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- A lone crimefighter battles the forces of evil with the help of a virtually indestructible and artificially intelligent supercar.
- USD400,000,000 is stolen and a drug lord wants it back. The killed thief's brother is broken out of prison by a DEA bounty hunter to help find the money boat. The body count continues in Latin America.
- A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
- During a stay at one of London's most elegant and venerable hotels Miss Marple uncovers a sinister undercurrent of corruption and murder beneath Bertram's stuffy veneer.
- George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.
- The adventures of the Man of Steel in his teenage years.
- Ex-D.E.A. Agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
- When an attempt on Dr. Alec Holland's life leaves him consumed by deadly chemicals and fire, the swamps of Louisiana transform him into a superhuman creature hell-bent on ridding the swamp--and the world--of the evil that men do.
- Ken Boon and Harry Crawford are two middle-aged ex-firemen. Harry retires and opens a hotel (The Grand Hotel), with Ken as a temporary odd-job man.
- The Daughter of Darkness is an atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing the young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture chambers and bizarrely over make-overed vampires. The moody undertones and well chosen locations are certainly a bonus as is the comically funny finale.
- Drawing on her love of theatre and art, New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this BBC series.
- From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.
- During World War I, Percy Toplis, a deserter from the British Army, plays a major role in the Étaples Mutiny in September 1917.
- In the year 2020, an astronaut becomes a vigilante when he returns from a mission to learn his cop brother's been murdered.
- With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
- The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
- A pair of cops investigate a series of art-gallery related murders.
- Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
- When a convicted murderer escapes from prison, his young wife sends a distress call to the Foundation. Michael and Kitt head to the Louisiana bayou where the murderer is being protected by his father, the judge.
- Biopic attempting to tell the real story of Diana, Princess of Wales, made at a time when she was already deeply unhappy and her marriage to Prince Charles was known to be troubled, but before their eventual divorce and her tragic death a few years later.
- This spoof of soap-operas was set around two feuding families, the wealthy Hardacres headed by the ruthless capitalist Bradley Hardacre and the poor, working-class Fairchilds headed by the stern socialist Jack Fairchild.
- Alleyn cancels his holiday with Troy to investigate a murder connected to a stolen chalice, but he's called when a second murder occurs at uncle's estate.
- A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.
- The life and adventures of the members of The Armed Robbery Squad. Amid numerous security van robberies, bank robberies and gem heists with a lot of car chases, shouting and guns blazing, the squad members private lives are revealed in slices. From the uxorious D.I. Scott to womanizing D.S. Tate, and the sharp capable D.C.s Harris, Dryden, and Ash, every plot possibility is explored.
- An Indian is accused of the rape and murder of a white girl. The girl's stepfather incites the townspeople to punish the Indian - to cover up the fact that it was actually he who committed the crime.
- The series follows two policemen, Bromley and Blake, decide to uproot their lives and move to Spain. They move into luxury yacht 'El CID' on the sunny and relaxed Costa del Sol. But while the sun may shine, the criminal world does not take a siesta.
- A wave of violence has broken out within the city, sending Superboy into tension-filled investigation. Little does he know he will soon be accused of murder.
- 1987–20001hTV-147.2 (63)TV EpisodeWhen Detective Chief Inspector Wexford receives an anonymous letter informing him that 'a girl named Ann has been killed by a small, dark young man named Geoff Smith' he little realizes that his investigation will turn out to be among the most baffling of his career.
- An overweight man and woman become penpals but are too embarrassed to send each other photographs of themselves and instead exchange pictures of two thinner people. Comedic complications arise when the two penpals finally arrange to meet in person.
- The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.
- A country vicar moves with his family to an urban parish.
- With his best witness still comatose, Wexford deduces the unidentified dead girl was an abused servant, so he seeks the truth in the homes of the well-to-do.
- Two boys Michael and Joe become friends when Joe arrives at St. George's school in England as a refugee student. Both are Jewish but one has grown up in a middle class English home, while the other has grown up under the spectre of the growing Nazi movemement. Their friendship lasts beyond school when both find careers in film. When they both fall for the same girl they must decide if she is worth destroying their friendship over.
- Anthology series of supernatural tales.
- 1987–2000TV-146.9 (38)TV EpisodeA gold lighter is found and provides a vital clue to the girl's disappearance. Its inscription reads 'For the girl who lights up my life' but which girl? And where is the body?
- An anonymous letter leads Superboy to Darla's hideout, where she has Lana locked in a meatlocker. She's holding Lana to blackmail Superboy, so he'll bring Luthor back through a portal (created by Dr. Winger) that took him to an alternate world. This alternate world is dark, and chaos has erupted as a result of Luthor's murder by an alternate Superboy. As Superboy tries to return Luthor, he and an alternate Dr. Winger attack him with kryptonite.
- Arcane trades bodies with Swamp Thing after setting a trap using Will as bait.
- 1987–2000TV-146.9 (37)TV EpisodeWho is Ann? Who is Geoff Smith? Who sent the anonymous letter? Inspector Wexford and his team appear nowhere nearer solving the mystery. Perhaps if the missing girl's body things would becomes clearer. But where to begin?
- 1987–2000TV-147.0 (36)TV EpisodeWexford and his colleagues now knows the identity of Anita Margolis's killer, but there is a problem - he died some 18 months before the murder. Are the detectives investigations at a halt?
- Fictional story about the 1934 London - Melbourne MacPherson Robertson Air race built around actual events and actual people.
- 1988–199222mTV-PG5.3 (33)TV EpisodeJohnny Avonasac, a tennis player, finds a mysterious potion left behind by his dead brother that transforms into Johnny Casanova, an overweight slob who also happens to be a magnet for women, including Lana.
- The rise to international power of a fictional Australian entrepreneur (Philip Cromwell). From one Sydney tabloid he builds a world empire, becoming the nation's most powerful media mogul and fêted by heads of state.
- After their candidates win control of a farming community in an election, fruit-pickers start getting harassed by the local law enforcement officials.
- The events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister in 1990.
- Canon Pennyfather returns to Bertram's, but struggles to explain his disappearance, could he have been on The Irish Mail Train, robbing it?
- Miss Marple takes a well earned holiday at Bertram's, a Hotel she stayed in as a child. It seems familiar, but underneath the dainty teas and classy clientele, Bertram's hides a secret.
- The events leading to mutiny in the British Army during World War I.
- Bradley Hardacre has risen from poverty to become the wealthy owner of mine, mill and munitions works in Utterly. The Fairchild family live in a poor home, so what is their connection to Bradley and why does he wants to destroy the Cottage Hospital?
- A powerful new weapon is stolen and used to break Zach's suit. F.X. recognizes the perp as his former homey so F.X. returns to the old hood to confront the perp.
- The baptism of a child should be a happy occasion, but in this case, the father and the grandfather can't agree on anything, let alone a name for the baby. When a commonsense approach fails, Emma rushes in where Philip fears to tread.
- This "Making of" documentary is an exemplary sample of the genre, observing the ideas and experiences involved in making the feature film, TRAPS, directed by Pauline Chan. TRAPS was Pauline's first feature after several award-winning short films, and expectations were high among her backers, including the Japanese distributor-producer Hara Masato who had backed many films by Kurosawa and other giants of world cinema. Apart from the personal pressure of those expectations,TRAPS was one of the first Western films to be shot in Vietnam after the War, and the production involved numerous logistic and political challenges. There were also difficult personal dynamics to contend with, almost inevitable in a very tightly budgeted film. Given these elements, the decision was made by the Australian distributor of the feature to follow the course of the production as a stand-alone documentary.
- Ken's on the brink of quitting the security business after handling a messy adultery case. Harry diagnoses executive stress, and whisks him away to a luxury retreat run by his nephew. But Greenham Grange is not all it seems to be.
- An emotionally disturbed young woman is the focus of poltergeist activity.
- Jack has a proposition for Bradley: sell Isobel off. Bradley agrees but Lady P informs him that he'd lost interest in her anyway. Lady P tells Matt H he does not continue to see her she will have his poems published in her name. Isobel implores Charlotte to sleep with Jack so that he will go off her. Austin, McDuff and George experiment with the bouncing bomb with disastrous results.
- Bradley is angry with Jack over the forge, Agnes is angry too with lack, again for buying the forge. Isobel is angry with Jack when Bradley tells her she was sold to him. Lady P is angry when Morris tells her he's taking Matt to Cambridge. Morris appears to Matt in a dress and tells him he is a transvestite: Matt runs off.
- Bradley reluctantly agrees to using lack's truss Ranges to hold up the chimney, Big Tom. Guy arrives to help Morris who is upset because Matt doesn't fancy him. They discuss plans to blow up the Prince with SBD. MacDuff tells Lady P that hypnotism will help her to regain the use of her legs, but it backfires on him. She walks away and kicks Bradley to prove it.
- Bradley and Austin lecture peasants on how to behave for the Prince's visit. Lady P visits Matt, but finds Agnes and they argue. She gives Agnes a book of Matt's poems published under her own name. Matt discovers the book, leaves upset and attempts suicide at the top of the big chimney. Jack runs after him to stop him.
- Austin Hardacre gets a nasty shock when he walks into his new office. Matthew Fairchild is excited at the thought of going to Cambridge with Morris Hardacre and tells his father whilst he is visiting him in the Cottage Hospital; however, he sees Charlotte Hardacre there and the attraction continues, which in turn upsets Morris, who gains revenge by changing Matt's job.
- Agnes encourages the now-hungry strikers, whilst Charlotte is "doing good" at the soup kitchen. As Bradley is making sure George can leave the hospital (to use him for the SBD experiments), lack and Isobel are again found in the stables, and Agnes discovers that her son Matt has lost his good job and is now digging coal. She then sees her husband George being driven in Bradley's car: a blackleg!!!
- Lady Patience tells Bradley that his daughter is carrying on with a miner. Agnes tells George that the person Isobel is carrying on with is their son lack. Bradley agrees to talk to the strikers and offers them a silent hooter - the strike is ended. George tests Bradley's anti-tank boot which explodes, mid Bradley manages a pit disaster, in which he knows lack is involved.
- As Agnes and other women are waiting for news of the miners trapped down the pit, the miners themselves are settling down to life underground. Bradley hears that his plans sure going astray as Charlotte reaches the trapped miners, but though they manage to escape as lack supports the roof for them, Austin tricks Jack into shaking hands and the roof collapses.
- Jack is unconscious in hospital. Bradley orders Austin to continue with the tunnel, until he reaches the cottage hospital, and then let off SPD to finish him off. Agnes and Isobel fight over Jack but he wakes up besotted with Charlotte.
- George is home from hospital and Agnes tells him that Matt has gone to kill his father, Bradley Hardacre, so they both go to the hall and tell Bradley. That night Matt enters the hall via lady Patience's bedroom and is waylaid by Lady P Austin goes one further: he knocks Bradley out and orders him to be taken to the hospital, due to be blown up at midnight with the deadly SBD.
- As Austin celebrates Bradley's death, Bradley buys himself out of the hospital only to find that George hasn't caused the hospital to blow up by putting the SBD in his tea. Not only Charlotte, but also Morris discovers Matt with Lady P, whilst Bradley and Austin try to wangle or mangle the truth from George as to what happened to the SBD and discover that George is a walking bomb.
- Morris is ashamed at Lady P's affair with Matt and so decides to shoot himself but instead takes it out on Hesketh, his bear. Bradley and Austin discuss the fate of George and the SBD sugar lumps. Dr McDuff uses a stomach pump to get the SBD out of George and finds lots of strange things that George has been swallowing.
- As the Prince lays the new stone at the Cottage Hospital McDuff drops his trousers and Isobel and Charlotte arrive naked on Brass Beauty protesting about the rent increases, then the mortar on the trowel explodes - SBD. All are covered in foam - Jack saves Big Tom with his truss flange. Bradley and Austin realise Morris was behind the explosion and Bradley plans to send him to Australia.
- Charlotte and Isobel visit Patience in prison and tell her she's to have the finest defence lawyer. Job shows George and Agnes the official union vehicle . a tandem. Bradley refuses to pay for the services of Patience's defence, so Isobel says she will pay for the services of Marshall Snelgrove. Agnes tells Austin she's going to carry an with the election. Guy tells Morris that Moscow wants Hesketh to fight in the Spanish civil war.
- During round table discussion Bradley tells George pithead baths will be installed in order to get looks workforce on strike. Patience's trial takes place and she is called to the witness box. Bradley asks Charlotte to return home. Patience tells the court how she visited Mountfast on the night of the murder and he was so appalled by his debauchery he committed suicide.
- Charlotte receives a solicitor's letter saying she will inherit Mountfast's money. Bradley is informed by future Tory MP his earldom is no-go. He decides to join the other side. Isobel is distressed about Mountfast's inheritance and is seared that lack will propose to Charlotte, which is exactly what he does. She tells him to hop it.
- Bradley and Jack rejoice in the arms sales boosted by the Spanish civil war but Bradley feels a world war would be better. Charlotte is distraught having read that Matt's been killed in Spain, and gives bath to a boy. Guy tells Morris Stalin wants Bradley out of the way and gives him cyanide to poison Bradley. Matt appears saying Hesketh was shot in Spain.
- Charlotte inherits a large sum of money on her birthday. Jack refuses a deal with Austin. Guy tells Morris that Moscow wants him as a mole in the church and Agnes moans to MacDuff about George's increased sexual libido. Matt and Charlotte agree to be friends H not lovers. MacDuff discovers SBD increases sexual activity in rabbits.
- McDuff decides SBD is a hallucinogen. Bradley pays Jack for his work on Big Tom and offers him the lease on the crutch works. Bradley goes to sack the infant school teacher but instead is struck dumb by cupid's dart and invites her to play piano at the hall. Jack's family spurn his offer of work and tell him he's a traitor to his class.
- Morris confronts Matt about his homosexuality, who doesn't deny it but declares himself celibate. Jack declares his love for Charlotte but she rejects him, wishing he was Matt. Isobel declares her continuing love for lack and Lady P tells her not to marry Mountfast. Austin and Isobel go hunting rent defaulters but are foiled by Matt and Charlotte.
- Austin tells the family he thinks Bradley is insane. An epidemic is raging and McDuff says the cause is the convenience at the back of the munitions factory. Bradley gives Prudence SBD and then takes advantage of its effects she wears him out. Bradley tells George to keep using the convenience and McDuff and Agnes wire it up to explode.
- Bradley gets out of being certified and turns the tables on Austin. George, blackened but alive, is returned home. Bradley decides to sort out Simon Pugh and help Austin win the election with the help of Mrs Marchington, his father's chiropodist and SBD.
- Austin hears Lord Sodbury has died at the chiropodists which means Seymour Pugh will go to the House of Lords and it will be a walkover for him at the by-election. Jack fails to dissuade Isobel from marrying Mountfast, but she guesses he's done a deal with her mother and tells him her reason is money and she'll look after him.
- Bradley tells Austin he has to marry Cynthia Dudcock. Bradley offers to send Man to Paris to paint, as long as he goes with Agnes, but Matt sees through him. Jack asks Charlotte to marry him - she refuses. McDuff tells Patience of Bradley's plans to expose photos to the BMC and she tells him how to retrieve them.
- Hardacre looks at Mountfast's body. Sgt Pepper says a tramp will have done it. McDuff says his brother Inspector McDuff of the yard is in the area George tells Agnes of his new position in the UCTT. Charlotte tells Agnes she feels sick in the mornings. Matt says there's no money to fight the election and lack offers money to help them.