1 9 8 4 (Australia) 3 x 120 minute episodes This six-hour miniseries from Network 10, Australia, was a dramatic and moving portrayal of the events…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 3 (Australia) 30 x 60 minute episodes This early 80s Australian soap was about policemen and their problems.…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 4 (USA) 8 x 10 minute episodes The excellent! adventures of two heavy metal-loving teens, smart-arse Wayne (Canadian…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 112 x 30 minute episodes The BBC’s ‘Mr Athletics’, sports commentator Ron Pickering, hosted this series which…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) 48 x 30 minute episodes The role model for We Got It Made was the British hit Man About…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes “Overpaid, oversexed and over here” was the familiar description applied to US military personnel stationed in…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This dire but mercifully short-lived sitcom from Thames Television was set in Manchester and revolved around…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) 150 x 25 minute episodes George Papadapolis (Alex Karras), a 41-year-old former pro football player turned…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 506 x 70/90 minute episodes News and current affairs hit Sunday lunchtimes in 1972 as Peter…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) Eric Cord (John J. York) was a graduate student in college whose life took a bizarre…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) West 57th premiered as a summer magazine series that was a fast-paced ‘yuppie’ version of 60…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) 14 x 30 minute episodes This supernatural anthology drama series was initially based on real-life experiences…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This seven-part comedy series from ATV looked at Soho life through the eyes of likeable rogue…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 7 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Room 107 of Los Angeles High School is home to a…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 6 3 (UK) 1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 4(UK) 1 9 8 4 – 1…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) 21 x 60 minute episodes Airing at 10 pm on Monday nights on Channel 4, Whatever…
1 9 7 5 – Current (USA) 1 9 8 8 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 1 9 8 1 – 2 0 0 8 (Australia)…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 51 x 50 minute episodes A gritty Northern drama set in the South Shields area after…
1 9 8 0 (USA) 10 x 60 minute episodes This short-lived ABC comedy featured a gang of young Los Angeles construction workers out to have…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 4 (UK)…