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What  tv shows did you wach in the 80s?

Welcome back Kotter
Cosby Show
David Letterman
Johny Carson-The Tonight Show
WKRP
Miami Vice
60 minutes
Solid Gold
A team (sometimes)


You were not living unless you watched: Friday Night Videos!

The Wonder Years.   ;D  Loved that show!

headbangers ball.  used to stay up so late to watch all the vids.

I still, occasionally, watch Headbangers Ball! 

Welcome Back Kotter (Go the Sweathogs!), Knightrider, The A Team, Family Ties, Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, Different Strokes, Square Pegs, Fame......

The A Team were the mutha-fuckin' bomb!  The gov't can't find them...but anyone who wants to hire them can?  :rofl:  And I'm pretty sure that, out of the 4,266,728,103 burrets fired on that show, no one was ever kirred.   

i wasn't even born till 1991 but i LOVE the A-team that show kicked ass. it used to be on slueth channel but its not any more :( same with knightrider.

i also used to watch what ever good was on on nick@nite, 3s company was my favorite till they took that off to put on more crap ::)

do they repeat old episodes of Headbangers ball :headbanger: with ricky ratt or all of them from the 80s. I hate the music they have on that show any more and i never got to see the show when it was good. So do they repeat on any channel or do they have a DVD with the seasons? any info is appreciated :peace:

The Young Ones!!!

PS. It seems that Freedom 78 is chanelling Kim Jong!!!  :rofl:

I used to LOVE this show - MTV would have it on really late at night but i'd still stay up to watch it.

Rick, Vivian, Neil, Mike - each one of them hysterical in their own right.

The one when they were all sick is one of my all time faves.  and when they went on the game show.  so fucking funny

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p1TYGUoZ570

watch this and try not to laugh

Inspector Gadget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Danger Mouse

The Hardy Boys, Solid Gold, BJ and the Bear, Grizzly Adams....Dukes of Hazzard.....

Mork and Mindy, Happy Days, Shazzam, Laverne & Shirley, The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch.......

Um.....lots of TV in the 80s...... ;D

The Wonder Years
Miami Vice
Airwolf
G.I. Joe

Oh, am I thinking back to the 70s???? Now that is scary......

Good Times!!!

That was the best.  I think they played Billy Idol's "Flesh for Fantasy" every single week.

80s TV was unreal.  I'm among the generation of boys that was traumatized when Dudley got molested on Diffrent Strokes (the actor who played the molestor, Gordon Jump, almost never made it back on television after that episode).

Family Ties, The Fall Guy (... Heather Thomas   :drool:), Dynasty (forgive me, I was the only male in the household), Greatest American Hero, Smurfs, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, WWF Saturday Night's Main Event, The Ropers...

V


http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/

Oh christ that show always used to scare the shit outta me when i was a kid, just like Dr Who and one called Tripods  :nervous:


others i remember were

The Equalizer
Hill Street Blues
Prisoner Cell Block H
Sons and Daughters

and obviously the best anarchic sit com of all time

The Young ones

great show.  when she swallows that little critter and we learn their true nature....wow, one of the best moments of all time for TV.

also led to marc singers career as THE BEAST MASTER! hehe  :peace:

Great call on V.  I loved that show/mini-series.  Now, in no particular order:

Welcome Back Kotter
Voyagers (curly-haired kid and guy traveling back in time)
Dukes of Hazzard
Alf
Family Ties
Cosby Show
Different World
Cheers
Night Court
Scooby-Doo re-runs (preferably without Scrappy, he sucked)
Gimme a Break
Three's Company
Happy Days re-runs
Magnum, P.I.
A-Team
Knight Rider
Charles in Charge (Nicole Eggert  :drool: )
Just the Ten of Us
Who's the Boss
In Living Color
Married with Children
The Simpsons
The McGlaughlin Group
Tracy Ullman Show
Afterschool Specials
Bugs Bunny re-runs
Webster
Perfect Strangers
Punky Brewster
21 Jump Street
Miami Vice
Taxi re-runs
MASH re-runs
Price is Right
Card Sharks
Press your Luck
someone mentioned The Ropers, don't forget 3's a Crowd!
Too Close for Comfort
Mr. Belvedere
Benson
Murder, She Wrote

I'm sure there were more, but I can't think of anymore! 

Before TYO, the main guys had a show called "Comic Strip Presents" from which the most famous episode is a spoof metal band called Bad News. They did
a follow up where they actually got to play Donington ( I was there) which made up part of it. Very funny - you can find bits of it on youtube, just checked. The original Bad News came about the same time as Spinal Tap, and from what I looked up once they were probably made without knowing of the other.

Axl4prez, you watched a little t.v. back then!  :hihi: I was LMAO at your list.

I miss old Headbangers Ball!  I also watch the new one sometimes and it scares me.  :nervous:

Nice.  I've been on a Wonder Years kick lately.  Taping all the re-runs on ION television at 10 and 10:30 weekdays.  Great show!

I hate to sound old, but they just don't make TV shows like they used to.  The only sitcom I watch these days is "The Office".  "Family Guy" and "South Park" are good shows.  Dramas are better these days, but they just can't write sitcoms like they used to.  And unfortunately reality TV (which I have been sucked into) rules the world at the present.

Yeah, same here, along with "Knight Rider", "Saved by the Bell", "Murder, She Wrote" and sometimes "Charles in Charge".

There used to be a show about a girl whose father was an alien (talked to her from where-ever through a crystal contraption) and who had the power to stop time and stuff. Forgot the name. :headscratch:

The Goodies!

Damn, Genesis, I wish I could help you on that one but I just can't remember that one.

Yes Sexkitten, if I wasn't playing or watching sports, I was watching tv.  Nerd to the max...some things never change.  :)

I keep remembering shows that I watched every week: 
Head of the Class
Whiz Kids
WKRP in Cincinnati re-runs
Electric Company on PBS only for the intro music and minute-long Spiderman segment that occasionally aired at the end of the show.
When I mentioned Just the Ten of Us I forgot to mention how hot the daughters were...and before anybody asks, yes, Nicole Eggert was way hotter than Alyssa Milano.
Oh yeah, one more, a short-lived show called Spencer that starred Chad Lowe if I'm not mistaken.

My childhood/adolescence is starting to look quite sad in retrospect!   :'(

Yes! I remember Nicole from Charles In Charge. I always thought she was hot!  :)

Hilarious, that's my only recollection of that show too.  That Spiderman was great, whenever he shot his web at someone the camera would just cut to the target who was suddenly covered under a soccer goal net.

I'm glad somebody else remembered that too.  Ha.  Hilarious stuff.   :)

P.S. to Faldor, yup, you're absolutely right, The Office and Family Guy are excellent.  The Simpsons is still good but no longer great. 

P.S. 2, It probably would have been easier for me to list the '80's shows I did not watch.   ;D 

P.S. 3, I forgot to mention 227 and Amen...oh Jesus I think I need counseling!!!  My childhood was spent sitting in front of tv's!  I think I must have looked like Axl in the Welcome to the Jungle video!!!!!!!!!!  (except I had thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.   :hihi:)

Nicole Eggert was hot, but my vote goes to Alyssa.  To each his own though.  And by the way, BOTH are probably still hot.  I know Alyssa is, I imagine Nicole is too.  She was still hot when she was on Baywatch.  Haven't seen any of her since then.

Oh god no Faldor!!!  Eggert got hit hard by Father Time.  Oh man, I saw her on a made for tv movie and she looked horrendous.  I never want to see her again.  If you want to see her look really good, check out a terrible movie called Blown Away...not the one with Tommie Lee Jones.   ;)

21 Jump Street with that georgeous Johnny Depp!

somebody already named "V" it was great. here's another short lived gem..."Cliffhanger." it was a short lived abc show that had 3 or 4 mini-shows (different stories/plots). one was a vampire plot, a western , and 1 or 2 others that i cant remember....

how about Airwolf, Sledge Hammer, and The fall guy.. Those were great

Moonlighting w/ Cibyl Sheperd & Bruce Willis  :love:

Now, before I forget, yes!, Sledge Hammer and Moonlighting were great shows.  I never got into Fall Guy or Airwolf though.  But.....

I used to have nightmares about a show called Cliffhanger and I remember doing a search for it, but could never find it, so I assumed I dreamt it up.  ibelieveinaxl, thank you!  can you give me any more info on the show?  It had to be early '80's but holy crap, I can't believe you remembered that!   :beer:

trust me , I know what I m doing  ;D

For most of the 80s I did not have a TV. The decade passed  me  by, as I  was in school. I guess that explains my lack of social  skills.  :rofl:

I didn't grow up with my dad in the house...my fatherhood lessons all came from Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, Dr. Jason Seaver, Mr. Steven Keaton, Tony Macelli, etc.  To be honest I think I was better off!  Who do the kids have to look up to nowadays?  That's sad.  :'(

Lots of BAD shows in the 80s too:

Small Wonder
Alf


The alien one with the crystal thing, i can TOTALLY picture it in my head.  but i don't remember the name....let me do a quick search....

OUT OF THIS WORLD. The girls name was Evie and she could pause time by putting her fingers together. Her father was an alien and she could talk to him through a crystal. If she stopped time and then touched someone that person would be able to move around like she could while the rest of the world was still.

Evie was totally hot.  I always wanted her power.

Evie and Out of this world - I wanted to do the finger thing and stop time too :rofl:

One of my favorite shows from the 80's was a science show called 3-2-1 Contact on PBS. 


Does anyone remember My Secret Identity?  It was about a teenager who accidentally got superpowers because of his mad scientist neighbor.  I dont remember much else, but I thought it was great as a kid.  :hihi:

ok, here's what i have for you and its not much. first of all it was 1979 so i was 1 year off but here's the info:

"The Curse of Dracula" (1979)

Originally broadcast in short weekly installments as part of the series "Clilffhangers" (see "Stop Susan Williams" (1979) and "The Secret Empire" (1979)). This was the only one of the three stories to be completed by the time "Cliffhangers" was cancelled.

"Stop Susan Williams" was part of the Cliff Hangers TV series which featured three revolving serials. Susan Williams is a journalist whose investigation of her reporter brother's murder takes her around the world in pursuit of bad guy Anthony Kort. Susan narrowly escapes death episode after episode.

"The Secret Empire" (1979)
 In this homage to the cliffhanger serials of the '30s and '40s, 19th Century Wild West Marshal Jim Donner stumbled upon a secret underground city known as Chimera while chasing a gang of robbers. Chimera is lorded over by an evil despot named Thorval. Donner teams up with the resistance rebels in their effort to overthrow Thorval's cruel reign, while simultaneously investigating the gold robberies on the surface. p.s. i was right about it being a western!!!!

p.s.s. im gonna get a copy so let me know if you want it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out of this World! That's the one. I always wanted to do the frozen-in-time egg yolks thing. :beer:

Dynasty and Dallas.

Falcon Crest: My parents used to watch it all the time. Yech. :tongue:

I am stoked to hear more info on that Cliffhangers show...but while I was thinking about it, I thought of yet another show I watched...Amazing Stories.  Cool stuff.   :peace:

Didn't Mork talk to his boss through a crystal ball too?

No, he just put his fingers to his head and went "Mork calling Orson......Mork calling Orson....."

Wow, good memory Stolat!  :hihi:

"The Greatest American Hero." Remember this cheesy one? the regular dude that got super powers?????? sometimes he couldnt fly...what a joke!!!!!!!!!!!

also, a great kids' tv series called "The Great Space Coaster." Gary Gunu anyone???

Yeh, Greatest American Hero was one of my faves.....

Remember Buck Rogers in the 21st Century!

Damn, Greatest American Hero was from when I was really little.  Great Space Coaster has been parodied on Family Guy, but since I haven't seen GSC, it went over my head. 

PS  I have very early memories of being baby-sat and when my parents got home from bowling night smelling of smoke, Mork and Mindy would be on tv and I remember it being cool that I was staying up late.  I was 5 when they split, so this is goin' waaay back.   :)

That show was very good. Speilberg at his best.

Wasn't there an 80s reincarnation of the Tom and Jerry Show, where they were suddenly friends and Jerry wore a bow tie? 

That's when the Care Bears took over!  :confused:

If so, I think we know why kids are such pussies, nowadays.  :hihi:

What was that show that starred Erik Ericson? He accidentally shot himself.....was handed a prop gun that was loaded or something.......had to do with time travel....

ALF was 80's right? That show was great why didn't it last longer? Although nothing beats the A-Team nothing? :smoking:
Oh and first seasons of "Married... With Children" aired in the 80's - the greatest sitcom ever to grace our tv screens  :beer:

Kelly Bundy: "'Honk, honk,' said the Goss."  :rofl:

Miami Vice dictated fashion trends there for a while!

That was Voyagers...he and the curly-haired kid traveled through time making sure everything went according to plan...Phinnaeus Bogg?  I think that was his name on the show.  I can't remember the kid's name.  I watched the show...loved it.   :peace:

A Team
Knight Rider
Street Hawk
He-Man
Airwolf
The Wonder Years

There just a few I can actually remember there are loads more

Fat Albert! before the Crosby Show....

"Land of the Lost." I just couldnt resist, i know it from the mid 70's.......but what a show! remember the slee-stacks?

That was so realistic it was almost as if the dinosaurs were in the living room!  :hihi:

today's special
strawberry shortcake
facts of life
jem
the wonder years
friday the 13th (tv series)

good call Journey, The Facts of Life.  Great show.   :beer:

The Archies, Discofever or Dancefever?

Dance Fever was one of those shows I remember from the distant past.  Was that the '70's?  Danny or Denny Terio was the host. 

btw, I randomly turned on a Who's the Boss re-run last night and lo and behold, it was the episode where Tony saw Angela naked!!!  Oh man it was great....and by the way, who the hell can deny the fact that the little kid on that show was gay already?  That still cracks me up.  Not that homosexuality is funny, it's just that he was so effeminate from an early age.

Anyhow, funny show.  :)

Ah yes, the David Crosby show, Melissa Etheridge played his wife, remember?



It was in the early 80's, I remember watching it when I was about 12-13 yrs old. Danny Terrio later sued Merv Griffin for what he deemed was unwanted homosexual advances.



I had a crush on Joe, the biker chick.



Mad props to the sleestacks, those bitches were buggin'.

Night Court was the shit.

I liked the three blonde chicks, there was one for season one, another for season two, and then the one for 3-8, or how many season it was.

Oh shit! I remember that! Haven't thought about that in AGES!!!

And yes, Small Wonder was really bad.

That would be Nancy McKeon who went out with Michael J Fox for a while? ;D

Yup, Jo Polnicek on the Facts of Life.  Now she does Lifetime movies.  She was the cutest of a pretty homely bunch on that show...well, except for that hottie Edna Garrett.  :hihi:

Yes Nixon, Night Court was hilarious.  I think they went through even more bailiffs.  The rough-talking smokers kept dying.  And yes, I liked Markie Post as well, the blonde lawyer.  She was in There's Something about Mary.  She held up well all those years...and my god, I've never been a big breast man, but damn she had a large rack.   ;D

the wonder years.

probably my all-time favorite show. not sure why it hasn't been released on dvd - maybe they are waiting for the 20 year anniversary in 2008? (every season was supposed to have taken place 20 years prior.)

my wife got me the entire series on dvd from e-bay or something. they were just taped from TV, so quality isn't great, but watchable.

Wonder Years, I never got into it, but a workmate of mine loved it...especially Winnie Cooper.  I never dug her...Jamie from Charles in Charge had it goin' on all over Winnie.  :)

I've got the answer as to why it hasn't been released on DVD. ?I just read this the other day.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094582/faq

Due to the high cost of securing music rights, the distributors of "The Wonder Years" and artists whose music appeared on the show have yet to come to an agreement. Original music rights agreements were negotiated before the widespread use of DVDs, thus the rights to use the music never extended beyond the original airings and syndication. Several television shows that have relied heavily on external music sources, most notably "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "The Wonder Years" therefore run into a problem, since the original agreements never included home video or DVD rights, thus the rights to each song must be renegotiated in order for the song to be included on the DVD. This can be very expensive, and can take many years. For example, the first season DVD of "WKRP in Cincinnati" released in 2007 omitted most of the original music in the soundtrack, since agreements could not be reached with many of the record companies. Therefore, music heard in the original airings and syndication was removed in favor of "generic" music, for which royalties are not due. For a show like "The Wonder Years," in which the original music is an essential part of the structure of each episode, music rights would have to be secured for each episode for each season, since using generic music would ruin the structure of the storytelling. The cost would likely run into the millions of dollars to secure tracks from "The Beatles" and other high-profile artists, which would cut into the profit margin of the DVD sales. This would reduce the profit margin significantly, thereby reducing the liklihood that a comprehensive DVD set would ever be released.

To date, there have been two 'best-of' DVD sets for "The Wonder Years" They are: "The Best of The Wonder Years: July 24, 1999" (1 Disc-2 episode set) and "The Christmas Wonder Years: July 24, 1999" (1 Disc-2 episode set). However, they are quite expensive and do not contain the original music.

I liked Becky Slater the best of Kevin's flames on The Wonder Years.  Winnie was too, blah.  Trouble always ensued in Becky Slater episodes.  Nicole Eggert was/is hot, but my top 80's sitcom chick has to be Samantha Miceli (Alyssa Milano).  She still looks fine as hell today.  Another random fact about an 80's childhood star, Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) had to get breast reduction surgery.  She had 38DD's, on that 5'1" frame.  Had to tame those puppies down to a 36C at age 15. 

Yup, the kids teased her and called her Punky Boobster.   :hihi:

You mentioned Sam Micelli.  She was a close #2 to Jamie on Charles in Charge...who, btw, did end up in Scott Baio's long line of conquests.  That talentless lucky bastard!  :hihi:

And on that note, who remebers Joanie Loves Chachi??

That show was horrible.

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a "show", "America's Funniest Home Videos", hosted by Bob Saget was good. I still remember the theme music.

Joanie Loves Chachi...definitely has a place on the list of "Worst Shows Ever."

America's Funniest Home Videos on a best of the '80's list?  As Balki Bartokomoos of Perfect Strangers would say to his cousin Larry Appleton, "Don't be riducu los"
 :D

I didn't know it was a best-of list. I thought we were reminiscing ... :)

P.S: Does anybody remember Ghost Writer?

Plus, there are again so many I don't remember the titles of:

1) Girl from the future somehow gets trapped in a white octagonal time machine and gets sent to some point in time. Rest of the series is how she tries to get back (the time machine gets stolen, damaged, etc.)

2) A series about a boy and a girl both of single-parents astrologers (who get married at the end). The story was about various things that happened between their families. A scene I remember from this vividly is the guy skateboarding on a huge radio telescope dish.

Plus, lots more I don't even know how to describe.  :confused:

Did anyone mention Quantum Leap?? It actually started in 1989 so it barely made the cut for the 80's.? I liked that show though.? Scott Bakula would be sent to a different time period in a different body each episode.

Indeed.  I loved the Hawk character, and the talons that came down out of his ship...

Yup, watched that a lot too. :beer:

Never saw it. By that point they should have just put the whole Happy Days saga to a close though.


That was in the 90s.

I used to watch it.  : ok:

I just though of another one: The Desmonds!
That used to be a good one too.

you listed some great shows but I don't think anyone listed MacGyver. Another cool show was American Gladiators. I wish I could have went on that show.  :hihi:

Was The Osmonds or The Donny and Marie Show 70s or 80s?

Has Webster been mentioned yet?

Didn't they used to hit each other with big foam q-sticks, while wearing helmets and eye protection? Something about an obstacle course too...

"Thats real incredible people" was a good skit that SNL did spoofing thoses two shows ... or it could have been Friday Nights that did the spoof.

I think there was a Simpsons episode that had LuAnn (Millhouse's divorced mom) dating one of the American Gladiators. 

btw, yes, Webster had to be mentioned...my favorites list contained about 75% of the shows that aired... :-[

Top 10 Ladies of the Eighties from television.

http://unibrow.uber.com/80stvbabes

i think i remember this :D...it was shown on itv after school if i'm thinking of the same thing....can't remember the name either though....it may have been a nineties show :-\

anycase, a few cartoons...
"Jem" -  a cartoon holographic pop band and The Misfits who were their rock rivals....awesome!! :hihi:
"gummi-bears"
"thunder cats" ...of course!!

I still watch it now but it's not the same!

Did someone mention Fantasy Island and Loveboat or was that the 70's? What about SCTV - that was my favorite after Saturday night live would come on? Does anyone remember Angie? Or Wings? Or is Wings 90's? I have been around too long and watched too much television.

Isis? After school specials?

SCTV counts as '80's and yeah that was hilarious.   Guy Caballero played by Joe Flaherty I think?  So many of those guys and girls went on to be in everything on tv and in movies.  Moranis, Short, Martin, Thomas, Candy. 

Wings was alright, but if I'm not mistaken, wasn't it a little '80's a little more '90's?  I can't remember.  To me it was always, ehh.  Alright.   :-\

Kids In The Hall: "I'm Crushing Your Head"

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  :hihi:   :hihi:   :hihi:

Wow! Yes. All of it was hilarious! I loved that show. But the only characters I can remember is Doug and Bob McKenzie - the brothers from Canada - take off eh and because they did that song with Geddy Lee from Rush. Yeah, all those guys did go on to pretty decent careers but they are good. I wish they would get together and do skits again. Could you imagine the stuff now?

I think I was in college watching re-runs of Kids in the Hall, and my favorite skit by far was the Girl Drink Drunk.   :rofl:
That's totally me...okay, without the pink umbrellas.   :hihi:

I don't know how the hell I missed this post!  Great stuff, but I'm sorry, Nicole Eggert was by far the queen of the '80's.  Milano, Bach, and Grey are in a 3-way tie for 2nd.

Honorable mention has to go to the girlfriends of Mike Seaver on Growing Pains.  Chelsea Noble was like a tv Cindy Crawford, and the blonde who posed in Playboy and was subsequently kicked off the show wasn't too bad either.   ;)

There were 2 hotties on Just the 10 of Us as well.

One more thing, I always preferred Berkely to Amber-Thiessen on Saved by the Bell. 

 :peace:

Was that before or after she starred in "Showgirls"?

actually, that's a great question and I'll give ya the honest answer...before Showgirls!

I've never been a fan of the "circular" face (short vertically, long horizontally) if that makes any sense.  Plus, I have a thang for the good girl.   : ok:

Okay, Nicole Eggert wasn't the "good girl," but holy god was she smoking hot!   :crying:  To think Scott Baio sullied her gully.  Where's the vomit emoticon when I need it???   :hihi:

Funny you bring up Scott Baio.  The joke about him is he used to get all the up and coming actresses straight off the bus once they arrived in Hollywood.  He had Pam Anderson, before she made it big, and many, many, many others.  He was on the Howard Stern show earlier this year and revealed all.  It was a fascinating interview.  The guy was blessed and he lived life to the fullest, that's for sure.  I talk about him in the past tense not because he's dead, but he's older and has apparently settled down some (hence that stupid show he had on VH1).

Not a bad list, but I don't agree with Daisy Duke at #1 at all (not even top 10).  Some glaring omissions are the blonde chick from Too Close for Comfort (Lidia Cornell?), Heather Thomas, Heather Locklear, and Emma Samms too.

Thundercats, G.I Joe, He-Man, Knight Rider, transformers, the smurfs, the snorkles, Mazinger Z, automan, manimal

I prefer after, but that is just the old perv in me.

GeorgeSteele!  Great mention!  How the hell did we forget Locklear from TJ Hooker? 
 :beer:

Emma Samms too, not bad...from what I've heard, one of the Desperate Housewives, the blonde chick, used to be smoking hot too.  Knot's Landing or Falcon Crest?  One of those shows.  She may have been the best...I just didn't watch those shows.   :(

Nicolette Sheridan, I think it was Knots Landing.  I can't believe I forgot my favorite soap opera beauty - Victoria Principal.  For better or worse, the females dominated the TV viewing in my household, so I was subjected to far more soap operas than any young boy should have to endure.  But, I did get to enjoy some scantily clad beauties, along with a cat fight here and there.  So I had that going for me.  Which was nice.