TV shows from the 1980s

Didn't spend enough time thinking about this. Multiple choice enabled. Edit: Missed two of my absolute favourites with the First Born and Traffik "miniseries" -- edited in..

Edited by Logan - August 18 2018 at 13:38

Morse - best detective series ever!
Black Adder - second only to Fawlty Towers as the best comedy ever.
Red Dwarf - almost as good, except for those dodgy later series or two before the latest reboot.
The Singing Detective - Potter's best work
Brideshead Revisited - loved it at the time, but haven't been tempted to rewatch it since.
Das Boot - gripping war drama - must have been special if I start caring about what happens to a U-Boat crew!
Yes Minister etc. - witty and perceptive political comedy with a great cast and writing (Sir Humphrey lives on with Lazland's avatar!!!) - Always found The New Statesman a bit too broad and bawdy - although Ric Mayall and the gang in The Young Ones were superb!
Dr Who not as good in the 80s - my interest faded somewhat.
The Tripods - really interesting children's Sci-Fi, but the BBC messed with the schedule and it got cancelled early - so a flawed classic.
Hill Street Blues - I hung in there for many series, but probably missed more episodes than I saw - as life got in the way! As teachers, we always used to say "let's do it to them before they do it to us" after every Monday staff meeting before the first lesson!!!

Elsewhere - A BBC Wednesday play - The Flipside of Dominick Hide - remains my favourite Sci-Fi one off programme - although recent Black Mirror episodes run it close. Highly recommended. A Very Peculiar Practice - campus medical comedy - although the first series was best. The Beiderbecke Tapes etc. were fun too!

I watched Quantum Leap and Star Trek TNG back in the day :)

Singing Detective....Brideshead....and of course Morse....perhaps my favorite grumpy detective of all time.

I see that ‘Allo ‘Allo is not on my list, even though it was on it. It’s one of my favourites, as I think you know from another topic, that just got missed somehow when I decided to shuffle the positions of some of these. I always make mistakes when I prepare these polls.

Forgot about Stella Street! Unforgivable! The Corner Shop sketches had me rolling on the floor!

Yes Minister is one of my all time favourite TV shows. Like most comedies, it doesn't force you to follow episode after episode to know what's going on; each episode brings different delights.  But the comedy is also not inane at any point, it's pure wit.  Nobody trying to say anything funny out of intention (except Appleby at times or Bernard's occasional zingers) but the situation makes it so. 

^ I think that Hart to Hart fits your tastes in music quite well. I've long been wanting to do a correlative study that compares tastes in music, film, television and novels while also seeing what parallels can be drawn with tastes in art, plus some other interests, to ones ideological/ political and religious views and psychological states. I could do this online, and after the results are cross-referenced for an individual, a profile could be created, but to do it well and in a way that is more than just entertainment would be a challenge without partners.

^^ Great post, Rogerthat!

^^^ I thought Dekalog would get a few votes here. It's amazingly good. There is a 4k restoration of it. It would be an interesting one to contrast against Miami Vice (that Dwill mentioned) in a poll since both have a relation to vice.      It's such an interesting and artistic exploration of moral themes (Dekalog, that is -- not speaking of Miami Vice).

Fanny and Alexander is a great call, and it would have paired well with the likes of Das Boot (the theatrical cut of Das Boot was the first sub-titled film that I saw in the cinema that I can recall).

Edited by Logan - August 22 2018 at 08:00