Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
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)…
George Eliot Boxset (The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda) (1978-2002)- Five BBC classics from the pen of George Eliot. Collection includes: The Mill on the Floss (1978), Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1985),…
Kent Chronicles, The (The Bastard, The Rebels, The Seekers) (1978-1979)- Dir. Lee H. Katzin, Russ Mayberry, Sidney Hayers
Feat. Andrew Stevens, William Shatner, Tom Bosley… - A trilogy of mini–series adaptations based on the bestselling novels by John Jakes (North and South), also known as the American Bicentennial…
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