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Deadwood(2004-2006)

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| 55min per episode | Western, Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 364 votes)

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

Directed by Ed Bianchi, Davis Guggenheim - With Timothy Olyphant, Jim Beaver, Peter Jason, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Alice Maud Krige, ...
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Eleventh Hour(2008-2009)

43min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 25 votes)

Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.

With Rufus Sewell

The District Nurse(1984-1987)

30min per episode | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and 1987. The series was a period drama created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland and starred Nerys Hughes as Megan Roberts, the titular district nurse fighting to improve living conditions for the people living in a poverty stricken mining town, Pencwm, in south Wales during the late 1920s. The School scenes were filmed at Pont-y-gof school in Ebbw Vale, shortly before the old school was demolished. The children and teachers at the school were involved in the first two series. The outdoor school and street scenes were filmed at a small village near Tredegar. Most of the houses used have now been demolished, however the street still remains. In the third series, shown in 1987 and set in the early 1930s, Megan had moved on to the seaside town of Glanmor where she worked with a father/son pair of doctors - Emlyn Isaacs and James Isaacs.

With Ifan Huw Dafydd

Orkney Snork Nie(1989-1992)

23min per episode | Comedy
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Orkney Snork Nie, a popular Afrikaans sitcom, originally broadcast by the SABC in South Africa. The name translates directly into Orkney Doesn't Snore, but the message being conveyed in Afrikaans is that the town isn't sleepy, there's always something happening.

With Zack du Plessis

Sons and Lovers(2024-)

Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sons and Lovers is a 1981 BBC television serial based on the D. H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers. It starred Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson and Lynn Dearth. It was adapted by Trevor Griffiths and directed by Stuart Burge. It aired in the US as part of the PBS's Masterpiece Theatre program in 1982.