Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 995 Films to Buy & Rent
When The Boat Comes In (TV Series) (1976)
- Feat. James Bolam, James Garbutt, Jean Heywood
- 'Northern' drama series set in a post–WW1 Britain, where Ex–Sergeant Jack Ford (Bolam) and his family must deal with the aftermath…
Young Doctors, The (TV Series) (1976-1983)
- Feat. Rebecca Gilling
- One of Australia's most popular soap operas – and across the ditch too! – followed the appealing medical dramas and behind–scenes…
Anne Of Avonlea (1975)
- Feat. Kim Braden, Barbara Hamilton, Nicholas Lyndhurst
- Continues the story of Anne Shirley (the heroine of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES) as she begins her job as a schoolteacher and faces a whole new set of…
Edward VII (TV Series) (1975)
- Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Timothy West, John Gielgud, Robert Hardy…
- Superb period drama covers the complicated 'Royal' Edward VII, who was almost an old man by the time he finally became King of England in the early…
Poldark (TV Series) (1975)
- Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Ralph Bates, Robin Ellis, Jill Townsend
- Highly successful British TV series based on the series of novels by Winston Graham about the life of an 18th–century Cornish nobleman (Ellis)…
Raffles (TV Series) (1975-1977)
- Feat. Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli
- Known by day as A.J. Raffles, gentleman of leisure and top–rate cricketer, at night Raffles becomes "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel…
Survivors (TV Series) (1975-1977)
- Feat. Carolyn Seymour, Ian McCulloch, Lucy Fleming
- Memorable post–apocalyptic drama serial following a small group of survivors after 99.9% of Earth’s population has been wiped out by a deadly…
Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) (1974)
- Dir. Derek Bennett, Michael Ferguson
Feat. Diana Rigg, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall…
- Seven tales from the fiction of Henry James are adapted to television with varying degrees of success and a wide range of actors. Plenty of…
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
- Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Lee Remick, Warren Clarke, Barbara Parkins…
- Rightly acclaimed series that reveals the fascinating life of the Lady Randolph Churchill, and mother of Winston. Adroitly scripted and acted –…
Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Moffatt
Feat. Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond
- Riveting BBC mystery thriller series adapted from the Francis Durbridge novel that tells the tale of a husband who begins to uncover the mysterious…