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- A famous guest host stars in parodies and sketches created by the cast of this witty show.
- The goings-on in the life of a successful African-American family.
- Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
- At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy and ex girlfriend.
- Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.
- Two members of a social club in 1950s Brooklyn have more interest in romance than in rumbles.
- A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
- In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael, and John Darling.
- The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.
- Wishing for his favorite losing baseball team, the Washington Senators, to win the pennant, middle-aged Joe Boyd literally makes a deal with the Devil (in the form of one Mr. Applegate) and becomes young athlete Joe Hardy, who quickly becomes a sensation helping the Senators play a winning season. But when he starts to pine for his old life, Applegate sends temptress Lola to seduce Joe and seal the deal for his soul.
- Finishing 8th grade in 1955 Bronx, sex-obsessed Lenny aims to see "the act of love" that summer at his aunt's in Queens where he makes friends, meets cute nurse Hedy, and learns a few things.
- Music showcase show featuring well-known musical artists as well as celebrity hosts and dancers.
- In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.
- Perry Como was an American Singer, who got his start on NBC Radio. In 1948, Because of his popularity, The cameras were simply brought into the radio studio to televise the radio broadcast and named it The Supper Club. In 1950 Como and his Sponsors moved to CBS and named this The Perry Como Chesterfield Show.
- Fatty invents a liquid with a property that makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of hard cider instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck.
- Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
- A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
- Emeka Nwandu (played by HBO The Wire's Gbenga Akinnagbe ) thinks he has his "American Dream" all figured out. He is in line for a promotion and his girlfriend, Jumoke, has agreed to marry him. Everything is going perfect until Jumoke's father refuses to let her marry outside their tribe and Emeka's boss puts a zany condition on the new promotion. A condition that will jeopardize the whole wedding if it does ever happen. As if these pressures weren't enough, Emeka also has a big secret he's been keeping from his bride to be.
- Fatty tries to keep a child from being taken to the Orphan Asylum after being orphaned by his mother only to end up unwittingly in that same Asylum.
- A mysterious beauty (Elina Lowensöhn) arrives with proof of American secret intelligence involvement in the planning of 9/11. Program of the same name destroyed 2.5 terabytes of data in March 2001.
- A one-armed man obtains an artificial limb which he cannot control.
- The story of a likable young man can't hold a job because he is always daydreaming usually about girlfriend Mitzi.
- A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
- A rodeo performer at a show in Madison Square Garden falls for a handsome photographer who's been assigned to do a story on the show.
- An expose of the methods used by a police-department to extract a confession from a suspect, regardless of innocence or guilt, and the effect and consequences on a family when an innocent member breaks under the interrogation methods and confesses to a crime he did not commit.
- When the Civil War breaks out, Alan Kendrick, an army officer born in the South, stays in the army to fight for the Union, but his sweetheart Maryland sides with the South. She soon discovers that Alan was captured by Confederates in a battle near her home and is to be executed. Although he's fighting for her enemy, she can't bring herself to let him be killed and devises a plan to help him escape.
- In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little dinner for two. A moment later a dude of the regular chappy type enters and seats himself at the table. As soon as the meal commences the inevitable wicked small boy sneaks in unobserved, and producing a piece of rope ties one end securely to the dude's coat tails and fastens the other to the table-cloth. He then crawls under the table and in great glee awaits the result of his operations. At this moment an unexpected interruption occurs. The door is flung rudely open and papa enters the peaceful scene, at sight of whom the dude rises from the table and makes a dash for the door. Unfortunately for him his coat-tails are securely tied to the table cloth, and as he makes his exit he drags off the crockery and table-cloth and overturns the table with a tremendous crash, being forcibly assisted out of the door by the irate parent's shoe-toe, who then rushes back into the room and administers a sound spanking to Maude's naughty little brother.
- Wealthy but bored Phyllis Blake and several of her like-minded friends come up with a plan to relieve their boredom--they start a business called "The Adventure Shop", which will provide its customers with thrills and excitement. Their first customer is wealthy pickle manufacturer Josephus Potts, who wants to cure his son Josephus Jr. of his addiction to thrill-seeking. Phyllis takes Junior to a gambling den and then a meeting of an anarchist organization. These have no effect on him, so they take it to the next step--introducing Junior to the city's dark underworld, with its killers, blackmailers, and other criminal types. The real adventure comes when she and Junior are kidnapped and held for $50,000 ransom--an activity that was not on the itinerary.
- A young couple's traumatic breakup forces 6 friends living in Brooklyn to reevaluate relationships and their definition of love.
- TV Mini Serieshello, Brooklyn is the coming of age story that centers around the world of David, a Guyanese-American teenager who lives in an middle class neighborhood Of Brooklyn.
- "He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast. Mephistopheles appears; then the old witch, who suddenly changes to a beautiful young girl. The changes and magical appearances are startling and instantaneous."
- Jimmy Wallingford leaves home with his adopted brother, "Toad," after his parents, J. Rufus and Fannie Wallingford, become convinced that he has inherited their criminal tendencies. In a distant village, Toad finds evidence of an oil well on the Curtis farm, the home of Jimmy's new girl friend, Mary. After their investment proves to be fruitless, J. Rufus arrives in town disguised as an East Indian and makes promises of great prosperity to the villagers. He and his accomplice, Blackie Daw, purchase a plot of land from Henry Beegoode, "strike" oil (pumped from tank cars), and sell stock in their enterprise. However, Henry denies having sold the land to J. Rufus, and claims that there is no bill of sale. During an oil fire that nearly traps Jimmy and his friends, the elder Wallingford admits that the well is a ploy to expose Henry, a swindler who has sold the same property several times over. J. Rufus obtains an authentic bill of sale, after which Jimmy strikes oil on the land.
- When socialite Helen Stevens obtains a job on a New York newspaper, she is met by much derision from the staff. Befriended by a heavy-drinking reporter named Jack Rawson, Helen rises to the position of advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist. One night Helen is assigned to a missing-girl story, and Jack promises to accompany her. However, he gets drunk instead, and later, awakening from a stupor, he stumbles upon the scene of a murder. Slipping into unconsciousness again, Jack awakens the next morning to find himself accused of the killing. Helen, with the aid of one of her lovelorn letters, investigates the story and uncovers the real murderer. Jack reforms and Helen takes him home to meet her mother.
- Brooklyn, early 80s. Conroy Jones, a shady music manager with criminal ties, has just offered Youthman an escape from a dead end job at his uncle's record store. Torn, Youthman must decide if the prospect of fast money is worth betraying the only family he has left.
- A Renegade Cop faces off against a corrupt Multi-International conglomerate while pursuing a Vigilante only to learn they both share the same enemy.
- The daughter of a capitalist and manufacturer is courted by a young officer of the militia, and, at the same time, a young clergyman is deeply in love with her. She seems to favor the military man, because, as she says, "She prefers a man who does things, to one who simply preaches them." Dissatisfaction arises among the employees of the big manufacturing plant of the town. A committee calls upon the manager and proprietor, whom we must identify as the father of the young lady who is in love with the young soldier. The committee requests a recognition of their rights: the manager refuses. Trouble seems imminent and the young clergyman appeals to the proprietor in behalf of the men. His intercession is also denied. The strike is on. Crowds assemble in mass meetings, agitators incense them with hatred and inflame them with vengeance, and violence runs riot. The mob marches towards the home of the manufacturer, whose household has been warned of the approaching danger. The young officer is visiting the daughter. She appeals to him for protection and asks him to intercede with the mob. He dares not face them single-handed and promises to return with his regiment and protect her and her home. Then he leaves her. The mob attacks the home, breaks the doors and windows and forces an entrance into the house, demolishes the furnishings and threatens her father, in whose arms she is clasped. While the fury of the mob is at its height, the young minister rushes into the room, checks and silences the strikers and trains from their employer all their claims and privileges. After this has been done, the young officer returns with his regiment, but there is no need for his services. The young clergyman has won the respect of the capitalist, the cause of labor and the heart of the young girl, who now knows that he is not only a man of words but also a man of deeds.
- 'On The Job' is a comedy web series following the lives of three twenty-somethings as they live, love, and work...in adult entertainment.
- The story of a happily married woman, Amy, who is greeted with temptation of riches beyond belief after her husband, Andrew, accepts a position at a Colorado Steel Mill.
- "Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for four hundred years, and up goes the Banner of Freedom. In the distance are the turrets and battlements of Morro, the last foothold of Spain in America."
- A young black girl falls in love with a master criminal, believing him to be a good and decent man. The criminal and his gang's many robberies leave the city gripped in terror. After the criminal calls the police to direct them to the sight of the latest robbery, a black detective finds a playing card, the ace of spades, at the scene of the crime. The detective is hopelessly in love with the girl who loves the criminal. After the detective finds another clue leading to the identification of the criminal, he informs the girl that the man she loves is a crook and a philanderer. After the criminal's wife finds a photograph of the girl in her home, she horsewhips her husband, who then beats her and leaves her to die after turning on the gas in their kitchen. The girl saves the wife, and they go to the scene of the next robbery, where the criminal and his gang are apprehended. At the trial, as he is being sentenced, the criminal escapes from the courtroom and makes a break for freedom. The stolen car in which he flees goes over a cliff, however, and carries him to a rocky death. The detective and the girl find love and happiness with each other.
- A telegraph worker has to learn magic in order to get a pretty co-worker to agree to marry him.
- Main Son has a black eye. Embarrassed by the eye jammy, he tries to hide out from his friends by staying in the house, but to no avail. His ace, Son 2 wants to know how he got the eye jammy with the intent of seeking revenge. Kid is trying to rub salt in his wound. And Son 3 wants to be entertained by the story. So Main Son begins to embellish a tale about going to Brownsville, Brooklyn, to visit Shorty and getting into an altercation with a group of Bloods in Shorty's project complex. He is interrupted after almost every twist and turn of the story. Main Son begins to wonder if he'll ever get to the finish the story before he reveals the truth of the black eye's origin...
- A new and sensational film, which deals in a highly up-to-date way with the international situation. A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and China are brought forth, and from each a soldier is produced corresponding with the flag of each nation. The magician adds a bit of comedy to the scene by producing a decidedly Hibernian policeman from the flag of Erin's Isle. The magician then waves his hand and the flags of all nations slowly dissolve and blend into one huge American flag. The American flag is then dissolved and the military representatives of the nations form a tableau over which is draped their respective flags.
- This is acknowledged by exhibitors to be the funniest of all moving magical films. A countryman is seen entering the office of the spiritualist and paying his fee. He is then mesmerized and sees funny things. He drops his handkerchief on the floor and as he reaches for it, it gradually grows larger and larger, dancing up and down, and going through funny antics until before the eye of the spectator it turns into a ghost of enormous proportions. It then vanishes and as the countryman is in the act of sitting in the chair, the ghost suddenly appears and the countryman receives a great fright. He then jumps up and throws off his hat and coat, and they immediately fly back on his body. He repeatedly throws them off and they as often return. This scene finally closes by numerous ghost and hobgoblins appearing and disappearing before the eyes of the frightened countryman, who finally leaves the room in great haste.
- Esther Williams heads a cast of 100 swimmers, water skiers, dancers, singers and tumblers in full scale production numbers, ashore and afloat, all set to music.
- Claire Barrington, who owns the Duffy racing stables, hopes that her sister, Myrtl, will marry Ralph Woodhurst, whose father is violently opposed to horse racing; in order not to jeopardize the match, Claire lets no one know of her ownership of the establishment. John Duffy, who holds the mortgage on the stable, attempts to use it to force Claire to marry him, but she refuses, citing her love for Garrison, who has been gone for 5 years. Garrison returns just before the big race and, recalling that Duffy persecuted him in the Army, sets out to bankrupt the Duffy stables, not knowing that he is working against the woman he loves. Garrison buys Jackdaw, the only racehorse fast enough to beat Wildfire, the prize Duffy filly. Duffy then sets the Duffy stables on fire in order to discredit Garrison, who is blamed for the fire, and to ruin Claire by killing Wildfire; the horse is saved, however. Duffy hires a jockey named Chappie Raster to ride Wildfire, plotting with him to throw the race. Claire outwits Duffy, however, and Wildfire wins by a nose. Claire and Garrison clear things up between them, and Duffy is left out in the cold.
- Drama about Edmund Kean, born in 1787, who became the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day.
- Derek has his friend Joe help him with his relationship with Mel. But Derek and Joe are two very different people.