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Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl, overcomes her impoverished beginnings in her quest to become a retailing magnate and one of the world's richest women.

The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.

The story of opera soprano Dame Nellie Melba.

Modern adaptation of Enid Blyton's adventure stories about Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.

Australia's longest-running comedy series follows the hilarious adventures of top architect Martin Kelly, who gives up his business to raise his three children--and the kid next door, Nudge.

In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.

Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an impoverished aristocrat. Lionel, however, has his sights set on Victoria, the naive cousin of hard-working Bridget Mordaunt, and the wealth he wrongly assumes is hers. When Joe's shiftless brother Fred threatens his marriage plans, Lionel murders him and the blame falls on Joe. Bridget's warm regard for Joe sets her on a quest to prove his innocence, the pursuit of which reveals the sordid manipulations and evil that surround Lionel. Just when Lionel believes his crime will never be discovered, Douglas, his gentle sculptor brother finds the murder weapon---and the killer's identity.

Four-part, four-hour follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula.

The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with "A Woman of Substance"(1984) and continued with "Hold the Dream" (1986) ends with this epic tale. Paula feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother Emma's business.

Wagner's life from the 1848 revolution through exile and rescue by King Ludwig II, climaxing with his Bayreuth triumph. His radical ideas on music, nationalism, and anti-Semitism are explored.

Charlie Cole and his grandson Pete Jarrett travel around outback Australia in a beaten-up ute, finding itinerant work along the way. In each place they befriend locals and become involved in an adventure, culminating in their solving a mystery, crime or local conflict.

A planet from another solar system drifts into Earth's system and is detected by some Earth scientists who investigate.

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser.

Drama series set in outback Australia about aboriginal policeman Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Based on the books by Arthur Upfield.

The story of three generations of women, from 1926 to the present day.

The story of two unique and brilliant women, and the charismatic men they loved and lost, and to whom they ransomed their hearts.

Ten years after leaving school, Cox, bullied and constantly humiliated in his schooldays, seeks out his former classmates in order to be revenged.

The story of 12 year old, Toumai, his younger brother Ranjit, and their great friend the elephant Kala Nag.

Follows the misadventures of idealistic young Eurocrat Hans Joachim Dorfmann, who gets involved with EU politics, rotting plums, shady fixers, and the Machiavellian schemes of the self-serving British diplomat Michael Spearpoint.

Stories of the lives of people living in and around the goldfields in the Australian bush during the 1850's.

Two young Irish men are watching an old Elvis Presley movie in which a carnival cyclist performs an act called the Wall of Death. Transfixed, they decide to put together their own "Wall of Death."

In the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia.

An Englishman becomes involved with a mysterious Australian goldmine.

Paul Gerrard is a man in search of his missing father - a wayward archaeologist who has disappeared from Greece.