Television Shows
"As Seen on TV"
A television movie (also TV movie, made-for-TV movie, telefilm, etc.) is a photoplay that does not normally feature in movie theatres but is produced for, and released to, television only. It is commonly considered a type of movie, but some people restrict the latter term to those that play in cinemas only.
The programs listed below have all at one time or another been on the telly. Most of those great old shows are represented here, from "Green Acres" to "Absolutely Fabulous", from "Dallas" to "Six Feet Under", from "The Simpsons" to "Ren and Stimpy".....
Below is an amalgam of Alice's entire collection of "Television Shows". For more precise grazing you may find scrolling within this genre helpful. ie "TV Drama", "TV Comedy", "TV Cult", etc
Blackadder 2 (1985)
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, P...
England 1558-1603. The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-a... Read more
Firefly: The Complete Series (2002)
9/10
Director: Various
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel St...
500 years in the future, a renegade interstellar officer turned smuggler/rogue is the commander of a small spacecraft with a loyal hand-picked crew sc... Read more
Seinfeld: Season 7, Episodes 13 - 24 (1996)
8.9/10
Director: Various
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards
Pontifications on marriage, maturity and the availability of soup abound in the fabulous seventh season of 'Seinfeld'. This set includes the episodes:... Read more
Underbelly: Series 1 (2008)
8.2/10
Starring: Gyton Grantley, Rodger Corser, Caroline Craig, Kat Stewart, Robert Mammone, Fran...
Based on the factual book 'Leadbelly' by Melbourne Age journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule, this is the compelling dramatization of Melbourne's... Read more
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors (1972)
8.7/10
Director: Lennie Mayne
Starring: William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtne...
UNIT HQ comes under attack by an alien force, and the Doctor has no other option but to call on his own people, the Time Lords, for help. Breaking the... Read more
The Jane Austen Collection: Emma / Northanger Abbey / Mansfield Park (2007)
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence, Jon Jones, Iain B MacDonald
Starring: Bernard Hepton, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong, Prunella Scales, Samantha Morton,...
English production house ITV presents three adaptations of Austen classics. In 'Mansfield Park', poverty-stricken Fanny Price (Billie Piper) is sent a... Read more
The Killing: Series 3 (2012)
4.3/10
Starring: Sofie Grabol
A.k.a. "Forbrydelsen". Detective Inspector Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl) returns in the third and final series of The Killing Trilogy. The financial crisi... Read more
The Fall: Series 1 (2013)
8.2/10
Director: Jakob Verbruggen
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Ian McElhinney, John Lynch, Archie Panjabi, Stuart Graham, Lau...
Gillian Anderson stars as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case. Though her superiors aren't convinced,... Read more
The Eric Sykes Collection: The Plank / Rhubarb Rhubarb! / It's Your Move / Mr H is Late / The Big Freeze (1993)
Director: Eric Sykes
Starring: Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Roy Castle, Jimmy Tarbuck, Hattie Jacques, Jimmy Edwar...
In the tradition of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin comes Eric Sykes and his famous comedy players. These one-off specials are the pinnacle of Sykes... Read more
Breaking Bad: Season 5, Part 1 (2012)
9.5/10
Starring: Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul return in their Emmy-winning roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the f... Read more