Desmond Jeans

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.

In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.

The ‘Six Men’ are a gang of six criminals that Scotland Yard is unable to pin a charge against even though they are positive of the identities.

John, holidaying in the Ruritanian principality of Poldavia, falls for Princess Sandra. Returning to Britain, he meets not only the princess but her parents. As the King is a wine expert and the Queen a decent cook, they get together to open a restaurant, where John can also sing at table.

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)