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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.
New Monkees was the name of both a US pop rock music group, and a 1987 syndicated television show featuring the group.
Life Without George was a BBC comedy series written by Penny Croft & Val Hudson and starring Simon Cadell and Carol Royle, centred around a young woman's struggle to adapt to life after being left by her partner. The series ran from 1987 to 1989. The theme tune was written and performed by the show's writer Penny Croft.
Mama's Boy is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 19, 1987 until August 6, 1988.
Max Headroom is back again to terrorize your television in this late night variety show.
A Norwegian comedy show from Rorbua in Tromsø.
Sitcom based upon the 1937 play of the same name, set in a contemporaneous home in Staten Island, New York.
Norwegian miniseries sitcom.
You Must Be the Husband is a British comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alice's literary agent, Miranda Shaw. Tom and Alice Hammond are a happily married couple who become extremely wealthy when Alice suddenly becomes a best-selling author.
Live comedy show staring Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle, Nick Wilton and Arnold Brown.
This is a remake of the original black and white TV series created in 1967 with new colored drawings and the original dubbing.
Roxie is a spin-off of Kate & Allie that aired on CBS from April 1, 1987 to April 8. The sitcom was cancelled after two episodes.
Bad Boyes is a 1987 British children's comedy-drama television series produced by the BBC and which was aired on BBC One's afternoon CBBC slot for two series in 1987 and 1988. It was written by Jim Eldridge and starred Steven Kember as the eponymous hero, Brian Arthur Derek Boyes, a mischievous schoolboy who had a tendency to get himself into trouble and consequently had a series of misadventures.
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.
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.
With the arrival of the family of Agha Hanaei and Gol Baghali Khanum with their two children, the peace of the grandmother's house for makhmal (grandmother's cat) is disturbed .
Sitcom about male mid-life crises. Max Wild longs to return to his 1950s Teddy Boy youth - but after living the life again, soon wants to return home.
Bassie finds a treasure map in a painting he bought at a flea market. Three crooks are also after the treasure and try to take the map from our friends.
Quigley's Village was a long-running collection of Christian children's videos designed to teach children "sound Biblical values" in a fun and exciting way. A combination of live action and puppets, it was very similar in style to Sesame Street but with a biblically-based rather than humanistic approach to communicating values. Executive Producer Ed Carlstone first conceived of the idea of Quigley's Village when his three-year-old child told a lie. With many episodes translated into Spanish, and a spin-off series, Quigley's Village has been seen by millions of children worldwide.
Mozart und Meisel is an Austrian television series.
Ronnie Corbett covers the comedy waterfront with a crackling 30 minutes of monologues and sketches, and will be joined each week by top-line entertainers from the established ranks of British and American show business and by new headliners from the Fringe.
Multi-talented Kate Robbins and her comedian brother Ted appeared in their own Saturday night tea-time show from Granada TV. Here Kate impersonates, amongst others, Victoria Wood, Cilla Black, Tina Turner, Carmen Miranda and Fergie, Duchess Of York!
A satirical comedy about corruption and intrigues in an export-import company.
A summer series from Jersey, introduced by Mike Smith with a special guest host, and featuring an array of performing stars.
The series revolves around a simple family where the housewife Marzouq and Marzouqa (um Hilal and Abu Hilal) (Salwa Bakheet, and Mohammed Awad) work in the Bahraini sweets trade and live with their sons Hilal (Jassim Al-Sayegh), Latifa (Najla Butti) and Salwa (Shafiqa Yousef), whom Al-Baz (Jassim Sharida) marries, and um Hilal always gets involved in many problems because of her ideas and then pays for her ideas at the end
Summer Breeze was a single episode pilot which originally aired in 1987 on the NBC television network. Summer Breeze centered around the life of newlyweds Michael and Eve Wainwright. The couple were high school sweethearts finding married life difficult when an old flame went out of his way to make their life miserable in an effort to win the love of Eve, whom he had had a crush on for many years.
Short-lived series of compilations of film trailers selected and introduced by film writer Philip Jenkinson, often from his own extensive collection.
This was a sitcom on Showtime during the early eighties. The two lead actors played former cops turned bounty hunters.
When Mahzouza and Mabrouka claim their share in their father's inheritance, their uncle seizes it, claiming that they're a couple of lunatics, and admits them into a psychiatric hospital. However, they escape from the hospital and embark on a journey to expose the truth and claim their rights.
The travails of a sociologist who sets out to debunk a spiritualist cult.
In each episode, Egyptian singer and actress Sherihan takes viewers on a musical journey to a different country, using its landmarks, customs, and cultural traditions as clues. The audience is then invited to guess which country is being featured.