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 Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
6.6/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: Nigel Davenport, Shane Briant, Charles Aidman, Fionnula Flanagan
Can the gift of eternal youth and beauty be a curse? It is in this made-for-TV rendition of the Oscar Wilde shocker. Shane Briant plays the debauched... Read more
The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
8.1/10
Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Sarah Parish, Eddie Redmayne, Hayl...
Ken Follett's best-selling novel is brought to life in this critically acclaimed eight-part miniseries. Emerging from the war-torn shadows of England'... Read more
The Plank (1967)
7.5/10
Director: Eric Sykes
Starring: Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Roy Castle, Jimmy Edwards
The slapstick perilous misadventures of two clumsy construction builders who require a wooden floorboard. Read more
The Planman (2003)
7.2/10
Director: John Strickland
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Celia Imrie, Vincent Regan, Graham Crowden, John McGlynn, Neil...
Robbie Coltrane stars in this intelligent two-part thriller as Jack Lennox, a brilliant, but bored, lawyer frustrated by the professional criminals he... Read more
The Politician's Wife (1995)
8/10
Director: Graham Theakston
Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Ian Bannen, Frederick Treves, Minnie Driver
A rivetting Channel Four mini-series with Juliet Stevenson as the wife of a British MP (Trevor Eve) who it is discovered has been having an affair wit... Read more
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
4.3/10
Director: John Putch
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Bryan Brown, Steve Guttenberg, Rutger Hauer, C Thomas Howell, Pete...
Like its predecessor from 1972, this made-for-TV version is based on Paul Gallico's novel, though perhaps more loosely, for example exchanging terrori... Read more
The Practice: Season 1 (1997)
7.7/10
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Michael Badalucco, Camryn Manheim, Steve Harris, LisaGay Hamilt...
Before 'Boston Legal', and concurrent with his other hit show, 'Ally McBeal', David E Kelley created another legal eagle show, centred around a firm o... Read more
The Pretender: Series 1, Episodes 1-5 (2005)
7.5/10
Director: Michael Bennett, Patrick Gillies
'The Pretender' is a smart, satirical and biting examination of our nation's leaders; the people behind them; and the jealousy, megalomania, fear, con... Read more
The Prisoner: The Complete Miniseries (2009)
8.6/10
Director: Nick Hurran
Starring: Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Lennie James, Jamie Campbell Bower, Hayley Atwell, R...
A man, known as Six (Jim Caviezel), finds himself inexplicably trapped in The Village with no memory of how he arrived. As he explores his environment... Read more
The Prisoner: The Complete Series (1967)
8.6/10
Director: David Tomblin, Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Peter Graham Scott, Robert Asher, Joseph Serf
Starring: Patrick McGoohan
One of the most amazing television series ever devised has Patrick McGoohan as a secret agent who retires from service only to be abducted and placed... Read more