Take the Tour: "Popular TV shows from the 80s"
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United States - 1982
- Director:
- James Burrows (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1982-1993). 11 Seasons. 276 episodes. Cheers is a bar in Boston owned by Sam Malone, a former Boston Red Sox pitcher, whose drinking problem ended his career. ...
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United States - 1989
- Director:
- Douglas Schwartz (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-2001). 11 Seasons. 242 Episodes. This long-running series follows the adventures of a team of lifeguards on a crowded resort beach. Veteran lifeguard ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Glenn Gordon Caron (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1989). 5 Seasons. 66 Episodes. The top model Maddie Hayes was betrayed by her investment adviser who flew with all her money to South-America and began ...
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- Bill Cosby (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1992). 8 Seasons. 197 Episodes. The Huxtable residence is a New York City brownstone where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. He and his ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Susan Harris (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Bea Arthur, Betty White ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1992). 7 Seasons. 180 Episodes. Four previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times.
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United States - 1988
- Director:
- Neal Marlens (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Fred Savage, Dan Lauria ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1988-1993). 6 Seasons. 115 episodes. The Wonder Years takes place during the turbulent times of the late 1960s and 1970s. The show focuses on Kevin Arnold ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Neal Marlens (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Kirk Cameron, Alan Thicke ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1992). 7 Seasons. 166 Episodes. This ABC family sitcom revolved around the Seaver family, who lived on Long Island in New York. When the series debuted in ...
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United States - 1987
- Director:
- Jeff Franklin (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- John Stamos, Lori Loughlin ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1995). 8 Seasons. 192 Episodes. Family sitcom. Set in San Francisco, this is a show about a very loving family headed by Danny Tanner, who became a single ...
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United States - 1989
- Director:
- Matt Groening (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation, Voice: Dan Castellaneta ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-Today). 34 Seasons. The Simpsons started out in the Tracy Ullman Show on the 19th April 1987, as shorts, and then, worked it's way up, to become as full ...
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- David W. Duclon (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1988). 4 Seasons. 88 Episodes. Punky Brewster is a show about a girl named Penelope "punky" Brewster. She is abandoned with her dog, Brandon in a ...
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United States - 1987
- Director:
- Ron Leavitt (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1997). 11 Seasons. 263 Episodes. Peg and Al have been together, for better or worse, for more than two decades. How they survive their relationship is the ...
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United States - 1983
- Director:
- Stephen J. Cannell (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- George Peppard, Mr. T ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 98 Episodes. Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- Kenneth Johnson (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Jane Badler, June Chadwick ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1985). 19 Episodes. V (also known as V: The Series) is a 60-minute (47 to 49 minutes without commercials) weekly television series that aired in the ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Cast:
- Patrick Swayze, James Read ...
- Synopsis:
- TV miniseries (1985,1986,1994). 15 Episodes. Based on John Jakes best selling novel this is the story of the friendship between two youngs, George Hazard (James Read) and ...
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United States - 1989
- Director:
- Sam Bobrick (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-1993). 4 Seasons. 86 Episodes. Teen. SAVED BY THE BELL chronicles the comedic high school adventures of six students at Bayside High School: fast-talking ...
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United States - 1982
- Director:
- Glen A. Larson (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1982-1986). 4 Seasons. 90 Episodes. Michael Long is a policeman, while investigating someone, he was shot and left for dead. But a millionaire, Wilton Knight ...
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Belgium - 1981
- Director:
- Peyo (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1981-1989). 427 Episodes. The Smurfs are little blue creatures that live in mushroom houses in a forest inhabited mainly by their own kind. The smurfs average ...
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Japan - 1989
- Director:
- Rumiko Takahashi (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-1992). 161 Episodes. Rumiko Takahashi's story of a high school aged girl named Akane who finds herself engaged to be married because of an arrangement by ...
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United States - 1983
- Director:
- Jean Chalopin (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1986). 2 Seasons. 86 Episodes. In the Metro City police department, an international police inspector named "Gadget", is the inept inspector who is on the ...
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United States - 1987
- Director:
- Jymm Magon (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation, Voice: Alan Young
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1990). 4 Seasons. 100 Episodes. When Donald Duck decides to join the Navy, he leaves his nephews, Hewey, Dewey and Louie, in the care of his cantankerous ...
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United States - 1987
- Director:
- David Wise (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation, Voice: Cam Clarke ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1996). 10 Seasons. 193 Episodes. This show tells the adventures of four turtles who were transformed into humanoids by a strange ooze and were trained as ...
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United States - 1980
- Director:
- Donald P. Bellisario (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1980-1988). 8 Seasons. 162 Episodes. The adventures of a Hawaii based private investigator.
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France - 1984
- Director:
- William Hanna ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984). 26 Episodes. Lucky Luke is a solitary cowboy traveling through the Far West. Accompanied by his faithful steed Jolly Jumper, he finds himself faced ...
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United States - 1988
- Director:
- Roseanne (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Roseanne, John Goodman ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1988-1997). 10 Seasons. 231 Episodes. A highly original take on the tired genre of the American family sitcom. At the time, the gold standard was "The Cosby ...
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United States - 1988
- Director:
- Jim Davis (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1988-1994). 7 Seasons. 121 Episodes. Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. This show ...
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- Bruno Bianchi (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1987). 2 Seasons. 86 Episodes. A practical joker and trouble maker Heathcliff struts through life in search of new ways to torment Spike the neighborhood ...
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United States - 1981
- Director:
- Steven Bochco (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1981-1987). 7 Seasons. 146 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct in New York. The original "ensemble drama," this is the ...
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United States - 1978
- Director:
- David Jacobs (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1978-1991). 14 Seasons. 357 Episodes. The series revolves around the wealthy Ewing family who occupy a mansion at the sprawling South Fork ranch in posh ...
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- Anthony Yerkovich (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1990). 5 Seasons. 111 Episodes. Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time, focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade police ...
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United States - 1983
- Director:
- Heywood Kling (Creator), Bernard Deyriès
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1985). 3 Seasons. 29 Episodes. This is DIC's first animated show (with the second being Inspector Gadget) and it first premiered in September of 1983 on ...
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United States - 1989
- Director:
- Steve Binder ...
- Cast:
- Animation, Lou Albano ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989). 65 Episodes. From the popular video game, Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show features Mario, his brother Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and ...
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United States - 1981
- Director:
- Richard Shapiro (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- John Forsythe, Linda Evans ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1981-1989). 9 Seasons. 220 Episodes. Drama. The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Richard Shapiro (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1987). 2 Seasons. 49 Episodes. The Colbys are a spin off of Dynasty. Dynasty presented the Colby characters at a ball in Denver where The Colby's came to ...
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United States - 1987
- Director:
- Edward Zwick (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1991). 4 Seasons. 85 Episodes. Hope and Michael are a married couple in their thirties, living in Philadelphia, and struggling with everyday adult angst. ...
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United States - 1986
- Director:
- Paul Fusco (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Max Wright, Anne Schedeen ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1986-1990). 4 Seasons. 103 Episodes. The Tanner family is an average American family. One day, they discover that they have a visitor. He's small, he's furry, ...
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United States - 1986
- Director:
- Dale McRaven (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1986-1993). 8 Seasons. 150 Episodes. Balki (Pinchot) was a young shepherd from the Isle of Mypos in the Mediterranean who moved to a Chicago apartment with his ...
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United States - 1982
- Director:
- Gary David Goldberg (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1982-1989). 7 Seasons. 172 Episodes. Family Sitcom. The series centered around the Keaton family, Steven and his wife Elyse, both flower children of the ...
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United States - 1981
- Director:
- Earl Hamner Jr. (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1981-1990). 9 Seasons. 227 Episodes. Angela Channing, whose Italian Grandfather founded the Falcon Crest Winery in the Californian Tuscany Valley many years ...
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United States - 1989
- Director:
- Robin Budd ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-1991). 4 Seasons. 94 Episodes. Loosely based on the film of the same name, this show features Beetlejuice, a wild ghost from the "Neitherworld," and his ...
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United States - 1982
- Director:
- Michael Gleason (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1982-1987). 5 Seasons. 94 Episodes. When Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), a beautiful young private detective begins her own business (Laura Holt ...
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United Kingdom - 1983
- Director:
- Richard Curtis (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1989). 4 Seasons. 25 Episodes. Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, ...
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Japan - 1986
- Director:
- Akira Toriyama (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1986-1989). 5 Seasons. 153 Episodes. Long ago in the mountains, a fighting master known as Gohan discovered a strange boy whom he named Goku. Gohan raised him ...
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United States - 1987
- Director:
- Bill Cosby (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1993). 6 Seasons. 145 Episodes. A Different World was a spinoff of the top-rated The Cosby Show. The half-hour, ensemble situation comedy was the first to ...
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- Peter S. Fischer (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1996). 12 Seasons. 264 Episodes. Former substitute English teacher and famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. You see, it ...
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Switzerland - 1986
- Director:
- Otmar Gutmann (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation, Voice: Carlo Bonomi
- Synopsis:
- Pingu is a clay penguin who is very mischievous and playful. He lives in the arctic where he plays with his family and his friend the seal. His signature sound is something like "mweep mweep".
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United States - 1984
- Director:
- Reinhold Weege (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1992). 9 Seasons. 193 Episodes. "Night Court" centers around Manhattan Criminal Court Part II, presided over by Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone (Harry ...
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Japan - 1989
- Director:
- Akira Toriyama (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-1996). 16 seasons. 291 episodes. Dragon Ball Z is the long-running sequel to the anime Dragon Ball. The series is a close adaptation of the second (and ...
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Japan - 1984
- Director:
- Hayao Miyazaki ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1984-1985). 26 Episodes. Sherlock Hound is a anime adaption of Sherlock Holmes where the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic animals, in majority dogs, ...
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United States - 1981
- Director:
- Stephen J. Cannell (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- William Katt, Robert Culp ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1981-1983). 3 Seasons. 44 Episodes. A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1987). 2 Seasons. 45 Episodes. Television series created, produced, and twice directed by Steven Spielberg. Truly amazing, and sometimes odd stories are ...
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Lee David Zlotoff (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1992). 7 Seasons. 139 Episodes. Angus Macgyver is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a ...
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United Kingdom - 1988
- Director:
- Jim Henson (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- John Hurt, Brian Henson ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a castle ...
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United States - 1988
- Director:
- Diane English (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Candice Bergen, Faith Ford ...
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1988-1998). 10 Seasons. 247 Episodes. Murphy Brown is a very selfish, stubborn, extremely hot-tempered but also talented, resourceful, clever and caring ...
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Japan - 1981
- Director:
- Akira Toriyama (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV series (1981-1986). 5 Seasons. 243 Episodes. Professor Senbe Norimaki, aka Doctor Slump, is a bumbling inventor living with his wife and his out-of-control robot ...
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United States - 1983
- Director:
- Jim Henson (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 96 Episodes. Doc and his dog Sprocket have a hole in their wall, behind which live little furry creatures known as Fraggles in a place ...
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United States - 1989
- Director:
- Steven Dodd (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1989-1996). 7 Seasons. 93 Episodes. Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured ...
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United States - 1983
- Director:
- Michael Halperin (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1985). 2 Seasons. 130 Episodes. In a distant and mystical land, wimpy Prince Adam leads the life of royalty. Unknown to all but a few close ...
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United States - 1983
- Director:
- Charles M. Schulz (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1983-1986). 2 Seasons. 18 Episodes. Every Saturday morning The Peanuts Gang does skits, mostly taken from newspaper strips.
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United States - 1985
- Director:
- Linda Denham (Creator) ...
- Cast:
- Animation
- Synopsis:
- TV Series (1985-1988). 4 Seasons. 60 Episodes. The Care Bears live in a faraway place up in the clouds called Care-a-Lot. They travel around the world on Missions in ...
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