1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) 30 x 50 minute episodes At the age of 40, Londoner Robby Box (Ray Brooks) had…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 2 (Australia) 66 x 60 minute episodes In the late 80s, Australian comedian Wendy Harmer (pictured) brought back…
1 9 7 9 (UK) 1 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes “One for Figaro . .…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) Jimmy Hill was born in Balham in 1928. He began his professional footballing career with Brentford…
1 9 8 0 (USA) 11 x 90/120 minute episodes An attempt by NBC to bring back the big, glitzy variety shows on prime-time network TV.…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 9 5 (Australia) Bill Collins has been described as “Mr Movies of Australia”. He presented films on television and…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 15 x 5 minute episodes Premiering on Monday 17 February 1986, this animated series was based on W. Heath Robinson’s…
1 9 8 4 – 2 0 1 0 (UK) The Bill was created from a one-off drama called Woodentop (a CID nickname for officers in uniform) in the…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 6 (New Zealand) 36 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 9 0 (New Zealand) 26 x 30 minute…
1 9 8 6 (USA) 22 x 30 minute episodes This futuristic story featured six members of the Bennett family who were able to transform themselves…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 4 x 50 minute episodes 1 9 8 4 (UK) 4 x 50 minute episodes Henry Jay (Richard Griffiths) – a quiet…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This Hanna Barbera-produced CBS series was set in medieval times and starred a group of miniature…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 13 x 60 minute episodes Set in a small Yorkshire town where everyone knew everyone else’s business, A Bit Of A Do focused…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 5 (Canada) 150 x 30 minute episodes Hosted by comedian/impressionist John Byner, Bizarre featured off-the-wall and risque comedy vignettes…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) 48 x 60 minute episodes Billie Joe (BJ) McKay was a good-looking young independent trucker who…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 1 x 60 minute episode In 1949, Tom Riley (Sean Chapman doing his best Dirk Bogarde impression) is arrested for the…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 9 (West Germany/Austria) 70 x 45 minute episodes Britain’s Channel Four brought this long-running West German TV soap…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 8 x 50 minute episodes Larry Scott (former Love Thy Neighbour star Rudolph Walker) was a charismatic, ambitious and sometimes arrogant barrister…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes Recently promoted to Commander but frustrated with his career, Scotland Yard’s poetry-loving detective Adam Dalgliesh (Roy…
1 9 8 3 (UK) The Black Adder 1 9 8 6 (UK) Blackadder II 1 9 8 7 (UK) Blackadder The Third 1 9 8 8 (UK) Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, Blackadder’s…