Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Monsignor Quixote (1988)
- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Christopher Neame - Fine tele–version of Graham Greene's novel follows a newly appointed Monsignor and his avowed Marxist companion on an enlightening drive to…
Noble House (Mini-Series) (1988)- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Ben Masters… - Improbably entertaining thriller with Brosnan smarming his way through business deals in Asia, only to find his reign as Tai–Pan (supreme…
War and Remembrance (Mini-Series) (1988)- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner… - Sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR follows trials and tribulations of the Henry and the Jastrow families amid the events after the USA's entry into World War…
Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The / The Rainbow (1988-1992)- Dir. Katie Mitchell, Stuart Burge
Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Dillane, Colin Firth… - A 1992 BBC "Performance" theatre production of The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, D.H. Lawrence's portrayal of a woman married to a loutish miner whom she…
Barbara Cartland Collection, The (A Hazard of Hearts, The Lady and the Highwayman, A Ghost in Monte Carlo, Duel of Hearts) (1987-1991)- Feat. Hugh Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael York…
- Four made–for–TV adaptations from the prolific romance novel oeuvre of British writer and media personality Barbara Cartland. A HAZARD…
Captain James Cook (TV Mini Series) (1987)- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Keith Michell, Fernando Rey, Carol Drinkwater - Lavishly–produced series about the epochal sea voyages of Captain James Cook, who set out from Britain in 1768 to observe the transit of Venus…
Complete Talking Heads, The (TV Miniseries) (1987-1998)- Dir. Alan Bennett
Feat. Alan Bennett, Stephanie Cole, Thora Hird… - Much–feted 1980s TV series comprising a series of six stage monologues by renowned playwright Alan Bennett, devised to depict various suffering…
Degrassi Junior High (TV Series) (1987-1991)- An unusually entertaining 1980s Canadian high school drama gathered a certain cult following around its charismatic young cast and well–judged…
East of Ipswich (1987)- Dir. Tristram Powell
Feat. Edward Rawle-Hicks - Michael Palin drew from his childhood memories of seaside family holidays in penning this coming–of–age dramedy for the BBC, set in the…
Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987)- Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Bennett… - An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
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