G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series ...
Rating: 7.3
Genres: Animation, Action & Adventure, Kids
Cast: Don Brown, Garry Chalk, Christopher Collins, Suzanne Errett-Balcom, Ted Harrison, Philip Maurice Hayes
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infil...
Rating: 8.1
Genres: Crime, Drama
Cast: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell, Hugh Fraser, Jeananne Crowley
Inspector Gadget is a clumsy, dim-witted human cyborg detective with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget stumbles around working the cases while his niece and dog do most of the investigating. Gadget's arch-nemesis is D...
Rating: 6.8
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Kids, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: Don Adams, Holly Berger, Frank Welker, Luc Durand, Don Francks, Dan Hennessey
When Adam, Prince of the planet Eternia, raises his magic sword he transforms into He-Man (the most powerful man in the universe). With his allies and friends, he battles the evil Skeletor and his minions to protect the secrets of Ca...
Rating: 7.5
Genres: Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids
Cast: John Erwin, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary, Lou Scheimer, Erika Scheimer, Norm Prescott
Willy Fog is a British millionaire who bets that he will be able to go around the world in only eighty days....
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Kids
Cast: Tom Wyner, Banjô Ginga, Gregory Snegoff, Ken'ichi Ogata, Ichirô Nagai, Kei Tomiyama
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War....
Rating: 8.0
Genres: Comedy
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny, Patrick Allen, Tony Robinson
Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and extend the hand of friendship. Our planet's resources are just what these aliens need to s...
Rating: 7.8
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant, Peter Nelson, David Packer, Neva Patterson
When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the mu...
Rating: 7.4
Genres: Mystery, Drama, Crime
Cast: Roy Marsden, Barry Foster, Ray Brooks, Ivor Roberts, John Vine, Andrew Ray
The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback....
Rating: 7.9
Genres: Drama
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Brett Cullen, Stephanie Faracy
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."...
Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Cast: George Peppard, Mr. T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Lance LeGault
Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma....
Cast: Vicki Lawrence, Beverly Archer, Ken Berry, Dorothy Lyman, Allan Kayser, Eric Brown
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serv...
Rating: 8.6
Genres: Documentary, News
Cast: Will Lyman, Sarah Childress, Priyanka Boghani, Arun Rath, Judy Woodruff, Katie Worth
The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Ross could complete a painting in half an hour, the intent of the show was not to t...
Rating: 9.3
Genres: Family, Documentary
Cast: Bob Ross, Steve Ross, Nicholas Hankins, Dana Jester, Peep, Ferne Sirois
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches e...
Genres: Kids, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy
Cast: Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, an...
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Alexei Sayle, Mark Arden
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are ...
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Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A ...
Rating: 8.9
Genres: Documentary, Family
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, George Page, Chris Morgan, David Attenborough, Nora Young, Paul Christie
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Ste...
Genres: Drama, Family, Comedy
Cast: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, James Read, Janet DeMay, Blake Clark
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including ...
Rating: 6.9
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
Cast: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Richard Basehart, Patricia McPherson, Rebecca Holden, Peter Parros
Pac-Man is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera based on the video game Pac-Man by Namco, which premiered on ABC and ran from 1982 to 1983. It was also the first Hanna-Barbera animated series based on a video game....
Rating: 5.9
Genres: Animation, Comedy
Cast: Marty Ingels, Barry Gordon, Barbara Minkus, Chuck McCann, Neil Ross, Susan Silo
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