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Browse 50 movies from ABC Weekend Television
The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited for drinks but things don't quite go as they imagined it would.
Jan 1966
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.
Apr 1960
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
Sep 1962
Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
Jan 1961
Two people start to live together and raise children and a double pattern is set. You're a couple and one day you realise who or what you were before. But Frances must find herself again and runs to where the ships sail.
Feb 1967
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.
Sep 1960
Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
Mar 1961
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?
Feb 1966
A doctor named Dr. Fancy is charged for the death of Mrs. Sprat's son. Did he or did he not cause Mrs. Sprat's son to die.
Sep 1964
When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.
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Toff and Fingers head to a small Scottish village to lay low after stealing some antique silverware. The pair pose as a General and his batman looking their next job but the warm welcome, from the locals, makes them have second thoughts.
Jul 1960
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
Jul 1962
A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.
Sep 1966
Tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - is now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.
Dec 1964
Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.
Sep 1961
An old man is rescued from Iceland. Why would you need rescuing from Iceland - unless you're Adolf Hitler...
May 1962
Can Theodore Quill, a self-styled Casanova, face the truth of his affairs?
Jul 1967
A young woman befriends a lonely millionaire with a disfigured face whose ruthless business practices are threatening to ruin her father. A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.
Oct 1961
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.
Aug 1962