Subgenre Sampler
Television > Classics: 302 Films to Buy & Rent
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (TV Series) (1970-1974)
- Feat. Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Knight, Edward Asner…
- A highly polished, somewhat revolutionary sitcom following the career path and domestic life of a determinedly single newsroom journalist, this made…
McCloud (TV Series) (1970-1977)
- Feat. Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Ken Lynch…
- Nicely executed crime series following an ex–sheriff from "out west" that joins up with a New York City police squadron to nab the baddies by…
Odd Couple, The (TV Series) (1970)
- Feat. Jack Klugman, Tony Randall
- Spinning off from the feature film based on Neil Simon's Broadway play, this small screen version winningly supplants the Lemmon–Matthau double…
Shadows of Fear (TV Series) (1970)
- Feat. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, Edward Fox…
- Featuring some of Britain's most renowned stage and TV performers, this anthology series brings together eight plays with a 'chilling Hitchcockian…
Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) (1970)
- Feat. Keith Michell, Rosalie Crutchley, Jane Seymour
- Accurate BAFTA–winning TV series chronicling the life of the notorious Henry VIII by way of six plays, featuring a notable cast and immaculate…
Timeslip (TV Series) (1970-1971)
- Feat. Spencer Banks, Cheryl Burfield, Denis Quilley
- A smart children’s sci–fi series that tells in four separate stories what happens when two intrepid siblings discover an invisible portal…
Department S (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Peter Wyngarde
- Perhaps the last elaborate flourish in its genre, this AVENGERS–style TV series was set around three 'special agents' who solve the unsolvable…
Liver Birds, The (1969)
- Feat. Nerys Hughes, Polly James, Mollie Sugden
- Two very different single girls share a flat in the age of glam–rock, the pill and women's lib in this hugely popular BBC sitcom that was the…
Marcus Welby MD (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Robert Young, James Brolin
- Long–running medical drama, with Robert Young as the beloved General Practioner whose unorthodox care of patients riled his much younger,…
On the Buses (TV Series) (1969)
- Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis
- From the classic British TV–series starring Reg Varney, Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis as various nitwits riding the buses of London.