Subgenre Sampler
Television > Classics: 298 Films to Buy & Rent
- Murphy Brown (TV Series) (1988-1998)
- Feat. Candice Bergen
- A solid and likeable sttcom set around a gutsy woman journalist in Washington DC, who negotiates her personal indulgences and demons along with the…
- Natural Causes (1988)
- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales
- A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
- Blackadder 3 (TV Series) (1987)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson
- Classic third series set in England 1760–1815. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Dish and Dishonesty', 'Ink and…
- Dame Edna Experience, The (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. Barry Humphries
- Dame Edna Everage hosted this riotous mock chat–show in the late eighties (following a series of successful TV specials), where her guests…
- Harp in the South, The (TV Mini Series) (1987)
- Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Anna Hruby…
- A TV mini–series about an Irish family who migrate to Australia in the post WW2 years to find their hopes of prosperity dashed on the streets…
- Married With Children (TV Series) (1987-1998)
- Feat. Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal…
- Brilliantly rancid satire on US sitcoms like THE COSBY SHOW, depicting a white trash family of appalling bad taste, curdled dreams and sick…
- Melba (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- Dir. Rodney Fisher
Feat. Linda Cropper, Tom Burlinson, Hugo Weaving
- Biopic of famed Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, whose professional veneer hid a tumultuous private life, her struggles to provide as a…
- Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story (Mini-Series) (1987)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Burl Ives, Bruce Davison…
- Farrah Fawcett divides and conquers in this sizable biopic on the life and times of heiress Barbara Hutton, whose lineage to the Woolworth fortune…
- Poor Man's Orange (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Kaarin Fairfax…
- The continuing sagas of a poverty stricken Irish–Australian family, in this sequel to HARP IN THE SOUTH.
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie (TV Series) (1986-1995)
- Feat. Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- A longrunning and consistently inventive sketch series by British funnymen Hugh Laurie (HOUSE M.D.) and Stephen Fry (WILDE), who manage to outbaffle…