The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are ...
Rating: 7.8
Genres: Comedy
Cast:
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A ...
Rating: 8.9
Genres: Documentary, Family
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, George Page, Chris Morgan, David Attenborough, Nora Young, Paul Christie
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Ste...
Rating: 7.3
Genres: Drama, Family, Comedy
Cast: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, James Read, Janet DeMay, Blake Clark
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including ...
Rating: 6.9
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
Cast: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Richard Basehart, Patricia McPherson, Rebecca Holden, Peter Parros
Pac-Man is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera based on the video game Pac-Man by Namco, which premiered on ABC and ran from 1982 to 1983. It was also the first Hanna-Barbera animated series based on a video game....
Rating: 5.9
Genres: Animation, Comedy
Cast: Marty Ingels, Barry Gordon, Barbara Minkus, Chuck McCann, Neil Ross, Susan Silo
Wealthy, young-at-heart business owner Edward Stratton III is stunned to discover his brief marriage several years ago produced a son, Richard Bluedhorn-Stratton, now 12 and standing in Edward's living room, wanting to live with the f...
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Ricky Schroder, Erin Gray, Joel Higgins, Franklyn Seales, Alfonso Ribeiro, Jason Bateman
In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane....
Rating: 8.0
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama
Cast: Stephen Collins, Jeff MacKay, Marta DuBois, John Calvin, John Fujioka, Caitlin O'Heaney
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew....
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his ...
Rating: 8.5
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Cast: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal, Andy Bradford, Bernard Hepton
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales....
Rating: 8.3
Genres: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy
Cast: Shelley Duvall, John Achorn, Patrick DeSantis, David McCharen, Donovan Scott, Charlie Dell
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the...
Rating: 7.1
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Crime
Cast: Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling, Christopher Wren, John Nettles, Nicholas Farrell, Nicholas Clay
Joanie Loves Chachi is an American television spin-off of the American sitcom Happy Days that was originally broadcast on ABC from March 23, 1982 to May 24, 1983. It stars Erin Moran and Scott Baio as the titular Joanie Cunningham and...
Rating: 3.9
Cast: Scott Baio, Erin Moran, Al Molinaro, Derrel Maury, Ellen Travolta, Winifred Freedman
Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainmen...
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Barry Morse, John Barron, Ed Bishop, Bruce Montague, Alexei Sayle, Geoffrey Palmer
In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their way though crime investigations....
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, Ed Williams, William Duell, Peter Lupus
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding faction...
Rating: 6.2
Genres: Soap, Drama
Cast: Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Chao Li Chi, David Selby, Susan Sullivan, Margaret Ladd
A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in...
Rating: 7.0
Genres: Drama
Cast: Jameson Parker, Gerald McRaney, Mary Carver, Tim Reid, Scott Murphy, Eddie Barth
A Fine Romance is a British situation comedy starring husband-and-wife team Judi Dench and Michael Williams. Dench's sister was played by Susan Penhaligon. It was produced by London Weekend Television and written by Bob Larbey. It was...
Cast: Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Richard Warwick, Geoffrey Rose, George Tovey
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured ...
Genres: Drama, War & Politics
Cast: Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Claire Oberman, Emily Bolton, Elizabeth Chambers, Veronica Roberts
Blackstar is an American animated television series, a science fantasy story sometimes reported as being inspired by Thundarr the Barbarian. It was produced in 1981 by Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott for Filmation. The series was Filma...
Rating: 6.7
Genres: Animation, Action & Adventure
Cast: George DiCenzo, Linda Gary, Patrick Pinney, Alan Oppenheimer, Frank Welker, Lou Scheimer
The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of 'Trotters Independent Traders PLC' who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires....
Rating: 9.0
Cast: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Roger Lloyd Pack, Buster Merryfield, John Challis, Kenneth MacDonald
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