Top ten 80s TV shows i miss

bikini widow

Sledge hammer
Battlestar galactica
Magnum pi
Moonlighting
Robin of Sherwood
The young ones
Sapphire and steel (think it might have been teribble though)
Blackadder
MASH
Fawlty towers

daveg

Chips (is on Bravo - excellent).
The Fall Guy (best 80's show by a mile).
Bring em back alive.

Mr E

The A Team
MacGyver

patch

Matt Houston
The magician
Manimal
Automan
The powers of mathew star

I can remember being outside playing, when my Dad said something called nightrider was coming on. I didn't much care for Knights or Horses at the time......was happy once I realised what Kitt was though.

daveg

Originally posted by patch69
Manimal

Feck me.... I forgot all about that one

ozmo

Originally posted by bikini widow
Sledge hammer
Battlestar galactica
Magnum pi
Moonlighting
Robin of Sherwood
The young ones
Sapphire and steel (think it might have been teribble though)
Blackadder
MASH
Fawlty towers

Only one I actually miss is Red Dwarf...

aodh_rua

Does anyone else remember Simon & Simon. It seems to be one of the few 80's shows not getting a rerun somewhere.

Oh - and of course - what about Supergran!

Yavvy

that american hero one...you know with the cool song

"ready or not im walkin on air"

The Flash
and sadly enough ..the good life

celticfc

Fawlty Towers is from the 70's,

Hard to beat Only fools & horses

Yavvy

tough to miss only fools and horses as they are still on every week but still a high quality show

aidan_dunne

You can download the theme music and opening title sequences to tons of 80's TV programmes at this site here:

www.80stvthemes.com

It's a great site. Check it out and remember your long-lost youth!

originally posted by Alany
that american hero one...you know with the cool song

"ready or not im walkin on air"

"The Greatest American Hero" was the show. "Believe It Or Not" by Joey Scarbury was the song.

"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free... eeee ... eeee!
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me!"

That website above actually has a Realvideo video clip of the opening titles, just so you know Alany.

My own 80's favorites were:

Knight Rider.
Airwolf.
Blue Thunder.
The A-Team.
Simon & Simon.
Magnum P.I.
MacGyver.
The Fall Guy.
CHiPs.
Dempsey & Makepeace.
Battlestar Galactica.
The Dukes Of Hazzard.
Hunter.
T.J. Hooker.
Sledge Hammer.
The Equalizer.
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.

That's all I can remember at the moment but there were tons more programmes I liked that I just can't remember right now.

Wasn't 80's TV just great?

Silvera

FINALLY !!!
Two more people who remember Simon & Simon !

My favs were:
The Equaliser
Magnum P.I.
The Fall Guy
Houston
CHiPs
Simon & Simon
Bring em Back Alive
Buck Rodgers
Remington Steele
(I think thats the name, i.e. Pierce Brosnan starred)
Hart to Hart
A-Team
Six Million Dollar Man
Minder
Lovejoy

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What were "sledge hammer" and "manimal" ?

Silvera.

sceptre

Originally posted by Silvera
What were "sledge hammer" and "manimal" ?

Sledge Hammer! was a show about a highly incompetent cop who had the phrase "Trust me, I know what I'm doing"

As the last episode demonstrated strongly, he didn't. Always tried to take the most violent way out of every situation, using his big gun (ooh er missus).

Manimal was a show about a bloke who could change himself into any animal. The only two animals he ever bothered changing into were a hawk and a panther. It only lasted eight episodes plus a pilot.

aidan_dunne

Don't forget, sceptre, Sledge Hammer's police chief boss who would always shout, "HAMMMMEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" after he'd just demolished a building with a bazooka or (in that last episode of series 1) detonated a nuclear bomb whilst trying to defuse it.

And who could forget his pearl-handled .44 Magnum which he lovingly kept on a silk pillow beside him on his bed, often talked too and, if possible, probably would have made love to it as well. And no, it didn't have an exotic woman's name like Mariella or Carmen. Sledge Hammer prefered to simply call it/her "Gun"!

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing"

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!

"HAMMMMEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

Classic!

byte

Fawlty Towers (being rerun on BBC2)
MacGyver (rerun on Bravo)
A-Team (rerun on N2)
Knight Rider (or is that 90's)
Incredible Hulk
ALF
CHiPs
Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em (prob 70s)
The Good Life

Oh and I can vaguely remember watching a series of Huckleberry Finn in the mornings on summer holidays.... :rolleyes:

Elmo

Fawlty Towers is the 70s
And Red Dawrf is the 90s
The Good Life is also the 70s
Six Million Dollar Man was the 70s

Come on people.


I just couldnt leave it, could I.

ElNino

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Miami Vice yet. Crockett was my hero

bikini widow

Street hawk
Fame
Noel edmund's multi colored swap shop (inc. cheggers plays pop)
different strokes

ozmo

Originally posted by Elmo
Fawlty Towers is the 70s
And Red Dawrf is the 90s
The Good Life is also the 70s
Six Million Dollar Man was the 70s

Come on people.
I just couldnt leave it, could I.

Red Dwarf started in 1987. Best 3 seasons were in the 80's.

Episode Title|Broadcast Date|Recording Date|Order
The End 15/2/88 27/9/87 1 {Filimed/Aired/Order}
Future Echoes 22/2/88 18/10/87 4
Balance of Power 29/2/88 4/10/87 2
Waiting for God 7/3/88 11/10/87 3
Confidence and Paranoia 14/3/88 25/10/87 5
Me2 21/3/88 1/11/87 6

Kryten 6/9/88 19/6/88 4
Better Than Life 13/9/88 29/5/88 1
Thanks For The Memory 20/9/88 5/6/88 2
Stasis Leak 27/9/88 12/6/88 3
Queeg 4/10/88 3/7/88 6
Parallel Universe 11/10/88 26/6/88 5

Backwards 14/11/89 19/9/89 3 1
Marooned
aka "Men of Honour" 21/11/89 5/9/89 1 2
Polymorph 28/11/89 4/10/89 5 3
Bodyswap 5/12/89 26/9/89 4 5
Timeslides 12/12/89 12/9/89 2 4
The Last Day 19/12/89 11/10/89 6 6

Then the rest were 90's

Dustaz

Tales of the Golden Monkey


Also, what was that program that the star got himself killed during a game of russian roullette? Was it called Freeze Frame or something?

bikini widow

Star trek the next generation.
man from atlantis (70's probably - but watched in the 80's)
dallas
and of course "V" was amazing at the time

bikini widow

Fantasy Island

they made some new version in the late 90's I vaguely remember... (did the new vesion have a midget?)

patch

Remember 'cover-up'? It's kinda hazy now, but Bonnie Tyler sang the theme tune ( I need a hero!)
The original star got killed when he missed an air bag during a stunt. I think. So they just replaced him!

Lex_Diamonds

Riptide!!!

That orange robot in it rocked!!

Karl Hungus

/me pats DVDs of Blackadder.

Oh, where would my warped childhood have been without the genious that is Ben Elton. Also, the Young Ones was another great, pity I dont have the DVDs.

Mac daddy

The first one BOTTOM
The second one the Young ones
Then Mac Gyver
Faulty Towers
He man
:ninja:

bringitdown

Do Bosco and Wanderly Wagon count!?

That magic door ruled!

Caesar_Bojangle

The Golden Girls and Dallas, they were* classics i used to watch them with my grandparents with bags upon bags of monster munch and those mountain bike crisps.

What happened in the last ever episode of The A Team?


*exactly as it says, were

bikini widow

and whatever happened in the very last episode of Battle Star Galactica?

(i kinda stopped watching when they began driving around the planet earth on their cool bikes solving crimes)

Hyzepher

Does anyone remember 'Holmes and Yoyo' - it was a police comedy series. The Yoyo character was a querky robot.

Hyzepher

ozmo

Originally posted by bikini widow
and whatever happened in the very last episode of Battle Star Galactica?

(i kinda stopped watching when they began driving around the planet earth on their cool bikes solving crimes)

They all died in the end. Very pesimistic.

bikini widow

They all died in the end. Very pesimistic

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Spunj

Can't believe noone has mentioned The Gemini Man. He was made invisible in a freak diving accident and has this wristwatch that keeps him visible. Every so often he can switch it off and go invisible for a short time. Too long and he could die! Ohhhhhh!

sceptre

Originally posted by bikini widow
and whatever happened in the very last episode of Battle Star Galactica?

(i kinda stopped watching when they began driving around the planet earth on their cool bikes solving crimes)

Quick episode guide to Battlestar Galactica:
http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/Battlestar/galacticaguide.htm

Quick episode guide to the truly terrible Galactica 1980
http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/Battlestar/galactica80.htm
(fecking motorbikes, superkids, Nazi superweapons and bags of gold delivered to the bank)

Part of the explanation as to why Galactica 1980 was terrible and had those bloody kids:
http://www.blast.net/hart/BG80.htm

More extensive episode guide to BG:
http://www.blast.net/hart/BGEPISODES.htm

More extensive episode guide to Galactica crappy-80:
http://www.blast.net/hart/Wharmby.htm
(also includes a link to a Buck Rogers article, mmm, Princess Ardala & Colonel Wilma, yummy)

wolfman

Originally posted by Spunj
Can't believe noone has mentioned The Gemini Man.

Wow!
That's mad. I have spent YEARS asking people if they remember it and nobody does!! Just looked it up and found out there were 11 episodes filmed and a 2 hour pilot, but only the pilot and FIVE of the episodes were ever aired!!!!!!!

That kinda explains why most people don't remember it.

1976 by the way. Makes you feel old

:cool:

bikini widow

Does anybody remember Wiseguy with Ken Wahl as Vinnie Terranova. bloody brilliant.

ElNino

Originally posted by bikini widow
Does anybody remember Wiseguy with Ken Wahl as Vinnie Terranova. bloody brilliant.

Yeah, that was a good show. Ken's acting career has dried up since then but since he married one of the Barbi twins I guess life isn't too bad