1 9 8 5 (UK) 3 x 160 minute episodes Told in flashback and beginning in 1905, this Channel 4 drama (their most successful) was the…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 7 9 – 1 9 9 0 (Australia) This children’s TV show on Australia’s Seven Network originally aired only in Brisbane. From 1983,…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Twelve years after ABC failed with a comedy set in a…
1 9 8 9 (USA) 2 x 120 minute episodes This ABC miniseries (based on a novel by Gloria Naylor) aired over two nights in March…
1 9 8 2 (Australia) 4 x 60 minute episodes Created by writer Sonia Borg and Aboriginal poet and sociologist Hyllus Maris, this four-part Australian…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 3 (USA) 115 x 30 minute episodes The Wonder Years was a whimsical view of growing up in…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 8 3 (USA) 1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) This pioneering example of cooperation between a…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 1 x 30 minute pilot 7 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived series from Granada was written by Victoria Wood, who…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 7 (UK) 63 x 30 minute episodes Long-running Children’s TV series telling the stories of Eric (Edward Fidoe),…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 2 (UK) 18 x episodes Lunchtime programme from Yorkshire Television based on the Woofits children’s books by popular television and radio…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 7 (USA) 177 x 30 minute episodes Hosted by Ted Kennedy, NBC’s daytime gameshow Wordplay replaced Search for…
1 9 7 0 – 2 0 0 7 (UK) 358 x 15/10 minute episodes Debuting in March 1970, this occasional educational schools series from the…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) This long-running natural history series featured the wonders of nature and assorted global explorations. Initially…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones – who were thrown together…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 9 8 (UK) Granada TV’s hard-hitting current affairs series World in Action was first transmitted in 1963 and set a…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) World of Sport was created in January 1965 as a Saturday afternoon rival to Grandstand. The show -…
1 9 8 2 (USA) 2 x 100 minute episodes This gripping miniseries was a major event when it screened. It told the hypothetical tale of…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 0 (USA) 8 x 60 minute episodes By 1979, the Super Friends series – originally launched on ABC…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 31 x 30 minute episodes Children’s novelist Barbara Euphan Todd created the character of Worzel Gummidge…
1 9 8 5 (USA) 13 x 25 minutes episodes Disney Studios, long the king of animation in motion pictures and TV specials, entered the Saturday…