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On the Waterfront was a BBC Saturday morning children's programme, filmed at Brunswick Dock, Liverpool. It was hosted by Andrew O'Connor, Kate Copstick, Bernadette Nolan and Terry Randall. The programme ran for two seasons in 1988 and 1989, and consisted of comedy sketches interspersed with cartoons, competitions and music. The writer Russell T Davies, later a BAFTA Award-winner for his work on programmes such as Queer as Folk and Doctor Who, worked on the series, writing the script for a comedy dubbed version of the children's drama series The Flashing Blade.

Molle mit Korn is a German television series.

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.

The contrasting lives of two sisters from the middle of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. The locations range from the Potteries town of Bursley to Paris as their stories unfold. An adaptation of the 1908 novel “The Old Wives' Tale” by Arnold Bennett.

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.

Shell Game is an American Comedy-drama television series that aired from January 8 until February 12, 1987.

Playboy sex comedy about three girlfriends who inherit a luxurious yacht in the Florida Keys. They "just" need to pay 10,000 dollars each of the next four months to get it. They try everything to raise the money, even a treasure hunt.

Spies ran for one season, from March 3, 1987, to April 14, 1987.

All the Green Year is a 1980 Australian series based on a 1965 novel about three boys growing up on the eve of the Great Depression in Late 1920's Melbourne. The novel had sold more than 100,000 copies.

Jeremy Marre examines popular music and entertainment in England through contemporary eyes, observing the many strands, influences and traditions that compose a nation and its music.

Game show-type program produced by Playboy and featured on the Playboy Channel where two male contestants compete in a series of games to win a date with a Playboy Playmate.

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.

A three-part Austrian television film about the life of composer Franz Schubert. The title of the film is a quote from Erstarung (Immobilization), the fourth song in Schubert's song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey).

Wilhelmine Enke, the daughter of a trumpeter, becomes the mistress of Crown Prince Frederick William II, the successor to Frederick the Great. The fact that the beautiful Wilhelmine is of common birth makes the love between her and the portly Frederick William a problem. So Frederick William marries her off to a valet and keeps her close to him. Later, he elevates her to the nobility and makes her Countess Lichtenau. After his death, she is put on trial for high treason, but the case is unsuccessful. She spends her twilight years in a small cottage near Berlin.

A single woman debating between work and marriage.

Sectuars was a syndicated miniseries, comprised of five half-hour segments. Symbion, an idyllic planet, fell victim to a misbegotten lab experiment. The resultant insect-like mutants, organized by leader Spi drax, into the Terror Troops, threatened to destroy the universe. The chastened lab scientists then created a humanoid race, The Sectuars, to battle Spidrax.

A village hospital employs pretty female doctor. Now even those who do not need any medical help start coming, just to see their beautiful and young doctor.

Singles is a 1984 Australian television mini series about Sydney doctor Alison advertises in a singles magazine and meets five different men, the serial looked at a different date each episode.

Battlestars is an American game show that aired for two separate runs on NBC during the early 1980s. The show's first run aired from October 26, 1981 to April 23, 1982. An updated version–titled The New Battlestars–ran for 13 weeks, from April 4 to July 1, 1983. Battlestars was produced by Merrill Heatter Productions, Heatter's first show produced without Bob Quigley. The host was Alex Trebek and the announcers were Rod Roddy and Charlie Tuna.

British sitcom about a role reversed married couple.

Comedy Drama about a Northern Haulage Firm struggling in the recession hit 1980's in the UK

Fitz and Bones is a short-lived American television series, starring Dick and Tom Smothers, that aired on NBC in 1981. Fitz and Bones details the investigative dynamic between reporter Ryan Fitzpatrick and cameraman Bones at a San Francisco news station, along with key cast members and plot tensions with bosses and rivals.

Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.

A Small Problem is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1987. Intended as a satire on prejudice, the show was set in a Britain starring Christopher Ryan who had previously played Mike in The Young Ones, with a form of apartheid based on people's height. Anyone below 5ft tall was forced to live in tower-block ghettos south of the River Thames. However, many viewers appeared not to understand the satirical aspect of the show, and the BBC was flooded with complaints. It was written by comedy writers Tony Millan and Mike Walling. The theme tune was written by Mo Foster and Mike Walling.

Another Life is an American television soap opera produced and broadcast by the Christian Broadcasting Network from June 1, 1981 to October 5, 1984. It was co-created by Roy Winsor and Bob Aaron, and ran for 875 episodes.

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.

Serial on the Mickey Mouse Club on The Disney Channel, aired from October 2 to 27, 1989. Guardian angel Buzz decides to help Cindy, the daughter of a friend whose gas station is threatened by a cruel developer. The developer’s kids constantly hassle Cindy, who initially refuses to believe in her angel, but eventually he helps her gain the self-confidence she needs to save the gas station and win over her boyfriend. Stars Jason Priestley (Buzz), Robyn Lively (Cindy), Scott Reeves (Brian), Jennie Garth (Karrie).

Ronnie Kemp, stand-up comedian turned television quizmaster, is adored by his audience but is a very different character offstage.

Alfons is very unlucky boy. Even when he intends well everything is going wrong, so his life is full of various mishaps.

Rocky Hollow was a stop-motion animation children's television series made in Wales. The show is narrated by Peter Sallis, who became the voice of Wallace in Wallace and Gromit This was the first children's television show produced by Bumper Films which later made Fireman Sam, Starhill Ponies and Joshua Jones for the BBC in production with S4C, Mike Young Productions and Prism Art and Design Ltd. The whole series has been released on various videos but so far has not been released on DVD until 2014.

Levkas Man is a 1981 mini series about a doctor who goes to the Greek island of Levkas to prove a theory about prehistoric man. It was shot on location in Greece. Paul Gerrard is a man in search of his missing father - a wayward archaeologist who has disappeared from Greece.

One part drama starring Kuniko Yamada and Ken Utsui

'Tea with Tosh' was a cable public access TV chat show that aired from 1986-87. Hosted by Tosh Berman and featuring guests such as Philip Glass, Russ Tamblyn, Carole Caroompas, and Michael Silverblatt. All 20 episodes are available on Tosh Berman's YouTube channel.

Blue Skies is an American drama that aired from June 13 until August 1, 1988. It stars Tom Wopat as Frank Cobb, a divorced ad executive who moves to Oregon with his new wife and blended family to run a sawmill.

The Baron and his cronies steal a precious crown and hide in a secret room of an abandoned castle. With the help of their tiny robot Robin, Bassie and Adriaan set out to find the crown and return it to the museum.