Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television > Classics: 293 Films to Rent on DVD
- Rag Trade, The (TV Series) (1977)
- Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin
- Factory girl comedy set in a working class, East–End fashion sweatshop, this was considered progressive for its time due to its largely…
- Robin's Nest (TV Series) (1977)
- Dir. Peter Frazer-Jones
Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton…
- Good–natured Brit TV comedy with Richard O'Sullivan reprising the role of Robin Tripp from the popular series, MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE. This time…
- Secret Army (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Bernard Hepton
- This gripping – and unlike its comedy spoof successor ALLO' ALLO!, deadly serious – BBC dramatic series focused on the exploits of a…
- Soap (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Billy Crystal, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mulligan…
- Still the best satire of the television soap opera, this initially controversial series enveloped its line–up of characters in plots involving…
- Thorn Birds, The (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Daryl Duke
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck…
- Over–ambitious priest Richard Chamberlain is exiled to Australia, where he becomes embroiled in the dynastic power struggles of a wealthy…
- Three Piece Suite (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Diana Rigg
- Rarefied BBC sketch show with Diana Rigg portraying three different women across three separate sketches, alternating effortlessly between comedy and…
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors (Mini-Series) (1977)
- Feat. Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards Jr., Stefanie Powers…
- Sharply written mini–series inspired by the Nixon administration tells the story of a power–hungry U.S. President, and the men he…
- Wonder Woman, The New Adventures of (TV Series) (1977-1979)
- Feat. Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner
- Charles Moulon’s 1940s comic strip updated to the feminist 70s, his superheroine fighting terrorist and subversive elements for undercover…
- Big John Little John (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Herb Edelman
- Wacky 70's sitcom concerning the misadventures of a forty–something school teacher. After drinking from a fountain of youth finds himself…
- Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series) (1976)
- Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, James Aubrey…
- Quease–inducing drama of a middle–class family being torn apart by a father's obsessive love for his manipulative daughter. Shocking for…