Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television: 2855 Films to Rent
You Rang, M'lord? (TV Series) (1990)
- Feat. Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland, Su Pollard
- An 'upstairs, downstairs' sitcom from TV writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry (DAD'S ARMY), featuring much of the cast that appeared in the creators'…
A Bit of a Do (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett…
- A curly class comedy based the books by REGINALD PERRIN author David Nobbs, this gets good mileage out of its premise of two families – one…
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (1989-2002)
- Feat. David Suchet
- Solid TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's series of detective novels featuring the fussily eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as he goes about…
Alien Nation (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint
- From the creator of "V" comes this sci–fi police procedural series based on the 1988 feature film about an LA police officer reluctantly…
Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Peter Ustinov…
- Mostly delightful version of Jules Verne's light adventure yarn, in which Phileas Fogg (Brosnan) attempts the titular feat for a bet. More complete…
Bangkok Hilton (Mini-Series) (1989)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Denholm Elliott…
- Gripping mini series with Kidman giving a dynamite performance as a young woman sent to the horrific "Bangkok Hilton" prison, after being tricked…
Baywatch (TV Series) (1989-2001)
- Feat. David Hasselhoff, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Anderson…
- Sun–soaked 90's television series based around the dramatic happenings of a disturbingly attractive lifeguard unit keeping the beaches safe…
Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…
Best of Billy T, The (1989)
- Feat. Billy T. James
- A collection of fine moments from the TV career of New Zealand's very own comic genius.
Billy T James Show, The (TV Series) (CUZ FM) (1989)
- Feat. Billy T. James, Ilona Rogers, Mark Hadlow…
- Episodes from the hit sitcom "CUZ FM", centred around the unique persona of NZ's best loved entertainer.
Billy plays a radio personality who…