Monthly Archiv: August, 2024

Scouts to the Rescue COMPLETE S01

Scouts to the Rescue COMPLETE S01

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031903/

Eagle Scout Bruce Scott (Jackie Cooper), leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack set off in search of lost treasure using a map provided by Tenderfoot scout, Skeets Scanlon (Bill Cody, Jr.). Scoutmaster Hale (Jack Mulhall) leaves the expedition to rush home to an ailing wife, but Bruce and the scouts push on, and the map leads them to "Ghost Town." The treasure turns out to be a large cache of counterfeit $20 bills and the plates used to print them. The troop also discovers a lost branch of Inca Indians living in the mountains still undetected in 1939. The tribe gives ferocious efforts to keep the scouts from discovering their Temple cave as it contains a huge radium deposit known to them only for its ability to heal wounds…

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Carry On Laughing COMPLETE S 1-2 + Movies

Carry On Laughing COMPLETE S 1-2 + Carry On Movies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157218/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_(franchise)

And now for something completely bawdy. Carry on are two words to gladden the hearts of British comedy fans. Thirty-one Carry On films were produced between 1958-1992, and in 1975, Carry On Laughing brought the Carry On mojo to television, albeit for a scant 13 episodes. Each is a randy historical romp or farcical parody. You don’t have to be familiar with the films to enjoy this series’ extremely guilty pleasures. There are ribald double entendres, shameless mugging, awful puns, and even worse jokes. In one "monarchic moment," one loyal subject tells his Queen, "I will serve you humbly." She responds, "Good, I haven’t had humbly in ages." Jokes like that are enough to really make you rue Britannia, but Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, Peter Butterworth, and David Lodge make it all sound like Shakespeare. The episodes takes potshots at Upstairs, Downstairs, the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, and other historical and mythical figures. The episode "Under the Round Table" will not make anyone forget Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which came out the same year (oddly enough, both make hay with the horse/coconut thing). Carry On Laughing is more akin to Benny Hill than Beyond the Fringe, but for fans of the films, it is a dandy footnote to the Carry On canon.

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Slingers Day COMPLETE S 1-2

Slinger’s Day COMPLETE S 1-2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088609/

Slinger’s Day is a British sitcom that aired for two seasons from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of Tripper’s Day, which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter’s death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff. Like Tripper’s Day, it was created by Brian Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and Sorry! creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Slinger’s Day represented Forsyth’s only ever situation comedy acting role, and he …

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The Lieutenant COMPLETE S01

The Lieutenant COMPLETE S01

www.imdb.com/title/tt0056771/

Lt. Rice and Capt. Rambridge continue their mission to train new recruits and explore the nature of honor and duty. The simmering background of the brewing conflict in Asia heats up and takes center stage as the series builds up to its ultimate away mission, and Lt. Rice finds himself serving as a military advisor in Vietnam. Rice’s other missions include investigating film, fame, race relations, faith and loyalty with the aid of hi-caliber guests like Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Woody Strode and future Trek alums Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and Ricardo Montalban. Rarely seen since its original airing, The Lieutenant proves to be an unheralded harbinger of TV yet-to-come, “light years” ahead of its time.

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The Black Candle COMPLETE mini-series

The Black Candle COMPLETE mini-series

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101462/

Yorkshire in the 1880’s: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an impoverished aristocrat. Lionel, however, has his sights set on Victoria, the naive cousin of hard-working Bridget Mordaunt, and the wealth he wrongly assumes is hers. When Joe’s shiftless brother Fred threatens his marriage plans, Lionel murders him and the blame falls on Joe. Bridget’s warm regard for Joe sets her on a quest to prove his innocence, the pursuit of which reveals the sordid manipulations and evil that surround Lionel. Just when Lionel believes his crime will never be discovered, Douglas, his gentle sculptor brother finds the murder weapon—and the killer’s identity.

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