Subgenre Sampler
Television > Action/Adventure: 119 Films to Buy & Rent
- Sharpe (TV Series) (1993-1998)
- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Sean Bean, Brian Cox
- Various teledramas adapting Bernard Cornwall's famous novels about the adventures of an officer in the 19th century British Army. In perhaps his best…
- Flash, The (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. John Wesley Shipp, Amanda Pays, M. Emmet Walsh…
- Vastly underrated TV adaptation of the DC comicbook hero, in which a forensic detective (Shipp) has a laboratory accident which causes the molecules…
- Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Peter Ustinov…
- Mostly delightful version of Jules Verne's light adventure yarn, in which Phileas Fogg (Brosnan) attempts the titular feat for a bet. More complete…
- Booker (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Carmen Argenziano
- Good value spin–off series from 21 JUMP STREET, with Richard Grieco from the original series taking on the role of a rebellious private…
- Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
- Captain James Cook (TV Mini Series) (1987)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Keith Michell, Fernando Rey, Carol Drinkwater
- Lavishly–produced series about the epochal sea voyages of Captain James Cook, who set out from Britain in 1768 to observe the transit of Venus…
- Great Bookie Robbery, The (TV Mini Series) (1986)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. John Bach, Bruno Lawrence, Andy Anderson…
- Classic heist drama based on a multi–million dollar robbery in 1976 Melbourne, and re–enacted by the cream of New Zealand's acting…
- Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. David Rasche, Harrison Page, Anne-Marie Martin
- GET SMART meets DIRTY HARRY in this riotous late–night spoof detailing the exploits of unorthodox Inspector 'Sledge Hammer', a loose cannon of…
- Airwolf (TV Series) (1984-1987)
- Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord
- Eighties television series centered on a high–tech military helicopter and its crew as they undertake various missions of espionage, often with…
- Blue Thunder (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. James Farentino, Dana Carvey
- Television series based on the 1983 movie of the same name about the law enforcers and tacticians operating the Blue Thunder helicopter and its…