Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Television: 814 Films to Buy & Rent
New Statesman, The (TV Series) (1987-1991)
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Rik Mayall
- Rik Mayall plays British Tory MP Alan B’Stard in this fairly amusing sift through the sleazy, corrupt corridors of Westminster.
All four series…
Tutti Frutti (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Richard Wilson
- This beautifully sardonic Scottish miniseries launched the careers of it's lead actors, offering a brilliant satire of the music industry and a deft…
A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series) (+ A Very Polish Practice) (1986-1988)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn
- A glorious surreal BBC black–comedy drama set in the health centre of a British university, based on the experiences of revered writer Andrew…
Alf (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Max Wright
- Irresistibly cute sitcom about a furry, wise–cracking alien that settles into American suburbia in the 1980s. Season 1 available.
Disc 1:…
Best of Q (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Spike Milligan
- Spike Milligan's influential television series (it out Monty Python's Monty Python) takes the former Goon's surrealistic 'nonsense' style and gives…
Bread (TV Series) (1986-1991)
- Feat. Jean Boht, Jonathon Morris, Nick Conway…
- Much–loved British sitcom based around a Liverpool family struggling to survive the cruel 1980s of unemployment, crime, welfare–fraud and…
Brush Strokes (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Elizabeth Counsell
- From the creators of THE GOOD LIFE comes this saucy BBC comedy centered on a charming house painter (Howman) who has an insatiable appreciation for…
Dangerous Brothers, The (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
- Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson perform raucous skits lifted from British tele's “Saturday Live”. Tape features the sketch 'Kinky Sex' which was…
It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986-1990)
- Feat. Garry Shandling
- Hugely influential show centered around the neurosis of Garry Shandling – basically playing himself, who along with the rest of the cast just…
Perfect Strangers (TV Series) (1986-1993)
- Feat. Bronson Pinchot, Mark Linn-Baker
- Quirky 80's comedy series following the farcical exploits of a couple of mismatched Chicago roommates – a foreign sheepherder from a distant…