Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2929 Films to Buy & Rent
Echoes (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Siobhan Garahy, Robert Hines, Geraldine James…
- Set in Ireland in the 1950's, this picturesque romance traces the life of a small town girl whose dreams of escape come true when she wins a…
Edens Lost (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. Neil Armfield
Feat. Julia Blake, Linda Cropper
- A melancholy dramatic saga set in rural Australia around the growing knowledge of a teenage boy from Sydney, staying with mysterious landed relatives…
First of the Summer Wine (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. David Fenwick, Paul Oldham, Paul Wyett…
- Good–natured prequel to the longest running sitcom shows heroes Clegg and Compo's youth leading up to the second World War.
Franchise Affair, The (1988)
- Dir. Leonard Lewis
Feat. Rosalie Crutchley, Patrick Malahide
- A 15yr–old schoolgirl who has been missing a month, re–appears, battered, bloody and accusing two local woman of kidnapping her to be…
Hale and Pace (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Gareth Hale, Norman Pace
- Rotund comic pairing is in the best British comedy tradition, employing a series of reoccurring caricatures and sketches to belly–aching…
Importance of Being Earnest (1988)
- Dir. Stuart Burge
Feat. Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Paul McGann…
- A straightforward and lucid version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, made for television by the BBC. McGann is a particular neurotic highlight.
Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Jane Seymour
- This British television series adds a new solution to the ever–intriguing and grisly case of Jack the Ripper, who preyed on women in Victorian…
Master Builder, The (1988)
- Feat. Leo McKern, Miranda Richardson, Jane Lapotaire
- A BBC adaptation of the 1892 play By Henrik Ibsen, aired on BBC as part of the 'Theatre Night' series in 1988. Tells the story of a middle–aged…
Monsignor Quixote (1988)
- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Christopher Neame
- Fine tele–version of Graham Greene's novel follows a newly appointed Monsignor and his avowed Marxist companion on an enlightening drive to…
Murphy Brown (TV Series) (1988-1998)
- Feat. Candice Bergen
- A solid and likeable sttcom set around a gutsy woman journalist in Washington DC, who negotiates her personal indulgences and demons along with the…