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Drama series set around a family car hire firm.

Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western faction, he was instumental in establishing the Sat-Cho Alliance dreamed of by Sakamoto Ryoma. After the fall of the Tokugawa, Saigo rose to major prominence before falling in disfavor. In 1876 Saigo Takamori resigned from his government post and went back to Kagoshima. He founded a local military school and dissatisfied samurai gathered around him in large numbers. In late 1876 it came to an open conflict when samurai rebels raided and occupied ammunition and weapon depots of the central government. The samurai rebels urged and proclaimed Saigo Takamori as their leader.

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

Spies ran for one season, from March 3, 1987, to April 14, 1987.

A dramatization of the human, scientific and historical aspects leading to the development of the first atomic bomb.

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

A self-satisfied, upper-middle-class husband discovers that his marital infidelities have caused him to contract AIDS.

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.

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

A mother forces her son to kill her father, based upon a true event in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1978.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Floodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988. The series focuses on a dogged inspector's pursuit of a group of cocaine smugglers across Europe and his bid to bring them to justice. A total of thirteen episodes aired over the course of nine months. Co-produced and partly filmed in France, it was one of the first ITV dramas to be co-produced with an international production company. Written by acclaimed The Sweeney scriptwriter Roger Marshall, the series was released on DVD by Network DVD for the first time on 19 July 2010. Although further series of the programme were planned, lead actor Phillip Sayer was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and eventually died in 1989. Marshall concluded that it would be wrong to re-cast the part and instead decided to bring the series to a natural close.

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.

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.

This is the story of Okonkwo, an Ibo man who lives in the village of Umoufia, in Nigeria. It shows the traditions and culture of the Ibo people, while also telling Okonkwo's story. This miniseries is an adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel of the same name.

Comedy Drama about a Northern Haulage Firm struggling in the recession hit 1980's in the UK

Willing and Abel is an Australian television comedy series which was made in 1987, about two handymen. The main cast were Grant Dodwell as "Charles Willing", Shane Withington as "Abel Moore", and Rebecca Rigg as "Angela Reddy". Their names were a pun on the saying: "Ready, Willing and Able". It had problems in attaining an audience. The show was produced as a "comedy drama" however some at the Nine Network wanted to steer it to be a heavier drama. There was much discussion between production executives and the Network and not much agreement. One episode scripted by Ted Roberts dealt with a hostage situation at a bank, the pathos being reinforced by series characters caught up in the action. The series dealt with contemporary issues in a subtle way, sometimes making observations through humour.

Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade.

A trio of taxi drivers working the night shift investigate a series of bizarre murders, kidnappings, and disappearances. Along the way, they keep encountering a mysterious glowing car known as the phantom taxi.

The autobiography of Maria Iordanidou from 1920 to 1960. The author continues the narratives of the adventures, taking on the form of Anna, granddaughter of Loxandra for dramatic reasons. She begins her story with the destruction of the house in Makrychori, Constantinople, by the Turks. Then Anna goes on a transfer to Alexandria, Egypt, and there she meets her future husband Christidis. Their romance ends in marriage and the newlywed couple comes to Athens. Anna finds a job and works as a secretary at the Soviet embassy. During the years of German occupation, she is arrested by the Gestapo, survives after many hardships, gets caught up in the whirlwind of the civil war and finally manages to raise her children.

New Yotsuya Kaidan" is an adaptation of the original work by Tsuruya Nanboku, "Yotsuya Kaidan," incorporating the emotions of modern youth and arranging it in a contemporary style. The unique casting includes roles such as Iiemon played by Koji Yakusho, Oiwa played by Ryoko Sakaguchi, Osode played by Kawase Koiseko, and Oume played by Kumiko Ohba.

The series consists of separate episodes, each episode tells the story of a person who makes negative social mistakes that occur in society, and at the end of the story, the artist shows him the effects of the sage, such as the conscience that reprimands him for the mistakes he committed, so soon he returns to his mistake, so she returns again and discovers his action, and he is surprised.

A story about life and everyday problems of a few families from East Germany.

Bremen, 1893. Young Marga Lürmann has many suitors but has never fallen in love. This changes when she meets Percy, a distant cousin from England, during a glorious summer spent in Lesmona, her uncle's country estate. Although Percy is not yet able to support a wife, he promises to return in five years to marry her. However, Marga, under pressure from her family to find a husband, grows more lonely and confused as time goes by, and eventually accepts a marriage proposal from someone else.

An anthology series featuring stories suggested by true events occurring during the war in Vietnam, often written by Vietnam veterans.

In 1938 Thailand, the free-spirited Prissana returns from America to a society where women marry for security, not love. Her charm and modern ways attract attention, but she clashes with the admired Taan Chai Puth. As they get to know each other, misunderstandings fade, and both must confront their assumptions, discovering an unexpected connection that defies tradition.

Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling (Ballad for a Loner) is an Afrikaans language drama set in 1985 that centres around the search by a young journalist for her colleague and fellow journalist Jacques Rynhard following his sudden, mysterious disappearance. As the story begins Jacques has just been awarded the Basson Prize for his novel Die Enkeling, but he disappears before the announcement is made. Otto Beukes, the editor of the magazine Die Huisvriend, decides to follow up on the story and puts top journalist Carina Human on the story. In a quest to find out where Jacques has gone and why he's disappeared Human begins the search for him by locating to the people closest to him.

La Virgen de las Siete Calles is a Bolivian TV drama adapted from a novel with the same name by Alfredo Flores. Produced by Santa Cruz Films Productions in 1987 with a total of 15 chapters, adapted for television and directed by Enrique Alfonso and Juan Miranda.