The Big Chance

Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!

New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he becomes involved in a food-trading racket. When the scheme is betrayed to the prison's governor, its prime mover is threatened with an extended sentence - unless Rainbow can come up with a way to save him.

The gang genuinely believe they have helped a farmer - even though he has been bad-tempered with them and does not deserve help - by rounding up what they suppose to be his stray cows.

Unable to obtain tickets for the local Cup Final, the gang build a viewing platform atop a tree near the garden of an enemy householder. Their presence there, as always, causes considerable chaos.

A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live music and theatre performances in various English locations.

A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.

Mandy, a young ballet dancer, joins a Ballet company in Bristol run by dance director Daniel. Mandy becomes infatuated with principal dancer Paul while Daniel becomes increasingly disenchanted with his star ballerina Isabelle.

The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, at a time when he wants to stage a flop.

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.