John Charlesworth
1935 - 1960British juvenile actor of the 1950s, who committed suicide by gassing himself. He left a note saying "In this life, you can only let so many people down, then you realize you have gone too far!".
Scrooge
Brian Desmond Hurst
Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Scrooge
Five on a Treasure Island
Gerald Landau
Rel Grainer, Richard Palmer
A story of the location of shipwrecked treasure (gold ingots) being hunted down by 4 children George, Julian, Dick and Ann (sic) and their dog Tim up against a couple of machinating baddies...
Five on a Treasure Island
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Gordon Parry
John Howard Davies, Robert Newton
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
The Magic Box
John Boulting
Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
The Magic Box
The Adventures of Hal 5
Don Sharp
John Glyn-Jones, John Charlesworth
A very old Austin 7 car is found by two children and bought by their uncle, the Vicar, but the garage proprietor conceals its faulty transmission, which leads to some surprising developments.
The Adventures of Hal 5
The Man Upstairs
Don Chaffey
Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.
The Man Upstairs
