1 9 8 3 (USA) 11 x 60 minute episodes Patricia Louise (Tyger) Hayes (Genie Francis) was six years old when her mother, Roberta (Bobbi) Hayes (Jennifer…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 7 5 – 1 9 8 2 (USA) 168 x 25 minute episodes 1 x 60 minute episode The downbeat 12th precinct squad room…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes This exciting Sunday afternoon series from Tyne Tees followed the adventures of Billy Stanyon (Benedict Taylor)…
1 9 8 8 (Australia) 12 x 25 minute episodes Elly Barton (Olivia Harkin) was a strong-minded, intelligent 11-year-old girl living with her family in an…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) 152 x 30 minute episodes Basil Brush – a mischievous upper-class fox, created by Peter Firmin…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) 19 x 120 minute episodes Premiering on 6 November 1976, television stars from ABC, CBS and…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 5 (USA/Japan) 85 x 25 minute episodes Battle Of The Planets was adapted and translated from a Japanese animated…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 8 x 10 minute episodes Batty is an eccentric bicycle messenger/delivery man and incurable daydreamer who gets into all kinds of…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) 25 x 30 minute episodes Surely one of the most unusual programmes broadcast nationally in the…
1 9 8 3 (USA) 1 x 60 minute pilot 7 x 60 minute episodes A short-lived ensemble drama which followed a minor league baseball…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 37 x episodes This ambitious BBC2 series (a £9 million co-production with Time Life of…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 9 0 (Canada) 324 x episodes The Beachcombers was in production for 19 years – the longest-running drama in Canadian…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 6 (UK) 33 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on ITV on Saturday 22 November 1986, Beadle’s About presented…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 1 9 8 8 (USA) The characters of Beany and Cecil were first seen as puppets on…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 1 x 30 minute episode This black-and-white parody of the hedonistic beat poets of the 1960s and European art-house cinema was…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 7 (Australia) Though ostensibly a music TV programme, this Saturday afternoon show from the Australian ABC network was…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) This CBS drama was certainly one of television’s most improbable series. A fantasy/romance, it was set…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 7 3 (Australia) 1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 4 (Australia) 1 9 9 6 (Australia)…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 4 x 60 minute episodes Bridget (Dame Judi Dench) is a mousey, middle-aged middle-class woman who finds herself discarded by her…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 2 (UK) 13 x 35 minute episodes Premiering on 9 October 1981, this short-lived late-night serial told the…