Monthly Archiv: July, 2024

Blackeyes COMPLETE mini series

Blackeyes COMPLETE mini series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096549/

Blackeyes is an attempt to explore "what does go on between men and women in their heads, to show the possibilities of the ways that they see each other." Complex and multi-layered, the interweaving narrative threads include novelist Maurice James Kingsley who appropriates accounts by his niece Jessica about her life as a professional model. Kingsley’s embellishments become a trashy bestseller, "Sugar Bush," tracing the rise and decline of fictional fashion model Blackeyes, victimized by men. Angry and betrayed, Jessica begins to rewrite Kingsley’s novel to set Blackeyes free from the abuse of men.

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Young Americans COMPLETE S01

Young Americans COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220178/

This series portrays life at Rawley Summer Academy, an elite school in Connecticut where boys with a bright Ivy League future spend the summer industriously in classes and rowing training on the lake. It’s mainly told from the viewpoint of Will Krudski, a gifted, genuinely inquisitive student and future writer, who feels guilty having cheated at the entry exams. His roommate, Scout Calhoun, is a school legacy who makes an effort to become friendly with some underprivileged local kids and falls in love with the daughter of a garage owner who turns out to be family. Most of his classmates are golden spoon boys, but still have their problems, among each-other, at home and sometimes with the locals. Actually Jacqueline ‘Jake’ Pratt is a girl pretending to be a boy as the only way to get in, causing great confusion for Hamilton, the school dean’s son, who begins to fall for her.

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Hazell COMPLETE S 1-2

Hazell COMPLETE S 1-2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077020/

Nicholas Ball stars in his best-known role as a tough, charismatic private detective in this hit Thames series, first aired in the late 1970s and created by journalist and novelist Gordon Williams, and future England coach Terry Venables. Hazell paid homage to classic film noir while boasting rounded characterisations, sparkling Cockney dialogue and highly credible action scenes, all set in the kind of seedy London locations that would be revisited in Minder – the series created by screenwriter Leon Griffiths following his work on Hazell; other high-profile writers here include Trevor Preston (The Sweeney) and author Richard Harris (A Touch of Frost). Following the curtailment of his police career after an injury and subsequent slide into alcoholism, the newly reformed James Hazell sets himself up as a private eye. Utterly ruthless when he needs to be, Hazell is also blessed with a breezy charm, effortless style, robust sense of humour and the ability to think on his feet – vital when tackling blackmail, missing persons cases, organised crime and the drugs trade…

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Scotland Yard COMPLETE S01

Scotland Yard COMPLETE S01

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(TV_series)

Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at the company’s Merton Park Studios in South Wimbledon, these half-hour thrillers – based on real-life cases from the vaults of London’s Metropolitan Police headquarters – were a successful regular feature in cinemas over nearly a decade from the early 1950s onwards.

Like sister series Scales of Justice (also available from Network), Scotland Yard is introduced by celebrated crime/suspense maven Edgar Lustgarten, and presents case after intriguing case, with many solved onscreen by the redoubtable Inspector Duggan (played by Australian-born Russell Napier).

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77 Sunset Strip S 1-6

77 Sunset Strip S 1-6

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051247/

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer were the wisecracking, womanizing private detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. Stu and Jeff worked out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie worked as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helped Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually became a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also joined the firm, and Suzanne was their leggy secretary.

Note :
I’m missing S05E05,S05E11, S05E30 and S05E35

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Torn COMPLETE mini series

Torn COMPLETE mini series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013873/

Spending a day on the beach with their children, a misunderstanding between David Hooper and his wife Sarah leads to their 4 year-old daughter Alice ‘Ali’ getting lost, presumed drowned but no corpse was found. Eleven years later the mother is still obsessed by the trauma, while David, whose good job affords them a fine lifestyle, urges they should enjoy life with their two lovely school age kids, Sean and Jasmine. Sarah gets arrested for harrowing decent laborer Steven Taylor whose daughter Lori is the next in a line she recognized over these years ‘for sure’ as Ali, but this time a cop whose son Jamie is then four pushes the case and to everyone’s surprise gets mother Joanna Taylor to confess a secret which changes everything.

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Ever Decreasing Circles COMPLETE S 1-4

Ever Decreasing Circles COMPLETE S 1-2-3-4

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086708/

Martin is a committee man. He has numerous schemes and committees organised around the neighbourhood. He is so obsessive about every detail of everything he does he is driving his long suffering wife, Anne, slowly crazy. Then the new neighbour Paul arrives. He has a more worldly outlook than those who live under Martin’s organisational spell. There is an immediate clash of personalities because Martin treats everything so seriously, but to Paul, life is for enjoying and not to be taken so seriously.

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Killer Net COMPLETE mini series

Killer Net COMPLETE mini series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127383/

Scott Miller (Tam Williams) is a computer enthusiast and psychology student who becomes involved with a raunchy woman who he met through his dalliances with the internet. She introduces him to the world of sexual experimentation, on-line porn and interactive link-ups – but she’s not all fun: she’s got another boyfriend (played by former Take That star Jason Orange) and has her eyes on Scott’s flatmate Joe. She suddenly disappears from the scene, and Scott becomes obsessed with finding her again – but when he fails he seeks solace in a terrifying game on the internet.

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