1 9 8 4 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) 55 x 30 minute episodes 26 x 25 minute episodes 3 x 45 minute episodes 1 x 35 minute episode “Listen…
Browsing: TV Shows – 1980s
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes 13 East was a hectic ward in a large unnamed hospital where Maggie Poole (Diana Bellamy)…
1 9 8 2 (Australia) 7 x 50 minute episodes On the eve of World War I in the small country town of Bindogundra (in the wheat belt of New South…
If the TV show you are watching features a swag of characters in infeasibly large shoulder pads and an excess of hair gel, do not adjust your set – you are watching…
1 9 7 8 – Current (USA) This hour-long current affairs show from ABC has always featured award-winning journalists covering social issues and current events. The show set out to emulate…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 0 (USA/Canada) 34 x 60 minute episodes 21 Jump Street was about undercover cops who were assigned to high schools, colleges and…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 116 x 30 minute episodes 227 first aired in September 1985 and ran for five seasons on NBC before its final episode…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) 16 x 60 minute episodes 240-Robert followed the exploits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Emergency Services Detail (ESD) -…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 180 x 60 minute episodes Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin (a robotic dustbin with a face on the front) appeared in…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) 108 x 30 minute episodes This educational science programme from PBS Children’s Television Workshop became something of an after-school ritual for many…
1 9 6 8 – Current (USA) 1 9 7 9 – Current (Australia) In 1967 Don Hewitt conceived of his new programme, 60 Minutes, as a strategy for addressing issues given insufficient…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 3 (USA) 1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) 85 x 30 minute episodes Based on characters created by Patricia Resnick…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 9 3 (Australia) 1057 x 60 minute episodes This long-running Australian drama series revolved around the activities of a medical clinic, hospital and veterinary…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 1 9 8 8 – current (Australia) An Australian magazine programme that started life as a bona fide current affairs…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes The staid, faded elegance of a gentleman’s club was the setting for this BBC sitcom from Richard Gordon, creator of the Doctor series…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This Thames comedy was Arthur Lowe’s last television series, made shortly before his death on 16 April 1982 and screened posthumously. The…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 8 4 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This sketch show from BBC Scotland mined the same iconoclastic post-punk…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 7 x 50 minute episodes In 1987 Peter Egan continued as the smoothie Paul Ryman of Ever Decreasing Circles on Sundays, but on Wednesdays on BBC2 he was…
1 9 7 0 – Current (UK) Fresh from the studio soccer game Quiz Ball, David Vine first introduced A Question Of Sport at 6:20 pm on Monday 5 January 1970 with captains Henry Cooper…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 22 x 30 minute episodes Following his success as support to Ronnie Barker in the BBC’s Open All Hours, and just before taking…
