Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 989 Films to Buy & Rent
Casanova (1971)
- Dir. Mark Cullingham, John Glenister
Feat. Frank Finlay, Norman Rossington
- Adventurous Dennis Potter biopic of libertine Casanova, concerned chiefly with his imprisonment and escape from Venice, though not forgetting to shed…
Elizabeth R (TV Series) (1971)
- Dir. Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Various.
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Robert Hardy, Robert Ellis
- Glenda Jackson makes a banquet of English history, as Elizabeth I, one of Auld England's most influential monarchs. This BBC series is exceptional in…
Persuasion (1971)
- Dir. Howard Baker
Feat. Ann Firbank, Richard Vernon, Bryan Marshall
- Circumspect heroine Anne Elliot has the opportunity to rekindle a long–abandoned love–affair, in this BBC adaption of Jane Austen's final…
Wild Duck, The (1971)
- Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Denholm Elliott, Jenny Agutter
- Adapted from the 1884 Play by Henrik Ibsen and broadcast as part of the BBC's "Play Of The Month" series. A wealthy family's existence is…
Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) (1970)
- Feat. Keith Michell, Rosalie Crutchley, Jane Seymour
- Accurate BAFTA–winning TV series chronicling the life of the notorious Henry VIII by way of six plays, featuring a notable cast and immaculate…
An Ideal Husband / Lady Windermere's Fan (1969-1985)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Keith Michell, Jeremy Brett…
- Two well–mounted BBC television productions from the pen of Oscar Wilde, done with fidelity, grace, cunning and wit: An Ideal Husband (1969) &…
Marcus Welby MD (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Robert Young, James Brolin
- Long–running medical drama, with Robert Young as the beloved General Practioner whose unorthodox care of patients riled his much younger,…
Oscar Wilde Collection, The (An Ideal Husband, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan, Importance of Being Earnest) (1969-1988)
- Stacked with British thespian pedigree, these four BBC adaptations represent the collected Oscar Wilde works.
Boxset includes the following…
Paul Temple (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater
- Forgotten 70s crime series follows the fortunes of a globetrotting novelist–cum–amateur sleuth and his dishy wife. Something of an…
Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series) (1967)
- Dir. David Giles, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Eric Porter, Ngaire Dawn Porter, Kenneth More…
- The BBC's acclaimed version of John Galsworthy's series of novels known as "The Forsyte Saga", which cover the lives of five generations of a wealthy…