Movies: Abc Weekend Television

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners....

The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited for drinks but things don't quite go as they imagined it would....

A young woman befriends a lonely millionaire with a disfigured face whose ruthless business practices are threatening to ruin her father. A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast....

When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice....

Thomas Chadwick is a man of dignity. He knows what's right and nothing will deter him from it. Unfortunately he cannot quite find the right job to go with his ideals, and he tries just about everything....

Spot-welder Aaron Toft assumes the identity of Aaron Osango - an ex-spot welder who has been sentenced to death and is in jail in an African state....

Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for....

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie....

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout....

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents....

A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man....

Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims....

A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him....

Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress. All their efforts are needed to get the deal that will save his business....

A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot....

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men....

Two people start to live together and raise children and a double pattern is set. You're a couple and one day you realise who or what you were before. But Frances must find herself again and runs to where the ships sail....

Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together the more age difference becomes a rift between them....

American horror television movie from 1956....

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself....