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Hold the Dream is a two-part 1987 television serial based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1985 novel of the same name, a sequel to the 1984 miniseries A Woman of Substance. Deborah Kerr reprises her role of Emma Harte, with Jenny Seagrove, who played the young Emma, taking the lead role as Paula Fairley. Paula Fairley, now head of the Harte chain of department stores, has taken on the burden of preserving Emma's legacy. However, she suffers dissent within her extended family, in particular from her devious cousin Jonathan Ainsley. In the United Kingdom, the series aired in four one-hour episodes, although it was initially created as two two-hour parts.

The story of the Behringer family and their typical everyday problems.

Sable is a short-lived television program that aired on ABC during the 1987-1988 season, and is based on the comic book, Jon Sable: Freelance, by Mike Grell. Only seven episodes ever aired. The show was a one-hour adventure/drama about mercenary and vigilante Jon Sable, who by day was children's book author Nicholas Fleming. The program ran on Saturdays at 8:00, and aired its final episode on January 2, 1988. Rene Russo had her first television role on the series. Lara Flynn Boyle also had one of her first acting roles playing a kidnapped girl in the series pilot.

A Killing on the Exchange is a six-part 1987 British crime drama serial produced by Anglia Television for ITV. The plot focuses on the murder of London merchant banker Charles Makepeace, amidst a corporate takeover battle. The investigation, led by DS Lance Thorne, uncovers a web of suspects, including the victim's wife, mistress, and colleagues, all with potential motives related to the merger and personal conflicts.

Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.

This mini-series is a critically acclaimed drama of psychological intrigue, conspiracy and murder. It began in 1979 with the grisly discovery of school teacher Susan Reinert's nude, battered body. It ended seven years later, after one of the most massive homicide investigations in history.

Rahi, a miser known as "Abu Al-Floos", runs a spice shop and gets scammed, triggering a series of comedic events as he tries to recover his money.

A Kuwaiti series that takes place in a comedy setting, about the miser (Abu Saleh), his wife (Fatima), his daughter (Hayla), and his son (Saleh), arising between the mother of Fatima's mother and her husband Saleh many problems because of his sadness. While Hamdan lives with his sister Al-Ansabya, who is looking to marry anyone.

I'll Take Manhattan is a 1987 American television miniseries, adapted from Judith Krantz's novel of the same name. Screened by CBS, it tells the story of the wealthy Amberville family, who run their own publishing company in New York. After Zachary Amberville, the patriarch of the family, dies, the company is taken over by his unscrupulous brother Cutter. Zachary's children, especially his energetic and intelligent daughter Maxi, begin a battle to regain control of the father's company. I'll Take Manhattan was the highest-rated miniseries of the 1986–87 US television season with a 22.9/35 rating/share.

Daizaburo Akiba, a music critic, sets up Kiriko, a young hostess, and refines her to become his ideal woman.

A year has passed since his girlfriend, Momoko Kanzaki, left for America. Ryosuke Imai has been waiting for her, but he hasn't heard from her since. In addition to Ryosuke, there's Osawa Teikuro, who's sulking after being dumped by his beloved, and Takagi Toshiyuki, who hasn't been able to marry despite 15 arranged marriages. These men are over 30 and still undecided about their lives. Meanwhile, Okinaka Miki, who runs a fishing boat business, is a straightforward, big sister type. Her friends Hikaru Koizumi and Kazue Shimamura always rely on her. Ryosuke and his friends end up going on a triple date with Miki and the others. Despite meeting new women, Ryosuke continues to cherish his memories of Momoko. One autumn night, Ryosuke boards the last ferry from Kawasaki Port to Kisarazu, where he reunites with Momoko, who was supposed to be in America. However, Momoko has a new boyfriend, Yokoyama Ken, sitting next to her...

Papá soltero was a series on the Televisa network that began on February 11, 1987 and ended on July 6, 1994. It was produced by Luis de Llano Macedo and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas It was starred by César Costa, along with Luis Mario Quiroz, Edith Márquez, Gerardo Quiroz, with stellar performances by José Luis Cordero, Aurora Alonso and Octavio Galindo.

"Tales of Chinese Mysteries", an ancient costume mythical drama. In 1987, the Hong Kong ATV TV series was produced by Lee Yuen-For. It is divided into four units, namely "The Monk is also romantic", "Fox Girl", "Jishan's House" and "Little Ghost Stealing Gold".

Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?

Twelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle, sends for the boy's father, who returns from Spain to search for the killers. He goes to an old friend to obtain finance for his stay, and gets involved in a raid on a city club owner.

Billionaire Boys Club is a two-part TV movie that aired on NBC in 1987. It told the story of the Billionaire Boys Club, and its founder, Joe Hunt, who was convicted in 1987 of murdering con-man Ron Levin. The film was written Gy Waldron and directed by Marvin J. Chomsky.

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.

Miniseries based on a 1914 historical novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer - The War of the Oxen - set against the backdrop of the War of the Oxen in the 1420s.

Based on the novels by Owen Johnson, the three-part miniseries follows the antics of William "Hickey" Hicks and his fellow students at the prestigious Lawrenceville Prep School at the turn of the 20th century.

Young Gerald explored his passion for the animal kingdom with his inspirational tutor, Dr Theodore Stephanides. The backdrop was sunshine, happiness and the love and laughter of a doting, slightly eccentric family

The show centers on a team of doctors in a hospital in Karachi and revolves around their routines at the hospital and their private lives at home.

The everyday traumas and emotional upheavals of the legendary teenage diarist as he struggles to come to terms with life in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s England.

The story follows manga artist Saeki Yusuke, who lost his wife and lives alone in an apartment in Tokyo, as he is invited by his cousin Akutagawa Kisaburo, who is separated from his wife, to live with him in his mansion in Denenchofu, where Akutagawa is being asked to look after the house. This story follows the various turmoil that ensues, as well as a love story between Saeki and Yashima Yuki, the daughter of a wealthy family who moves in as a maid.

The series tells the story of Bakiza, who was surprised after the death of her rich elderly husband - Ashmawi - with Maji, his daughter, Zaghloul, who was raised in poverty away from her rich father. Ashmawi, the father of Zaghloul, tried at the end of his days to search for his daughter through advertisement in the newspapers, but the result is the arrival of his daughter Zaghloul late after his death to find his widow "Bakiza" - Suheir Al-Babyloni - arrogant and poor at the same time. The series is exposed to the paradoxes that result from the difference between the two characters and the way they deal with the difficulties they face after the death of Ashmawi, after discovering that he died penniless and that they share a legacy from which he remains after paying his debts except home.

Jurema, of humble origins, was raised on a large farm together with Vítor Correia and Carlos Valadares, whose father was the farmer. The three of them were very close and spent their childhood together. Only in adolescence began the rivalry between Carlos and Vítor, because of Jurema.

Former servant Janis Balodis returns home where he again meets Aija, whom he has loved since childhood. After her husband's death Aija lives alone with her children. Janis love awakens and he marries Aija hoping for a happy life together.

Napoleon Bonaparte woos Josephine and makes her his empress.

The Trilogy (Naguib Mahfouz) — The series depicts the political and social conditions before the 1919 Revolution, focusing on the life of the Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad family (played by Mahmoud Morsi), and the stark contrast between the strictness and discipline he imposes on his family, and the life of pleasure and indulgence he secretly lives alone at night.

This three-part production about the life, work, and times of Slovak literary classic Jozef Gregor Tajovský focuses on Tajovský's childhood. Jozef Gregor Tajovský was born in Tajov in 1874 and died in Bratislava in 1940. A large part of the life of the prose writer and playwright Jozef Gregor Tajovský is connected with his native Tajov, Banská Bystrica, and the surrounding villages of Pohorelá, Lopej, Horná Lehota, and Podlavice. He spent his childhood in Tajov with his grandparents. He speaks of it as the most beautiful period of his life. After completing elementary school in Tajov, he studied at a grammar school in Banská Bystrica and at a teacher training college in Kláštor pod Znievom. He was particularly attached to Tajov, to which he returned throughout his life.

The ‘Heart of the Country’ was a four part series by Fay Weldon set in Somerset which was broadcast in spring 1987.

The Diary of Anne Frank is 1987 BBC televised miniseries. It was based on The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, and it starred Elizabeth Bell, Janet Amsbury, Katharine Schlesinger and Emrys James.

A four-part miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979.

Two families of the Neapolitan Camorra fight for power.

Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.

Short-lived US drama series about the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary, that aired mid-season 1987 on ABC.

In the year 1580, a man named Lord Nobunaga Oda sends hoards of unholy armies across Japan, slaying all who stand in their way. A young ninja escapes her villages' destruction with a short sword, one of the three mystical weapons that can end Oda's rule. During her quest, she is joined by two other ninjas who wield the other two weapons of legend, the sacred sword and spear.

Puerto Rican soap opera that aired in 1987.

Hard-driving crime reporters at a fictional L.A. newspaper uncover scandals and expose corruption.

The story of the series revolves around four friends who decide to rent an apartment to make it an import and export company but without the knowledge of their wives, and then appoint a secretary to work with them in the company, so that the wives get to know each other, and they know the existence of the apartment and think that their husbands use it to betray them, to escalate events.

Millionaire commissions a play addressing the threat of nuclear war.

Nancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'. This miniseries event begins in 1939 when Nancy meets Henri Fiocca, while she is working on assignment as a journalist in Marseilles. With Europe on the brink of war, they fall desperately in love and are married as Hitler begins his relentless march oh Holland and Belgium.