1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes This BBC2 monologue and sketch showcase for former New Faces winner Victoria Woods featured…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 4 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes This short kids’ series from HTV about the wonders of the computer microchip debuted on 9…
1 9 8 7 – 2 0 1 1 (Australia) 180 minute/240 minute episodes This music video show from Channel 10 (Australia) aired on Saturday and…
1 9 8 7 (Australia) 10 x 45 minute episodes This 10-part series, produced by Kennedy-Miller for Network Ten in Australia, presents the Vietnam War as…
1 9 8 4 (Japan/USA) The success of Transformers as a cartoon and a set of toys led to a mania for transforming robots during the mid-1980s. Soon…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 3 (USA) 20 x 60 minute episodes A philosopher once speculated that the whole face of the world…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) Wacaday was introduced when Roland Rat, the puppet host of TV-am’s previous Good Morning Britain weekday…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 10 x 25 minute episodes This ten-part BBC series was written by N.F. Simpson. ‘Crawf’ Lyndon Brook Mo Khan Gay…
1 9 8 1 (USA) 7 x 60 minute episodes Buford Pusser (Bo Svenson) was the big, brawling sheriff of McNeal County, Tennessee. A former Marine and…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) 220 x 50 minute episodes This extremely sentimental saga told of the poor-but-happy and wholesome backwoods…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) 12 x 150 minute episodes This 30-hour sequel to the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War was…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 1 x 120 minute episode 42 x 60 minute episodes Based extremely loosely on the H.G.…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes Seventeen-year-old Tess Eveling (Lucinda Bateson) meets her father, Dr Gerald Buscombe (Paul Ratcliffe) in London for…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 3 x 30 minute episodes This three-part BBC-1 children’s dramatisation of Robert Westall’s ghost story focused on 15-year-old Anne (Diana Morrison),…
1 9 8 2 (Australia) 13 x 30 minute episodes This children’s series from the Australian Broadcasting Commission began with a spaceship landing in a Sydney…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Bow-tie-wearing Brian Reeves (Christopher Biggins) is the head of an advertising agency. Recently married husband-and-wife team…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) 667 x 25/50 minute episodes Watch With Mother – a general title for a series of five individual…
1 9 8 5 – 2 0 1 9 (UK) Initially a segment on Nationwide, BBC consumer affairs programme Watchdog was launched as a show in…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 56 x 60 minute episodes Set in Merseyside, Watching took its name from the bird-watching hobby enjoyed by…
1 9 8 0 (Australia) 1 x 150 minute episode 7 x 60 minute episodes Set in Australia between the two World Wars, the nine-and-a-half hour…