In 1933, a mischievous ten-year-old, Archie, is left in the care of his unattentive father, Charlie, a reluctant gangster indebted to mob boss Benny “The Bomb” Palladino. Benny gives Charlie a last chance to clear his ‘debt’ by collecting money from a rival, but when Archie follows his father into a rival gangster's speakeasy, a series of bizarre events take place culminating in them fleeing without the money. They head south to a dustbowl town where Charlie plans to repay his debt by stealing money from a bootlegging business run by Ugly Jim McCrae.
Dr Twist is the roguish headmaster of a dubious boarding school for boys. Twist bets on the horses with his pupils and teaches them little. Colonel Willoughby-Gore attempts to sack the incompetent Twist but is foiled when he and his boys, after fraudulently gaining resounding success in a French examination, are invited to Paris by the French ministry of education.
Crime writer Dave Nelson is having a bad day – ordered to share his office with ambitious rival Rosemary Speed, brushed off by the pretty food editor Laura Martin, and passed over as editor of a new magazine in favour of handsome Bill Strayte, who enjoys the affections of Miss Martin. Fed up, Nelson goes to a bar, meets a woman named Christy, and gets stinking drunk. Christy escorts Nelson to a fleabag hotel and checks him in.
Incompetent Fire Captain Viking fails to find a large fire, gets lost in the process and ends up on a newspaper headline as 'The engine that never made it'. Finally upon arriving at the location of the fire (discovering it's been put out) he hears that his local town hall is on fire. After failing to appear before the town hall burns down, Fire Captain Viking is told to put out a fire successfully or else he and his men face the sack.
The documentary explores the Miami Showband killings, an attack on The Miami Showband on 31 July 1975 by the loyalist paramilitary group Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The Miami Showband were at the time one of Ireland's most popular cabaret bands, and in the attack five people were killed, including three members of the band.
Johnny Moon is a mob boss who controls things from politicians to a profitable women's reformatory he secretly runs. He has ruined many lives, including that of Helen Martin, a teacher, and her sister Jean. A political reformer, Frank Donovan, is able to persuade Helen to go undercover behind bars, posing as a teacher of the inmates, to unearth evidence that will prove Moon's abuse of the incarcerated women.
British undercover agent Dennis Parbury is sent to an island in the Mediterranean to identify how a heroin-smuggling operation is distributing their product.
Ajax (Stan ‘The Man’ Longinidis), was once an undercover operative, trying to infiltrate the business dealings of local gangsters, but was wronged by police in the process. When his cousin Theo (Arthur Angel), rats out the local mob boss, 'one-man-army' Ajax (Stan ‘The Man’ Longinidis), must rescue and protect him from the Melbourne underworld, who want to prevent Theo from testifying at a trial that would put them away for a very long time. Ajax must also battle his arch enemy, Super Don Armande Poroni in the process.
Nick Dunn, a used car salesman, can't close a deal with customers Karen Winter and Arthur Markel, so he is fired. A sympathetic Markel has a car lot of his own and offers a job to Nick, who quits after discovering Markel's disreputable business: Markel obviously sells stolen cars. Nick and wife Jane have a financial dilemma when their baby son falls ill.
Lucky Wilson, a charming but reckless New York City racketeer, enjoys a life of crime and luxury until he is wounded while evading the police. Forced to flee the city, he takes refuge on a quiet Connecticut farm, where he is taken in by the kind-hearted Miller family. As Lucky recovers, he struggles to adjust to the slower pace of country life but soon finds himself drawn to the farm’s simplicity and warmth.
Aunt Octavia is a wealthy, and far from pleasant, old lady. Visiting her half-brother Stephen Osborne, she discovers he has lost his job, leaving his family in dire straits. Yet she refuses any help.
Jim Vaus returns from the war and marries Alice. He struggles to make a living. He was hired by Charles Rumsden to fix a doorbell, and realizes that his client is a mob boss.
Chuck Wheeler is released from prison and plans an elaborate heist of an armored truck carrying money from a Las Vegas casino. Chuck enlists the help of nightclub owner Joe Darren as well as Vi Victor, a sensational blonde married to Chuck's ex-cellmate Mike Bennett. Mike is a very jealous and dangerous man who will not grant Vi a divorce.
In the first story, a comedy, a content suburban family is turned into an unhappy lot by their various reactions to a win on the football pools. When matters reach a point where they begin wishing that they had never won the money, the youngest daughter announces that in fact she forgot to post their entry, and they all regain their previously happy lives. But then it is discovered that it was a previous entry she had forgotten to post and the winning coupon was mailed, and they decide that they have learned a lesson and resolve not to let the money ruin their happiness.
Rene's daughter, Kaitlin, and her best friend, Maddy, disappeared from a resort in San Diego during spring break. Dissatisfied with the responses of the authorities, Rene, with the help of her son, Kennedy, and Maddy's mother, Lisa, investigates the case and discovers some disturbing facts about the secret life of one of her missing daughter.
An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story. Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest.
At Hoskins University, three scientists, John Kendrick, Louise Stone, and Robert E. Cornish are attempting to develop a fluid that will restore life to the dead. After graduation, Kendrick announces to Cornish and Stone that he had secured work for them at the Arnold Research Laboratory.
Benny, Monk and Matthew are three small-time crooks trying to escape a police dragnet in New York City. After hiding in a church, they disguise themselves as ministers and find shelter in an abandoned Bowery mission. The police mistake them for real ministers sent to restore the soup kitchen, and the men must decide whether to stay, steal the mission money and run or change their lives.
In Milan, Catherine Uilven, an agent for the legitimate democratic government of an unnamed Central European country, conceals top secret microfilm in the collar of one of two circus panthers that are being transported by train to be taken to America. Steve Quain, an American stranded in Europe without money, has taken the job of accompanying the panthers so he can get back to America. Unaware of the microfilm, but attracted to Uilven whom he meets briefly when she poses as a reporter, he is in the final car of the freight train with the caged panthers when saboteurs, in the pay of the usurping government, detach it from the train in…
