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A TV adaptation of Władysław Stanisław Reymont's most famous novel, realistically depicting Polish rural life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Against the broad backdrop of rural community life, inextricably linked to the rhythm of nature throughout the four seasons, the complicated and often dramatic story of the Boryna family unfolds.

The adventures of Bamse and his friends Skalman and Lille-Skutt.

Director: Mahmoud Abd Al-Razik (Director) Hamada Abdelwahhab (Director) (more) Writer: Abdullah Barakat (Writer) Cast: Aqeila Rateb Abdelazim Abdelhaqq Salwa Mahmoud Abd El Hafeez El Tetawy Sabri Abdel Aziz Huda Zaki (more)

Tamiya Jiro's first starring role in a TV drama. The story is set in a fictional supermarket called "Planet" in Tokyo.

Every night Aladár visits a different inhabited planet using an inflatable interstellar cosmic ship with his talking dog Blöki.

The Kuwaiti comedy series حاور زاور, produced in 1972, features a series of humorous and socially reflective scenarios centered around everyday challenges and misunderstandings in Kuwaiti society. Each episode presents a standalone comedic plot that draws on interactions among neighbors, friends, and family, using humor to highlight social issues and relationship creating an engaging viewing experience that resonated with audiences of the time.

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, the template for his fantasy, and together, they tour rural churches. Gradually, he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

A father-son birdwatching outing becomes a widespread mystery when teenage John Corby—after coming to the aid of neighbour Susan Fraser—finds that his father Tom has vanished.

Pretenders was a 13 episode British television series produced by Harlech Television in the UK in February 1972 on ITV. Pretenders was filmed in Somerset, England and Wales. The 13-part historical adventure series with a factual background starring Frederick Jaeger as a German mercenary who assists Elam, a boy who believes he is the illegitimate son of The Duke Of Monmouth, who in turn is the illegitimate son of Charles ll, and therefore claims to be rightful heir to the throne. The series followed their various adventures, leading up to the climactic battle of Sedgemoor, the last battle on English soil.

An ex-convict who wants to make an honest life for himself is pursued by the implacable hatred of a policeman.

Pardon My Genie was a children's comedy series produced by British ITV contractor Thames Television, and written by Bob Block who later created Rentaghost. The premise was that a magic genie appeared in present-day Britain, summoned by a young apprentice named Hal Adden, a pun that goes some way towards characterising the series. Various comical misunderstandings arise, primarily aimed at youngsters. Arthur White replaced Paddick for the second run of thirteen episodes. Throughout both series, Hal was played by Ellis Jones, with Roy Barraclough as his long-suffering boss, Mr Cobbledick. The first series of 13 episodes was released on DVD on 22 September 2009. The second series of 13 episodes was released on 1 July 2013.

In a comedy framework, the series deals with the story of a shreb who works as an employee and arises between him and Al-Aidrousi funny situations and conflict within work.

Alexander Zwo is a German-French-Austrian-Italian TV mini-series directed by Franz Peter Wirth.

Few Arab comedy series have left a mark quite like Sah El Nom. Written by the brilliant Nihad Qalei, who stars alongside the irreplaceable Duraid Lahham, the show gave the Arab world two of its most iconic characters — the lovable, street-smart Ghawar Tawasha and the memorable Houssni Al Bourzan. Warm, witty, and deeply rooted in Damascene folklore, it's the kind of show that never really gets old.

The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie — renamed The New Saturday Superstar Movie in its second season — is a series of one-hour animated TV-movies, broadcast on the ABC television network on Saturday mornings from September 9, 1972, to November 17, 1973. Intended as a "Movie of the Week" for kids, this series was produced by several production companies — including Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, and Rankin/Bass — and mostly contained features based on popular cartoon characters and TV shows of the time, such as Yogi Bear, The Brady Bunch, and Lost in Space. Some of the features served as pilots for new TV shows.

The Corner Bar is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from June 1972 to September 1973.

Tex Ritter, a bank employee from New York, arrives in a small Western town to take over as manager of the bank. On his very first day, he gets into a dispute with the railroad manager.

A dedicated New York police officer named Madigan hunts down lawbreakers locally and internationally.

Death hits close to home when Lord Peter’s future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter’s brother.

My Wife Next Door is a BBC sitcom created by Brian Clemens which was written by Richard Waring and was first broadcast in 1972. It ran for 13 episodes and focused on a couple, George Basset and Suzie Basset. Each tries to start afresh after their divorce. They move to the country, only to find that they have moved into adjoining cottages. When the series was repeated in 1979, it gained better ratings than its first outing and topped the BBC1 weekly ratings several times during the repeat run. This was in part due to the ITV strike that limited British viewing to BBC1 and BBC2 for several weeks.

A team of three dogs and two cats working to serve justice where there is wrong-doing. Each episode begins with the Houndcats receiving orders from their unseen "Chief", whose message is played on an old-fashioned gramophone, player-piano or other devices, parodying the tape recorder scene at the start of most episodes of Mission: Impossible.

A social series that deals with separate stories about the nature of family and social relationships, whether at home, school, university or the workplace, and each story carried a separate title, including: Dr. Abdo - Girls ’Daughters Girls - Nights of Love and Permission - By God, we gathered again, Qamar - Al-Daloua and People - Vacations, Vacations, Vacations - No rest, No hospitality - A song for the homeland - Happy vacation - Listen to me - Hello cat - Crime and punishment.

The ABC Comedy Hour is an American television variety series that aired on ABC in 1972. Seven of the 13 episodes featured a guest host and a team of comedy impressionists known as The Kopycats. Guest hosts included Steve Lawrence, Orson Welles, Ed Sullivan, Raymond Burr, Robert Young, Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. The remaining six episodes were variety specials and included two Friars Club roasts and a revival of the musical Hellzapoppin' starring Jack Cassidy. The show originally aired on Wednesday at 8:30 PM. Summer reruns of the seven Kopycats episodes were aired under the title The ABC Comedy Hour Presents the Kopycats. The same episodes aired in Great Britain simply as The Kopycats.

Alcock and Gander is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1972. Starring Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan, it lasted for one series. It was written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, who later wrote Man About the House, where O'Sullivan was the lead male character. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television.

Arnold Haithwaite is a sand pilot. He pursues his strange and solitary profession on the sands of Cumbria, beside the Irish Sea. A sand pilot, like a sea pilot, must know his way about; he must have a strong sense of locality and identity. But now another figure haunts this strange landscape: a sinister intruder who claims to be the real Arnold Haithwaite...

L.W.T.'s 'Who Do You Do?' was a quick fire sketch show starring top impressionists of the day, such as Freddie Starr, Janet Brown, Faith Brown, and Russ Abbot.

Hungarian mini-series.

This is the story of a man's challenges of raising his niece by himself. Ukyo Yasutake is a single man working in an office. His older sister, who was like a mother to him, dies. He's left to raise his sister's only daughter Chiharu. This comedy-drama depicts with great human depth the journey these two characters take as they gradually develop a real parent/child relationship with the support of friends and the family at the rice shop where Ukyo boards.

The story of a rich and arrogant owner of a French château who disappears suddenly, leaving the direction of his company to his younger brother and his ambitious wife Fanny. But soon, the ghost of the missing brother arrives to disrupt the couple’s dream life.

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

This is an exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatized conversations between the main participants, Cosimo de Medici and Brunelleschi.

The story of a small village Zeleny Dol, lost in the taiga wilderness, became a reflection of the fate of a huge country. A wide panorama of people's life unfolds before the viewer: from the defeat of Kolchak's White gangs to the first tractor furrow on the collective farm meadow, from the first elections to the Supreme Soviet to the send-off of Zelenodol residents to the fronts of the WW2, from the labor feat of women's hands in the rear to Victory Day, to the first post-war bread.

A suspended policeman searches for the evidence to link a businessman with a murder in this continuing story drama series conspicuously modelled on The Fugitive. It was dumped after five weeks, perhaps due to its unpleasant central character.

The Mouse Factory is an American syndicated television series produced by Walt Disney Productions and created by Ward Kimball, that ran from 1972 to 1974. It showed clips from various Disney cartoons and movies, hosted by celebrity guests, including Johnny Brown, Charles Nelson Reilly, JoAnne Worley and many more, visiting the Disney studio and interacting with the walk-around Disney characters from the Disney Theme Parks. It was later re-run on the Disney Channel in the 1980s and '90s. The theme played over the previews of each episode was a fast instrumental version of "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The song played over the end credits is "Minnie's Yoo Hoo", the theme song from the original Mickey Mouse Clubs that met in theaters starting in 1929. However, due to low ratings, the series was canceled after its second season.

Set in 1973, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature"?

During the second world war, the Pathfinder squadrons of RAF Bomber Command were the elite. All volunteers, their dangerous task was to fly in advance of bombing raids over occupied Europe and Nazi Germany and "light up" the target with flares and incendiaries.

Jigsaw is a short-lived television crime drama program, aired on the ABC network as an element of the wheel series The Men as part of its 1972-73 lineup. Universal Television produced this element; they had also produced the series which inspired The Men: The NBC Mystery Movie.

In Concert is a late-night television series created by Don Kirshner. Hosted by Don E. Branker, the series was a showcase for bands of the era to be taped "in concert" and then broadcast on ABC on Friday nights.

An epic saga of the Habdza family of vineyard keepers set in western Slovakian countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. Director Andrej Lettrich's novel adaptation talks of plotting, forbidden love. family discord, and struggle for heritage and power. The story is engaging thanks to the impressive performances of popular actors, dramatic situations, and sensitive music. Red Wine is not so much inventive in terms of auteurship as it is a work of excellent craftsmanship. The resulting picture is a costume production neatly adapted to the character of Slovak rural life in the past.

The Barkleys is an American animated television series that ran from 1972 to 1973 on NBC and was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.