Monthly Archiv: March, 2025

Ironside COMPLETE S 1-8

Ironside COMPLETE S 1-8

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061266/

Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco.
Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile office (a van) while leaving a pot of chili cooking back at headquarters.

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Ivanhoe 1997 COMPLETE mini-series

Ivanhoe 1997 COMPLETE mini-series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118354/

A TV adaptation faithful to Sir Walter Scott’s novel set in 1192 AD about a disinherited knight who is accused of treachery in the Crusades returns to England anonymously, to his home to clear his name and win his lady love. Also King Richard has been a prisoner in an Austrian dungeon but is now returning to an England ruled by Prince John and the Normans. This series aims at realism, to look as close to how it would have been in a very rough and poverty stricken times rather than earlier sanitised versions. People wear layers of often old, sometimes ragged clothing to keep the cold out, are sometimes dirty, and have long shaggy hair and beards.

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Taxi COMPLETE S 1-2-3-4-5

Taxi COMPLETE S 1-2-3-4-5

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077089/

The staff of a New York City taxicab company go about their job while they dream of greater things.
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.

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Inspector Morse COMPLETE S 1-12

Inspector Morse COMPLETE S 1-12

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092379/

Storyline

In this police series, situated in the stately area around Oxford, the mild mannered but nevertheless very thorough Chief Inspector Morse and his trusted colleague Detective Sergeant Lewis solve many murder mysteries. Every episode (of about 100 minutes) shows a complete story.

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Fortunes of War COMPLETE mini-series

Fortunes of War COMPLETE mini-series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092353/

Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies, penniless royalty, gays, lesbians] that cross and re-cross their path as they flee before the advancing Germany armies to Athens and then to Cairo.

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