1980’s TV
This was the decade of the VCR, but one still didn’t make plans on Thursday nights. It was a golden age for sitcoms and for big, silly action-adventures where the good guys always won. Big hair, loud colors and special episodes ruled the day, as TV dared to talk about issues that had always been taboo. We celebrate the best of the 80’s TV.
The ’80s were rife with indications that TV was no longer content to be thought of as a vast wasteland filled with time-wasters that did the same thing every week, and that were determined never to upset or puzzle the viewer. Bochco’s Hill Street Blues (1981–88) — which gave Deadwood creator David Milch his start as a writer — was a landmark in this respect.
The 1980’s was a great decade for TV. We hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane for 1980’s TV.
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Hill Street Blues – Intro
Hill Street Blues is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station located on Hill Street in an unnamed large city.
Married with Children Theme Song
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Miami Vice Theme
Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James “Sonny” Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from September 16, 1984 to January 25, 1990.
St. Elsewhere Opening Season 1
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988.
Family Ties Opening and Theme Song
Family Ties is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC for seven seasons, premiering on September 22, 1982, and concluding on May 14, 1989.
Cheers Opening and Closing Theme
Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across eleven seasons.
Steve Martin Eating Dinner on The Tonight Show in 1980
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The Wonder Years Opening Credits and Theme Song
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Who’s the Boss Opening
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The Facts of Life Opening and Closing Season 2
The Facts of Life is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon and a spin-off of Diff’rent Strokes that originally aired on NBC from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1980s.
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