12 year old Gretchen comes to stay on her uncle's farm for the holidays, but shortly after her arrival strange things start to happen. Gretchen has a passion for science and a talent for all things mechanical, which is why the old brass weathervane fascinates her. But the brass daisy rod has a complex and terrifying significance, and Gretchen and her new friend Ronny discover its links with the far distant Sirius, the Dog Star.
Akira lnugami is infected with a terrible poison, and the only known antidote has an unfortunate side effect – it turns him into a werewolf. He opts for survival but then has to cope with his new desires and with the attention of the military, which is interested in using his affliction for its own purposes.
Kinvig is a sci-fi comedy television series made for British television in 1981.
Ineffectual dreamer Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth) runs a rundown little electrical repair shop in the small town of Bingleton where he lives with his mumsy, scatterbrained wife Netta (Patsy Rowlands) and oversized pet dog Cuddly.
One day his shop is visited by the beautiful, sharp-tongued Miss Griffin (Prunella Gee) who seems at first just another dissatisfied customer.
However, after encountering a flying saucer while walking the dog one night, Kinvig discovers she is actually a scantily-clad alien from the planet Mercury who desperately needs the help of the scruffy, bearded Des' "exceptional brain" to stop an invasion of the evil ant-like Xux who are replacing people with robot duplicates.
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47-year-old Aso Toko is asked by her ex-husband to take their 17-year-old daughter Miu under her care because he is leaving for an overseas assignment. Toko who had wanted to take custody of her daughter, has her long-cherished wish fulfilled and her old friend Suga Yohei is happy for her. However, Toko does not have the confidence to live with Miu who is now a high school student. Although Miu also has no intention of living together with the mother who had abandoned her, the two of them meet again for the first time in 12 years in order to have a discussion. On the very day that mother and daughter are reunited, Miu’s impertinent behaviour angers Toko, and they reach an agreement to live separately. However, they get trapped in the lift they took right after that and then the lift suddenly plunges. The shock from this incident causes their souls to swap bodies. As a result, the two of them have no choice but to live together.
Motoharu Akiyama is an elite pilot who has just completed astronaut training at NASA. Something happened in his past that caused him to go out searching for the meaning and purpose of life. However, he hasn't been able to find a satisfactory reply and the void in his heart has only expanded. But Akiyama has a meeting that changes his life. He meets Reiko Nishina, a director at an investment bank, who is looking at investing in an attempt at the first Japanese space shuttle launch. Although the meeting was pure chance, it affects Reiko greatly. She realizes that although it looks like she has everything, there is something she wants that she doesn't have. And this meeting has an effect on those around them also...
Far away in the universe, a planet AMIKUS is facing serious pollution and a depletion of its natural resources. Chen Feng Jiao (Carrie Wong) is tasked with seeking a new livable planet and to locate the whereabouts of a defector TA1-2345. To blend in with the Earthlings, Feng Jiao and her comrades disguise themselves as a typical Singaporean family and everyone is assigned a “human” name. Living next to the Yang family, Feng Jiao and Yang Tian Sheng (Shaun Chen) share a mutual dislike for each other which eventually turns into love. While Chen Xiang Lin (Aloysius Pang) kisses Yang Tian Ning (Paige Chua) and the latter becomes pregnant! Another neighbor Zhou Zhi Qiang discovers the true identities of the Chens and uses it to take advantage of Chen Xiao Long (Brandon Wong). With their leader falling in love and a human-alien baby on its way, will our friends from afar complete their mission? And can they uncover the defector who has been taking on a human-form and living among them?
Five ordinary high school students are chosen by mysterious energy stones to become superheroes after Earth is attacked by monsters. As they juggle school life and their new powers, they face ongoing threats and personal struggles.
Patrick Troughton's Doctor and his companions Victoria and Jamie investigate strange happenings at a gas refinery run by Chief Robson. Animated recreations of lost episodes help bring this 1960s adventures back to screens.
In a world where supernatural abilities are limited to comic books and the silver screen, four blue collar twenty-somethings are the only people with actual superpowers. A look at what it would really be like to have superpowers. No wacky super villains, no body armor, no campy fluorescent costumes or holy-anythings something-mans. Just four people trying to realize their full potential. It's hard enough making a living in your 20's, try and make a legacy.
In the near future, the death penalty has been revoked worldwide. Therefore, criminals are sent to an underground prison set in the impact crater of a nuclear site somewhere in the United States, known as Neo Purgatory. A group of women, known as the Guard of Rose, is caught in the crossfire when the mysterious villain Donn Canyon launches his mission to "purify the world" with radiation... Can Maki, Naomi, Doris, Marilyn, and Katherine save the human race from utter annihilation? Or will the Canyon family succeed in browbeating the world's superpowers to accept their fate?