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- DirectorHenry KaplanStarsNorman WisdomMillicent MartinRichard BriersWhen asked to house-sit his aunt's cottage, Wisdom invites friends for a 1920s English summer. Slapstick chaos ensues when one friend, the zany Millicent Martin, arrives. Despite the mayhem, Wisdom rights things before they're unfixable.
- DirectorDicky LeemanStarsTerry-ThomasJeannie CarsonLen LoweFour war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub act.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsNorman WisdomMargaret RutherfordMoira ListerNorman, a stockroom worker at a London store, aspires to be a window dresser. Pursuing his dream, he falls for a shopgirl and they uncover a robbery plot, miraculously foiling the thieves.
- DirectorBill WardStarsTerry-ThomasNorman WisdomAl Read
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsNorman WisdomJoan RiceShirley AbicairNorman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer (boo hiss!) who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "never seen the sea". When they get back, they discover the plan to close the orphanage and must decide what to do.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsNorman WisdomLana MorrisBelinda LeeCivil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsNorman WisdomMaureen SwansonJerry DesmondeA friendly window cleaner works at an English country estate where he saves the owner's son from kidnappers.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsNorman WisdomMargaret RutherfordJill DixonNorman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
- DirectorBrian TeslerStarsAvril AngersAnthea AskeyArthur Askey
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsNorman WisdomHonor BlackmanEdward ChapmanA British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsNorman WisdomJune LaverickJerry DesmondeNorman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer who's star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
- DirectorStuart BurgeStarsNorman WisdomAlfred MarksAndrew CruickshankDavy Cooper is a law-abiding but down on his luck explosives expert. A chance meeting with a former comrade leads the naive Cooper into a world of crime and ultimately prison. On release though the chance to make amends presents itself.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsNorman WisdomIan HunterDavid LodgeWhen he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsNorman WisdomJennifer JayneRaymond HuntleyNorman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Norman could cause.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsNorman WisdomEdward ChapmanJeanette SterkeAn accident in the butcher's shop leads Norman and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Norman finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Norman decides to help.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsNorman WisdomEdward ChapmanJerry DesmondeNorman is the assistant trying to assist the operation of a small, old-fashioned dairy which is being threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Norman gives his best attempts to save the dairy (and his horse), and the usual chaos ensues.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsNorman WisdomDerek BondAngela BrowneThe British P.M.'s grandson, Norman, becomes a reporter for a provincial newspaper where he causes hilarious chaos.
- DirectorJoe LaytonStarsNorman WisdomNoël CowardEd AmesThe story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJason RobardsBritt EklandNorman WisdomA naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.
- DirectorMenahem GolanStarsNorman WisdomSally GeesonSarah AtkinsonA middle aged banker picks up two young free minded women on his way to a banker's convention and falls head over heels for one of them.