Talking Pictures TV Wednesday

Simon takes a disliking to a man making overtures to a married woman on his stage and challenges him to a fist fight

A nightclub employee helps the brother of a murdered journalist to expose a drug-dealing syndicate. Crime drama, starring Paul Carpenter and Kay Callard

A young woman recently arrived in London witnesses a murder, and seeks the help of the victim's brother when she becomes a suspect. Crime drama, with John Mills and Rene Ray

An alcoholic bomb disposal expert regains his self-respect by defusing an unexploded German doodlebug. Powell and Pressburger's thriller, starring David Farrar

A Norwegian resistance fighter tries to escape the country for Britain in the hope of bringing Allied troops back with him. Second World War drama, starring Paul Muni and Anna Lee

Jennifer is keen to start a family, but Mary warns Ted of the dangers of having children at her age. Merroney reveals who controls Brian's shares while he is away from the firm

The rise in paperback output and the old art of bookbinding

A con man marries a terminally ill rich widow for her fortune, but when she recovers, he is forced to consider murder. Crime thriller, starring John Bromfield and Martha Vickers

An inventor develops a bombsight that could change the course of the Second World War, but Nazi spies plan to disrupt his work. Thriller, starring Leslie Banks and John Mills

Michael Aspel explores the modern myth of the phantom hitch-hiker and a cursed burial place on one of the Outer Hebrides islands

Ash gets some time off and plans to spend it in bed - but Susan has other ideas

The daughter of a controversial right-wing journalist is kidnapped, and a strange ransom demand is issued which forces her father to confront the demons of his past

The inspector is less than pleased to be reunited with an old schoolfriend, who needs his help. In French

The management confines the residents to contain the syphilis epidemic. Isabelle tries to hide her affair with Edouard. In French

A research pathologist takes lodgings in a woman's gloomy attic, just as Jack the Ripper claims his third victim. Thriller, starring Jack Palance and Constance Smith

An undercover policeman delves into London's criminal underworld on a search for murderous Russian anarchists. Fact-based period crime drama, with Peter Wyngarde and Donald Sinden

A notorious thief seeks refuge from police in the Casbah in Algiers, but is tempted out by his love for a Parisian woman. Romantic musical, starring Tony Martin and Yvonne de Carlo

Humphrey Lyttleton, Alfred Marks, Mike Reid, Terry Scott, Joan Turner and Max Wall discuss their lives before becoming famous

A look at the top secret bases of Britain's resistance movement, where farm workers and gamekeepers learned how to handle machine guns and explosives

Watson fears that Holmes has put his remarkable skills to darker purposes by becoming a criminal mastermind - but things are not as clear cut as they seem

An American detective investigates a counterfeiting scam in London. Crime drama, starring Wayne Morris, Karin Booth and Anton Diffring