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The dodgy business deals of an older brother finally catch up with him, forcing him and his blameless younger brother to seek refuge in the family theme park business in Blackpool. The tension of this drama series, which ran for seven episodes in 1990, is whether or not Howitt's character can stay on the straight and narrow or if he will end up getting himself or his brother killed.
Wales Playhouse is a 30 minute UK dramatic anthology series produced by and airing on BBC Wales. Twenty-two episodes aired from 1990-96. Guest stars included Brenda Blethyn, Jack Wild, and Andrew Howard.
The Freddie Starr Show
Big Girl's Blouse is an Australian skit program that aired in the mid-1990s on the Seven Network. The show was created by Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski who all went on to star in Kath & Kim. There were four one-hour episodes, plus the pilot, which are usually shown as eight half-hour episodes. The phrase "Big Girl's Blouse" is a British English idiom meaning "ineffectual or weak, someone failing to show masculine strength or determination". In Australia The Comedy Channel currently airs the series as part of their Aussie Gold block hosted by Frank Woodley. In America it occasionally appears on the Sundance Channel. The show has been released in its entirety by Shock DVD in Australia.
Speaking our Language was a Scottish Gaelic learners television programme that ran from 1993 to 1996. Running for 72 episodes through four series, the series was produced by Scottish Television and presented by Rhoda MacDonald, STV's then-head of Gaelic output. It was frequently repeated on TeleG and is now repeated on BBC Alba, and all four series have been released on DVD. The series was based on Now You're Talking, a similar Welsh-language learners' series broadcast on S4C and developed by Acen, a resource service for Welsh learners, who acted as programme consultants for Speaking our Language.
In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis without sled dogs or motor technology and then cross the entire Antarctic. There are problems right from the start because the onward transport to the starting point by plane cannot be carried out on time. Finally, the adventurers set off from Patriot Hills Base Camp on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the Pole. The completely different character traits of the two men quickly emerge. Messner is impetuous and pushes for speed. The calm Fuchs divides his strength and consistently follows his pace during all planned breaks. On New Year's Eve 1989, the two men are warmly welcomed by the crew of the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. But the much larger and more dangerous part of their adventurous continental crossing still lies ahead of them. The 3-part documentary shows one of the last great adventures of modern times in impressive pictures.
The television comedy focuses on the daily life of an Argentine family living in the Federal Capital in the early 90s.
Game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The main goal of the game is to win 1 million polish zloty by answering twelve multiple-choice questions correctly.
The Secret of Lost Creek is an American adventure television series that aired from February 1 until March 1, 1992.
i-Witness, formerly i-Witness: The GMA Documentaries is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network and GMA News TV. Originally hosted by Vicky Morales, Luchi Cruz-Valdes, Mike Enriquez, Cheche Lazaro and Jessica Soho, it premiered on January 18, 1999. Kara David, Howie Severino, Atom Araullo, Mav Gonzales and John Consulta currently serve as the hosts. It is the longest-running documentary show in the Philippines. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Dr. Michel Camus, a veterinarian and animal psychologist from Paris, suffers a tragic loss. His sister is killed in a riding accident at Lake Chiemsee. The horse lover travels to Germany to take the horse involved in the accident, Ramboso, back to Paris with him. But Ramboso now belongs to Sylvia's father.
Lorraine Live launched on GMTV in Autumn 1997.
A historical drama that deals with the life story of the Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja'far al Mansur, beginning since he assumed the caliphate, building the city of peace (Baghdad) and entering the Golden Gate.
Series exploring the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands.
A trilogy of films in which the comic actor, Ken Campbell, tries to get to grips with Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.
Message Stick is an Australian television series about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lifestyles, culture and issues. It began screening in 1999 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It features features profile stories, interviews, video clips, short films and cooking segments. The current presenter is Miriam Corowa. Past presenters include Rachael Maza, Kelrick Martin, Deborah Mailman, Aden Ridgeway and Trisha Morton-Thomas.
Live and Sweaty was an Australian sports television program, broadcast on the ABC from 1991 until 1995. Hosted by Andrew Denton and later, Elle McFeast, the show was part panel-based, part talk show and part comedy, and predated The Footy Show which has a similar format.
A six-hour documentary series chronicling the way the West was lost and won between 1845 and 1893, broadcast nationally on PBS in May 1995 as part of WGBH’s American Experience. The film looks at the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
Political soap with scenes shot just hours before transmission. Set in and around Annie's Bar - the legendary watering hole and gossip shop in the House of Commons.
Supernatural: The Unseen Powers of Animals is a six-part British nature documentary television miniseries that was produced by John Downer Productions and commissioned by the BBC Natural History Unit, the same team behind the earlier successful shows Supersense and Lifesense. The program was narrated by Andrew Sachs and originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1999. The theme of the series was "the unseen power of animals."
Buzzkill is a hidden camera reality show created in 1995 for the MTV network. The show derived its name from the slang term "buzzkill", meaning a sudden undesired event that causes one's "high" or "buzz" to become of a lesser experience or depleted. Each new episode was set in a different location and consisted of three separate pranks.
An idyllic holiday cruising the backwaters of the South Pacific becomes a voyage into hell for a group of passengers on board The Sea Tramp. The magnificent sailing boat is set upon by modern day pirates and seized in a bloody battle which claims the lives of many. Those who escape the pirates find themselves marooned on a deserted tropical island. Putting aside their not inconsiderable differences, they band together to ensure their own survival. With the constant threat that the murderous pirates will return to finish the job, the members of this tribe depend on each other for their very existence. But they will soon discover they not only have to protect themselves from external threats, but from the treachery of one of their own as well.
Climate change, the Antichrist, the secret world order, World War III. Here are some of the themes of the massive The New Apocalypse - Mankind's Last Exodus trilogy. Grann paints a chilling vision of the future: the planet and humanity are facing major changes: ecological, material and spiritual catastrophe could be just around the corner. Can we make the right choices and take our destiny into our own hands, or has someone else predetermined everything?
