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BEST T.V. SERIES
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Television series i like. Its a long list in no particular order. Some shows may sadly have no links yet, but keep checking because they are added every day.


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TV Show: The Amanda Show ( 1999 )
"All That" cast member and Nick comedienne extraordinaire Amanda Bynes is the star of her own variety show! The Amanda Show is a hilarious blend of outrageous sketch comedy, celebrity guest-stars, cutting-edge animated shorts and live performances from today's hottest music acts. The show's outrageous cast of characters includes a family of professional wrestlers who take their work home with them, a gavel-happy judge out for kid-justice, an old lady with an over-developed derriere, and, of course, Amanda's "overly enthusiastic" #1 fan, Penelope Taynt (who's even built a website devoted to her obsession: amandaplease.com)! Oh, and did we mention the dancing lobsters?
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TV Show: Perfect Strangers ( 1986 )
Perfect Strangers follows Balki Bartokomous, a humble sheep herder from a generic Mediterranean country called Mypos, who moves to Chicago to live with his American cousin, Larry Appleton.
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TV Show: The Bill Cosby Show ( 1969 )
Bill Cosby plays Chet Kincaid, a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles high school who gets involved in various comedic adventures with his students and fellow teachers.
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TV Show: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet ( 1983 )
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a story of the rise and fall of seven very different people. There are three Geordies, one Scouser, one Brummie, one Cockney and one from Bristol. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet shows what life was really like for self - employed workers in the 1980's. And after 20 years they are reunited and begin working together again.
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TV Show: Jeeves & Wooster ( 1990 )
Perfectly capturing the wit of P.G Wodehouse's novels, this impeccable series traces the insane shenanigans of Bertram Wooster and his faithful butler Jeeves. Set against a 1930s backdrop of Hooray Henries and splendidly indomitable aunts, Jeeves battles against Wooster's relentless list of prospective brides to hilarious consequences.
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TV Show: The Fall Guy ( 1981 )
Colt Seavers is a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter who uses Hollywood stunt tactics to capture criminals.
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TV Show: Cities of the Underworld ( 2007 )
Skyscrapers loom overhead, taxis honk their horns and street vendors shout as they peddle their wares. But the buzz of the city above is nothing compared to the powerful pull of the past and the amazing secrets simmering just beneath one's feet! We travelled hundreds of feet beneath the pavement to reveal hidden worlds that literally make up the foundations of today's greatest cities.Engineers, architects, and archaeologists leave the metropolitan chaos behind to travel deep beneath the city streets into the meandering tunnels, abandoned subway lines, hidden water supplies, dank dungeons, eerie tombs, clandestine hideouts, and forgotten cities that have been lost to the hands of time (or purposely hidden for more sinister reasons...).Combining the stunning visuals of high definition video and state of the art computer graphics, Cities of the Underworld turns history upside-down. The construction and engineering of subterranean structures are brought to life and detail how a modern city miraculously doesn't collapse onto the one below. Whether it is Rome, London, Paris or New York these vibrant cities teeming with life, not roped off excavation sites deep in the desert.
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TV Show: Rawhide ( 1959 )
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.
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TV Show: Banacek ( 1972 )
Thomas Banacek is an investigator who takes on "impossible cases" for insurance companies. In return for a finder's fee, Banacek will find a missing insured item. If a football player disappears in the middle of a play in front of thousands of fans, or an experimental rocket engine disappears in full view of a hundred witnesses at an exhibition hall... Banacek is the man to find them.
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TV Show: Andy Richter Controls the Universe ( 2002 )
Andy Richter Controls the Universe. His own Universe! And we get to see what that looks and sounds like every moment. Even when the moments are not pretty. Andy is a short story writer, who makes his living by working at a huge faceless company in present day Chicago, writing Technical Manuals. In his active, fertile, writer's imagination, we see (and hear as he narrates) the stories of his daily life, as they should be, could be, might be, and even actually how they are. Andy shares his office with the company's newest employee, and Andy's newest friend, the frail, jumpy, odd, loveable Byron. Also inhabiting Andy's world is his best friend Keith, who is "so good looking" that Andy must fight his own "prejudice against the 'attractive,' who seem to get everything they want, unlike ordinary humans." Supervisor Jessica.
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TV Show: Maude ( 1972 )
Maude was a sitcom with topical storylines created by producer Norman Lear. The program was a spin-off of All In the Family, on which Beatrice Arthur had made two appearances as the character of Maude, Edith Bunker's cousin.The show revolves around Maude Findlay, a very outspoken middle-class woman who wears her liberal politics on her sleeve and shares her home in suburban Tuckahoe, N.Y., with fourth husband Walter; her divorced daughter, Carol; and Carol's adolescent son, Phillip. Walter and Maude's best friends are next-door neighbors Dr. Arthur and Vivian Harmon. Among the domestic help that Maude helps "liberate" during the run of the show are Florida Evans and Mrs. Nell Naugatuck.
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TV Show: Land of the Lost ( 1974 )
Land of the Lost is the story of a forest ranger and his two teenage children who fall through a time vortex into another universe. They try to return to our universe, but their lives are constantly endangered by dinosaurs, the ‘Sleestaks', seven-foot tall hissing lizard people who live in an underground city and the Land of the Lost's peculiar laws of physics. They also befriend the ‘Pakuni', a small tribe of ape-like creatures.
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TV Show: Doctor in the House ( 1969 )
Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a film of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of medical students. It was produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970.
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TV Show: The Wizard ( 1986 )
The Wizard (originally on CBS Television 1986-1987) is an action/adventure series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Paul B. Radin. The series included lessons in diversity, friendship, imagination, respect, and never giving up.
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TV Show: Manimal ( 1983 )
Manimal centers on the character Dr. Jonathan Chase, a shape-shifting man who possessed the ability to turn himself into any animal he chose. He used this ability to help the police solve crimes.
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TV Show: Ark II ( 1976 )
Three young scientists travel around the country in the 25th century after the world has been ravaged by pollution. In their hi-tech RV (called Ark II), they study the land and help out those in need.
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TV Show: Remington Steele ( 1982 )
Private eye Laura Holt grudgingly accepts a new partner when a mystery man assumes the identity of her fictitious boss, Remington Steele. Together, the two battle crime as as their feelings for each other.
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TV Show: Penn & Teller Tell a Lie ( 2011 )
Show-stopping iconoclasts Penn & Teller bring their unique vision of the world to Discovery Channel in Penn & Teller Tell a Lie, a new interactive series with a twist that promises to forever change how audiences interact with this remarkable duo's brand of entertainment.
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TV Show: Man in a Suitcase ( 1967 )
Richard Bradford is McGill, an ex-CIA agent who is "disavowed" after he is made the scapegoat for a failed mission. He travels to Europe and works as a gun-for-hire and private investigator. McGill frequently comes into conflict with the people who hire him due to his uncompromising sense of honor and integrity.
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TV Show: Chico and the Man ( 1974 )
A short-lived comedic TV show from the 1970s, Chico and the Man followed the ups and downs of two guys from wildly different backgrounds as they worked in a gas station together.
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TV Show: Mannix ( 1967 )
Originally, Joe Mannix worked for a large Los Angeles detective agency called Intertect, featuring the use of computers to help solve crimes. A regular guy, he rebelled against the Big Brother atmosphere at Intertect and struck out on his own, setting up his own agency.
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TV Show: London's Burning ( 1988 )
London's Burning is centred on the members of the Blue Watch team at a London fire station. The team of dedicated professionals are united by common danger and shared camaraderie.
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TV Show: Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 )
Classic satirical sitcom set in the studios of Globelink News TV. An unpopular and unprincipled Chief Executive struggles to control a doggedly dysfunctional news team. With precious little success...
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TV Show: Bergerac ( 1981 )
Alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations the way his boss would like.
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TV Show: The George Carlin Show ( 1994 )
The series centers on George O'Grady, a taxi cab driver living in New York City. The show, for the most part, took place in The Moylan Bar, run by bartender Jack Donahue. The setting's real-life basis was the now-defunct Moylan Tavern, a younger Carlin's neighborhood bar on Broadway between La Salle Street and Tiemann Place in the Morningside Heights neighborhood, and owned by the grandparents of film critic and author Maitland McDonagh.
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TV Show: Celebrity Deathmatch ( 1998 )
Sport and event coverage re-defined! Today's hottest celebrities are pitted against each other in no-holds-barred fantasy fights complete with pre- and post-battle activities, one-on-one interviews, press conferences and behind-the-scenes locker room moments that parody the worlds of film, television, music and politics. Announcers Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond offer commentary and play-by-play coverage while legendary referee Mills Lane presides over the Celebrity Deathmatch Ring.
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TV Show: Just Good Friends ( 1983 )
Paul Nicholas plays Vince Pinner, an East End bookmaker, who thinks he is Gods gift to women, and Penny Warender, a up market girl from Chipping Ongar. Wonderful casting of the central charatures, but the show is stolen by Ann Lynn and Sylvia Kay who play Vince and Penny's mothers.
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TV Show: The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries ( 2012 )
What do scientists know about the universe? What still remains to be uncovered? What are some of the next avenues of exploration? Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson's course The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries is a marvelous journey to the frontiers of the known (and unknown) universe and introduces you to tantalizing questions being addressed by the world's top scientists.
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TV Show: Perry Mason ( 1957 )
Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he often tricks or traps people into unwittingly admitting their guilt.
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TV Show: The Stand ( 1994 )
When a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, the population of the world is decimated. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman, or a foreboding, scary man. As the story tracks various people, we begin to realize that the two figures exemplify basic forces of good and evil, and the stage is set for a final confrontation between the representatives of each.
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TV Show: Dennis the Menace ( 1959 )
The comic misadventures of television's most well-meaning but misguided boy are back! The lovable Dennis Mitchell (Jay North) left a trail of chaos throughout his suburban neighborhood. Yet along with his friends and classmates Tommy (Billy Booth) and Margaret (Jeannie Russell), Dennis managed to pry his way into the hearts of millions from week to week. Based on the long-running comic strip by Hank Ketcham, this beloved CBS television series (1959 1963) stayed true to form, as Dennis's youthful curiosity always managed to get him into heaps of trouble... especially with his crotchety old neighbor Mr. Wilson (Joseph Kearns). Herbert Anderson and Gloria Henry starred as Dennis's parents who were always on hand with love and guidance but not necessarily the required supervision.
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TV Show: Bret Maverick ( 1981 )
In this continuation of the 'Maverick' series, poker player and conman Bret Maverick moves to the town of Sweetwater, AZ, and tries to take up a normal life as a cattle breeder. However, Brett's past and the troubles of Sweetwater won't leave him alone, and he soon finds himself putting his skills to use to help out his fellow citizens.
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TV Show: Cannon ( 1971 )
Frank Cannon isn't your typical private detective. He's overweight, likes to eat, drives expensive cars, and charges a lot of money for his services. But when you need a job done right and you don't have a big enough gun... you call Cannon.
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TV Show: Maverick ( 1957 )
In this light-hearted Western, brothers Bart and Bret Maverick are descended from a long line of poker players and conmen. Together or separately, they travel the Old West looking to make money without totally compromising their... rather loose scruples. Later, their English cousin Beau arrives in England. The series mostly alternates between the adventures of Bart and Brett, with Beau taking Bret's place when series star James Garner left over a contract dispute. A third brother, Brent, was briefly seen in the fourth season. Sometimes Bart and Bret will join forces to con a particularly difficult mark, or find themselves at odds over an attractive woman.
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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: The Adventures of Superboy ( 1966 )
The Adventures of Superboy is a series of six-minute animated Superboy cartoons produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The 34 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The New Adventures of Superman other DC Comics superheroes. These adventures marked the animation debut of Superboy, as well as his teenage alter ego Clark Kent, who acted as the bespectacled, mild-mannered disguise for the young hero, Lana Lang, and Krypto the super-powered dog who would accompany his master on every dangerous mission. Other characters such as Pa and Ma Kent, foster parents of the Boy of Steel, and the town of Smallville were also faithfully recreated from comic book adventures. As a result of the production's budget, the show featured a great amount of stock animation as well as limited movement from the characters.Each episode featured the Boy of Steel ducking out of high school and racing into action to battle a wide array of adversaries, from dognappers in "Krypto, K-9 Detective," androids run amok in "The Revolt of Robotville," and alien menaces in "The Spy from Outer Space," to another young hero with similar powers in "Superboy Meets Mighty Lad," and a slew of otherworldly monsters ("The Deep Sea Dragon," "Visitor from the Earth's Core"). He even wound up being captured and successfully having to fight a gang of small-time crooks—all while in his disguise as Clark Kent—in "The Gorilla Gang." Most of the stories were written by DC writers such as Bob Haney and George Kashdan, while character designs were based closely upon the Superboy comic books of the time.
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Movie: The Adventures of Superboy ( 1961 )
Jimmy, Clark Kent and Lana Lang's friend, is ashamed that his father works as a doorman at the Smallville theater. His opinion changes when Superboy is able to thwart a robbery with Jimmy's father's help.
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TV Show: Sister, Sister ( 1994 )
Tia and Tamera Mowry play twins who were separated at birth and by chance meet each other in a shopping mall. Ray Campbell, Tamera's adopted father, is very different from Tia's adopted mother, Lisa Landry, but the twins don't want to be separated so Ray and Lisa end up living together. The series often focuses on the trouble the twins get into due to their identical appearance and the love-hate relationship between Lisa and Ray.
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TV Show: Paddington Bear ( 1989 )
Paddington Bear is an American/British animated television series. It was the second television adaptation of the children's book series and made by Hanna-Barbera in association with Central Independent Television. The character of an American boy named David, Jonathan and Judy Brown's cousin who arrived in London on the same day as Paddington, was added to the stories in this incarnation, it was part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera in 1989 and lasted 13 episodes.
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TV Show: The Mark Thomas Comedy Product ( 1996 )
The Mark Thomas Comedy Product was a hybrid show of comedy and serious politics, with Mark Thomas often using silly or surreal methods to gain interviews with politicians and corporations and to highlight issues.
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TV Show: Nathan Barley ( 2005 )
Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool. Dan Ashcroft writes searing columns for Sugar Ape. He's considered astonishingly cool, but only by those he despises. He is surrounded by idiots and practically worshipped by Nathan (whom he considers to be their king). He is 34. Why has he failed to move on? Claire Ashcroft, 27, is Dan's sister. Like Dan she despises "cool". Unlike Nathan she despises novelty, trash, irony and gadgets. She is furious that no one will fund her hard-hitting documentary about a choir of reformed junkies.
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TV Show: FBI: Criminal Pursuit ( 2011 )
FBI: Criminal Pursuit profiles the modern Federal Bureau of Investigation and explores the determination required to solve some of the most mystifying cases of the 21st Century. The challenges range from combating arsonists to tracking down terrorists, and the goal is always to bring the culprits to justice. This series not only showcases the heroes behind high-profile investigations, but the role high-tech investigative techniques play in solving these extraordinary cases.
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TV Show: American Justice ( 1992 )
Documentary focusing on Crime in America, and the American Criminal Justice System.
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TV Show: Born to Kill ( 2005 )
An in-depth look at some of the world's most prolific serial killers. Police detectives, journalists, childhood friends, room mates, attorneys and leading experts in criminal psychology offer an insight into their unique relationships with the evil of society.
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TV Show: Happy Families ( 1985 )
Happy Families recounts the tale of the dysfunctional Fuddle family with Granny Fuddle, the Cook and her imbecilic grandson Guy. The plot centred on Guy's attempts to find his four sisters for a family reunion.
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TV Show: The Beiderbecke Tapes ( 1987 )
The Beiderbecke Tapes follows schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Trevor's hands, Trevor and Jill find themselves being pursued by national security agents.
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TV Show: The Borrowers ( 1992 )
Undeterred by their size, Pod, Homily and Arrietty survive by living under the floor boards and "borrowing" from the "human beans" upstairs.
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TV Show: Dallas ( 1978 )
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
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TV Show: American Gothic ( 1995 )
The rural community of Trinity, South Carolina, a postcard-pretty enclave of antebellum houses and manicured lawns, is a town tormented and seduced by the ominous presence of one man, Sheriff Lucas Buck.
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TV Show: Men of a Certain Age ( 2009 )
Men of a Certain Age explores the unique bonds of male friendship among three men experiencing the changes and challenges of mid-life. They have been best friends since college but now, in their 40s, are navigating through the second act of their lives. Joe is a friendly, slightly neurotic, recently separated father of two who had dreams of being a professional golfer. Now he owns and runs a party store. Terry is a laid-back, handsome actor who seems to breeze through life (and women). Lately, he's spending more time working as a temp than as an actor and Owen is an overstressed husband and father of three who endures constant criticism from his father, for whom he works as a car salesman.
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TV Show: A Very Peculiar Practice ( 1986 )
A Very Peculiar Practice is a black comedy with surreal elements. It concerned an idealistic young doctor, Stephen Daker, taking up a post as a member of a university medical centre. The centre is staffed by a group of misfits including the bisexual Rose Marie, self-absorbed Bob Buzzard, and decrepit Scot, Jock McCannon who heads the team in the first series.
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TV Show: Beyond Westworld ( 1980 )
Beyond Westworld is a 1980 television series that carried on the stories of the two feature films, Westworld and Futureworld.The story revolved around Delos Corporation Security Chief John Moore having to stop the evil scientist Quaid as he planned to use the robots in Delos to try to take over the world. Despite being nominated for two Emmys (Outstanding Achievement In Makeup, and Outstanding Art Direction for a Series), only five episodes were produced, and only three of them were aired before cancellation.
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TV Show: Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! ( 1976 )
Selwyn Froggitt, a well read clumsy buffoon smashes his way through his sleepy Yorkshire village of Scarsdale in these 30 minute 1970's comedies. Starring Bill Maynard in the title role, he creates this loveable Oaf perfectly, cushioned by a terrific supporting cast of character actors. Referring to The Times supplement for his knowledgeable information, with shovel in hand his schemes and plans create a fitting end to every episode. Disaster!
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TV Show: Selwyn ( 1978 )
Following on from the successful series, Oh No It's Selwyn Froggit, Selwyn has uprooted himself from Scarsdale to the Paradise Valley Holiday Camp, where he has been appointed as the Entertainments Officer.
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TV Show: The Beiderbecke Connection ( 1988 )
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Chapman teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life, they also have a child. They are asked by their friend "Big Al" to put up a friend of his and, of course, they agree. But when Ivan arrives, they find he speaks no English but thinks that "Bix is cool". Meetings with criminals, smuggling people over the border, fighting for the right to education even when it's against the rules.
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TV Show: The King of Queens ( 1998 )
Set in the working-class suburb of Queens, New York, the show follows Doug Heffernan, an amiable deliveryman, and his wife, spitfire secretary Carrie Heffernan, as they explore the everyday challenges of love, life, family and marriage.
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TV Show: My Favorite Martian ( 1963 )
A Martian crash-lands on Earth and is taken in by young newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara. Disguised asTim's Uncle Martin, he attempts to repair his ship and keep himself out of trouble. But Tim's nosy landlady, Mrs. Brown, takes a liking to Uncle Martin, which complicates things, as does Uncle Martin's tendency to use his Martian powers at the wrong time.
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TV Show: Harry Enfield and Chums ( 1994 )
Harry Enfield and Chums was the follow-up series to Television Programme and was one of the most popular sketch shows of the Nineties, introducing memorable characters such as Kevin the Teenager and The Self-Righteous Brothers to screens.
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TV Show: Donal Macintyre: Unsolved ( 2015 )
Donal Macintyre revisits so-called 'Cold cases' that have never been closed to see if he and his team of experts can uncover details in the case that were maybe missed the first time around.
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TV Show: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil ( 1986 )
Ruth has everything. A large, warty body, a standard house in the suburbs, two whiney children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, Mary Fisher. Mary Fisher lives in a lighthouse by the sea and writes about love. When Bobbo leaves Ruth for the novelist, she decides that Mary Fisher doesn't know the first thing about love. Ruth intends to teach her.
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TV Show: The Comedy Years ( 2019 )
The Comedy Years looks back at how comedy shaped and defined specific years over the past 4 decades. Each episode mixes classic comedy archive with social history and pop culture nostalgia and shows how each year's comedy reflected a changing Britain – from the Thatcher era of satire of Not The Nine O'clock News and Spitting Image to ground breaking comedy series like The Royle Family, The Young Ones and The Office.
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TV Show: Donal MacIntyre's Murder Files ( 2018 )
In Donal MacIntyre's Murder Files, the renowned undercover reporter and crime journalist examines the most horrific and fascinating crimes.In-depth interviews by Donal with the individuals who were central to solving each case - from the detective on duty to the undercover agent to the forensic scientist – are the spine of each episode. Donal will expertly lead them through their story step by step, uncovering the dramatic twists and turns of each and every case. The stories will be illustrated by dramatic reconstruction of the case and archive, including police tapes and undercover evidence.Through these intimate and probing interviews, Donal will also reveal the emotional side of law enforcement. What goes through the mind of someone working on a case? What are the personal and professional pressures? What does it take to solve a complex case? To chase down a murderer?
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TV Show: The Goldbergs ( 2013 )
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky and movie obsessed youngest child Adam, these were his wonder years, and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other -- just with a lot more yelling. Mom Beverly is a classic "smother," an overbearing, overprotective matriarch who loves her delicious kids, but still rules this brood with 100% authority and zero sense of boundaries. Dad Murray is gruff and sometimes oblivious, parenting with half his attention span but all his heart. Sister Erica is popular and terrifying, doing her best to cover up that she's the smartest of the clan. Barry is a passionate dreamer, who maybe dreams a little too big and who always gets the short end of the stick. Adam is the youngest, a camera-wielding future director who's navigating first love, and growing up with his family. Rounding out the family is beloved grandfather Al "Pops" Solomon, the wild man of the clan, a shameless Don Juan who's learning as much from his family as he teaches them.
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TV Show: The Avengers ( 1961 )
Urbane John Steed and a variety of partners work for an elite organization tasked with investigating criminal and espionage matters within the UK. Their opponents use everything from standard techniques to robots and other science fiction gadgetry.
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TV Show: Pee-Wee's Playhouse ( 1986 )
Scream along to the SECRET WORD with Pee-wee Herman and his pals — Jambi the Genie, Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Reba the mail lady, Captain Carl, Magic Screen, Conky, Globey, Chairry, Pterri, Randy and many more! Aaaaarrrrrrrrr!!! I know you are, but what am I!?! Mecka-lecka hi... Mecka-hiney ho!
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TV Show: Booker ( 1989 )
Dennis Booker, an ex-cop, is hired by the US office of a large Japanese company to investigate some suspect insurance claims. He is very anti-authority, resents being told what to do, and seems to spend most of his time investigating cases related to his family, friends and colleagues rather than his employers.
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TV Show: Budgie ( 1971 )
Classic 1970s drama, starring Adam Faith as petty crook Ron 'Budgie' Bird. Recently released from prison, Budgie soon finds himself embroiled in more petty scams and get rich quick schemes, none of which seem to end in success, and all of which seem to get Budgie in trouble with the police, and with his dodgy underworld boss, Charlie Endell (Iain Cuthbertson).
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TV Show: Elvira's Movie Macabre ( 1981 )
Elvira has been the longest running TV Horror movie host. Played by Cassandra Peterson the Vampyre lady in black presents the movies with off the wall comments about both the current movie and herself. WIth her sleek sexy Vampire look, she is known, loved and recognized by people the world over.
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TV Show: The Mary Whitehouse Experience ( 1991 )
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a UK topical comedy show, both on radio and TV, in the late '80s/early '90s. Its main stars were David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Guest performers included Nick Hancock, Jo Brand, Jack Dee, and Mark Thomas.
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TV Show: Vice Versa ( 1981 )
Paul and Dick Bultitude, father and son, swap their bodies when the boy unwittingly wishes to become his father so he can skip school duties.
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TV Show: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends ( 1981 )
Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Bobby Drake (Iceman), and Angelica Jones (Firestar) are all college students at Empire State University. After working together to defeat the Beetle and recovering the "Power Booster" he stole from Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) the trio decide to team-up permanently as the Spider-Friends.
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TV Show: Fantastic Four ( 1967 )
Four costumed superheroes battle the world's most terrifying villains.
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TV Show: Laurel & Hardy ( 1966 )
Laurel & Hardy in animated form were seen on TV in the fall of 1966. Larry Harmon did Stan Laurel's voice, and Jim MacGeorge did Oliver Hardy. 156 shorts were made in total, each having its own opening and closing wrap-arounds, to make them easy to air in syndication.
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TV Show: Northern Exposure ( 1990 )
Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, cocky young Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. Upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish-out-of-water as he's instead assigned to a tiny Alaskan village where the offbeat locals would love him to stay forever.
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TV Show: Father Dowling Mysteries ( 1987 )
The show began as an NBC Made for TV Movie in 1987 and the show was to have begun weekly in 1988 though because of a writer's strike in 1988 it didn't begin weekly until 1989. After it's 1st season the show left NBC and ABC took the show from 1990 until 1991.
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TV Show: Wild Britain with Ray Mears ( 2010 )
Adventurer and nature lover Ray Mears explores some of Britain's more inaccessible countryside to discover the wildlife living just outside our front door.
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TV Show: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ( 2011 )
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is a lively, unpredictable and hilarious half-hour of improvised sketch comedy, complete with audience participation. The show is based on a series of live improv performances and are taped live in front of audiences at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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TV Show: Saturday Superstore ( 1982 )
Saturday Superstore is a children's television series, broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1987. It was shown on Saturday mornings with presenters including Mike Read, Sarah Greene, Keith Chegwin and John Craven. The show was very similar to its predecessor Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, which had ended the previous year.
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TV Show: Coogan's Run ( 1995 )
Coogan's Run was a comedy series featuring a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle, all played by Steve Coogan.
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TV Show: The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty ( 2020 )
The incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's influence on world events and the dramatic personal battle for power at the heart of his own family.
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TV Show: The Paper Lads ( 1977 )
The Paper Lads follows the adventures of J.G., Ian, Gog, Baz and Sam who are a group of teenagers that do a paper round for their local newsagent, Jack Crawford. Retired policeman Jack always tells them to keep their eyes open as they go about their rounds; as they often discover the news, as well as deliver it!
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TV Show: Gimme a Break! ( 1981 )
Nellie Ruth "Nell" Harper agrees to be a housekeeper for the Kanisky household as a favor to her late friend, Margaret Huffman Kanisky, who was the wife of police chief Carl Kanisky. Nell also serves as a parent to the Chief's three daughters, Katie, Julie, and Samantha.
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TV Show: It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( 1974 )
Comedy about the exploits of a Royal Artillery Concert Party during the Second World War. The action is set in Deolali: a British army camp 100 miles north east of Bombay.
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TV Show: Das Boot ( 1985 )
The crew of U-boat U-96 has been ordered to leave port and set sail to sea to sink British merchant ships. After some tense moments with an enemy, which is well-equipped, they've been ordered to dock at a base in South Europe, however this seems to be impossible as they have to cross the strait of Gibraltar...
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TV Show: Hippies ( 1999 )
London in the sixties is the swinging setting for this comedy about an underground magazine.
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TV Show: Sherlock Holmes ( 1965 )
Sherlock Holmes (alternatively Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1968.
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TV Show: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ( 1971 )
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British television series that was produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on the ITV Network.The programme presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
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TV Show: The Nineties ( 2017 )
The Nineties explores the decade that gave us the Internet, DVDs, and other cultural and political milestones.
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TV Show: The Tortellis ( 1987 )
A "Cheers" spin-off focusing on the unctuous Nick Tortelli (Carla's ex) and his spacey wife, Loretta, in Las Vegas.
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TV Show: Into the Labyrinth ( 1981 )
When Terry, Helen and Phil discover a magician, Rothgo, trapped in the wall of a cave, they must use the time-travelling power of his labyrinth to help him regain his powers from the evil witch, Belor.
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TV Show: That's Life! ( 1973 )
That's Life! is a BBC series that dealt with consumer issues. As well as tackling the more serious issues around the country, the series also took a look at the more light-hearted going's on as well.
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TV Show: Nobody's Perfect ( 1980 )
This comedy focuses on bumbling Detective Inspector Roger Hart (Rom Moody), an exchange officer from Scotland Yard, with the San Francisco Police Department.
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TV Show: Orson Welles' Great Mysteries ( 1974 )
Host Orson Welles shows the audience down the dark byways of crime, fantasy and the supernatural. Dramas are based on short stories by the greatest authors and played by both famous American and English performers.
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TV Show: Doctor in Charge ( 1972 )
Doctor in Charge is a comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors.
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TV Show: The River ( 1988 )
The River follows the tranquil life of lovable, Cockney, ex-convict Davey Jackson who is lock keeper on the canal near the village of Chumley-on-the-Water. His peaceful life is turned upside down by the arrival of the neurotic, sharp-tongued Sarah MacDonald.
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TV Show: The Legacy of Reginald Perrin ( 1996 )
Reginald Iolanthe Perrin has passed away but he has bequeathed a fortune to his family and friends. There is only one proviso, they must each do something absurd in order to receive their share of the money. They therefore, initially individually and then as a group, attempt to concoct a bizarre scheme that will impress solicitor Geraldine Hackstraw enough to make her part with the money. This culminates in an attempt by senior citizens to march on Whitehall as a protest at a youth-obsessed society.
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TV Show: 1968: The Year That Changed America ( 2018 )
From Emmy Award-winning executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog comes a CNN Original Series Event, 1968: The Year That Changed America. The four-part series looks back 50 years at 1968, a year marked by seismic shifts in American politics, social movements, global relations and cultural icons who forever changed the modern-day landscape. Never-before-seen archival footage and contemporary interviews with journalists, historians, and notable figures tell the story. The docuseries maps the tumultuous events of the entire year in chronological order. Taking place against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, tectonic changes in society and a presidential election, 1968 features larger-than-life characters like President Lyndon Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, hippies and yippies, soldiers and students, bra-burners and values voters. It is a year like no other in history, retold as never before.
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TV Show: A Kind of Loving ( 1982 )
Following the story of Vic Brown, a West Riding miner's son. It starts in 1957 with a casual affair with Ingrid Rotherwell, which develops into an emotional crisis...
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TV Show: Drug Wars: The Camarena Story ( 1990 )
Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.
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TV Show: Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel ( 1992 )
DEA agents (Alex McArthur, Dennis Farina) execute a three-part plan to bring Medellin cartel leaders from Colombia to justice.