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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...

Former nun Maria becomes the governess for a large family living in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father, Captain Georg von Trapp. Along with the required discipline, Maria brings love music and light into the children's lives and, eventually their father. A classic love story that features some of the most beloved songs in musical history.

A widower must choose between remaining in a retirement home and helping his age old friend or moving in with his married daughter and grandson.

While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a special assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about whether Santa Claus really exists. Based on a true story.

Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.

A newlywed bride (Marsha Mason) must fight the ghost of her husband's (James Caan) first wife.

A father and son homesteading a ranch in the New Mexico territory of the 1880s face the challenges of life on the frontier.

Two African-American kids from Harlem move to Park Avenue with a wealthy white widower and his teenage daughter. Contains twenty four original episodes.

A reluctant faith healer tries to escape his darkened past working as a ranch hand for a plain-spoken widower and his young daughter. Over time, he becomes a part of their family and even falls in love with the local girl who helps out at the ranch, giving him hope that he may have finally found a place to call home. But, his fragile dreams are shattered when his predatory evangelist mother tracks him down, stopping at nothing to get her son and his...

Bakery owner Molly meets Josh, a widower who recently moved to town with his young son, but she is also charmed by a mysterious client whom she2s never met in person and she doesn't realize that they're the same man.