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Our story begins with the introduction of Olaudah Equiano in a meeting with Granville Sharp. The slave world now intrudes upon Georgian society and the conflict within our story therefore begins.

The story of the daughter of Olaudah Equiano.

Serena realizes Aaron has kept a secret from her; Jenny and Agnes plan a guerilla fashion show; Blair baby-sits the daughter of a Yale donor.

Blair is thrilled to be dating royalty, but a scheming Chuck has other plans for her; Serena and Dan agree to keep their recent hookups a secret.

The privileged prep school teens learn that Serena van der Woodsen is back in town.

In the wake of the scandalous Kiss on the Lips party, Serena receives an icy cold reception from Blair.

Dan makes elaborate plans to impress Serena on their first official date; Jenny is invited to the infamous Blair Waldorf sleepover and finds herself in a high-stakes game of truth or dare; Lily discovers Eric missing from his treatment center, and seeks help from her ex-boyfriend, Rufus.

Blair is thrilled when her mother, Eleanor, chooses her to be the new face of her clothing line; Serena and Dan are reminded once again that they come from two very different worlds; Nate and Chuck indulge in a boys" weekend to blow off steam after Ivy Week.

Blair uncovers scandalous information about Serena; Dan sets his sights on impressing the Dartmouth representative.

With Serena"s reputation on the line, Blair takes matters into her own hands to deal with manipulative Georgina.

Georgina reveals the true reason that Serena fled Manhattan for boarding school, and Serena quickly falls back into her old habits.

Blair and Jenny escalate their "popularity war" by spreading scandalous rumors about each other through Gossip Girl.

Serena"s world is turned upside down when her former partner in crime, Georgina Sparks, returns to Manhattan to stir up trouble.

Blair returns to school after losing Queen Bee status; Serena"s not fond of living with her future stepbrother, Chuck.

The gang breaks into the school swimming pool, but when one of them nearly drowns, the school threatens to expel the ones who broke-in.

Pursued by a sea captain, larcenous saloon queen Roxy McClanahan assumes the identity of a Civil War widow with wealthy relatives.

Gossip Girl takes pleasure in reporting that Serena has been spotted buying a pregnancy test, and word spreads like wildfire.

Narrated by a mysterious yet vicious blogger, this show follows a set of wealthy teenagers through their day to day scandalous lives as Manhattans Elite, and also how they betray each other for each other"s gain.

Blair puts on a happy face for her 17th birthday party and attempts to hide the truth from her friends.

At the end of the 19th century, the young Indiana boy Paul Dresser left his hometown for a long adventure that would eventually place him at the pinnacle of American music as a songwriter.

The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.

As "Gossip Girl" posts news of the annual Cotillion Ball to take place on the approaching weekend, Blair decides not to go with Nate, but she finds herself being featured in The New York Times and is enjoying her secret affair with Chuck. Serena decides not to go either, so her grandmother, CeCe, shows up to change her mind. Meanwhile, Jenny volunteers for the ball and Lily takes her under her wing. But the night of The Cotillion is the night of Alison"s first art opening, and Rufus and Alison tell Jenny that she cannot attend the ball. Jenny decides to defy them both by secretly attending the dance anyway. Refreshed by Blair"s newly buoyant attitude, Nate asks her to the Cotillion and she accepts, which makes Chuck jealous. CeCe tells Lily and Serena that she is sick with lung cancer and her last dying wish is to see Serena go to the ball, and she wants Serena to go with the wealthy Carter Baizen. The snobbish CeCe takes an instant dislike to Dan and she approaches Rufus with an offer pay him to convince Dan not to go with Serena. Dan learns of this and tells Serena that he does not think very highly of CeCe by telling Serena about how CeCe tried to bribe his father to persuade him not to attend. Surprisingly, the skeptic Serena refuses to believe Dan that her compassionate grandmother is a crafty snob, and she ends up going to the ball with Carter... both her and Dan having fallen right into CeCe"s ploy. Also, Chuck manipulates Nate into thinking Carter is having an affair with Blair to provoke a fight with him.

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O"Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O"Brien"s daughter, Eileen, and even his father can"t break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.