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  • Cheers (TV Series)
    United States - 1982
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    James Burrows (Creator) ...
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    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. ...
  • Baywatch (TV Series)
    United States - 1989
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    Douglas Schwartz (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Moonlighting (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
    Director:
    Glenn Gordon Caron (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Cosby Show (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
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    Bill Cosby (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Golden Girls (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
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    Susan Harris (Creator) ...
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    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.
  • The Wonder Years (TV Series)
    United States - 1988
    Director:
    Neal Marlens (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Growing Pains (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
    Director:
    Neal Marlens (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Full House (TV Series)
    United States - 1987
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    Jeff Franklin (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Simpsons (TV Series)
    United States - 1989
    Director:
    Matt Groening (Creator) ...
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    Animation, Voice: Dan Castellaneta ...
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    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 ...
  • Captain Tsubasa (TV Series)
    Japan - 1983
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    Animation
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    Captain Tsubasa is a popular manga, anime, and video game series originally created in Japan by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981. Captain Tsubasa is based on the sport of ...
  • Punky Brewster (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
    Director:
    David W. Duclon (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Married with Children (TV Series)
    United States - 1987
    Director:
    Ron Leavitt (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The A-Team (TV Series)
    United States - 1983
    Director:
    Stephen J. Cannell (Creator) ...
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    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.
  • V (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
    Director:
    Kenneth Johnson (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • North and South (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
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    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 ...
  • Saved by the Bell (TV Series)
    United States - 1989
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    Sam Bobrick (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Knight Rider (TV Series)
    United States - 1982
    Director:
    Glen A. Larson (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Smurfs (The Smurfs' Adventures) (TV Series)
    Belgium - 1981
    Director:
    Peyo (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Ranma ½ (TV Series)
    Japan - 1989
    Director:
    Rumiko Takahashi (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Inspector Gadget (TV Series)
    United States - 1983
    Director:
    Jean Chalopin (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • DuckTales (TV Series)
    United States - 1987
    Director:
    Jymm Magon (Creator) ...
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    Animation, Voice: Alan Young
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    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 ...
  • TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Series)
    United States - 1987
    Director:
    David Wise (Creator) ...
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    Animation, Voice: Cam Clarke ...
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    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 ...
  • Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)
    United States - 1980
    Director:
    Donald P. Bellisario (Creator) ...
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    TV Series (1980-1988). 8 Seasons. 162 Episodes. The adventures of a Hawaii based private investigator.
  • Lucky Luke (TV Series)
    France - 1984
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    Animation
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    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 ...
  • Roseanne (TV Series)
    United States - 1988
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    Roseanne (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Once Upon a Time... Life (TV Series)
    France - 1986
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    Animation
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    TV Series (1986). 26 Episodes. The series Once Upon a Time... Life used the same characters from the other Once Upon a Time... seasons: the good characters represent the ...
  • Garfield and Friends (TV Series)
    United States - 1988
    Director:
    Jim Davis (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
    Director:
    Bruno Bianchi (Creator) ...
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    Animation
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    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 ...
  • Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
    United States - 1981
    Director:
    Steven Bochco (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Dallas (TV Series)
    United States - 1978
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    David Jacobs (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Miami Vice (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
    Director:
    Anthony Yerkovich (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Littles (TV Series)
    United States - 1983
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    Animation
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    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 ...
  • The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (TV Series)
    United States - 1989
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    Animation, Lou Albano ...
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    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 ...
  • Dynasty (TV Series)
    United States - 1981
    Director:
    Richard Shapiro (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Colbys - Dynasty II: The Colbys (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
    Director:
    Richard Shapiro (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Thirtysomething (TV Series)
    United States - 1987
    Director:
    Edward Zwick (Creator) ...
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    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. ...
  • ALF (TV Series)
    United States - 1986
    Director:
    Paul Fusco (Creator) ...
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    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, ...
  • Perfect Strangers (TV Series)
    United States - 1986
    Director:
    Dale McRaven (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Family Ties (TV Series)
    United States - 1982
    Director:
    Gary David Goldberg (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Dekalog: The Ten Commandments (TV Miniseries)
    Poland - 1989
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    TV Mini-Series (1989-1990). 10 Episodes. Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose ...
  • Falcon Crest (TV Series)
    United States - 1981
    Director:
    Earl Hamner Jr. (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Beetlejuice (TV Series)
    United States - 1989
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    Animation
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    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 ...
  • Remington Steele (TV Series)
    United States - 1982
    Director:
    Michael Gleason (Creator) ...
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    TV Series (1982-1987). 5 Seasons. 94 Episodes. When Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), a beautiful young private detective begins her own business (Laura Holt ...
  • Knights of the Zodiac (TV Series)
    Japan - 1986
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    Animation
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    TV Series (1986-1989). 3 Seasons. 114 Episodes. Saint Seiya also known as Knights of the Zodiac is a manga and anime series about a group of five mystical warriors called ...
  • The Black Adder (TV Series)
    United Kingdom - 1983
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    Richard Curtis (Creator) ...
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    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, ...
  • Dragon Ball (TV Series)
    Japan - 1986
    Director:
    Akira Toriyama (Creator) ...
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    Animation
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    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 ...
  • A Different World (TV Series)
    United States - 1987
    Director:
    Bill Cosby (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
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    Peter S. Fischer (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Pingu (TV Series)
    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".
  • Night Court (TV Series)
    United States - 1984
    Director:
    Reinhold Weege (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Dragon Ball Z (TV Series)
    Japan - 1989
    Director:
    Akira Toriyama (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Dashing Kappei (TV Series)
    Japan - 1981
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    Animation
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    TV Series (1981-1982). 65 Episodes. Kappei is a dramatically short guy but he is a master in every sport. He lives as a guest in sweet Akane's house, and he's in love ...
  • Sherlock Hound (TV Series)
    Japan - 1984
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    Animation
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    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, ...
  • The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)
    United States - 1981
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    Stephen J. Cannell (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Amazing Stories (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
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    Steven Spielberg (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • MacGyver (TV Series)
    United States - 1985
    Director:
    Lee David Zlotoff (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Storyteller (TV Series)
    United Kingdom - 1988
    Director:
    Jim Henson (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Murphy Brown (TV Series)
    United States - 1988
    Director:
    Diane English (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Doctor Slump (TV Series)
    Japan - 1981
    Director:
    Akira Toriyama (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Fraggle Rock (TV Series)
    United States - 1983
    Director:
    Jim Henson (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)
    United States - 1989
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    Steven Dodd (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (TV Series)
    United States - 1983
    Director:
    Michael Halperin (Creator) ...
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    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 ...
  • The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (TV Series)
    United States - 1983
    Director:
    Charles M. Schulz (Creator) ...
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    Animation
    Synopsis:
    TV Series (1983-1986). 2 Seasons. 18 Episodes. Every Saturday morning The Peanuts Gang does skits, mostly taken from newspaper strips.
  • The Care Bears (TV Series)
    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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  • Cheers (TV Series)
  • Baywatch (TV Series)
  • Moonlighting (TV Series)
  • The Cosby Show (TV Series)
  • The Golden Girls (TV Series)
  • The Wonder Years (TV Series)
  • Growing Pains (TV Series)
  • Full House (TV Series)
  • The Simpsons (TV Series)
  • Captain Tsubasa (TV Series)
  • Punky Brewster (TV Series)
  • Married with Children (TV Series)
  • The A-Team (TV Series)
  • V (TV Series)
  • North and South (TV Series)
  • Saved by the Bell (TV Series)
  • Knight Rider (TV Series)
  • Smurfs (The Smurfs' Adventures) (TV Series)
  • Ranma ½ (TV Series)
  • Inspector Gadget (TV Series)
  • DuckTales (TV Series)
  • TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Series)
  • Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)
  • Lucky Luke (TV Series)
  • Roseanne (TV Series)
  • Once Upon a Time... Life (TV Series)
  • Garfield and Friends (TV Series)
  • Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (TV Series)
  • Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
  • Dallas (TV Series)
  • Miami Vice (TV Series)
  • The Littles (TV Series)
  • The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (TV Series)
  • Dynasty (TV Series)
  • The Colbys - Dynasty II: The Colbys (TV Series)
  • Thirtysomething (TV Series)
  • ALF (TV Series)
  • Perfect Strangers (TV Series)
  • Family Ties (TV Series)
  • Dekalog: The Ten Commandments (TV Miniseries)
  • Falcon Crest (TV Series)
  • Beetlejuice (TV Series)
  • Remington Steele (TV Series)
  • Knights of the Zodiac (TV Series)
  • The Black Adder (TV Series)
  • Dragon Ball (TV Series)
  • A Different World (TV Series)
  • Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
  • Pingu (TV Series)
  • Night Court (TV Series)
  • Dragon Ball Z (TV Series)
  • Dashing Kappei (TV Series)
  • Sherlock Hound (TV Series)
  • The Greatest American Hero (TV Series)
  • Amazing Stories (TV Series)
  • MacGyver (TV Series)
  • The Storyteller (TV Series)
  • Murphy Brown (TV Series)
  • Doctor Slump (TV Series)
  • Fraggle Rock (TV Series)
  • Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (TV Series)
  • The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (TV Series)
  • The Care Bears (TV Series)
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