A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...

This season, Charlie has a thorny problem: Rose. Before, she was on the make for Charlie. Now she's married and supposedly off-limits and that's irresistible for lust-struck Charlie. He pursues her. That and other situations are all part of the hilarious antics of Charlie, his sad-sack bro Alan and his underachieving nephew Jake as they return to make Two and a Half Men #1 among TV comedies.

A college professor discovers that his son not only has a brain that can beat computers, the boy can also compute race track odds for fun and immense profit. But the boy genius, it turns out, has interests beyond mathematics: he'll do anything to meet the woman of his dreams, French actress Brigitte Bardot.