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The Santa Clauses

The Santa Clauses is a Disney+ comedy-fantasy series (2022–2023, two six-episode seasons) created by Jack Burditt, continuing the Santa Clause films with Tim Allen's Scott Calvin seeking a Santa successor, later training son Cal against Mad Santa.

The Sapphires (film)

The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama directed by Wayne Blair, adapted from Tony Briggs' stage play about four Yorta Yorta women who sang soul for US troops in 1968 Vietnam; it was Australia's most popular film of 2012 and won 12 AACTA Awards.

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is Wojciech Jerzy Has's 1964 Polish black-and-white film adapting Jan Potocki's nested frame-tale novel, starring Zbigniew Cybulski, with Penderecki's score, and restored in 4K by WFDiF.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a BBC/CBBC Doctor Who spin-off (2007–2011) starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, created by Russell T Davies, running five series across 55 episodes before Sladen's 2011 death cut it short.

The Sarashina Diary

The Sarashina Diary (Sarashina Nikki) is a Heian-period Japanese memoir by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, recalling her life from girlhood in the eastern provinces to widowhood in the capital.

The Sash

The Sash ("The Sash My Father Wore") is a loyalist ballad sung at Orange Order parades in Northern Ireland and Scotland, its melody adapted from Johnny Patterson's Irish music-hall song "The Hat My Father Wore".

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera (Italy)

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera (Sassi di Matera) is a 1993 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Basilicata, Italy: a 1,016-ha cave settlement of over 1,000 dwellings and rock churches, occupied since the Palaeolithic, evacuated in the 1950s and revived from the 1980s.

The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible is a 1969 book of Satanic ritual and doctrine compiled by Anton LaVey as the foundational text of the Church of Satan.

The Satanic Temple

The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religious organization founded in the United States around 2012 by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry, headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts.

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post, founded in Philadelphia in 1821, is the oldest American magazine, famous for Norman Rockwell's 322 covers and J.C. Leyendecker's art; its last print issue is January/February 2027.

The Saturdays

The Saturdays (The Sats) were a British and Irish girl group formed in London in 2008, scoring a UK number one with "What About Us" in 2013.

The Saudi National Bank

The Saudi National Bank (SNB, also known as SNB AlAhli) is Saudi Arabia's largest bank by assets, formed in April 2021 from the merger of Samba Financial Group into the National Commercial Bank.

The Savage Five (五虎将)

The Savage Five (五虎將, Wu hu jiang) is a 1974 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and written with Ni Kuang, starring David Chiang, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan-tai, Danny Lee, and Wong Chung as villagers resisting bandits, with spaghetti western influences.

The Savages (film)

The Savages is Tamara Jenkins's 2007 American comedy-drama starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco, about estranged siblings caring for a father with dementia; Sundance premiere, two Oscar nominations, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Savant

The Savant is an eight-episode Apple TV+ limited thriller starring Jessica Chastain as Jodi Goodwin, an undercover investigator infiltrating online hate groups. Inspired by Andrea Stanley's 2019 Cosmopolitan article about the ADL investigator "K"; postponed after the Charlie Kirk assassination, now set for spring 2027.

The Saviors

The Saviors is a 2026 American darkly comedic sci-fi thriller by Kevin Hamedani and Travis Betz, starring Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler as a divorcing couple who suspect their Middle Eastern tenants; SXSW premiere, March 2027 release.

The Saviors Tour

The Saviors Tour was a 108-show worldwide concert tour by the American punk rock band Green Day, staged across 2024 and 2025 in support of the album Saviors.

The Saxon Stories

The Saxon Stories, renamed The Last Kingdom after the TV adaptation, is Bernard Cornwell's 13-novel historical fiction series (2004-2020) about Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon raised by Danes in ninth- and tenth-century England during Alfred the Great's wars.

The Scaffold

The Scaffold (Plakha) is a 1986 novel by the Soviet Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, his last Soviet work, intertwining the fates of wolves, a journalist, and a shepherd in the Kazakh steppe.

The Scale of the Universe

The scale of the universe is the enormous range of sizes and distances in nature, from subatomic particles to an observable universe at least 93 billion light-years across.

The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters is a 1968 Sydney Pollack Western comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, and Shelley Winters, in which a trapper chases his stolen furs through Kiowa and scalphunter hands.

The Scandal (2026 TV series)

The Scandal (스캔들) is a 2026 Netflix Korean period drama, 8 episodes, directed by Jung Ji-woo, adapting Dangerous Liaisons (1782) in Joseon-era Korea with Son Ye-jin, Ji Chang-wook, and NANA; premiered September 18, 2026.

The Scandal of Chunhwa

The Scandal of Chunhwa (춘화연애담, Chunhwa Love Story) is a 2025 TVING South Korean historical romance series, 10 episodes, February 6 to March 6, 2025, starring Go Ara, Chang Ryul, and Kang Chan-hee, set in fictional Dongbangguk and rated 19.

The Scandinavian Ridge

The Scandinavian Ridge (Skandinavisk rygg) is a rock-and-plant display in the Oslo Botanical Garden at Tøyen, opened 25 May 2014, showing Norwegian mountain plants on granite, shale and other rocks collected across Norway.

The Scarecrow (허수아비) (TV series)

The Scarecrow (허수아비, Heosuabi) is a 2026 ENA/Genie TV Korean crime thriller, 12 episodes, starring Park Hae-soo, Lee Hee-joon, and Kwak Sun-young, inspired by the Hwaseong murders, produced by KT Studio Genie.

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Asakusa kurenaidan) is an unfinished novel by Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari, serialized in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun from 1929 into 1930.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel set in Puritan New England, in which Hester Prynne wears a scarlet A for adultery while the child's father, pastor Arthur Dimmesdale, keeps their affair secret; an instant bestseller and classic of American literature.

The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)

The Scarlet Letter (1926) is an MGM silent drama directed by Victor Sjöström (Seastrom), starring Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne with Lars Hanson and Henry B. Walthall, adapted by Frances Marion from Hawthorne's novel after Gish lifted a censorship ban.

The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)

The Scarlet Letter (1995) is Roland Joffé's Hollywood Pictures romantic drama freely adapted from Hawthorne's novel, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall; it grossed $10.4 million against a $46-50 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: a historical adventure novel in which foppish Sir Percy Blakeney secretly rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine; stage hit first, template for Zorro and Superman.