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Arts magazine.

A lively youth-oriented magazine series presenting a mix of music performances and segments offering help, advice and information dealing with social issues.

After many years of entertaining the inhabitants of Stackton Tressell with their Gala Concerts, Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr. Evadne Hinge were thrilled to be invited by the BBC to take their very individual style of concert performance to a wider audience. These events, recorded between 1977 and 1981 at the Royal Hall, Harrogate and the Opera House, Buxton, feature the dear ladies with full orchestral and choral support. The ladies perform a wide range of music from Gilbert and Sullican to Verdi. Of course, Dr. Hinge has a few pithy remarks to make, while Dame Hilda remains her usual irrepressible self.

Four plays about the four daughters of a comfortable middle-class household in Hampshire.

Veteran television interviewer and presenter Sir David Frost is the only person to have interviewed all six British prime ministers in office between 1964 and 2007, and all US presidents from 1969 to the present. His fearlessly incisive approach is legendary and, just six months after his monumental encounter with former president Richard Nixon on American television, he presented this unique series in which the Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson was invited to discuss British prime ministers of the recent and distant past. In power for a total of 13 years, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976, Harold Wilson’s government had presided over a country undergoing vast economic and social upheaval, his leadership frequently coming under attack from both right and left; in 1977, he was well placed to reflect on the challenges, triumphs and failings of his predecessors.

Three children are forced to spend their summer holidays at a school. During a picnic, they make a discovery which will lead them into many strange adventures.

Sender Nordlicht is a German television series.

A super granny is summoned up to save the day around the world using her skills.

Jamais deux sans toi...t is a French sitcom which was broadcast in 1996 and 1997.

Stories from old Berlin between 1918 and 1930.

A series of programmes in which Ian Nairn contrasts the urban civic style of Britain and the Continent.

This Friday afternoon series from Thames Television presented six standalone half-hour situation comedies for children, with each episode considered as the pilot for a possible new comedy series.

Five programmes in which leading potters show their techniques and share their ideas, with a look at ceramics past and present. Presented by Michael Casson. He is described as one of the greatest figures in post-war pottery and is often portrayed as the person who brought pottery to the masses.

A young Scottish boy who has grown up in London finds himself caught up in an espionage plot when he moves to Skye.

Ian Nairn travels through Britain and takes a critical look at the townscapes and landscapes in which we live.

Long Voyage Out of War is a critically acclaimed 1971 British television trilogy created by writer Ian Curteis. Directed by Robert Knights, this BBC dramatisation follows the intertwined stories of merchant seamen and their families during the turbulent early years of World War II

German miniseries.

1976 documentary by Nicola Caracciolo about the life of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III

Notizen aus der Provinz was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979. After its cancellation, it would be the last such program on the channel until Neues aus der Anstalt premiered in January 2007.

A two-part investigation into aspects of mental health care in Britain as exemplified by the maximum security Rampton Hospital, known as the 'big house' and the nearby rehabilitation unit, Eastdale.

ITV News Channel TV is the flagship regional news service on ITV Channel Television, co-produced with the independent production company, Newsline. The news service is produced from the main studios of Channel Television in St. Helier, Jersey. Reporters and camera crews are also based at Channel's Guernsey studios in St Sampson's. Freelance correspondents, camera crews and videojournalists are based on Alderney and Sark.

Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.

Engineering Announcements for the Radio and Television Trade, sometimes abbreviated to Engineering Announcements, was a weekly magazine of news and information intended for technicians and salespeople in the United Kingdom, produced and transmitted by the Independent Television Authority from 23 November 1970 until 31 July 1990. It covered technical advances in the industry such as the launch of satellite television and NICAM stereo, along with details of new transmitters and the scheduling of transmitter downtime. Engineering Announcements, and the BBC's similar Service Information, are examples of regularly scheduled "ghost programmes," so called because they were never advertised in on-air schedules, in newspaper TV listings, the TV Times or on teletext.

During the French-Indian War, colonial scout Pathfinder becomes involved with a British sergeant's daughter and must protect her from a Tuscarora brave who wants her for himself.

The original 1979 documentary that introduced the world to Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah as he goes about his death-defying job demolishing or repairing factory chimneys, steeples and towers.

The series is set during the 17th-century English Civil War and the subsequent Commonwealth period. It centres on the political and personal struggles affecting the lives of Sir Henry Lee (Clive Morton), the loyal Royalist Ranger of Woodstock, and his family as they navigate the shifting tides of political power, the execution of King Charles I, and the ascent of Oliver Cromwell.

You Cannot Be Serious! is a British sports entertainment series on ITV. It began airing on 2 June 2012 and is hosted by impressionist and comedian Alistair McGowan. The show sees McGowan write new sketches and work on brand new impressions for TV for the first time in eight years.

A popular music series curated by Luciano Berio, broadcast by RAI in 1972. In twelve episodes, Berio explores what "music" means in the contemporary world—from pop to jazz, from rock to electronic music, from classical music to the most radical experimentation—analyzing the protagonists, instruments, languages, society, and cultural context of sound in the late twentieth century. It is considered one of the most important popular music series ever produced in Italy.