CBS Summer Playhouse: Outpost

UK 1986 Rachel Morgan is the marshal of a sleepy human “Outpost” on the planet Icarus, where a vicious alien leads a group of native Icari on the warpath.

Aliens

UK 1986 The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

Link

UK 1986 Student Jane jobs as an assistant for the animal researcher Phillip in a lonesome old house. They live alone except for the chimpanzees and butler Link: a 45 years old very intelligent orangutan. Phillip wants to put Link to death. However before he can do this...

Duet for One

UK 1986 Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with another woman and her favourite pupil decides to leave for a tour in the USA....

Castaway

UK 1986 Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove...

Haunted Honeymoon

UK 1986 Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives.

Half Moon Street

UK 1986 Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the...

Clockwise

UK 1986 Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters strike.

The Whistle Blower

UK 1986 A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable.

Whoops Apocalypse

UK 1986 A small British colony is invaded by its Communist neighbour. Newly elected female President of the United States, Barbara Adams, tried to sort out the mess but the British under the leader of PM Sir Mortimer Chris sends in a task force to seize the islands...

Little Shop of Horrors

UK 1986 A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Labyrinth

UK 1986 15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.

Our Exploits at West Poley

UK 1985 1st. Unit Fire & Safety TV / Movie – Film Production. Experienced Firefighters Ensure The Safety Of Your Movie or TV Production, Crew & Set. (Fire & Medical)

Sky Bandits

UK 1985 When two cowboys are captured in the old west trying to rob a bank, they are exiled to the front lines of World War I to fight alongside the British. They get into a bet to see if they can fly a Gunbus, they do but then end up in another base under an officer who is...

Young Sherlock Holmes

UK 1985 When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

National Lampoon: European Vacation

UK 1985 The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don’t know how to be be good tourists.

The Holcroft Covenant

UK 1985 Noel Holcroft is a foreign-born American citizen working in New York as an architect. In Geneva he meets with a respected Swiss banker who tells him he has been designated to be executor of a huge 4 1/2 billion dollar trust fund designed to make reparations for the...

Out of the Darkness

UK 1985 In an English village, three youths see the spirit of a child who died in a 17th-century plague epidemic. They decide to learn about the town’s history to find out how they can help set the child’s ghost free.

Lost in London

UK 1985 Facing his parent’s (Lynne Moody, Ben Vereen) impending divorce and emotional upheaval, a young boy (Emmanuel Lewis) runs away and joins a gang of London street urchins who live by their wits, begging, and thievery.

Dreamchild

UK 1985 Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll’s classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book’s inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by.

Foreign Body

UK 1985 An unemployed Indian engineer emigrates to England to find work and through a series of circumstances, ends up impersonating a doctor to win the attention of an attractive young woman.

White Nights

UK 1985 An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he...

Thirteen at Dinner

UK 1985 An American movie actress, best known for playing dumb blondes, is Scotland Yard’s prime suspect when her husband, Lord Edgware, is murdered. The great detective, Hercule Poirot, digs deeper into the case.

Lifeforce

UK 1985 A space shuttle mission investigating Halley’s Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London’s population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but...