The Shiralee COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094546/
Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He’s a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he’s all she’s got, and at the end, she’s all he’s got.
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Strangers COMPLETE S 1-5 DVDRip
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077086/
Don Henderson resurrected the eccentric police detective George Kitchener Bulman (from the short lived series "The XYY Man") in this British series which saw him reluctantly and grumpily transferred to a station in the North of England. Like the series which followed it ("Bulman") the show drifted between the standard hard edged, grittily realistic and violent policy which was prevalent in British police shows in the late 70s, and a peculiarly tongue-in-cheek reluctance to take itself seriously.
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Reilly Ace of Spies COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085077/
A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
Agent ST-1, aka Sidney Reilly (Sam Neill), tries to overthrow the Bolsheviks in this miniseries based on the real-life adventures of the daring operative who inspired Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Reilly hops among countries, deftly securing classified information on a mission to bring down the power-hungry Russians and Germans.
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In a Land of Plenty COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202190/
Television adaptation of Tim Pears’ novel, charting the ups and downs of the Freeman family over three generations. In 1951, industrialist Charles Freeman (Robert Pugh) weds the enigmatic but naive Mary (Helen McCrory) and whisks her away to a large house overlooking the town where he owns his factory. Their union produces three sons – Simon, James and Robert – and a daughter, Alice, whose lives go on to be touched by tragedy despite their privileged background.
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The Good Karma Hospital COMPLETE S 1-2-3-4
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6441720/
Set in a coastal town in tropical South India, THE GOOD KARMA HOSPITAL tells the story of junior doctor, Ruby Walker, who arrives in India looking for a job and a distraction from her heartbreak. She anticipates the sunshine, the palm trees and picture-perfect beaches. She’s even prepared for the sacred cows, the tuk-tuks and the Delhi-belly that everyone warned her about. What she doesn’t expect are the realities of work, life and even love at an under-resourced and over-worked cottage hospital.
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