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Smurfs, The (TV Series)Smurfs, The (TV Series) (1981-1990)
Originally the Belgian creation of Pierre " Peyo" Culliford, the little blue creatures became a worldwide hit in the 1980s with an…
Sorry! (TV Series)Sorry! (TV Series) (1981)
Feat. Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott
Ronnie Corbett, forty–something and with the world as his oyster, can't get a break in this memorable sitcom where his possessive mother (Lott)…
Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series)Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series) (1981)
Feat. John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes
British sitcom set in the office of a multinational corporation, where an exec juggles her hectic work life (and workplace sexual politics) with…
Tenko (TV Series)Tenko (TV Series) (1981-1984)
Feat. Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson
Memorable British drama in which a group of English women, shipwrecked while fleeing the invasion of Singapore in 1941, are captured by the Japanese…
That's My Boy (TV Series)That's My Boy (TV Series) (1981)
Feat. Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?'s kooky Mollie Sugden broke ranks with this batty British sitcom, in which she played the hired housekeeper of a young married…
Wave, TheWave, The (1981) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch
A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness YearsWinston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Dir. Ferninand Fairfax
Feat. Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers
8–part drama series about the future British Prime Minister, during his years in political exile in the 1920s and 1930s. Robert Hardy plays…
An Audience with Dame EdnaAn Audience with Dame Edna (1980-1988)
Dir. Alasdair MacMillan
Feat. Barry Humphries
A compilation of three TV specials starring the indefatigable and imperious Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries in drag) as she shares her opinions on…
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980)
Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series)Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar
This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…

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