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To ask your favourite 80s TV show?

53 replies

wowfudge · 01/04/2018 17:50

The favourite 80s song thread has made me nostalgic. My favourite 80s TV serial was Robin of Sherwood. Great Saturday tea time viewing.

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n0ne · 01/04/2018 17:53

So many good ones but my absolute favourite was Monkey.

x2boys · 01/04/2018 17:55

Ooh so many , Moonlighting, Fame , Magnum, Dynasty ,Dallas.

Tokelau · 01/04/2018 17:55

Buck Rogers.

Petalflowers · 01/04/2018 17:56

Loved Boon. Had a crush on Rocky (Neil Morissey).

Other favourites include Neighbours which was huge then.

x2boys · 01/04/2018 17:57

And then all the Sunday night dramas I particularly liked Howards way and Tenko.

Jessiegirl · 01/04/2018 17:57

I loved The Adventure Game. ‘Gronda Gronda’.

pinkyredrose · 01/04/2018 17:58

Kenny Everetts show. Still love it now.

bigchris · 01/04/2018 17:58

The A Team

Kit the talking car one

Midnight caller

Heart to heart

Dempsey and makepiece

PavlovaPrincess · 01/04/2018 17:59

@n0ne I loved Monkey too. Did you know they're remaking it? (It looks crap).

I had loads. As a kid Battle Of The Planets and Fame, The A Team, Manimal and Battlestar Gallatica.

As I got older, it was Blackadder, French & Saunders and would TOTP count?

PavlovaPrincess · 01/04/2018 17:59

Also Metal Mickey and Knight Rider.

x2boys · 01/04/2018 18:01

I do think the quality of tv was better because we had so few channels they had to put decent stuff on and the whole family would watch together .

Sparklingbrook · 01/04/2018 18:03

The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates. Must see TV to be discussed at school the next morning.

To ask your favourite 80s TV show?
wowfudge · 01/04/2018 18:04

Audiences for individual programmes were huge by today’s standards, weren’t they?

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Petalflowers · 01/04/2018 18:06

Yes to Howard’s Way. Best theme tune ever (and Leo wa# a name I considered for dc)

MyFavouritePlace · 01/04/2018 18:09

Loved Howard's Way and Just Good Friends

wowfudge · 01/04/2018 18:14

Does anyone remember Barriers?

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Wildlady · 01/04/2018 18:16

Only fools and horses no question.
The bill and casualty.

ALongHardWinter · 01/04/2018 18:34

I loved Tenko,A Travelling Man (anyone else remember that? Leigh Lawson was in it) Boon,and Neighbours cringe

PutTheBunnyBackInTheBox · 01/04/2018 18:35

Murder she Wrote...loved it!
Dempsey and Makepeace
C.A.T.S Eyes
Juliet Bravo
The Gentle Touch
Cagney and Lacey
Rockliffe's Babies

...there's a theme here.

JsOtherHalf · 01/04/2018 18:37

Yes, I remember Barriers. The music was haunting.

TempusEejit · 01/04/2018 18:38

Degrassi Junior High
Neighbours
Masterteam
Fax
The Young One
Blackadders 2 & 4

Was anyone else not allowed to watch Grange Hill because it was a "bad influence"?

Sarahh2014 · 01/04/2018 18:39

Dallas

Threewheeler1 · 01/04/2018 18:41

Airwolf (sings theme tune and imagines Jan Michael Vincent in his jumpsuit....)
And I have an Airwolf phone cover (shameless bragging...)

gillybombilly · 01/04/2018 18:43

Dynasty for me - I'm watching the repeats that are showing now, and decided that if I had a son he would be called Adam, after one of the characters as I loved the name, even at 16 years old (and I did, too).

I remember Barriers, wowfudge - I had a total crush on Benedict Taylor!

Threewheeler1 · 01/04/2018 18:45

Yep, 4 channels and we had to get up and physically turn the tv channels over. I remember when Channel 4 was launched and the excitement of Brookside. We rented our wooden boxed tv from Rumbelows for years until we bought a colour one in the late eighties!

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