Driscoll is an old boxer who finds himself a celebrity hero when he describes an old bout of his on a Sydney television station, much to the chagrin of his former opponent (who is now a Melbourne Governor), who decides to meet Driscoll and settle the matter once and for all.
John Frant a brilliant mathematician lives a quiet life which is suddenly and mysteriously shattered by the arrival of two strangers.
The shattered pieces of a plane crash lead to a trek across Europe and back again by suspicious investigators.
Arthur, a shy Cockney waiter is unlucky and clumsy in the pursuit of love on the dance floor, so he visits a marriage bureau who matches him with Jenny, a girl from the north who has just moved to London.
Two planes set off from London for the United Nations in New York. On board one of them is Lord Stapleton who is going to talk to the Russians in order to try an avoid a catastrophe.Meanwhile a newspaper office in London receives a call from a man who is about to die.
In order to survive, inhabitants from the future are playing havoc with the present day (1963). A pulse from the TV set puts the present day population into a trance, however this time a group of individuals are not affected, and begin to understand that the world maybe not of their making...
It tells the story of Xu Sanduo, an ordinary soldier born in the countryside, who did not abandon or give up, and finally became an outstanding scout.
A down on his luck songwriter thinks he may have witnessed a murder but is it all just a figment of his imagination.
An ex army officer is charmed by a young woman (herself the daughter of a soldier) into joining the 'ban the bomb' movement, much to the surprise of his family.
