Escape from Scorpion Island is a BAFTA-nominated BBC children's TV adventure game show in which contestants try to 'escape from an exotic island with a mind of its own' by doing various challenges to improve their chances of escaping. Series 1 was made by RDF Television for CBBC. Series 2 onwards were produced by Foundation/Freehand for CBBC and ABC Television in Australia. Its fifth series was broadcast in 2011. A sixth series was confirmed and due to air in late 2013.
Each series contains a different number of contestants who work in set teams to try to escape the sentient island. The contestants are children who are 11–14 years old. Each series introduces a different number of contestants, new challenges and different storylines.
Recruited by a top-secret organization dedicated to defending the Earth, three young women with superpowers team up to foil the polluting plots of Albert Thault and his dastardly outworlders.
Widowed Mrs Martingale and her four children inherit a castle in the will of an elderly relative. When they move in they find dear old Miss Button, the housekeeper, a whole host of cats and, odder still, a boy called Christopher Sixpence who keeps appearing and disappearing. What is he doing there?
A man stuck in endless reincarnation avoids long waits for heroic roles by rebirthing into absurd forms—from a hermit crab to a vegetable and even an explosive.
Yrehn, an Osamodas guardian, lives a peaceful life with the legendary Elante. With them, the great eagle Eryx and the boarataur Boarus stand ready to fight should their lives be threatened. But their peaceful existence comes to an end when Karn, the great hunter-eater, lands on their island refuge. Commissioned by a strange bird, the lop hunter captures the Elante and takes her to his ship, the Bloodboat.
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
On the run from police in America, Antonio Morena, a former World War II aviator and black-marketeer, finds himself in South America working for the all-powerful United Fruit Company, known to the natives as "the Green Monster".
Pojken med guldbyxorna is a 1975 Swedish TV-series, based on an 1967 novel by Max Lundgren, that became very popular in Sweden and has since been shown numerous times on Swedish television. The version now broadcast on TV4 Guld consists of episodes cut into 30 minutes each.
The plot revolves around a boy who discovers that he is able to pull an infinite number of banknotes from the pockets of his jeans.