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Long before wisecracking maids Alice (Brady Bunch), Florida (Good Times) or Florence (The Jeffersons) there was Hazel! Based on Saturday Evening Post cartoons. This popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. George Baxter is the head of the family which consists of his wife, Dorothy and their son, Harold. It's very clear that Hazel runs the household and often preempts George's authority in very amusing...
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The original desperate housewife is at it again in Season 8 of Roseanne! It was a year that started with Roseanne's baby shower, DJ's Thanksgiving pageant, Jackie's internet addiction, two different Beckys and the arrival of Jerry Garcia Connor. It was the season of Darlene's wedding, Dan's heart attack, award winning loose-meat sandwiches, Ouija board horrors and supermarket samples. The 50s sitcom tribute and the Connor family trip to Disney World...
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Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Shows how "Pug" and his family are drawn into the center of the conflicts that lead to America's involvement in World War II as Germany expands and proceeds to seize several...
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America's favorite witch is back. The Stephens family treks to the witches' capital so that Samantha can attend a convention. While in Salem, Samantha gets chased by an amorous bedwarmer. Darrin lands in jail after he's accused of stealing the bedwarmer. Serena has a fling with a live statue, and Paul Revere (accidentally zapped into the 20th century) tries to re-create his famous midnight ride.
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Nancy is pregnant with the child of a powerful politician turned dangerous drug lord, or is she? Doug and Silas are trying to branch out on their own, Andy is looking to score, and Celia attempts to turn the tables on her kidnappers. With enemies out to smoke the Queen of Green, Nancy's sure to find a whole new crop of trouble.
69) Bigger than life
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Criterion collection volume 507
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A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
71) The ice storm
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Criterion collection volume 426
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Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
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Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax.
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Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered daughter, Andrea, is betraying her husband Chris...
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The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
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Average guy Kirk can't believe his luck when, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned and so are his friends, his family, and even his ex-girlfriend. Now, he must go to great lengths to figure out how to make the relationship work and prove to himself, and everyone else that she is not out of his league.
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Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini. The government feels that they have more important things to be concerned with, so Brewer decides to take things into his own hands. He becomes frustrated and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice....
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Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says the deal is done. The other killer gets the...
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