1 9 8 5 (Australia) 5 x 100 minute episodes This 1985 miniseries from the Australian Nine Network followed the lives of a dozen volunteer Australian…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 0 (Australia) 38 x 30 minute episodes (Only 10 went to air) Arcade was Bill Harmon’s swansong in Australian television. Harmon, who had worked…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 3 (USA) 96 x 30 minute episodes 1 x 60 minute episode In this spin-off/continuation of All In The…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 69 x 30 minute episodes This was English seaside humour at its most traditional. Once nicknamed…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 1 (Australia) 16 x 25 minute episodes Taking its lead from a number of British sitcoms that made…
1 9 7 5 – Current (UK) This popular long-running arts programme from the BBC has encompassed documentary features on many subjects during its long run.…
1 9 7 8 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 8 0 (UK) 28 x 30 minute episodes Armchair Thriller screened twice weekly in 1978…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 7 x 50 minute episodes As a member of the Monty Python team, Michael Palin presented his fair share of…
1 9 8 3 (Spain) 26 x 25 minute episodes Originally titled La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog, this animated take on Jules Verne’s Around…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 1 x 180 minute episode From 9.00 pm to midnight on Tuesday 29 December 1981, BBC1 broadcast one of the most…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 13 x 25 minute episodes “Mysteries from the files of Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001 and inventor of the communications…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 8 (Australia) Alexander Bunyip first appeared on Australian television in 1979 in a weekday afternoon programme called…
1 9 5 6 – 2010 (USA) 13,858 x 30/60 minute episodes Set in the town of Oakdale, As The World Turns is one of the longest-running daytime…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) Before the VCR revolution of the late 1970s, if you wanted to see a particular moment…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 20 minute episodes Open to families of four (quite often teachers and their egg-headed offspring), Ask The…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 115 x 60 minute episodes Michael Aspel proved he was more than the bland charmer he sometimes…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 5 (UK/USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This quick-fire late-night Anglo-American comedy series was produced by Channel 4…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 0 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Three young law school graduates have just joined the prestigious…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) 13 x 25 minute episodes Astronauts was the first post-Goodies sitcom written by Graeme Garden and…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 14 x 30 minute episodes Jimmie Walker (Good Times) and (American Werewolf in London) headed the cast of this comedy series set at…