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    Apologies if this has been posted before, but a friend just emailed me the link and I haven't time to check back through the various threads ... Okay, it's American, but there are some real must-sees-if-you-haven't-alreadies on here.

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    The usual suspects except they have Invisible Man episodes which are not so common. They have the Charles Bronson episode of One Step Beyond, one of the better ones, and one of the British filmed episodes from its last season. But the plot is so contrived it is impossible to believe it is based on an actual event as claimed. Still a good story. I didn't see the twist coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by will.15 View Post
    The usual suspects
    True enough - all easily available perhaps, but there are people out there (though perhaps not on here) who have never seen Detour or DOA, and yet think they are happy.

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    Some of the TV episodes are a little more unusual, a few Tony Hancocks, two Car 54s, the latter the second and last series from the creator of Bilko. I'll check them out later.

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    I found another site of public domain films and television shows. It has many television programs from the fifties not available elsewhere such as the Studio One version of Jane Eyre starring Charlton Heston. Some of the programs are blocked to the UK, but the vast majority are available. No registration required and it can be viewed directly from the site or downloaded.

    Watch Studio One – 12 episodes (1948-58) Free Online | Retrovision

    I meant to post the wider link, but you can click any category you want from that one.

    It has 23 episodes of Tales of Tomorrow, the early fifties science fiction anthology series
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    Hopefully Hulu will eventually have all the other episodes of One Step Beyond - the entire series fell into pd in the late 1980's according to IMDB. The show was in syndication on tv when I was very young. I especially would love to see "The Voice" episode for work purposes of course ~~~

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