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
Outlander: Season 1, Volume 2 (2015)
8.5/10
Starring: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Duncan Lacroix, Graham McTavish, S...
Episodes 9-16. As 'Outlander' continues, Claire and Jamie's relationship is tested by ruthless Redcoats, volatile clan politics, and a brutal witch tr... Read more
Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999)
8.8/10
Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry
New Year's Eve 1999 and Lord Edmund Blackadder and his friends gather to celebrate the Millennium. As they sit and discuss the future, Blackadder reve... Read more
Northern Exposure: Season 1 (1990)
8.2/10
Director: Peter O'Fallon, Jack Bender, John David Coles
Starring: John Corbett, Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum, Darren E Bur...
Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow) is a new medical college graduate. Due to a clause in the small print of his scholarship contract he finds himself in the... Read more
Ali G, Innit (2000)
7.6/10
Director: James Bobin, Steve Smith
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ali G
'Da Old Skool Intraviewz' - Ali G's unique style of questioning on The 11 O'Clock Show brought him instant fame and notoriety. Now the 'official voice... Read more
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
8.7/10
Director: Matthew Robinson
Starring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding
Earth, 1984: The TARDIS becomes trapped in a time corridor and is drawn off course, emerging in London's deserted docklands. Deep space, the far futur... Read more
Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1 (2008)
8.1/10
Director: Charles Palmer, John Greening, Marc Jobst
Starring: Dawn French, Julia Sawalha, Liz Smith, Linda Bassett, Olivia Hallinan, Sarah Lan...
'Lark Rise to Candleford', adapted from Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood, presents a love letter to a vanished corner of rural Eng... Read more
Borgen: Season 2 (2011)
7.1/10
Starring: Soren Malling, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, Emil Poulsen, Frej...
Birgitte Nyborg has been Denmark's Prime Minister for two years - years that have taken their toll on her private life. She must now balance her role... Read more
The Wire: Season 4 (2006)
8.6/10
Starring: Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie Faison, Aidan Gillen, Deirdre Lovejoy, Clarke...
With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNutty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "fol... Read more
The Wire: Season 5 (2008)
9.3/10
Starring: Aidan Gillen, Corey Parker Robinson, Dominic West, Michael Kostroff, Clarke Pete...
The complete fifth and final season. In a city that can no longer even recognize its problems, much less begin to solve them, police detectives attemp... Read more
Persuasion (2007)
7.6/10
Director: Adrian Shergold
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones, Alice Krige, Julia Davis, Amanda Hale, Tobias...
Anne fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend... Read more