Patrick Boxill

A gender-switched retelling of the myth of Hero and Leander. Hero (Alan Gordon) simply cannot resist helping people who are in trouble, and Leander (Sylvie Feigel) is the richest girl in the world. After a series of encounters, they fall in love and get married.

BBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play.

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.

A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.