Monthly Archiv: August, 2024

Raising Expectations COMPLETE S 1-2

Raising Expectations COMPLETE S 1-2

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4543594/

The Wayneys are an amazing family: good looking, MENSA smart, talented, athletic and popular to boot. Paige (Ringwald) and Wayne Wayney (Priestley) have worked hard at raising "multi-exceptional" offspring and are proud of their children: Adam, Conner, Bentley and Derek. Everyone in town envies them or wants to be them, and you can even find Paige’s book about raising her extraordinary family on the bestseller list. But alas, their fifth child, Emmett, is not marching in lock step on the path to familial greatness. What he lacks academically, athletically or artistically, he makes up for with relentless enthusiasm and curiosity. Emmett knows that one day he’ll find his way, but in the meantime he’s determined to celebrate his C-average status in spectacular creative fashion – no matter how often his best laid plans threaten to destroy the family’s living space, reputation or sense of safety.

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Market in Honey Lane COMPLETE S01

Market in Honey Lane COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162810/

A 1960s forerunner to EastEnders, this highly engaging series captures all of the camaraderie and humour, rivalry and chicanery, graft and greed of a bustling Soho market where stalls may be inherited, bought, or "acquired". This set contains the complete first series from 1967 – all that remains of this well-remembered and high popular street life drama and its sequel Honey Lane.

Jimmy, a life-long stallholder in his sixties, sells little more than carrots, spuds and cabbages. Beside him is Billy, a hard-bitten gambler who’s usually facing economic disaster on a major or minor scale. Vegetable seller Dave’s after a spot for his brother, widow Polly runs a busy fruit stall, while her dim-witted son Danny does odd jobs to earn a bit of cash. Then there are the fly pitchers: boys who work out of a suitcase, drumming up a crowd to make a sale and swiftly moving on. Jacko is among them, and his one ambition is to get a stall – at any cost!

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Riders Of Death Valley COMPLETE S01

Riders Of Death Valley COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034102/

Promoted and advertised as "The Million Dollar Serial", most of which appears to have been spent on advertising and the most elaborate pressbook ever put out by Universal on a serial (or 95% of their feature films for that matter), Universal’s 51st sound-era serial (following "Sky Raiders" and before "Sea Raiders" and, to quote the late Oliver Drake who wrote the original story,…"we were lucky they didn’t call it ‘Land Raiders’), "Riders of Death Valley" remains a favorite for the 7-12 year-old kids who saw in on original release in 1941, and a major disappointment for those who came later and never saw it in the 35mm version shown on a screen in a 350-seat grind-house theatre, and now question what all the excitement was about. Hey, you had to have been there. Actually, it is just one long prolonged chase after another for the most part and, even worse, it is usually the 5-6 good guys running from 2-3 of the bad guys (which even had eight-year-old kids of 1941 wondering what’s up)…

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