Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason… - Influential action–comedy rides shotgun with trucking good ol’ boys Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed, trying to out–race sheriff Jackie…
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…
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…
World's Greatest Lover, The (1977)- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise… - Hit–and–miss comedy set in the 1920s with Wilder as a sexually rapacious loser who heads to Hollywood intending to become the next…
Alfie Darling (1976)- Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins… - Alan Price is a poor substitute for Michael Caine in this limp sequel. This time round Alfie is driving lorries round Europe and back to his…
Bad News Bears (1976)- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow - Delightfully cynical baseball comedy starring Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex–baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team…
Big Bus, The (1976)- Dir. James Frawley
Feat. Ned Beatty, Stockard Channing, Rene Auberjonois… - One of the first and best of the 'Disaster Movie' spoofs – set aboard a nuclear–powered bus which loses its brakes somewhere along the…
Car Wash (1976)- Dir. Michael Schultz
Feat. Sully Boyar, Ivan Dixon, Bill Duke… - A Joel Schumacher–written blaxploitation comedy that offers plenty of opportunities to thrash Rose Royce's eminently catchy pop song.
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