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In a rural town, a teen lives a double life; One being his true self as a boy named Kieran. The other is around his religious family where he must play the part of a girl, named Kay. When he falls reluctantly in love with the boy next door, who does not know he is trans; will Kieran be able to finally face his truth?

Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, 'Uncle Vanya'.

When one of New York's top drama critics pans a good friend's show and its leading lady's performance, war is declared by both. The reviewer, his wife, four bratty kids, and their English sheepdog move to the country, but it does not solve the reviewer's problems.

Percy Talbot, a young woman who has just been released from prison after serving five years for manslaughter, decides to move to the small town of Gilead, Maine for a fresh start. Percy takes a job at the Spitfire Grill, the only restaurant in a town suspicious of outsiders, where she slowly gains the trust of [most of] the townspeople, finding acceptance and redemption.

The 1983 special: "James returns to Darrowby following his wartime service in the R.A.F. though little has changed in the Dales in the intervening six years, James finds it difficult to adjust to the peacetime routine and to friends and family who seem like strangers"--Container. The 1985 special: "Siegfried waxes lyrical about the accelerating rate of scientific progress as James proceeds to plod along with tried and tested remedies. How long can...

A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.

A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.

Widow Kate Bradley and her three daughters run the Shady Rest Hotel on the outskirts of Hooterville. City folk escape from hectic urban life with brief stays in the rural village where nothing much ever happens. Floyd and Charley make regular runs in the Hooterville Cannonball, an ancient steam train that is still the town's chief public transportation to Drucker's General Store.

Wraps up the final installment of this heart-warming tale from the Yorkshire dales with James Herriot, his wife Helen, and his volatile but warm-hearted partner, Siegfried Farnon.