Four episodes from the classic DICK VAN DYKE SHOW are included on this compilation laugh-fest. Van Dyke trailblazed a path for many contemporary television comedy shows, providing a lasting influence that still resonates throughout the business. Episodes on this fourth volume include Oh How We Met The Night That We Danced, My Blonde-Haired Brunette, 4 1/2, and The Alan Brady Show Goes To Jail.
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The Fighting Temptations (DVD)
As a young boy growing up in Montecarlo, Georgia, Darrin sings in the church choir alongside his mother (Faith Evans). He and his mom leave town after the choir discovers that she has been singing rhythm and blues in a local club. Twenty years later, Darrin (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is a broke, junior-level advertising executive in New York City who has just been fired. Summoned back to Montecarlo when his only living relative dies, Darrin discovers that he stands to inherit her estate if he can revive the choir at his old church and win the annual Gospel Explosion. Against the odds, Darrin assembles a first-rate choir of talented quirky characters. He also recruits Lilly (Beyonce Knowles), a jazz singer and single mother who just may steal his heart and help him find himself. Rich with impressive musical talent culled from the worlds of gospel, hip-hop, and R&B, the choir includes members of The O'Jays, as well as T-Bone, Melba Moore, Angie Stone, the Reverend Shirley Caesar, Zane, and Montell...
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Mary-Kate& Ashley Olsen
A simple biography of the twin Olsen sisters, who began their acting careers sharing the role of a baby on the television series"Full House" and who today produce and star in their own videos, CDs, and books.
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Heart of The High Country (DVD)
In the 1870s, English teenager Ceci departs her homeland for a new life in the verdant wilds of New Zealand. An unforeseen tragedy sets the wheels in motion for a sad string of events which include an unfulfilling marriage, death, unexpected prosperity, and financial ruin. This mini-series was made for British television.
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Building Big: Dams (DVD)
The author and illustrator of the winningly popular book The Way Things Work presents a new educational television series on some of the largest structures that humans have built. David Macaulay fully explains the construction, as well as supplementary stories of the structures and their builders, and short instructional segments with young children engaged in simple engineering. In this episode, Macaulay explains the technological marvels that allow a dam to hold back huge and powerful bodies of water.
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Mary-Kate& Ashley Olsen
A simple biography of the twin Olsen sisters, who began their acting careers sharing the role of a baby on the television series"Full House" and who today produce and star in their own videos, CDs, and books.
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Andromeda - Season 2: Vol. 2.2 (DVD)
Based on the writings of STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry, the sci-fi television series ANDROMEDA stars Kevin Sorbo (of HERCULES fame) as Dylan Hunt, captain of the sentient starship Andromeda Ascendant for the All-Systems Commonwealth, a galaxy-spanning near-utopian government. Ordered to the far end of a galaxy to rescue a star system from a rapidly approaching black hole, Hunt and his crew become frozen in time for 300 years until a passing ship awakens them. To their dismay, they find that the Commonwealth government has fallen apart and the various member galaxies now exist in utter chaos under a militant organization known as the Nietzscheans. The series follows Hunt and the Andromeda crew as they cope with their new environment and attempt to restore order while fending off the hostile forces who wish to destroy them. This volume includes episodes 206-209 from the series' second season.
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