Comedy Movies of 1978
California Suite
Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Cheap Detective
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
House Calls
Recently widowed Dr. Nichols (Walter Matthau) finds himself ill at ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The concept behind the 1977 Hound of the Baskervilles involved having "underground" director Paul ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Goin' South
Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Sextette
Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she became a national sensation following her 1926 Broadway show Sex, ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Hooper
Following the blockbuster success of Smokey and the Bandit, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and director Hal Needham reunited to make the very similar Hooper, an ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The End
At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Revenge of the Pink Panther
In Revenge of the Pink Panther, for the final time, the bumbling but impeturbable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) maddens his long-suffering boss Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), sharpens his wits and martial skills with ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Foul Play
As he did in his screenplay for Silver Streak (1974), writer/director Colin Higgins mixes life-and-death melodrama with broad ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Up in Smoke
Then professional potheads Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong teamed up for Cheech & Chong: Up In Smoke, which features the drug-addled duo on a road ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Rescue From Gilligan's Island
Eleven years after the network cancellation of Gilligan's Island, the crew and passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Minnow returned to the small screen in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. The ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Piranha
The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of Jaws (1977) features several chiller stars of ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
M*A*S*H: Season 07
Now in its seventh season on the air, the irreverent military comedy series M*A*S*H continued to roll along like a well-oiled machine. The most significant change during ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Mork & Mindy: Season 01
[ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
SCTV [TV Series]
An outgrowth of Chicago's Second City comedy ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
National Lampoon's Animal House
Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Hot Lead and Cold Feet
In this Disney western, Jim Dale plays Eli Bloodshy, and his twin sons Wild Billy and Jasper. The older man has founded the town of Bloodshy, and now that ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
What's Happening!!: Season 03
The third and final season of What's Happening!! finds former high schoolers Raj (Ernest Thomas) and Rerun (Fred Berry) sharing an apartment, with chubby Rerun hilariously pursuing a variety of odd jobs and get-rich-quick schemes while ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
La Cage Aux Folles
An international comedy sensation based on a successful French stage play, La ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Harper Valley P.T.A.
This low-budget expansion of the popular Tom T. Hall/Jeannie C. Riley song "Harper Valley PTA" is surprisingly good, boasting lively ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Cat from Outer Space
Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to find gold ($120,000 worth!) in order to repair his spaceship. Jake reveals that he ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Filling the shoes occupied by Walter Matthau in the Bad News Bears and William Devane in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, Tony Curtis takes on the role of the teams newest coach in this, the third installment in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Laverne & Shirley: Season 03
When Laverne & Shirley signed on in January of 1976, America's top-rated program was Happy Days -- of which Laverne & Shirley was, of course, a spin-off. By the time the last-named series entered its third season, it had climbed to the ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Coach
When Fenton (Keenan Wynn), the preeminent citizen of Granger speaks, the town ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Rutles: All You Need is Cash
A mockumentary of a Beatles-like singing group called the Rutles, The Rutles is a collaboration between Monty Python alumnus Eric Idle and Saturday ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Three's Company: Season 03
As the third most popular program on network television, Three's Company entered its third season on ABC with the greatest of ease in the fall of 1978. No major changes had been made in the format or premise: Jack (John Ritter) still shared a ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Diff'rent Strokes: Season 01
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The Bitch
Joan Collins stars as Fontaine Khaled in this sleek and sleazy sequel to her sister Jackie Collins's The Stud. Fontaine is the owner of a high class London ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Death Sport
David Carradine romps around in a loin-cloth as Kaz Oshay, a good-guy biker who hops on his destructocycle to participate in a sport to the ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The time is 1964, and the Beatles, already a hugely popular group, are about to go on the Ed ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Produced for British TV by the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala triumvirate, this India-based comedy was released theatrically in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pop star Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees star in this musical, loosely based on the popular 1967 Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the story, Billy Shears, who now heads the Lonely Hearts ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Season 03
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Hardware Wars
Household appliances set the mood for this parody of Star Wars. ~ All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Thank God It's Friday
The Zoo is the hottest disco in town, and on the night of the big dance contest, a wild assortment of disparate characters find themselves out on the floor together. DJ Bobby Speed ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
One of the first films ever to be designed specifically to become a cult movie, this silly low-budget comedy has tomatoes growing to giant size and terrorizing screaming '70s types. It's ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Malibu Beach
Day or night, it's a hot and wild summer at Malibu Beach. When the sun is high, ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Rockers
Rockers was made after the the stunning success of the independently made 1972 hit The ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Seniors
When faced with graduation, four seniors plot to prolong their college experience for fear of steady employment, but they're also loathe to leave behind their accommodating housemate Sylvia (played with mute, topless allure by a ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Who's Who
Mike Leigh's Who's Who, originally produced for the BBC TV series, Play for Today, takes a look at a group of men ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Here Come the Tigers
This comedy, also known as Manny's Orphans, tells the story of a heterogeneous, ill-spoken, team of Little Leaguers that ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo
This film is the first feature-length animation to follow the popular Japanese television cartoon, Lupin III. Arsene Lupin III ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Ol' Dirty Kung Fu
A long-in-the-tooth martial arts warrior and his none-too-clever followers find themselves in deep trouble in this vintage kung fu comedy. An aging martial arts ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
George Carlin Again!
This video offers viewers comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. This tape is of a performance at a comedy club ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Tartuffe
Donald Moffat stars as the titular scoundrel in this 1978 Circle in the Square production of Moliere's classic comedy, co-starring ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
La Comadrita
A fun-loving girl finds her quest for a good time propelling her into a series of hilarious happenings in this Spanish-language comedy starring in irrepressible Maria Elena ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Soap: Season 02
The cliffhanger that brought season one of Soap to a climax is resolved in season two when Jessica Tate ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Taxi: Season 01
The classic sitcom Taxi spent all of one episode establishing its premise and characters -- then proceeded forward with the confidence of a series that had been on the air for years. In episode one, the viewer was swiftly and ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Are You Being Served?: Season 06
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Munecas de Media Noche
Victor Manuel Castro's comedy Munecas de Media Noche tells the tale of a man of a man who loses his job as a nightclub entertainer after a vacation that he ended up extending without ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
The Muppet Show: Season 03
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Hee Haw: 10th Anniversary Celebration
To commemorate its first decade on television, Hee Haw threw itself a ... [ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
Mind Your Language: Series 01
[ Comedy movie - 1978 ]
