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The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two

Rodney Baverstock wins the football pools and with the money buys a Ferrari, a tiger and a mansion for himself and his friends.

Student unrest in 1967/68: a spirit of optimism at universities. This six-part series aims to illustrate this turning point in the attitude towards life and in the consciousness of our society. Ali Jankowski and his fellow student Kajott study in a small town, not in Berlin, where things are particularly turbulent. But even here, Ali feels that he cannot concentrate solely on his studies.

Seaview is a British children's television series produced by the BBC in 1983. Written by Chris Barlas, the series was a light-hearted comedy drama centred around a teenage girl, Sandy Shelton, and her younger brother George growing up living at her parents' guest house in Blackpool. Two series each consisting of six episodes were made between 1983 and 1985. The second series introduced a boyfriend for Sandy played by Mark Jordan who went on to star as PC Phil Bellamy in ITV's Heartbeat.

Just Another Day is a BBC documentary series, shown over twenty thirty minute episodes. The series follows John Pitman observing a typical day in the life of places, businesses and institutions that are considered part of the British way of life.

Cuffy was a British sitcom from 1983. It spawned off from the 1980-1981 ATV comedy-drama Shillingbury Tales, and both series were created by Francis Essex. In Shillingbury Tales, the character of Cuffy appeared in two episodes and was played by Bernard Cribbins, who reprised this role, now given centre stage, for this series, alongside with the rest of the main Shillingbury cast: Jack Douglas as farmer Jake, Linda Hayden as his daughter Mandy, Nigel Lambert as the Reverend Norris, and Diana King as the local spinster Mrs. Simkins. In as much the Shillingbury Tales were made by ITC Entertainment and seen on the ITV network via its parent company ATV, Cuffy was made by ATV's successor company Central Independent Television also for the ITV network.

History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party.

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas dinner and the Queen's speech, and the ITV network have rolled hours of Christmas's into one with their latest DVD set of ITV comedy. With almost ten hours of classic, festive merriment featuring some of the channel's most memorable Christmas specials the whole family can relive the joys of Christmas past.

Nancy was the new secretary at the Happy Apple advertising agency. Despite being ill-educated, she had a remarkable gift; she could come up with the most brilliantly simple and most effective advertising slogans without trying. Of course her bosses exploited her ability to the full.

The Bob Monkhouse Show was an entertainment show presented by Bob Monkhouse. The show celebrated the art of comedy and comedian guests were invited to perform a stand-up. The programme began in 1983 and ran for three series until 1986. A number of notable guests appeared on the show, such as Joan Rivers, Janet Brown, Jim Carrey and Peter Cook.

No Problem! is a Channel 4 sitcom which ran from 1983 to 1985, created by the Black Theatre Co-operative. The show was written by Farrukh Dhondy and Mustapha Matura. 27 episodes were broadcast of the programme which focused on a family of Jamaican heritage, the Powells, living in a council house in Willesden Green, London. It was voted Britain's 100th best sitcom in a poll carried out by the BBC.

Ensemble variety dance show headed by Royal Ballet principal and choreographer Wayne Sleep.

Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist, enjoys thinking aloud about the adventures science can offer. Back in 1983, the BBC aired Fun to Imagine, a television series hosted by Richard Feynman that used physics to explain how the everyday world works – “why rubber bands are stretchy, why tennis balls can’t bounce forever, and what you’re really seeing when you look in the mirror.” In case you’re not familiar with him, Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist who had a gift for many things, including popularizing science and particularly physics.

Lola is a mature lawyer who decides to resume her professional career after a few years away from the practice to take care of her children Sonia, Dani and Pepa. For this, she associates with Ramón, a friend of her husband Enrique, and they specialize in matrimonial causes.

French miniseries.

Final part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Chris is now running a boarding house, while her son Ewan is drawn into political activism.

The Family Tree is an American 1983 television series. Its pilot episode was a made-for-television movie called The Six of Us, broadcast a year before.

Robert Benayoun’s reverence for the uncrowned king of slapstick and unfettered silliness has maybe something to do with his own affinity to surrealism, which he joined in the forties and encouraged him to deal with the great masters of the absurd comedy like the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton. In six episodes Benayoun, who worked for many years as a film critic in Paris, immerses himself in the various aspects of the personality and comedian. He was allowed to use the inexhaustible supply of unused or private films, since Lewis was known for not throwing away one inch of celluloid and hoarding it in his basement. In addition to the interviews, in which renowned colleagues of Mel Brooks from Scorsese to John Landis and Lewis himself speak, there are especially these rare and sometimes startling images, that give a new sharper view on Lewis as a filmmaker and as a person.

Family man contemplates selling childhood home spanning WWII years. Episodes shift between present and boyhood memories of parents, siblings coping during war's difficulties, making it hard to let go of beloved home.

The life of a young woman in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. This a Television version, in a 4-episode miniseries format, of the film of the same name, based on the novel by Mercè Rodoreda.

The stories of a large white bear, Victor, and his friend Maria, a little girl.

Mr. Hiccup is an Italian animated series of 39 episodes created by Italtoons Corporation in 1983. The series focuses on the life of Mr. Hiccup, who is a little man with a normal life, a normal job, a normal home, and one not-so-normal problem: chronic hiccups. In every episode he tries a new thing to lose his hiccup, but always fails.

Selection of the best scketchs of the Drive-in show aired in the 80s, appeared on DVD

16-year-old Hans Kolekta is unemployed and unable to find an apprenticeship. He shares this fate with many other young people in the Ruhr region.

Animated adaptions of Little Miss stories by Roger Hargreaves.

Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theories and beliefs.

Making the Most of the Micro was a TV series broadcast in 1983 as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. It followed the earlier series The Computer Programme. Unlike its predecessor, Making the Most of the Micro delved somewhat deeper into the technicalities and uses that microcomputers could be put to, once again mainly using the BBC Micro in the studio for demonstration purposes. The series was followed by Micro Live.

The lady is a tramp is a television programme in the situation comedy format that was one of the first series to be shown on the then-new British television channel, Channel 4, between 1983 and 1984. Written by Johnny Speight, the programme lasted for two series, and totalled 13 episodes.

Follows the life, love and hatred of a dancer, Katja Milenkaya, who, at 45, still beautiful, still a prima ballerina, still member of a famous ballet troupe, finds it harder each day to combine her professional and married life. German miniseries based upon the novel by Vicky Baum.

Micro Live was a BBC2 TV series produced by David Allen as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. The series was broadcast live and covered a wide range of computer-related topics, featuring various microcomputers beyond the BBC Micro. The first program was a two-hour special on 2 October 1983, called Making the Most of the Micro Live. A regular monthly series began in October 1984, followed by weekly half-hour programs in 1985 and 1986. The series ended in 1987. Micro Live had a less formal feel due to its live nature and included stories from the US, such as the first on-air transatlantic cellphone call made during a snowstorm.

Noel Edmonds helps a celebrity recall a magical moment in their life by recreating the month in the year in which it happened. A sort of "Where Are They Now" meets "This is Your Life" - there are interviews with people who were on television or in the news at the time, music from chart toppers, archive film and audio, and, in the last series, surprise reunions of survivors of disasters with their rescuer.

A 1983 six-episodes series, made by Massimo Sani, which recounts the WW2 battles involving Italy between 1940 and 1942: from the attacks to France and Greece to the clashes in Africa and the disastrous expedition to Russia.

The painter Francisco de Goya is witness to the disasters and horrors caused by the bloody resistance of the Spanish people to the French occupation during the Napoleonic wars.

The popular impressions show returns with its new home at ITV, this time including the talents of Suzanne Danielle and Kate Robbins.

The Adventures of Portland Bill is a British stop motion animated children's television series made in 1983. It was set in a fictional lighthouse located on the Guillemot Rock, just off the coast from the fictional village of McGuillycuddy.

Gabrielle, formerly member of a terrorist cell, flees to England after an attempt on her life. Fearing that Gabrielle may betray it to the authorities, the cell sends the hitman Constant Delangre after her. Will Delangre find Gabrielle before the local police can defend her?