British TV & Films 1978 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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1. 3-2-1 (1978–1987)
60 min | Game-Show
Three couples compete in a missing word game, with the winning couple going on to solve riddles left by guest performers to win prizes and avoid Dusty Bin's booby prize.
Stars: Ted Rogers, Dusty Bin, Chris Emmett, Mike Newman
Votes: 101
2. Life at Stake (1978– )
Drama
A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.
Stars: Frank Duncan, Peter Banks, Ed Bishop, Edward Hardwicke
3. A Little Like Drowning (1978)
55 min | Drama
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ann Gow, David Hatton, Dominic Minghella
Votes: 25
4. A Soft Touch (1978– )
30 min | Comedy
Alison "Maureen Lipman" and Jack "John Flanagan" Holmes Are a chalk and cheese couple. She is intelligent and works hard. He is a self confident but unemployed dreamer whose plans to get rich quickly end in disaster.
Stars: Maureen Lipman, John Flanagan, Maria Charles, Alan Ford
Votes: 8
5. A Woman's Place? (1978– )
25 min | Drama
Four dramas followed by four documentaries, all examining the subject of how women fit into the modern world, stepping outside of their traditional gender rôles, often to the chagrin of the men.
Stars: Jenny Lacey, Anna Calder-Marshall, Ralph Bates, Robert East
6. Accident (1978–1979)
50 min | Drama
Following a car crash, the lives of the ten people involved in it become intertwined. Each episode concentrated on the accident as it affected one person or one couple.
Stars: Michelle Newell, Daniel Hill, Jane Collins, Doremy Vernon
Votes: 9
7. And Now the Good News (1978– )
25 min | Comedy, Music
Stars: Richard Stilgoe, Rowan Atkinson, Tim Rice, Barbara Dickson
8. Begging the Ring (1978)
55 min | Drama
An investigation of a family's dilemma when the 18 year old son, trained by his ambitious father for the local wrestling championships, receives his call up papers for WWI.
Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: Danny Simpson, Jon Croft, Janette Legge, Kenneth Midwood
9. Bernie (1978–1980)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Bernie Winters, Anthony Sharp, Valerie Minifie, Keith James
Votes: 10
10. Born and Bred (1978–1980)
60 min | Comedy
Comedy drama about two large, inter-related south London families who struggle to believe that blood is thicker than water.
Stars: Kate Williams, James Grout, Gillian Raine, Constance Chapman
Votes: 19
11. Breakaway Girls (1978– )
55 min | Drama
Series featuring dramatizations of real-life cases where four young women of differing backgrounds have run away from home.
Stars: Anthony Storr, Sally Knyvette, Louisa Rix, Sally Watts
12. Come Back Lucy (1978)
25 min
Young Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice has been dead for over a hundred years and wishes to drag Lucy back in time, to play with her for eternity.
Stars: Emma Bakhle, Bernadette Windsor, Phyllida Law, Royce Mills
Votes: 52
13. Do You Remember? (1978– )
60 min | Drama
Short series of plays by leading British dramatists.
Stars: Richard Vernon, Brenda Bruce, Ian Holm, Gwen Watford
14. Empire Road (1978–1979)
30 min | Drama
A soap opera, similar in format to Coronation Street (1960), this show depicted life for the African-Caribbean, East Indian, and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham.
Stars: Norman Beaton, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Joseph Marcell, Trevor Butler
Votes: 20
15. Enough Cuts for a Murder (1978)
75 min | Musical, Thriller
Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Saadi Araji, Lee Buick, Barry Cook, Mary Cook
16. Exposure (1978)
48 min | Drama
Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel with a French girl photographer.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: Catherine Schell, T.P. McKenna, Bosco Hogan, Niall O'Brien
Votes: 7
17. Give Us Tomorrow (1978)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
Director: Donovan Winter | Stars: Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt, James Kerry, Donna Evans
Votes: 165
18. Hawkmoor (1978– )
50 min
Five-part BBC series from 1978 about the escapades of Welsh folk hero Twm Siôn Cati.
Stars: John Ogwen, Philip Madoc, Tom Owen, Jack May
19. House of Caradus (1978– )
60 min | Drama
Drama series about a family of provincial Auctioneers.
Stars: Sarah Bullen, Robert Grange, Anthony Smee, Dean Lawrence
20. Huntingtower (1978– )
30 min | Adventure
A motley group of people - a Russian princess, an English poet and a retired Scots grocer among them - are brought together at Huntingtower. But why?
Stars: Paul Curran, Peter Settelen, Stanley Lebor, Andrew Faulds
Votes: 22
21. In the Forest (1978)
80 min | Drama
Director: Phil Mulloy | Stars: Barrie Houghton, Anthony O'Donnell, Ellen Sheean, Joby Blanshard
Votes: 14
22. In the Looking Glass (1978)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Madeline Smith, John Wells, John Fortune, Carl Davis
23. Leave It to Charlie (1978–1980)
30 min | Comedy
David Roper and Peter Sallis starred in this comedy series. Charlie Fisher (David Roper) is a keen young agent for the Lancastrian Insurance Company whose benevolent deeds invariably backfire.
Stars: David Roper, Peter Sallis, Sally Kinghorn, Gwen Cherrell
24. Lennie and Jerry (1978–1980)
50 min | Comedy
Lennie Bennett and Jerry Stevens perform comedy and song, and introduce special guests, along with variety acts from all over the world.
Stars: Lennie Bennett, Jerry Stevens, Alyn Ainsworth, Albert Pontefract
25. Leopard in the Snow (1978)
PG | 94 min | Drama
A beautiful young woman is driving through the English countryside during a terrible snowstorm. She wrecks her car, and is found by a bitter, reclusive former American racecar driver, who ... See full summary »
Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Susan Penhaligon, Keir Dullea, Jeremy Kemp, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 144
26. Let's Get Laid (1978)
R | 90 min | Comedy
A soldier returning from World War II gets mixed up in a series of murders and mistaken identies regarding a cigarette lighter than affects all electric power.
Director: James Kenelm Clarke | Stars: Fiona Richmond, Robin Askwith, Anthony Steel, Graham Stark
Votes: 172
27. Life Begins at Forty (1978–1980)
Comedy
Stars: Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach, Michael Graham Cox, Fanny Rowe
Votes: 16
28. London Night Out (1978–1983)
Stars: Tom O'Connor, The Ladybirds, The Nigel Lythgoe Dancers, Hot Gossip
29. Long Shot (1978)
85 min | Drama
Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking.
Director: Maurice Hatton | Stars: Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Ann Zelda, David Stone
Votes: 104
30. Must Wear Tights (1978 TV Movie)
60 min | Musical
The story of a famous TV star and an unknown young actress. Their paths cross, they fall in love, and it ends happily ever after.
Director: Keith Beckett | Stars: Gemma Craven, Lewis Collins, Robert Dorning, Eamonn Andrews
Votes: 14
31. On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978)
96 min | Drama
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Annie Balfour, Paul Bennett, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Caffrey
Votes: 19
32. Parables (1978– )
45 min | Drama
The traditional early Sunday evening religious slot on ITV underwent a transformation with a series of five contemporary plays based on the parables from the gospels.
Stars: Jack Smethurst, Richard Vernon, Rachel Davies, William Russell
33. Pickersgill People (1978– )
55 min | Comedy
Comedy series about the everyday events in a small town in Northern England.
Stars: Nick Stringer, Philip Jackson, Antony Sher, Bernard Hill
Votes: 12
34. Pinocchio (1978– )
30 min
In the BBC's 1978 Pinocchio TV series, a wooden puppet comes to life and embarks on a whimsical journey to become a real boy.
Stars: Derek Smith, Rhoda Lewis, Roy Macready, Neil Fitzwiliam
Votes: 17
35. Power Play (1978)
Not Rated | 102 min | Thriller, Drama
In an unnamed country rife with internal troubles, Narriman, a loyal army colonel, has his conscience pricked into planning a coup d'etat, under the influence of a dissident intellectual.
Director: Martyn Burke | Stars: Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence, Barry Morse
Votes: 432
36. Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair (1978)
78 min
Rapunzel's story from Grimm's fairytales is retold and reinterpreted several times to examine feminist issues. There's the male voyeur as film noir detective; a raunchy cartoon Venus who's ... See full summary »
Stars: Jeanette Bateman, Lydia Blackman, Jean Boht, Martin Burrows
Votes: 9
37. Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978)
90 min | Comedy
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
Director: Justin Cartwright | Stars: Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle, Beryl Reid, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 204
38. Scottish Playbill (1978–1979)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Paul Young, Anne Kidd, Joseph McKenna, Jimmy Yuill
39. Send in the Girls (1978)
60 min | Drama
Stories of girls on a Sales Promotion Team.
Stars: Annie Ross, Norma West, Diana Davies, Carole Hayman
40. Seven Years (The Complete Works of Digby Rumsey 1971-1978) (1978)
163 min | Fantasy, Horror
Compilation of four short films by Digby Rumsey: For All the Immigrants in England, Windows, Nature and Time and The Moonlight Comb. Also includes new linking footage.
Director: Digby Rumsey
41. Sexton Blake and the Demon God (1978– )
30 min | Mystery
Private detective Sexton Blake and Tinker find themselves on the trail of worshipers of an ancient Egyptian cult
Stars: Jeremy Clyde, Phil Davis, Linal Haft, Sonny Caldinez
42. Somebody's Daughter (1978– )
27 min | Drama
Stars: June Page, Elvis Payne, Diana Van Proosdy, Lucita Lijertwood
43. Son of Hitler (1979)
92 min | Comedy
The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich.
Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Bud Cort, Peter Cushing, Felicity Dean, Leo Gordon
Votes: 127
44. St. Joan (1978)
75 min | Drama, History
Parallels are drawn between St. Joan and Adolph Hitler, which exposes a sometimes fraudulent, megalomanic self-love on the part of the subject.
Director: Steven Rumbelow | Star: Monica Buferd
Votes: 10
45. Stevie (1978)
PG | 102 min | Biography, Drama
This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.
Director: Robert Enders | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen, Trevor Howard
Votes: 545
46. Telling Tales (1978)
90 min | Drama
The lives of two households - one middle class, the other working class - focusing on the women's roles and their emancipation.
Director: Richard Woolley | Stars: Bridget Ashburn, Erica Burke, Patricia Donovan, Ben Housden
Votes: 20
48. The Billion Dollar Bubble (1978 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Actuaries. Ethics. And One Billion Dollars.
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: James Woods, William Hootkins, Shane Rimmer, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 97
49. The Devil's Crown (1978)
55 min | Biography, Drama, History
Henry Plantagenet (later King Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order.
Stars: Jane Lapotaire, John Duttine, Christopher Gable, Brian Cox
Votes: 106
50. The Kenny Everett Video Show (1978–1981)
30 min | Comedy, Music
This show featured music set to imagery, just prior to MTV. Most of it was concert footage though some had effects and a theme. It had a choreography segment featuring dancers known as "Hot Gossip".
Stars: Kenny Everett, Hot Gossip, Anna Dawson, Cliff Richard
Votes: 265
51. The Law Centre (1978)
60 min
Drama set in a centre where people in trouble can get free legal help.
Stars: Suzanne Neve, James Maxwell, Carl Andrews, Julie Peasgood
52. The Les Dawson Show (1978–1989)
30 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
A variety show hosted by Les Dawson featuring sketch comedy, as well as stand-up comedy, guest appearances, dance numbers, and musical performances.
Stars: Les Dawson, Roy Barraclough, The Roly Polys, Alyn Ainsworth
Votes: 31
53. The Life Story of Baal (1978)
58 min | Drama
German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht never produced a fully revised version of Baal, his first play (1918), and so the text can be considered fair game for further work. Director ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Neil Johnston, Patti Love, Jeff Rawle, Nick Edmett
Votes: 24
54. The Little and Large Show (1978–1991)
50 min | Comedy
Syd Little and Eddie Large present their own comedy show, which mixes stand-up, sketches, musical guests, and variety acts.
Stars: Syd Little, Eddie Large, Ronnie Hazlehurst, Foxy Feeling
Votes: 70
55. The Odd Job (1978)
87 min | Comedy
Arthur Harris is a happily-married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife Fiona is leaving him. Devastated, he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick, Simon Williams
Votes: 279
56. Let the Falcons Go (1978)
53 min | Family
Director: Cecil Petty | Stars: Julia Gambold, Gary Dundavin, Alex McCrindle, Barrie Cosney
57. The Pink Medicine Show (1978– )
Comedy
Stars: Lynda Bellingham, Nickolas Grace, Peter John, Chris Beetles
Votes: 19
58. The Sailor's Return (1978)
100 min | Drama
Set in the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria provides an unusual historical representation of a black person's experience of England.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Tom Bell, Shope Shodeinde, Elton Charles, Denyse Alexander
Votes: 74
59. The Standard (1978– )
50 min
Investigative reporter Colin Anderson joins the Scottish Daily Standard, a newspaper with financial problems and an uncertain future
Stars: Patrick Malahide, Colette O'Neil, Neil Stacy, Tom Watson
60. Tycoon (1978)
50 min | Drama
After the death of businessman Sir Sydney Clark, his widow Diana investigates some of the mysteries of his life and work.
Stars: Diane Cilento, Norman Rodway, Christopher Gable, Edward Hardwicke
Votes: 7
61. Under the Same Sun (1978–1979)
25 min | Drama
Stars: Howard Goorney, Ailsa Berk, Tessa Worsley, Roman Stefanski
62. What's Up Nurse! (1977)
Unrated | 68 min | Comedy
When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients. Of course Dr. Todd is no ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Ford | Stars: Nicholas Field, Felicity Devonshire, John Le Mesurier, Graham Stark
Votes: 173
63. What's Up Superdoc! (1978)
89 min | Comedy
A doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.
Director: Derek Ford | Stars: Christopher Mitchell, Julia Goodman, Harry H. Corbett, Bill Pertwee
Votes: 142
64. You're Driving Me Crazy (1978)
53 min | Comedy
Having lost his license through driving under the influence of drink, Tom hires Bente, an au pair, to be his chauffeur. He readily succumbs to her charms, resulting in his wife Jacqui hiring her own male au pair, Aron.
Director: David Grant | Stars: Michael Watkins, Steve Amber, Pat Astley, Suzy Mandel
Votes: 17
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