Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 989 Films to Buy & Rent
Littlest Hobo, The (TV Series) (1979-1985)
- Winning family serial follows a wandering German shepherd who who travels from place to place befriending and helping the struggling.
Prisoner (TV Series) (Prisoner Cell Block H) (1979-1986)
- Feat. Sheila Florance
- The classic Australian women's prison series, which still sets the standard for its tough–as–nails cast, pithy dialogue and unglamorous…
Testament of Youth (Mini-series) (1979)
- Dir. Moira Armstrong
Feat. Cheryl Campbell, Peter Woodward, Emrys James…
- Sterling adaptation of Vera Brittain's memoir recounts her early years and lost loves admidst the turmoil of the first world war.
Thomas and Sarah (TV Series) (1979)
- Feat. John Alderton, Pauline Collins
- Spinoff to UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS, this features John Alderton and Pauline Collins reprising their roles as Thomas, the chauffeur, and Sarah, the…
To the Manor Born (TV Series) (1979-1981)
- Feat. Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles
- Fondly remembered British comedy series in which the recently widowed Audrey Forbes–Hamilton (Keith) finds she has to relinquish her stately…
All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series) (1978)
- Feat. Christopher Timothy, Peter Davison, Robert Hardy
- A timelessly charming BBC series set around the misadventures of a vet in Yorkshire in the 1940s.
Tending to various farm animals of the region…
An Englishman's Castle (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Paul Ciappessoni
Feat. Kenneth More, Isla Blair, Kathleen Byron…
- TV miniseries set in an alternative history where Germany won WWII and England is ruled by a fascist government. Kenneth More plays a writer for a…
Anna Karenina (1978)
- Dir. Basil Coleman
Feat. Victoria Allum, Nicola Pagett, Stuart Wilson
- Leo Tolstoy's classic novel of the love–lives of Russian high–society, is here adapted by the BBC. Shot on location in Hungary.
Disraeli (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach…
- Detailed biopic of the remarkable life of the author turned British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Talky and visually limited this is more than a…
Edward and Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft…
- Tasteful, but perceptive television series follows the scandalous romance between British monarch Edward VIII and American socialite (and divorcee)…