Subgenre Sampler
Television > Drama: 995 Films to Buy & Rent
Typhon's People (1993)
- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. Alfred Molina, Sophie Lee, Michael Hurst…
- Capable sci–fi thriller, scripted by Margaret Mahy, concerning dodgy genetic–engineering in a remote NZ research station. Stars local…
Year in Provence, A (TV Series) (1993)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. John Thaw, Lindsay Duncan
- Adapted from Peter Mayle's best–selling book, this depicts the experiences of an English couple who move into a rustic village in the south of…
A Touch of Frost (TV Series) (1992-1995)
- Feat. David Jason
- An old–fashioned but thoroughly reliable British detective series set around a Detective Inspector with the 'common touch'. David Jason's…
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (TV Series) (1992)
- Feat. Richard Johnson, Douglas Hodge, Elizabeth Spriggs…
- TV drama based on the post–war satirical novel by Angus Wilson, following an aging historian (Richard Johnson) as he reflects on his youth, his…
Camomile Lawn, The (1992)
- Feat. Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle
- Handsomely mounted for it's time, this TV miniseries is set in 1939 in Cornwall, against the backdrop of the final days of the Spanish Civil War and…
Get Back (TV Series) (1992-1993)
- Feat. Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison, Larry Lamb…
- Limp sitcom with Ray Winstone as an East End boy now running a menswear shop facing financial ruin. Notable only for an early Kate Winslet role and…
Melrose Place (TV Series) (1992-1999)
- Feat. Heather Locklear, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Daphne Zuniga…
- Glossy spinoff to BEVERLY HILLS 90210 tracked an older set of characters all living at a plush apartment complex in Los Angeles and coping with love,…
Picket Fences (TV Series) (1992)
- Feat. Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor…
- Small–town drama from the creator of BOSTON LEGAL and ALLY MCBEAL in which Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt) investigates dark goings on…
Shortland Street: 15 Years Of (TV Series) (1992-2007)
- New Zealand's most successful primetime drama – a regular weeknight fixture for homes nationwide, and a port–of–call for almost every…
Absolute Hell (1991)
- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Judi Dench, Francesca Annis
- Classic BBC television production based on Rodney Ackland's book of the same name: a black, bleak comedy about about a sex–addicted , boozy…