Schedule for British Screen Classics

Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise

When Captain Paris takes over at a big army camp as Chaplain and Entertainments Officer, the troops are in for some surprises. Captain Paris finds the Garrison Theatre ill attended, as the troops favor the local hostelries in preference to the succession of feminine string quartets and madrigal singers hitherto engaged for their amusement. Paris sets out to remedy this sad state of affairs, but his idea of staging a Brains Trust with local celebrities as the 'brains' turns out to have disastrous results!

2025-12-25 17:57:53 +0000 UTC2025-12-25 19:37:03 +0000 UTC(1h39m)
Drayton Case

Drayton Case

Step by step, thrill by thrill, we watch Scotland Yard detectives build up damning evidence against a murderer who for years had believed himself completely safe from discovery. When a human skeleton is discovered beneath the rubble of a bomb school, it is presumed to be the victim of enemy bombing. Police scientists, however, making a routine examination, prove that the bones are those of a woman who had been strangled...

2026-01-31 12:32:44 +0000 UTC2026-01-31 13:00:27 +0000 UTC(27m)
Rainbow Jacket

Rainbow Jacket

Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the

2026-01-31 07:21:28 +0000 UTC2026-01-31 09:11:35 +0000 UTC(1h50m)