Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Television: 820 Films to Buy & Rent
Absolute Hell (1991)
- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Judi Dench, Francesca Annis
- Classic BBC television production based on Rodney Ackland's book of the same name: a black, bleak comedy about about a sex–addicted , boozy…
Brittas Empire, The (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. Chris Barrie
- Set around the mishap–prone executive of the 'Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre', this enjoyable series provided a semi–satirical look at…
Chances (TV Series) (1991-1992)
- Dir. Helen Gaynor
- Noteworthy as perhaps the most risque television series to grace Australian screens, this is a bizarre, self–consciously camp roll through…
Commish, The (TV Series) (1991-1995)
- Feat. Michael Chiklis
- Impressionable cop series set in small–town America with Michael Chiklis taking on the role of local police commissioner attempting to balance…
Home Improvement (TV Series) (1991-1999)
- Feat. Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Jonathan Taylor Thomas…
- Highly popular sitcom set around the household of 'Toolman' Tim Taylor, a small–bit celebrity who runs a cable TV home handyman show.
With…
Murder Most Horrid (TV Series) (1991-1999)
- Feat. Dawn French
- Satirical comedy series starring Britain's darling funny gal Dawn French (VICAR OF DIBLEY) as she takes on various
guises caught up in a different…
Sleepers (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke
- Absurdist BBC spy comedy set in the post–Glasnost era, where it is discovered that two KGB agents assigned to infiltrate British society in the…
Tonight at 8:30 (TV Series) (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 4) (1991)
- Dir. Paul Annett, Sydney Lotterby, John Glenister
Feat. Joan Collins
- Comedy series featuring eight one–act Noel Coward plays:
1. Hands Across The Sea – Satirical look at visiting colonials trying to fit…
French and Saunders (TV Series) (1990-1994)
- Feat. Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
- Comic Strip funnywomen Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders parade highlights from their first, third and fourth TV seasons.
Tape 1: Series 1…
Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series) (1990-1993)
- Feat. Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
- The novels of P G Wodehouse are brought to life by the talents and comic rapport of Stephen Fry (as butler Jeeves) and Hugh Laurie (as English dandy…