Monthly Archiv: May, 2025

The Goodwin Games COMPLETE S01

The Goodwin Games COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2244871/

The series revolves around a trio of estranged siblings: Henry, an overachieving surgeon with an overabundant ego; Chloe, a former child mathematical prodigy who became popular in high school and abandoned academia (and her friends) for a career as a struggling actress; and Jimmy, a career petty criminal with a string of convictions who has to sneak into his pre-teen daughter’s bedroom at night to visit her. The siblings return home for their father’s funeral. His attorney (one of Chloe’s abandoned childhood friends) April Cho informs them that their father’s will awards them $23 million, but only if they agree to compete in a series of games of their father’s devising…

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Bananaman COMPLETE S 1-2-3

Bananaman COMPLETE S 1-2-3

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084980/

Stupid, but well-meaning and super-strong super-hero, Bananaman gets his strength from eating bananas. Before he eats a banana, Bananaman is a young boy called Eric who is keen to keep his alter-ego a secret. His best friend is a crow who brings bananas to Eric (or Bananaman) when they are needed for extra strength. Bananaman is always ready to fight the baddies.

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Shelley COMPLETE S 1-6 + The Return of Shelley

Shelley COMPLETE S 1-6 + The Return of Shelley

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094559/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094537/

-Shelley
Long-running British sitcom about James Shelley – an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed ‘professional freelance layabout’. Following his battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady and his girlfriend Fran.

-The Return of Shelley
Four years after "Shelley," Hywel Bennett returns as the legendary James Shelley, now middle-aged and back from a sojourn in Saudi Arabia to teach English. Here, in scripts written once again by Hamilton and Jenkin, he has to get to grips with his now-yuppified old neighbourhood and all the other changes that have occurred in his absence. For some reason, the show changed its title back to "Shelley" for its final two series (1991-2).

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To Serve Them All My Days COMPLETE S01

To Serve Them All My Days COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080298/

David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but the avuncular headmaster has faith in him. David, although well educated, is just a humble lad from the Welsh valleys at heart and has to fit himself and his ideas into the heart of the English establishment.

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