Hold the Dream COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091212/
Two-part, four-hour followup to "A Woman of Substance" with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age 80 in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie O’Neill.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077052/
In a drunken and disheartened state, Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair. When he becomes sober again he realises what he has done, and though unable to find his wife and child, changes his ways. He becomes the Mayor of the town. Nearly twenty years later his past comes back to haunt him.
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Windmill of the Gods COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096447/
When Mary Ashley is approached to become Ambassador of the United States of America in Romania, she does not take the offer, because her husband does not want to give up his well-going doctor’s office. Shortly afterward, Dr. Edward Ashley gets killed in a car accident. After this, Mary Ashley reconsiders the offer, and finally accepts. Arriving in Romania, she is confronted with a complex plot, in which the American President’s current plans to improve relations between the U.S. and Communist countries shall be sabotaged.
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Mobile COMPLETE Mini-Series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918546/
Mobile is a conspiracy thriller for ITV1 written by John Fay (Robin Hood, Coronation Street and Clocking Off). The three part drama unfolds against the backdrop of the Iraq war and the world of the multi billion pound mobile phone industry, flashing back and forth to retrace events from three very different perspectives: the engineer, the soldier and the boss. Each episode features the same story told from a different viewpoint and only in the final scenes of the third episode is the connection between all three stories made for the first time.
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Ted and Alice COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179051/
Ted is an alien, an outcast on his own planet where he is a rare single-sex being condemned to a life in search of a mate. Alice dreams of a fiction book romance, but the reality of boyfriend Barry is a lot less appealing. Her life seems set to change when Ted, who is not only looking for love but also a place to hide his spaceship, appears on her doorstep.
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Ripping Yarns COMPLETE S 1-2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075568/
Monty Python fans rejoice! This renowned BBC series, created and written by Python stalwarts Michael Palin and Terry Jones, provides more of the same surreal, bawdy, tasteless?and absolutely gut-splitting hilarity you know and love. The nine lavishly produced half-hour comedies?each starring Michael Palin?spoof the stirring adventure stories that were a staple of Edwardian schoolboy life. Plucky heroes triumph over adversity (or not) in such varied settings as Victorian London, Depression-era Yorkshire, WWII Germany, Peru, and India during the Raj.
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