23 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1982

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[@FlintIronstag23]

I'm always amazed watching these 80s TV compilations how much television I used to watch. I hardly watch any network shows anymore.

[@mos6507]

No internet back then. It was just TV and videogames.

[@morganstorey6380]

Truth. I don't watch any new TV at all, really.

[@Madbandit77]

@@mos6507 And radio, magazines, comic books, records, cassettes, etc.

[@viewtifuljoe66]

cause tv sucks now.

[@PRHILL9696]

TV was huge for me in the 70s and 80s but not since then at all

[@Darbobski]

I didn't realize how Epic 1982 was in terms of new TV.

[@trevorbarnhill9148]

I agree. Classics like Newhart, Family Ties, Knight Rider, and Silver Spoons along with underrated shows like Square Pegs and Matthew Star. However, 1982 laud out some huge turds like Star of the Family, It Takes Two, Voyagers, The Devlin Connection, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

[@rhianimal19]

Yah, it was the apogee of Network Television for sure. It was all downhill from there. Network shows are mostly ads interspersed with bits of a show now.

[@chrisw6164]

Was just thinking the same thing. Show after show was a big hit.

[@WillEverett2]

RIGHT?!?!

[@gheller2261]

Try getting through Family Ties and Newhart now. Both are unwatchable.

[@theflyxx]

Henry Mancini killing it with the theme songs

[@richsackett3423]

I think there are more Mike Post pieces here.

[@molsongrrrl]

Omg! I loved square pegs! I was so bummed when it got cancelled.

[@douglasdixon524]

Patty, Lauren, Johnny Slash and Marshall are going to Muffy Tepperman's bar mitzvah. Johnny like totally won't go if you aren't invited.

[@kateruterbories2692]

Me, too!!!

[@boopah4365]

Man the St. Elsewhere theme song is quintessential 80's.

[@Gunman610]

Mike Post is probably the greatest theme song writer ever.

[@theflyxx]

Mike Post IS the 80’s.

[@Tubie1111]

Do you remember the theme song album cassette tape?

[@arbjbornk]

@@Gunman610 While I totally agree that Mike Post is one of, if not the greatest, theme song writers even (I still have an LP of his theme songs), the St. Elsewhere theme was written by Dave Grusin.

[@akaiseigo]

What happened to Howie Mandel? He such a dreamboat back then.

[@adblau1]

What a strong year. Both for the shows themselves and for the theme songs.

[@sun622]

Wow. Denzel Washington was so young. What an awesome actor he has turned out to be.

[@la73sh19]

I completely forgot he was in St. Elsewhere! Of course, I could only watch it, in the summer, and during school vacations, lol.

[@tonymoretti2347]

I remember drooling over those arcades in Silver Spoons

[@mmhthree]

Ya, I remember wanting to live there so bad... looked like so much fun as a kid back then. =)

[@tonymoretti2347]

@Darryl Ruiz I was a Heather Thomas kid vavavooom!

[@uhill74]

Same

[@YourHalfSister]

That darn Ripley's Believe It or Not opening sequence being all scary for no reason 😭😭😭😭😭😭 even all these years later.

[@dangerkennyb3317]

Several shows that went on to be legendarily successful, and even the failures look interesting in concept. Great year for shows.

[@aadams1006]

Some of the ones that didn't make it I feel like I would Have watched.

[@75aces97]

Agree. Not all of these were good, and the actual shows weren't all as good as the intros, but even the duds don't look lazy or hackneyed or phoned in. Almost every title here looks like it *could* be a good show with the right follow through.

[@donbagert]

I agree. This was about as good a batch of shows as on any of the channel's videos that I have viewed.

[@manlymcstud8588]

@@75aces97 some of these just suffered from network 'management' and probably marketing dictating a lot of the 'creative' process, like, 'you need a precocious kid!' or, 'where's the comic relief?!' along with the required, 'okay, so who's the love interest?' in other words, they had no bite, just usually miscast and watered-down drivel sticking to the same lame and inoffensive television notes as they ever did. in the fall of '82 i was 13 years old and even i knew most of these things were derivative, rip-offs, and had poorly defined characters meandering around cliche plots. okay, so i was rough on t.v. shows even at a young age, lol. but, i grew up somewhat understanding about these things, too, so bullshit was kind of easy to spot. i actively avoided anything with children in it as much as possible (which is my main gripe with 'indiana jones and temple of doom,' it was just too sugary like that). something like the indiana jones rip-off could have been fun were it not just so... bad, lacking anything broaching on originality. you know when you can't even capitalize on a globe-trotting adventure seeker at the height of indiana jones then you just suck at your job, lol.

[@JoeR203]

Yeah that "Gavigan" show looked like it inspired "Baywatch". And "The Powers of Matthew Star" looks like it inspired the movie "I Am Number 4".

[@klipkultur2951]

That Knight Rider intro is perfect.

[@pandaeyes42]

So William Daniels was pulling double duty between "St Elsewhere" and "Knight Rider". Never knew that!

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Along with playing John Adams in the movie 1776, he appeared in a short-lived superhero spoof "Captain Nice." Versatile doesn't begin to describe him.

[@bryanhayes1218]

Later he was on Boy Meets World

[@SidJustice1]

To this day!

[@aadams1006]

You had to watch the intro. It was the coolest tv intro.

[@momuny6485]

Newhart`s theme one of the best ever.

[@ladyi7609]

That show was one of the best for the whole family to watch. Well, my whole family thought so anyway.

[@ALTDOK667]

I liked St. Elsewhere theme song as well.

[@ianfindly3257]

I like his other earlier show where he's a New York shrink better my self.

[@thelemonddropskid5445]

It's nice, but when you binge the whole thing, it can get annoying, lol!

[@thelemonddropskid5445]

@@ianfindly3257 Can't find The Bob Newhart Show anywhere! All I've seen is snippets here and there on KZbin! I had to research just to understand the gags in NEWHART that reffered to that show... I will have a grand time when I get my hands on this. Never seen it but boy do I want to.

[@davidjackson2524]

Erin Gray in Silver Spoons. I remember her from Buck Rogers from late 70s.

[@michaels2208]

Lol. I grew up watching Buck Rogers, my wife was born in 83 so she missed it. I was telling her and our kids the other day that according to that show we should all be flying around space

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

_My cousin would say "She's Hot" and me being a Breast-Man would say "...if she had tits." xD_

[@bizbot1655]

@@michaels2208 I met Gil Gerard back in the day at a Scout convention. He was signing autographs and was a real douche. Don't know what ever happened to the autograph.

[@richsackett3423]

She was on Happy Days too.

[@TJ52359]

her being on both shows messed with my head as a Kid, I was like 6, and I understood Fiction and that TV isn't real... but she was one of the first where her work overlapped and there was a disconnect between Future Space Lady and 80's Girlfriend Buck had quick turnaround into syndication (because/in spite of it's short run) so both shows would air in close proximity with Buck as Sunday afternoon filler and Silver Spoons in early Prime time Tom Hanks' guest spots on Family Ties & Happy Days were a little weird too when the rerun loops put those episodes close to one another or back to back with Bosom Buddies

[@kevinnelson66]

Rest in peace, Jon Erik Hexum. Gone too soon. He would have been a great Captain America or Superman. He had the build for those characters.

[@weltonvillegal6258]

I liked Cover Up. That show wasn’t bad then he was gone and the show went flott.

[@Rockhound6165]

But he had a 10 cent brain. You simply do not put a gun to your head, blanks or not, and pull the trigger.

[@ceasarandrepont5331]

The memories😁. Thank you. I remember my childhood watching these shows, sitting on the floor in front of the television, and my mom yelling at me for sitting to close. ( 1982 I remember ).

[@kevinbrown4073]

You too on sitting to close

[@jimmymelendez1836]

*too

[@bertrobinson6164]

How old were you?

[@bertrobinson6164]

I was 16 in 1982

[@josephtaylor9970]

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the male leads of 'Star In The Family' & 'It Takes Two' are connected by one movie - 'First Blood'. Brian Dennehy played the sheriff and Richard Crenna played Rambo's commanding officer

[@coolcpa3321]

Meredith Baxter Birney of Family Ties was married to David Birney of St. Elsewhere. They even had a show in the early 1970s called "Bridget Loves Birney".

[@Dios67]

Also, Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan were recently in the movie Tron (1982) together.

[@jefferyevans7773]

You notice in Seventh Heaven you have Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks- Star Trek one and four...I know, that show didn't come until later but Tucker's Witch reminded of it.

[@jefferyevans7773]

Or think of this - in The Expendables you have Stallone and Stathom, both were in different versions of Death Race.

[@acholl980]

Which also came out in the fall of that year.

[@romegavadquez6310]

And than the knight rider theme comes on....and everything else is forgotten

[@doughorton3635]

All I needed to hear were the first couple of seconds and I knew instantly which show it was!

[@chrisw6164]

That happened to me when The Dukes of Hazzard came on during the 1979 compilation.

[@gspendlove]

Man, seeing that Ripley's intro brought back the voice of Jack Palance saying "Believe it....or not!" Nobody ever said it like he did. He made that show great, the same way Robert Stack made Unsolved Mysteries great.

[@monkeywkeys3916]

Probably one of my favorite shows as a kid including the intro that started me asking questions about what were they going to show. I probably had the preview from last week still fresh in my head.

[@williamsanders2439]

Loved that show.

[@kateruterbories2692]

Right there with ya!!

[@Lyra4ran]

Yup, and every time my mom and I would turn to each other and say, '...I don't believe it.'

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Holly Palance brought things alive in my 8 year old body I didn't know existed.

[@3xbadboy264]

Finally!...a year with some 'hit TV shows' in the lineup! 👏👏😂😄 Knight Rider, Cheers, Newhart, Remington Steele, St. Elsewhere, Newhart, Family Ties, etc., just to name a few!

[@kevinpauley-dadbodstyle2935]

Man, 1982! What was in the water? Not only one of the strongest years in the history of cinema, but also in TV! So many amazing shows started this year! Tartikoff was really turning the tide for NBC, starting the "Must See TV" era here! So many wonderful memories from so many of these shows! THANK YOU FOR THIS!

[@RetroManMike]

I cannot overstate how much I wish TV was like this now.

[@andreaslopez2611]

After seeing shows like Cheers, Newhart and Family Ties become classics, it's hard to believe they were once "new." All of these shows came out at the same time and all of them had the same chances to succeed or fail. As they say, the cream always rises to the top. Also a shout out to Ripley's Believe it or Not - one of my favorite shows! Also loved Voyagers! and of course Knight Rider!

[@TheAes86]

You know Cheers was supposed to be cancelled after it's first year (maybe second) because it had poor ratings. Because they were nominated for multiple emmys The president of the network was able to renew i until it's base had built up. It's a shame those type of people went away from the network (or were canned for more "advertisers first" friendly people), at least before Arrested Development came out. This may be why the pay services (Amazon, Netflix, ...) seem to have better content now.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

I think the original Bob Newhart show was a "classic", but Newhart not so much.

[@gary9346]

Actually the history behind these shows show that the cream rarely rises to the top. There is always some backroom deal that keeps shows on the air when rating start to flag.

[@SchofieldAJ]

@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Hey! Newhart was to a Classic as it was a Fun lil show that was revealed to be more so a Spinoff of The Bob Newhart Show in a way that it was more so all Bob's Dream World!

[@nicktaylor2657]

Newhart was great I never really saw the original one though

[@firestepher72]

The Ripley's Believe it Or Not Intro always used to creep me out as a kid. I still get shivers watching this.

[@80sEric]

I'm a huge fan of Square Pegs because 1982-83 was also my freshman year of high school. I was just as unpopular as Lauren and Patty, so I sat home and watched a lot of TV. There's only a couple of shows I can't recall- including It Takes Two. Great cast for a short-lived sitcom.

[@marcusdavis9030]

My sister loved that show

[@vickster2388]

I loved that show

[@douglasdixon524]

Square Pegs was great. It should have lasted 4 years. I have it on DVD complete with interviews from 2008. "I'm not punk, I'm new wave, totally."- Johnny Slash

[@cindypruitt9534]

WOW, powerhouse year for TV. I didn't remember these all premiering in 1982. I was 10 years old that year so I feel in love with Family Ties, Silver Spoons , etc. I didn't appreciate Hill Street Blues until I was older and watched the re-runs.

[@markfullilove9983]

cindy pruitt I hated both of those shows, I think only girls liked those shows. Thank god we had cable and Knight Rider.

[@marcusdavis9030]

NBC rises from the bottom

[@PRHILL9696]

Hill Street Blues was always my favorite. I still love walking by the old Police Station which is now used at times on Chicago PD

[@joannapederson7795]

I remember my favorite night-"Cosby Show," "Cheers," then "Hill Street Blues."

[@reasonrestored9116]

HSB was and is my all time favourite Tv show. I joined the job because of that show, and my life had what I wanted. Drama and purpose.

[@ladyi7609]

Good gravy, the '80s truly began this year! There were some seriously '80s-esque action here, and some INCREDIBLE classics too, from "Family Ties" and "St. Elsewhere" to "Cheers" and "Remington Steele". What a titan of a season this was, and with "Square Pegs" having soundly beaten every other show to the punch in ushering in a new age of New Wave music and MTV, a sign of the tide truly turning. BTW, I saw a KZbin upload of a CBS News special on how a TV show makes it through the pilot stage and gets onto a network lineup, and the two shows featured on said special were "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and... "Family Ties". It was really something seeing a show that was that big of a hit -- and something that was a part of my childhood -- right at the very beginning, just going through the process of trying to make it on the air.

[@yaywhewclips242]

Square Pegs was a great show. There was 1 ep where the girls' friend was possessed by video games and had to be exorcized by Fr. Guido Saduche!!

[@marx686]

Square Pegs was written by Ann Beatts, fresh from writing SNL.

[@haroldfridkis8685]

I have Square Pegs on DVD.

[@greggates1137]

Johnny Slash ruled

[@MattMcIrvin]

That was a good, smart show, with an opening-credits theme that didn't really do it justice (the opposite is more often seen).

[@douglasdixon524]

@@haroldfridkis8685 So do I, I'm glad I saw it at Hastings records and tapes before they went out of business. The interviews were really good.

[@CameronHuff]

Ah Voyagers..a great show that ended too soon. R.I.P Jon-Erik Hexum

[@jamesb5764]

Newhart became so much better when Peter Scolari joined the cast.

[@chrisw6164]

Yup. It started out slow but then it became a masterpiece. Hilarious.

[@pmcmanus420]

I remember in 1982 how the Sixties seemed like a million years ago.

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

from what Ive heard the 60s were something else

[@tolfan4438]

More like a Million Miles Away than a million years ago

[@mikepatrick5909]

actually the same with with music....

[@mileswb]

Not only that, but 1982 is as far away from today (2021, so 39 years) as *1943* is from 1982. I think back to watching "Square Pegs" as a kid whereas people in 1982 thought equally far back to... World War II. Doesn't that seem weird? Like, pop music from 39 years ago would include Van Halen and Madonna, whereas in 1982, pop music from equally as far back in time would be stuff like "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. It just seems like a massively greater change even though it's the same number of years.

[@alfredoprime5495]

@@mileswb true, but as far as technological and cultural differences, I'd say that 1982 is closer to us than 1943 was to 1982.

[@wraithstrongopark]

by the time the Gloria intro hit, i was laughing hysterically! thank you for the flashback and the aching face.

[@txa1265]

I was 16 in '82, so I remember a bunch of these - some are obvious, others I recall but were not great, some are in the 'have to trust you on that'! Couple of interesting things - the decades warp time, so it is weird seeing some of these as having started the same exact time. Also, I remember us all thinking how distinct we were from the 70s, and yet so many of these shows reek of late 70s influences. We watched all 5 seasons of 'Hart to Hart' over the last year (pandemic viewing, right?) and you can watch the styles evolve with each passing year and it is pretty cool. It is also fun seeing so many new faces (Helen Hunt and Anthony Edwards in the very forgettable It Takes Two) as well as stars of the 60s & 70s in their later years ... thanks for putting this together!

[@beedubbya2278]

I was 4

[@WickedScott]

Cheers and Family Ties and I think Night Court made up a good Thursday night of TV!

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

Wicked Scott In 1984-85, the t.v. was locked on NBC on Thursday nights. 8:00 (Eastern) "The Cosby Show" 8:30 "Family Ties" 9:00 "Cheers" 9:30 "Night Court" 10:00 "Hill Street Blues" Man, 35 years later...I still cannot believe how fast time goes by.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Eyehate P. That 84-85 TV season started soon after I moved to a new city to begin my career (which lasted 34 years, till retirement...I'm still in that city, for now), so I remember that NBC lineup for that reason--plus the fact that they were all good to great shows.

[@norbertop.niebres6320]

@@eyehatefarcebook11 Later in the decade of the 1980s, Hill Street Blues was replaced by L.A. Law.

[@tolfan4438]

@@eyehatefarcebook11 second best night in television history

[@laustcawz2089]

"Night Court" maintained it's freshness best!

[@EzekielMessenger]

This is where you can really see the 80s starting to wash off the grime of the 70s.

[@chrisw6164]

So true. Even the good tv of the 70s looked so drab. All the old men trying to be cool with their long hair, but they just looked overdue for haircuts.

[@RichterPhallos]

0:20 Square Pegs 1:20 Gloria 2:10 Silver Spoons 3:10 Family Ties 4:10 Star of the Family 5:11 It Takes Two 6:10 Cheers 7:11 Newhart 7:57 The NEW Odd Couple 9:10 Ripley's Believe It or Not 10:23 St. Elsewhere 11:42 Bring 'Em Back Alive 12:46 Tales of the Gold Monkey 13:46 Voyagers! 14:45 The Powers of Matthew Star 16:14 Knight Rider 17:27 Tucker's Witch 18:24 Remington Steele 19:16 The Devlin Connection 20:32 Matt Houston 23:07 The Quest 24:08 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

[@etme1000]

upvote this hero!

[@Rockhound6165]

Many of these became big, big hits. Many, not so much but Hollywood was on a role in 1982. I watched many of them regularly like Cheers, Matt Houston, Night Rider, & Ripley's Believe It or Not.

[@CArchivist]

And this season gave us both Pierce Bronson and Denzel Washington!

[@kellyweingart3692]

*Brosnan

[@etme1000]

Also Charles Brosnan!

[@ThunderHorseBn]

Newhart has the best finale ever.

[@frankcabanski9409]

Garbage

[@R.Daneel]

@@frankcabanski9409 Despite your reasoned and well articulated argument against it, I'm with @Flavius Belisarius on this one.

[@frankcabanski9409]

@@R.Daneel I offered an opinion. You're welcome to disagree - you have a right to be wrong.

[@TheJeffro451]

St. elsewhere had a mind bender of a finale scene.

[@josephharper3714]

Totally agree. Best ever!

[@luccadeo69]

Umf Erin Gray and Justine Bateman. 2 of my childhood crushes.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Don't remember Erin Gray, but definitely remember Justine Bateman!

[@markorendas1790]

ERIN GRAY!!!

[@michaelmerck7576]

Erin grey ! What more needs to be said

[@douglasdixon524]

Yes, both beautiful young women.

[@troy2478]

@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Erin Gray was better known for Buck Rogers in the 25 Century. A few years ealier.

[@rucksackzen]

Trivia: After “It Takes Two” failed, its kitchen set was later re-used for “The Golden Girls.”

[@kellyweingart3692]

RIP Richard Crenna

[@kellyweingart3692]

it’s Colonel Trautman and Goose 😁

[@RichterPhallos]

I love little bits of trivia like that.

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

Nice catch!

[@trevorbarnhill9148]

I saw that. I watched an episode of It Takes Two here on KZbin once and was blown away when I saw the kitchen. I was like "What the hell"?

[@theflyxx]

This was a great season when I was an 8 year old. Knight Rider, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, and Silver Spoons were my tune ins that year.

[@gator7082]

I forgot about Tales of the Gold Monkey, that was one of my favorites.

[@littleblackduck3134]

The dog had a friggin eyepatch

[@cannong1728]

I miss the 80's...:-(

[@deborahskillman3003]

Cannon G . A crappy shows they have in Fall TV since the dawn of time I rather see the Shelf in the fifties and watch these again I think I had to agree myself 😣😠👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@mindyenglish5305]

I sure don't miss the 80's. But I definitely miss the TV.

[@PRHILL9696]

We all miss the 80s

[@billbates5475]

I miss the 80's so much that it hurts. Best times of my life.

[@nikolas_schreck]

I miss the big family I had in the 80's

[@detroitrockscity]

....and now we have The Kardashian, The bachelor, and remakes from the 70s, that don't hold up to the original. Take me back please.

[@gdeangelkick]

Can you imagine -- I counted 2 mega hits (Cheers, Knight Rider), 3-4 enuring hits (Family Ties, Silver Spoons, St. Elsewhere, Newhart), and a few decent shows that sold pretty well. All that in one year. Now we can't ever get one episodic show that doesn't feel like choking on regurgitated cabbage... I'd say there has been one good 30-minute show in 15 years -- "Fresh off the Boat".

[@119Agent]

@@gdeangelkick Fresh Off the Boat is the only sitcom I watch in the last 10 years. And it is pretty old school in the way it is put together, almost like it could have come out in the 90's.

[@JMFabiano]

Yeah I guess for argument's sake we're pretending The New Odd Couple isn't part of this compilation.

[@JMFabiano]

@@gdeangelkick I liked The Middle too. Modern Family has lost a step or two but was also perfectly acceptable. So is American Housewife. So of course, 2/3rds of these are gone/will be gone. What did you say about going back to only watching old school shows?

[@ITGuy1970]

Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Wire, Stranger Things, and on and on. We're currently experiencing the golden age of television. I grew up watching this crap and it's cringingly bad when compared to modern shows. To pretend any of this is better than what we have now is biased and wholly untrue.

[@heatwave]

So many great theme songs. It's a shame most shows don't even have them anymore. The one chance that they may make a comeback is that seemingly ever show on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon has a theme song. Hopefully, future executives who grew up on that stuff will be more open to them.

[@kurtmardis2244]

I agree. That's something that's missing in today's TV shows. Back then some of the theme songs even had a life of their own on the radio, some becoming hit songs.

[@bronstet]

You know, Matt Houston actually had a pretty awesome opening credits theme.

[@mmhthree]

Loved that show! It might've helped that I'm from Texas =)

[@tammylawrence8331]

He was gorgeous

[@kennethbryant7480]

I loved that show too!

[@monkeywkeys3916]

It looked very well polished and kind of campy at the same time. Lookout Magnum PI Here comes Matt Houston.

[@jlh4jc]

7:12 Thus begins Dr. Robert Hartley's 8 year dream!

[@Rockintheparadise997]

Love it! Exactly!

[@toshomni9478]

Not to mention the six seasons of the oddly adult imaginings of young Tommy Westphall at 10:25. Maybe everything was just a dream in the 1980s?

[@119Agent]

@@toshomni9478 How much of a coincidence is it that TWO tv shows premiered in 1982 that ended up being just a dream. Of course Newhart's ending was a spoof of St. Elsewhere's and Dallas so it wasn't a coincidence as it was Newhart's quirky and illogical universe.

[@RobdaVegasMailman]

That settles it...no more Japanese food before bedtime!

[@goldenagenut]

@Matthew McPeek... hands down. Anyone who watched the first series went nuts. Leave it to Bob Newhart!

[@determineddi2044]

Silver Spoons, Family Ties--huge shows of my teen years. Cheers, St. Elsewhere, amazing. And I loved Remington Steele.

[@NickC1966]

Always thought Pierce was destined to be Bond. Too bad they put him in some crappy ones.

[@acer3573]

Some real classics and "I don't remember that at all" duds.

[@HorrorHQ]

One of the best years in televison history. Right next to 84-85.

[@Nozoki]

One of the best years in movie history, too. So much great stuff that year.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

I enthusiastically concur, Jofer Jeff!

[@smorgasbordtv4092]

One of the best years in music too Michael Jackson's Thriller was released that year

[@kevinnelson66]

@Bob Sebring the 1981-82 and 1983-84 TV seasons were mostly crap.

[@RichardGustason]

I think we can all agree that Meredith Baxter-Birney was majestic as f**k.

[@briancooper2112]

Hard to believe she is a lesbian. Catherine Bell from JAG to. I am very upset. 😎

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

too not to Fix it! GN @@briancooper2112

[@ericpurkey7502]

That explains why Meredith Baxter had problems in the men department divorced. twice.t@@briancooper2112

[@seatednorth8190]

To bad she's a fuz bumper.

[@TJ52359]

@@briancooper2112 when did Bell 'switch Teams' I could have sworn she was married to a dude back in the JAG days (obvious that does not exclude anything, as evidenced by 'Baxter-Birney'

[@naturekid1335]

I totally forgot about the voyagers. Loved that as a young lad

[@kevinnelson66]

Sadly, Jon-Erik Hexum would pass away on the set of Cover-Up after a prop gun went off, causing a fatal head injury two years later.

[@TimefortheApocalypse]

I really enjoyed Tales of the Gold Monkey, and was surprised and a little upset it didn't get past one season I remember

[@johngrauman4208]

The dog made the show

[@kateruterbories2692]

I loved that show!! Have a ceiling fan just like that now!!

[@suzannemarie7313]

I loved that show.

[@ma55aracin9]

*Knight Rider* was the big stuff back in the day and everybody was making replicas of the "Knight Industries 2000", itself based upon the (then) new-for-'82 "F-body" Pontiac Firebird. I'm wondering how much does the original would cost if put in auction........

[@gdeangelkick]

I think someone has the molds and there have been a number of replicas made. They don't go for as much as you would think... given how iconic the show was.

[@OhTerrful1]

Loved Voyagers!

[@kevinbrown4073]

To bad the actor who played Bogg killed himself accidentally. The show along with winds of war got me into history

[@119Agent]

I never heard of it before but Quantum Leap definitely ripped it off in concept.

[@Dios67]

@@kevinbrown4073 Hexum thought he could hold a gun that shot blanks to his head as there was no bullet in it. No, but there was a lot of gun powder in there and other stuff.

[@JoeR203]

Had he lived, I think Jon-Erik Hexum would have been a leading man in Hollywood. He would have attained the level of fame that Mel Gibson reached. Too bad actors weren't schooled better on the gun props. Apparently one day on the set of Cover Up, there were technical problems and filming was delayed. The cast were getting irritated by the wait. Jon-Erik was with some of the female co stars and put the gun to his head and jokingly said "It's enough to make you want to kill yourself." The paper wadding shot out and blew a piece of his skull, about the size of a quarter, into his brain.

[@davestewart2067]

Alec Baldwin says hello.

[@wdh47211]

Great.....thanks for posting.....so many famous names and so many nobodys......I really look forward to these...THanks.

[@profdavebayani]

We want Ripley's It's my favorite.

[@JrGoonior]

Holy crap!!!! The New Odd Couple, I had forgotten about that one!!!!!

[@metrotek5]

Thank for this trip back ... I time I long for.

[@youleftyourgoogleaccopenon5471]

This was a great walk down memory lane. As soon as most of the theme song started a new Rochelle! Thank you for posting this

[@thadstudebaker3370]

These videos are a reminder of how many different TV shows my all-time biggest celebrity crush, Helen Hunt, appeared on. Sadly, I rarely got to watch those shows because my parents chose to watch something else. She has appeared on so many of these videos that it would seem the shows she starred on didn’t fair well.

[@ericzerkle5214]

What a line up!!! Why cant TV be as good as it used to be?

[@adamw116]

When I was a kid I watched Tales of the Gold Monkey, loved Voyagers and the Powers of Matthew Starr. Both those shows deserve big screen remakes. If their done well! Also, Louis Gossett Jr back on TV in 2019 on Watchman! May he live many more years.

[@susancooper3210]

St Elsewhere was also shown in the UK - and I adored it - couldn't get enough of it! 😃 It had something really special!

[@kristinfance6167]

The Quest! This was a show my family watched. I remembered the "Kings & Queens"song lyric but could never remember the shows name. I love your videos.

[@CArchivist]

And the Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired shows, Bring 'Em Back Alive and Tales of the Gold Monkey. I enjoy them both, also sadly one season wonders.

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

At least their stars, Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon5) and Stephen Collins (7th Heaven), eventually starred in successful shows down the road.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs For Bruce Boxleitner, don't forget Scarecrow & Mrs. King.🌞 But yes, I loved both those shows and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was 18 in 1982; a good time to be young and have adventure in your blood!(lol).

[@75aces97]

Both look expensive to film, and didn't do well in ratings.

[@kudukilla]

Frank Buck of Bring ‘em Back Alive was actually somewhat of a real life Indiana Jones, he just brought back animals instead of artifacts.

[@onyx2626]

@@75aces97I missed those two shows back then, but they looked like the networks were trying hard for the fun factor. NBC had the deepest pockets.

[@paddrig2kk7]

* * * So if I did my math right Cheers came out 37 years ago? Which would make me .... old

[@RickAiello]

SO many great, classic Theme Songs, for so many great, classic shows. What a great TV year this was!!

[@suzannemarie7313]

Some of my favorite childhood shows - Family Ties, Remington Steele, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Knight Rider, Silver Spoons...

[@scott1178]

Astounding how many of these actors are still working today.

[@Yeetin_Boomer_Actual]

Good year for ground-breaking, legendary tv. Also this bit is the most 'takes of the golden monkey' I've seen in almost 40 years.

[@melzwings]

I forgot about The Golden Monkey.. lol I remember watching it as a young girl and having such a crush on the pilot lol

[@wlittle8908]

Talk about a trip down memory lane.Thank you so much

[@JohnSmith-yp1qm]

These videos are frickin awesome, keep 'em coming, '82, '84 and '88 are my favorites so far, takes me back to my childhood

[@havoc4171]

Who sang along with the Cheers theme? 2019

[@nylesandrews]

("3-28-19") it's still one of my Favorite Theme Songs of the 80's Especially the Time they also had the Extended Version of the Song I Assume it was before the Cheers Finale Had Started + I also Enjoyed The Theme Song to ("Knight Rider") + the Show as well.

[@thecatnat3574]

havoc4171 lol, me

[@omfil1085]

Because of ice king from adventure time

[@sha11235]

Nice theme, although I was never a fan of the show because it took place in a bar. I have alcoholism in my family so that hurts it.

[@collarelbow5183]

@@sha11235 oh grow the hell up!

[@steadfastcoward]

Square Pegs - How could you go wrong with a theme song by the Waitresses?

[@ianfindly3257]

Yeah THAT show had an early 80's post-punkish thing going on, which was something that, at the time, made it quite unique, modern, edgy, hip and stand apart from the OTHER shows - which, you'll notice, still look and sound sort of stuck in the late 70's by comparison.

[@brianoneill7186]

@@ianfindly3257 CBS had trouble finding 'young, hip' sitcoms for the '80s...so it settled for 40-something yuppie fare like 'Kate & Allie', 'Murphy Brown', and the semi-yuppified stuff that could still appeal to CBS's usual 'grandma' demo, like 'Newhart' and 'Designing Women'.

[@jbass6665]

I was a junior in high school when it debuted. It was a cool show. Even my dad liked it. Shame it only lasted one season. Word is, the kids couldn't behave themselves cuz the adults in the room were even worse.

[@jnnx]

jbass66 I was in second grade, and I loved it.

[@sha11235]

Because the characters were not interesting.

[@ilovegoodsax]

OMG--What a trip down memory lane! I turned 22 that fall, a new mom (my daughter is now 37) and I remember pretty much all of these shows. I always think of St. Elsewhere every time I see Howie Mandel or Denzel Washington. And nothing needs to be said about David Hasselhoff and his car "Kit" (Knight Rider) lol!

[@TheSiobhan12]

Such a good year for TV!!! Watched almost all of those. 😉

[@Trumantop1]

The good old days with theme songs!

[@austinklein1172]

I LOVED Square Pegs and The Voyagers they were my Favorites.

[@douglasdixon524]

"I'm not punk, I'm new wave, totally."- Johnny Slash

[@timothyhanner8118]

Wow. So many iconic shows. What a great year to be a kid. I would have been in 3rd grade or so.

[@mikul_Robins]

I used to visit Universal Studios and visit the set of Silver Spoons. There was a large mini train track on the set. Ricky and Alfonso, when not working would be running around, playing soccer, etc. just being kids. One time I met Ray Bolger when he was in an episode.

[@softrockrules]

Cheers, Newhart and cool Odd Couple theme solid three in a row themes. If I had dollar for every detective that had to chase a crook down a water slide...21:29

[@14DaveHunter]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, I remember Tim Topper later played in a Saturday morning show, called "Going Bananas", with James Avery. If the show hadn't been cancelled, I believe each brother was to be married off each season.

[@ianrhodes6928]

A lot of these made it across to the UK. 1982 saw the beginning of our 4th TV channel (Channel 4....). Cheers opening episode aired on it's first night. I was hooked at once. It used to air every Friday at 10pm. For while, when Cheers was off season, they'd run Newhart. Monday night at 9.25 was St Elsewhere. Good times.

[@dbgldcndr]

what a wonderful golden channel... thank you!!

[@davidjackson2524]

Ricky Schroeder in Silver Spoons. He must be acting most of his life. I think he was in a remake of The Champ in 79.

[@sickofthestupid1067]

All I remember about TV in '82 was MTV for people my age that's the only TV that mattered.

[@ikd3240]

What a great time capsule. There are a few that I had completely forgotten about, like Tales of the Gold Monkey, and quite a few that I never even heard of. Now I know which shows bombed that season.

[@johngrauman4208]

Jack the dog in Tales of the Gold Monkey was great. Why aren’t animals used in television given more kudos?

[@ukmedicfrcs]

Cheers, Family ties, Newhart, had such a great theme song. I want to go back to the 80's

[@ravenkahne8484]

Forgot how much Indiana Jones affected that years programming. :)

[@demetriusdillard2863]

So many memorable programs debuted on "the Peacock Network" in the autumn of '82--"Silver Spoons," "Family Ties," "Cheers," "St. Elsewhere," "Knight Rider," and "Remington Steele"! Thanks to the late, great Brandon Tartikoff as NBC's president, things were slowly starting to turn around for the "Peacock Network" after a seven-year period of mediocrity. "The A-Team" would premiere at midseason in January of '83 (following Super Bowl XVII) and become an instant success.

[@sha11235]

Also, you had Grant Tinker, who did a great job as President.

[@shawnn1412]

The big decision of Tuesday nights in 1983: Happy Days (out of habit, mostly) or the A-Team

[@acholl980]

The A Team was crucial to NBC's success since they were going against ABC once powerful Happy Days now falling after Ron Howard's departure. Mr. T coming off after Rocky 3 made ads slamming the Fonz and promoting his show which brought in viewers. Of course ABC tried to counter the following year with the I Dream of Jeannie rip off Just Our Luck but failled.

[@RichterPhallos]

Thanks for this. Very cool. I had no idea so many hits came out that year.

[@cornflakesbaby]

Thank you for the time travel!... 👍

[@jeffking4176]

This one is interesting. A lot of new shows. Some would become iconic. Many went on for several seasons ( even the ones I didn’t like). One notable show, would have continued, if it weren’t for the untimely demise of the main character. The show: “VOYAGERS” A very well done and interesting show. John Erik Hexum, accidentally shot himself, and died. Meeno Peluci was a decent actor, never seemed to get the right breaks. I now own the series on DVD.

[@wowzer107]

I believe he accidentally shot and killed himself while doing a short lived detective show called "Cover Up". He was replaced by another actor and the show didn't last much longer, but I remember seeing a couple episodes with the other actor.

[@Rockhound6165]

He didn't accidentally shoot himself. He was a moron.

[@johnbarnes5237]

Check out the full head of hair on Anthony Edwards at 5:59!

[@harrygibus]

He probably went into the reading for ER and they were like, "You're a natural but this looks all too familiar - you've got to shave your head!"

[@danielhainline8882]

John, I had no idea Helen Hunt starred with Anthony Edwards and the late greats Richard Crenna and Patty Duke on a sitcom before "Mad About You."

[@acholl980]

@@danielhainline8882 This was a year before Revenge of the Nerds

[@kevinnelson66]

@@danielhainline8882 Helen Hunt had appeared on the ABC series Swiss Family Robinson alongside Martin Milner and Willie Aames in 1975-76.

[@betsyduane3461]

The fall preview TV Guide was early Christmas present back in the day for me as a kid.

[@Portugal2025]

St Elsewhere was way ahead of its time. Possibly the best medical dramas- actually dramas ever.

[@denastyone2788]

Ripleys had the best theme hands down🙄 please do more of these 83 84 85 86 that's where the good shows are

[@Dios67]

Agreed on the theme; love that low bass in it.

[@eydie57]

I don't remember the 80s show called The Quest, but there was a 70s show, also called The Quest, starring Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell that I loved. I LOVED Tucker's Witch.

[@johngrauman4208]

Tucker’s witch ❤️

[@Sammydx1]

Usually when I watch these I remember a few shows. I REMEMBER AT LEAST 75% OF THESE. WHAT A GREAT YEAR !

[@davidhill7071]

I watched a lot of these shows. Some I don't remember bcoz I was only 8 in 82. But it sure brings back a lot of good memories of me in my room watching TV b4 falling asleep.