Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2963 Films to Buy & Rent
Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. Gian Sammarco, Lulu
- Sue Townsend's spotty teenage creation Adrian Mole contines his rites of passage comedy drama series set in the early eighties where Adrian's Mum…
Harp in the South, The (TV Mini Series) (1987)
- Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Anna Hruby…
- A TV mini–series about an Irish family who migrate to Australia in the post WW2 years to find their hopes of prosperity dashed on the streets…
In Between (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. Sheryl Munks, Vichea Ten, Jim Petrovski…
- Acclaimed Australian TV series about troubled teenagers attempting to find their way through life in the inner city, dealing with issues like drugs,…
Inspector Morse (TV Series) (1987-2000)
- Feat. John Thaw
- Much–loved British TV Series that follows the criminal cases of Morse, probably John Thaw's most famous character – the cantankerous…
Jake and the Fatman (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. William Conrad, Joe Penny
- Eighties primetime crime show starring William Conrad (CANNON) as a generously plump former cop turned maverick district attorney who teams with a…
Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series) (1987)
- Dir. Christine Edzard
Feat. Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood…
- Exemplary, all–star reworking of the Charles Dickens' classic in two parts. The first, "Nobody's Fault", is told from Arthur Clennam's (Derek…
Make and Break (1987)
- Dir. Michael Frayn
Feat. Judi Dench, Robert Hardy
- BBC television drama, directed by Michael Frayn and based on his play of the same name, stars Hardy as a building industry boss, unaware of his…
Married With Children (TV Series) (1987-1998)
- Feat. Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal…
- Brilliantly rancid satire on US sitcoms like THE COSBY SHOW, depicting a white trash family of appalling bad taste, curdled dreams and sick…
Melba (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- Dir. Rodney Fisher
Feat. Linda Cropper, Tom Burlinson, Hugo Weaving
- Biopic of famed Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, whose professional veneer hid a tumultuous private life, her struggles to provide as a…
New Statesman, The (TV Series) (1987-1991)
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Rik Mayall
- Rik Mayall plays British Tory MP Alan B’Stard in this fairly amusing sift through the sleazy, corrupt corridors of Westminster.
All four series…