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Echoes is a four-part Irish drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. It was produced for Channel 4 by Working Title Films in association with RTÉ.

Focusing on the duo of Ryunosuke Tokugawa, a passionate teacher, and Hideki Enomoto, his junior teacher, the drama depicts the psychological state of elementary school students and the school administration confronted with the issue of consolidation with a neighboring elementary school.

The Bottom Line was the title of an ITV programme broadcast on Thursday evenings at 7.00 pm from November 1988. In the TV Times the show was listed as, "a fast-moving and entertaining consumer show with a difference." The presenters were Emma Freud, Danny Baker, Michael Wilson and Janice Long.

Televised parody of Kamen Rider.

Sidewalk closed, cross to the other side! A satirical series about the work of a Prague district housing company... Stories from the time when the District Housing Company (aka OPBH in Czech) took care of our housing. In the previous regime, OPBH owned all the houses and flats in socialist ownership that it was supposed to look after, but the reality was very different. A communal satire about the problems of people trying to get cooperation and help from the authority that is supposed to provide housing repairs for them.

1776. Simon Bertiny settles in Hérisson-sur-Allier to practice medicine. He quickly runs into the peasants of the region who refuse the help of a doctor and continue to take care of themselves. When Simon discovers that an epidemic is spreading in the village, he tries to help the villagers fight against the disease.

Mexico in the 1870s. The French expeditionary force lands in Mexico. Emperor Napoleon III of France and local conservatives establish a monarchy in the country and decide to place their protégé, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, on the Mexican throne. In the ensuing war of national liberation, the freedom-loving Indians, the Maztecs, led by their chief Bear's Eye, side with the legitimate deposed president of Mexico, Benito Juárez.

In little Bergforsen, everything would be peaceful if it weren't for two hitchhiking ladies from Stockholm and an ill-fated gold transport.

As the Robotech Expeditionary Force prepares to confront the Robotech Masters at their home planet, the Invid are already ravaging it.

A group of thirteen years old boys and girls is investigating an event from WWII.

Yahtzee is a game show that aired from January 11 to September 1988. Based on the dice game Yahtzee, the show was hosted by Peter Marshall, with Larry Hovis serving as both the show's announcer and a regular panelist. Each week featured a different hostess serving as "dice girl", including Kelly Grant, Denise DiRenzo, and Teresa Ganzel. Yahtzee was originally taped at Trump's Castle in Atlantic City, New Jersey, though later it moved to Showboat Hotel & Casino.

Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, is a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. It was hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn, and featured Marcus Miller as musical director. Guests included acts such as Sonny Rollins, Shinehead, Sister Carol, Sonic Youth, Joe Sample, Slim Gaillard, Elliott Sharp, Pere Ubu, Pharoah Sanders, and many others. In addition, vintage clips of jazz legends like Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday were also featured. The show also featured a house band of Omar Hakim, Marcus Miller, Philippe Saisse, David Sanborn, Hiram Bullock, and Jools Holland. The show often allowed its guests ample time to explain the origins of their sound, meaning of songs, etc. It also provided a national audience for lesser known acts. Hal Willner was the music coordinator, responsible for the interesting musical mix-and-matching that took place on the show.

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy is a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife.

The contrasting lives of two sisters from the middle of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. The locations range from the Potteries town of Bursley to Paris as their stories unfold. An adaptation of the 1908 novel “The Old Wives' Tale” by Arnold Bennett.

Supersense is a six-part nature documentary television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1988.

Chef and restaurateur Keith Floyd samples some of the finest food around Britain and Ireland

Classic Japanese ghost stories for children.

The Baron and his cronies steal a precious crown and hide in a secret room of an abandoned castle. With the help of their tiny robot Robin, Bassie and Adriaan set out to find the crown and return it to the museum.

A children's television series directed by Jo and Martin Pullen, and produced by FilmFair. It is the second animated series based on the Sylvanian Families media franchise, and the only one animated in stop motion.

Tojo - garbage collector, thanks to his work, can freely move around Warsaw occupied by the Nazis. He may even be legally on the streets of the ghetto. Tojo makes new friends and has numerous contacts. The occupation of a garbage collector perfectly masks the underground activity in the ranks of the Home Army.

Bereitschaft Dr. Federau is a German seven-part family television series based on a screenplay by Karl Heinz Klimt, broadcast between 1987 and 1988.

A 12-part nature film series that shows the wildlife of the forests from January to December.

Blizzard Island was a television show consisting of twelve episodes produced by CBC between 1987-1988. These episodes were later edited together to form the 1990 movie The Argon Quest.