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Soap (TV Series)Soap (TV Series) (1977) Recommended
Feat. Billy Crystal, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mulligan
Still the best satire of the television soap opera, this initially controversial series enveloped its line–up of characters in plots involving…
Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It, TheStrange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It, The (1977)
Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. John Cleese, Arthur Lowe, Stratford Johns
Fans of John Cleese will delight in this dapper detective parody starring the tall one as the bungling descendant of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Lowe…
Three Piece Suite (TV Series)Three Piece Suite (TV Series) (1977)
Feat. Diana Rigg
Rarefied BBC sketch show with Diana Rigg portraying three different women across three separate sketches, alternating effortlessly between comedy and…
Three's Company (TV Series)Three's Company (TV Series) (1977-1984) Recommended
Feat. John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt
A prime–time sitcom favourite about a trio of twenty–something room–mates (two girls and a guy), and their middle–aged…
World's Greatest Lover, TheWorld's Greatest Lover, The (1977)
Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise
Hit–and–miss comedy set in the 1920s with Wilder as a sexually rapacious loser who heads to Hollywood intending to become the next…
Alfie DarlingAlfie Darling (1976)
Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins
Alan Price is a poor substitute for Michael Caine in this limp sequel. This time round Alfie is driving lorries round Europe and back to his…
Bad News BearsBad News Bears (1976) Recommended
Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow
Delightfully cynical baseball comedy starring Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex–baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team…
Big Bus, TheBig Bus, The (1976)
Dir. James Frawley
Feat. Ned Beatty, Stockard Channing, Rene Auberjonois
One of the first and best of the 'Disaster Movie' spoofs – set aboard a nuclear–powered bus which loses its brakes somewhere along the…
Car WashCar Wash (1976)
Dir. Michael Schultz
Feat. Sully Boyar, Ivan Dixon, Bill Duke
A Joel Schumacher–written blaxploitation comedy that offers plenty of opportunities to thrash Rose Royce's eminently catchy pop song.
Don's PartyDon's Party (1976) Aro Favourite
Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Ray Barrett, John Hargreaves, Graeme Blundell
Tawdry sets and outfits compliment the crass attitudes of suburban Sydneyites who gather to celebrate an incoming Labour government on election night…

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