Subgenre Sampler
Family > Comedy: 308 Films to Buy & Rent
Point, The (1971)
- Dir. Fred Wolf
- Animated fable (and later a succesful childrens' book) set in a world where everyone has a pointed head, and therefore a 'point'.
When…
Archie's Funhouse (TV Series) (1970)
- Animated 70's series based on the popular comic strip starring Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Reggie, the famous group of friends at Riverdale…
Partridge Family, The (TV Series) (1970-1974)
- Feat. Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey…
- A TV series that became a cause celebre, this concerns a struggling family who dream of becoming pop musicians, and using their combined talents hit…
Brady Bunch, The (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis…
- America’s archetypal model for domestic bliss concerns the merger of two single parents, six kids, and their perpetually perky housemaid Alice into…
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The (1969)
- Dir. Robert Butler
Feat. Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn…
- One of Kurt Russell's early, family–friendly appearances in a straightforward Disney comedy. He plays a student who is injected with a…
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson…
- Family comedy based loosely on the life of Helen Beardsley, who in the 1960's had a family of 18 children with husband Frank Beardsley, from their…
Flying Nun, The (TV Series) (1967-1970)
- Feat. Sally Field, Marge Redmond, Madeleine Sherwood…
- Wholesome, if rather off–kilter, family sitcom in which the young Sally Field plays a novice nun, whose starched headgear somehow enables her…
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
- Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish
- Disney classic about a simple man who settles in a small town during the 1930's and starts a Boy Scout Troop.
Gidget (TV Series) (1965-1966)
- Feat. Sally Field, Don Porter, Betty Conner
- Truly likeable television spinoff series of the 1959 movie, about a spunky young surfer girl (Field) who comes of age around her friends, solo Dad…
That Darn Cat! (1965)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine…
- One of the very best Disney live–action comedies, has Hayley Mills and her Siamese cat help solve a bank–robbery and kidnapping case.…