Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper, a writer who had previously worked in both children's and adult television drama. Set in the year 2020, it showed a Britain ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order that came to power during a brutal civil war twenty years previously. It starred George Winter as Gervase Owen Edwards, the Welsh son of a resistance leader, and John Woodvine as the Prior Mordrin, leader of the titular cult. Patrick Troughton played Arthur, the apparent leader of the English resistance, and Julian Fellowes played Mordrin's ambitious and ruthless second-in-command, Brother Hugo.
Eight participants are placed in an underground bunker for a psychological experiment. In a twist of irony, the world ends and they are now trapped in the bunker with nowhere to go.
After 30 years of peace is Kisawazu, the Eight Swords of Sealing are scattered from the Yatsurugi Shrine once more. This even reawakens the Undersea Empire Zabun, who plan on finding the swords and using them to reawaken their master King Orga. As well as them, the mystical embodiment of the phoenix, Yatsurugi, arrives and merges with Takeru Yamato, a young fisherman and regular visitor to the shrine. Now with this new power, Yatsurugi, and eventually the similar deity Kisara, come forth to stop the unsealing of King Orga and return the Swords to the Shrine, as had been dne for many generations before them.
Torchy the Battery Boy was the second television series produced by AP Films and Gerry Anderson, running from 1960 to 1961. It was another collaboration with author Roberta Leigh and was directed by Anderson, with music scored by Barry Gray, art direction from Reg Hill and special effects by Derek Meddings. The second series of 26 episodes was produced by Associated British-Pathé without the involvement of Anderson and AP Films. Both series have been released on DVD.
The series followed adventures of the eponymous boy doll with a battery inside him and a lamp in his head, and his master Mr Bumbledrop, voiced by Kenneth Connor, who also voiced a number of other characters.
Aiba Tsubasa has astounding mathematical powers. He has two younger brothers: Riku, a naive but kind-hearted university student, and Umi, who was born with a weak heart and can only be saved by an organ transplant. Their mother Takako, a gifted surgeon, abandoned Tsubasa and Riku when they were young to join a secretive medical research facility that studies people with extraordinary abilities and conducts unethical experiments to create superior humans. Umi eventually receives a successful transplant, but the donor possessed an exceptional memory and could never forget anything. As a result, Umi begins to inherit the donor’s memories, gradually being taken over by the donor’s personality. When Umi escapes the facility and seeks out his brothers, Tsubasa and Riku try desperately to protect him as the organization’s agents close in.
In 2048, the Lingyun system, as the first case of "smart brain popularization application", will be trialed within the urban area of Mirage City. The accident at the Lingyun system conference that day triggered an emotional entanglement between its founders Zhou Tong, Zhao Feibai, and childhood friends Ayigul, Aizmat. In order to achieve his goals, Zhou Tong closed the "brain consciousness" of Zhao Feibai, Ayigul and Aizmat in the sandbox space of the Lingyun system, but inadvertently triggered the system's "initial intelligent AI" ------Lucoco's start. Everything is related to the "imprint" game in the memories of the four people that year, an intelligence crisis with the code of "human heart fetters" unfolding between the real and virtual worlds.
Threatened by what she knows, the mayor rapes and tries to dispose of her with the help of the town chief of police and a highly skilled assassin. She is on the verge of death. But then May’ari, the goddess of moon and night, gives Bella a second life and endows her with superpowers. She rises as Bella Bandida and battles not just the bad elements but all sorts of injustices in her hometown as well.