Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2959 Films to Buy & Rent
Soap (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Billy Crystal, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mulligan…
- Still the best satire of the television soap opera, this initially controversial series enveloped its line–up of characters in plots involving…
Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It, The (1977)
- Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. John Cleese, Arthur Lowe, Stratford Johns…
- Fans of John Cleese will delight in this dapper detective parody starring the tall one as the bungling descendant of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Lowe…
Thorn Birds, The (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Daryl Duke
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck…
- Over–ambitious priest Richard Chamberlain is exiled to Australia, where he becomes embroiled in the dynastic power struggles of a wealthy…
Three Piece Suite (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Diana Rigg
- Rarefied BBC sketch show with Diana Rigg portraying three different women across three separate sketches, alternating effortlessly between comedy and…
Three's Company (TV Series) (1977-1984)
- Feat. John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt
- A prime–time sitcom favourite about a trio of twenty–something room–mates (two girls and a guy), and their middle–aged…
Washington: Behind Closed Doors (Mini-Series) (1977)
- Feat. Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards Jr., Stefanie Powers…
- Sharply written mini–series inspired by the Nixon administration tells the story of a power–hungry U.S. President, and the men he…
Who Pays the Ferryman? (TV Series) (1977)
- Dir. William Slater
Feat. Jack Hedley
- A penchant for Greek music and the murky vendettas of yesteryear combine in this engrossing BBC drama series. Jack Hedley is a former fighter with…
Wonder Woman, The New Adventures of (TV Series) (1977-1979)
- Feat. Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner
- Charles Moulon’s 1940s comic strip updated to the feminist 70s, his superheroine fighting terrorist and subversive elements for undercover…
American Film Theatre - Butley (1976)
- Dir. Harold Pinter
Feat. Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan…
- Another in the excellent American Film Theatre series, playwright Harold Pinter directs his first film, based on the Simon Gray play.
An…
Big John Little John (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. Herb Edelman
- Wacky 70's sitcom concerning the misadventures of a forty–something school teacher. After drinking from a fountain of youth finds himself…