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1) Stay tuned
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Couch potato Roy Knable (John Ritter) has entered a new dimension in TV viewing - on the other side of the screen. If he survives, he can return home. If not, like a show with no audience, he'll be cancelled ... for good! The out-of-this-world satellite dish Roy just bought on a free trial offer has sucked him and his wife Helen (Pam Dawber) into a hilariously bizarre TV world.
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"The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling. Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his singular book, Story, which has defined how we talk about the art of story creation. Now, in Dialogue, McKee offers the same in-depth...
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"The play's traditional theatrical setting is transposed to a television studio. As a group of actors prepare for a rehearsal of another Pirandello play--The Rules of the Game--the television monitors in the control booth give way to an electrical interference which inexplicably replaces the images of the actors with the images of six mysterious strangers. These are the "six characters" of the title who appear in the flesh in the studio to confront...
8) Wildflower
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Drama of an abused, backwoods girl coming of age in the Depression-era South.
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"Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family--a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy serves up an allegorical tale of one American family whose members must come to grips with their destinies. Having survived fire, flood, pestilence, seven-year locusts, the Ice Age and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are as durable as radiators,...
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Reba McEntire sings the Broadway role of Nellie Forbush in the stage production of South Pacific accompanied by Broadway and Hollywood icons Brian Stokes Mitchell as the French planter Emile de Becque, and Alec Baldwin as wise-guy sailor Luther Bills.
A concert performance South Pacific at Carnegie Hall.
11) Go ask Alice
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Chronicles a teenage girl's downhill spiral into drug addiction and her painful struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
12) The stand
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Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping...
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Reggie and Troy travel to Paris with Troy's wife, Piper, and her sister, Paula. When they return, Reggie decides to give a relationship with Lucky a try after she changes her mind about wanting kids. Still, Paula becomes suspicious when she starts finding out the truth about Lucky ... is she hiding something?
16) Othello
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Dramatization of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Iago plots to ruin Othello by planting the seeds of jealousy in his mind.
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Set in 18th Century Italy, this is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl. Beatrice 's strange and unearthly beauty masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni tragically discovers. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the effect she has on him, he unwittingly...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 34
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A mysterious stranger appears at the Kansas farm of Jacob and Sarah Witting. The stranger is Jacob's father, John, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. Although John establishes relationships with Sarah and his grandchildren, he struggles to reconcile with his son. Third part of a trilogy.
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Dean's powerful drama is about an uprooted black family (mother, daughter, uncle) living in Chicago during the time that civil rights leaders were starting to organize protest marches in the South. The family members essentially accept the old values and cherish what they love, and are uncomfortable by marches and talks of fighting. A blind street singer (Richard Ward, in a bravura performance) intrudes briefly into their lives, with shattering effect....
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