Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Television: 1000 Films to Buy & Rent
Buccaneers, The (1995)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Alison Elliott…
- Four blue–blooded American girls search in England for the fortune and success denied to them back home. A BBC production, from Edith Wharton's…
Dangerfield (TV Series) (1995)
- Feat. Nigel Le Vaillant, Amanda Redman
- Small–town BBC fare stars Nigel Le Vaillant as a successful GP whose moonlighting as a police surgeon puts pressure on his understaffed…
Hamish MacBeth (TV series) (1995-1997)
- Feat. Robert Carlyle
- The town of Lochdubh in the Scottish Highlands forms a droll and scenic setting for this smalltown policier set around the put–upon local…
Hanging Gale, The (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Stephen McGann, Joe McGann, Mark McGann…
- Bleak Irish mini–series centered around a family of four brothers who must fight to save their land and family from a cruel English Land Agent…
Jake's Progress (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Robert Lindsay, Julie Walters
- Oddly masterful Alan Bleasdale drama stars G.B.H's Robert Lindsay as a failed musician who learns from a fortune teller that he'll die shortly after…
McCallum (TV Series) (1995-1998)
- Feat. John Hannah
- Above–par crime series trails the private and professional life of the titular forensic pathologist as he becomes entangled in various murder…
Oliver's Travels (TV Mini-series) (1995)
- Feat. Alan Bates, Sinead Cusack, Bill Paterson
- BBC oddity centered around Oliver (Bates), an ex–university lecturer with a passion for puzzles, who goes on a search to find legendary…
Politician's Wife, The (TV mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Minnie Driver…
- Hell hath no fury like Juliet Stevenson in this Bafta and Emmy award–winning drama as a woman humiliated by the public revelation that her…
Pride and Prejudice (TV Series) (1995)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle
- Jane Austen connoisseurs shan't be disappointed with this terrifically popular BBC version of her consummate novel about romantic intrigues between…
Rik Mayall Presents (TV Series) (1995)
- Feat. Rik Mayall
- There's more to Rik Mayall than the usual ' fart jokes' ,as demonstrated by these six groundbreaking 50 minute plays commissioned by the BBC in 1995.…