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Alarm in den Bergen was a German thriller television series which was broadcast on ZDF in 1965. The 13-part series is set in the Bavarian Alps, in the border area around Garmisch.

In twenty years Charlie has had a thousand jobs. Each week sees Charlie attend the Labour Exchange to try and get a new one.

The miniseries depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939. Among them is an elderly widow who had once disowned her son and now wishes to bring him to Brazil; there are also the owners of a stationery shop, who are driven to ruin by the German occupiers. The caretaker Glaser, who is of German descent, also comes under pressure when his son is arrested in a communist pub. To save his own skin, he informs on two young people who are active in the resistance.

The living conditions during the period of inflation in the early 1920s are depicted in a fascinating way. Behind a shiny façade, ordinary people struggle for bare survival. Opposite them stand landowners and former military personnel with their complacency, ignorance, and emptiness! The title character, Wolfgang Pagel—a cadet officer, unemployed and a gambler out of desperation—loses everything on the night before his wedding and sets out in search of money in the inflation-ridden Berlin of the 1920s.

The Bed-Sit Girl was a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1966. Created by Chesney and Wolfe for Sheila Hancock, The Bed-Sit Girl aired for two series. Hancock played Sheila Ross, a typist who lives in a bedsit and wishes for more in life. In the first series, Dilys Laye played her air hostess neighbour Dilys, and in the second Hy Hazell played Sheila's friend Liz. Derek Nimmo also appeared as her neighbour and boyfriend David in Series Two. All twelve episodes are missing from the archives and are thought to have been destroyed.

Confused by tales of knights and their glorious deeds, Don Alonso, as Don Quixote de la Mancha, sets out fearlessly as a knight-errant with his friend and faithful squire Sancho Panza to accomplish great things. With rickety armor and a barber's basin for a helmet, he fights windmills, mistakes washerwomen for princesses, and monks for evil sorcerers. While Don Quixote dedicates all his deeds and the entire glory of his lady love, the most beautiful maiden Dulcinea, he contributes to the amusement of all involved.

Pogles' Wood was an animated British Children's television series produced by Smallfilms between 1966 and 1967 and screened by the BBC between 1966 and 1968 as part of the Watch with Mother series. The Pogles were tiny country folk who lived in a tree. The four principal characters were Mr Pogle, Mrs Pogle, their 'son' Pippin and a squirrel-like creature, Tog, who was Pippin's playmate. The 32 episodes were shot in stop-frame animation in Peter Firmin's barn or shed.

This show was a series of six plays in which the hero of one was the villain in another, thus illustrating the good and bad sides of the characters.

Dona Proeza loves the Spanish nobleman Don Rodrigo, the long-standing viceroy of the West Indies, at the end of the 16th century, but is first married to the old judge Don Pelayo and then to Don Camillo, and in between goes on a journey with Don Baltasar.

Roy Kinnear plays a seedy and incompetent private detective named H A Wormsley.

A digitally restored collection of rare 1960s Doctor Who episodes, from stories which no longer exist in their entirety. They offer a unique glimpse at classic adventures which are now lost in time ...

Der Forellenhof is a German television series.

BBC Schools production of John Arden's play.

The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth.

A modern day reworking of Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labyrinth.

Part of a trilogy of “Famous Lives” conceived by Angelo Guglielmi, Vittorio Cottafavi's television series is a rigorous reconstruction of the biography of the great poet, alternating between fiction and documentary sequences.

A glossy, bikini-filled police action drama set in the South of France features four main characters played by Noel Trevarthen, Frank Lieberman, Geoffrey Frederick, and Brian Spink. Although these four determined police officers rarely appeared together in the same episode, the show had everything: four handsome policemen, blue skies, a stunning backdrop of the Côte d'Azur, major crime, and numerous bikini-clad starlets. There was plenty of time for chatting up women on the beach in between chasing villains.

Die Unverbesserlichen is a German television series.

Vic Malloy discovers the letter of a girl in his letter tray. The shnodder detective has probably forgotten to open it some time ago. He now learns that the young millionaire should have come to life immediately after sending the letter. But who inherited the fortune? The sister who says in the letter that she should be in the violence of blackmailers. With his detective colleague Jack, Vic goes after the matter. They encounter a secret crime.

Italian miniseries based upon the novel by Alexander Pushkin.

Hit and Run is a four-part British television crime drama miniseries that premiered in the UK on January 18, 1965. The series was produced by Associated-Rediffusion Television for ITV and consists of episodes detailing a fatal accident, the police enquiry, and the subsequent trial.

Adaptation of George Eliot's novel. The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.

A boy is busy writing all sorts of things in his diary.

199 Park Lane is a British television soap opera based around the residents of an exclusive block of apartments in London, and dealt with the intrigues of the Chelsea/Kensington set.

A former secret service agent turned private detective finds himself hired as a Nazi-hunter to avenge a murder committed during the Second World War.

A comprehensive overview of the entire Iron Age from the time of the Ertuscans to the present day.

In South America, a bitter battle is raging over diamonds.

Maigret decides to believe in Heurtin Joseph, a young man sentenced to death for the murder of two elderly women in Saint-Cloud, which has always stubbornly maintained his innocence. The inspector is not sure of the choice he made to convince his superiors to organize an escape for the young man, to lead him to the real culprits.

A special services agent is assigned to investigate the leaking of state secrets to a foreign power.