Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television: 2821 Films to Rent
Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Bernard Hill
- Alan Bleasdale's series of plays vividly encapsulates the bleaker side of life in Thatcher's Liverpool.
Beginning with the feature–length…
Campion (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt
- Eccentric detective series sees Peter Davison play the titular Albert Campion, who, along with his melancholy sidekick Lugg, solve mind–bending…
Clarke and Dawe (The Full Catastrophe) (1989-2009)
- Feat. John Clarke, Bryan Dawe
- Comprehensive compilation of mock interviews from Aussie comic Bryan Dawe and true–blue Kiwi John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), whose collective…
Come In Spinner (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Robert Marchand
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Rebecca Gibney, Gary Day
- Something of an Australian TV classic, this revolves around three women working in a Sydney beauty salon during the closing years of WW2 and the…
Darling Buds of May, The (TV Series) (1989-1991)
- Feat. Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Jason, Pam Ferris…
- Top–rating TV comedy based on the H. E. Bates books, set in a not–so–innocent rural England.
The complete three series, plus two…
Fast Forward (TV Series) (1989-1992)
- Feat. Magda Szubanski, Gina Riley, Jane Turner…
- One of the best Australian sketch–comedy series that launched the careers of various comics with a range of grotesque and hilarious…
Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
Lost Worlds - Vanished Lives (1989)
- Famed nature–boffin David Attenborough here delves into the subject of prehistoric fossils, speculating in typically comprehensive fashion as…
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (TV Series) (1989-1994)
- Feat. Kate Lonergan, Wayne Morris, Tony Robinson
- Comical BBC spin on the legend of Robin Hood reimagines fair Marian (Lonergan) as the real saviour of Nottingham Forest and the brilliant brains…
Mr. Bean (TV Series) (1989-1995)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, John Birkin
Feat. Rowan Atkinson
- The classic misadventures of Rowan Atkinson's inept alter–ego, updating and widely popularizing the 'silent' comedy style of comedians like…