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- 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.
- 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.
- In a world of anthropomorphic felines, two demoted fighter pilots battle evil as high flying masked vigilantes.
- 6-part documentary series from arguably the greatest scientific mind in the world, the wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking, which describes all current thinking on the Big Bang, origins of the universe, dark matter, black holes, etc. Includes interviews with leading astronomers and scientists, some commentary from the great man himself, and computer models of the theories.
- Comedian Victor Lewis-Smith presents an alternative view of the world. Archive and news footage are re-dubbed with new commentaries, taking them completely out of context, in order to make them look ridiculous. The same treatment is given to tawdry TV programmes, to make them appear even more rubbishy then they already were.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Insane comedy quiz show, played purely for laughs, with the winners irrelevant. Comedian Greg Proops is the host; team captains are Craig Charles (Red Dwarf) and comedian Bill Bailey. Each team's 3 members are generally filled out with one comedian and one star each from a classic TV science-fiction series: eg Walter Koenig and Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Sophie Aldred and Sylvester McCoy (Dr Who), or Armin Shimerman and Max Grodenchik (Deep Space 9).
- 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.
- 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 genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
- A teenager and his extended family investigate the supernatural and other mysteries around the world.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- A group of disparate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.
- 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 group of dated appliances embark on a journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in a cabin in the woods.
- The feline staff of a pizza joint fight crime as superheroes when called for.
- The adventures of a canine private eye while he confers with his animator who has his own problems to deal with.
- The quirky adventures of a 12-year-old girl trying to get through life with her family and friends.
- Bryan Brown introduces stories of the bizarre and the supernatural. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a twist at the end of the story.
- 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 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.
- Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.
- John Ritter and Markie Post star in this comedy about two politicos that fall in love.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Five bizarre-looking aliens crashland on Earth. With no way to return home, they find themselves trying to make sense of Earth life from the confines of a rented house.
- 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.
- A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.
- 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 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 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.
- The humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family.