Monthly Archiv: April, 2025

Marco Polo 1982 COMPLETE mini series

Marco Polo 1982 COMPLETE mini series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083446/

First broadcast in 1982, this Emmy award winning epic adventure cost a staggering ten million dollars and featured an all-star, Oscar winning cast. Filmed on location in Italy, Morocco, Nepal and China this lavish mini-series was the first Western production to film in China after WWII and took over thirteen months to complete. An epic in every sense of the word. Born in Venice in 1254, Marco Polo was just 17 when he set off with his father and uncle to travel the Silk Road to China. Their adventurous journey through Asia, which lasted three and half years, took them through uncharted territory and went down in history as one of the greatest exploratory journeys of all time. Marco then spent 17 years in Peking as the guest of the Great Khan, winning the trust and respect of the Emperor for whom he carried out various diplomatic missions. Marco took great care to understand and record the culture, language, traditions and customs of the people he met during his long travels and as a result became one of histories legendary explorers.

Audio Language: English

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Strange World COMPLETE S01

Strange World COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166936/

"The X-Files" writer/executive producer Howard Gordon presents an exploration of a nefarious world where "big business" funds "big science," and the answers Paul Turner finds lead to more questions than have ever been imagined. After exposure to chemical weapons during the Gulf War, ex-Government scientist Turner spent six isolated years fighting for his life until an enigmatic Asian woman saved him with a miraculous cure…that lasted only temporarily. Ever since, the illness has regularly returned to ravage Turner’s body until the woman mysteriously reappears to provide another dose. After a six year absence, Turner returns to the Army as a Special Investigator in charge of tracking down the Frankensteins of the world. Turner’s belief that the government is too slow and inefficient to protect us from the unchecked advances of science proves to be all too true in this show that features such ripped- from-the-headlines fare as cloning and genetic engineering. His only allies are his …

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Up the Elephant and Round the Castle COMPLETE S 1-2-3

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle COMPLETE S 1-3

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085105/

James ‘Jim’ London becomes a man of property when a relative dies, leaving him the run-down Victorian abode of 17 Railway Terrace, in Elephant and Castle (south London). He’s troubled by randy neighbour Wanda, and the troublesome Councillors Allnutt and Moggs – not to mention his own lack of money, and the squatter upstairs!

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