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Subgenre Sampler
Simon and Simon (TV Series) (Simon & Simon) (1981)- Feat. Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker
- Two sibling sleuths, one a sophisticate, the other a slacker, hunt counterfeiters, drug dealers and contract killers in this classic action series…
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)…
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…
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…
That's My Boy (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake
- ARE YOU BEING SERVED?'s kooky Mollie Sugden broke ranks with this batty British sitcom, in which she played the hired housekeeper of a young married…
Wave, The (1981)
- Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch - A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
An Audience with Dame Edna (1980-1988)- Dir. Alasdair MacMillan
Feat. Barry Humphries - A compilation of three TV specials starring the indefatigable and imperious Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries in drag) as she shares her opinions on…
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980)- Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar… - This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…
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