‘Allo ‘Allo
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...
1980s Television – Introduction
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...
20/20
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.
Notable interviews...
21 Jump Street
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...
227
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...
240-Robert
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...
3-2-1
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...
3-2-1 Contact
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...
60 Minutes
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...
9 To 5
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...
A Country Practice
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...
A Current Affair
1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 8 (Australia)
1 9 8 8 - current (Australia)
An Australian magazine programme that started life as a...
A Different World
1 9 8 7 - 1 9 9 3 (USA)
142 x 30 minute episodes
1 x 60 minute episode
A spin-off from The Cosby Show in which Denise Huxtable...
A Gentleman’s Club
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...
A J Wentworth, BA
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...
A Kick Up The Eighties
1 9 8 1 - 1 9 8 2 (UK)
18 x 30 minute episodes
This sketch show from BBC Scotland mined the same iconoclastic post-punk humour...
A Perfect Spy
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...
A Question Of Sport
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...
A Sharp Intake Of Breath
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...
A Very British Coup
1 9 8 8 (UK)
3 x 60 minute episodes
A Very British Coup followed the destabilising of an elected Left-Wing British government by shadowy forces from...
