Astro Farm is an English children's television series animated in stop motion. It featured the adventures of the Foxwoods, a small family who work on an asteroid, which is covered in farmland. Astro Farm was produced by FilmFair for Central Independent Television, and was first broadcast on CITV in 1992; Nick Jr. later repeated it.
The main action takes place on an asteroid dedicated to farming. The Foxwoods live in a small cottage with a barn nearby. Daisy, the cow lives in a separate farm. The atmosphere is artificial and is controlled by the weather machine in the cottage. The Gorps live on a nearby asteroid known as 'Gorpdale' which is dark and wet.
The principal characters are Lizzie; Lizzie's husband Sam; their son, Tom; Dinko, a dog; Daisy, the big moo and Clucks the blue chicken; featuring Gorps, Splodger and Biff, three miscreants who steal food and cause trouble at the farm.
Adam and Havva have grown up worlds apart. He is the son of an Irish Catholic pastor, she the daughter of a Muslim family that adheres strongly to its traditions. And yet, though their lives seem to be poles apart, fate brings them together, both working as research assistants at a top university.
An orphan who sells newspapers on a street corner, instead has a large family on the streets of the city: an old uncle with whom he lives, a kindly false manager from a bank, a substitute mother at the vendor of arepas, a sister in her daughter and a future brother-in-law in the police that goes out of her way. A series where grace and tenderness mix, and in which economic poverty and spiritual wealth shake hands and offer laughter and teachings.
Bluebirds was a CBBC drama broadcast on 5 October to 9 November 1989, for six episodes. Set in London, youth group the Bluebirds try to protect their housing project from vandalism by local criminal Robbins.
In the eyes of outsiders, Su Yu Ning almost has a perfect life: a thriving career, a gentle husband and a well-behaved daughter. Unexpectedly, this wonderful life fell apart overnight. First her husband cheated, and then her daughter was injured and unconscious. Soon, Su Yu Ning discovers, that's she's was already part of and in the midst of a calculated conspiracy. And what was entrenched, in the center of the conspiracy was the person she never expected. In order to protect her daughter, Su Yu Ning had to stand up and declare war on "her".