Subgenre Sampler
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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) (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)…
Southern Comfort (1981)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward…
- A foolish National Guard unit encounter anything but Southern hospitality while on training manoeuvres in the Louisiana bayous. This allegory of the…
Stripes (1981)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates…
- In a moment of weakness and despair, a slobbish Bill Murray enlists in the US Army and spends the rest of the movie humourously regretting the…
Survivor, The (1981)
- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten
- Aussie horror following a pilot who is the only survivor of a crashed Boeing 747–200, and subsequently begins to experience strange…
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…
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Ben Gazzara
- A whiskey–swilling, anarchist poet (Ben Gazzara) searches in vain for redemptive power and inspiration through his self–destructive…
Taps (1981)
- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott…
- A surprise box–office smash about a group of cadets who take over their military college, which is on the brink of being closed down. Inspired…
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
- Dir. John Derek
Feat. Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Miles O'Keefe
- Famously atrocious 1980s retelling of the Tarzan story, with the lone distinction of featuring a semi–clothed Bo Derek. Playing the apeman,…
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…