A made-for-TV retelling of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the destitute King, and Gloria Grahame as the Witch. Significant changes were made to the story, including reducing the number of princesses to six, and the soldier ultimately declining to marry any of the princesses due to their deceitful nature.

A streetwise former boxer searches for his estranged father, missing from a rundown nursing home in East Los Angeles. Using secrets from a buried past, he finds an old man with Alzheimer's who has forgotten almost everything - including the son who now holds both their futures in his hands.