Jimmy Clitheroe

Le professeur Phineas T. Barnum (Burl Ives) et son fidèle assistant Tom Pouce (Jimmy Clitheroe) fuient les États-Unis après la faillite de leur cirque. Parvenus en Angleterre, ils font la connaissance du professeur von Bulow (Gert Fröbe) qui leur propose de prendre part à son nouveau projet. La création d’un explosif révolutionnaire qui permettrait de surpasser l'attraction terrestre et d’envoyer un vaisseau vers la lune. Très rapidement, l’invention va faire du bruit et des hommes d’affaires aux intentions peu avouables vont tenter de détourner cette nouvelle technique pour planifier leur propre départ vers la lune.

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

Flatfoot Mason and his friends are the bane of the staff of the school at which Flatfoot is janitor - and where one of the pupils is Mason's long-lost daughter

Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.

Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Norman Evans and many more. The North of England has always enjoyed its own very particular brand of comedy, best seen today in Coronation Street. 80 years ago however Mancunian Studios produced feature films for the northern masses. Funny Up North tells the story of the Mancunian Studios, its eccentric owner John E Blakeley and its cavalcade of stars including such household names as Arthur Askey, Jimmy Jewell, George Formby and the legendary Frank Randle. Hosted by Professor Chris Lee, the authority on northern cinema, Funny Up North takes you on a journey from its humble beginnings to its sad demise in the 1960s.

A half-hour sitcom, the series starred radio and theatre star Jimmy Clitheroe. Using his four-foot three-inch stature and mischievous persona to comic effect, causing further mischief and mayhem for his fictional family. It ran for one series of seven episodes in 1963.