The Amazing Exploits Of The Clutching Hand COMPLETE S01

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The Amazing Exploits Of The Clutching Hand COMPLETE S01

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027452/

This Weiss Serials Production film, ("Presented" by George M. Merrick who also co-wrote the screenplay and was the production manager), with the working title of "The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand" but the actual release title on the film and all the printed material related to it was "The Clutching Hand", was loosely based on a novel by "Craig Kennedy" creator Arthur B. Reeve, and was also released as a feature in addition to the 15 chapter serial, both of which were originally distributed by Stage and Screen Productions, Inc. In Chapter 1, ("Who is the Clutching Hand?"), Doctor Paul Gironda announces he has discovered a formula for the manufacture of synthetic gold. The International Research Foundation agrees to financially help him develop his formula. Just before the Board of Directors arrive at Gironda’s laboratory to witness his achievement, he is heard screaming, and mysteriously disappears before help arrives.

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Lancer COMPLETE S 1-2

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Lancer COMPLETE S 1-2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062577/

"Bonanza" clone about the Lancer family and its ranch.
Lancer is the story of a rancher who struggles to hang onto his vast holdings in California’s San Joaquin Valley with the help of his two sons and his ward. Scott, whose mother died in childbirth, is Murdoch Lancer’s older son. He was raised by his maternal grandfather in Boston. Younger son Johnny was taken from his father by his Mexican mother when he was only around two. He grew up around the Mexican border and went by the name Johnny Madrid under which he earned a reputation as a fast gun. Deservedly so apparently as men from his past occasionally show up to cause problems for Johnny and his new found family. Teresa O’Brien, daughter of Murdoch’s murdered ranch foreman is Murdoch’s ward and a surrogate sister to the two boys.

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Black Harbour COMPLETE S 1-2

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Black Harbour COMPLETE S 1-2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115690/

Katherine and Nick return to her childhood home in Nova Scotia after her mother becomes ill. Nick is a struggling screenwriter while Katherine a partner in a successful Los Angeles eatery. Nick and Katherine decide to stay in Black Harbour with their two daughters and manage to buy a major share of the family boatyard, with the idea of building upscale boats for a rich clientele. But home holds many memories for Katherine, who ran away because she was constantly in conflict with her fellow townspeople. Black Harbour is still home to her first love, Paul, who works at the boatyard, but is also married and a father.

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Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width COMPLETE S 3-4-5-6

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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width COMPLETE S 3-4-5-6

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163470/

Two tailors of differing religious and political views manage to run a tailoring business in London’s Whitechapel.

In the early 1950s, English Jew Manny Cohen – "the finest coat maker in the country" – set up shop in an East End back street, and employed staunch Irish Catholic Patrick Kelly – "trouser maker to the gentry" – to complement his work and produce suits.

Almost twenty years later, the two men thoroughly respect each other as tailors but are utterly incapable of understanding the other’s religious and patriotic beliefs, and are constantly at each others’ throats. Each considers the other a heathen, and neither Rabbi Levy nor Father Ryan can begin to bring them closer together. Nevertheless, there’s an underlying love between the pair – if they can get over their bickering!

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