1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 39 x 6 minute episodes Premiering in May 1981, this children’s animation series – produced…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 8 3 – 2 0 0 4 (UK) 26 x 50 minute episodes In the first series, with jobs scarce in the recession-ridden UK,…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (Australia) 16 x 30 minute episodes During the first series of Australia, You’re Standing In It, complaints flooded…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) 3 x 60 minute episodes 12 x 50 minute episodes This futuristic cop series featured a…
1 9 8 0 (USA) 10 x 60 minute episodes Nick Donovan (Asher Brauner) and Ocee James (Steve Hanks) were ex-racing drivers who had been recruited…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 12 x 120 minute episodes Having begun his career on TV (he was a regular on…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 30 minute episodes Beginning on 31 July 1983, Peter Purves (ex-Blue Peter) hosted this evening panel…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This unsuccessful NBC comedy series was based on the 1987 Diane…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 5 x 30 minute episodes Babies and other small children were the focus of this gentle warm-hearted (but short-lived) family…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 16 x 25 minute episodes This BBC children’s series followed the misadventures of bright and mischievous…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 1 x 30 minute episode “I could play “Stairway To Heaven” when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn’t actually write it…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part BBC comedy series from Helen Cresswell related the adventures of the eccentric Bagthorpe family…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes Against a Victorian backdrop of horse-drawn hansom cabs and gas-lit streets, a gang of young London…
1 9 8 2 (USA) 6 x 30 minute episodes In a similar style to Barney Miller, Baker’s Dozen sought to show the human and often…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Billed as a cross between a variety show and a situation comedy, this Granada Television production…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) 40 x 5 minute episodes There once was an ordinary young boy called Eric who lived…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 25 x 5 minute episodes Bangers and Mash were two cheeky and mischievous young chimpanzees who lived in Chimpton on a…
1 9 8 9 (Australia) 3 x 90 minute episodes 20-year-old Australian girl Katrina Stanton (Nicole Kidman) has been searching for her father in England when…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 2 (USA) This NBC variety series hosted by Barbara Mandrell and her sisters Louise and Irlene had a…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 7 x 55 minute episodes This adaptation spans the first two (of seven) novels in the author’s Barchester series – The…