Chicagoland Mystery Players was a live television series first shown on local station WGN-TV in Chicago starting in 1947, then picked up by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network September 11, 1949. The 30-minute show aired on Sundays at 8pm ET.
The series was one of several on DuMont that began in a local TV market before being picked up nationally. DuMont dropped the program on July 23, 1950, and it's unknown if it continued in Chicago for any time.
When the series aired on WGN-TV in Chicago, viewers were not given the solution to the crime. Instead they were told to pick up the next day's Chicago Tribune to find out the solution to the mystery. WGN-TV was owned by the Tribune.
Mee’s Forest is a fantasy thriller series set in ancient China. A young boy, Xiaomi, winds up in an outstandingly dangerous forest. He’s alone — his monk master has vanished. To make matters worse, Xiaomi contracts a lethal parasite that swims under his skin. The clock is ticking: without a cure, he’ll die.
Ultramen are aliens from Land of Light. They are heroes, who protect every precious life, Earth and the whole universe. Despite any danger, they always fight against evil monsters and powerful invaders.
Zheng Xue Er, a strong woman with a successful career, has no plans to get married. However, her mother was seriously ill, and in order to reassure her that she will found a decent husband, Xue Er decided to lower the criteria for choosing a mate and find an honest and stable person to marry and have children as soon as possible. Under the introduction of her best friend Mi Li Li, she met Song Hao Tian and married him in a flash.
Soon her mother died and Zheng Xue Er put her efforts to achieve happiness on her new, small family. After marriage, Zheng Xue Er has been infertile due to physical reasons, and her mother-in-law is extremely dissatisfied with this. But even when she successfully became pregnant through test-tube technology, her mother-in-law's attitude towards her still didn't improve. As it wasn't enough, soon women discovers that Hao Tian, who like to adore his wife publicly, cheats on her with her friend, and they both plan to takeover her property.
My House in Umbria is a 2003 HBO made-for-television movie, based on the novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives. The film stars Maggie Smith and was directed by Richard Loncraine.
John McKeown emphatically dislikes being a policeman. Two teenage boys discover a murdered man at a breakers yard they had intended to rob. They are arrested on suspicion of murder, but it becomes obvious to McKeown that these were just two amateur burglars who got more than they bargained for. During the course of the investigation, McKeown discovers that Dex, 17, a parks and gardens laborer, is bringing up his younger brother and sister alone. An unlikely friendship develops as McKeown becomes impressed by what Dex is making of his life.
Host Mark Evans investigates whether the DNA extracted from privately-owned remains of historical figures and celebrities like John Lennon's tooth or Eva Braun's hair can tell us something about these dead famous people.
Three penniless delivery riders must battle the multinational food delivery company, Appetite, after becoming personally entangled in a conspiracy surrounding the mysterious death of a fellow delivery rider on the streets of Sydney.