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Show #1: Tommy and Dinko can't wait to try the new Taffy Blast smoothie from Captain Spangley's Taffy Shop. Unfortunately, Dinko drinks his too fast and gets a "brain freeze" - at inopportune times, Dinko changes from a monkey to a fish to a baby to a waiter and more.
Show #2: Gumpers and Tommy join the DeSpray Bay Seagull Scouts and are taking into the forest by Spangley for a series of "scout tests."
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Show #1: Swanky's had enough of the uncouth and uncivilized behavior of Tommy, Dinko, Gumpers and the rest so he packs his possessions and moves out of the lighthouse. Show #2: When a jealous Tommy learns Dinko and Gabby have formed a secret fan club, he makes his own secret fan club hoping they'll agree to let him join theirs.
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Show #1: When Tommy and Dinko mess with time in order to get Tommy the day off from school, they accidentally create a new reality where Clinton is the dictator in a society ruled by sports.
Show #2: Dinko becomes obsessed with Earth superstitions. When he steps on a crack in the sidewalk, he's convinced bad things will happen to Tommy if he lifts his foot.
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Show #1: Captain Spangley hides a special "aluminum ticket" in one of his taffy bars and the kid who finds it gets to go on a tour of his secret taffy factory.
Show #2: Swanky raises snails in order to eat them, but slowly grows attached to them and can't bring himself to cook his new friends.
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Show #1: Dinko thinks Tommy of Earth's daily life is more fascinating than TV. So what could be better than recording everything Tommy does and broadcasting it to the entire town?
Show #2: When Dinko's face gets stuck after riding a rollercoaster, Spangley mistakes him for a monster and leads an angry mob to burn down the lighthouse.
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Show #1: Journeying home to visit his parents, Swanky's Space Bubble crash lands on a desert island, stranding him in the middle of the ocean.
Show #2: Dinko believes a scarecrow in Melba's yard is waiting for Tommy to come home from school. Falling into paranoia, Dinko does all he can to save his best friend from certain doom.
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As a boy, Andrew Young learned a vital lesson from his parents when a local chapter of the Nazi party instigated racial unrest in their hometown of New Orleans in the 1930s. While Hitler's teachings promoted White supremacy, Andrew's father, told him that when dealing with the sickness of racism, Don't get mad, get smart. To drive home this idea, Andrew Young Senior took his family to the local movie house to see a newsreel of track star Jesse Owens...
28) The temps
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"Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the mailroom at Delphi Enterprises, but after two post-college years of unpaid internships and living in his parents' basement, he needs the work. Then, on his first day, the unthinkable happens: toxic gas descends on a meeting in Delphi's outdoor amphitheater, killing all the regular employees and leaving Jacob stranded inside the vast office complex. Wandering through Delphi headquarters Jacob finds...
32) 4 little girls
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The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed, but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. Because the 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted...
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"C. T. Vivian's life was never defined by the discrimination and hardship he faced, although there were many instances of both throughout his lifetime. The late civil rights leader instead focused on his faith in God and his steadfast belief in nonviolence, extending these principles nationwide as a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It's In the Action contains Vivian's recollections, ranging from finding religion at the young...
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This documentary examines the personal journey of Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, as she strives for a deeper understanding of the suicide and mental iillness that have afflicted so many of her family members. Intimate verité footage and raw, emotional interviews with Mariel and her daughter are interwoven with rarely seen archival footage of the three Hemingway sisters and their parents.
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"Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement. Withers worked primarily a local photographer, as a freelancer...