1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 0 (UK) 32 x 30 minute episodes This ITV vehicle for Only Fools and Horses star Nicholas Lyndhurst…
Browsing: TV – 1980s
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1 9 6 9 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 72 x 45 minute episodes 20 x 50 minute episodes 2 x 60 minute episodes 1…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 2 (France/Japan) 27 x 25 minute episodes This cartoon adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey was a joint French/Japanese production set…
1 9 8 1 (New Zealand) 8 x 25 minute episodes Red-haired 11-year-old twin siblings, Rachel (Kirsty Wilkinson) and Theo (Lance Warren) Matheson are on a…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This Granada production introduced Stratford Johns (in his first comedy series) as Lord Mountainash, a Welsh…
1 9 8 0 (USA) 8 (13) x 30 minute episodes This experimental NBC series presented incidents in the day-to-day lives of married couple, Richard and…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 1 9 9 4 – current (UK) University Challenge is one of the UK’s most…
1 9 8 9 (USA) 8 x 60 minute episodes Serial killers are a favourite theme for TV crime shows, and this short-lived NBC series was…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 4 x 60 minute episodes A London alternative comedy trio – ‘Targett and Technology’ – is going nowhere fast. Nik Targett…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 23 x 30 minute episodes Up The Elephant And Round The Castle starred cheeky-cockney-chappie Jim Davidson…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) 20 x episodes Saturday morning children’s programme filmed in Manchester with presenters Jenny Powell, Tony Dortie and…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 5 (USA) 5 x 90 minute episodes 21 x 60 minute episodes V originally aired as an NBC…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes This unfunny 12-part sitcom from Central was set in a municipal…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 3 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes 1 9 7 7 (UK) 12 x 50 minute episodes 1 9…
1 9 8 8 (USA) 10 (6) x 30 minute episodes Matt Burgess (Barry Van Dyke) is a former stage actor who now runs the Arley…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) 68 x 60 minute episodes The 1957 Thunderbird convertible seen driving the streets of Las Vegas…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 3 x 60 minute episodes A Very British Coup followed the destabilising of an elected Left-Wing British government by shadowy forces…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 15 x 60 minute episodes The saga of a medical practice run by four doctors -…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This seven-part series from ATV was set in the Victorian era and based on a story published…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 26 x 5 minute episodes Debuting on Monday 18 July 1983, this cartoon series for young children from the creators of…