Kassai and Leuk is a children's television series by Marathon Media Group. This short-lived animation series was based on African stories. The three protagonists are the young man Kassai, his sidekick Leuk, a talking humanoid hare who knows the jungle well, and Princess Marana, who is cursed to transform into a gazelle during the day. In the series, Kassai goes on various quests to find the scattered parts of his tribe's patron goddess, Koorie, and tries to stop the plans of the evil god Toguum, who can possess people to do his bidding. The opening theme "Samba Et Leuk" is performed by the African musician Ismaël Lô.
The story is set in Nagasaki prefecture in Minami Shimabara city, the fabled origin of the Shimabara Rebellion that sent shockwaves through all of Japan in the early Edo period. It is also where a third-year junior high school student named Shirou spends his days with his school friends.
One summer day, Shirou's older childhood friend Akane returns to Minami Shimabara from Tokyo. Shirou and Akane take a stroll around Minami Shimabara with another longtime friend, Tokiya. While these friends are dealing with nostalgia and more complex feelings, a mysterious creature named Goron suddenly appears before them. This encounter with a mere little creature causes great events to unfold once more in this city...
They were once just ordinary people. He was a local police inspector, and she was a journalist writing about all things unusual. But ever since they became agents of a top-secret agency dealing with anomalous phenomena, their lives seemed to shift into another world. Their only connection to the normal world was through the Courier, while their assignments came from the Curator—who also received their reports.
In the past, the Agency had many employees. Everyone felt the importance and uniqueness of the missions they carried out. But after a time of upheaval—when funding dried up and the future became uncertain—only four people remained from the original team. Yet neither the budget nor the headcount can influence the unknown forces that give rise to anomalies. These factors only determine the risk and burden placed on the agents who continue doing everything they can to keep anomalous phenomena from disrupting everyday life.
This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).
In the world of Reliquiae, a group of five heroes, bound by fate and The Web's influence, embarks on a mission that unravels hidden truths about the world and ancient powers.
With a Bewitched-type premise and an homage to TV sitcom classics, Something Wicked examines the condition of modern adult womanhood and how even with witchcraft, balancing everything is impossible.
The story follows a mermaid who makes a forbidden wish to be loved by a human. Following her death, she is reborn 200 years later into modern-day Japan in Lake Biwa, where she learns to adjust in a human world.
Watch as a group of improvisers and comedians desperately try to survive while their “Game Master” leads them through a nightmarish tale. This anthology series—produced by Smosh, George Primavera, and Jon Matteson—takes place in the fictional peninsula town of Maw Meadows and resolves nail-biting action using the TTRPG system Dread. Uncover the mystery of Maw Meadows by piecing together the clues from each show. The truth is more terrifying than you could possibly imagine…
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 the world of Jiuyou, Shen Zhenyi, the third son of Abandoned Sword Villa, acquired the ancient martial arts "Wan Zang Sword Sutra", which attracted the coveted of martial arts in the world. The leader of the Demon Sect, Minyiren, fought with him for the sword, but the third son disappeared.
A year later, Abandoned Sword Villa reopened the mountain gate, and Shen Zhenyi asked his disciples to teach the "Wan Zang Sword Sutra" in person! The rivers and lakes are shocked by it!
Chu Huoluo, a female disciple of Lieyang Mansion, became Shen Zhenyi's apprentice by chance. As the master and apprentice broke the puzzle, the crisis was quietly approaching, and when the final conspiracy surfaced, all the reasons pointed to an ancient legend called "Zhanyue Feixian".
Captain Zep – Space Detective is a British television children's series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1984.
Constructed as part drama and part quiz game, Captain Zep featured mysteries that would be solved by the child audience in the studio, along with a write-in competition for viewers. The child audience were dressed in futuristic clothes and had gelled hair. The series was also notable for its combination of live action and animation, where the cast would interact with drawn alien characters amidst drawn backgrounds.
Paul Greenwood played the titular Captain Zep in the first series, to be replaced by Richard Morant for series two. Zep was assisted by Professor Spiro who was also replaced in series two by Professor Vana. The only cast member to appear in both series was Ben Ellison as Jason Brown.
The theme tune "Captain Zep" was written by David Owen Smith and Paul Aitken and performed by The Spacewalkers.
In the Netherworld, a carefree soul named Tong Feng is unexpectedly ordered to finish her cultivation within three months and reincarnate. Her journey across ancient, republican, and modern eras not only tests her fate but also reveals a long-buried connection with the realm’s ruler, Xuan Pei.
The Invaders (or The New Invaders) is a two-part television miniseries revival based on the 1967-68 original series The Invaders. Directed by Paul Shapiro, the miniseries was first aired in 1995. Scott Bakula starred as Nolan Wood, who discovers the alien conspiracy, and Roy Thinnes appears very briefly as David Vincent, now an old man handing the burden over to Wood.
Dinosapien is a British/Canadian children's television program produced jointly by BBC Worldwide and Cambium Catalyst International with SEVEN24 Films.
Overall 15 episodes were made, each 21 and half minutes long. The series is filmed in Bragg Creek, Alberta. The program made its debut on March 24, 2007 on Discovery Kids and CBBC. The series ended on June 30, 2007. Each program contains around six minutes of CGI. Brittney Wilson stars as Lauren Slayton, Suzanna Hamilton as Dr. Slayton and James Coombes as the villain, Dr. Aikens. Because of the Native Americans role in the series, the show could possibly be loosely based on Turok.
Sci-fi veteran David Winning directed the pilot and first three episodes and Brendan Sheppard, known for his work on Doctor Who DVDs, directed five episodes. Marc Lougee, veteran of several award-winning animated series directed CG animation and Visual Effects/2nd unit for the series prior to filming The Pit and the Pendulum, a stop motion animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classi
Chhota Bheem is an Indian animated series adventures about a boy named Bheem and his friends in fictional village of Dholakpur.Bheem and his friends are usually involved in protecting the village from various evil forces.
In order to avoid troubled times enthusiastic and cheerful Hmong girl Na Sheng travels a long distances to find the dream home-Yunhuang. But is Yunhuang really the legendary Taoyuan Wonderland? With every step she takes deeper into Yunhuang, new scenes of bizarre and horrifying reins of terror is being revealed.
The younger generation has survived in government safe camps after major cities were submerged and abandoned. During a rebel attack, residents find themselves in a civil war, and are forced to choose a side of the fence.