凤归紫禁

　　六十年代香港，经营皓月珠宝店的富商朱兆昌（刘江饰）膝下只有三个女儿，长女朱碧云（商天娥饰）、次女朱碧霞（宣萱饰）及三女儿朱碧霖（陈美诗饰）。兆昌一直希望勤奋又聪明的碧霞继承家业，但碧霞不理父亲的期望，反而离家出走。兆昌只好将碧云嫁给自家伙计何祥兴（林保怡饰），让其协助打理家族生意。而兆昌的外甥洪耀生（陶大宇饰）一直对兆昌的家业虎视眈眈，更利用职务之便以权谋私。
　　世事无常，碧霞的丈夫身故，兆昌因肝癌去世。碧云与碧霞共同管理珠宝店。然而觊觎朱家财产已久的耀生，居然与苏丽嫦（滕丽名饰）合谋，谎称丽嫦为兆昌情妇。为夺家业，他更不惜挑拨离间三姐妹的感情，三人视如水火。四分五裂的朱家，频临家破人亡的惨状。此时，朱家三姐妹才恍然觉悟，终于团结起来，联手作出大反击。

　　Aired on HBO from 3 March 2002 to 2 June 2002

　　In 2261, the Vorlons join the Shadow War, but their tactics become a concern for the alliance when the Vorlons begin destroying entire planets which they deem to have been "influenced" by the Shadows. Disturbed by this turn of events, Babylon 5 recruits several other powerful and ancient races (the First Ones) to their cause, against both the Shadows and the Vorlons. Captain John Sheridan returns to the station after escaping from Z'ha'dum, but at a price: barring illness or injury, he has only 20 years left to live. He is accompanied by a mysterious alien named Lorien who claims to be the oldest sentient being in the galaxy.
　　Hours before Sheridan's return, Garibaldi is rescued and returned to the station, in rather dubious circumstances. He is markedly more paranoid and suspicious of other alien races and of Sheridan than he was before.
　　Centauri Emperor Cartagia forges a relationship with the Shadows. Londo Mollari engineers the assassination of Cartagia and repudiates his agreement with the Shadows. Londo kills Mr. Morden and destroys the Shadow vessels based on the Centauri homeworld, in an attempt to save his planet from destruction by the Vorlons. Aided by the other ancient races, and several younger ones, Sheridan lures both the Vorlons and the Shadows into an immense battle, during which the Vorlons and Shadows reveal that they have been left as guardians of the younger races, but due to philosophical differences, ended up using them as pawns in their endless wars throughout the ages. The younger races reject their continued interference, and the Vorlons and Shadows, along with the remaining First Ones, agree to depart the galaxy forever.
　　After the Shadows are defeated Garibaldi leaves his post as security chief and works on his own as a "provider of information". He begins working for one William Edgars, a Mars Tycoon, who is married to Garibaldi's former love. While he works ever closer with Edgars, he becomes increasingly aggressive towards Sheridan and eventually leaves Babylon 5.
　　Minbar is gripped by a brief civil war between the Warrior and Religious castes. Delenn secretly meets with Neroon of the Warrior caste and convinces him that neither side can be allowed to win. She tells him that she will undergo a ritual wherein she will be willing to sacrifice herself, but will stop the ritual before she actually dies. When Neroon sees that she actually intends to go through the entire ritual, he rescues her and sacrifices himself instead, declaring that, although he was born Warrior, in his heart he is Religious.
　　As part of the ongoing conflict between Earth and Babylon 5, Garibaldi eventually betrays Sheridan and arranges his capture in order to gain Edgars' trust and learn his plans. Garibaldi later learns that Edgars created a virus that is dangerous to only telepaths. It is then revealed, that Garibaldi was actually abducted by the Psi-Corps at the end of Season 3 and re-programmed by Bester to provide information to him at the right time. Bester releases Garibaldi of his programming, and allows him to remember everything he has done since being kidnapped. Edgars is killed and his wife disappears, but is reunited with Garibaldi after the end of the war. Garibaldi helps free Sheridan and return him to the campaign to free Earth. An alliance led by Babylon 5 frees Earth from totalitarian rule by President Clark in a short but bloody war. This culminates in Clark's suicide and the restoration of democratic government. Mars is granted full independence, and Sheridan agrees to resign his commission. The League of Non-Aligned Worlds is dissolved and reformed into the Interstellar Alliance, with Sheridan elected as its first President and continuing his command of the Rangers, who are to act as a galactic equivalent of United Nations peacekeepers.
　　In the season finale, the events of 100, 500, 1000, and one million years into the future are shown, depicting Babylon 5's lasting influence throughout history. Amongst the events shown are the political aftermath of the 2261 civil war, a subsequent nuclear war on Earth involving a new totalitarian government in the year AD 2762, the resulting fall of Earth into a pre-industrial society, the loss and restoration of humanity's knowledge of space travel, and the final evolution of mankind into energy beings similar to the Vorlons, after which Earth's sun goes nova.

　　清乾隆初年，黄马褂应贡试占鳌头，殿试应对得体，乾隆很是欣赏，可是不懂为官之术的黄马褂为了吏治的事与皇上争辩，乾隆意给这个狂徒一点教训，于是只点了他二榜榜眼，未授一官半职，发回原籍历练。暗中皇上却派一等带刀侍卫唐敬之点化黄马褂，并将孟娇钦点给他。
　　黄马褂来到扬州，扬州县令冯记德，爱贤如渴，聘他担任县学训导，教育地方子弟。娇娇辗转来到扬州，冯县令亲自为两人主婚。
　　扬州知府因参与贩私盐下狱，冯记德接任，黄马褂成了候补知县。黄马褂上任后，整日忙着了解民情，运用与众不同的方式，幽默、机智地解决了百姓困难。唐敬之也总会及时出现指点迷津，令黄马褂敬佩不已。
　　黄马褂不黯官场习惯，说话耿直，幸好冯记德一旁维护，娇娇加以点化，黄马褂进步很快，县令当的得心应手。娇娇总是不放心，疑神疑鬼，跟踪！为此引发误会不断，令黄马褂哭笑不得。
　　黄马褂的人格品质和做官为民思想，得到乾隆皇帝赏识，乾隆御赐金匾“好官”！点黄马褂为扬州知府，并赐了一件“黄马褂”……

　　取材于传统相声《硕二爷》。
　　硕二爷又称硕王爷，是活在老北京人口头上的一位既有着浓厚传奇色彩，又独具老北京味儿的奇特人物。他不事宫廷，为民请命，是一个行走于街巷鸡毛蒜皮小事之间的 “青天”，他经意与不经意之中，为老百姓解决了掰扯不清又纠缠不断的诸多难事儿，他不务虚不空谈，体味民间真实疾苦，切实解决问题，因而深受百姓的喜欢和爱戴，是一个活在百姓 心里几百年的“另类王爷”。
　　传说，硕二爷是明穆宗的二哥，明神宗的二大爷，真名叫永硕，人称“硕二爷”、“二大爷”、“我们的二大爷”。他是明世宗朱厚聪的爱子， 文武双修，身怀奇才，也曾胸存大志，但是见皇子间争宠夺位，他不愿置身其中骨肉相残，遂称病在其封地京南的大兴县养马训鸽。硕二爷“告病”还乡之后，却并未赋闲家中、颐养天年，而是每日布衣草帽，村舍胡同里跑着，探访和解决着市井中的“不平之事”，他不骑高大的御赐骏马，偏喜欢骑一头断耳老毛驴儿，拿着穆宗皇帝赐给他上可打昏君，下可打奸邪馁臣的一根金痒痒挠儿，穿梭于大街小巷茶寨勾栏之间。他奉行：“民间无小事”， “民为贵、君为轻，社稷次之”，“水可载舟亦可覆舟”的以民为本的“亲民”思想宗旨，路见不平之事，总要伸手管管，他自称皇上管不了的事儿，我二大爷非要管管不可，因此成为大兴远近闻名，天下无人不知，老百姓或缺不了的平民王爷。
　　故事说的是，大明万历十二年，天降祥瑞，二十一岁的万历帝喜得第二子，但因后宫宠妃趁机且惑，万历皇帝年轻任性，欲废长立幼，让第二子当储君太子，廷议一出，顿时引起满朝文武两派之间尖锐冲突，双方各怀自己的目的，为各自的利益集团争吵不休，事态竟发展到不可收拾的程度。为解决这个棘手的问题，平复矛盾，双方都想到了闲居民间多年的硕二爷。传说中，先皇赐予硕王爷的金痒痒挠里藏有专门解决立储之争的先皇密诏，双方都想探知，都想利用，这种形势下，万历与太后分别下旨，传硕王爷进宫解决立储之争。
　　但硕王爷认为，皇上尚年轻，有许多举国大事要做，不应陷入立储之争而误了大纲。他以特殊的方式和硕二爷个性化的手段劝谏年轻的皇上，引导青春期的皇上去关心民间疾苦，为老百姓的安居乐业多办实事。他故意拖延时间，以给皇上思索和反省的时间，大兴到宫中也就两个时辰的车程，他竞走了足足一百天，皇二子“ 百岁 ” 之际，最后揭开痒痒挠中的先皇秘诏，竟与硕二爷用意不谋而合，化解了一场危机，也成熟了年轻的天子。
　　与此同时，在这一百天里，硕二爷既要应酬真假之间的一次次催旨，且要与平王刀光剑影间迂回周旋，还要切实解决民间一出出不能不解决的“着急得要死人”的小事儿大事儿，整治了恶霸牛怀根、冷如冰贩卖私盐、欺男霸女、横行乡里的罪恶行径；解决金锁退婚，收留周家翁婆，为郑老汉打抱不平；破除孝义庄的养老阁陋习；还帮着烧饼铺的老板讨要欠账一年的“烧饼款”；还解决了连痒痒挠也无法解决的马氏绸缎庄老板嗜赌成性等等民间琐碎之事，等等。在硕二爷看来，这些琐碎的民间小事看起来虽小，但是却不逊于窃国偷天，是直接关系着老百姓能否安居乐业和温饱冷暖的大事儿，在我永硕或许是举手之劳的碎事儿，可老百姓过日子，这些可都是个天顶天的命根子事儿，一个也不能少，一件也不能落。硕二爷累，硕二爷苦，硕二爷险，硕二爷也乐呵，忙忙碌碌、喜怒哀乐，构成了一个活生生的“我们的二大爷”！
　　在为老百姓解决生活疾苦的同时，硕二爷收养了因立储之争被迫流落民间的皇弟大魁：保护了琉球公主椿美，揭露平王爷与日倭之间的同谋，及盗得国库黄金企图谋反的罪恶行径。
　　全剧写了一个为创造安宁和谐的社会操劳的二大爷，也写了一个为老百姓柴米油盐醋操心着的二大爷。
　　一个百姓心里永远期待着的二大爷。