1988 Archives – Page 3 of 19

Mystery Science Theater 3000

A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.

TV-14 Comedy Central

7.8

1988 Comedy 92 min Play

TV 6.6

Home and Away

Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart ...

NR Seven Network

6.6

1988 Drama 20 min Play

TV 7.6

48 Hours

This newsmagazine series investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening — and resolution — of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart.

NR CBS

7.6

1988 Mystery 60 min Play

TV 8.4

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

NR PBS

8.4

1988 Documentary 55 min Play

TV 7.9

The Storyteller

The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

NR

7.9

1988 Action 25 min Play

TV 4.8

Countryfile

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

NR BBC One

4.8

1988 Documentary 60 min Play

TV 8.4

The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years tells the story of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin (Daniel Stern), Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.

NR ABC

8.4

1988 Comedy 24 min Play

TV 5

LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

TV-PG Syndication

5

1988 Talk 43 min Play

6.8

Chicken and Duck Talk

A witty and thoroughly engaging send-up of both the fast food business and the cut-throat techniques often employed by conglomerates to crush independent competition.

NR

6.8

1988 Comedy 95 min Play

6.7

Stealing Home

Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt returns home to deal with this tragedy reminescing over his childhood growing up with his father, Katie and best friend Alan Appleby.

PG-13

6.7

1988 Drama 98 min Play

7

The Cat Came Back

A pesky yellow cat becomes the bane of Mr. Johnson's life as it constantly outsmarts his increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it.

NR

7

1988 Animation 7 min Play

7.4

Dogra Magra

A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his distant ancestors murdered his wife as a way of demonstrating a point to his lord about the importance of love over the emptiness of lust and to drive home the point further, created a series of illustrations of the dead woman decaying which in turn trigger ...

NR

7.4

1988 Horror 109 min Play

5.5

Masquerade

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.

R

5.5

1988 Drama 91 min Play

4.8

Night Wars

Two Vietnam Veterans have realistic nightmares about the war. So real are these nightmares that they start getting injured in them, and bringing things back that they had in the dream. They then buy weapons and go in to try and get one of their friends out that originally died in a POW camp during the Vietnam war. This is made harder by a traitor from the US Military Corps.

NR

4.8

1988 Horror 88 min Play

7.7

Peculiar Attraction

A television director decides to make a show about the invasion of transvestites in Mar del Plata. He commissions one of his editors, Jorge Trolombati, who must infiltrate and impersonate one.

NR

7.7

1988 Comedy 90 min Play

6.6

Dance of the Damned

A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life before taking it, and during the course of the evening they discuss their differences, their fears, and their lifestyles. As the moment of truth approaches, the woman becomes less sure that she wants to die.

R

6.6

1988 Horror 82 min Play

5.2

Uninvited

A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.

PG-13

5.2

1988 Horror 90 min Play

7

Dance ‘Til Dawn

It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to.

NR

7

1988 Comedy 100 min Play

7.4

Chet Baker: Let’s Get Lost

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

NR

7.4

1988 Documentary 120 min Play

6.7

A Tale of the Wind

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.

NR

6.7

1988 Documentary 80 min Play

4.4

Zombie Death House

A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.

NR

4.4

1988 Drama 90 min Play

4.3

Memorial Valley Massacre

Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.

R

4.3

1988 Horror 93 min Play

6.4

Mamba

When Gene, a maniacally deranged computer-game designer, gets dumped by his beautiful artist wife, he devises a masochistic plan for revenge. Taking his spouse prisoner, Gene locks her in her windowless Los Angeles loft but leaves her with something to keep her company -- a deadly mamba snake. Via electronic sensors and cameras, he watches with glee as his terrorized ex-lover fights for her life.

NR

6.4

1988 Crime 81 min Play

5.8

The Deceivers

India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In disguise, he plans to himself become a “Deceiver” and infiltrate their numbers. Ever present in Savage’s adventures is a sense of dread; he is in constant fear of betrayal and vengeance and also undergoes a disturbing psychological ...

NR

5.8

1988 Adventure 102 min Play