Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2959 Films to Buy & Rent
Growing Pains (TV Series) (1985)
- Feat. Kirk Cameron, Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns
- A template eighties sitcom of canned laughter, packaging the domestic squabbles of the Seaver clan to a memorable theme song. Kirk Cameron as the…
Hollywood Wives (TV Mini-Series) (1985)
- Feat. Candice Bergen, Joanna Cassidy
- The bold and the beautiful bitch it up in this superlative high society trash tale from the florid pen of Jackie Collins.
Home To Roost (TV Series) (1985)
- Feat. John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale
- John Thaw plays a middle aged happily divorced man living alone until his life is disrupted when his son,Reece Dinsdale, decides after seven years…
Howards' Way (TV Series) (1985-1990)
- Feat. Maurice Colbourne, Tracey Childs, Tony Anholt…
- Cherished Brit drama series centred on a family trying to get by when newly redundant daddy invests his time and money into a dilapidated boatyard.…
In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
- Dir. Bill Lyons
- A thorough, intelligible excavation of Homer’s epic poems and the speculation of a Trojan Society, historian Michael Wood takes us back in time via…
Kane And Abel (Mini-series) (1985)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Strauss, Ron Silver
- Based on the epic best selling novel by Jeffrey Archer, about two ambitious men born on the same day on either side of the Atlantic, one to a…
MacGyver (TV Series) (1985-1992)
- Feat. Richard Dean Anderson
- One of the 1980s most enduring TV success stories, in which Anderson played a wiry secret agent armed only with his bottomless ingenuity and…
Moonlighting (TV Series) (1985)
- Dir. Robert Butler
Feat. Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd
- The softly ironic, comedy–romance TV–series that made Bruce Willis a star, and almost revived Cybill Shepherd, set around a Private…
Mussolini - The Untold Story (1985)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. George C. Scott, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Based on the memoirs of his eldest son this memorable mini–series begins with Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 and follows his political and…
North and South (TV Series) (1985)
- Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Patrick Swayze, James Read, Kirstie Alley…
- Heavyweight Civil War tome starring Patrick Swayze and James Read as young men caught up in the winds of American revolution, conflict and…