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80s/90s TV shows you loved

67 replies

BigJanette · 26/10/2025 17:38

ER has to be at the top of my list.
I loved it.

Ally McBeal

Friends

Blackadder

Only Fools and Horses

Cheers

Knightrider

The Wonder Years

My So Called Life

Dawson's CREEK

I loved them all!

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Idontknowhatnametochoose · 26/10/2025 18:14

It will be alright on the night
Stars in their eyes
Beadles about
Beadles Hotshots
You've been framed
Home and away
X files
Blind Date
Gladiators
Knightrider
Krypton factor

And loads more

Doggielovecharlotte · 26/10/2025 18:15

Dontlletmedownbruce · 26/10/2025 17:49

Twin Peaks (until Bob climbed over the couch and I was terrified for the next 30 years)

Wasn’t he at the end of the bed - couldn’t go to toilet in the night on my own for weeks after

MindaBelinda · 26/10/2025 18:17

Doggielovecharlotte · 26/10/2025 18:15

Wasn’t he at the end of the bed - couldn’t go to toilet in the night on my own for weeks after

Yes I’m sure it was end of the bed. Literally the scariest thing I have ever watched.

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crumpet · 26/10/2025 18:19

Lots of gems already mentioned. A couple more to throw into the mix:

Comic Strip
Grange Hill
Just Good Friends

MindaBelinda · 26/10/2025 18:21

crumpet · 26/10/2025 18:19

Lots of gems already mentioned. A couple more to throw into the mix:

Comic Strip
Grange Hill
Just Good Friends

Yes to all of these too. TV was just brilliant.

Endofyear · 26/10/2025 18:22

Dallas
Dynasty
Soldier, Soldier
Hammer House of Horror
The Young Ones
LA Law
The A Team
Beauty and the Beast
Friends
Peak Practice
The X Files
ER

mamaduckbone · 26/10/2025 18:22

This life
Press Gang (when I was a young teen)

Middlemarch123 · 26/10/2025 18:23

This Life
Thirtysomething

YelramBob · 26/10/2025 18:24

Knightrider 🤣

I lived in Scotland for a while and there was a brilliant series with Rikki Fulton, characters IM Jollie and Super Cop?

AbsentosaurusRex · 26/10/2025 18:25

Most of the ones mentioned and..

Cagney & Lacey

Howards Way

BigJanette · 26/10/2025 18:26

Fraggle Rock - I loved this! And the song.

Mork and Mindy

Happy Days

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PistachioTiramisu · 26/10/2025 18:27

Forgot Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice - loved that show!

EchoedSilence · 26/10/2025 18:27

This Life.
Peak Practice
Sons and daughters
Brookside
The Golden Girls
Cheers
Cracker

EllieQ · 26/10/2025 18:27

mamaduckbone · 26/10/2025 18:22

This life
Press Gang (when I was a young teen)

Press Gang was great! I still have the books that were released when it was on.

One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Due South, which my mum and I loved.

Ultraviolet - a British mini series about vampires, starring Miles Davenport from ThisLife.

Quantum Leap
er
NYPD Blue
The X Files
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Babylon 5
Friends
Frasier

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/10/2025 18:31

The Adventure Game
Happy Days
Dawson’s Creek

I didn’t have a TV for much of the 90s. I did a lot of catching up when I had glandular fever in the early 2000s!

BigJanette · 26/10/2025 18:34

Kate and Allie

Roseanne

Punky Brewster

Different Strokes

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HarryVanderspeigle · 26/10/2025 18:36

Due South

Someone mentioned it on a similar thread to this a while ago. It's all on youtube, so I got to watch it again. Still great.

ElsieJay · 26/10/2025 18:36

BigJanette · 26/10/2025 18:05

Does anyone remember the utterly batshit Takeshi's Castle? 😆

See also
Fort Boyard

Challenge Anneka (my brother had the biggest crush on her! 😂)

Oh yes !
Loved all of the above , and also It’s a Knock Out and Jeux sans Frontières .

JoanChitty · 26/10/2025 18:40

So many great shows already mentioned so I’d like to add;
Our friends in the North
Cutting it
A country practice
Real rooms
Hill street blues
Tales of the city
The high life

ThePineappleSeahorse · 26/10/2025 18:41

YelramBob · 26/10/2025 18:24

Knightrider 🤣

I lived in Scotland for a while and there was a brilliant series with Rikki Fulton, characters IM Jollie and Super Cop?

That’s Scotch and Wry.

BigJanette · 26/10/2025 18:42

Now this was my younger sister's absolute favourite and it has the best theme tune ever... IYKYK

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (it's a cartoon)

Check out this video from this search, cities of gold cartoon https://share.google/WXSn763cO2GAYvaPN

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Howtoaccept · 26/10/2025 18:46

The original All Creatures Great and Small
the house of Elliott

youalright · 26/10/2025 18:49

LadyDarcy80s · 26/10/2025 17:57

Stars in there Eyes
Catchphrase
Sweet Valley High
Grange Hill
Top of the pops
Last of the summer wine
999
Strange but true

Omg 999 I still remember the girl who got her hair stuck in the swimming pool vent and the bloke who had a pool cue through his neck i have no idea why my parents let me watch this sort of stuff when I was like 5.
I also loved sweet valley high

BebbanburgIsMine · 26/10/2025 18:54

Chewin The Fat (started 1999)

City Lights

Rab C Nesbitt

Blackadder

HarlequinHare · 26/10/2025 19:03

Northern Exposure
Twin Peaks
Beauty and the Beast
Red Dwarf
X Files
Thirtysomething

But I'd watch anything and everything - Dalla, Dynasty, Kenny Everett, Dr Who, The Adventure Game, random sitcoms like Charles in Charge, Brush Strokes, Dear John,Sorry - no quality control whatsoever