Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Going Gently (1981)- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Norman Wisdom, Fulton MacKay - Quality BBC television drama about a group of terminally ill patients on a cancer ward.
Henry VI (Henry the Sixth) (1981-1983)- Dir. Jane Howell
Feat. John Benfield, Peter Benson, Brenda Blethyn - BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's three–part play across three discs.
Hill Street Blues (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Veronica Hamel…
- Steven Bochco's progressive eighties policier found dramatic substance and acclaim in its realistic and ethnically diverse portrayal of the lives of…
Kessler (TV Mini-series) (1981)- Feat. Clifford Rose, Alan Dobie
- Six–part sequel to the terrific WW2 series SECRET ARMY sees former SS member Ludwig Kessler (Rose) living in 'present day' and on the run from…
Nanny (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. Wendy Craig, John Quayle, Natalie Forbes
- Lovely period 30's BBC series following Barbara Gray (Craig) a childless, lonely woman who decides to turn her life around and become a nanny for…
Sense and Sensibility (1981)- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Irene Richards, Tracey Childs, Diana Fairfax… - Two sisters search for love, happiness and a way out of financial strife. From Jane Austen's novel, this was filmed by the BBC on location in Dorset…
Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes
- British sitcom set in the office of a multinational corporation, where an exec juggles her hectic work life (and workplace sexual politics) with…
Tenko (TV Series) (1981-1984)- Feat. Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson
- Memorable British drama in which a group of English women, shipwrecked while fleeing the invasion of Singapore in 1941, are captured by the Japanese…
Wave, The (1981)
- Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch - A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)- Dir. Ferninand Fairfax
Feat. Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers… - 8–part drama series about the future British Prime Minister, during his years in political exile in the 1920s and 1930s. Robert Hardy plays…
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