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7.3
1982
8.5
1982
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
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 friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
- #Drama
- #Mystery
8.5
1982
Smiley's People
7.8
1982
Season: 8
Episodes: 8
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 Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
- #Comedy
7.8
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
6.4
1981
Season: 9
Episodes: 9
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
- #Soap
- #Drama
6.4
1981
Dynasty
6.2
1981
Season: 8
Episodes: 8
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 factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
- #Soap
- #Drama
6.2
1981
Falcon Crest
9
1981
8.2
1981
7.3
1981
Season: 3
Episodes: 3
The chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
- #Action & Adventure
- #Comedy
- #Crime
7.3
1981
The Greatest American Hero
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).
- #Comedy
- #Sci-Fi & Fantasy
8
1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8.5
1981
Season: 2
Episodes: 2
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 by the Japanese during World War II.
- #Drama
- #War & Politics
8.5
1981
Tenko
7.1
1981
Season: 4
Episodes: 4
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 first broadcast on 8 November 1981. It lasted for 26 episodes over four series; the final episode being broadcast on 17 February 1984. The series takes its name from a song in the 1936 film Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which Dench recorded as the theme music.
The series was nominated for nine BAFTA British Academy Television Awards and a winner of two, both for Dench's performance in 1982 and 1985.
- #Comedy
7.1
1981
A Fine Romance
7.8
1981
7
1981
Season: 8
Episodes: 8
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 San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.
- #Drama
7
1981
Simon & Simon
8.5
1981
6.7
1981
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
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 Filmation's second fantasy epic, the first being tucked in as a segment of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Super 7, The Freedom Force. Blackstar has many notable similarities to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which was produced shortly afterwards.
- #Animation
- #Action & Adventure
6.7
1981
Blackstar
7.5
1980
Season: 8
Episodes: 8
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
- #Action & Adventure
- #Crime
- #Drama
- #Mystery
7.5
1980
Magnum, P.I.
6.6
1980
Season: 2
Episodes: 2
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
- #Crime
- #Drama
6.6
1980
The Gentle Touch
8.4
1980
6.7
1980
7.5
1980
6.4
1980
Season: 3
Episodes: 3
The 1977 and 1978 episodes were originally broadcasted as segments on the package show Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars.
The 1980 episodes featured Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels in their own half-hour timeslot.
- #Animation
- #Comedy
- #Family
- #Kids
- #Mystery
6.4
1980
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
6.8
1980
8.2
1980
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
From 1907 to 1914, the lives of numerous inhabitants of Dublin, still under British rule, impact on each other: the young wife of a factory worker, a country girl new to the big city, and her husband, a staunch supporter of the unions; the mighty union leader Jim Larkin; the older priest, who drinks more than is good for him, and his young curate; the delightful tramp Rashers Tierney and his dog Rusty, and several members of the Anglo-Irish gentry, some of them sympathetic to those dependent on them, others less so. The working-class struggle through the nightmare of the Dublin Lockout, when the Catholic Church sided with the industrialists to smash Irish labor's first substantive steps towards unionizing.
- #Drama
- #History
8.2
1980
Strumpet City
8.6
1980
8.1
1980
4.5
1980
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
Beyond Westworld was a short-lived 1980 television series that carried on the stories of the two feature films, Westworld and Futureworld. It featured Jim McMullan as Security Chief John Moore of the Delos Corporation. The story revolved around John Moore having to stop the evil scientist, Quaid, as he planned to use the robots in Delos to try to take over the world. Despite being nominated for two Emmys, only five episodes were produced, and only three of them were aired before cancellation.
- #Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- #Mystery
- #Crime
- #Action & Adventure
4.5
1980
Beyond Westworld
7.3
1980
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
In 2030 AD, after being abandoned by his creator, a young boy robot is rescued by an Android Advocate, Dr Elefun, who adopts him as his own and guides him in the use of his special powers to aid and protect mankind and robot-kind.
- #Animation
- #Action & Adventure
- #Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- #Comedy
- #Family
- #Kids
7.3
1980
Astro Boy
7.4
1980
Season: 1
Episodes: 1
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
- #Mystery
- #Drama
7.4
1980
Hammer House of Horror
6.7
1979
7.1
1979
Season: 7
Episodes: 7
Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
- #Action & Adventure
- #Drama
- #Comedy
- #Crime
7.1
1979