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- In a witty homage to Kirk Douglas's films, all three characters ARE Kirk Douglas at various stages of his career. The short action takes place in a news room. A young reporter looking for his big chance pleads with his editor to give him a breaking story.
- Genial, square-jawed newsreader Link Anchorman introduces pseudo-amateur animation comedies, "too weird, too strange and too short to ever be shown". The themes are bizarre (eg old ladies, turned off by modern TV, walk off a pier, like lemmings), the animation styles diverse, and Link's explanations of their origins nearly credible. Each episode is effectively a visual one-line joke.
- 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.
- When his friend is whisked away from the frying-pan by a rapier spatula, a terrified egg scampers for his life. He tries reasoning with the spatula by showing it a family photo, but his assailant is unmoved. He produces a gun from nowhere, and shoots it, but the bullets just bounce off. He then threatens suicide, but makes the mistake of pulling the trigger!
- Two unemployed teenagers spend their days lying down, avoiding responsibility. When they go out, they run into problems with drunks and authorities, and at home they try to evade military recruitment.
- Grungy, in-your-face claymation comedy about a family of cavemen in prehistorical times, as they struggle to survive in a dangerous world, armed only with their wits - or half of them, anyway. The characters are seen involved in awkward, uncomfortable or plain stupid activities. Grandpa's solution to everything is to hit it on the head with his club; Mother has no idea how to look after her baby; and they all indulge in bodily functions in public. Watch them as they fight dinosaurs, discover fire and lose it again immediately, and, of course, hit each other on the head with clubs.
- Quickie children's cartoon series about the inquisitive Why Why family, whose father is a scientist. In each episode, one member of the family asks another a question regarding some scientific, medical or geographical situation or word that they don't understand, and someone then explains it to them.
- Squeaky-clean Manchester United soccer-player Ryan Giggs starts behaving coarsely and creating public disturbances. To make things worse, he signs for arch-rivals Manchester City just before the Cup Final. Unknown to his adoring public, he has been kidnapped by crooked City boss Reggie Backhander, who has been creating experimental clones of great British footballers, but adding ape DNA to increase their strength and aggression. With the Cup Final underway, Giggsy escapes, rejoins United, and has to face... himself.
- 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.
- Unable to accept that she doesn't want to see him anymore, Joe threatens to shoot himself in the head at his ex-lover's apartment door, but is not expecting her to then attack him. He drops his gun, which is picked up by a neighbour, Dick, who fancies himself a bit of a he-man; not wanting to give up this golden opportunity, he contemplates intervening and killing Joe, but settles for closing his door and waving the gun around in his flat. With his first suicide attempt thwarted, Joe drags Wendy up onto the roof, and menaces her with a nail-gun, while the alerted police try to talk him out of it. Backed into a corner, he ends up being pushed over the edge by Wendy, and is heading for the safety of an air-cushion...
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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...
- The comic insect fight between Good and Evil. The Verygreens love sunlight, bright colours and hilarity. The Kruds prefer shadows and dull colours, and spend all their time plotting to overthrow the Verygreens - always coming up with gadgets, machines and crazy plots that never quite work.
- When a man and woman return home unexpectedly and start making love, the thief who had broken in has to hide. They fall asleep, and he sneaks into their bedroom and starts pilfering jewellery. He spots a diamond ring on the woman, and decides to try for that too, but when he touches her hand, she subconsciously thinks it's her lover, and drags him into bed. He manages to extricate himself and slip the ring off her finger, but on his way downstairs he trips and wakes her. Before he can get out the door, she confronts him, and turns out to be his ex-fiancee, off whom he's trying to steal back her engagement ring, because he can't afford to pay for it!
- A champion Irish dancer living in England starts to resent her parents' insistence on winning all the time. By age 13, she starts to rebel: smoking, drinking, and hanging out with the older Tom - culminating in a performance of a banned dance, which shocks everyone and gets her disqualified.
- 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.
- 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....
- A passing man picks up a ringing public phone, hears nothing, cracks a joke, and is greeted with a threatening voice. At first he thinks he's being followed, but then puts the incident out of his mind. Returning home one night, he finds things subtly disturbed, and is attacked from behind, and killed. The next day, the same public phone rings, and a passing woman picks it up...
- A short film, without dialogue, about the collapse of law and order during war. In an unspecified war-torn European country, two young girls, aged about 8 and 4, struggle to survive, the older girl having to find food and shelter. When a truckload of soldiers, having gang-raped a discarded naked woman, spots them in a house, the girls are forced up into the attic, but there appears to be no escape. Then the older girl tears their clothing, smears red muck over them, and orders the 4-year-old to lie still. This has the desired effect of convincing the men the girls had been raped and murdered, and they leave.
- 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.
- Three cadets from the Academy Of Galactic Exploration and a Pyrian princess are in a distant sector of the galaxy, when they encounter the warfaring Triad, who had destroyed Pyrus and other planets. Unable to match the Triad's firepower in their ship, they have to rely on stealth and speed to avoid their clutches. They must warn Earth, but dare not lead the Triad to their homeworld.
- This is an English-language version of "Gatchaman II" and "Gatchaman F," which have been combined together. Gallactor is without a name in this version.
- A teenager and his extended family investigate the supernatural and other mysteries around the world.
- In a future decimated by war, only a small band of humans survive. The radiation from the war has created many new species, including huge, semi-intelligent dragons and evil mutants. The only source of power is the volcanic stone amber, but locating it is a constant problem, with the mutants and other species laying claim to their finds. Without the amber, their floating city cannot stay afloat. Protecting the city is an elite group using the dragons as transport, the Dragon Flyz.
- Surreal black comedy about an assortment of odd characters trapped in an asylum in the quiet English countryside. It is run by staff whose sanity is decidedly suspect, as proved by their admission of the local pizza-delivery boy for trumped-up reasons. As the patients try bizarre escapes, is the whole thing is a massive experiment, or just a cruel hoax?
- 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!
- Sister and brother Judy Shepherd (Debi Derryberry) and Peter Shepherd (Ashley Johnson) move to a new house with Aunt Nora Shepherd (Melanie Chartoff). In the attic, they find an unusual board-game, Jumanji. When they play, a rhyming quiz appears, and they're sucked into the bizarre world of Jumanji, where they have to solve the riddle in order to win the game. They meet Alan Parrish (Bill Fagerbakke), who has been trapped there for many years, and the three of them get into action-packed scrapes as they try to help Alan escape, but are always thwarted at the last minute.
- In a world of anthropomorphic felines, two demoted fighter pilots battle evil as high flying masked vigilantes.
- Jim and Roy, a friendly violet demonic-looking alien that inhabits Jim's giant head, must stop an alien invasion. Misguided FBI agents and a manipulated mad doctor stand in their way, but Jim finds allies.
- Comic tales of a group of good friends, four boys and two girls, during breaks in primary school, as they grow up, relate to each other, and have brushes with authority.
- Several years after the events of the original show and the movies, Dr. Egon Spengler agrees to help a group of his young students re-form the Ghostbusters under his mentorship.
- A group of people thwart a mad scientist trying to take over the world with evil mutated tomatoes that he can change into people.
- Country mouse Emily and her cousin from the big city, Alexander, visit each other and have adventures together at the turn of the century. They always seem to run into trouble and bother with humans, other animals and exciting situations, but when they put their heads together, they can solve any problem. And in the process, they learn about the places they visit and the things they see.
- The adventures of a canine private eye while he confers with his animator who has his own problems to deal with.
- 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.
- Sunny is a 13-year-old girl who lost her hearing at age 11 after a bout of meningitis. She talks normally, and her family is learning sign language - and she has a nutty school friend who was born deaf, and who can't talk. One day, she stumbles across a stray dog, who saves her from being run over. She wants to keep him, but her parents don't want a dog in the house. She rescues him from the pound where they send him, and comes up with the idea of having him trained as a hearing dog. This convinces her parents to allow him in the house, and she names him Ears.
- A young beggar is enrolled into medieval knight school at the behest of the principal, much to the disgust and embarrassment of certain underhanded plotters in the school, who would love to see the head deposed and replaced by one of their own. The beggar has a lot to learn about being a knight, but in return, he has a lot teach them about honour and integrity.
- Insane, surreal, Pythonesque spoof show consisting of a series of sketches, all with a science-fiction theme. Ongoing threads include: the radioactive Venusian girl adopted by Earth parents; an enthusiastic science teacher who can't get a word out of his class; Every Single Morning daytime TV show with phone-ins from around the Solar System.
- A man becomes involved with a woman who can be penetrated by swords.
- 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.
- The humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family.
- In the inner computer world of Mainframe, a guardian program sprite and his friends defend the system from threats from viruses and the User.
- The secrets Sapphire, Steel and their colleagues find include people trapped in photos, ghosts lost in time and a retro dinner party.
- John Ritter and Markie Post star in this comedy about two politicos that fall in love.
- The quirky adventures of a 12-year-old girl trying to get through life with her family and friends.
- A team of humanoid duck ice hockey team/freedom fighters fight evil between games.
- The feline staff of a pizza joint fight crime as superheroes when called for.
- Kate and Mike, journalists working in the same office, have just gotten divorced. To avoid having to continue to work together, Kate goes to her boss to resign and pursue a job offer at another paper, only to discover that her editor has just taken that job. Instead, she is given the vacant post, and now becomes Mike's boss.