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Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.

Sir William Magnus lives in an old drafty castle with his daughter and his two grandchildren, Peter and Judy. Few visitors call and when there are guests they do not stay long, freezing cold as the place is. One day, in the company of their playmate Bobby, the castle's only servant's nephew, Peter and Judy discover a sick baby - dragon. Far from being terrified, the three kids immediately understand that the little monster will be their savior.

Two sisters enlist the help of two brothers to find out who's sabotaging their father's lorries.

Young Peter wants so badly to be an engineer that he starts to work on an invention. To raise money, he and his friend Tim wash windows. However, Tim needs the money they earn to go to Ireland to visit his grandfather who is very ill, so Peter gives him all the money they have made. Everything works out well for Peter in the end when he is praised as a young genius.

Murderous smugglers kidnap a troublesome Bargemans son in this British crime drama, filmed on the Thames

Great Britain a few years after World War 2. A writer is asked by the government to write a youth story to boost the morale of the youth after the difficult war years. At first he is a bit hesitant, but when the characters appear one by one, the story grows before his and our eyes. The boys set off, accompanied by an older man with a horse and trailer. What they don't know is that the man, posing as a market vendor, is actually out to expose a criminal. A charming youth film with little ambition, which also casually shows us the London of that time, both what survived and what was destroyed by the war.