1985 Archives - Page 2 of 5

Sukeban Deka

A juvenile delinquent code-named Saki Asamiya is taken in by the government and forced to fight crime to redeem her actions. She is sent to various high schools to infiltrate and neutralize gangs and other forms of crime as a police officer using her metal yo-yo badge as a weapon.

NR Fuji TV

6

1985 Crime 25 min Play

HD TV 0

Time for Murder

Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no ordinary tales of mystery and suspense. Each has its own twist, ranging from the darkly humorous to the truly macabre.

Spenser: For Hire

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

NR ABC

6.7

1985 Crime 60 min Play

HD TV 7.1

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes.

NR BBC One

7.1

1985 Crime 60 min Play

HD TV 7.5

Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.

NR BBC One

7.5

1985 Crime 60 min Play

HD TV 3.5

The Henderson Kids

The Henderson Kids is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.

NR Network Ten

3.5

1985 Action 50 min Play

HD TV 6.2

Lady Blue

Lady Blue is a crime drama starring Jamie Rose as a Chicago female homicide detective Katy Mahoney. The show was produced by MGM/UA Television and aired on ABC-TV from September 26, 1985 to January 25, 1986 for 13 episodes. It was cancelled after one season after low ratings in its Thursday night slot, but also because it was considered too violent for its time. The show later aired on Saturday nights but the show failed there as well. It ranked 72nd out of 82 programs that season, and ...

NR ABC

6.2

1985 Action 44 min Play

HD TV 8.1

Edge of Darkness

Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.

NR BBC Two

8.1

1985 Crime 60 min Play

HD TV 6.6

Night Heat

Night Heat was a Canadian police drama series. It starred Allan Royal as journalist Tom Kirkwood, who chronicled the nightly police beat of detectives Kevin O'Brien and Frank Giambone in an unnamed northeastern North American metropolis. The police crime drama series aired on both CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States from 1985 to 1989. Night Heat was conceived by Sonny Grosso, a former New York City Police Department detective. Grosso served as the show's executive producer along ...

NR CTV

6.6

1985 Crime 60 min Play

HD TV 6.5

Super Gran

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.

NR ITV1

6.5

1985 Comedy 30 min Play

HD TV 6.5

Bulman

Bulman is a Granada TV series which ran from 1985–1987 and followed the fortunes of the major character from the earlier XYY Man and Strangers series. Bulman was based - increasingly loosely - on the character featured in the XYY Man novels by Kenneth Royce. In this incarnation, Don Henderson appeared again as former Detective Chief Inspector George Bulman, ostensibly retired from police work and repairing old clocks but active as a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his ...

NR ITV1

6.5

1985 Crime 60 min Play

HD 3

Rambo Tan-Go Part III

Forced by his family to join the army, Johnny Rambo ends up in the squad of misfits.

NR

3

1985 Action 140 min Play

HD 5.8

Rocky’s Love Affairs

During World War II, a valuable pendant is taken into hiding to protect it from those who would use it for evil. Years later, men are still trying to retrieve the pendant, now separated into two parts for safekeeping, and will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. A young tournament fighter who is traveling to a big event unwittingly becomes involved in the recovery of the mysterious pendant.

NR

5.8

1985 Action 91 min Play

HD 0

The Making of ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’

Follows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central Australia.

NR

0

1985 Documentary 52 min Play

HD 4.6

Future-Kill

The star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun-happy guards.

R

4.6

1985 Action 89 min Play

HD 3.5

Biohazard

A group of skeptical government officials headed by General Randolph are brought to a remote laboratory for a demonstration in "Psychic Materialization", a successful side effect of an experimental drug. But the project scientists had warned that not enough testing had been completed to access safety concerns. In a freak accident during the demonstration to the politicians, a vicious creature is created! Unable to contain the monster, it unleashes unbelievable havoc & destruction against ...

R

3.5

1985 Horror 79 min Play

HD 5.2

Zone Troopers

American soldiers, led by The Sarge, are stuck behind Nazi enemy lines. As they make their way across the Italian countryside, they come across an alien spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods. The alien pilot is dead, but one of the ship's passengers is on the loose. As the GIs hunt down the alien by splitting into smaller groups, they're not only tracked by the Nazis, but also a whole host of other aliens come to save their stranded party.

PG

5.2

1985 Action 86 min Play

HD 4.6

Creature

A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

R

4.6

1985 Horror 97 min Play

HD 2.9

Alien Outlaw

Aliens land in a small town where Jesse Jamison is about to have a gun show and bullets fly after the aliens start killing people. Watch out Diamond Booking agency for your next momentous event!

NR

2.9

1985 Comedy 90 min Play

HD 3

The Spaceship of Aliens

A story about a launch of one of the first "Vostok" space ships in 1960.

NR

3

1985 Drama 90 min Play

HD 6.6

The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again

The Author, i.e. J. R. R. Tolkien himself (played by Zinovij Gerdt), tells "his" story: the life of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and enjoyable hobbit, is turned upside down when he decides to join the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves in an attempt to regain a treasure stolen from the latter. [Soviet television movie adaptation of "The Hobbit"]

NR

6.6

1985 Adventure 71 min Play

HD 0

Dinosaur Matrix

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

NR

0

1985 Animation 1 min Play

HD 7.3

The Making of the Terminator

This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Terminator, the now-classic science fiction film about an ordinary woman being pursued by an unstoppable assassin robot sent from the future to kill her before she can give birth to a child who will one day become the leader of a resistance army. Included are interviews with stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, along with the cast and crew who share their experiences from making the film, as well ...

NR

7.3

1985 Documentary 22 min Play

HD 5.8

Ninja Terminator

Three martial-arts students search for the Golden Ninja Warrior, a statue reputed to have magic powers.

NR

5.8

1985 Action 92 min Play