1 9 8 8 (UK) 3 x 30 minute episodes This three-part BBC serial for children was based on the novel of the same name by…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) This drama series focused on Ken Reeves (Ken Howard), a one-time professional basketball player with the…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 18 x 60 minute episodes Richie (Matthew Labyorteaux from Little House On The Prairie), Ham (Todd Porter), Jeremy (Jeffrey Jacquet) and…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) 6 x episodes This Anglia TV adaptation of the popular children’s books by Peter Eldin…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 22 x 45 minute episodes 9 x 60 minute episodes This trendy “cutting-edge” comedy sketch show…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes This six-part BBC comedy drama serial was set at Hawkswood School – locally referred to as…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 9 2 (USA) 196 x 30 minute episodes Widower Tony Micelli (Tony Danza) was a former second baseman for…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Whoops Apocalypse painted a frightening but fantastic picture of international politics and brinkmanship, as lunatic world leaders…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 9 (UK) 136 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 6 (USA)…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 1 x 210 minute episode While playing golf on the Welsh coast with his friend Dr Thomas (Bernard Miles) in 1934,…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 9 5 (UK) 25 minute episodes The full title of this Saturday morning summer show for kids was actually Why…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) Wide Awake Club debuted on Saturday 13 October 1984, as the first live kids show on TV-am.…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 1 9 8 5 (UK) 12 x 50 minute episodes As an actress, Lynda La Plante appeared on British television in several…
1 9 8 4 (UK) 20 x 5 minute episodes 1 9 8 6 (UK) 10 x 5 minute episodes Thie animated welsh-language cartoon was based…
1 9 8 9 (USA) 3 x 60 minute episodes Following the death of a good friend, Alaskan wilderness guide “Wild” Jack McCall (John Schneider) is…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) Viewers of Wild Kingdom in its heydey remember insurance company Mutual of Omaha’s sponsorship (the full title…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived and best-forgotten BBC comedy followed Cage (David Sibley) and Moon (Robin Driscoll) – two…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 7 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Wildfire (voiced by John Vernon) was a magical talking stallion that…
1 9 8 5 (USA) 6 x 60 minute episodes Five upstanding citizens of Wildside County – a rough and tumble county in northern California -…
1 9 8 7 (Australia) 26 x 50 minute episodes This ill-fated comedy/drama series from the Australian Nine Network revolved around two likeable but workshy and…