Talking Pictures TV Thursday

Clay represents a man accused of bank robbery and murder, but the defendant's wife warns him that her husband is guilty and had threatened to kill her

A martian is banished from his home planet to Earth, and may only return when he has cured a human of his selfishness. Silent sci-fi drama, with Charles Hawtrey and E Holman Clark

Christmas special from 1958. Ada brings home a miserable guest to spend Christmas with the family, and Eddie comes up with a plan to save chopping the tree down to size

A boy's pet goose is chosen to be the lord of the manor's Christmas dinner, but Robin and Friar Tuck hatch a plan to save the bird. Guest starring Jane Asher and Jack Watling

Mike Read and Noel Cronin celebrate Charles Dickens' influence on Christmas

A special Christmas episode of the soap from 1968, in which Jack and Annie Walker introduce flashbacks to bygone years as they prepare for festivities in The Rovers Return

Christmas special with the magician from 1974, with guests Lynsey de Paul and Robert Harbin

Kate Garner plays a selection of festive songs and tells the stories behind them, including the tale of how mice chewing the bellows of a church organ inspired Silent Night

Christmas special of the 1970s sitcom, starring Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles about the romance between two retired people, one from London and the other from Yorkshire

A boy promises to obtain a Christmas tree for all his friends spending the festive season in hospital. Family drama, starring William Burleigh and Kate Nicholls

A Scotland Yard police superintendent battles to overcome stress both at home and work to catch a notorious safecracker. Crime thriller, starring Jack Hawkins and Dorothy Alison

A hard-hearted skinflint is taught the error of his ways by a succession of spectral visitors. Adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Alastair Sim and Mervyn Johns

A Victorian innkeeper's wife befriends a chemist's son, hoping that he will provide her with poison to kill her husband. Period crime drama, with Googie Withers and Gordon Jackson

Mark is hired by an insurance company to recover a stolen diamond

Ida lets a stranger into the house thinking he has come to fix the TV - but he is actually planning a robbery

Featuring the Karl Denver Trio, George Roper, the Platters, Ronnie Dukes and Ricki Lee

A journalist tries to discover the new identity of a concentration camp commandant to expose his crimes to the world. Thriller, with Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell and Derek Jacobi

An ambitious war veteran starts a new life as a prizefighter, but ends up turning on friends and family in his drive to get to the top. Drama, with Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell

A seaplane catches fire, forcing it to land on a deserted island where H-bomb tests are due to be carried out. Adventure, with Richard Attenborough and Eddie Constantine

A hard-bitten cop pursues a private vendetta against a deadly Mob kingpin. Gangster thriller, starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy