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From the Earth to the Moon (6pc)
: essential video:Originally broadcast in April and May of 1998, the epic miniseries From the Earth to the Moon was HBO's most expensive production to date, with a budget of $68 million. Hosted by executive producer Tom Hanks, the miniseries tackles the daunting challenge of chronicling the entire history of NASA's Apollo space program from 1961 to 1972. For the most part, it's a rousing success. Some passages are flatly chronological, awkwardly wedging an abundance of factual detail into a routine dramatic structure. But each episode is devoted to a crucial ...
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In His Life - The John Lennon Story
: :Helped along by an unprecedented access to John Lennon's boyhood homes, schools, and sundry haunts, In His Life: The John Lennon Story has a ghostly appeal that makes one feel a bit like a voyeur on pop history. Focusing on eight years of Lennon's youth, from ages 16 to 24, In His Life stars Irish actor Philip McQuillan in the lead and dramatizes much of the familiar lore: John's abandonment by his father; the double loss of his mother, Julia (Blair Brown), first to another family and then to a random ...
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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 125: The Inner Light
: :When the Enterprise detects a foreign object floating in space, a relatively primitive probe of some sort, the crew members are surprised when a beam of energy is able to penetrate their shields. Before they know it (and before the credits), Captain Picard is knocked down and psychically linked to the probe through the beam. In Picard's head, he is on a desert planet where everybody thinks he is Kamin, a man recovering from a fever, even his wife. He quickly ascertains that he is not in a holodeck program, that ...
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The 10th Kingdom (Extended Play Version)
: :This epic 10-hour miniseries from the Emmy-winning writer of Gulliver's Travels was a ratings bust on television, but on video and DVD, where it can be enjoyed at one's leisure, it has a better chance to cast its magical spell. Kimberly Williams has never been more enchanting than as Virginia, a waitress who still lives with her janitor father (John Larroquette) and yearns for something exciting to happen to her. Her wish comes true when she and her father are transported from New York City into a dimension that, with apologies ...
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Star Trek Generations
: :There were only two ways for 'classic Trek' cast members to appear in a movie with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation: either Capt. Kirk and his contemporaries would have to be very, very old, or there would be some time travel involved in the plot. Since geriatric heroes aren't very exciting (despite a welcomed cameo appearance by the aged Dr. McCoy), Star Trek: Generations unites Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a time-jumping race to stop a madman's quest for heavenly contentment. When ...
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Beverly Hills 90210: Graduation
: :There were only two ways for 'classic Trek' cast members to appear in a movie with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation: either Capt. Kirk and his contemporaries would have to be very, very old, or there would be some time travel involved in the plot. Since geriatric heroes aren't very exciting (despite a welcomed cameo appearance by the aged Dr. McCoy), Star Trek: Generations unites Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a time-jumping race to stop a madman's quest for heavenly contentment. When ...
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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 153: Descent, Part II
: :There were only two ways for 'classic Trek' cast members to appear in a movie with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation: either Capt. Kirk and his contemporaries would have to be very, very old, or there would be some time travel involved in the plot. Since geriatric heroes aren't very exciting (despite a welcomed cameo appearance by the aged Dr. McCoy), Star Trek: Generations unites Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a time-jumping race to stop a madman's quest for heavenly contentment. When ...
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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 135: The Quality of Life
: :Sure, technology can make life easier, but when it advances too quickly it can be fraught with peril, or raise questions people aren't ready to answer. For years, Dr. Farallon (Ellen Bry) has been working on an orbiting particle fountain capable of large-scale planetary mining. Even though it isn't quite finished and tested yet, Geordi and the Enterprise have been sent to determine whether or not it is a more efficient method of mining than the more traditional means. Along with this large-scale invention, Dr. Farallon has also invented helper robots, ...
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Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episodes 1 & 2: The Emissary (Pilot)
: :Sure, technology can make life easier, but when it advances too quickly it can be fraught with peril, or raise questions people aren't ready to answer. For years, Dr. Farallon (Ellen Bry) has been working on an orbiting particle fountain capable of large-scale planetary mining. Even though it isn't quite finished and tested yet, Geordi and the Enterprise have been sent to determine whether or not it is a more efficient method of mining than the more traditional means. Along with this large-scale invention, Dr. Farallon has also invented helper robots, ...
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Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 108: Rapture
: :Sure, technology can make life easier, but when it advances too quickly it can be fraught with peril, or raise questions people aren't ready to answer. For years, Dr. Farallon (Ellen Bry) has been working on an orbiting particle fountain capable of large-scale planetary mining. Even though it isn't quite finished and tested yet, Geordi and the Enterprise have been sent to determine whether or not it is a more efficient method of mining than the more traditional means. Along with this large-scale invention, Dr. Farallon has also invented helper robots, ...
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