While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In…
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children’s Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children’s lives. One small child risks losing his…
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth…
Following her father’s death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It’s clearly a trap, but nothing will keep…
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer’s wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes…
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
