Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Television: 821 Films to Buy & Rent
Surgical Spirit (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. Nichola McAuliffe, Duncan Preston
- ITV medical sitcom of the past, centred on a sabre–toothed surgeon (McAuliffe) who juggles workplace politics, home truths, and romantic…
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Alexei Sayle
- Highlights from Alexei Sayle's fab TV show including sketches “The Art of Verbal Abuse” and “Crapbags Holiday Tours”.
Chelmsford 123 (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Jimmy Mulville, Rory McGrath, Philip Pope
- A Roman governor is exiled to the murky English town of Chelmsford, AD 123, in this irreverent British sitcom. Recommended for fans of…
Clarence (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Ronnie Barker
- Celebrated British comedian Ronnie Barker's final television creation before retirement, playing a bumbling deliveryman with poor eyesight who his…
Comic Strip Presents: Strike (1988)
- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson
- A 'Comic Strip' comedy which uses the 1980s miners' strike as a springboard for satire on both British politics and well–meaning Hollywood…
First of the Summer Wine (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. David Fenwick, Paul Oldham, Paul Wyett…
- Good–natured prequel to the longest running sitcom shows heroes Clegg and Compo's youth leading up to the second World War.
Hale and Pace (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Gareth Hale, Norman Pace
- Rotund comic pairing is in the best British comedy tradition, employing a series of reoccurring caricatures and sketches to belly–aching…
Murphy Brown (TV Series) (1988-1998)
- Feat. Candice Bergen
- A solid and likeable sttcom set around a gutsy woman journalist in Washington DC, who negotiates her personal indulgences and demons along with the…
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (TV Series) (1988-1999)
- Feat. Kevin Murphy, Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu…
- Legendary cult series about a man and his robot buddy who get shot into space by an evil scientist and forced to watch the most horrific…
Natural Causes (1988)
- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales
- A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…