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It's 2046, and over 30 years have passed since aliens arrived, changing life on Earth forever. In the frontier town of Defiance, a drifter-turned-lawkeeper and the newly-appointed mayor attempt to lead the human and alien residents through the prejudices and politics that threaten the fragile peace they've fought for.
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The Tardis narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti. The Intelligence's goal is to drain the Doctor's mind; can the Doctor sabotage the device before the Intelligence's plan comes to fruition?
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In the distant future, Earth faces a new Ice Age. While a dedicated team of scientists battle to hold the approaching glaciers at bay, a startling discovery is made: An alien warrior, frozen for millennia. When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive they soon discover Earth is under threat from the Ice Warriors-fearsome Martians intent on conquering our planet for themselves. This release contains the existing original episodes plus brand new animated...
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Eve of the Daleks: New Year's Eve. Sarah is working, again. Nick is her only customer, again. Same old same old. Except this year, their countdown to midnight will be the strangest and deadliest they've ever known. Why is an Executioner Dalek targeting these two people, in this place, on this night? Can the Doctor, Yaz and Dan save them and survive into the New Year? Legend of the Sea Devil: The Doctor, Yaz and Dan face a familiar foe in Legend of...
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The TARDIS arrives near Paris during the French Revolution, a time of great upheaval, bloodshed and terror. Soon, with the Doctor trapped inside a burning farmhouse, Ian imprisoned and Susan and Barbara on their way to the guillotine, it₂s clear this will be one of their most dangerous and exciting adventures yet.
30) Futurama: Vol. 6
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In addition to a full payload of outrageous extras not shown on TV, volume six delivers 13 mind-bendering new episodes that involve time travel, self-replication, covert missions, alien eggs, and more robot roughhousing than you can shake a girder at. It's a scream, the good kind!
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The Tenth Doctor with the first seven thrilling episodes from the second series of the re-booted Doctor Who. Alongside his companion Rose, he must help Queen Victoria battle the Empire of the Wolf and battle an invasion of Earth from the evil Cybermen. Thrills, heartbreak, and terrifying monsters keep Doctor Who are around every corner of this huge fan favorite.
33) Childhood's end
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Omnipotent aliens arrive to save humanity from self-destruction. Under their benign gaze, war, famine and injustice become things of the past. But a small group of people are beginning to question whether this "Golden Age of Man" comes at a secret and terrible price. And when the Supervisor for Earth, Karellen, finally reveals his true form to the world, the sight is as profound as it is disturbing.
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Almost fourteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter is a thrilling, six-episode event series from creator/executive producer Chris Carter, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reinhabiting their roles as iconic FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
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A thriller set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
39) The stand
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Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping...