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TV Show: Our Mutual Friend ( 1998 )
Our Mutual Friend is a British television serial broadcast in 1998 and adapted from Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend. Having made his fortune from London's rubbish, a rich misanthropic miser dies - estranged from all except his faithful employees Mr and Mrs Boffin. By his will, his fortune goes to his estranged son John Harmon, who is to return from where he has settled abroad (putatively in South Africa, though this is never stated specifically) to claim it, on condition that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella Wilfer. The implementation of the Will is in the charge of the solicitor, Mortimer Lightwood, who has no other practice...
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TV Show: Victoria & Albert ( 2001 )
Dramatisation of the lives of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the love story that was their lengthy marriage.
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TV Show: Catherine Cookson's Colour Blind ( 1998 )
The powerful drama about the struggles of an interracial couple trying to raise their daughter in post-WWI England. The daughter is forced to grow up in world where she doesn't seem to beloing anywhere. Based upon the Catherine Cookson novel of the same name.
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TV Show: The Phantom of the Opera ( 1990 )
Count de Chagnie has discovered Christine's singing talent on a market place and sent her to his friend Carriere, the director of the Parisian opera. However just when she arrives Carriere's dismissed. His arrogant successor refuses to let a woman of low birth sing in his opera, but graciously employs Christine as gadrobiere for his wife Charlotta, who's installed as first singer. He also fights the phantom, an unknown guy who lives since many years in the catacombs below the opera and was granted privileges by Carriere. However the phantom knows how to defend himself and at the same time helps Christine to her career.
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TV Show: The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries ( 1977 )
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries recount the adventures of the famous teenage sleuths, based on the two series of juvenile mystery novels by the Edward Stratemeyer syndicate under the names Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene. Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of a private detective, and Nancy Drew is the daughter of a criminal attorney. In the first season, stories alternated week by week between the two families, but in the second season the independent Nancy Drew adventures were phased out so that all were working as a team. In the third season, Nancy Drew was eliminated completely and the Hardys became more involved in cases of international intrigue.
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TV Show: Dark Shadows ( 1966 )
My name is Victoria Winters; In the small town of Collinsport Maine, lies the Collinwood mansion where the richest family in town resides. The Collins family has been plagued with troubles since the town was founded. There have been vampires, werewolves, witches, over zealous witch hunters and much more. We join their story as I, the new governess Victoria WInters arrives in town on my way to meet my new charge, David Collins. I am about to encounter strangeness I have never imagined in my wildest dreams.Dark Shadows is an American Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) appeared ten months into its run. Dark Shadows also featured ghosts, werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles; indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor.Dark Shadows was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric interiors, memorable storylines, numerous dramatic plot twists, adventurous music score, broad cosmos of characters and heroic adventures. The original network run of the show lasted for nearly five years to amass 1,225 episodes.It continues to enjoy an intense cult following
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TV Show: Lillie ( 1978 )
The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Lillie is a story of scandal and intrigue; of notoriety and cold-hearted manipulation and of heart-wrenching, passionate romance. This lavish production follows the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lillie soon takes full advantage of her beauty and enchantment, attracting many lovers including the Prince of Wales.
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TV Show: Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin ( 1995 )
The Glass Virgin is a 1995 UK television miniseries directed by Sarah Hellings, adapted from the best-selling novel by Catherine Cookson. In 19th century England, wealthy young Annabella Lagrange lives a comfortable and secluded life on her family's country estate, where her parents own a glass works. As a child, she develops a special friendship with the charming stable boy Manuel Mendoza. When she turns 18, she marries her cousin Stephen and sees what the world is really like.
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TV Show: Victorian Farm Christmas ( 2009 )
Victorian Farm Christmas looks into the lives of 19th century farmers and shows you how to make traditional gifts, food, games and decorations.
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TV Show: The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1979 )
The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. It is the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of 'not quite fourteen.' An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age.
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TV Show: Sea Hunt ( 1958 )
Mike Nelson is a former Navy SCUBA diver who goes independent. Now Mike will go anywhere, take on any underwater challenge... and deal with any danger along the way.
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TV Show: Tattinger's ( 1988 )
A dramatic series about an Upper West Side, New York, restaurant named Tattinger's, populated by customers and staff who represent a wide cross-section of New Yorkers.
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TV Show: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1997 )
The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Arronax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron-willed sailor, to learn the truth of the "monster" roaming the seas. The great novelist, Jules Verne, described this perilous journey to the darkest depths of the sea with Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus.
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TV Show: Silk Stalkings ( 1991 )
In Palm Beach Florida, crimes of passion are a frequent occurrence among the rich and beautiful. Enter Sgt. Rita Lance and Sgt. Chris Lorenzo the attractive young homicide detectives whose job it is to investigate these high-class murders--or Silk Stalkings, as they call them. Pulsing with illicit affairs, kinky encounters, cold-blooded murders, and their own dark secrets, these are the deadly days and steamy nights of two sexiest cop partners.
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TV Show: Pacific Palisades ( 1997 )
Set in the Los Angeles suburb of the same name, Pacific Palisades follows the lives of young professionals who have it all, but haven't paid for it yet, on the Southern California fast track to fame, fortune, scandal and ruin. The cast of characters includes Joanna and Nick Hadley, a young married couple who left their native Midwest for the Pacific Coast where Nick has landed a job as an architect; Joanna's troubled teenage sister Rachel Whittaker- later discovered to be her illegitimate daughter at the end of the series; Rachel's friends Ashley & Michael who excel in sneakiness; Robert and Kate Russo, whose sterling life is beginning to tarnish; Jessica Mitchell, a rising professional whose choice of men leads to trouble; Matt Dunning, a construction businessman with a dark side; Laura Sinclair, a real estate agent who does whatever it takes to close a deal; Cory Robbins, a promising but manipulative plastic surgeon; and beautiful Beth Hooper, who rents an apartment from Laura and is being romanced by Cory.
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TV Show: Little House on the Prairie ( 2005 )
Little House on the Prairie is a 2005 family western miniseries It is a six-part adaptation of children's novels Little House in the Big Woods (1932) and Little House on the Prairie (1935) by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series was broadcast on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series.
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TV Show: The Outsiders ( 1990 )
The story of the Curtis brothers, Darry, Soda Pop, and Ponyboy, struggling to make it as a family. According to Ponyboy, there's two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.
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TV Show: Cybill ( 1995 )
Cybill is a comedy revolving around Cybill Sheridan, a working actress in Los Angeles with a stop-start career, complicated by an eccentric extended family that includes two daughters and a couple of ex-husbands. Her best friend, Maryann Thorpe, is a rich-by-settlement divorcee with a twisted sense of humor, who is a certified alumna of the Betty Ford Clinic (but in need of a refresher course). Cybill's elder daughter, Rachel, is conservative, married, has one child - and is Cybill's polar opposite. Cybill's live-in daughter, Zoey, is a brooding 18-year-old.
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TV Show: Invasion ( 1997 )
Small rocks fall from the sky which, when touched, trigger a latent virus that has always existed in humans and begins mutating them into an alien species. Taking advantage of its hive mentality, the aliens are absolutely dedicated to transforming every human on Earth and do so with alarming swiftness. Only a small group of humans remain who have the medical knowledge to devise antibodies to reverse the effects of the virus.
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TV Show: L.A. Dragnet ( 2003 )
From Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf, one of television's most successful creators and architect of the long-running "Law & Order" franchise, comes this modern-day take on the classic police drama L.A. Dragnet, with the hard-nosed Sergeant Joe Friday and a new man, Detective Frank Smith of the Robbery-Homicide Division investigating crimes that could only take place in Los Angeles, one of the world's most glamorous and intriguing cities.A reboot of the famed police procedural drama franchise "Dragnet," our 2003 rendition brought us back to the stories and fast-paced investigations of Det. Joe Friday (Ed O'Neill) and his partner Frank Smith (Ethan Embry) in Los Angeles. With Friday being promoted to Lieutenant in the second season, the story shifted focused to the fresh-faced members of the squad that included Det. Gloria Duran (Eva Longoria), Det. Jimmy McCarron (Desmond Harrington), Det. Raymond Cooper (Evan Dexter Parke), and ADA Sandy Chang (Christina Chang).
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TV Show: Angel Falls ( 1993 )
Rae Dawn Snow, a single mother of Sonny, 16, returns to her hometown to run the family-owned business, the town's pool hall. There she encounters her high-school sweetheart Eli Harrison, who is unhappily married to Genna and still in love with her. Genna seeks solace in the arms of Toby, Eli's ranch hand. Eli's daughter Molly becomes good friends with Sonny, but their friendship is questioned when Sonny falls for the promiscuous Brandi. Luke, The basketball coach, and his wife Hadley try to offer some support to Rae, but are mourning the death of their infant son.
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TV Show: Working Girl ( 1990 )
Working Girl is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from April to July 1990. Loosely based on the 1988 film of the same name, the series stars Sandra Bullock as Tess McGillTess McGill is a spunky, independent secretary, who suddenly becomes a junior executive after charming company owner A.J. Trask. Tess' first challenge is to survive working with her antagonistic, uptight immediate boss, Mrs. Bryn Newhouse, otherwise known as the "company witch". Tess' best friend, Lana Peters is a secretary, who's more interested in doing her nails and rooting for Tess than in getting ahead herself. Meanwhile, Everett Rutledge is a fellow junior executive, who is charming but eager to please. Libby Wentworth is Tess' world-wise, "permanent temporary" secretary, who's also a moonlighting musician. Back home each night on Staten Island, Tess has to contend with her doting parents Joe and Fran. Tess also has to contend with Sal Pascarella, the blue-collar neighborhood Romeo, who constantly pursued her.
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TV Show: Mrs. Columbo ( 1979 )
The official pronouncement of everyone associated with "Columbo" is thatthe character played by Kate Mulgrew, in the series initially called "Mrs Columbo," was married to some other cop who happened to also be named Columbo."Mrs Columbo" was the brainchild of NBC entertainment president Fred Silverman, who hoped to carry on a little of the "Columbo" mystique without Columbo, soon after "Columbo" ended its NBC run. Richard Levinson and William Link regarded the idea as heresy, but Silverman said he'd do it without them. "The magic of Columbo's wife is that you never see her," Levinson protested.Mulgrew's Kate Columbo was a part-time reporter for a pennysaver newspaper, who often found herself engaged in crime-solving.Apart from the off-camera statements by the "Columbo" creators, the shows themselves provide evidence that the Kate Mulgrew character was not the wife of the famous Lieutenant.  In one of several major changes over the series, Kate Mulgrew's character was DIVORCED and took on the name Kate Callahan.But it is clearly known in "Columbo" that the Lieutenant has never been divorced.
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TV Show: Hearts Afire ( 1992 )
Hearts Afire was a romantic comedy set in Washington, D.C. and centered on a senator's aide and a political reporter whose professional disagreements masked a growing attraction for one another. The series was itself a satire on current affairs in Washington, D.C.In the second season, the show abruptly changed its setting to the Southern town where John Hartman grew up; he returns to take over the town's failing newspaper, and his wife and several of the other cast members joined him there.
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TV Show: Sisters ( 1991 )
The men in your life may leave you, children grow up, parents pass away. The only ones who are there for you, from cradle to grave, are your sisters.
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TV Show: Moon Over Miami ( 1993 )
Moon Over Miami centers around a detective agency located in Miami. Run by Walter Tatum, a law student-turned-private eye, he is assisted by Billie who is a computer whiz and electronics expert; Tito, the surveillance man; and Gwen Cross, who was a previous case of Walter's.
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TV Show: Glory Days ( 2002 )
Welcome to Glory, the Island of Happiness. Well, that's what the billboard says anyway. The seemingly idyllic small island town in the Pacific Northwest is a breeding ground for eerie events, bizarre happenings and peculiar inhabitants where truth is often stranger than fiction, and sometimes even deadly. Mike Dolan is a one-hit-wonder novelist who returns to his Pacific Northwest home town to do some sleuthing into the community's strange goings-on.
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TV Show: Relativity ( 1996 )
Relativity is an American drama television series which followed a twenty-something couple, Isabel Lukens and Leo Roth, and the lives and loves of their friends and siblings in Los Angeles.
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TV Show: Flying Blind ( 1992 )
Neil, a shy repressed guy, meets the girl of his dreams, Alicia, who is gorgeous and wild. Amazingly, they begin to date and the striking contrast between their personalities provides the basis for comedic tension. Neil's embarrassing family and Alicia's crazy roommates and friends play supporting roles.
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TV Show: It's Like, You Know... ( 1999 )
It's Like, You Know... is a sitcom broadcast by ABC about life in Los Angeles viewed through the eyes of a diehard New Yorker.
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TV Show: Alex Haley's Queen ( 1993 )
There are two sides to every story as the saying goes. For Alex Haley, one side was "Roots", the towering chronicle tracing seven generations of his mother's family. The other side comes to the screen in Alex Haley's Queen, the remarkable history of a paternal side of the author's family.Halle Berry plays Queen, daughter of a slave and a male plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond, Queen searches for a home in the two cultures of her heritage and at times is shunned by both.Through it all, Queen experiences both sides of segregation and prejudice due to her light skinned complexion. However, the rejection and even hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
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TV Show: 2000 Malibu Road ( 1992 )
2000 Malibu Road follows four women living together at a beach house located at 2000 Malibu Road: Jade, a former prostitute trying to get out of the profession; Perry, a young lawyer also escaping from her past (i.e. a slain fiance police officer and a serious drinking problem); Lindsay, a would-be actress trying to get the right break; and Joy, Lindsay's overweight, overprotective, two-faced, manipulative sister, who also served as her agent. Jade owned the house. In order to leave her profession as a high priced prostitute, she took in roommates to help her pay for the house.
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TV Show: The Munsters Today ( 1988 )
America's First Family of Fright awaken after an accidental 22 year nap and must adjust to life in the 1980s.
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TV Show: My Two Dads ( 1987 )
Joey and Michael, who fought over the same woman 13 years ago now have, upon her death, been awarded joint custody of her daughter - who might be either of theirs. So how do the men settle their problems? With a paternity test? No way. Instead, they all move in together to raise Nicole as a two-dad nuclear family. Under the watchful eye of the family court judge, dads and daughter adjust to their new situation.
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TV Show: P.S.I. Luv U ( 1991 )
P.S.I. Luv U is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS as a part of its 1991-92 schedule. The title derived from the phone number of fictitious Palm Security and Investigations, which was 774-5888, which can be reached by dialing "PSI-LUVU" on a standard North American telephone. P.S.I. Luv U is the story of two people who had been working together in a failed New York Police Department "sting" operation. Joey Paciorek (Greg Evigan) was a policeman, while Wanda Tallbert (Connie Sellecca) was a con woman who was working with the police only as part of an agreement which was to keep her out of prison. As the failed sting involved organized crime, when it fell through it became necessary to place both of them in the witness protection program. Posing as married couple Cody and Dani Powell, the two were placed for employment at Palm Security and Investigations in Palm Springs, California, a private detective agency owned by Matthew Durning (Earl Holliman), who was the only person outside of the government who knew who they really were. Occasionally seen during the series' run was Sonny Bono, who was at the time the real life mayor of Palm Springs.
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TV Show: Once Upon a Christmas ( 2000 )
In Once Upon a Christmas, Santa is discouraged by a lack of Christmas spirit and wants to quit, but his daughter, Kristin, begs for one more chance to prove to him that there is hope for the world.
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TV Show: Deadline ( 2000 )
In Deadline, the stories of crimes and heroics went from the police precincts to the offices of the New York Ledger, showcasing the journalists behind the publication that graced the desks and newstands of "Law & Order."Based on true stories and captivating headlines, the series focused on Wallace Benton (Oliver Platt), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Ledger columnist. Working alongside his soon to be ex-wife Brooke Benton (Hope Davis), Benton's story focused on his daily dealings with hard-hitting reporting and his investigative journalism student recruits who dive deeper into the lives of New York City citizens, unearthing secrets and front page stories in the process. The Ledger team also featured Nikki Masucci (Bebe Neuwirth), Si Beekman (Tom Conti), Hildy Baker (Lili Taylor), Brooke Benton (Hope Davis), Charles Foster (Damon Gupton), and Beth Khambu (Christina Chang).Deadline was created by Dick Wolf and executive produced by Wolf and Robert Palm for NBC.
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TV Show: Tender is the Night ( 1985 )
Adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's beautiful, poignant novel about marriage, glamour and disintegration set against the glamorous highlife of the 20s.
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TV Show: Our House ( 1986 )
Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in the same house. After his son John dies, retired widower Gus Witherspoon (played by Wilford Brimley) invites his daughter-in-law Jessica 'Jessie' Witherspoon (played by Deidre Hall) and her three children to move to California to live with him until they can get back on their feet financially.Despite protests from her children, Jessie, along with 15-year-old daughter Kris (played by Shannen Doherty), 12-year-old son David (played by Chad Allen), eight-year-old daughter Molly (played by Keri Houlihan), and their basset hound named Arthur leave Fort Wayne, Indiana, to start their new lives in California. As they settle into life with Gus, they realize that he can be difficult to live with. A major part of the plot each week was centered on the conflict that can arise when extended family tries to live together in the same house. As the man of the house, Gus imposed rules on the three grandchildren the same way he raised his own children but later learned ways to convey his lessons to the kids without being gruff. Jessie and the kids learn that beneath Gus' stern facade is a man who is wise about the ways of the world and cares about them very much.In a feature reminiscent of the 1960s T.V. series The Wild Wild West, each of the five acts of the episode before commercial ended with a freeze-frame shot, which then occupied one of the rooms in an abstract rendering of a house figure. As the episode unfolded, more rooms were filled until finally, when the dilemma had been resolved, the final piece was put in place, completing the house.John Witherspoon (played by Patrick Duffy) was seen in one episode and in the occasional flashback.
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TV Show: The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage ( 1991 )
The series followed the story of Black Jack Savage, the ghost of a legendary 17th-century Caribbean pirate who teams up with Barry Tarberry, a crooked Wall Street con artist who has escaped trial by coming to the Caribbean. Facing eternal damnation, both of them discover that they need to save 100 lives to compensate for the damage done by their sinful lives, and thus save their own souls.
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TV Show: Life Goes On ( 1989 )
Meet the Thatchers, Drew, Libby, Becca, and Corky. Corky suffers from Down Syndrome. The show dealt with many issues. Some of which included drinking, sex, and HIV in the third season when Becca started dating a man that was HIV positive. Drew also had a daughter from a previous marriage, whose name was Paige.
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TV Show: Jack & Jill ( 1999 )
This sitcom in named after two of the six main characters, each with a name rather suggesting the other gender: Jaqueline 'Jack' and David 'Jill' Jillefski, who gradually realize they were in love at first sight. The other main characters are brilliant but insecure med student Barto, philosopher-barman Mikey, a natural womanizer who cultivates immaturity and disarming charm, Broadway-actress-dancer Audrey, who becomes Barto's girl, and Elisa Cronkite, Jack's colleague at the TV station.
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TV Show: Once a Thief ( 1997 )
Once a Thief is a canadian action/comedy show loosely based and inspired by the John Woo movie of the same name.
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TV Show: Riptide ( 1984 )
Come aboard the Riptide, home to the hottest detective agency in Los Angeles. Cody Allen and Nick Ryder are longtime pals who have seen more than their share of danger -- and action. Along with a buddy from their days in the military, the brilliant but socially inept scientist Murray "Boz" Bozinsky, they solve a series of mysterious cases involving stakeouts, seduction, and the law. Detective work has never been this hot!
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TV Show: Titans ( 2000 )
This short-lived prime-time soap from Aaron Spelling focused on the travails of the wealthy but extremely dysfunctional Williams family, which runs a successful aviation company. Fighter pilot Chandler Williams meets a mysterious woman named Heather while on leave in Hawaii, and the two begin a passionate affair. They plan a life together, but Heather suddenly vanishes. Chandler returns home months later and is stunned when his father, Richard, introduces him to his new fiancé...Heather! She claims to love Richard, but constantly makes her feelings for Chandler known. She also drops another bombshell on him just as he is about to walk her down the aisle. Meanwhile, Heather feels threatened by the close friendship that Richard maintains with his ex-wife, Gwen. Chandler's brother, Peter, is determined to expose Heather's schemes.
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TV Show: Dragon Ball ( 1986 )
This is where it all begins. The story starts with Goku at 12 when he first meets Bulma and is introduced to the legend of the Dragonballs: who ever gets all seven Dragonballs will have their wish granted by Shenron, the Dragon who resides within the balls. As Goku goes along his adventure he meets other characters such as Master Roshi, Krillin and others.
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TV Show: Dennis the Menace ( 1986 )
Animated series based on the classic comic strip by Hank Ketcham. America's most well-known little terror, Dennis the Menace, gets into numerous scrapes and adventures with his dog Ruff and his friends Joey and Margaret. This typically involves some means of tormenting Dennis's hapless next-door neighbor, Mr. Wilson.
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TV Show: The Big Easy ( 1996 )
A handsome New Orleans detective and a sexy district attorney heat things up in New Orleans, The Big Easy, as the two investigate crimes in a beleaguered police department.
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TV Show: I'll Take Manhattan ( 1987 )
I'll Take Manhattan takes you into the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, and weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal. Meet Krantz's most joyous character—the sensational Maxi Amberville, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that she must abandon her life of pleasure to save her family. When Maxi learns her uncle is plotting to sell her father's magazine empire and destroy his memory, she turns her lust for living into a passionate quest for revenge. Here is a dramatic story of family, ambition, revenge, and an unforgettable woman who changes from a playgirl to a dynamic and caring heroine.
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TV Show: Malcolm in the Middle ( 2000 )
In the words of They Might Be Giants' rollicking Grammy-winning theme song, "life is unfair." The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing, but if life was fair, it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, not to mention statuettes for its pitch-perfect cast. With his perpetual "yes, me worry" expression, Frankie Muniz instantly earns audience empathy as Malcolm, whose chances for a normal life are thwarted not only by his genius IQ, but also by his outrageously dysfunctional family: Lois, his obsessive, control-freak mother; Hal, his loving but ineffectual father; Francis, his eldest brother waging his own private war at military school; middle brother Reese, a delinquent savant; and Dewey, the put-upon youngest. As Malcolm observes at one point, "This family may be rude, loud and gross, and have no shame whatsoever, but with them you know where you stand."
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TV Show: Jane Doe ( 2005 )
Retired CSA agent Cathy Davis is called in to help solve mysteries.
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TV Show: Good & Evil ( 1991 )
Good & Evil was the saga of two sisters, one an heir to the family cosmetics empire, the other a world-class scientist, and the backstabbing, jealousy, power struggles and other travails that occurred between them.
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TV Show: Men Behaving Badly ( 1996 )
This series is the US version of the UK series of the same name that was created by Simon Nye. When shown in countries that have already seen the UK version, the US series is retitled It's a Man's World. The theme song "Bad Boy" written by Larry Williams is performed by Marshall Crenshaw.
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TV Show: The Heights ( 1992 )
The Heights centers on a fictional band (also called The Heights) made up of mostly middle-class young adults. Episodes regularly featured one of their songs.The eventual theme song for the show, "How Do You Talk to an Angel" (sung by Walters), went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was the first song from a television show to top the Hot 100 since 1985. The Heights premiered on August 27, 1992, to low ratings, and never gained a substantial audience. Fox canceled the series less than a week after the theme song fell from the number one spot.
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TV Show: Lizzie McGuire ( 2001 )
Lizzie McGuire is all about the ordinary and not-so-ordinary adventures of a junior high student and her two best friends as they try to deal… More with the ups and downs of school, popularity, boys, parents, a bratty little brother--just life in general. And if Lizzie leaves anything unsaid, you can bet that her cartoon alter ego will say it for her!
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TV Show: Foul Play ( 1981 )
Tucker Pendlenton, a klutzy detective, and his girlfriend, Gloria Mundy, a shy librarian, stumble into some madcap adventures and crimes. The series was based on the film of the same title.
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TV Show: Scarecrow and Mrs. King ( 1983 )
A single mother in suburban Washington D.C. discovers she has a talent for espionage work when she meets a dashing undercover agent--but balancing her duties as a spy with her responsibility as a parent proves constantly entertaining in this romantic-adventure series.
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TV Show: Alvin and the Chipmunks ( 1983 )
Animated series about three chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. The trio have been adopted by and are living with Dave (human). Each show finds the boys getting into trouble and new and unusual situations. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore were not the only chipmunks in the series. The series also involved The Chipettes who were a girl band. Alvin and the Chipmunks was a reprise of the 1961 series The Alvin Show.
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TV Show: The New Scooby-Doo Movies ( 1972 )
In The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby and friends find themselves solving crimes while rubbing elbows with various famous guest stars.
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TV Show: Disney's Hercules ( 1998 )
Disney's Hercules is a spin-off of the 1997 theatrically released animated film of the same name (Hercules) and is based on his teen-aged adventures. Hercules features events which occur midway through the actual film (sometimes called a "midquel"), during his years in training on the Isle of Idra under the tutelage of Philoctetes (Phil) the Satyr. Many of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses only glimpsed during the film pay visit to the young hero-to-be and help or hinder him in his adventures. However, the series ignores a certain fact about the movie; Hades believed that Hercules was dead throughout his first 18 years of his life, but they have many interactions during this time.
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TV Show: Hollywood Wives ( 1985 )
Hollywood Wives is a mini series based on Jackie Collins bestseller novel. When film director Neil Gray prepares a major film production, many actors try to get a role in the movie. Some are prepared to do everything just for that: seduction, betrayal, blackmail and murder!
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TV Show: T. J. Hooker ( 1982 )
After his partner was murdered, veteran plain clothes Detective T.J. Hooker had reverted back to his former role as Sergeant, and returned to the beat to rid the streets of the type of scum that was responsible for his partner's death. Back in uniform, Hooker was assigned to train the academy recruits, and was partnered with brash, sometimes hot-headed young rookie Vince Romano. With Romano much his junior, Hooker acted as his trainer and mentor on both a professional and social level. The age difference generally being the key hook of the partnership, the pair quickly became good friends and a good team. Hooker's tough, no-nonsense ways saw him often clashing with station Captain Sheridan, but he always got the job done and was highly respected as a result.
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TV Show: Save Me ( 2013 )
After choking on a hero sandwich in her kitchen and suffering a dramatic near-death experience, Beth Harper - an absentee wife and mother - is revived and claims she can now talk to God. Her teenage daughter Emily is horrified and her husband Tom is skeptical. To make matters worse, Tom's ex-mistress Carly McKenna is in a coma after a close encounter with lightning in the Harper's front yard.As Beth warms up to her new life, she strives to make amends to the people she has alienated over the years, including friends and neighbors Jenna Dennings and Maggie Tompkins. Despite everyone's initial hesitancy, Beth begins to win people over with her new positive attitude, cheerful optimism and unbridled love.
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TV Show: Camp Wilder ( 1992 )
Camp Wilder is the story of Ricky Wilder, a young woman raising her daughter after a bad marriage. When her parents die, she moves back home to be the guardian for her two younger siblings and ends up being a type of counselor for them and their friends.
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TV Show: Nancy Astor ( 1982 )
Series about the life of Nancy Astor who was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons.
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TV Show: The Invisibles ( 2008 )
Two old thieves return from the good life in Spain, where they have spent their ill-gotten gains, to a quiet Devon fishing village, planning to eke out their retirement fishing and availing themselves of free health care. However, the quiet life is not for them and, with money running short, they quickly find themselves drawn back into a life of crime – only to find that crime has moved on and they've got new things to learn.
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TV Show: Dirk Gently ( 2012 )
Drama series featuring writer Douglas Adams's holistic detective Dirk Gently, who operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
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TV Show: Nightingales ( 1990 )
The surreal nocturnal adventures of three night watchmen in an unnamed office building somewhere in England.
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TV Show: The Line of Beauty ( 2006 )
A young man becomes attached to a family that's not his own, and casts himself into the life of plentiful riches and gay love affairs that he seems destined for.
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TV Show: Reunion ( 2005 )
An unusual drama following six high-school friends over the course of 20 years (with each year a separate episode), told in flashbacks as a detective investigates the recent murder of one of the group.
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TV Show: Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man ( 1994 )
With the help of his pig partner, a sarcastic Duckman is solving crimes.
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TV Show: Sunset Beach ( 1997 )
Sunset Beach was a short-running American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. It aired in over 70 countries around the world. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another 11 times. The show also received 22 nominations for various other awards.
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TV Show: The Devlin Connection ( 1982 )
Brian Devlin, a retired PI is drawn back into the business by his long-lost son, Nick Corsello, an aspiring detective who is somewhat rougher around the edges.
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TV Show: Swamp Thing ( 1990 )
When an attempt on Dr. Alec Holland's life leaves him consumed by deadly chemicals and fire, the swamps of Louisiana transform him into a superhuman creature hell-bent on ridding the swamp--and the world--of the evil that men do.
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TV Show: Police Academy: The Animated Series ( 1988 )
Police Academy: The Series, also known as Police Academy: The Animated Series, is a 1988 American animated television series based on the Police Academy series of films. The show was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions for Warner Bros. Television. It aired weekdays and lasted two seasons for a total of 65 episodes.
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TV Show: In the Heat of the Night ( 1988 )
Based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, this series provided a hopeful, yet honest look at life in the new South. Set in the fictional Sparta, Mississippi, the show was a marvelous blend of heartfelt drama and folksy humor. It portrayed both the professional and personal pursuits of Sparta P.D's officers.
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TV Show: The Kids in the Hall ( 1988 )
Get ready for sketch comedy...Canadian style! The Kids In The Hall are a hilarious sketch comedy troupe. They got their name from a comedian named Jack Benny, who would often end a joke by saying: "I got this from the kids in the hall", referring to the amateur comedians who would hang around outside his office. KITH was formed in 1984 when McCulloch and McKinney, who had worked together in Calgary as part of a group named the Audience, teamed up with Foley and McDonald's Toronto-based group, KITH. Thompson officially joined in January 1985. That same year, McCulloch and McKinney were hired as writers for NBC's Saturday Night Live after a talent scout saw KITH in performance. Significantly, SNL had also been created by Michaels, himself an ex-patriate Canadian living and producing in New York. Still in 1985, Foley appeared in the film High Stakes, and Thompson and McDonald toured with...
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TV Show: The Adventures of Superboy ( 1988 )
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Superman's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication. It was renamed The Adventures of Superboy at the start of the third season.
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TV Show: Monsters ( 1988 )
This half-hour anthology series each week features a unique monster in a story with a typical twist at the end.
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TV Show: Midnight Caller ( 1988 )
Midnight Caller is the moody drama starring Gary Cole as Jack Killian, a San Francisco cop who accidentally killed his partner. After leaving the police force, he ended up the host of a late-night radio talk show--with a penchant for getting involved with the problems of his listeners.
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TV Show: Garfield and Friends ( 1988 )
An animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis.
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TV Show: Pennies from Heaven ( 1978 )
Arthur Parker is a sheet music salesman in the England of the nineteen thirties. He is also a romantic dreamer who finds his own personal reality in the lyrics of the songs which he hawks from town to town.
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TV Show: The Long Hot Summer ( 1985 )
Don Johnson plays Ben Quick, a Southern drifter who is under suspicion as a 'barn burner.' Ben secures a job at the Mississippi mansion of town-boss Will Varner. Varner's daughter Noel and daughter-in-law Eula vie for the handsome Ben's attention, while the patriarch's weakling son Jody seethes. When a few local barns are burned, Ben is the primary suspect-and no one is more suspicious than Noel...
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TV Show: Falcon Crest ( 1981 )
The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest after the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley (modeled after the Napa Valley) northeast of San Francisco.
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TV Show: Can't Hurry Love ( 1995 )
Can't Hurry Love is an American sitcom about Annie, a single, thirty-something woman living in New York and her three friends, Didi, Roger and Elliot.
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TV Show: Downtown ( 1986 )
A detective show with some brushes of humor about John Forney, a seasoned, highly professional police detective who works the street of Los Angeles, besides being in charge of four colorful parolees.
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TV Show: The Young Riders ( 1989 )
The Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders (some of whom are young versions of legendary figures in Old West history) based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War.
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TV Show: Private Eye ( 1987 )
An action drama set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, focusing on Jack Cleary, a gritty private detective who forms an unlikely partnership with Johnny Betts, a streetwise rock-'n'-roller.
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TV Show: Framed ( 1992 )
Lawrence Jackson and Eddie Myers could not be more different. Jackson is an ambitious young police officer saddled with the responsibilities of a wife and children. Myers is an escaped criminal turned informer, presumed dead. But as jackson discovers whilst holidaying in Spain, Myers is very much alive. He has reinvented himself as Phillip von Joel, handsome, dangerously charasmatic and very wealthy. Extradited back to England after a nerve-racking Scotland Yard Operation, von Joel agrees to a deal with the Police. He'll tell what he knows - but only if Jackson is his interrogator. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between the master criminal and his determined minder. Which comes first - duty or temptation?
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TV Show: Sable ( 1987 )
Based on the popular 80s comic book, former big-game hunter, Jon Sable returns to the States and takes up a career as a children's book writer. No one but his close circle of allies knows that he is also the mystery vigilante stalking the city and fighting crime.
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TV Show: Welcome Back, Kotter ( 1975 )
A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids.
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TV Show: Pasadena ( 2001 )
In this drama, teenager Lily McAllister recalls the downfall of her family, the Greeleys, who have built a massive publishing empire over the course of several generations.
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TV Show: McHale's Navy ( 1962 )
McHale's Navy follows the wacky schemes of Lt. Cmdr Quinton McHale and his crew to make money, get girls and have a ball. Their nemesis is Captain Binghamton who struggles to rid himself of the headache that PT-73 has become for him. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end.
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TV Show: Ferris Bueller ( 1990 )
Based on the popular feature film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," this half hour situation comedy followed the high school adventures of Ferris Bueller and his friends.
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TV Show: Time of Your Life ( 1999 )
Time of Your Life was a spin-off of Party of Five. It followed Sarah Reeves Merrin as she moves to New York City to learn more about her biological parents.
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TV Show: MADtv ( 1995 )
Late night sketch-comedy show based on the humor of MAD magazine.
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TV Show: Laverne & Shirley ( 1976 )
This spin-off of the classic sitcom Happy Days focused on Milwaukee's Sweethearts, Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney, two lower class girls who shared an apartment and worked together at Shotz Brewery as bottle-cappers. The two girls were as different as night and day: Laverne was feisty, quick-tempered and man-hungry while Shirley was more naive and trusting and quite inexperienced when it came to romance. The two shared their apartment building with Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squigman, two wannabe greasers who always visited at the most inconvenient times and drove the girls insane. The girls hung out at the Pizza Bowl, a local pizza restaurant/bowling alley owned by Laverne's boisterous father Frank. The characters moved to Burbank, California during the show's sixth season, and Cindy Williams departed the series as Shirley during its eighth. The show remains a popular staple of syndication.
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TV Show: The Brady Brides ( 1981 )
When Marcia and Jan both find their own one true lovse, they announce at the same time that they are getting married, and they make plans for a double wedding. After the wedding, when the couples look for a house, they notice that a house would be too expensive for each couple, so they decide to share one.
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TV Show: Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue ( 2006 )
Shaggy inherits "Like a Billion Dollars" from his Uncle Albert; an eccentric scientist and inventor who has suddenly disappeared. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy move into Uncle Albert's mansion and go from living "paw to mouth" to having everything and anything they've ever wanted -- including a pool, a massive home entertainment system and ROBI, their own comically inept robot butler. Just when Scoob and Shag kick back to enjoy their new digs, they stumble upon a secret lab, where they discover that Uncle Albert is actually hiding from a sinister villain named Dr. Phineus Phibes, who is after a secret nanotechnology formula that Uncle Albert recently invented. Scooby and Shaggy vow to work on their own until they bring down Phibes and make the world safe for Uncle Albert to come out of hiding.
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TV Show: Animaniacs ( 1993 )
The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners were locked up in the studio water tower until they escaped in the 90's. There, they run wild, causing chaos everywhere!