Sharon And Elsie COMPLETE S 1-2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086801/
The standard "smart brunette-dumb blonde" format was applied effectively to the British sitcom Sharon and Elsie. The titular heroines worked as secretaries in the Manchester printing firm James Blake and Son, which specialized in treacly greeting cards. Janette Beverly was seen as airheaded blonde Sharon Wilkes, while top-billed Brigit Forsyth appeared as the more level-headed (and slightly older) Else Beecroft.
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Brond COMPLETE mini-series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275235/
Stratford Johns plays the title role of Brond, the menacing mastermind behind the Scottish liberation army. John Hannah stars as Robert, a Glasgow University student drawn into the web of political intrigue.
Robert is the sole witness to the murder of a small boy. That same evening he encounters the assailant, Brond, at a party hosted by his professor. Brond is introduced as an old friend by Professor Gracemont, which stops a perplexed Robert from…
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The Ginger Tree COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096595/
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.
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Phyllis COMPLETE S 1-2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072556/
This spin-off from Mary Tyler Moore (1970) has Mary Richards’ landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, moving back to her hometown of San Francisco with her teenage daughter Bess following the sudden death of Phyllis’ (heard of, but never seen) husband, Lars, to make a new life for herself and her daughter by moving in with Lars’ scatterbrained mother, Audrey; and Audrey’s second husband, Judge Dexter; and getting a new job as an assistant to Julie Erskine, the CEO of a photography studio.
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Taken Down COMPLETE S01
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8649378/
Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable.
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