Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Escape into Night (TV Series) (Marianne Dreams) (1972)
- Feat. Vikki Chambers
- A convalescent young girl's drawings become the basis for her dreams in this six–part British TV serial that left an indelibly haunting…
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (TV Series) (1972-1984)
- Feat. Bill Cosby
- Great compilation of episodes from the long–running 70s cartoon series, based on Bill Cosby's own childhood. "Greatest Hits" Disc 1: Lying,…
Panda Go Panda (1972)- Dir. Isao Takahata
- An early proto–Studio Ghibli kids flick (made as a 2–part TV special) features Hayao Miyazaki as writer and character designer and…
Railway Children, The (1972)- Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter - When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
Rainbow (TV Series) (1972-1992)- Cult kids show both educational and slightly surreal, and responsible for introducing generations to Bungle, George, Zippy and horrendously colored…
Snoopy Come Home (1972)- Dir. Bill Melendez
- The second Peanuts film has Snoopy traveling to see his sick former owner and feeling obliged to return to her permanently.
Sounder (1972)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks… - Celebrated tale of a family of black sharecroppers struggling in the the American South during the 1930s. Hooks is excellent as a teenager who…
Tintin and the Mystery at Shark Lake (Lake of Sharks) (1972)- Dir. Raymond LeBlanc
- Standalone animated Tintin feature (and second of two) finds Snowy, Captain Haddock and co. on a lakeside vacation – picturesque front to a global…
Treasure Island (1972)- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander - Well–shot, though fairly hammy version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, with Welles playing the peg–legged Long John Silver.
Treasure Island (animated) (1972)- Dir. Hal Sutherland
- Warner Brothers' animated feature–length version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
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