First broadcast: Saturdays on ITV – 24 March to 19 May 1979 A young couple on holiday in Jamaica meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes one of them a macabre wager.
Unable to show her dentist husband Cyril the lavish mink fur coat her lover has given her, Mrs Bixby proceeds to hatch a clever plan.
First broadcast: ITV – Saturdays 1 March to 14 June 1980 Mabel’s baby is sick and her bee-obsessed husband thinks he has found a remedy.
First broadcast: Saturdays, Sundays and a Friday on ITV – 9 to 30 August and 9 November to 19 December 1980 With a 12-year-old found dead and a killer perhaps on the loose, a young girl becomes paranoid.
Mrs Wilbur gets more than she bargained for when she calls upon the unusual services of Brit and Canadian Tom and George, two starving writers turned entrepreneurs.
Cyril makes a profitable living as a rogue antiques dealer, but when he buys a farmer’s valuable furniture his luck may be about to run out.
When Roland leaves his cruel, millionairess wife Vivien for a fresh start with his mistress Anna, the snubbed spouse plans to make his life a living hell.
When an elderly lady catches a burglar trying to rob her she decides to help him go straight, but when he refuses to change she has to take a different approach.
Desperate to win the affections of his boss’s daughter, Arthur feels he needs style and enlists the suave Charlie for his wardrobe.
David is accused of murder when his wife Irene vanishes, Her promiscuous lifestyle made her the talk of the town but the gossip has escalated.
Kyros plans on giving his wife a priceless bottle of wine for their anniversary but he has no intention of drinking to her health.
Then dropped by her agency for her diva-like behaviour, supermodel Marigold’s mental health deteriorates, and she is placed in an asylum for 12 years.
Two cash-strapped business owners tunnel their way into a bank – only to find they missed a crucial notice on the door.
But when Emily disappears, Norma makes too much fuss... Cara is determined to get back her family jewels, which have been hidden away in a safe.
Paul Standing, the son of a recently deceased doctor, is sorting out his paperwork when he receives a bill from a bookshop for thousands of pounds worth of pornography.
Sitting on a garden bench, an old man called von Baden discusses with a friend an academic fencing duel that took place 50 years ago in Heidelberg, Germany.
Susan Mandeville is a beautiful American woman who takes a shine to struggling writer Tony Medway.
First broadcast: Saturdays and Sundays on ITV – 12 May to 21 October 1984 Fred Pearson, a Vietnam veteran, is a broken man after years of punishment from his sergeant.
Successful writer Sam Luke is being hounded by the feminist movement for his books, which speak of women being the weaker sex.
Elizabeth kills her husband because she wants to be with her young lover Ray – who helped in the murder – but she feels insecure because of the age gap.
George Princey has a high standing in the community, and when his daughter kills a man, he endeavours to cover it up to prevent him facing a scandal.
First broadcast: 1 Saturday and 3 Sundays on ITV – 30 March and 14 to 28 July 1985 Reeve Baker is a successful romantic novelist.
First broadcast: Fridays on ITV – 18 December 1987 to 29 January 1988 and 15 April to 13 May 1988 Robert has kept secret that he accidentally killed a ten-year-old girl in a car crash twenty years ago.
A young woman, Jane, comes to the area trying to find a man whose name she does not know, but whom she knows arrived driving an MG. Eve Hamilton-Peregrine has written a successful book of poetry.
When wealthy Prince Zawi gives surgeon Robert Sandy a diamond for saving his life, the doctor finds that his new jewel is really more of a liability than an asset.
When sheltered young son Nicholas travels to London to complete in a fencing competition, he gets caught up in a very strange adventure.
When a timid provincial solicitor visits a smart London hotel on a business trip, he becomes embroiled in a curious case of mistaken identity.
Happily married and living in the Middle East, American safe-cracker Steve is suddenly threatened with extradition for a crime he says he did not commit.
Yves’s marriage has gone stale and his young mistress has announced that she is pregnant but he then makes a decision which changes everyone’s lives forever.
When pretty hotel worker Elly is charmed by a guest, archaeologist Max Kelada, it seems that the Mr-Know-It-All professor might not be the man he claims to be.