Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966. The sitcom was one of only four spin-offs from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Pardon the Expression itself had a spin-off: Turn out the Lights broadcast in 1967. There wasn't to be another spin-off until the 1980s with The Brothers McGregor, which reused two characters who appeared in a single episode. Leonard Swindley was the central character. Formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street, in this series he is the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks. His boss in the series was Ernest Parbold played by Paul Dawkins who was replaced by Wally Hunt played by Robert Dorning in series 2. Other regulars were Betty Driver as canteen lady, Mrs Edgeley and Joy Stewart as Miss Sinclair, the boss's secretary.
A Catholic priest with a dark past uses his position to commit various sins, including murder and elder abuse. When a woman uncovers his secrets, she becomes his next target.
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...
Marianne, a 20-year-old with a mysterious past, is on the run from a corrupt judge who wants to keep her inheritance. As she tries to escape, she becomes entangled in a web of greed, jealousy, and murder. With her half-sister's life in danger, Marianne must navigate the dangerous world of the rich and powerful to uncover the truth and save herself.
In Black Snake (1973), a pacifist man infiltrates a sadistic sugar cane plantation in the Caribbean to uncover the brutal mistreatment of slaves. He faces racism, violence, and the terrifying power of the plantation rulers. As he witnesses the horrors inflicted on the enslaved people, he plots his revenge against the sadistic rulers and seeks justice for the oppressed.
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
Schalcken the Painter tells the chilling tale of a young artist named Gerrit Schalcken, who becomes haunted by a ghostly apparition after entering into an arranged marriage.
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded selection of guests in previously unseen extracts from his classic TV series. The guests include Penny Meredith, Eric Sykes, Henry Cooper and Norman Rossington.
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