Startime, an anthology of drama, comedy and variety, was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color.
A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
Celebrated dancers Hua Hongyan and Bai Dailin are drawn into a brutal world of debt, power, and corruption, where love and sacrifice become their only paths to survival amid the city’s glittering decadence.
Parichat became pregnant before discovering that her partner, Trin, was already married. After forcibly having the child aborted, he abandons her. Parichat is left alone and suicidal until her sister and brother-in-law offer to help her plot revenge. The plan requires years of studying abroad, after which Parichat returns and begins slowly approaching Trin. As she creeps toward her vengance, Trin’s wife’s cousin, Payu, tries to protect his family by impeding her.
After a whirlwind romance, Olivia finds herself as the mistress of the imposing Foxworth Hall, where she soon discovers that the fairy tale life she expected has quickly become a nightmare.
At university, two young men raised to hate each other find music and love instead, forcing them to question family legacies and choose their own path.
Total opposites Pi and Mork are love rivals and compete endlessly for the attention of their crush, Nan. Because of this, they get along like water and oil. But what if Nan was never Mork's real target to begin with?
Khemthis, heir to the dazzling Deep Night Club, is drawn to Wela, the star host. Yet, their growing closeness is fraught with unexpected challenges.
Jules Maigret is a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants
Anong, a high-society woman, is searching for a suitable husband, with lawyer Wichai tasked to screen suitors. As she realizes Wichai might be the one, Anong sets out to win his heart against the odds.
Cheng Manyi, unhappy with her real life, faints after an act of bravery and dreams of becoming the heroine of "The World's Top Talent," where she meets Wen Chenyu, the Greatest Scholar. Pretending to be talented, she enters a contract marriage with him, leading to humorous misunderstandings and evolving trust. As she aims to become a top inspector of the Great Feng dynasty, Cheng Manyi faces challenges and adversaries with the help of her friends.
After Eva Perón’s death in 1952, her corpse is held for three years awaiting the construction of a mausoleum — a resting place that would never be built. In 1955, the military seized control of Argentina and hid Perón’s body from the public, fearing that it would unite the country against them. But they never imagined that in doing so she would become more dangerous in death than she was in life.
At the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once thriving river boat trade. While trying to mediate in the dispute between the shearers and the riverboat skippers, Brenton Edwards is framed and sentenced to imprisonment in Melbourne. Without Brenton, Delie is faced with a custody battle over her children and the not altogether unwanted attentions of Cyrus James, a charming, but mysterious overseas entrepreneur. Alone she must fight to keep her family and the riverboat "Philadelphia".
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
Form master Sam Sylvester inspires the proud non-achievers of Hawkwood Comprehensive to compete in a tetrathlon (running, swimming, shooting, riding) against the posh Greycoats School, challenging stereotypes and finding inner strength.
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.
A floundering writer becomes a revered advice columnist while her own life is falling apart.