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Explores technological innovations expected to improve lives and hit mass market after 2000, but even concepts from the 1980s remain futuristic and unlikely for consumer use anytime soon.

Snub TV was an alternative culture television program that ran from 1987 to 1989. The original program, while made in the UK, was developed by American producer Fran Duffy and aired as part of the Night Flight variety show. In 1989-1991 a UK version aired for three seasons on the BBC, and was syndicated to the pan-European TV channel Super Channel and in other countries in Europe, such as Russia, Portugal, Denmark and Greece. Snub's main focus was on documenting musical groups such as The Stone Roses, with the UK version putting an emphasis on the indie and underground music scene in the UK during the rise of Madchester. The British series also featured other acts such as comedians. Snub TV has been credited with giving many then-new bands and musical acts initial and extra exposure to the major music business circles.

Subways of the World is a colorful, 15-part Hungarian documentary series that first ran between 1986 and 1993 on Hungarian Television. In the series, with the help of civil engineer György Lovas, we can get to know the past, present and future of metro networks in different cities around the world, as well as the landmarks around the metros. The series was created on the occasion of the 100-year centenary of the UITP International Public Transport Association.

The series explores the diversity of Australia's landscapes, from the seas to the arid interior; the effects of the extremes of flood, drought and bushfire; and examines the impact of 200 years of European settlement on the land, its plants and animals.

An Italian adaptation of Henry James's 1902 novel of the same name. The series is a dramatic interpretation set in Italy, exploring themes of love, morality, and betrayal, as in the original novel, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Europe.

Telekids is a Dutch children's television programme showing on the RTL 4 channel from 1989 to 1999. The show was initially hosted by Irene Moors. Later Carlo Boszhard joined the presenting team.

Groundbreaking alternative comedy programme bringing the new wave of humour to television for the first time.

An NBC special featuring clips from old TV shows that aired on April 4, 1983. Also appearing on that show are Laraine Newman, Marvin Milner, William Shatner and Dr. Demento.

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.

Pop le Roux is a beautiful, but relatively uneducated, boer girl from a poor family. The young men of the county all compete with each other to win her favor. The man she loves is Manie Cronjé, He is just as poor and Pop sees no chance of suffering further. She eventually marries Jan Greyling, the rich widower. Gradually she adapts to her new life and becomes a good wife for Jan.

A dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent.

Ronnie Corbett covers the comedy waterfront with a crackling 30 minutes of monologues and sketches, and will be joined each week by top-line entertainers from the established ranks of British and American show business and by new headliners from the Fringe.

The third installment in the " Women of Legend" series is set in a noble family and depicts the adversity of a woman who, despite the various hardships she faced as a woman in the Joseon Dynasty, forges a new life for herself.

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

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.

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.

These televised specials present stunning, live performances from master magicians Siegfried and Roy. Featuring wild animals, mind-boggling illusions and dancing girls in spectacular and exciting shows.

Phyl and Mikhy is a short-lived comedy that aired on CBS from May 6, 1980 to June 30, 1980. The series stars Murphy Cross as Phyllis Wilson, the star of the track team at Pacific Western University, Rick Lohman as Mikhail Orlov, a Russian track star who comes to California for a track meet, falls in love with Phyl and marry her, and Larry Haines as Max Wilson, Phyl's father and team coach.

Billy Diamond's career as a thief takes a sudden turn as, once caught, he goes to work as an undercover agent for the San Francisco Police Department while continuing his high-living lifestyle.

Legacy of Murder (aka Emery Presents: Legacy of Murder) is a British comedy television series which originally aired on BBC One in six half-hour episodes between 16 February and 23 March 1982. A struggling London private detective and his assistant are hired by a lawyer to locate six people concerned with the inheritance of an eccentric aristocrat. As on The Dick Emery Show, Emery portrays several different characters.

Spine Chillers was a 1980 British children's supernatural television series broadcast on BBC1. It featured readings of classic ghost and horror stories aimed at older children, and ran for 20 episodes of 10 minutes each.

The world of bullfighting seen through the unforgettable adventures of a likeable rogue. A serious goring forced José Álvarez "Juncal", a famous bullfighter from the 1950s, to leave the bullfighting world, but it left him with a distinguished limp.

During August 1943 the Nazis advance is stopped. In Sweden there are both German Gestapo agents and Norwegian Resistance men active.

A three-paneled look at the Severinsviertel (Vringsveedel) district in Cologne.

Riad Abd Rabbo is a philosophy teacher who collides with the materialistic, utilitarian reality that is completely different from the values he has learnt and teaches his students, such as truth, goodness and beauty, and when he fails to fix what is wrong around him, the philosophy of Al-Dardiri, an old thinker who those around him believe has lost his mind, is confirmed. Riad resorts to the same logic as El Dardiri, who died waiting for aliens to help him come up with solutions to save the world from possible and very near doom.

Paddy, who lives with his sister Melodie on his grandparents' farm, experiences a variety of weird adventures with the animals around him, such as the talking raven Loewie, who constantly makes funny jokes. He also often has trouble with a neighboring boy, Fred. Only Paddy can evoke a mysterious blue man, Onyx, who has magical abilities and solves problems for Paddy.

The adventures of the Little Miss characters created by Roger Hargreaves as female counterparts to the original Mr Men.

The COI, a radio station, is getting ready to air a new programm, "Tristeza de Amor", in the team they've hired, there are two reporters who used to be well known to the audience, journalist Ceferino Reyes, who just returned to Spain after ten years living in South America, and commentator Carlota Núñez, the woman who, years ago, somehow forced the latter to leave the country. This series deals with this radio programm crew's everyday adventures, and their professional and personal troubles.