Malice Aforethought 2005 COMPLETE mini-series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433411/
Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope: many of the town’s female population seems to have had intimate relations with him. When a new arrival to town becomes involved romantically with Edmund, he decides maybe it was time his wife wasn’t around much longer. He puts in place a plan to become free to remarry — after all he has a cabinet full of lethal (and mostly legal) drugs on hand. But it’s an old lover that proves his savior, at least for a short time.
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Dangerous Assignment COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044257/
"The Commissioner" sent US special agent Steve Mitchell to exotic locales where he encounters adventure and international intrigue, all played out using extreme violence.
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Wendy and Me COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057799/
George Burns buys an apartment building in Southern California with Mr. Bundy as the building superintendent. Jeff and Wendy Conway are husband and wife tenants; he is an airline pilot and she is a ditz. Jeff’s co-pilot is Danny Adams, a young, single, girl-chasing man who is proud of his red and black "little books". George follows Wendy around all day commenting on her activities. She was really a replacement for Gracie Allen, who had retired.
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Pope John Paul II COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475999/
Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up by his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20th century. An outstanding student with a magnetic personality, he dreams of becoming an actor. When his homeland is invaded by the Nazis in 1939, he and his friends secretly oppose the systematic persecution of their Polish culture. But, with the death of his father and the lacerating solitude which accompanies this loss, Karol’s personal "resistance" takes on a new form and he decides to follow a priestly vocation. At the end of the war, Poland falls into the grip of Soviet totalitarianism. The newly ordained Karol is constantly surrounded by young people whom he teaches to safeguard and defend human dignity. He could be considered a serious threat to the regime, but the Communist authorities merely see him as an innocuous intellectual and even encourage his nomination for the position of bishop. Karol Wojtila is the youngest bishop in …
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King Of The Royal Mounted COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032669/
Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed because while Canada and the British Empire were at war with Germany, the USA "officially" wasn’t in 1940) discovers that Compound X also contains magnetic properties which will make their mines effective against the British fleet, and dispatch one of their intelligence officers, John Kettler, to work undercover to ensure a steady stream of Compound X for the Fatherland. RCMP Major Ross King is killed in a fray against Kettler’s henchmen, and his son, RCMP Sergeant Dave King continues on in his place in command of the Mountie post. The foreign agents open a "sham" sanitarium, supposedly to help paralysis victims, but actually to ship the gathered quantities of Compound X abroad to their warring country. Sergeant King discovers the fraud and exposes "Dr. Shelton", the sham head of the hospital.
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The Long Song COMPLETE mini-series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7712606/
An adaptation of the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy. Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.
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The Secret River COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2298264/
In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
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Your Cheatin Heart COMPLETE S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098956
Your Cheatin’ Heart was not an American country & western series but instead a six-episode British melodrama. Tilda Swinton starred as Cissie Crouch, whose life was turned upside down when her country-singer husband was arrested for drug dealing. In her efforts to clear her husband’s name, Cissie unearthed a number of dirty little secrets — and a few big ones.
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