Long Ago and Far Away is a TV series that aired on PBS Television from 1989 to 1993. It was created by WGBH, a public television broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH is a member of PBS, which allowed for this TV series to be viewed on various other PBS stations.
Each episode began with host James Earl Jones sitting in a chair in a room with a table, lamp and window. The walls were blue with white dots in order to make it appear as if these living room items were sitting out in space.
James Earl Jones talks during the short opening section, then acts as narrator for the balance of an episode. This series, aimed at children aged six to nine years old, presents stories based on traditional fairy tales. A number of presentation methods were used to tell these stories, with stop motion animation, live-action or cel animation being used depending on the episode.
Long Ago and Far Away also featured a number of guest narrators including: Tammy Grimes, Kim Loughran, David Suchet, and Mia Farrow.
When an apothecary and his wife have trouble conceiving, the wife encourages her husband to marry a maid to beget him children. Ironically, the two women get pregnant at the same time.
It has been said that in our country we have many differences, that is true, but the truth is that there are not so many and there are more similarities that make up our identity. This is a fun tour of everything that generates feelings of belonging in Colombians.
It is a morning scene of an ordinary family in what appears to be the Tama district in Tokyo, but is typical everywhere in Japan. Ikuta Kosuke and his wife Sanae have just moved into a newly-built detached house with their two children Mina and Satoru. The breadwinner of the family, Kosuke is a kind, family-oriented man, but oddly has a tendency to be a stickler for things and a dreamer. He has secretly been longing for life in his own house to be similar to what is shown in television dramas. However, reality has been quite different. Small home issues such as the problems of the dining table’s “lived-in feel”, the sofa that is practically “dead”, and the juicer that should be used to make fresh juice every morning – are very grating to a stickler like him. This is simply an average morning in any family.
This drama tells the story of a young man named Rizal, who is intelligent but faces many challenges and hardships in life. He and his younger brother were raised by his aunt, Mak Ngah Ila who did not love them. The situation worsened when Mak Ngah Ila was in debt to 'ah long' which disturbed their family. For this reason, Rizal chose the easy way to go to Kuala Lumpur and work in a night club. There, he meets Datin Safieya, a rich businessman who has a dark history with his household.
Chocky is a 1984 children's television drama based on the 1968 novel by John Wyndham and was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom. Two sequels were produced. All were written by Anthony Read and produced by Thames Television. The series was also broadcast and popular in Czechoslovakia - both dubbings were made.
While the 1968 novel was set in an unspecified 'near future', the TV adaptation was set contemporaneously in the mid-1980s. The Gore family acquire a second generation Citroen CX car which was marketed as being technologically advanced at the time.