Kinds of Kindness to RoboCop: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

One of those crowd-pleasing Ealing comedies in which the little people take a stand against the Man – and it doesn’t necessarily work out well for them. A bomb that goes off in postwar London reveals a 15th-century royal charter ceding a small area of land to the Duchy of Burgundy. The inhabitants promptly declare independence from rationing-hit UK, but with no law or government, chaos ensues. Stanley Holloway plays the ironmonger navigating a path between bureaucracy and self-determination in a paean to plucky British community spirit. Saturday 31 August, 1.15pm, BBC Two