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Series · 10 connectionsJohnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.
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1963 · Drama
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
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1954 · 60 min · Drama
A drama series that ran every other week, attracted top notch actors and actresses, and was broadcast from New York City.
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1967 · Drama
Forward thinking anthology of dramas about the emerging problems of a city.
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1971 · Comedy · Documentary · Drama
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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1958 · Comedy
A showbusiness producer navigates the challenges of the entertainment industry while managing performers, developing acts, and helping friends and colleagues with their problems.
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1956 · 30 min · Action & Adventure · Drama
Circus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960. The series currently airs Saturday mornings on Antenna TV.
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1961 · 60 min · Western
Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.
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1982 · Family
Following a old Circus artist now having a circus school and his family, a great entertaining series typical for Danish TV in the beginning to mid eighties.
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1982 · 50 min · Drama · Mystery
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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1981 · 60 min · Documentary
Circus International is a Canadian documentary television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1981.
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