Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.

Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya. It began airing in January 1998 in the UK and was broadcast in the United States in 1999 as part of Mystery!.

Against the Wind was a 1978 Australian television mini-series. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia. The producers were Bronwyn Binns, Ian Jones and Henry Crawford. The directors were George T. Miller and Simon Wincer. The scriptwriters were Bronwyn Binns, Ian Jones, Peter Kinlock, Tony Morphett, Paul Davies and Cliff Green. Jon English won the Logie Award in 1979 for "Best new talent" for his role in the miniseries as "Jonathan Garrett". The complete series is now available on DVD in Australia, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands in PAL format. It is also available in North American format.

Lingerie is an erotic drama about a struggling New York City lingerie company, its owner Lacey Summers, and her friends and associates.

An examination of the Casey Anthony case. The 22-year-old Florida woman was accused of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. At trial, she was convicted of four lesser charges of providing false information to a police officer, but found not guilty of murder, child abuse and manslaughter.

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.

The murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover complex links between government and big business.

Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.

It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.

A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.

A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.

Filmul reprezinta adaptarea dupa romanul omonim al lui James Clavell; este povestea echipajului unei corabii care ajunge pentru prima data in Japonia secolului XVII. Dupa ce corabia sa, Erasmus, esueaza pe coasta nipona, capitanul John Blackhorne trebuie sa-si apere originea sa britanica, in defavoarea comerciantilor si misionarilor portughezi, pe care ii dispretuieste si sa se adapteze culturii cu totul straine a japonezilor. Filmul mai reda de asemenea confruntarile culturii europene cu cea japoneza, reprezentand o veritabila sursa de informatii in ceea ce priveste limba si civilizatia nipona.

After an unusual event, Zoey Clarke, a whip-smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco, suddenly starts to hear the innermost wants, thoughts and desires of the people around her through popular songs.

Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.

O femeie care iubește și care-și vede iubirea înșelată, poate fi foarte periculoasă. Când însă ea este un om rațional, un criminal se poate folosi de această idee preconcepută pentru a scapă basma curată. Noroc însă cu flerul și inteligența detectivului Poirot. Poirot al lui Agatha Christie este un film serial britanic care a fost difuzat în premieră în anul 1989. Până la sfârșitul serialului, fiecare lucrare literară majoră scrisă de Agatha în care l-a avut în rol principal pe personajul din titlu, a fost adaptată.

Vampirii s-au transformat peste noapte din monștri legendari în cetățeni ca toți ceilalți, grație unui om de știință japonez care a inventat sângele sintetic. Deși oamenii nu mai fac parte din "meniu", ei au rămas totuși grijulii vizavi de "ieșirea din sicrie" a vampirilor. Liderii religioși și oficialitățile lumii au ales din ce tabără să facă parte, dar în micul oraș Bon Temps din Louisiana, decizia nu s-a luat încă. Chelnerița Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) știe exact ce înseamnă să fii un străin. "Blestemată" cu puterea de a asculta gândurile oamenilor, ea privește cu bunăvoință integrarea vampirilor - mai ales când vine vorba de Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), un vampir atrăgător de 173 de ani care hoinărește prin lume. De-ndată ce Sookie va fi atrasă într-o serie de mistere legate de sosirea lui Bill în Bon Temps, toleranța ei va fi pusă, însă, la încercare.

Ecranizarea romanului omonim al scriitoarei Jane Austin, pe tema prejudecatilor sociale ale secolului al XIX-lea si a mandriei care ii tine pe indragostiti departe unul de celalalt. Pride and Prejudice este un mini-serial britanic de televiziune, de șase episoade (de 55 minute fiecare), fiind o adaptare a romanului omonim al scriitoarei Jane Austin.

O aventură care se petrece cu două sute de ani în viitor, ce urmărește cazul unei tinere dispărute, ce determină un detectiv îndârjit și pe căpitanul unei nave rebele să pornească împreună într-o cursă de-a lungul sistemului solar pentru a expune cea mai mare conspirație din istoria omenirii.