Subgenre Sampler
Television > Classics: 302 Films to Buy & Rent
Master Builder, The (1988)
- Feat. Leo McKern, Miranda Richardson, Jane Lapotaire
- A BBC adaptation of the 1892 play By Henrik Ibsen, aired on BBC as part of the 'Theatre Night' series in 1988. Tells the story of a middle–aged…
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.