Joan Hickson

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper ...

Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to ...

An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new ...

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody’s much interested in problem child, Kate. ...

Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. ...

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the ...

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon ...

Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable ...

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite ...

In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who’s after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men’s ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron’s ...

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he ...

When a ballerina’s career is ended after she’s injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young ...

Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, ...

Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an ...

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some ...

An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up ...

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social ...