out to be

The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff

The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going Hes kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores

Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses home The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of the cutting Dr Tinkle and the overpowering Matron

Farcical misadventures by guests in an English holiday centre

A sanatorium where a group of patients reside They aspire to walk twice round the daffodils which they can do when they are better

Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune But others want to cash in on his good fortu

A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault With less than ten hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy

The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid there French counterparts Sir