1 9 8 6 (USA) 13 x 60 minute episodes Alexander Blacke (Hal Linden) was a debonair magician who liked to solve crimes with the help…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 9 (UK) 4 x 50 minute episodes Dennis Potter is arguably the most important creative figure in the history of British television. From…
1 9 8 1 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived CBS cartoon series from Filmation featured US astronaut John Blackstar (voiced by George DiCenzo),…
1 9 8 8 (Australia) This Australian comedy show starred Andrew Denton and is notable for beginning the television careers of many Australian performers, including Flacco,…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 52 x 50 minute episodes Yes, the sets wobbled with tedious regularity – but they did…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 9 0 (UK) 1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 2 (UK) Debuting on 18 January 1979, Blankety Blank…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 21 x 30 minute episodes When newly ordained young curate Father Neil Boyd (Daniel Abineri) comes…
1 9 8 5 – 2 0 0 3 (UK) 356 x 30 minute episodes With Surprise Surprise established and Cilla Black more bankable than she…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 9 5 (UK) Blockbusters was a very basic quiz game – hosted by Bob Holness – which consisted of…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 2 (USA) 1 9 8 7 (USA) The NBC game show Blockbusters ran for a year and a…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Young Viscount Rupert Fitzcharles (Grant Warnock) – the son of the Administrator General of the United…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 3 x 60 minute episodes Billy Gibbs (Michael Elphick) is a Leeds-based private eye with a heart condition who is…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 1 x 50 minute episode 5 x 55 minute episodes In 1985, George Cole temporarily abandoned Arthur Daley to play Sir…
1 9 8 2 (USA) 3 x 160 minute episodes Stretched out to nearly eight agonising hours, this 1982 CBS miniseries attempted to tell the story…
1 9 5 8 – Current (UK) On 16 October 1958, a former beauty queen and a former Army officer sat down to introduce the first…
1 9 8 8 (USA) 8 x 60 minute episodes Annie Pfeiffer (Season Hubley) and Frank Cobb (Tom Wopat, best known as Luke Duke from The…
1 9 8 4 (USA) One of the hit movies of the summer of 1983 was Blue Thunder, an action movie starring a seemingly impregnable state-of-the-art police…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 8 x 50 minute episodes This eight-part biographical drama from the BBC starred Carolyn Pickles as the Dublin orphan Margaret…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes Barbara Windsor, Sheila Steafel and Lance Percival led this short BBC2 children’s comedy-drama about a motley…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 30 x 5 minute episodes This oddball accident-prone cartoon family comprised Ma and Pa Blunder, Baby, and Bobby Blunder and their…