Life on Earth (TV Mini Series 1979) Duration: Description: Life on Earth: With David Attenborough. David Attenborough’s groundbreaking study of the evolution of life on our planet… Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1979 Documentary
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini Series 1979) Duration: 4h50m Description: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: With Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6’s echelons… Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1979 Drama […]
Captain Future (TV Series 1978–1979) Duration: Description: Captain Future: With Taichirô Hirokawa, Eiko Masuyama, Keiichi Noda, Ken’ichi Ogata. This series documents the adventures of Curtis Newton, a brilliant scientist, who, under the name “Captain Future”, chases interstellar criminals together with his crew (a robot, an android, and a human brain separated from its body)… Trailer […]
How the West Was Won (TV Series 1976–1979) Duration: Description: How the West Was Won: Created by Jim Byrnes, Albert S. Ruddy. With James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb, William Kirby Cullen. The Macahans, a family from Virginia, headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home […]
Sapphire & Steel (TV Series 1979–1982) Duration: 30m Description: Sapphire & Steel: Created by Peter Hammond. With David McCallum, Joanna Lumley, David Collings, Gerald James. The secrets Sapphire, Steel and their colleagues find include people trapped in photos, ghosts lost in time and a retro dinner party… Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1979 1982 Mystery Sci-Fi […]
El Chapulín Colorado (TV Series 1973–1979) Duration: 25m Description: El Chapulín Colorado: Created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños. With Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Ramón Valdés, Carlos Villagrán, Florinda Meza. An accident-prone superhero seems to cause more problems than the villains he faces… Trailer ↗ 1973 1979 Comedy Family Fantasy
Minder (TV Series 1979–1994) Duration: 1h Description: Minder: Created by Leon Griffiths. With George Cole, Glynn Edwards, Dennis Waterman, Gary Webster. Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. Can his ex-boxer bodyguard Terry stay level-headed whilst working for the King of Dodgy Deals?.. Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1979 1994 Comedy Crime […]
Prisoner (TV Series 1979–1986) Duration: 50m Description: Prisoner: With Elspeth Ballantyne, Barbara Jungwirth, Betty Bobbitt, Sheila Florance. The lives of the staff and inmates of a women’s prison… Trailer ↗ Australia 1979 1986 Crime Drama
Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini Series 1978–1979) Duration: Description: Pennies from Heaven: With Cheryl Campbell, Bob Hoskins, Gemma Craven, Kenneth Colley. A travelling sheet music salesman with an uptight wife throws everything away for the love of an innocent school teacher in the romantic spirit of the music he loves, that bursts into his life […]
Kyandi Kyandi (TV Series 1976–1979) Duration: 30m Description: Kyandi Kyandi: With Minori Matsushima, Kazuhiko Inoue, Makio Inoue, Taeko Nakanishi. The life of Candy, a little orphan girl, and her friends… Trailer ↗ Japan 1976 1979 Animation Drama Family
Ripping Yarns (TV Series 1976–1979) Duration: 30m Description: Ripping Yarns: With Michael Palin, Charles McKeown, Barbara New, David Griffin. This show is a collection of tales that make for “ripping good” television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn… Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1976 1979 Adventure Comedy
Benson (TV Series 1979–1986) Duration: 30m Description: Benson: Created by Susan Harris. With Robert Guillaume, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Missy Gold. Jessica Tate’s sharp-tongued former butler, Benson DuBois, moves up in the world, becoming first the governor’s “director of household affairs,” then the state’s budget director, then lieutenant governor and candidate for the executive mansion… […]
Skæbnefortællinger (TV Series 1979–1988) Duration: 25m Description: Skæbnefortællinger: With Roald Dahl, Andrew Ray, Forbes Collins, Richard Johnson. Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl… Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1979 1988 Comedy Drama Horror
Worzel Gummidge (TV Series 1979–1981) Duration: Description: Worzel Gummidge: With Jon Pertwee, Jeremy Austin, Charlotte Coleman, Mike Berry. Children’s series about the adventures of Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee), a scarecrow who comes to life… Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1979 1981 Family Comedy Drama
Scooby’s All Star Laff-A-Lympics (TV Series 1977–1979) Duration: 30m Description: Scooby’s All Star Laff-A-Lympics: With Marilyn Schreffler, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North. The various Hanna Barbera characters compete in their own version of the Olympic Games… Trailer ↗ United States 1977 1979 Animation Short Action
Good Times (TV Series 1974–1979) Duration: 30m Description: Good Times: Created by Mike Evans, Norman Lear, Eric Monte. With Ja’net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie ‘JJ’ Walker. A poor family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects… Trailer ↗ United States 1974 1979 Comedy
You Can’t Do That on Television (TV Series 1979–2004) Duration: 30m Description: You Can’t Do That on Television: With Les Lye, Abby Hagyard, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy. Sketch TV by young amateur actors in true classic Nick-style. But whatever you do, never admit that you don’t know or ask for water… Trailer ↗ Canada 1979 […]
What’s Happening!! (TV Series 1976–1979) Duration: 24m Description: What’s Happening!!: With Ernest Thomas, Haywood Nelson, Danielle Spencer, Fred Berry. A trio of black youths learn about life, love, friendship, credit cards, gambling, and a variety of other things while growing up in an inner city… Trailer ↗ United States 1976 1979 Comedy
Welcome Back, Kotter (TV Series 1975–1979) Duration: 30m Description: Welcome Back, Kotter: Created by Gabe Kaplan, Alan Sacks, Peter Meyerson. With Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes. A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids… Trailer ↗ United […]
Wonder Woman (TV Series 1975–1979) Duration: 1h Description: Wonder Woman: Created by William Moulton Marston, Stanley Ralph Ross. With Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Tom Kratochvil, Richard Eastham. The adventures of the greatest of the female superheroes… Trailer ↗ United States 1975 1979 Action Adventure Fantasy