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…
Browsing: TV Shows – 1980s
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 1 9 8 8 – current (Australia) An Australian magazine programme that started life as…
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…
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…
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…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes Bearded, bespectacled and overweight English teacher Trevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths) and his long-suffering and loving wife,…
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…
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…