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Serial (1980) - As Luckman Skull
Plot Summary
- It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to Find Themselves. |
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Once Upon a Spy (1980) (TV) aka Lethal Games - As Marcus Valorium
Plot Summary
- Danson plays a computer expert who is coerced by the government into rescuing a super-computer from the clutches of evil, wheelchair-bound Lee, who intends to rule the world with it. The agent assigned to brief Danson is curvy, smart-mouthed Weller who reports to the authoritative and no-nonsense Parker. Retrieving the computer is only part of the job. Danson also hopes to rescue his doctor friend (Stone) and the doctor's daughter who are being held against their will, a task Parker is only mildly concerned about accomplishing. |
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Charlie's Angels (1980) (TV) - As Dale Woodman
Plot Summary
- Jill, Sabrina & Kelly were police officers when an unseen millionaire named Charles Townsend hired them for his private investigation agency, with John Bosley. When Jill left, she was replaced by her sister Kris.
- In "Angel in Hiding", Jody Mills, a would-be model working in a seedy amateur photography studio, is found murdered in an alley behind the studio. Her father hires the Angels, who begin an investigation of Jody's roommate, Julie Rogers. |
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Morris West's The Salamander (1981) - As Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
Plot Summary
- An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government. |
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Evil Stalks This House (1981) (TV) aka Tales of the Haunted - As Host
Plot Summary
- Jack Palance stars as a self-serving, abusive boor who becomes stranded (along with his two children) by a thunderstorm, forcing them to take shelter in an isolated country estate owned by a group of mysterious and wealthy old dowagers. Seeing a golden opportunity, Palance soon turns to plundering their estate, but his plans collide with the secret activities of a Satanic snake-cult who carry out ritual sacrifices in the attic. |
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Desperate Moves (1981) - As Dr. Carl Boxer
Plot Summary
- A naive young man from a small Oregon town travels to the big city--in this case San Francisco--to pursue his dream. He has to learn how to cope with the culture shock encountered in the move from small, rural Oregon to big--and bizarre--urban California. |
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An Eye for an Eye (1981) - As Morgan Canfield
Plot Summary
- Sean Kane (Chuck Norris) is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places. |
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Goliath Awaits (1981) (TV) - As John McKenzie
Plot Summary
- During World War II, the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades, they build an isolated, rigidly regulated world, completely isolated from the surface world until contemporary times when a diving team begins to explore the wreck. |
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Safari 3000 (1982) - As Count Borgia
Plot Summary
- Reporter J.J. wants to write a story about an Afrika rallye, 3000 km across desert and steppe. Unfortunately her driver and car get lost only days before the start, so she hires ex-stuntman Eddie and buys a wreck of a car from her last money. Eddie can help her to a new motor - by stealing it from the ruthless count Borgia, who from now on is their hardest and meanest competitor in the rallye. |
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Massarati and the Brain (1982) (TV) - As Victor Leopold
Plot Summary
- A secret agent searches for a sunken treasure of rare coins. He must battle a Nazi who is also searching for the treasure, and is helped by a 10-year-old genius who builds electronic weapons for him. |
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Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982) (TV) - As Prince Philip
Plot Summary
- Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britan's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. |
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The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) aka Legend in Leotards - As Mr. Midnight
Plot Summary
- In WWII Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis, was a hero. But then he got under suspect of supporting the communists, so he retired to Australia. Now, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen, he's asked to come back to help. However he's an alcoholic now. A parody on superhero comic strips. |
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House of the Long Shadows (1983) - As Corrigan
Plot Summary
- An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants. |
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The Far Pavilions (1984) (TV mini-series) aka Blade of Steel - As Kaka-ji Rao
Plot Summary
- HBO's first mini-series, set in 19th century British colonial India, involves war battles, love, treachery and intrigue as well as love and honor involving a romance between a British calvary officer and an Indian princess who has been promised in an arranged marriage to a despotic ruler. |
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Faerie Tale Theatre (1984) (TV) - As King Vladimir V
Plot Summary
- At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials, this program set out to produce high-quality classic entertainment that children would enjoy. Hosted by Shelley Duval, this program featured some of the best-known stars in Hollywood performing adaptations of traditional stories.
- In "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" |
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The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984) - As Mr. Clifford King
Plot Summary
- After taking over a failing Miami hotel with her workaholic fiance, Elliot, Tracy thinks Monique Gabrielle has seduced her better half-to-be. She then tries to have an affair of her own, and arranges for hookers to become bellhops. Meanwhile, her rich daddy hires an inept arsonist to blow up the place. |
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Mask of Murder (1985) - As Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
Plot Summary
- In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim. |
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Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985) aka Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf - As Stefan Crosscoe
Plot Summary
- When Ben, the brother of one of the werewolf victims from the first movie, is told that the world is actually full of werewolves and they're planning to take control, he is skeptical. After a good deal of convincing from werewolf hunter Stefan, however, he finally agrees to join Stefan's band of lycanthrope hunters in Transylvania on a mission to kill Stirba, Queen of the Werewolves. |
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The Girl (1986) - As Peter Storm
Plot Summary
- It is about a married, middle-aged Swedish lawyer who has a love affair with a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl after she offers herself to him for 300 crowns while turning tricks on her lunchbreak! |
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The Disputation (1986) (TV) - As King James of Aragon
Plot Summary
- The King of Aragon, at the request of the Catholic establishment, sets up a "disputation" (public debate) between the leader of the local Jewish community and a Jewish convert now esteemed as a brilliant clergyman. The Jewish leader sees all too well that even (or especially) if he wins, he'll lose, but the King pushes him with well-meant promises to do the right thing. The King finds to his sorrow that the consequences are not entirely within his control. |
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Shaka Zulu (1986) (TV mini-series) - As Lord Bathurst
Plot Summary
- Actually, the movie begins and lasts mostly through the reign of George IV, the latter Queen Victoria incidents were classified as the "Zulu Wars". Shaka was dead by then. Framed around Queen Victoria's decision on England's political stance towards the Zulu Nation, this mini-series details King Shaka's rise and fall with mythic detail. Prophecy is mixed with recorded fact regarding Shaka's birth, exile, innovations in warfare, assumption of the throne, building of the Zulu Empire, first contact with Europe and the events that lead to his downfall. |
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Shaka Zulu (1987) - As Lord Bathurst
Plot Summary
- The true story of the life and rise to power of Shaka, the greatest Zulu leader in history. Starting from his birth, this film takes us through his difficult childhood, his taking by force the leaderhsip of the Zulu nation, and then to his dramatic fall, due mostly to the influences of the British colonialists. |
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Jocks (1987) aka Road Trip - As President White
Plot Summary
- The coach of a college tennis team is given an ultimatum: put together a winning team, or else. |
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987) - As Kato
Plot Summary
- A young boy named Bosse lives in misery with his cruel old aunt and uncle, until one night, he is whisked away to the magical land of Faraway. He finds that his real father is the king, and he is Prince Mio. Along with his friend JumJum, he sets out to defeat the evil knight Kato, and free the children that Kato has enslaved. |
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Dark Mission (1988) - As Luis Morel
Plot Summary
- CIA agent Derrick Carpenter (Mitchum) heads to an unnamed Latin American country to take on big time drug dealer and former Castro buddy Luis Morel (Lee). Along the way, he unwittingly falls in love with Morel's naive daughter (Cristina Higueras) and keeps running into the wife (Lahaie) of his recently killed partner. |
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Fall of the Eagles (1989) - As Walter Strauss
Plot Summary
- In World War II Germany, two young men--one an ardent Nazi and the other a secret anti-Nazi--are in love with the same woman, the daughter of a wealthy banker. The two join the army, and the young woman becomes a nightclub singer. Eventually she joins the army, too, to entertain the troops, but circumstances soon result in her entire world being changed. |
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Around the World in 80 Days (1989) (TV mini-series) - As Stuart
Plot Summary
- Phileas Fogg (Pierce Brosnan) accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he takes his new butler Passepartout (Eric Idle) on a tour of the world. However, just before the time he leaves, the Bank of England is robbed and a Detective ((Peter Ustinov)) believes that Fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him. |
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989) - As Rochefortt
Plot Summary
- It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms. |
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Murder Story (1989) - As Willard Hope
Plot Summary
- Tony Zonis wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope (Christopher Lee). Together, they pick through newspaper stories, looking for the unusual event that will make a good thriller. What they find is murder. A government cover-up...an international scandal...and the bodies are just beginning to fall into place. Now Tony isn't just writing the next best-seller....he's writing his own obituary. |
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The French Revolution (1989) (TV) - As Sanson (Les Années Terribles segment)
Plot Summary
- A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins. |
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The Rainbow Thief (1990) - As Uncle Rudolf
Plot Summary
- A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune. |
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Treasure Island (1990) (TV) - As Blind Pew
Plot Summary
- Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola. |
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Honeymoon Academy (1990) aka For Better or for Worse - As Lazos
Plot Summary
- A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas. HE thinks she's a retired travel agent. Set in Spain, there's a constant flow of visual jokes, mainly at the expense of a group of incompetent thieves who are in hot pursuit of the plates. Many of the jokes are predictable, but there's enough to keep almost everyone amused. |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - As Doctor Catheter
Plot Summary
- The original Gremlins movie was a horror/comedy film, but this one is more of a black comedy. In this sequel the trinket shop in Chinatown is destroyed by a businessman named Daniel Clamp (John Glover). The couple from the first movie, Billy (Zach Galligan) and Kate (Phoebe Cates), work for Clamp and they find the Mogwai in one of Clamp's buildings. The Gremlins are born and they wreak havoc in the building.
- The evil Dr. Catheter collects diseases, manipulates genes and runs the "Splice O' Life-Designer Genes" laboratory in Clamp Center where one of his men has captured Gizmo. |
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Kabuto (1991) aka Journey of Honor - As King Philip
Plot Summary
- In the 17th century Japan is divided between two forces. The eastern army lead by the Warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu and the western army which fights for Toyotomi's clan. Despite wining a recent battle, things look grim for the eastern army. Toyotomi's army has a supply of modern firearms, a weapon which might turn the tides of war. Tokugawa Ieyasu send his trusted samurai Mayeda and his son Yourimune to Spain. There they are to purchase 5000 muskets. But it's a dangerous journey and there are many who plot against them. And when they finally arrive in Spain, nothing goes the way they expected. |
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Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991) - As Doctor Pearson
Plot Summary
- In 1950s Africa, a tribal magician calls up a demon to kill Europeans. |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) (TV) - As Sherlock Holmes
Plot Summary
- The "Star of Africa", already cut and polished, is going to be transported from South Africa to Britain, where it will be presented to Edward VIII. Mycroft Holmes sends his brother Sherlock to provide security with a plan involving a glass duplicate of the "Star". |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992) (TV) - As Sherlock Holmes
Plot Summary
- When a night at the opera turns to murder, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes and the illustrious Dr. Watson once again find themselves in a spell binding mystery. A horrible explosive device has just been invented...and stolen. The possessor of such a weapon could bring the world to it s knees. Holmes never suspects the mystery will reunite him with the one love of his life, Irene Adler. The beautiful opera singer joins Holmes and Dr. Watson on a harrowing race across Europe to stop an intricate spy network from carrying out their deadly plans.Holmes and Watson discover the deadly weapon will be put to it s first test on the opening night of the opera, a test that will alter the course of history forever! |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) (TV Series) - As Count Ottokar Graf Czerin
Plot Summary
- The now legendary, almost mythical character of Indiana Jones once had a childhood. Every episode starts out with the elderly man that he is in the 1990's getting into a specific situation where he has to tell a story from his past. The stories go back to when he was ten years old and on a world tour with his father, and to his late-teens when he fought in World War I.
- In "Austria, March 1917" |
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Double Vision (1992) (TV) - As Mr. Bernard
Plot Summary
- The telepathy between identical twins: conventional Caroline lives with her dad and is engaged; Lisa is hard-drinking, devil-may-care, living in London as a high-class call girl. Caroline has horrid dreams of Lisa dying, so she flies to London to help. To find out what befell Lisa, Caroline submerges herself in Lisa's dangerous milieu, seeking help from an East Indian cabby who loved Lisa, and continuing to have dreams and visions. Then, while staying in Lisa's flat, wearing Lisa's clothes, and avoiding her own fiance, who has followed her over from the States, Caroline follows her instincts to confront what did happen in her sister's last minutes of life. |
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Jackpot (1992) aka Cyber Eden - As Cedric
Plot Summary
- Gloria Ruckhauser has a dream: rediscovering the figure and features of herself when she was 20. Convinced that science is getting nowhere in the search for a cure to the aging process, Gloria sets up a foundation whose mission is to find a miracle potion". Various scientists take up the challenge and develop a substance that reverses the biological clock. Now, they face a new challenge. How to stop getting younger before it's too late. |
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Alistair MacLean's Death Train (1993) (TV) - As General Konstantin Benin
Plot Summary
- A German Scientist has aided an ex Soviet general in constructing a nuclear weapon which is now in the possession of an American mercenary heading across Europe in a hijacked goods train. Malcolm Philpott (Patrick Stewart), a member of UNACO, (United Nation Anti Crime Organisation) must use a team of hand picked agents from various parts of the globe to stop this death train at all costs. |
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Funny Man (1994) - As Callum Chance
Plot Summary
- When Max Taylor wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance in a game of Poker, little does he realise that the game is far from over... One by one, Max's family are murdered by the Funny Man, a demonic jester with a varied and imaginative repertoire of homicidal techniques and an irreverent sense of humour. Meanwhile, Max's brother is on his way to the mansion with a bunch on hitchhikers who will be lucky to survive the night. |
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Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (1994) - As Cmndt. Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov
Plot Summary
- In a move towards better international relations, police officers are sent to Russia. In Moscow, master criminal Konali (Ron Perlman) has marketed a new computer game that allows him to bring down any security system that the game is played on.
- Russian Police Commandant Rakov is at his wit's end about how to deal with the crisis in Moscow, so he asks for help from the U.S. law enforcement community. |
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The Tomorrow People (1995) (TV Series) - As Rameses
Plot Summary
- The next stage of human evolution are teenagers blessed with the powers of teleportation, telekenesis, and telepathy. They protect Earth from threats, and work towards bringing mankind into the future, but they cannot kill, even to save themselves.
- In "The Rameses Connection: Parts 1 to 5" |
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A Feast at Midnight (1995) - As V. E. Longfellow, aka Raptor
Plot Summary
- A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts. |
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Moses (1995) (TV) - As Ramses
Plot Summary
- A retelling of the bible story. Pharaoh Ramses decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket in the Nile by his mother, is taken by a royal princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt, Memefta. Moses is called by God to lead his people from Egypt to the promised land. A very reluctant prophet, feeling unworthy of the call, Moses accepts the task. After a series of plagues Memefta agrees to let the Hebrews go. With second thoughts, he pursues them to annihilation of his army in the parting of the Red Sea. Starvation is averted by manna from heaven, the ten commandments are given the people through Moses, they go astray with worship of the golden calf. Forty years of wandering in the wilderness, until finally they reach what will be their home. |
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The Stupids (1996) - As Evil Sender
Plot Summary
- When average suburban America family, Stanley and Joan Stupids, discover that their garbage is "stolen" out of the can, they begin the investigation of that "conspiracy". |
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Ivanhoe (1997) (TV mini-series) - As Lucas de Beaumanoir
Plot Summary
- A sweeping, six-part BBC adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's rich 1819 adventure novel chronicling the exploits of Saxon knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe following the Norman conquest. Young Ivanhoe's code of chivalry and his rivalry with the corrupt Templar Bois-Guilbert, combined with his conflicted romantic feelings for his intended Rowena and his true love Rebecca, bring him into contact with many of Great Britain's most storied characters, including Richard the Lionhearted, Robin Hood, and the Black Knight. Filmed entirely on location. |
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Wyrd Sisters (1997) (TV mini-series) - As Deathv
Plot Summary
- Based on the Terry Pratchett novel. On Discworld, (a world carried on four elephants standing on a huge turtle travelling in space), in a small country called Lancre, three witches, the flowery Magrat Garlick, the lively Nanny Ogg and their leader Granny Weatherwax find themselves dragged into royal politics. The king of Lancre, Verence, has been murdered by Duke Felmet and he has taken over control of the country (but he is trapped under the control of his over-powering wife - the Duchess.) However there are two problems, firstly the Duke hates Lancre and the actual kingdom of Lancre is pressing the witches to find a king that would take better care of it. The second and bigger problem is that Verence's baby son has escaped and has fallen into the hands of the witches prompting the Duke's fury towards the witches. The son must be protected but Granny doesn't want to get involved with the situation but it looks like she doesn't have a choice in the matter. |
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