1 9 8 7 – 2 0 0 3 (UK) This late-night discussion show from Channel 4 was broadcast live in the wee hours of…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) 38 x 30 minute episodes Sarah France (Prunella Scales) is 42 and a widow of two…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) 30 x 30 minute episodes The Korean War was over and the men and women of…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 10 x 60 minute episodes Thirteen years after the success of The Glittering Prizes (1976), Frederic Raphael revisited many of its…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 10 x 60 minute episodes This series from Thames did not feature the mighty Hercule Poirot, nor did Miss Marple steal…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes Maureen Lipman starred as Jane Lucas – a cosmopolitan Jewish wife…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 9 x 50 minute episodes In 1946, Jack Ruskin (Roy Marsden), demobbed after World War II but with flying still in…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived television series from Scottish Television starred Ronald Forfar as the Reverend Bill Duncan, who…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 8 (Canada) 26 x 30 minute episodes Three generations of Liptons faced the trials of urban life from…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 7 (USA) 60 x 30 minute episodes Airwolf is a combat helicopter – but it’s no ordinary combat…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 43 x 30 minute episodes 1 x 60 minute special Debuting on 31 January 1984, this…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) 100 x 30 minute episodes Contrived by Granada as a sister show to Coronation Street, with the…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 18 x 30 minute episodes “Who’s that fat bastard?” After an ill-conceived sojourn alongside Chris Tarrant…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 102 x 30 minute episodes 2 x 60 minute episodes Long before 3rd Rock From the Sun (but…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 26 x 30/60 minute episodes This animated series was based on the NBC sitcom of the…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 21 x 30 minute episodes Originally incorporated into the animated ALF series – itself a…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes If asked to name Britain’s biggest comedy and drama names at…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 13 x 10 minute episodes Produced by Cosgrove Hall (creators of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula), this BAFTA award-winning animated series…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 5 (USA) 209 x 30 minute episodes Mel’s Diner – a greasy-spoon truck-stop in Phoenix, Arizona – was…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This four-part BBC1 musical dramatisation of the Lewis Carroll classic starred Kate Dorning in the title…