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
Doctor Zhivago (2002)
7.5/10
Director: Giacomo Campiotti
Starring: Keira Knightley, Hans Matheson, Sam Neill, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie
One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this lavish adaptation of Boris Pasternak's epic mas... Read more
Doll and Em: Season 1 (2013)
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells
In this behind-the-scenes comedy, Emily Mortimer hires her best friend Dolly Wells to be her assistant on an L.A. shoot, blurring the lines between th... Read more
Don Matteo: Series 4 (2004)
6.7/10
Director: Guilio Base, Andrea Barzini
Starring: Terence Hill, Nina Frassica, Flavio Insinna, Nathalie Guetta, Milena Miconi
Terence Hill stars in this award-winning and popular Italian detective series as Father Matteo, a 'special' investigator whose profound knowledge of t... Read more
Don Quixote (2000)
6.2/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams
In this fanciful version of Cervantes' classic story, John Lithgow is the middle-aged Spaniard who retreats into a world of fantasy while searching fo... Read more
Don't Wait Up: Series 1 (1983)
7.1/10
Director: Harold Snoad
Starring: Nigel Havers, Tony Britton, Dinah Sheridan
Nigel Havers plays Tom Latimer, a young doctor who has just come through a particularly nasty, and expensive, divorce. Now it seems his mum and dad a... Read more
Double Take (2003)
5.4/10
This BAFTA-winning BBC TV series offers a nice spin on our culture's strange obsession with celebrity, here we have Becks and Sven comparing underwear... Read more
Downton Abbey: A Journey to the Highlands (Christmas Special 2012) (2012)
8.7/10
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith
Or: Christmas Special 2012. This special Christmas episode of "Downton Abbey" aired between Seasons 3 and 4. The family receive a warm welcome at Dune... Read more
Downton Abbey: A Moorland Holiday (Christmas Special 2014) (2014)
8.7/10
Starring: Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Michelle Dockery
It's the grouse season and Rose's father-in-law Lord Sinderby has rented Brancaster Castle in Northumberland and invited the Crawleys to a shooting pa... Read more
Downton Abbey: Christmas at Downton Abbey (Christmas Special 2011) (2011)
8.7/10
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith
Or: Christmas Special 2011. Originally screened between Seasons 2 and 3 is this Christmas Special in which Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas... Read more
Downton Abbey: Season 1 (2010)
8.7/10
Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton,...
Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, this sumptuous costume drama, written and created by Academy Award winner Julian Fellow... Read more