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Just a Gigolo is a 1993 British sitcom starring Tony Slattery as Nick Brim, a teacher who must become a gigolo to pay for food for his house. Other characters include his younger brother Simon, who has also been on a few dates with some clients, and Natalie, Nick's love interest, played by Rowena King. Only seven episodes were produced.
Motoko (Yuko Asano) handed in her resignation from the bank where she had worked for many years. Whilst her male colleagues from the same intake were being promoted, her boss, Murai (Kenjiro Ishimaru), and the branch manager—who had long regarded the veteran Motoko as a hindrance—were delighted to be rid of her. Two months later, it emerged that Motoko had embezzled 170 million yen from the bank’s accounts. When Murai pressed her to repay the money, Motoko showed him a notebook listing the bank’s fictitious accounts and the real names of their clients, and threatened to make the information public.
Contestants play a version of tic-tac-toe by answering questions to win squares on a game board. The popular quiz show enjoyed many incarnations from the 1950s to the '90s, both in daytime and prime time, on NBC, CBS and in syndication.
Dummyland is a fictional world inhabited only by living crash dummies. Many make a living testing cars, just like the real ones. The story begins with crash dummy professor Dr. Zub has creating a new "uncrashable" prototype armor called the Torso 9000 and is testing it with the help of crash dummy Ted. Unfortunately the initial trial run goes awry and Ted's head is severed from his body. The following night however, Ted is accidentally replaced with the head of the evil Junkman, who can now harness the power of the Torso 9000 and manages to break free from the Crash Test facility.[3] Plotting to destroy the crash dummies, the Junkman sets up his base near an abandoned scrap heap and creates an army of killing machines out of spare car parts. When a valuable disc of information on the Torso 9000 is stolen, and finally Dr. Zub himself is kidnapped, heroes Slick & Spin step in to save the day.
Out of Tune was a British children's TV sitcom which was shown on CBBC from 1996 to 1998. It features a group of fictional children that belong to a church choir at a school and their practice sessions. However the choir is humorously bad, hence the name 'Out of Tune', and the practice sessions are often interrupted by one thing or another. The show aired at 4:35 on BBC1 on Tuesday and Wednesday and it had a total of 40 episodes over three series. The first series started on 14 February 1996 and finished on 4 June later that year. The last episode was aired on 9 June 1998.
The events of the series revolve around Bahloul (Issam Suleiman), a man who constantly relies on others rather than on himself. Circumstances force him to leave his village and move to another. After arriving in this new village, the residents believe that Bahloul is a very brave and powerful man. The villagers are overjoyed at his arrival, hoping he will save them from the wolf that attacks the village and threatens the lives of its people and their livestock.
The television comedy focuses on the daily life of an Argentine family living in the Federal Capital in the early 90s.
This series follows different people with different needs. They find a old lady selling special items by the road, and it quickly becomes apparent that her wares is just what they need... but one should be careful when dealing with supernatural items...
The General was a BBC fly-on-the-wall Television series hosted by Yvette Fielding, Chris Serle and Heather Mills. Based at Southampton General Hospital, the programme tracked the progress of selected patients, including outpatients, at the hospital. The series was broadcast live every weekday on BBC One, in a daytime slot. 61 episodes of the programme were aired in total; 58 of them in 1998, and the other three in 2002. The original director of the series was Dave Heather. As well as the presenting team tracking patients and staff in the hospital, the programme also featured Heather Mills abseiling down the side of the hospital and demonstrating various uses for her prosthesis. However, it was alleged some years after the series finished that Mills was appointed to the presenting role under false pretences, having claimed that newspaper articles written by a journalist namesake were written by herself. The show also featured occasional celebrity guest appearances, including a visit from endurance expert Mike Stroud. The programme was subsequently renamed City Hospital, continuing with exactly the same format, initially with the same presenters but subsequently presented by Nick Knowles and Gaby Roslin. City Hospital later moved from Southampton General Hospital to Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London, with the presentation team changing; subsequent presenters included Jeremy Milnes and Nadia Sawalha.
Computer animation rebuilds several of the ancient world's greatest cities.
After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
The events revolve around a family consisting of 5 brothers (3 boys and two girls) and their old mother is bedridden. Each of them has his own problems and the older brother and older sister take care of the younger siblings and try to keep them away from everything that could harm them despite of their stubbornness.
A sketch comedy television show, combining monologues and observational routines, written by and starring comedians Robert Newman and David Baddiel.
The series deals with the intertwined relations between members of a wealthy family consisting of four brothers (Fahd), Dr. (Saud) and Hamad, who are married and their widowed sister (Shaha), and how Fahd took over the family and refused to marry until he met Latifa, who changed a lot in his life.
Adapted from the novel "Sogiya Shacho Ishihara Akiko Series" (葬儀屋社長 石原明子シリーズ) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).
Emma Bunton introduces pop music videos from the last 20 years and some of her favorite songs as well as favorite songs of her friends, family, and band mates.
Comedy series about an Indiana Jones-style adventurer.
Ray Mears has spent his life developing a brand of survival skills he calls Wilderness Bushcraft, a philosophy that humans should live closer to nature, as the Bushmen do. In Extreme Survival he demonstrates his wilderness skills and shares amazing tales of survival from some of the world's most menacing environments.
Squeeze keyboardist Jools Holland hosts this BBC series that takes him to the great cities of the world, where he illuminates their cultural hearts via music and the arts. From riverside bars in Dublin to the back seat of a Chicago cab, Holland learns from and jams with musicians he meets along the way. Van Morrison, the Chieftains, Ruben González and a horde of other artists pop up as Holland treks across the globe.
Video Diaries was a BBC television programme produced by the Community Programme Unit. The series of programmes was created in 1990 by producer Jeremy Gibson. The programme's production team offered members of the public basic video training and ongoing support. The diarist was then left to gather their material with a camcorder. They would then have further support in editing and post-production During 1991 - 1992 Bob Long was a producer. By 1993 the programmes was developed into the Video Nation project.
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.
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."
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.
The series reflects social life in the 1990s.
Royal Palm Estate mirrors life on an old sugar manor set in Jamaica. The drama spins around the lives of the well off Blackburn family who remain symbols of a provincial period long gone. It is a story loaded with worldwide interest, anticipation, comic drama, love and murder.
Anthropomorphic pigs Pinks and Troyboy run a pizza place called Pigsty. Other characters include their human yuppie landlord M.T. and a pig boy called Little Pig who loves to hang around with them. The show ran for two short seasons.
Journey Into Amazonia features the swollen rivers, flooded forests and dense canopy of the vast rain forest recognized as one of the Earths natural wonders. The rivers rich, roiling waters sustain a vast cast of characters, including giant seven-foot-long otters, fruit-harvesting fish, freshwater dolphins and manatee. While on land, stealthy jaguars prowl, acrobatic monkeys defy gravity and keen-eyed harpy eagles soar.
History of a family of Ardennes brewers over three generations from 1855 to 1973.
Long after becoming a widower with a daughter to raise, Roberto remarries. On his wedding day, his brother-in-law reappears, causing him a lot of trouble.
Rory McGrath and his team undertake historical investigations across the UK.
Leslie Titmuss returns to Rapstone village and will do whatever it takes to fit in with the highest levels of society. Married to his second wife, Jenny, he seeks to buy his first wife's country house. These plans are hampered by a real estate development that Leslie, due to his free market politics, can hardly oppose publicly.
Hosted by Loretta Swit, Those Incredible Animals features members of the animal kingdom, by turns magnificent, curious and amusing. Each episode of this magazine-format series contains a theme - for example, Unlikely Friends looks at bears and whales and their interactions with humans.
