TV shows from the 1980s
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Topic: TV shows from the 1980s
Posted By: Logan
Subject: TV shows from the 1980s
Date Posted: August 17 2018 at 21:35
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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.. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 18 2018 at 14:17
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ALF The Cosby Show Hill Street Blues Miami Vice Airwolf |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 18 2018 at 14:20
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Taxi ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: August 18 2018 at 16:33
| The Professionals. Very similar to The Sweeney of the 70s |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: August 18 2018 at 17:09
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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! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 06:09
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Black Adder and Red Dwarf from this list. Some of my favourites: Seinfeld (started back in '89) Married with Children Sledge Hammer The Twilight Zone (1985) Some series I enjoyed, but aren't that great: V, ALF, Mr. Belvedere, MacGyver, Taxi. ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 07:25
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I watched Quantum Leap and Star Trek TNG back in the day :) There was a cop show called Hunter, pretty entertaining Married with Children don't know a lot of the TV shows listed...
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 19 2018 at 10:10
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The Professionals was a good one per my tastes, noni. I prefer it to a number on my own list (I added a few to these lists that I thought certain people at the site, like Dwill, might enjoy). My faves of this list are Kieslowski's Dekalog (brilliant, every person serious about the medium should try it, I think). It's way more artistic than, say, Airwolf (imo of course), and deeper even than ALF. The Singing Detective is brilliant, as is Das Boot. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is such a witty satire. Morse is Morse, fabulous show. The New Statesman is not as witty as Yes Minister, it's pretty blunt and sadistic, but it has some, I think, really great moments, and the darkness of it did appeal to me. There's this presentation scene from the episode "Sex is Wrong" that I found hilarious which involves a pamphlet and a Conservative party conference. The First Born "miniseries' I found ultimately very moving, and I think Traffik was very good. I also have a big thing for Chocky (one of my all-time favourite children's shows), and I do find it moving.
Great reading, Squonk, and some for me to look into. I also lost interest in Doctor Who in the 80s, but I appreciate it rather more now. I still think that there were some superb episodes made during that time, and I like the weirdness of the Colin Baker episode, Revelation of the Daleks. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Squonk19 wrote:Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 20 2018 at 14:43
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Singing Detective....Brideshead....and of course Morse....perhaps my favorite grumpy detective of all time. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 20 2018 at 15:19
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Allo Allo is my favourite -------------  
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 20 2018 at 16:09
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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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 20 2018 at 16:39
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Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Young Ones... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 14:39
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Lots and lots of my favourites here! But I have to add 'Stella Street' with John Sessions & Phil Cornwell playing multiple personalities and celebrities who all have taken up residence in a middle England suburban street.. watch any of the 'Mick & Keith's corner shop' sketches.. ------------- |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 16:04
| No votes for Kieslowski's "Dekalog"? Fixed. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 16:08
Forgot about Stella Street! Unforgivable! The Corner Shop sketches had me rolling on the floor!  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 16:15
Seeing "Dekalog" on the list reminded me that Bergman's Fanny And Alexander was also originally released as a TV miniseries. It also reminded me of the fact that I omitted both of these when making my "favorite tv series" polls. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 21:40
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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. In the Poirot series, David Suchet WAS Poirot. I am sure most who have read the Poirot novels would agree. Albert Finney and Ustinov tried in the movies based on Orient Express and Evil Under The Sun but they were either too masculine or just too huge (Ustinov). And both were too loud. Poirot was awkward and a little clumsy yet very self confident and not at all self conscious, very fastidious and meticulous and had an appearance of almost feminine grace in his soft spoken ways which hid the heart of a detective who was almost as ruthless as the criminals he brought to book. Suchet embodied all these qualities to a T. It wasn't just that he looked and dressed up like Poirot but he walked, talked and THOUGHT like Poirot. There is talk of today's peak TV but BBC produced a bunch of top notch TV series in the 70s and the 80s that were exceptionally well made and well enacted without any of the actors charging a bomb. Not from the 80s but the TV adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was also brilliant. Alec Guinness just intuitively resembled George Smiley more than Oldman in the film version and Colin Forth, as good as he was, was simply no match for Ian Richardson.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 21 2018 at 21:53
Hart to Hart 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 07:53
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^ 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). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 13:21
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Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were classics. Blackadder (apart from the first series) is one of the best comedies ever written. Inspector Morse was my favourite detective series It's a shame Dallas and Dynasty aren't on the list, though |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 14:57
I almost never go to blockbuster movies and prefer artsty and foreign films. I prefer fringe, squirm in your seat theater to big productions. The prog bands I like might be more "mainstream" than your favourites, but I would argue they are not as mainstream as most of the big 6 (whatever exactly that is), since the big 6 sold a lot more records. Also, prog bands that you might consider more mainstream are still pretty quirky compared to the average pop of today or yesterday.
 My favorite sub genre is prog folk which one could argue is less mainstream than, say, crossover...sorry to overuse the term mainstream. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 15:06
Maybe I was too young to really appreciate Dynasty and Dallas, but it seemed too soap operaish to me at the time, and it went on too long for too many episodes for me to really want to delve into now. Maybe one doesn't need to watch all of the seasons, but I rather like to binge when I get the opportunity. Even if say, Dynasty is a soap opera, there are shows with soap opera qualities that I do like, such as First Born off this list, or Brideshead Revisited though it has a higher-brow reputation (not that I care about high-brow much as one can tell from list of mine). I do tend to favour shows that had shorter runs (anthology series can be an exception as well as various Detective series, and things like Doctor Who, as the episodes can be more stand-alone). Sometimes I feel especially with American TV that they far too often milk these things for all they're worth, and I often would prefer tighter shows that were through-written before production. So many shows tail off in quality and they run them into the ground, then cancel. Dynasty had 220 episodes over nine years, and I think it's near impossible to keep a high level of quality for that length of a run. Dallas had 357 episodes and four made-for-television movies and reunion specials aired over 14 seasons. To mention some of my favourite dramas on my list: - Dekalog, in contrast, had ten one hour television films. - The Singing Detective was a six episode serial. - Das Boot was a six episode serial. - Traffik was a six epsiode serial. - First Born was a three episode serial. - The Tripods was 13 half hour episodes. - Chocky was six episodes, as were the two sequel series (I liked Chocky's Children too, but not Chocky's Cahllenge as much). - Even Brideshead revisted was only eleven epsiodes, though it could run to 100 mintes for an episode. When it comes to drama, on the whole I do tend to prefer shorter serials (sometimes called mini-series) as well as anthology series and other ones that can work as stand-alone episodes. Even the long running Inspector Morse, which run from 1987 to 2000 only had thirty-three episodes, which is far less than Dynasty and Dallas. Actually, I don't really like everything on my list, and wish I had put more thought into it to include more that I love and not include some that I watched but was never really into. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 15:09
I wasn't thinking about your tastes being mainstream, but that there is a certain romanticism to various music that you like that might be equated to something like Hart to Hart. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 15:20
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^ that does sound about right One of the other things that drew me to Hart to Hart was precisely that it was not a serial/soap opera like so many of the series' of that time. Each episode was tied up with a bow at the end. You watched to see the next adventure, not to find out how the ongoing one would temporarily resolve.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 15:36
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I haven't seen it since the 80s, but I liked Hart to Hart. It was fun, and it didn't take itself too seriously. It was better constructed and produced than many similar sort-of shows as I recall. By the way, I consider myself to be something of a romantic -- albeit a rather too pessimistic one -- and I like whimsy. "This is my boss – Jonathan Hart, a self-made millionaire. He’s quite a guy. This is Mrs. H – she’s gorgeous. What a terrific lady. By the way, my name is Max. I take care of them, which ain't easy, 'cause their hobby is murder." Lovely.------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 15:41
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I felt sorry for the Harts, with their friends always dying around them! I also love the Handmaid's tale, which would require a bit of twisting around to fit into the romantic ideal, unless you were a "true believer"
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Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 16:05
Last I heard it was being remade. But about two Gay guys. So why not make a separate show about two Gay millionaires who solve crimes? But then it won't be a Hart To Hart remake! But... EDIT: Surprisingly this whole idea has been dropped! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 16:30
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HtH was one of those pre-internet shows that was on a night and at a time when it was just about the only thing on worth watching (and I wasn't even a big fan). ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 04:27
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Of the ones listed in the poll, Young Ones and Star Trek TNG. I love the V mini series but never liked the TV show. Not listed Simpsons Married With Children Cheers Night Court A-Team Night Rider Amazing Stories 21 Jump Street
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 16:28
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: August 26 2018 at 08:35
I have to add that I am talking complete b***ocks; Stella street was actually in the 1990's not the 1980's.. sorry, a case of pickled brain i'm afraid.. Still classic though.. ------------- |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 08 2018 at 15:31
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The "A" Team Airwolf Cheers The Equalizer Family Ties Hunter Married...With Children Miami Vice Night Court Probe (a fine that was a casualty of the writers' strike) Streethawk (yes, that one! music by Tangerine Dream!) *Tales From The Darkside *The Twilight Zone Edit* to add those last two! Can't believe I forgot them. TFTD is one of my favorite shows of any decade.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 08 2018 at 15:32
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...ST:TNG, too! Mustn't forget that. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 10 2018 at 18:40
*spits beer on monitor* there goes my vote.... but was leaning toward it anyway... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 11 2018 at 13:14
Phil Collins was in Miami Vice too. I enjoyed the show as a kid,but it's not something that I've wanted to return to. Love the film CyFC_rFobX8" rel="nofollow - A Boy and His Dog with Don Johnson (one of my favourite films).
I love Tales from the Darkside and surely I must have thought of it, but missed it. When I made these polls it was when the site was going off-line and I had to remake a couple of them. I showed this one to my daughter a couple of years ago -- the one with the girl in the closet, I found that scary as a kid: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ltri0" rel="nofollow - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ltri0 My favourites of these are Dekalog, I think it may be the best show that I've ever seen, The Singing Detective (another contender, Dennis Pooter is terrific), Das Boot, Chocky, First Born and Traffik. I was a huge Black Adder fan, but I overwatched it. EDIt: Speaking of Dennis Potter, I listened to this the other day and found it powerful if rather predictable) -- I hadn't read the source novel: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgvdmf" rel="nofollow - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgvdmf
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