Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Garfield (TV Series) (1982)- The classic comic–strip about a sardonic house–cat who presides over his owner and the other pets, animated faithfully into a TV series.…
Ginger Meggs (1982)- Dir. Jonathan Dawson
Feat. Garry McDonald - Colourful movie adaptation of the iconic Australian comic strip, following the antics of a red–haired prepubescent mischief–maker who…
Last Unicorn, The (1982)
- Dir. Arthur Rankin Jnr, Jules Bass
Feat. Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Mia Farrow… - Underrated (and under–known) animated gem, concerns the quest of the world’s last unicorn to find the rest of the unicorn herd. Strongly…
Mysterious Cities of Gold, The (TV Series) (Taiyô no ko Esteban) (1982-1983)- Richly detailed 80's kids anime series centred on a young boy on a worldwide quest to discover his true identity via the Seven Cities of Gold. A…
Plague Dogs, The (1982)- Dir. Martin Rosen
- Sensitive animated version of Richard Adam's (WATERSHIP DOWN) novel about two dogs who escape from a vivisection laboratory and try to evade their…
Secret of Nimh, The (1982)- Dir. Don Bluth
- The best of Don Bluth's animated features, about a widowed field mouse who faces the impending threats of man and nature. Help is sought through a…
Snowman, The (1982)
- Delicately animated version of Raymond Brigg's beautiful, wordless storybook about a snowman that comes to life. One to melt the heart, this won a…
Tripods, The (TV Series) (1982)- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. John Shackley, Jim Baker II, Peter Dolphin - One of the BBC's most expensive serials was this imaginative, if uneven, handling of John Christopher's Tripods trilogy. In 2089, the Earth is ruled…
Under the Mountain (TV Series) (1982)- Feat. Kirsty Wilkinson, Lance Warren, Roy Leywood
- Disquieting, dark–hued tele adaptation of Maurice Gee's beloved sci–fi fantasy, about a pair of twins with latent psychic powers,…
Condorman (Condor Man) (1981)- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera - An odd, but likeable superhero–spy yarn from Disney, in which a cartoonist (Crawford) turns himself into a living version of one of his own…
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