The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
Beetle Bailey, the Private who'd rather drop and nap than drop and "do 20," is the wise-cracking joker of the most famous Army camp –Camp Swampy, where befuddled General Halftrack still hasn't heard from the Pentagon, grumbling Sgt. Snorkle has never had a date, Beetle hasn't washed his socks, and Cooke still makes those high-bouncing meatballs.
Join Beetle Bailey and his army buddies and sound off with laughter.
Breezly and Sneezly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series first broadcast on September 16, 1964, as part of The Peter Potamus Show. From 1964 to 1966, 23 episodes were produced, 14 of which were aired on Peter Potamus with the remaining nine aired on The Magilla Gorilla Show.
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
During World War II, a Navy officer commands a pink sub with a crew of five rescued Army nurses and a combat-phobic supply officer in this series based on the 1959 movie starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. Curtis's daughter Jamie Lee played one of the nurses (her first recurring role on network TV).
First aired in 1977
Private Schulz is a BBC television comedy drama serial set mostly in Germany, during and immediately after World War II. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role and Ian Richardson playing various parts. Other notable actors included Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray and Mark Wingett.
Over six one-hour episodes, it tells the story of a German fraudster and petty criminal who is forced against his will to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, he tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British five pound notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy. However, Schulz is primarily interested in stealing them.
Other elements of the story based on the history of the period include the Venlo incident, when two British intelligence officers were abducted from the Netherlands at the very start of the war, and Salon Kitty. This was a Berlin brothel which was secretly run by the SD, for the purpose of spying on its wealthy clients, who were often prominent German government officials or military officers. Additionally, many of the main characters are real people.
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
Chlapci a Chlapi is a TV series produced and broadcast in Czechoslovakia in 1988. It follows the story of a group of Czech and Slovak men in their mandatory army service. The series was generally well received and is very well known in Central Europe. It stars Martin Zounar, Boris Slivka, Roman Hajek, Josef Bláha, Jaroslava Adamová and others. The show was directed by Evžen Sokolovský.
Much of the world first became aware of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the tragedy of Tiananmen Square in June 1989. However, only weeks before, filming had been completed on an extraordinary examination of China’s military machine. Boasting unprecedented access to all areas of the People’s Liberation Army, this five-hour documentary reveals with unerring insight and exceptional clarity the enigma which is the modern Chinese army.
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.
The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
A Kisváros egy színes, 195 részes magyar akciófilm-sorozat, ami 1993–2001 között futott a Magyar Televízióban. A történet középpontjában egy, a valóságban nem létező határmenti kisváros, Végvár áll. Ebbe a városba érkezik Hunyadi főtörzs, hogy a Határőrség akciószázadát kiképezze. A sorozat a rendőrség és a határőrség határmenti bűncselekmények ügyében való nyomozások terén történő együttműködését mutatja be, minden epizód egy-egy önálló történet, a kiemelt főszereplőkké később Járai rendőr őrnagy és beosztottja, Balogh Máté zászlós válnak.
A sorozat jeleneteinek jelentős részét Szigetváron, valamint a bucsui és a bozsoki határátkelőnél forgatták.
A sorozatot az MTV-n kívül 2002 táján a Hálózat TV is vetítette, a teljes sorozatot az m1 2007. június 8. és 2008. március 31. között ismételte, 2009. június 1. és szeptember 18. között ismét leadta, de akkor csak a 21. résztől a 157. részig a 156/I-II. rész kihagyásával, 2011. szeptember 5. és szeptember 30. között ismét leadta, de csak az 1. résztől a 25. részig, 2011. október 3-tól 2012. június 1-ig a Duna Televízió folytatta a sorozat ismétlését a 21. résztől a 195. részig, majd 2012. június 11. és 2013. február 11. között a Duna World is műsorra tűzte, szintén a 21. résztől a 195. részig. 2013. január 4. és március 8. között péntekenként a hajnali órákban az m2 is műsorra tűzte a sorozatot, de csak a 21. résztől a 30. részig adta le. 2013. június 17-től ismét műsorra tűzte a Duna Televízió a 21. résztől.
Demob was a short-lived British comedy-drama television series, which screened for one six-episode series in 1993 on ITV.
The series was set in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and starred Martin Clunes and Griff Rhys Jones as two ex-army friends who decide to try to form an entertainment act, with the aim of getting work on BBC radio. The series also starred Samantha Womack, Amanda Redman and Les Dawson.
Master Sgt. Hopkins must take charge of a group of soldiers at Fort Bendix, Florida, while hiding his own get-rich-quick schemes from his superiors.
Attila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in particular during the invasions of the Huns in Europe.
Red Cap is a British television drama series produced by Stormy Pictures for the BBC and broadcast on BBC One. Two series of six episodes each were produced following a feature length pilot. It featured the investigations of an Special Investigation Branch unit of the British Army based in Germany. Ostensibly the lead character was Sergeant Jo McDonagh, played by Tamzin Outhwaite, but the show was more of an ensemble piece, with several notable characters coming to prominence.