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TV's original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.

Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979. There are also international versions of the programme.

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

A critique of cineastes and cinephiles, including a once famous actress reduced to poverty and a man who fails miserably at running a film society with no money.

Broadcast on BBC2, General Studies was an educational documentary strand that featured a wide range of films examining scientific discoveries, medical research, social issues, and cultural topics. Produced as independent programs under a shared banner, each episode explored a different subject through interviews, research footage, and expert commentary.

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey includes all 12 episodes of the 1978 television series featuring the research adventures of Cousteau, a celebrated documentarian and public conscience of mankind's stewardship of our oceans. Alongside his son Philippe Cousteau, Jacques's adventures begin with an ambitious expedition (on Cousteau's famous Calypso ship and a seaplane called the Catalina) following the course of the Nile River from Central Africa to the Mediterranean.

Three programs made on the basis of material gathered for the documentary His Master's Voice, where twelve CEOs of large French companies face the camera and talk about power, hierarchy, trade unions, strikes and self-management: Secrets About the Worker; A Spanner in the Works and The Battle Started at Landerneau. The three parts were banned from French national television (Antenne 2) but released at Cinéma La Clef in Paris a few weeks later.

Tom Weir is regarded as one of Scotland's national treasures. His series 'Weir's Way' is one of the most popular and enduring programmes commisioned and broadcast about Scotland. Tom travels around Scotland exploring its landscape, natural history and meeting its people. In each half hour programme Tom delves into social history, physical geography and the life and times of people in the area - past and present. This is done with the charm and civility that Tom has become known for.

Time Was... is a documentary television series that premiered on Home Box Office on November 11, 1979. It was hosted by Dick Cavett with each program looking at one decade from the past starting from the 1920s up to the 1970s. The historical program looked at the lifestyles and society during the various periods of time. The series was followed up with two other HBO documentary series hosted by Cavett, Remember When and Yesteryear.

Italian writer and screenwriter Tonino Guerra's journey to discover Yugoslavia, from the big cities to the heart of its countryside, between a past of traditions and ancient rituals and a future still to be built. Filmed in 1979, the reportage in the then still united country has the flavour of both an intimate diary and a detailed travel documentary.

A series of ten one-hour documentaries which explores Arab history, culture and society from within through the lives and opinions of Arabs today.

Cities is a Canadian documentary television series broadcast on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980, followed by repeats for two years. Produced and directed by John McGreevy. The series featured a celebrity who would appear in an episode on location in a personal favourite city or more specific location. Appearances included Glenn Gould, Peter Ustinov, Elie Wiesel, George Plimpton and Mai Zetterling. Also appearing were Anthony Burgess, John Huston, Melina Mercouri and Hildegard Knef.

In Search of the Dark Ages was a television series, written and presented by Michael Wood, and first shown in 1979. It is also the title of a book written by Wood to support the series, which was published in 1981. The television series consisted of a series of separate programmes, hence the collective title is often written as In Search of ... The Dark Ages. It began with In Search of Offa, recorded in 1978 by BBC Manchester, and shown on 2 January 1979. Subsequent programmes in the first series were on Boadicea, King Arthur and Alfred the Great, shown with a re-run of Offa over successive nights in March 1980. The first series was such a success when shown in an off-peak slot on BBC Two that a second series was broadcast in 1981, with subjects including William the Conqueror, Ethelred the Unready, Athelstan and Eric Bloodaxe.

It all began on 25 August 1919. Four passengers left Hounslow Heath for Paris - the world's first regular, daily, international air service. Today 600 million people travel by air every year. How has this extraordinary growth in air travel changed our lives? As Civil Aviation celebrates its 60th year, this series of seven programs examines the impact of air travel on our world.

The documentary explores the long process by which the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) was crafted and signed into law under the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Dame Margot Fonteyn acts as tour guide to the British ballet.

A series of six programmes about the truth behind some of the popular figures in British history.

A historical exploration of black American Blues music

Public affairs program on Twin Cities PBS (Minnesota)

1976 documentary by Nicola Caracciolo about the life of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III

A five part series in which writers of Science Fiction talk about their work - the imaginative futures that are becoming the characteristic literature of our technological age.

A two-part investigation into aspects of mental health care in Britain as exemplified by the maximum security Rampton Hospital, known as the 'big house' and the nearby rehabilitation unit, Eastdale.

A series that details the refugee traffic from Nazi-occupied Norway to Sweden during World War II. "The Escape Over Kölen," refers to crossing the Kölen mountain range (Scandinavian Mountains) between Sweden and Norway.

A documentary series which depicts a gathering of healers in the United Jau, in Huila province.