Teenage Kicks COMPLETE S01
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196565/
During the last two decades, aging punk rocker Vernon, has spent much of his time in the pub whilst living off his high-flying wife! Now, following a particularly nasty divorce, middle-aged divorcée Vernon moves into the student accommodation with his teenage kids, much to their disgust and dismay, in order to carry on living his rebellious (so he thinks) lifestyle.
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It Takes a Worried Man COMPLETE S 1-3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125624/
Philip Roath is thirty-five. An insurance salesman whose confidence is diminishing as rapidly as his hair and teeth, he’s lazy, self-centred, guilt-ridden and insecure. With an overdraft to support, a boss who vainly tries to get him to work for his salary, an ex-wife who rings periodically to remind him of his inadequacies, and an analyst whose problems dwarf his own, he’s altogether a bit worried…
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Mrs Wilson COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6859806/
The drama follows Alison Wilson who thinks she is a normal, happily married woman. But when her husband Alec suddenly dies, a woman turns up on her doorstep, claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage – and Alec’s love for her – but is instead led into a world of dark and troubling secrets. Alec was a British spy and a best-selling novelist and Alison is pushed to the very brink to find out the truth.
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Deadline Gallipoli COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3458030/
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446057/
Based on Patrick Hamilton’s classic trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Skyhas been brought to the small-screen courtesy of the award-winning playwright, Kevin Elyot. Revolving around The Midnight Bell, a public house off the Euston Road, this trilogy follows the pursuit of love from three different perspectives: barman Bob, who yearns for a penniless prostitute Jenny; Ella, who harbours a secret passion for Bob and Jenny who is struggling to survive on the streets of London.
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Wood and Walters COMPLETE S01
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289836/
Victoria Wood and Julie Walters drew on their long friendship to create this BAFTA-nominated series, originally transmitted in the early 1980s. Wood and Walters featured sketches, Wood’s trademark songs, weekly guidance from Walters’ fearsome agony aunt Dorothea Chubb, and special guests including Rik Mayall, John Dowie and long-term associate Duncan Preston. Ably showcasing the individual strengths of both performers, Wood and Walters confirmed Victoria Wood as a leading comedy writer and brought her subtle, sharply observed humour to the attention of the wider viewing public.
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Eureka Street COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213344/
The story of a group of people from Northern Ireland, trying to make their way in life in the face of sectarian and political polarization. Chucky is an overweight 30-year-old who has yet to find a purpose for his life, but when he comes up with a business idea, things begin to change in an almost miraculous manner for him. His friend Jake is an unusually sensitive repossession man, and his life too begins to change when he meets Aoirghe, a woman from the other side of the sectarian divide.
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