1 9 8 3 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes This ABC sitcom was an obvious (though unacknowledged) US adaptation of British comedy classic, Fawlty Towers, starring John…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 7 (USA) 44 x 30 minute episodes This modern-day Twilight Zone was an anthology of sci-fi and fantasy…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 1 (USA) 110 x 30 minute episodes Screened as part of NBC’s Saturday evening offering for over five…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) American Bandstand became a powerful symbol of American teenage culture with its nearly four-decade look at the…
1 9 8 1 (USA) 1 x 90 minute episode 6 x 60 minute episodes This hour-long ABC dramatic series revolved around the Novaks, a struggling…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 9 4 (USA) 164 x 60 minute episodes This occasional dramatic anthology series from the American Public Broadcasting Service…
1 9 8 7 (USA) 7 x 120 minute episodes Broadcast on ABC over the course of seven nights in the middle of February 1987, Amerika…
1 9 8 1 (Australia) 6 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived comedy series from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) revolved around a bid by Achilles…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Andy Capp (James Bolam) is an out-of-work layabout who only wants to have a drink and…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 20 x 25 minute episodes This Tyne Tees series was based on Frederick Grice’s 1969 novel, The Courage of Andy Robson,…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) 97 x 30 minute episodes 58 x 50 minute episodes Angels was the BBC’s twice-weekly story…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 0 (USA) 37 x 30 minute episodes When Brad Benson (Robert Hays) walked into the Liberty Coffee Shop,…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 440 x 30 minute episodes Animal Magic first aired on 13 April 1962 and ran for 22…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Ann McNeil (Ann Jillian), her husband, Eddie (not seen) and their 15-year-old…
1 9 8 8 (USA) 6 x 30 minute episodes Newlyweds Annie (Mary Tyler Moore) and Nick (Denis Arndt) McGuire live at 235 West Perry Street…
1 9 8 4 (UK/Sweden) 3 x 55 minute episodes 18-year-old Londoner Pete Daniels (Jesse Birdsall) is an easy-going, unpretentious and down to earth lad who…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) 875 x 30 minute episodes Produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), this daily half-hour serial…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 9 9 (USA) 8,891 x 30/60 episodes One of several daytime serial dramas created by Irna Phillips for American…
1 9 7 9 – Current (UK) When it debuted on 18 February 1979, few would have predicted that Antiques Roadshow would draw bigger audiences in some regions…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 2 (USA) 56 x 30 minute episodes Schoolteacher Hannah Miller (Jamie Lee Curtis) is flying home to Chicago…