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
Oppenheimer (1980)
8.4/10
Director: Barry Davis
Starring: Sam Waterston, Philip O'Brien, David Suchet, Liza Ross
This terrific BAFTA-winning 7-part mini series stars Sam Waterston as 'the father of the atomic bomb', J Robert Oppenheimer. A gripping dramatization... Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 1 (2013)
8.2/10
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Jessica Pimentel, Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Joel Garland,...
The story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transp... Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 2 (2014)
8.2/10
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Michael Harney, Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Abuda, Danie...
All 13 episodes from the second season of the Netflix comedy drama adapted from Piper Kerman's memoir about her time spent in a women's prison. Taylor... Read more
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Charlotte Coleman, Geraldine McEwan, Celia Imrie
With an upbringing spent learning the Bible and praying for 'heathens in hot countries', Jess unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins sc... Read more
Orphan Black: Season 1 (2013)
8.3/10
Starring: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchar...
Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) is a streetwise outsider, on the run from a bad relationship and painfully separated from her own daughter. When an eerily loo... Read more
Orphan Black: Season 2 (2014)
7.6/10
Starring: Matt Frewer, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tatiana Maslany, Evelyne Brochu, Dylan Bruce,...
As the mysterious world of Orphan Black widens, new layers of the conspiracy are peeled back. Season 2 hits the ground running with Sarah in a despera... Read more
Orphan Black: Season 3 (2015)
4.6/10
Director: John Fawcett
Starring: Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Tatiana Maslany, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Two-time Critics Choice Award-winner Tatiana Maslany returns in the pulse-racing third season of Orphan Black. After the shocking discovery of Project... Read more
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
8.2/10
Director: Julian Farino
Starring: Paul McGann, Anna Friel, Pam Ferris, Timothy Spall
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this lavish Masterpiece Theatre production is set in 1860s London and concerns two converging love affairs, one invol... Read more
Out of Darkness (1993)
7.9/10
Director: Larry Elikann
Starring: Diana Ross, Beah Richards
A deeply moving drama about a woman's courageous battle against insanity. Diana Ross plays Pauline Cooper who, when she was born, the doctor said she... Read more
Out on a Limb (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Butler
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Charles Dance, John Heard, Anne Jackson, Jerry Orbach
Shirley MacLaine plays herself in this mini-series based on her autobiographical best seller, which delves into her new age beliefs and its effects on... Read more