Three children from an ordinary Moscow family—a fifteen-year-old robotics fan, a twelve-year-old blogger, and a seven-year-old animal-obsessed girl—suddenly discover that their father is not an engineer at all, but a genuine secret agent. The entire family embarks on a life-threatening journey from Moscow to Siberia, to a research base hidden in the taiga wilderness, where an incredibly powerful, previously unknown energy has been discovered. The children must unravel the mystery of this extraordinary energy, linked to Russia's historical artifacts, and protect it from the advances of a powerful corporation seeking to exploit it for its own gain.
Piesočná potvorka (lit. The Sand Creature) is a 1985 Czech television miniseries based on Edith Nesbit's 1904 children's novel Five Children and It.
The four Majer children—Janka, Braň, Cyril and Vladek—spend holidays together at a cottage, with their aunt Marta, who takes care of them in their parents' absence. One day, the older children decide to dig in an old sandbox and find an ancient wonder: Brontofusika, a prehistoric creature that can grant wishes. So Janka wishes that everyone would be as beautiful as the heroes from a fairy tale. It happens. No one recognizes the children in this disguise, not even their own aunt, which brings a lot of funny but also unpleasant situations. But the magic only works until sunset!
In 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after the defeat at Waterloo and a seven-year stay in America. There, he reunited with his family, persecuted by the Restoration regime. In order for his father to give him his share of the inheritance in advance of his permanent move to America, he needs the consent of his younger brother Antoine, a carpenter who is on the Compagnons' Tour de France. When Toussaint learns that his brother, a member of the Compagnons du Devoir (Devoirants) association, has been killed by a companion from the rival association, the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté (Gavots), he is determined to find the murderer, a certain Tourangeau Sans-Quartier, and avenge his brother. To find this man, he joins the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté incognito.
When the planet's most dastardly microscopic villains wreak havoc in a realm entirely too small to be viewed by the naked eye, 9-year-old schoolboy Oscar transforms himself into Nanoboy -- the world's smallest superhero. Pals Isaac Neutron and the reformed virus Corona Jane support Nanoboy's heroics as they battle cellular villains, including evil proteins and bacteria.
Jack and Sharon are a divorced couple who live across the street from each other. Together, they raise their 11-year-old daughter Carol and 8-year-old son Johnny with the help of Jack's mother Ruth and Sharon's new husband Neal , who has a 14-year-old son of his own, Matthew.