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When Henry Mann inherits The Laurels he also inherits its assorted resident oddballs, who include ill-tempered alcoholic Duncan, blonde temptress Dolly Delights and several Chinese waiters. Then comes the arrival of retired Water Board official Hamish James Ordway, a nosey parker and colossal fusspot with a flair for what he euphemistically calls 'organisation' and Mann offers him free accommodation at The Laurels in return for straightening out the chaos prevailing within...

Our Time is a summer series hosted by Karen Valentine and Harry Anderson that aired on NBC. It takes a nostalgic look at concerns of the baby boom generation.

The series revolves around the adventures of Renart (voiced by Jean-Pierre Denys), a young and mischievous fox who has just moved to Paris from the countryside, accompanied by his pet monkey Marmouset. He moves to the city to get a job and visit his grumpy and stingy uncle, Isengrim, who is a deluxe car salesman, and his reasonable yet dreamy she-wolf aunt, Hirsent. Reynard meets Hermeline, a young and charming motorbike-riding vixen journalist. He immediately falls in love with her and tries to win her heart during several of the episodes. As Reynard establishes himself into Paris, he creates a small company at his name where he offers to do any job for anyone, from impersonating female maids to opera singers.

Rock star Shelley Maze struggles to come to terms with her failing career and her relationships with the people she'd worked with.

Little Clowns of Happytown is an American animated television series that aired on ABC on Saturday morning from September 26, 1987 to July 16, 1988.

In the year 2199, a space battleship embarks on a voyage to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth

Sally is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that was hosted by radio talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael. It originally was a half-hour local St. Louis television program, debuting October 17, 1983, and ran in syndication until May 24, 2002, with repeats running until August 30.

American writer and reader Connie Martinson interviews authors on their latest publications.

James Laxer, chairman of the political science department at Atkinson College, is the host for a five-part series examining Canada's role in the changing world economy. Produced by the NFB, the series explores free trade, the rise of the Japanese economy and the challenges posed by new technology.

Lady Slane, the wife of a recently deceased politician, retreats to a cottage in the countryside. In the process, she must attempt to discard her old public profile and find a new way of living.

A series combining the arts, humanities, and sciences to explore such topics as time, light, transportation, and communication.

In 1988, Granada TV revised their format for multi-talented Kate Robbins and gave her a starring vehicle, although the show still featured comedian brother Ted in the sketches. Here Kate impersonates -amongst others - Anneka Rice, Princess Anne and Cilla Black and closes the show singing as herself.

Chiara e gli altri is an Italian television series.

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.

The adventures of a motley gang of fishing enthusiasts

Impossibly tough and hairsprayed biker boys and girls fight turf wars in the streets, with much revving of motors and "you killed my buddy, prepare to die" dialogue. Based on the Shonen Magazine manga by Masahide Hashimoto, whose hero was so tough that he transferred schools 20 times. Only a Japanese tough guy would continue to go at all!

A drama based on the play *Ivan* by G. Nikitin and O. Pyzhova. Demidova, the principal of a rural vocational school, does everything in her power to raise her students to be well-rounded individuals. Sincerely devoted to her work, she nevertheless does not want to see her son among the vocational school’s students, but he enrolls in the school anyway. At the suggestion of Ivan, Demidova’s son, the future livestock farmers take on the task of helping a struggling farm...

German biochemist Dr. Peter Lester, his wife and 15-year-old son Michael, become the victims of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company in Australia, as young Michael disappears from the heavily guarded research camp in the outback.

Stan Brock, the jungle cowboy is an adventurer feeding his desire to accomplish what the other man talks about and is not capable of achieving. In this series, Stan travels around Brazilian jungles and swamplands and encounters adventure and peril in every location he arrives into.

Spinoff series of a TV play chronicling the advice and various miracles dispensed by God who has come to earth in guise of Morty, an irrasible attendent working in a steambath.

Writers, editors and critics review books.

(Ghadab) A poor fisherman finds a pearl inside one of the fish he caught. This leads to him becoming rich, and his situation turns against the people of the village in which he lives and leads him to oppress them with the help of a number of evil people.

The family garden of Utah.

The series illustrates an everyday life of ordinary people, various complications and tangles.

Freetime was a twice-weekly children's television programme shown on ITV between 1981 and 1985. Produced by Thames Television, it was a magazine format show devoted to hobbies and interests, and was designed to encourage viewers to get out and about rather than staying at home and watching television. It was hosted by the former Magpie presenter Mick Robertson. He was initially joined on set by Trudy Dance, but she was soon replaced by Kim Goody until it was axed by the network in 1985. On 16 September 1988, Thames Television briefly re-launched Freetime, this time fronted by Andi Peters, but the series was cancelled after its fifteenth and final edition on 23 December 1988.

Two families, each composed of five members, compete against each other to guess the answers with the results of a survey of one hundred people. Hosted by Ray Combs.

A weekly series of short documentary segments funded by the National Geographic Society and done in the style of the National Geographic Specials. In 2003, the show was re-branded National Geographic Ultimate Explorer. A news-style journal format is now used instead of the more traditional format of the specials.

Constant Hot Water was a British sitcom, written by Colin Pearson. Six episodes were broadcast on ITV1 from 10 January 1986 to 14 February 1986 on ITV. Every episode was broadcast on Friday nights at 8:30pm, and lasted 25 minutes. It starred popular British actresses Pat Phoenix and Prunella Gee, who played rival landladies, Phyllis Nugent and Miranda Thorpe, in the seaside town of Bridlington. Busybody Nugent strongly objected to the arrival of glamorous widow Thorpe, who had opened up her house next door as a rival B&B. The series was unsuccessful and in 2003, it peaked at no.6 as the worst British sitcom in the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy. The British Comedy Guide described the humour as "erratic" and added that the show "rarely rose above the mundane". Constant Hot Water was never released on video, and it remains unreleased on DVD.

Examines the professional and personal lives of a Welsh lifeboat crew and their tight-knit community in a small seaside village.

An overview of the history of television from its earliest days to modern times.

Written and narrated by Dr. Ali Mazrui in the early 1980s and jointly produced by the BBC and PBS (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian Television Authority. Africa's triple heritage, as envisioned by Mazrui is a product resulting from three major influences: (1) an indigenous heritage borne out of time and climate change; (2) the heritage of eurocentric capitalism forced on Africans by European colonialism; and (3) the spread of Islam by both jihad and evangelism. The negative effects of this history have yet to be addressed by independent African leaders, while the West has tended to regard Africa as recipient rather than as transmitter of effects. Yet Africa has transformed both Europe and America in the past, Mazrui points out, and the difficult situation in which Africa finds itself today (economically dependent, culturally mixed, and politically unstable) is the price it has had to pay for Western development.