Subgenre Sampler
Television > Classics: 302 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
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.…
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…
Price, The (TV Mini-series) (1985)
- Feat. Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan
- UK miniseries building a chilling web of intrigue around a priviledged dilettante wife (Harriet Walter) who finds herself caught between IRA thugs…
At Last Smith And Jones (TV Series) (Alas Smith and Jones) (1984-1998)
- Feat. Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones
- Best of the British sketch show ALAS SMITH AND JONES.
Similar in tone to NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS, this is equally hit–and–miss,…
Charles In Charge (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Nicole Eggert
- Popular eighties sitcom starring then–heartthrob Scott Baio as a college student who takes on the role of live–in–carer for a…
Cosby Show, The (TV Series) (1984-1992)
- Feat. Bill Cosby
- Classic sitcom which deals with life in the affluent black–American Huxtable household of five children and two working parents. Although later…
Fresh Fields (TV Series) (1984-1986)
- Feat. Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers
- Wholesome BBC situation comedy about Hester and William Fields, a happy middle–class couple who go about their daily routines with an…
Highway to Heaven (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Michael Landon, Victor French
- Feelgood, down–to–earth fantasy series for the whole family, starring Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) as a "probational"…
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV Series) (1984-1987)
- Feat. Stacy Keach
- While hardly definitive, Stacy Keach's rendition of the famous detective hero, created by pulp–novelist Mickey Spillane, brings a light,…