Joan Hickson

Miss Marple's instincts are triggered when a friend claims to have witnessed a murder.

When Miss Marple visits an old friend, a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.

An American film star throws a summer garden party for the entire village of St Mary Mead - where one of her fans drinks a poisoned cocktail and promptly drops dead.

John Cleese, at his harried best in this hilarious British comedy, plays a school headmaster obsessed with punctuality. His best laid plans to attend a headmasters' conference go wrong when he boards the wrong train. He turns back to find alternative means of transport, hijacking one of his pupils who is taking the afternoon off school in her father's car. As the journey descends into further chaos, the head begins to lose his schoolmasterly poise.

1952. Drama starring Leslie Dwyer and Lisa Daniely. Successful remake of one of the earliest British talkies. Set in the Hindle, two mill workers take off to Blackpool for the 'Wakes' holiday.

The story of a successful ballet dancer who fights with her philandering husband for the attention of their young daughter.

With one of their fathers recently deceased and the other hardly there, fate brings fifteen-year-old Paul and fourteen-year-old Michelle together in a chance encounter. Instant friends, the young couple flees Paris on a whim, and takes refuge in a rural cottage. But as their fondness for each other blossoms into deep affection, their short trip becomes longer and their love deeper.