Gladys Henson

Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon... (imdb)

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along. (imdb)

Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to drift apart. Dot seems content to pursue her own interests, until Reggie meets Pete, a fellow cyclist, and begins to explore his own identity. (imdb)

A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy and a satire on psychologists finds young Johnny Brent, the only child of a pair of psychologists, trading an "invisible watch" to a much-younger child for a large magnet. His nurse/nanny accuses him of stealing and scolds him and he runs away. (imdb)

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge. (imdb)

A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. (imdb)

Down-to-earth story of a war-workers domestic vicissitudes, including his daughter's romance with a young nobleman. (BFI)

A former jewel thief, now confined to a wheelchair and living under a false name, runs a boarding house for larcenous old women. An old criminal acquaintance moves into the house and attempts to blackmail her.

A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death? (imdb)

A group of youngsters have fun using their ingenuity to build their own go-kart - with the hope of eclipsing a rival children's gang, and beating them at the local race track. (imdb)