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Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
A hardworking beauty advisor is blackmailed by his cocky junior colleague, but their rivalry soon turns into a top-selling romantic partnership.
A man uncovers a dangerous web of schemes and deceit when he accepts the presidency of a TV company.
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Suri, a South Asian female and aspiring influencer, turns to a life of crime to bail her truck driver father out of prison.
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In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
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6 episodes • 1978
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down Sunnyside Lane | Mar 7, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Sweetest Thing | Mar 14, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Easy Come, Easy Go | Mar 21, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Better Think Twice | Mar 28, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Painting the Clouds | Apr 4, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Says My Heart | Apr 11, 1978 | 0.0 |