The Tales of Para Handy COMPLETE S 1-2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155450/
The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930’s.
Based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro, this BBC series stars Gregor Fisher as Captain Peter Para Handy MacFarlane, and also stars Scottish favourites Rikki Fulton and Sean Scanlan.
The series follows the adventures of the crew of the Vital Spark, as it puffs around the coastal waters of West Scotland and follows the various schemes that Para Handy gets himself and his crew involved in.
The series features plenty of well known faces actors including David Tennant & Tony Curran.
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The Cedar Tree COMPLETE S 1-2-3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162798/
This major series chronicles the shifting fortunes of a fictional aristocratic family, the Bournes of Larkfield Manor, through the turbulent years of the 1930s leading up to the Second World War an upheaval that will change their world forever.
Sisters Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria Bourne are dependent on their parents for income and bound by the remnants of the previous century’s code of social behaviour. The girls’ great hope is to find a suitable husband, and their expectations are high, but who is to know that what awaits as storm clouds begin to gather over Europe…
A huge success for ITV…
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Growing Rich COMPLETE S01
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203256/
For school leavers Laura, Annie and Carmen, life in East Anglia is as dull as it gets. The only options are marriage to the boy next door…or work in the local poultry factory. How are they going to find love and riches…? It was then, according to Carmen, that the Devil stepped onto their lives. Over the next 10 years the girls’ experiences range from child bearing at home to sheep farming in New Zealand and the glamour and seduction of big business. But their paths never run smoothly especially when the Devil intervenes…and the Devil has special plans for Carmen.
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Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies COMPLETE S 1-2-3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5699846/
Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies is a documentary series that details important cases, missions and operations of the American intelligence community, told firsthand by the men and women who worked them. Producers collaborate with prominent intelligence, military and government agencies such as CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, DOD, Homeland Security, The State Department, etc., to tell their stories in a non-political, objective way that spotlights the perspective of people that do the work.
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My Brother Jack 1965 COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309185/
Ed Devereaux stars as Jack in the 1965 television serial adaption of George Johnston’s 1964 book My Brother Jack. This semi-autobiographical novel follows the narrator, David Meredith, through his childhood and adolescence in interwar Melbourne (1920’s and 1930’s) through to adulthood and his journalism career during World War II. The novel constantly contrasts him with his older and more "typically Australian," brother, Jack.
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The Campbells COMPLETE S 1-2-3-4
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094429/
Journey back to the days of the pioneers with The Campbells, a charming Western series in the vein of Little House on the Prairie that the whole family will love.
Dr. James Campbell (Malcolm Stoddard) and his three children have left their home in Scotland for a fresh start in Canada. Settling into a New World and all its potential for opportunity, the Campbells experience all the triumphs and heartbreaks of their new and not-yet tamed surroundings and discover that the bonds of family and friendship are unbreakable even in the greatest times of hardship.
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Hemingway COMPLETE mini-series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094476/
Of all the memorable characters created by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, none was more complicated, more fascinating, or more charismatic than Hemingway himself. Adored by women and the quintessential "man’s man," he was husband, father, lover, war correspondent, brawler, adventurer, and a sportsman. Set against the turbulent history of the times, Hemingway reveals his tender and stormy relationships with his four wives, Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh, each of whom had significant impact on his work.
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