Sleepers COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101200/
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been "lost." A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
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The High Chaparral COMPLETE S 1-4
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061263/
The Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s. Big John wants to establish his cattle empire despite Indian hostility. He’s aided by brother Buck and son Billy Blue. When Blue’s mother was killed (in the first episode) John united his family with the powerful Montoyas by marrying their daughter Victoria (whose brother Manolito now lives with them as well).
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The Green Man COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098813/
Maurice Allington, the alcoholic, sexually promiscuous, and unappealing lead character owns a country inn called "The Green Man." He frightens and regales his guests, when he’s not trying to seduce them, with tales of ghosts ans spirits haunting his hotel. The fun begins when he and they realize the haunts are real and malevolent. At times sexual farce, at others, ghostly thriller, this movie is aptly called a "ghost story for adults".
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Scare Tactics COLLECTION S 1-5
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339968/
The show, just the latest in a string of "reality based programming" will feature "Candid Camera" like stunts inspired by scenes from Science fiction television programs and movies. The "victims" will witness alien abductions, hauntings, and various other X-Philean type gags and their reactions will be chronicled here on this series.
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City of Vice S01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1044196/
Vivid, gritty and stylish historical drama set in a vice-ridden Georgian London. A stellar cast headed by Ian McDiarmid and Iain Glen brings to life the story behind the birth of the modern police force.
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Fanny Hill COMPLETE mini series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054675/
Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies’s offer to join the London ‘working girls’ with Mrs. Brown, a madam who recruits her as charmingly fresh enough to wait, in-living, on gentlemen. The first night, her room- and bed-mate Phoebe starts her sexual ‘education’, next she revels in being fitted her first-ever fancy frock. Her first ‘client’, Mr. Crofts, is neither naive nor attractive, rather a paying old rapist who isn’t satisfied. Then the party scene, where men are younger and more charming. Handsome merchant’s son Charles Standing declares love at first sight and offers to take Fanny away. After a few heavenly days of young love, they intend to demands Sir’s blessing for their marriage, but as the ogre actually was her unsatisfied customer, Charles is made to choose between her and his future and leaves for colonial India. Being destitute, Fanny accepts becoming the kept woman of Mr. H., an earl’s wealthy brother…
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