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Astronauts Malcolm Mattocks, Gentian Foster and David Ackroyd are sent into outer space to occupy a space station for six months.

Vice Versa is a seven-part series produced by ATV and based on a story published in 1882 by F. Anstey, the pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie. In contemporary Victorian London, a father and son switch places by means of a magic talisman from India, thus live each other's lives, and gain a better understanding for each other before they switch back.

Kinvig is a sci-fi comedy television series made for British television in 1981. Ineffectual dreamer Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth) runs a rundown little electrical repair shop in the small town of Bingleton where he lives with his mumsy, scatterbrained wife Netta (Patsy Rowlands) and oversized pet dog Cuddly. One day his shop is visited by the beautiful, sharp-tongued Miss Griffin (Prunella Gee) who seems at first just another dissatisfied customer. However, after encountering a flying saucer while walking the dog one night, Kinvig discovers she is actually a scantily-clad alien from the planet Mercury who desperately needs the help of the scruffy, bearded Des' "exceptional brain" to stop an invasion of the evil ant-like Xux who are replacing people with robot duplicates. (information obtained from Wikipedia)

That Beryl Marston...! is a British sitcom produced by Southern Television for ITV. Created by Jan Butlin, the six-episode series stars Julia McKenzie and Gareth Hunt. Novelty shop owner Georgie Bodley's life was going well until her husband Gerry leaves her for Sussex sex strumpet Beryl Marston. But now Gerry's back, and he wants to reconcile.

Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself was a British sitcom that aired for two seasons from 1981 to 1982. It was co-created by actor David Firth and Shelley and It Takes a Worried Man creator Peter Tilbury. The first series was co-written by Firth and Tilbury, and the second one by Firth alone. It starred Robin Bailey, David Hargreaves, veteran Anglo-Jordanian actor Nadim Sawalha, Diana Rayworth and Christopher Fulford. It was made by Thames Television for the ITV network.

The population of a small Scottish island is gripped with fear following a strange discovery and a series of savage murders. Adapted from David Wiltshire's 'Child of Vodyanoi'.

Die Knapp-Familie is a German television series.

Written by Alphonse Boudard, Le Mythomane had its origins in an episode of the 1979 series Histoires de voyous directed by Michel Wyn. The TV series tells the story of the daily lives of common petty thieves. This nice little gang consisted of Aunt Victoire, a “baroness” of the underhanded (Suzy Delair), Fernand, a gutsy rascal from the slums (Jacques Balutin) and Norbert Beaufumé (Francis Perrin), a petulant con artist whose pathological lying has driven him to maintaining two separate families. TV mini series

"Tod eines Schülers" is a German television series directed by Claus Peter Witt, based on a script by Robert Stromberger. The six part TV mini series is about the fictional suicide by train of student Claus Wagner. Each episode begins with Wagner's death, looking into the subject from different points of view.

Melvyn Solomons has a promising career in dentistry but he wants to pursue art school.

Tegtmeier klärt auf! is a German television series.

Sternensommer is a German children's and youth television

The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the general Konrad Von Der Berg, who refused to command a ruthless suppression of opponents and from whose diary the story is drawn, and Eric Von Lehner Baron, who has orders to escort Von Der Berg to a prison camp.

Familie Meier is a German television series.

This three-part comedy series was set in the Blue Moon of Kentucky Club, a country and western venue in South London catering for the sort of clients obsessed by the Wild West. The club is owned by Big Hal (James Grout), who lives out his whole life as a modern-day cowboy – much to the consternation of his wife, Betty (Sheila Steafel).

Willo the Wisp is a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981.

ZDF's traditional annual review, divided into twelve blocks of months introduced by seasonal trailers. In addition to the most important images and events of the year, curiosities are also presented. The contributions are commented on by a journalist, in the early years by Karlheinz Rudolph.

When Stanley unearths a skeleton on a building site in Sicily, his cousin Harry investigates to find out more about who it was and about a missing Rose Medallion.

An Italian adaptation of Henry James's 1902 novel of the same name. The series is a dramatic interpretation set in Italy, exploring themes of love, morality, and betrayal, as in the original novel, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Europe.

Tour de Ruhr is a German television film.

Toward the end of World War II, Kurt Marenke, a farm boy, is separated from his family while fleeing East Prussia. It is not until two years later that he is reunited with his mother and his sister Ella in the small village of Kudenow in Schleswig-Holstein. Their father is dead, and their brother Bruno is missing in Russia. The Marenkes live in the chicken coop of the large-scale farmer Fiete Kock. Other refugees live crammed together in the barn.

A three-paneled look at the Severinsviertel (Vringsveedel) district in Cologne.

Magic show featuring a range of famous acts including Ali Bongo and Alan Shaxon, shown during ITV's children's 'Watch It' slot in the early 80s.

The Children's Royal Variety Performance was devised by entertainer Rod Hull in 1981 and took place in London until 1994 in aid of NSPCC.

A new series of five programmes that looks at important topics from our history 1760-1851.

The story of a group of builders in postwar Britain.

Jake Thackray and Songs was a six-part television series recorded in 1980 and broadcast on BBC2 in 1981, in which Jake Thackray and guests performed songs live in a variety of venues. A live album of the same name, recorded at the Stables Theatre, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, as part of the sessions for the TV series, was released on LP by Dingles Records in 1983. All six episodes of the TV series still exist in the BBC archives. The album is currently out of print.