Encore

Archangel

A fateful encounter with a former Soviet bodyguard sends an Oxford historian on a quest for what he considers the Holy Grail---a secret notebook left...

Beauty's Magical Adventure

Bonanza

Ben Cartwright and his three sons (by three wives) ride herd over the sprawling Ponderosa spread in 1860s Nevada in one of the most handsomely mounted...

Erich Segal's Only Love

Gunsmoke

This landmark adult Western centered on Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City. John Wayne turned down the lead, suggesting James Arness (who remained for...

Have Gun, Will Travel

One of TV's most successful Westerns told of the hired gun Paladin, who plied his trade in 19th-century San Francisco with a calling card ('Have Gun,...

Hindenburg: The Last Flight

A two-part dramatization of the final voyage of the German zeppelin the Hindenburg entertains theories about what caused the great airship to explode...

Merlin

Sprawling fantasy about the legendary wizard and mentor of King Arthur who made magic---and mayhem---in the time of Camelot. Originally aired as a...

North and South

A sprawling miniseries about unrest on each side of the Mason-Dixon line from 1842 to '61, adapted from John Jakes' bestselling novel. Most of the...

Shogun

James Clavell's epic novel about 17th-century Japan chronicles the adventures of shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne, who finds intrigue...

Stephen King's 'Storm of the Century'

King's three-part miniseries tells of a tightly knit island community off the coast of Maine that's ravaged by a killer storm and something even...

The Crimson Petal and the White

In Victorian London, an ambitious prostitute enters into a relationship with a wealthy businessman and becomes involved in his professional and...

The Pillars of the Earth

This drama series centers on a power struggle for the English crown in the 12th century.

The Thorn Birds

A priest is torn between his calling and the lure of a rancher's daughter in this sumptuous epic set in the Australian Outback from 1920 through '62....

Thorne

True Bond

A profile of Dusko Popov, a wealthy Yugoslavian who was recruited by Britain as a double agent in World War II and is believed to be the inspiration...