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This is a feel-good drama about destiny and true love. In s Madrid , Galerias Velvet is the most prestigious fashion store in Spain, and Alberto Marquez is the heir to the business.

At the heart of the story is the romance between Alberto and Ana, who works as a seamstress at Velvet. It seems like the entire world is against their relationship because of their different positions in society, but the lovers find a way over the hurdles while Alberto fights for control of the store. Viewers praised the acting of the two leads and found them to be convincing as a couple. The visuals are beautiful and the subtitles worth the additional effort.

The Restaurant is about an upscale restaurant in Stockholm, the family who owns it, and the cooks who keep the place running. The show focuses on the changing circumstances of the upper and lower classes in post-war Sweden, and it has all the elements of a family drama. There's a business at stake, a forbidden romance that has consequences, and plenty of unpredictable behavior from the usual suspects.

Of course, there are the beautiful clothes the upstairs women wear. It's no surprise the show has been called the Swedish response to Downton Abbey. This BBC period drama is about a group of midwives and their efforts to provide quality obstetric care in the East End of London. Bret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.

TV-PG 75 min Western. Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts, and Rocky Mountains. TV-G 60 min Western. After the Civil War, nomadic adventurer Cheyenne Bodie roamed the west looking for fights, women, and bad guys to beat up. His job changed from episode to episode.

Ex-gunfighter Johnny Ringo is now the sheriff of a small Western town, and attempts to keep the peace with the aid of his deputy, Cully, and his girl, Laura Thomas. TV-PG 25 min Western. Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the s.

The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son. TV 30 min Western. Dressed-up dandy derby and cane , gambler, and lawman roams the West, charming women and defending the unjustly-accused. His primary weapon is his wit and cane rather than his gun. Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Any premise would lead to slapstick, puns, lots of gimmicks from their movies.

The cases of a master criminal defense attorney, handling the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent. Television episodes built around the same sorts of incidents found in Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip. Mike Nelson is a S. He works alone, and the plot was mostly carried through his voice-over narrations.

These gave the show a flavor of Army Camp in Kansas. The title character lives in the Congo where she protects the natives and the animals. Sheena became the subject of a feature film with Tanya Roberts playing her and a syndicated series starring Gena Lee Nolin. While on the surface it seems like just another TV Western of the time, the show would travel from the Old West to the present to tell different stories about the Rangers, though every story starred Willard Parker and Harry Lauter with their characters being set wherever the story is.

Ocean Queen. Needless to say, there are comic misadventures at every port of call. Working together, they take on white schemers and renegade Indians. A pre-Monkees Micky Dolenz starred in this show playing the character of Corky, whose job is to bring elephants their water. Stanley Peck Buddy Hackett is a friendly New York hotel newsstand operator who is always reaching out to people — both residents and tourists — and finds himself getting involved in their lives.

Stories based on the people and events taking place at the U. Military Academy at West Point. Among the writers for the series was Gene Roddenberry , creator of Star Trek. Raymond Burr plays defense attorney Perry Mason, whose track record of winning cases for his clients is almost percent.

Years later, the actor who reprise the role in a series of TV movies. A gentle comedy that found its plots drawn from the experiences of real kids — admittedly set in a sitcom world — and parents who raised them with words of encouragement, while also being firm when necessary.

The show was produced by the Walt Disney company. Based on the newspaper strip of the same name, Blondie was a series of feature films starring Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead and dealing with his wife the title character and kids.

Arthur brought the role to the small screen in what was more or less a domestic comedy. Pamela Britton played Blondie.

Wayde Preston is Christopher Colt, who passes himself off as a gun salesman, but is actually working for the government, tracking down those operating outside the law. In a role very different from her previous series, Our Miss Brooks , Eve Arden plays Liza Hammond, a widowed mother of twin girls who earns money for the family by writing books. Detective Lt. Frank Ballinger Lee Marvin leads an elite unit of crimefighters who are a part of the Chicago Police Department, taking on the toughest cases.

Grandpa Amos is quick to give advice to his three grandchildren and wonders how his neighbors ever managed without him around. During the third season, his secretary, whose face the audience never saw — only her sexy legs — was played by Mary Tyler Moore. Fancying themselves as amateur detectives, Nick and Nora Charles Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk begin investigating and solving crimes. The characters were created by Dashiell Hammett in a novel, which spawned six films prior to the television series.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, a wagon train departs from Missouri and must travel across the plains, deserts and Rocky Mountains on its way to California. The show focuses on a core group of main characters who, each week, interact with different people who are a part of that wagon train and those they encounter. Lloyd Bridges is former U. Navy frogman Mike Nelson, who is now a freelance scuba diver using his boat, which he has christened the Argonaut, for salvage missions the quests being as large as a nuclear missile and as small as a bike.

Music is by Henry Mancini. Another great domestic family sitcom presenting us with life as we wished it could be. The well-dressed Bat Masterson Gene Barry , adorned in a derby and carrying a cane, is a gambler and a lawman who travels the Old West where he defends the unjustly accused and charms the ladies.

Together they try and keep order at an unlawful time. The Untouchables. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it Dragnet is an American radio, television and motion picture series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners.

The show takes its name from Zorro is an American action-adventure western drama series produced by Walt Disney Productions. The final The series took a look at how private detectives work in Los Angeles, based out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip. Peter Gunn. A police lieutenant helps a private detective solve crimes. Playhouse Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from to for a total of episodes. Wanted: Dead or Alive. It aired on CBS for three seasons in — The black-and-white program was The Loretta Young Show.

The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the My Little Margie. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Highway Patrol. Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced from to Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley is an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January to February in syndication, for a total of After he is taken into custody following a police fight, troubled city orphan Joey finds new purpose in his life when he moves to the Broken Wheel Ranch.

Jim Newton, a recent widower, owns the ranch,