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Welcome Back, Kotter (TV Series)Welcome Back, Kotter (TV Series) (1975)
Feat. Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta
This classic American sitcom still holds up in its rowdy but progressive view of high school delinquency and remedial education. A young John…
Wilby Conspiracy, TheWilby Conspiracy, The (1975)
Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson
Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
WinstanleyWinstanley (1975) Recommended
Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Feat. Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins
The dramatized history of a Reformation–era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the…
Affairs of the Heart (TV Series)Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) (1974)
Dir. Derek Bennett, Michael Ferguson
Feat. Diana Rigg, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall
Seven tales from the fiction of Henry James are adapted to television with varying degrees of success and a wide range of actors. Plenty of…
And Then There Were NoneAnd Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) (1974)
Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough
Agatha Christie’s "Ten Little Indians" receives a clunky, if still entertaining makeover in this stacked international adaptation of the macabre…
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, TheAutobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (1974) Recommended
Dir. John Korty
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, Michael Murphy
Notable classic tele–drama based on the novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines, set in the early 1960's, where a woman born into slavery in…
Best of Les Dawson, TheBest of Les Dawson, The (1974-1977)
Feat. Les Dawson
Genial comedian Dawson was all over British (and NZ) television in the 1970s, using his array of comic and musical talents in shows like "Blankety…
Between WarsBetween Wars (1974)
Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Corin Redgrave, Judy Morris, Arthur Dignam
Insightful portrait traces the career of famed Australian psychiatrist Dr Edward Trenbow, as he embarks on his groundbreaking research of…
Billy Two HatsBilly Two Hats (1974)
Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gregory Peck, Desi Jr. Arnaz, Jack Warden
Minor western with two bandits on the run from a racist sheriff after a botched bank robbery results in a death. Artful take on the genre is mostly…
Brief EncounterBrief Encounter (1974)
Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley
The BBC revisit David Lean's classic unrequited romance, with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren excellent as would–be lovers who meet on a train…

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