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Gentle drama series about the Warwickshire schoolteacher whose nature diary became a best seller.

An ex-SAS officer cannot find work on "Civvy Street" and becomes a freelance mercenary.

Ragdolly Anna was a British children's television series, produced by Yorkshire Television. The show was broadcast between 1982-1987 on the ITV network during its CITV strand. The show starred Pat Coombs and was about a small stuffed doll named Ragdolly Anna that used to spring into life when nobody was watching and would go on many wild and fantastic adventures.

Documentary on Strangeways prison

Wil Cwac Cwac is a Welsh-language cartoon based on a series of children's books written in the 1920s by Jennie Thomas and J. O. Williams. The cartoon series ran from 1982 to 1987 on ITV. Both book and cartoon series take place in rural Wales. The Welsh-language series was produced by Siriol Animation for S4C. An English-language version of the show was produced for the wider English-speaking market. In both versions, all narration and characters were voiced by Myfanwy Talog. An American English dub was also made, with Liza Ross narrating. This version aired in the United States on the Disney Channel. The English version of the series has not been released on DVD, although the Welsh version can be purchased from Sain Wales. Previously, Family Home Entertainment and Abbey Home Media released Wil Cwac Cwac on VHS; these videos have gone of out print since the end of the 1990s.

Show of the Augsburger Puppenkiste

In 1988, Granada TV revised their format for multi-talented Kate Robbins and gave her a starring vehicle, although the show still featured comedian brother Ted in the sketches. Here Kate impersonates -amongst others - Anneka Rice, Princess Anne and Cilla Black and closes the show singing as herself.

Aired in October 1984 on BBC One, this was a ten-part British documentary series. Produced by the BBC, each episode explored different facets of daily life, culture, and history in Italy, such as the episode "The Mayor of Montemilone".

Eight country-by-country accounts of the origins of the Second World War.

You Should Be So Lucky! was a BBC children's television programme hosted by Colin Bennett in the character of Vince Purity. It was a game show, during which contestants played on a giant snakes and ladders board. Points were earned by their team partners through talent tasks.

The Keith Harris Show was a comedy variety show on BBC TV featuring Keith Harris and Orville the Duck.

PlayBus, later called Play Days was a children's pre-school television programme from the United Kingdom. The series ran from 17 October 1988 to 28 March 1997 on Children's BBC. Each daily episode would have the bus stop at one of the puppet characters bus stops.

Various public figures submit themselves to questioning from a teenage audience.

Professor Popper develops a shrinking formula which he and a group of school kids take by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory. But that's not the only problem that faces the professor and his friends.

1989 two-part documentary following the progress of 29 men who want to become Royal Marine Officers.

Experiential education is centuries old and remains controversial to this day. When two social educators from the Johannes Petersen Home in Hamburg and a teacher traveled to southern Portugal in March 1984 with "criminally conspicuous" children and adolescents, it was a unique educational experiment for the Federal Republic of Germany at the time. The boys were to live together in tents for three months, learning and improving their social behavior.

A BBC series which delves into the world of British military tradition.

Just So Stories is an 80's BBC series animated by Sheila Graber, based on the collection of short childrens stories by Rudyard Kipling.

The Ratties is a British cartoon series that ran in 1987 with 26 episodes. It is about a family of rats that live in a country house. The rats try to emulate the human owners of their house. The show was created by Mike Wallis and Laura Milligan, and is narrated by Spike Milligan. F Productions and UK Finance3 funded the show, while it was animated by cel animation. The series attracted a cult following in the UK, although no further episodes were made after 1987; however, the series was repeated in 1993 and 1994.

Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in November 1982.

Barney is a short-lived CBBC television programme about an Old English Sheepdog called Barney who has many adventures with best friend Roger the mouse who is constantly seeking fame and fortune and always living on the top of Barney's head inside his hair. Despite attracting a cult following in the UK, it was considered a relative commercial failure and canceled after its first series.

This programme is the original version of the popular Channel 4 words and numbers show, Countdown Countdown.Yorkshire Television purchased the format and commissioned a series of eight shows under the title Calendar Countdown, which were to be a spin-off of the regional news programme Calendar. As the presenter of Calendar, Richard Whiteley was the natural choice to present Calendar Countdown his daily appearances on both shows earned him the nickname "Twice Nightly."

Drama serial about the lives of trainee jockeys.

Abracadigance was a stand up comedy show featuring the talents of Richard Digance.

"Aktuelle Stunde" is an information magazine on WDR television. Here you will find everything that is important, interesting, touching and entertaining for the people of North Rhine-Westphalia on any given day. And that has been the case 365 days a year since January 3, 1983. The only time the program was canceled was on July 28, 2017 due to a power outage.

The story of flying boats is one of ingenuity and enterprise; of style during the dying days of Britain's imperial grandeur; of Coastal Command's war against the U-boats and of post-war skepticism that hastened their end. For all those who flew in them the flying boats were unique and unforgettable.

From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit center was built, near the New York Statue of Liberty. "Ellis Island Tales, Stories of Wandering and Hope" - the book is composed of three major parts. Georges Perec and Robert Bober visited Ellis Island and with the help of texts and documents, restored what everyday life was about what some called "the island of tears".

Biographical drama series about the poor Welsh boy who became prime minister. David Lloyd George's career as a lawyer takes a fateful turn when he marries the daughter of a wealthy landowner and becomes a Liberal Party parliamentary candidate.

ITV News Central is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands.

Twenty minutes of “television substitute.” TV dismantled, reassembled, and laid bare through editing to reveal what the video and its everyday protagonists are really telling us.

Set in 2050, social journalist James Burke looks back at events of the world from the dawn of civilization and shows how climate change has affected human history. At the point of the Industrial Revolution, humans began to do things to the climate, rather than the other way round. When he brings us up to date (1989), that is when the predictions begin. From Kyoto to the two Gulf Wars, Burke accurately predicts many of the events that have taken place so far. His predictions have been sound, even to the tune of carbon credits and climate change agreements. Using virtual reality computer simulations, Burke traces the Earth's history of ice ages and warming trends and presents several possible scenarios caused by the greenhouse effect during the 1990s to 2050.

Kilroy was a BBC One daytime chat show hosted by Robert Kilroy-Silk that began in 24 November 1986 and finished on 29 January 2004 after 18 years. The series was originally called Day to Day for the first two seasons, and renamed to Kilroy in September 1988.

David Attenborough visits Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, and India-countries where the world's most ancient religions and art forms have remarkably endured into the 20th century,

Otto is an independent and clever street dog. He lives in a wastebasket under a streetlight and dreams of big bones. Like all dogs, he needs a lot of love and attention. He gets into of conflicts with ruthless car drivers, rich ladies with pedigree dogs or spoiled overbred terrriers. But what makes him really amiss are holidaymakers, people who simply abandon their dogs, the dog catcher and of course animal experiments. However, as Otto is a humorous dog, he finds an ingenious solution for every problem.

A series of three programmes investigating the so-called microelectronics revolution.