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A documentary about the Korean War by Thames Television that aired in the Summer of 1988 and in the US in November 1990 through WGBH Boston.

Rory Bremner lampoons UK politics and pop culture.

Small World is a 1988 British television miniseries based on David Lodge's novel Small World: An Academic Romance.

The story of a teenage girl growing up on her family's farm in Northumberland.

A children's television series directed by Jo and Martin Pullen, and produced by FilmFair. It is the second animated series based on the Sylvanian Families media franchise, and the only one animated in stop motion.

News at Twelve is a 1988 British television comedy for children. The series followed 12-year-old Kevin Doyle and his nightly "news bulletins" about the events in his life. The name of the TV series came from Kevin's age rather than the time the show itself aired, or of Kevin's news updates, which commonly featured his comical basset hound Baxter. News at Twelve featured Patrick Malahide, Sheila Fearn, Julia Foster, Liz May Brice and Mark Billingham. This series was aired on ITV and made by Central TV. A US pilot version was made in 1991 by NBC starring, amongst others, Danny Gerard and Sarah Melici, but it was never screened.

Ruck Zuck is the German version of the short-lived U.S. game show Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak.

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.

Gruey was a 1988 BBC TV children's comedy about the misadventures and escapades of Stephen 'Gruey' Grucock, a mischievous schoolboy in the Jennings and Just William mould. In 1989 another series was produced and aired, titled Gruey Twoey. Gruey was played by Kieran O'Brien. Gruey's best friend Annie Mappin was played by Casey-Lee Jolleys.

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.

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.

Couple of twins, Zig & Zag, venture through the forest getting to know animals and their stories.

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.

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

After his business partner Robert Shriving is killed by an exploding computer, Duncan Free (Ian Ogilvy) sets out to uncover a network of powerful individuals who are using technology to collect personal data for their own ends.

Touni et Litelle is a French animated television series in 26 eight-minute episodes, created by Jacques Peyrache and broadcast from October 15, 1988 on the program Club Dorothée on TF1. Rebroadcast from September 4, 1989 in the program Avant l'école on TF1.

Park Avenue was a daily teletext based soap opera on ITV's ORACLE Teletext service, which was written by Robbie Burns. It was launched in 1988, and 1,445 episodes were written during its time on air. It later moved to Channel 4 after ORACLE was reorganised, before ending when the service lost its franchise at the end of 1992.

In a remote part of the Welsh countryside in the late 1980s, Gwyn and his family remain haunted by the disappearance of his sister, Bethan, in a snow storm five years before. On his ninth birthday, Gwyn's eccentric grandmother, Nain, gives him five unusual gifts - sparking off an adventure when she declares 'Time to find out if you're a magician!'

This snooker-based quiz show from Tyne Tees appeared to be something of a forerunner to BBC's Big Break, with Tom O'Connor and Len Ganley taking the roles of Jim Davidson and John Virgo. However, in contrast to its memorable successor, this series has disappeared into obscurity.

Scottish fiddle player Aly Bain travels to Louisiana.

Ciel mon mardi! is a weekly television program presented by Christophe Dechavanne and broadcast on TF1 from May 1988 to June 1992 then from September 2000 to June 2001. The program was divided into three parts: a first serious social debate, under the Bloc Notes section, and a second debate on a lighter subject.

I Can Do That was a quiz programme for children that was produced by Yorkshire Television and aired for 4 series on the ITV network from 1988 until 1991, the original host was Simon O'Brien who for the final series was replaced by Bruno Brookes.