Subgenre Sampler
Television > Suspense/Crime: 576 Films to Buy & Rent
Father Dowling Mysteries (TV Series) (Father Dowling Investigates) (1987)
- Feat. Tom Bosley, Mary Wickes, Tracy Nelson
- Soul food for the mystery buff. Steadily paced and written series concerns the crime solving feats of a Chicago Catholic Priest (HAPPY DAYS' Tom…
Jake and the Fatman (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. William Conrad, Joe Penny
- Eighties primetime crime show starring William Conrad (CANNON) as a generously plump former cop turned maverick district attorney who teams with a…
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Mini-series) (1987-2000)
- Feat. Colin Firth, Robert Urquhart, Leslie Phillips…
- Well–loved British mystery series consisting of adapted stories from celebrated crime writer Ruth Rendell, brought to life by an impressive…
Wiseguy (TV Series) (1987-1990)
- Feat. Ken Wahl, Kevin Spacey, Tim Curry…
- Influential 80's crime series featuring the appealing Ken Wahl as an undercover FBI agent attempting to infiltrate the Mafia and destroy them from…
Edge of Darkness (TV Mini-series) (1986)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley…
- Multi award–winning suspense drama journeys into the secret, high–stakes world of the nuclear state. This is television at its most…
Matlock (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Andy Griffith, Linda Purl
- Updating the "Perry Mason" blueprint with rumpled Southern charm, the ultra laid–back Andy Griffith plays Ben Matlock, an Atlanta defense…
Alfred Hitchcock Presents… (1985)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Ned Beatty, John Huston, Steven Bauer…
- Four episodes from the TV–series, posthumously endorsed by Hitch, which replicate his blend of suspense, macabre humour and brutal…
Beiderbecke Affair, The (TV Series) (1985)
- Feat. James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton
- Character–centric Brit TV series that was the first in the 'Beiderbecke Trilogy' following a couple of Leed's teachers ensconced in a…
MacGyver (TV Series) (1985-1992)
- Feat. Richard Dean Anderson
- One of the 1980s most enduring TV success stories, in which Anderson played a wiry secret agent armed only with his bottomless ingenuity and…
P.D. James Collection, The (TV Series) (1985-1998)
- Feat. Roy Marsden
- Award winning drama collections written by P.D. James detailing the challenges of a disciplined detective commander solving a series of scandalous…