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
The Gentle Touch: Series 1 (1980)
7.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Nigel Rathbone, William Marlowe, Jill Gascoine
The first ever UK cop series to star a female lead, 'The Gentle Touch' introduced audiences to a new sort of law and order, and a new sort of main cha... Read more
The George Eliot Collection (2010)
Director: Anthony Page, Giles Foster, Tom Hooper, Ronald Wilson
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ben Kingsley, Edward Fox, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Iain...
The George Eliot Collection includes onscreen adaptations of Eliot's most famous novels. Eliot created literary masterpieces that detailed ordinary li... Read more
The Glittering Prizes (1976)
8.7/10
Director: Robert Knights, Waris Hussein
Starring: Nigel Havers, Tom Conti, Mark Wing-Davey, Barbara Kellerman
Oscar-winner Frederic Raphael's ("Darling") tale portrays the hopes and frustrations of an entire generation through the story of a group of friends w... Read more
The Golden Age of Comedy Collection (1950)
Starring: Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Lou Costello, D...
Laugh out loud with some of the best and funniest live comedy moments from the 1950s and '60s, a time when a wildly creative group of comedic talents... Read more
The Golden Girls: Season 1 (1985)
7.9/10
Director: Various
Starring: Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White, Estelle Getty
Meet the Golden Girls, four 'mature' women spending that maturity together in Miami. This first season of the Emmy-winning show introduces the charact... Read more
The Golden Girls: Season 2 (1986)
7.9/10
Starring: Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur
Join Dorothy, the smart one, Sophia, the glib one, Rose, the naive one, and Blanche, the ... well, you know ... for the second season of one of televi... Read more
The Golden Girls: Season 3 (1987)
7.9/10
Starring: Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Harold Gould, Herb Edelm...
Your favourite young-at-heart women return for another helping of laughter, misadventures, and cheesecake in the third season of one of television's m... Read more
The Good Life: Series 2 (1976)
6.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
Tom and Barbara are becoming self-sufficient in their suburban setting, but it's not easy. What do they do with their surplus crops? How can they ap... Read more
The Good Life: Series 3 (1977)
6.5/10
Starring: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
The classic BBC comedy returns with Tom and Barbara continuing to lower the tone of their posh suburban neighbourhood. Includes six great episodes: '... Read more
The Good Life: Series 4 (1978)
6.5/10
Starring: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
The final series of this perennial favourite sees Tom and Barabara taking their first fretful holiday, leaving their precious animals in the care of M... Read more