Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2959 Films to Buy & Rent
Good Times (TV Series) (1974)
- Immensely popular 70s sitcom focusing on a poor but proud family in the Chicago projects that tackled topical, often controversial issues from a…
Happy Days (TV Series) (1974)
- Feat. Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley…
- Rockin’ and rollin’ time capsule nostalgia recaptures the simple, all–American life of the Cunninghams in the jukebox fifties, and their…
It Ain't Half Hot Mum (TV Series) (1974)
- Feat. Windsor Davies
- The riotous misadventures of a concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining troops during World War II. With a typically…
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
- Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Lee Remick, Warren Clarke, Barbara Parkins…
- Rightly acclaimed series that reveals the fascinating life of the Lady Randolph Churchill, and mother of Winston. Adroitly scripted and acted –…
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975)
- Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
- Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Land of the Lost (TV Series) (1974)
- Feat. Wesley Eure, Philip Paley, Kathy Coleman
- Oddly camp Saturday morning TV show following forest ranger Rick Marshall and his two children who inadvertently opened a rift in time, and now must…
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) (1974-1982)
- Feat. Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert
- Gently focused account of a settler family building their 'little house' on the plains of Minnesota in the 1870s. While not exactly gritty, this is…
Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Moffatt
Feat. Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond
- Riveting BBC mystery thriller series adapted from the Francis Durbridge novel that tells the tale of a husband who begins to uncover the mysterious…
Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
- Feat. Ian Holm, Billie Whitelaw, Peter Bowles…
- Plodding account of the famed emperor's conquests – in the bedroom. Holm and Whitelaw rise above some fairly pedestrian film–making.
Onedin Line, The (TV Series) (1974-1980)
- Feat. Peter Gilmore, Howard Lang, Brian Rawlinson…
- A sterling soap–opera of the 1970s, this immensely popular TV saga followed the empire–building and family fortunes of gruff 19th Century…