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- On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
- An English professor interested in photography is given a pair of special sunglasses by an Austrian colleague. To his surprise and boyish delight, he discovers they're X-ray specs, which allow him to see through people's clothes! As he ventures across Europe, he is pursued by spies who're after the glasses. He eventually manages to elude them, and settles down to a life of ease, ogling naked women on beaches...
- In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.
- Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.
- What would happen to the men of the world if all the women vanished? How would they manage with menial, day-to-day tasks, like making meals, tending to the baby and fetching things? Such a computer projection is "disproved", as a spokesman "demonstrates" how girls are innately softer and weaker than boys, and "explains" why men are superior to women - while ordering his secretary around the office. By the time he's finished, the women really HAVE left, and the men are left helpless. A witty, incisive and instructive look at casual and concerted male sexist attitudes towards women, this short cartoon (written by a man!) pokes fun at sexism by trying to pass it off as "natural".
- Palestinian guerrillas, Israeli commandos and an American colonel fight to keep a nuclear warhead mistakenly dropped in the Jordanian desert by a U.S. Air Force nuclear bomber.
- In a Heaven run like a business by a female God, poor returns from the angels are making God disappointed. She decides to set an example, by destroying Las Vegas with floods and fire. An unhappy angel (Billy Crystal), trying to find a purpose to his existence, pleads on their behalf. He makes a deal with God, that if he can locate 6 virtuous people before the deadline, Vegas will be spared. He takes on human form, but realises it's harder than he expected to find anyone with true virtue.
- In a fairytale kingdom, the king and queen always have a son named Peter, who grows up and ventures forth to rescue a princess from the forces of evil, making her the new queen, etc. However, this cycle is broken one year when the stork delivers a baby girl, Petronella. Tired of waiting for a prince to appear, she decides to venture forth and find one for herself. What she finds turns out to be a lazy good-for-nothing, but still she tries to win his heart by impressing him with her bravery. Successfully completing 3 tasks set by the local warlock, she gets to come away with the prince; but the warlock turns into a dragon and pursues them.
- The secrets Sapphire, Steel and their colleagues find include people trapped in photos, ghosts lost in time and a retro dinner party.
- An unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway.
- This is not an original made-for-TV movie, but two episodes of the 1974 TV series Planet of the Apes (1974) edited together: Escape from Tomorrow (1974) and The Trap (1974).
- In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes. There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.
- An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
- The humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family.
- Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.
- Action-packed cartoon about the age-old fight between good and evil. Mysterious events start to happen when the government Earth Corps unearths an amber monolith in a forest; meanwhile, an unscrupulous businessman, Blackthorn, digs up a vine creature, Tendril, which frees the trapped undead beast, Decompose. Earth Corps must use their specially-designed armoured suits to track down the enormous monsters. In the process, the dormant Mutar species of Redwoods, Granites and Magnacore are reawakened, and join forces with Earth Corps to once again do battle with their centuries-old enemies, the Inhumanoids, in an effort to save the world.
- A group of dated appliances embark on a journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in a cabin in the woods.
- A comic book creator struggles with declining sales until his superhero Captain Justice crosses into the real world, renewing interest. Inspired, the creator revamps the storylines, convincing the owners to continue the comic.
- An evil man steals the dreams of an entire village over several nights, until the villagers, with no dreams left, cannot sleep properly, and become increasingly restless. Then the man audaciously advertises the dreams for sale, so, naturally, everyone comes to buy something, even a quick nap. But young Sarah hears a familiar sound in his dream vault, and steals it, realising it is her very own dream bird. The others catch on, and all take back their dreams, leaving the evil man to be haunted by all the nightmares nobody wanted...
- When a 100,000-guilder contest is announced in 1800s Holland, Cornelius sets about to grow one to win the prize. However, at the same time, the local alchemist, Bochstel, is trying to cast a spell that will give him unlimited power - and 2 of his ingredients must be a fair maiden (Cornelius's girlfriend, Rosa) and a black flower! Cornelius succeeds in producing a black tulip, but is then arrested for treason for possessing something sent him in the mail - and Bochstel steals his tulip. Cornelius must escape from jail, retrieve his precious flower, and stop Bochstel from completing his spell.
- A visiting son tries to warn his father and stepmother that they are being menaced by a living and intelligent pulse of electricity that moves from house to house and terrorizes the residents therein.
- Black-and-white, etched-wood animation tale about the Grim Reaper. In a remote forest, Death in disguise calls on a woman and her baby daughter. When the mother realises the identity of her visitor, and his intention to claim her child, she tries to flee the inevitable. Of course, try as she might, she cannot evade Death. Eventually, she accepts her fate when confronted with a window into her future.
- A human becomes an unlikely rising star in the biggest fighting tournament in the galaxy that's dominated by alien species.
- The police are staking out a Hong Kong flat, waiting to catch some major gun dealers. While the suppliers are conducting their deal, they move in. Both buyers are killed in the gunfire, but not their young daughter. The suppliers escape, and as their ruthless boss covers his tracks, he goes after the girl, the only witness. The criminals trace her to a safe house, but are killed in the ensuing gunfight.
- A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
- Transferred to a new job, the Peoples family arrives on the planet Bolognia. Feeling very insecure about the move, they become even more intimidated by the sight of their hosts who are green, spotted and have antennae!
- The feline staff of a pizza joint fight crime as superheroes when called for.
- Martin Tupper is a book editor in Manhattan, recently divorced from Judith, a psychologist. Martin's life is filled with fantasies and sexual thoughts, many times coming in the form of black-and-white shots from old TV shows and movies.
- A group of people thwart a mad scientist trying to take over the world with evil mutated tomatoes that he can change into people.
- Schneider is the only human in Gravedale High, all of the other students are vampires, werewolves, Egyptian mummies, Frankensteins, and other friendly monsters. The students engage in all of the normal sporting and social activities, blissfully unaware that they terrify everyone who sees them.
- This story is about a ne'er-do-well and his girlfriend as they search for a thief.
- A New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the city's Mounted Division.
- A thin shadow figure starts swallowing balloons in an attempt to make himself more solid, and develops body, surface texture, markings and a face. Meanwhile, a lonely young girl is attracted by the balloons' hissing sounds, and is drawn to the shadow's lair. The grinning shadow quickly ties her up, but, overconfident, becomes entangled in his own machinery, and has the body squeezed out of him. All that's left is one of the balloons, which the girl takes with her as she leaves, now quite happy.
- As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!
- Earth's defence forces are engaged in a losing battle with the evil Darkon. A ship plummets to Earth and explodes, and out walks a stranger, unscathed, but suffering from amnesia. In his possession is a Tekno crystal, which he can use to transform himself into Teknoman, an unstoppable fighting machine. As the war turns in their favour, they learn that Darkon is breeding Teknomen from captured Earth families - Teknoman must soon face his own brother in a battle to the death.
- A man with no recollection whatsoever of his identity learns that he may be a deep-undercover special agent. He has to piece together his life, find out who's pulling the strings - and work out if he killed someone, and whether he may, in fact, be a hired assassin.
- Black comedy about a normal guy, about to get married, who starts to question all things of a cosmic significance. He starts seeing only The Big Picture, ignoring trivialities (like his wife having a mock affair to get his attention), and gradually withdraws into himself. Told in flashback and retrospect at his funeral from the perspective of his friends and colleagues, we see the characters he encounters on his voyage of enlightenment - including the girl he falls for, and the escaped asylum patient in the middle of the desert who converses only by means of celebrity impersonations...
- Each year, three brothers visit their grandfather for the summer. He is highly skilled in ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques.
- John Ritter and Markie Post star in this comedy about two politicos that fall in love.
- The adventures of a canine private eye while he confers with his animator who has his own problems to deal with.
- A rag-tag police force stationed in deep space on Planet Avalon's Fort Hope. They deal with all manner of criminals, aliens, technology and the more mundane problems of certain individuals trying to have them shut down.
- When a brilliant young robot technician learns of his employer's plans for world domination, he goes rogue to fight back with his force of artificially intelligent robots.
- A bored cartoonist draws a pretty woman. Then, a discarded character, a strongman, comes to life and approaches the woman, and the cartoonist finds himself snatched into the paper world., where he battles the strongman, in an effort to impress the woman.
- A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
- In a world of anthropomorphic felines, two demoted fighter pilots battle evil as high flying masked vigilantes.
- Involved multinational miniseries about a scientific project trying to develop and exploit efficient solar power. The group members have the normal family and funding problems to concern them. But more sinisterly, they have to contend with energy companies who need them to fail and are too happy to help them along their way, mysterious business concerns who want to pump money into the project but for unknown or dubious reasons, and, worst, terrorists and murder attempts.
- A professor has discovered the true cause of household gremlins. Rather than being random events, they are caused by mysterious creatures, invisible except through the professor's detectors. He calls them Quarxs, and is studying them, in an effort to understand their behaviour.
- Young martial artists face their grandfather's foes when they accompany him to Japan to deliver a priceless dagger.
- A party of New Zealand animal rights activists assemble on a Norwegian cliff-top to prevent the annual mass suicide of Lemmings. All is fine until their vigil is interrupted by a Norwegian woman intent on using the Lemmings as the furry opponents in a crude form of blood sport. This is the story of their encounter....
- Documentary series dealing with every aspect of special effects in movies, from low-budget make-up to multi-million-dollar computer-generated graphics. The clear presentation includes descriptions of the creation and technical problems of the effects, and interviews with effects technicians, directors, stars and other crew. Each episode deals with one topic, effect or technician (eg theme park rides, CGI, Stan Winston), concentrating on one or more current or recent films.