George Robey

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.

A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.

Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscrupulous record label boss Mr Gordon (Sam Livesey), who finally gets his comeuppance after one dirty trick too far against his rivals. If the film's love story is perfunctory, the real interest comes with watching performers of the day, from Henry Wood and his orchestra to George Robey and Charles 'the laughing policeman' Penrose laying down their recordings direct to record. And something very like a prototype laser disc makes a crucial appearance too.

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.

A musical comedy of false identities.

Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.

Parody of an unknown melodrama of the period.

Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.

In China a washerwoman's son uses a magician's lamp to marry a Princess.

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.