Hank Morgan is a happy young man in Connecticut, USA, in 1879 until one day someone runs into his office and shouts, 'Come quickly, Boss! Two men are fighting.' After this, something very strange happens to him, and his life changes forever.

Curtis Colt didnt kill that liquor store woman, and thats a fact. Its not right that he should have to ride the lightning - thats what prisoners call dying in the electric chair.

Tells the story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing soldier, Count Vronsky.

What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live - and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person.

The year is 1717. It is a bad time to be the captain of a ship in the Caribbean because of pirates.

You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses, and hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself.

In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas.

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with.

`Please, Mr Murdstone! Don`t beat me! I`ve tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!` sobs David.

Over the years hunters, poachers, and war have killed many of the gorillas of central Africa. But there are still a few hundred living high in the mists of the Virunga Mountains.

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died.

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night, the wolves howl around the walls.

Twentyfive million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do.

´I´m not a thief, I´m an innocent man,´ shouts Brown. He is angry because het is in prison an the prison guards hate him.

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses -

It's an exciting life - full of fast cars, money, and travel. The names of Formula One champions are known all over the world. And everywhere young drivers dream of success one day in Monaco, Melbourne, Monza ...

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new `man`.

After dinner we turned the lights out and played ´hide-and-seek´. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand.