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(9/10 stars)This was a sketch comedy show for young adults that was very popular in the 1980s. It started in 1979 as a (partially) live, local show in Ottawa, Canada, with comedy, music videos (or musical guests), and local, phone-in contests. After two seasons (the latter of which was later edited into the new... more
(9/10 stars)Kozue is a middleschool girl and enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play in the Japanese national volleyball team. During the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step till the international volleyball championship. But the fa... more
(9/10 stars)The Sweeney was one of the finest British police series of the mid 1970s. Jack Regan is a hard edged detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police (called 'the Sweeney' from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Sweeney Todd' = 'Flying Squad'). He pursues villains by methods which are underhand... more
(9/10 stars)Every year, the People's Choice Awards grant awards based on the votes of the American public. more
(9/10 stars)The Flintstones is about a modern stone-age family, set in the prehistoric times. There's Fred, the meat-loving, bowling-playing fat man, Wilma, his wife who loves to cook and Pebbles, their cute baby daughter. Their next door neighbors are Barney, Fred's best friend, Betty, Barney's wife who always... more
(9/10 stars)In 1965, the Cold War was made a little warmer and a lot funnier due in part to the efforts of an inept, underpaid, overzealous spy: Maxwell Smart (Agent 86). The hit comedy series "Get Smart" is the creation of comic geniuses Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. more
(8/10 stars)World history is explained to children through different points of view across civilizations. more
(8/10 stars)On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, human and muppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games, and songs. more
(8/10 stars)Follows the lives of the residents of the fictional Coronation Street, located in Greater Manchester, which is made up mainly of working-class people. more
(8/10 stars)Hal Linden stars in the title role as a NYPD captain in charge of a squad of oddball detectives and even stranger criminals. more
(8/10 stars)Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing t... more
(8/10 stars)Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome... more
(8/10 stars)Seven very different individuals with one common connection: they are all escaped prisoners sentenced to live out the rest of their lives on Cygnus Alpha, a barren and sparsely populated prison planet far from Earth, by a corrupt totalitarian government known as the Terran Federation. Blake, a forme... more
(8/10 stars)The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu. more
(8/10 stars)Curtis Newton, aka Captain Future, is an orphan. His parents died in their artificial satellite while he was an infant. His father was a scientist, who has abandoned earth for the satellite to dedicate his life for science along with his aging friend the genius Dr Simon Wright. Wright senses his dea... more
(8/10 stars)At 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, lived one of America's strangest sitcom families, The Munsters. Strangest looking, that is, for beneath Herman's Frankensteinian facial features, Lily's vampiric visage, Grandpa's Dracula countenance and Eddie's Wolfman looks, lurked possibly the sweete... more
(8/10 stars)SOKO 5113 (Munich) takes place in Munich and started on January 2, 1978 on ZDF. The number 5113 in the series title refers to the extension telephone number of the head of SOKO. The series is based on memories of crime director Dieter Schenk, who put it down in 1975. The manuscript was also publishe... more
(8/10 stars)Arkwright is a tight-fisted shop owner in Doncaster, who will stop at nothing to keep his profits high and his overheads low, even if this means harassing his nephew Granville. Arkwright's only weakness is his love - Nurse Gladys Emanuel. more
(8/10 stars)Emmy® winner James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turned-private-investigator who would rather fish than fight but whose instinct on closed cases is more golden than his classic Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes you on the case... more
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