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 West Wing: Season 5 (2003)
8.7/10
Starring: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Dule Hill, Joshu...
The Speaker of the House (John Goodman), a Republican, takes over the presidential duties in the wake of Bartlet's daughter being kidnapped. A new vi... Read more
The West Wing: Season 6 (2004)
8.7/10
Starring: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, Stocka...
The Bartlet administration is entering its final year. Up and coming congressman Matthew Santos (Jimmy Smits), and Republican senator Arnold Vinick (A... Read more
The West Wing: Season 7 (2005)
8.7/10
Starring: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Dule Hill, Joshu...
The final season of this political drama sees the emergence of a new administration, as the build-up to the election heats up. The untimely death of... Read more
The White Queen (2013)
7.8/10
Starring: James Frain, Janet McTeer, Juliet Aubrey, Robert Pugh, Amanda Hale, Max Irons, R...
The year is 1464 and England has been at war for nine years over who is the rightful King of England. This is a war between two sides of the same fami... Read more
The Winds of War (1983)
8.2/10
Director: Dan Curtis
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Tennant, John Housema...
The Emmy-winning TV mini-series, bringing to life Herman Wouk's tale of a Navy family's devotion to duty and to each other in the days shortly before... Read more
The Wire: Season 1 (2002)
9.3/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland, Daniel Attias, Ernest Dickerson, Peter Medak, Brad Anderson, Tim Van Patten
Starring: Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris
From Emmy-winning David Simon, this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. To... Read more
The Wire: Season 2 (2003)
8.2/10
Starring: Idris Elba, Dominic West, Larry Gilliard Jr, Seth Gilliam, Sonja Sohn, Wood Harr...
From creator David Simon, this unvarnished, highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. In the comp... Read more
The Wire: Season 3 (2004)
9.3/10
Starring: Idris Elba, Wood Harris, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West...
Everyone is feeling the heat in Baltimore. The drug war is losing campaign, bodies are piling up in the street and a desperate mayor demands to see so... 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