Subgenre Sampler
Little Dorrit (TV Mini-Series) (1987)
- Dir. Christine Edzard
Feat. Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood… - Exemplary, all–star reworking of the Charles Dickens' classic in two parts. The first, "Nobody's Fault", is told from Arthur Clennam's (Derek…
Make and Break (1987)- Dir. Michael Frayn
Feat. Judi Dench, Robert Hardy - BBC television drama, directed by Michael Frayn and based on his play of the same name, stars Hardy as a building industry boss, unaware of his…
Married With Children (TV Series) (1987-1998)- Feat. Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal…
- Brilliantly rancid satire on US sitcoms like THE COSBY SHOW, depicting a white trash family of appalling bad taste, curdled dreams and sick…
Melba (TV Mini-series) (1987)- Dir. Rodney Fisher
Feat. Linda Cropper, Tom Burlinson, Hugo Weaving - Biopic of famed Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, whose professional veneer hid a tumultuous private life, her struggles to provide as a…
New Statesman, The (TV Series) (1987-1991)- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Rik Mayall - Rik Mayall plays British Tory MP Alan B’Stard in this fairly amusing sift through the sleazy, corrupt corridors of Westminster. All four series…
Northanger Abbey (1987)- Dir. Giles Foster
Feat. Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth - A BBC adaptation based on the Jane Austen novel, with Austen–heroine Katherine Schlesinger yearning for a consuming gothic romance amid the…
On the Black Hill (1987)- Dir. Andrew Grieve
Feat. Bob Peck, Nicola Beddoe, Patrick Godfrey - Adapted from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the difficult lives of Welsh tenant–farmers in the early 20th century. A bull–headed Bob Peck…
Perfect Spy, A (1987)- Dir. Peter Smith
Feat. Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Peggy Ashcroft… - Peter Egan is Magnus Pyum, a spy so perfect he has come to betray everyone he knows, including himself. A superbly realised Beeb version of John Le…
Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story (Mini-Series) (1987)- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Burl Ives, Bruce Davison… - Farrah Fawcett divides and conquers in this sizable biopic on the life and times of heiress Barbara Hutton, whose lineage to the Woolworth fortune…
Poor Man's Orange (TV Mini-series) (1987)- Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Kaarin Fairfax… - The continuing sagas of a poverty stricken Irish–Australian family, in this sequel to HARP IN THE SOUTH.
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