The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.

A widower from Bankhead, Russell Savage, is diligently running to become the youngest Mayor in the history of Atlanta. His opponent is August King, the man who has raised Russell and his brother as his own since they were kids. But when the beautiful Avery Long joins the campaign, Russell finds himself fighting to sustain everything he's worked for including his campaign for Mayor, and his life.

Tommaso cultivates other dreams: finding a job, buying himself a scooter, living in Brindisi, a city dominated by the moloch of the oil chemical plant.

An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.

Inspired by the classic books by L. Frank Baum and Alexander Volkov

In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute. Deciding that silence offers some power and protection, the boy decides to remain mute and just listens to all that is being said around him by people who think that he cannot hear.

本作は、仕事や家族を失い人生に迷う男性が、唯一の技能である手話を活かして「手話通訳士」になり、新たな人生のスタートを切る物語。殺人事件をめぐるミステリーとともにストーリーが展開する。

When Stephen Fry was offered the Freedom of the City of London , he had no idea what it meant – besides apparently being able to drive goats over Tower Bridge. Fry lives in the West End of London, but admitted the City seemed like a foreign country to him. “The whole thing set me out on a course of thinking,” Fry said, in this one-off ITV documentary, “If I’m going to accept this honour, I want to penetrate the City of London.”（Telegraph）

When Stephen Fry was offered the Freedom of the City of London , he had no idea what it meant – besides apparently being able to drive goats over Tower Bridge. Fry lives in the West End of London, but admitted the City seemed like a foreign country to him. “The whole thing set me out on a course of thinking,” Fry said, in this one-off ITV documentary, “If I’m going to accept this honour, I want to penetrate the City of London.”（Telegraph）

The City is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from November 13, 1995 to March 28, 1997. The show follows the loves and lives of the survivors of the Corinth Serial Killer as they all moved from the Pennsylvania town of Corinth to an apartment building in New York's SoHo district.The show was a spinoff of Loving, also co-created by Agnes Nixon and head writers, Barbara Esensten and James Harmon Brown. The show won two Daytime Emmy Awards in 1996.