Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2963 Films to Buy & Rent
China Beach (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Dana Delany, Michael Boatman, Nan Woods
- TV series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War, following the unique perspectives of a range of characters including US Army doctors…
Clarence (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Ronnie Barker
- Celebrated British comedian Ronnie Barker's final television creation before retirement, playing a bumbling deliveryman with poor eyesight who his…
Comedy Company, The (TV Series) (1988-1990)
- Feat. Glenn Robbins
- Although suffering a little with the passing of time, this classic Australian sketch show still holds many cherished memories with its collection of…
Comic Strip Presents: Strike (1988)
- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson
- A 'Comic Strip' comedy which uses the 1980s miners' strike as a springboard for satire on both British politics and well–meaning Hollywood…
Count Duckula (TV Series) (1988-1993)
- Feat. David Jason
- A DANGER MOUSE spinoff, this childrens' animation about a vegetarian vampire duck, developed its own minor cult. The humour is alternately black or…
Echoes (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Siobhan Garahy, Robert Hines, Geraldine James…
- Set in Ireland in the 1950's, this picturesque romance traces the life of a small town girl whose dreams of escape come true when she wins a…
Edens Lost (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. Neil Armfield
Feat. Julia Blake, Linda Cropper
- A melancholy dramatic saga set in rural Australia around the growing knowledge of a teenage boy from Sydney, staying with mysterious landed relatives…
First of the Summer Wine (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. David Fenwick, Paul Oldham, Paul Wyett…
- Good–natured prequel to the longest running sitcom shows heroes Clegg and Compo's youth leading up to the second World War.
Franchise Affair, The (1988)
- Dir. Leonard Lewis
Feat. Rosalie Crutchley, Patrick Malahide
- A 15yr–old schoolgirl who has been missing a month, re–appears, battered, bloody and accusing two local woman of kidnapping her to be…
Hale and Pace (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Gareth Hale, Norman Pace
- Rotund comic pairing is in the best British comedy tradition, employing a series of reoccurring caricatures and sketches to belly–aching…