Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2929 Films to Buy & Rent
Walter / Walter & June (Loving Walter) (1982-1983)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Keith Allen…
- A pair of grim television movies based on the novels by David Cook, starring Ian McKellen as a man with a learning disability who is condemned by…
Bergerac (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. John Nettles, Terence Alexander
- Classic of its kind. Roguish Bergerac races around Jersey trying to thwart jewel thieves, terrorists, murderers and general no gooders. Great fun,…
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 4 (1981)
- Feat. Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating
- More adventures and intrigues for the crew of the 'Liberator', in this classic British TV Series.
Series Four: 13 episodes over five…
Brideshead Revisited (Mini-series) (1981)
- Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick…
- Famous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel chronicles one Charles Ryder and his relationship with the Marchmain family in England between the wars.…
Cherry Orchard, The (1981)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall…
- BBC television drama based on the classic 1904 play by Anton Chekhov about the decline of the Russian aristocracy in general and one high–born…
Dallas - Season 5 (TV Series) (1981-1982)
- Feat. Larry Hagman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy…
- Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…
Darkroom (TV Series) (1981)
- Feat. James Coburn
- James Coburn hosts this cultish NIGHT GALLERY spinoff, with weekly episodes presenting two or three shorts tales of the mysterious and macabre.
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (1981)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne
- More convincing and clinical than previous adaptations of John Wyndham's novel, this BBC series depicts the blinding of Earth's human population and…
Dynasty (TV Series) (1981-1989)
- Feat. John Forsythe, Joan Collins, Linda Evans…
- Producer Aaron Spelling's lavish prime–time soap, conceived to capitalize on the huge success of rival, "Dallas", can't hide its status as a…
East of Eden (TV Mini-series) (1981)
- Dir. Harvey Hart
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner…
- Over six hours long, this sumptuous Emmy and Golden Globe winning mini–series, adapts Steinbeck’s quintessential novel "more fully and…