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
Police Squad!: The Complete Series (1982)
8.5/10
Director: David Zucker, Georg Stanford Brown, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Joe Dante, Paul Krasny, Reza Badiyi
Starring: Georg Stanford Brown, Dick Clark, William Conrad, William Duell, Robert Goulet,...
Finally on DVD, all six episodes of the hysterical TV-cop spoof that inspired the hit movie 'The Naked Gun'. Leslie Nielsen is Detective Frank Drebin... Read more
Popetown (2005)
5.3/10
Starring: Voices Of, Matt Lucas, Ruby Wax, Kevin Eldon, Jerry Hall, Mackenzie Crook
 Imagine "Father Ted" meets "South Park" complete with superstar voices, some of the hottest animators around and a script that will make you fall of... Read more
Porridge (1979)
8.3/10
Director: Dick Clement
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale
This full-length feature based on the classic British TV series stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two prisoners who want nothing more than... Read more
Porridge: Series 1 (1974)
8.3/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale
Six episodes of cynicism, self-preservation and bare-faced cheek as Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) takes on the Slade prison system. Also starring Richard B... Read more
Porterhouse Blue (1987)
7.7/10
Director: Robert Knights
Starring: David Jason, Ian Richardson, John Sessions, Charles Gray, Barbara Jefford
Based on the best-seller by great British satirist Tom Sharpe, this TV classic stars David Jason and Ian Richardson as two men battling over the futur... Read more
Portlandia: Season 1 (2011)
7.8/10
Starring: Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein
A short-based comedy series starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Each episode's character-based shorts draw viewers into "Portlandia", the cre... Read more
Portlandia: Season 2 (2012)
5.8/10
Starring: Heather Graham, Kyle MacLachlan, Steve Buscemi, Selma Blair, Fred Armisen, Jason...
Welcome back to Portlandia. Starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, Season Two takes viewers on a trip into the creators' dreamy rendering of Por... Read more
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
7.7/10
Director: Stephen Whittaker
Starring: Janet McTeer, David Haig, Cathryn Harrison, Diana Fairfax, Peter Birch
British aristocrat and writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson married in 1913, and their love endured and deepened over the course of... Read more
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
8.1/10
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Henry Czerny, Sigourney Weaver, Carly Schroeder, Ryan Kelley, Austin Nichols
Sigourney Weaver stars in the amazing true story of Mary Griffith, a mother torn between her loyalties, challenged by her faith, and moved by a traged... Read more
Pride and Prejudice (BBC) (1995)
8.9/10
Director: Simon Langton
Starring: Alison Steadman, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Colin Firth, David Bamber, Jennifer Ehle, J...
Elizabeth Bennett, a spirited and independent young woman, is the subject of her mother's obsessive goal to marry off her five daughters to the wealth... Read more