Adapting R.F. Delderfield's classic story of love, lust, crime and betrayal, this three-part mini-series centres around a young bank clerk whose yearning to escape the mundanity of 1930s small-town life is answered all too readily when he falls for an exotic beauty with dangerous intentions.
There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
The unstable security chief of an auction house becomes increasingly obsessed with his female neighbor, who's being stalked, and a supposedly cursed jewel that's being auctioned. Is he losing his mind or is the curse real?
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Ben also vanishes. The Second Doctor and Jamie are left to convince the sceptical airport Commandant there has been foul play.
Результатом двух мировых войн для Гонконга явился небывалый приток эмигрантов. Наташа Александрова, молодая графиня из России, сбежав в Шанхай четырнадцатилетней девочкой, стала любовницей гангстера. Теперь она вынуждена зарабатывать себе на хлеб сомнительным ремеслом танцовщицы. И вот судьба посылает ей шанс в лице сына нефтяного магната, американского дипломата Огдена Мирса.Как-то раз, изрядно погуляв, Огден возвращается на роскошный лайнер в свою каюту-люкс, где обнаруживает тайком пробравшуюся туда Наташу. Неудобное положение, в которое попадает Мирс, усугубляется не только известием о назначении его послом Соединенных Штатов в Аравии, но и неотвратимой перспективой встречи с законной супругой…
