The Muppet Show - Season Four
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt
Available Quality: DivX
Lew Grade, head of the British commercial station ATV, offered a deal to Henson that would see his show produced at the ATV studios in Elstree, England. ATV, as part of the ITV network, would broadcast the show to other ITV stations in the United Kingdom, and its distribution arm, ITC Entertainment, would sell the show in the United States and around the world. Henson put aside his misgivings about syndication and accepted.
Jailhouse Wardress
Genres: Drama
Year: 1979
Country: France
Director: Alain Deruelle
Starring: Didier Aubriot
Available Quality: DivX
After the fall of Nazi Germany, some of the most sadistic SS officers escape to South America. There they build a fort where they imprison women and force them to perform various sexual acts. A group of people who are looking for revenge, sends a commando unit to the fort to eradicate the sadists once and for all.
Dallas - Season Three
Genres: Drama
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: David Jacobs
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Available Quality: DivX
The show's central character is John Ross "J.R." Ewing Jr., a greedy, scheming oil baron played by Larry Hagman (a Fort Worth native). J.R. was only intended to be a supporting character when the show premiered, as the series was originally based around J.R.'s brother Bobby and his new bride, Pam. However, J.R.'s machinations became popular with viewers and he quickly became the focus of the series.
Dallas - Season Fourteen
Genres: Drama
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: David Jacobs
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Available Quality: DivX
In 2010, TNT (sister company to Warner Bros. Television who are the current copyright owners of the series) announced they were producing a new, updated series of Dallas. The new series is a continuation of the original series and will primarily center around J.R. Ewing's son John Ross Ewing III, and Bobby Ewing's adopted son Christopher Ewing, though various stars of the original series will be reprising their roles. The new series is due to air on the TNT channel in mid-2012.
Three's Company - Season Four
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Brian Cooke, Johnnie Mortimer
Starring: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers
Available Quality: DivX
After crashing Eleanor's wedding reception and finding himself passed out in the bathtub, cooking school student Jack Tripper happens across Janet Wood, a florist, and Chrissy Snow, a secretary, in need of a new roommate after Eleanor gets married and moves out. Having only been able to afford living at the YMCA, Jack quickly accepts the offer to move in.
Blakes 7 - Season Two
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Year: 1979
Country: UK
Director: Terry Nation
Starring: Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Peter Tuddenham
Available Quality: DivX
Popular from the time it was first broadcast, despite a TV budget inadequate for its intergalactic story, it remains well regarded[1] on account of its dystopian tone, moral ambiguity, strong characterisation and its memorable final episode. It has since inspired a comedy short and a series of audio-play prequels; a proper remake, either live-action or animated, has been rumoured for many years, though never reached fruition.
Archie Bunker's Place - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Carroll O'Connor, Danielle Brisebois, Jason Wingreen
Starring: Carroll O'Connor, Jason Wingreen, Danielle Brisebois
Available Quality: DivX
Television sitcom which was a continuation of 'All in the Family.' In this series, Archie Bunker gets to loudly voice his opinions in his own bar, instead of at home.
All in the Family - Season Nine
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: John Rich
Starring: Rob Reiner, Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor, Sally Struthers, Mike Evans
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The show ranked #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years, a mark later matched by The Cosby Show and surpassed by American Idol, which notched its sixth consecutive year at #1 in 2010 and whose streak is still ongoing. TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as #4. Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time.
The Lady in Red aka Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin aka Touch Me and Die
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Lewis Teague
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Louise Fletcher, Milt Kogan, Robert Conrad, Dick Miller, Glenn Withrow, Nancy Parsons
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
1930's gangster era film about Dillinger and his last girl. Written by John Sayles.
Monkey Magic - Season Two
Genres: Action
Year: 1979
Country: Japan
Director: Jun Fukuda, Toshi Aoki
Starring: Peter Woodthorpe, Dankichi Kuruma, Masaaki Sakai
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Monkey is the dubbed English language version of the Japanese television series Saiy?ki , based on the classic sixteenth century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. It was originally produced by Nippon Television (NTV) and International Television Films in association with NHK.
King Frat
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Starring: Tom Tully, Robert Small, John DiSanti, Dan Chandler, Dan Fitzgerald, Lee Krug, Charles Pitt
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Set on the quiet campus of Yellowstream University, this comedy follows the rivalries that build between two of the college's fraternities. When they're not mooning everyone they pass and throwing garbage on the lawns of rival frats, the members of the Pi Kappa Delta fraternity are mainly interested in drinking and... well, drinking. When a campus- wide farting contest is announced, Grossout, the leader of the Deltas, is all too eager to stand up, bend over and defend the honor of his fraternity.
Hair
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: USA, West Germany
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Beverly D'Angelo, Treat Williams, John Savage, Richard Bright, Dorsey Wright, Annie Golden, Don Dacus
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.
Savage Weekend
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: David Paulsen
Starring: Christopher Allport, William Sanderson, David Gale, Yancy Butler, Jeff Pomerantz, Devin Goldenberg, Jim Doerr
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.
Going Steady aka Greasy Kid Stuff
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: West Germany, Israel
Director: Boaz Davidson
Starring: Jonathan Sagall, Zachi Noy, Yftach Katzur, Yvonne Michaels, Rachel Steiner, Dafna Armoni, Dvora Kedar
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In this nostalgic sequel to the Israeli hit Lemon Popsicle, three teen pals on the brink of manhood look for love, sex and a good time, set to a soundtrack of beloved 1950s rock 'n' roll. Benzi (Yftach Katzur) is the sensitive romantic, Yudale is shy and overweight (Zachi Noy) and Momo (Jonathan Sagall) is the ladies' man. Hugely popular in Israel, Going Steady was the first of many Lemon Popsicle sequels, including Hot Bubblegum and Baby Love.
Up from the Depths
Genres: Horror
Year: 1979
Country: USA, Philippines
Director: Charles B. Griffith
Starring: Charles Howerton, Sam Bottoms, Helen McNeely, Virgil Frye, Ken Metcalfe, Susanne Reed, Kedric Wolfe
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A series of mysterious aquatic attacks indicate the presence of some huge, previously unknown giant species of shark that has risen to the surface and is preying on tourists, fishermen, researchers, etc. A local beachcomber and scam artist, Sullivan, will have to put out to sea to defeat it.
The Two Worlds Of Jennie Logan
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Frank De Felitta
Starring: Lindsay Wagner, Henry Wilcoxon, Pat Corley, Gloria Stuart, Alan Feinstein, Marc Singer, Linda Gray
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
This movie is about a woman who is trying to rebuild her shattered marriage. She and her husband move to an old Victorian style home, where she finds a beautiful dress in the attic, which has a tear in the shoulder. She has the dress repaired. When she tries it on in the restored attic, she suddenly finds herself in another era. This time travel seems to happen whenever she wears the dress. She learns the house was once owned by an artist who died under mysterious circumstances. She meets the artist and eventually falls in love with him. Knowing what she does about his fate, can her love save him and change history?
The First Great Train Robbery
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1979
Country: UK
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Alan Webb, Janine Duvitski, Peter Benson, Malcolm Terris, John Bett
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.
Voices
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Robert Markowitz
Starring: Allan Rich, Amy Irving, Barry Miller, Alex Rocco, Michael Ontkean, Viveca Lindfors, Joseph Cali
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
His world is music. She lives in a world without sound.
Dragoneer 5: The Indomitable aka Golden Dragon Silver Snake
Year: 1979
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Director: Godfrey Ho
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The Muppet Movie
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Year: 1979
Country: USA, UK
Director: James Frawley
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt, Mel Brooks, Elliott Gould, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Orson Welles interpreta Lew Lord, potente e famoso produttore cinematografico, contattato per produrre un film con Kermit la Rana e gli altri Muppets, dopo aver trattato con il loro agente.