STAY TUNED - THURSDAY NIGHT TV EARLY SPRING 1982

What you would've watched on a typical Thursday night in the spring of 1982 on ABC, CBS and NBC.

[@peterose4192]

some of these songs , make me feel like I’m putting my homework off!!! if u know thumbs up

[@Laceykat66]

Never knew 9 to 5 was a network show. I only knew it in syndication. And Cagney & Lacey, wow that show was sure re-tooled. Thanks for the memories.

[@YayAkiba]

Police Squad - best scene ever: one shot of a guy shooting behind a crate, the next shot, the other guy shooting behind the crate. shot 3: both of them shooting about 4 feet from each other.

[@chrishouston3566]

That was "the naked gun" not police squad

[@draveed]

@@chrishouston3566 No, it was Police Squad. They just reused the joke when they made the movie.

[@mikejohnson515]

Keystone Kops on drugs.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

I always laugh hysterically at Rex Hamilton's credit--"And Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln!"--during the opening credits of "Police Squad!"!

[@sha11235]

And he doesn't get assassinated! Also, Lincoln appears in a picture in the episode about the bomber. He's in the courtroom scene at the beginning and when I see it I think, "Hey, there's Rex again."

[@playswithsquirrels82478]

You 2

[@sierria64]

In 1982 I was in the 11 grade and I loved Hill Street Blues and Knotts landing

[@coachb2766]

Hill St. Never missed it.

[@illwill5643]

Now these are shows I remember for sure!

[@ianbauer4703]

They don't make TV shows like Police Squad anymore....wow, that was awesome!!

[@billschauberger1150]

Tom Hanks holding his baseball cap aloft foreshadowing the later similar gesture exiting the dugout in A League of Their Own.

[@nicoledenise32]

The show 9-5 would be called 8-6 now. lol

[@Dios67]

8-5 with a one hour lunch now. When I was a machinist it was 7pm-7am with 2 x 20 minute breaks.

[@j.d.schultzsr.9215]

@@Dios67 , Yeah, all those years in ER it was 6:30 to 7:30 with a 30min lunch on slow shifts.

[@sda9995]

Love that show Cagney & Lacey!!!❤

[@salpuma9145]

Everyone under 30 in America should be shown that Rap segment...every-single-freakin-one

[@hatednyc]

Born and raised here in NYC and most of us can't afford the rent. If a nice apartment like this is available and I need only wear women's clothes I'm all about that!! Especially easy in today's climate: "I identify as a woman" is all I'd say if caught

[@Plus_P_Plus]

Lol

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

😁😆🤣🤣

[@stevebayt145]

Going to live forever.......in syndication as soon as must see tv started

[@ravipeiris4388]

I never imagined that as a kid, while watching some of these television 📺 shorts, I would bookmark them for the future and then look back fondly of the memories I had when my dad was still alive and I looked at him as a god, Ravi Peiris M.D.

[@keldonmcfarland2969]

Police Squad is probably one of the best comides on TV. No laugh track. Brilliant writing. Too smart for the general public.

[@nickperkins8477]

I love the movie 9 to 5, and barely remember the TV series. The series does look like it was well-cast. Dolly Parton’s title song is a classic song.

[@LancePie]

A lot of the scenes from the opening credits look like they were taken from the opening credits of the movie. According to Wikipedia the first season theme song was sung by Phoebe Snow.

[@yaywhewclips242]

2nd season for B Buddies when they inherited a relatives' A/V equipment and started their own P.R./advert agency.

[@kewrock]

Wow. Todd Bridges is the only one still alive on Diffrent Strokes.

[@der22672]

Huge Knots Landing fan. Watched it every Thursday night. The longest running of all the primetime soaps. And If I'm not mistaken the 4th longest running drama overall behind Gunsmoke and the original Law And Order, and as of this season Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, which is now the longest running drama of all time.

[@marcusdavis9030]

I watch all of these as a kid

[@damianlatimer5753]

me too

[@sabster74]

Call me crazy, but I always thought Todd Bridges would be the first Diff'Rent Strokes cast member to pass away, and now he's the last one left. Go figure...

[@demetriusdillard2863]

My sentiments exactly, Tracy!

[@bigbossman2810]

Its a shame that Police Squad didn't last beyond a handful of episodes. Magnum P.I. & Diff'rent Strokes would have to be my favorites hands down.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

Luckily, "Police Squad!" evolved into the successful "Naked Gun" trilogy. And "Magnum, P.I." and "Diff'rent Strokes" are classics.

[@lindaeasley5606]

A surprisingly good crop if TV shows for one season

[@nickperkins8477]

Diff’rent Strokes is one of my favorite TV series’ ever.

[@jmcclain8237]

Hahaha.. Police Squad! In Color!

[@spiff2268]

I know Peter Scolari went on to do Newhart. I wonder if that Tom Hanks guy ever did anything else.

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

Yes, he did. Tom Hanks went on to star in Splash, The Man With One Red Shoe, Big, etc. ☺️

[@blaqceeza]

How anyone watched anything else besides NBC in the 80's is beyond me!

[@lblum610]

Hill Street Blues was the only watchable show during this lineup. ABC was pretty stacked

[@nonner33]

Maybe Kip & Henry are on vacation during the opening theme to "Bosom Buddies" cause I don't remember palm trees being in New York.

[@ElJefeNLA]

Cali baby! LOL

[@clebo99]

[@RickinBaltimore]

Was there a bad show in the mix here? What a stacked night!

[@lblum610]

Was Different Strokes on every night at some point during it's run? I remember Tuesdays Fridays and Saturdays

[@demetriusdillard2863]

@@lblum610, to the best of my knowledge, NBC aired "Diff'rent Strokes" on Fridays during its first season (1978-79), Wednesdays during seasons two and three (1979-81), Thursdays during season four (1981-82), and Saturdays during seasons five through seven (1982-85). As you may already know, ABC picked up "Strokes" from NBC for its eighth--and, sadly, final--season in the autumn of 1985; the "Alphabet Network" aired "Strokes" on Fridays before canceling it the following spring.

[@Football__Junkie]

Donna Dixon... yum

[@travisreed1730]

I LOVED "TAXI!" MY FAVORITE CHARACTER WAS REVEREND JIM! I LOVE DIFF'RENT STROKES, TOO!

[@demetriusdillard2863]

It's a crying shame that "Police Squad!" lasted only six episodes...what the hell was ABC thinking? But it's still terrific to see the opening credits for "Magnum, P.I.," "Taxi," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Hill Street Blues" in this montage, though!

[@ThomasFoster]

Criminally underrated show but it did spawn the Naked Gun series for what it's worth.

Thomas Foster "Criminally underrated show"...………………..uh, no pun intended?

[@ThomasFoster]

@ Totally intended lol

[@sha11235]

With Police Squad! you had to watch the screen all the time to see what was going on, instead of just having it on and listening to it while you were doing other stuff.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

You're probably right, @. ABC's then-head honcho, Tony Thomopoulos, yanked "Police Squad!" as quickly as it had premiered because (his exact words) "it required too much attention." What a crock of horses**t!

[@clebo99]

.....and Rex Harrison as Abraham Lincoln.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

If "Police Squad!" were still airing to this very day, Rex Hamilton would've appeared as a different commander-in-chief or political figure in the opening credits every three seasons or so. Could you imagine him portraying James A. Garfield, William McKinley, or even Anwar Sadat had "Police Squad!" lasted longer than its six-episode run?

[@The_Plump]

"Who are you and how did you get in here" Frank Drebin- "I'm a locksmith......and I'm a locksmith"

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

Jeffery Tambor never seemed to be lacking in sitcom material.

[@zzyzxx13]

Too bad he was never funny.

[@Pluggit1953]

Just lacking in hair.

[@marcusdavis9030]

Cagney and lacey before Sharon gless

[@sda9995]

I just noticed that Meg Foster not Sharon

[@ILOVETHEWHAMMY]

Was almost Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H, but she couldnt get out of her contract!

[@mikelcarrow2787]

A slower time in life.

[@sha11235]

And in Cagney and Lacey, where was Harvey Atkin (Mickey from Meatballs)?

[@LaurenceMoore]

I love these. Thanks!

[@Forcemaster2000]

Wow! Magnum P.I. with the original theme song, I so wish it still had it!

[@RwDt09]

That's actually the second theme that lasted throughout the rest of the series. The original one is heard in the series' first 8 or so episodes. You can check it out in my vid THE TV SEASON THAT ALMOST WASN'T: 1980-81 at the 10-minute mark.

[@Forcemaster2000]

+RwDt09 yeah, I was referring to the fact that the series has been re-dubbed with generic music in syndication because they lost the rights to the classic theme music

[@RwDt09]

As it turns out, the copyright owners, NBC Universal, already filed their dispute against this video due to the Magnum theme, along with owners for Taxi and Diff'rent Strokes, so if they're successful this vid may not last long. They shouldn't be successful because this vid has been created under fair use in copyright law. But if it goes down, the irony is that the Magnum theme is still on a couple of my other vids that were passed without issue, so you have to wonder about this rights crap scam.

[@Forcemaster2000]

+RwDt09 agreed :-)

[@cromartie1984]

this was always the theme we heard in france

[@jbshore2012]

Remember Meg Foster in Cagney & Lacey?....me neither...

[@helanesolomon1724]

I do! Ha. I'm old

[@nickperkins8477]

I very vaguely remember the Police Squad TV series. I clearly remember Leslie Nielsen’s The Naked Gun movies,

[@daviddavidson8050]

They ought to do a reunion episode of Bossom Buddies!

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

Nooooo

[@daviddavidson8050]

@@mamacindyrogofsky495 nooo? Why not?

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

@@daviddavidson8050 Never liked Tom Hanks.

[@daviddavidson8050]

@@mamacindyrogofsky495 I see. That's cool. A lot of people don't. ✌💞💪

[@demetriusdillard2863]

Considering the fact that both Peter Scolari and Wendie Jo Sperber are now deceased, it'd be damn near close to impossible--not to mention completely unnecessary--for the surviving cast members to reunite. There was a "Bosom Buddies" cast reunion at the now-defunct TV Land Awards a little over a decade ago featuring Hanks, Scolari, Telma Hopkins, Donna Dixon, and Holland Taylor.

[@travisreed1730]

I would watch "Police Squad," I Loved "Naked Gun" movies. I Loved "Bosom Buddies," too.

[@mattwinn9607]

You had to have a good theme song back then for sure

[@meleze3382]

Thank you for the walk.

[@odizm5196]

Police squad AKA Naked Gun the series Was Brooklyn 99 way before Brooklyn 99

[@cityhawk]

No wonder Hill Street Blues has trouble making it into the top 20. The gold standard of all police shows had to face two legendary programs at the same time slot (20/20 and Knots Landing). This was cutthroat programming at its finest. Talk about a stacked evening. I probably would have stayed with ABC till 10 and switch over to Hill Street Blues.

[@lblum610]

That is how I watched it

[@jesshansen1397]

Magnum has the best into EVER. You just want to get up and go do stuff after hearing that, I mowed the lawn.

[@gaywizard2000]

These are great! Thank you, all the shows I watched instead of doing homework!

[@davidjackson2524]

Didn't recognise the Cagney &Lacey intro. When did Sharon Gless come along?

[@danaripley1200]

When Rap started out innocent enough. Then it took a turn for the worst later on.

[@ma55aracin9]

WTAH? The great Tom Hanks in drag on his first TV appearance? Now that's a far cry from the movie star we love these days. I wonder what would happen if Tom Selleck landed that role as the famous archeologist and history teacher in lieu of Harrison Ford. (Of course we all know the answer to the latter.....)

[@lp-xl9ld]

Hey, he had to start *somewhere*...

[@ma55aracin9]

@@lp-xl9ld Yup. Maybe. Besides, I'm wondering if those old Chevy squad cars seen in the intro for "Hill Street Blues" were the same ones used for those crazy chase scenes in "The Blues Brothers"? #PleaseConfirm

[@sha11235]

Remember how Robin Williams started-as this alien.

[@kingovharts]

Tom Selleck actually would have made a great Indy.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

@@ma55aracin9, the patrol cars featured in the opening credits of "Hill Street Blues" were Dodge Monacos, not Chevys. And dozens of Monacos were indeed used (and abused) in "The Blues Brothers" during those memorable car chase and crash sequences; in fact, Jake and Elwood's Bluesmobile was a 1974 Monaco, while the other Monacos were 1975-77 models.

[@feliciajenkins5041]

I forgot Telma Hopkins was in Bosom Buddies.

[@rosered3608]

I would love to see a biography on her with Tony Orlando and Dawn, Bosom Buddies, Gimme A Break, Family Matters, Half And Half and the others that didn’t sell. Love Her. ❤️

[@jbshore2012]

This version of "9 to 5" for the tv version sounds like Schoolhouse Rock. "Employment Rock". ?Remember when "Rap Music" was the latest thing?

[@hugoboss5895]

My Betamax top loader would have been recording Cagney and Lacey and knots landing while I watch different strokes taxi and 2020. Lot of happy tv memories there.

[@lblum610]

Geez How many nights was Different Strokes on during it's run

[@demetriusdillard2863]

If my memory serves me correctly, NBC scheduled "Diff'rent Strokes" originally aired Friday night at eight during its first season in 1978, then Wednesdays at 9 pm throughout seasons two and three, then Thursday night at nine for its fourth season, then Saturdays at 8 pm between seasons five and seven, and finally back to Friday night at nine for its eighth--and final--season when ABC picked up the floundering sitcom in 1985.

[@Bill23799]

Tom Selleck was great As Magnum. I enjoy seeing him now as the family Patriarch in the cop series " Blue Bloods ". What???? Sharon Gless was not Cagney in the first eps of Cagney & Lacey? Hill Street Blues was a great cop series.

[@paulbaranofsky4995]

Tom selleck magnum was a goofball.His frank Reagan more serious and he has actually done blue bloods longer than he did magnum p.i

[@dustinhowell4344]

I liked Cagney and Lacey wuth Sharon Glass and the other theme

[@cindypruitt9534]

I didn't remember Cagney and Lacey with Meg Foster so I looked it up. It is a very interesting back story as to why she was canned and Sharon Gless was brought on. The show was cancelled first season because the ratings were poor and the characters weren't feminine enough. Very interesting how it all came down and worth a quick read.

[@fabio40]

Sharon Gless was actually the third actress to play Cagney. Loretta Swit did the pilot.

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

what does "feminine enough" mean?

[@jongaulthero]

@@suzycreamcheesez4371 The exact opposite of both (all 4, whatever) of these horrible actresses were. The show was garbage.

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

golly gee honest?! @@jongaulthero

[@der22672]

Yes, I remember Cagney & Lacey's early struggles very well. After the show was cancelled after the first season, I believe, CBS changed their minds and brought it back after the viewers demanded they bring it back. Fans signed petitions and everything. Sharon and Tyne also went on to win several Emmys for the show as well. Great show.

[@sha11235]

So Mr. Hart came back from the jungle.

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

Hill Street Blues

[@sgtearache5303]

Were there actually "Hotels for Women" in New York in the 80s? Does such a thing still exist? Just how many shows was Jeffrey Tambor in in the 80s?? Jeez! Guy was everywhere...lol Man, the Taxi theme just kills me. I don't know what it is about that opening...there's just something so melancholy and weirdly haunting about it.

[@myweightloss11928]

1. Hated that season of Taxi when they credits jumped off the screen. Before they just vanished. Did not remember 9-5 with a series. Must have been really bad. Later Fame left network TV and became syndicated with new episodes, by then Leroy was gone and the show was somewhat different. Hill ST. Blues though was the BEST cop show until NYPD Blue came on!

[@GuitarAnthony]

The thumbnail is of Cagney & Lacey & I thought they were mannequins. :D

[@MrBigglessworth]

Man, where do you find these intros? This is fascinating!

[@travisreed1730]

The good old days of TV..when they weren't preaching at you, and screaming and crying over percieved slights.

[@robertslydell6990]

Yeah, for me part of the fun of watching these is picking out what would have zero chance of being made today.

[@sha11235]

Some of them are easy to get since the shows were hits.

[@kingovharts]

I dont remember this version of Cagney and Lacy at all.

[@karennowicki4582]

kingovharts they have the early version on Amazon prime.

[@sha11235]

Would there really be a hotel like that in Bosom Buddies, where no men were allowed upstairs?

[@myweightloss11928]

Well there is a YWCA, and there are hotels for men, so maybe there is one for women.

[@paulbaranofsky4995]

Bosom buddies and taxi were two of the best shows on this list

[@merce10554]

Hill St theme became gloomier and slower and the characters stopped smiling in later seasons.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

In my honest opinion, "Hill Street Blues" jumped the shark when Michael Conrad (Sgt. Phil Esterhaus) died midway through its fourth season in 1983.

[@jamiemacdonald9085]

We've had horrid reality shows since the 90s, and I think the equivalent then was the comedy hour.🤩

[@TimBoyd2012]

Wow, even then, NYC was expensive. How do people afford to live there?

[@lauralang2940]

That's why I moved to Pittsburg. And it ain't much cheaper.

[@jeffreybaker100]

Snots Landing

[@johnbarnes6832]

Only two winners here-Magnum P.I. & Hill Street.

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

Where's the TV version of Private Benjamin? 🤔

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

Hill Street Blues starring James Sikking before Doogie Howser and Joe Spano before Tobias Fornell in NCIS!

[@malcolmarnsdorff6782]

Meg Foster always gorgeous

[@LancePie]

Did 'Knots Landing' have a different opening sequence each season?

[@demetriusdillard2863]

Yep, as far as I know.

[@yaywhewclips242]

Hill, St. Blues was supposedly Buffalo NY. There R shots of the city in the opening.

[@TimBoyd2012]

notgrillo collector/ gamer Actually, it’s believed it was Chicago

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

“Although filmed in Los Angeles (both on location and at CBS Studio Center in Studio City), the series is set in a generic unnamed inner-city location with a feel of a U.S. urban center in the Midwest or Northeast. (Series Creator Stephen) Bochco reportedly intended this fictional city to be a hybrid of Chicago, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh.” - Wikipedia

[@matthewfarmer6830]

Why is the show Taxi on the 1982 year list was it started in 1978 not 1982, kinda strange.

[@RwDt09]

The video is for Thursday night in the spring of 1982, when Taxi aired while in its 4th season, not a video of new shows, including Taxi, that debuted in the Fall of '78. The latter video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX2qcpiZqNGfnM0

[@matthewfarmer6830]

@@RwDt09 thanks so much for clearing that up...I see 👍

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

I think this was a reboot with Sally struthers later on also with Rachel Dennison.

[@robintaylor485]

I love smoking marijuana at night getting Chinese delivery and getting really nostalgic on the stuff I’m 42 years old and I’ve fallen in love with nostalgia from my childhood I was a little boy I lived at 1515 Robin Ridge Circle in timber Lakes neighborhood Wichita Kansas win this aired

[@nolajoe8959]

Hey now!

[@richardwild3942]

Hill Street Blues invented modern television.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

Indeed!

[@cityhawk]

Don’t discount St. Elsewhere as well. Like what Hill Street Blues did for police dramas, St. Elsewhere rewrote the medical drama that we still see today.

[@YodaMan-420]

bosom buddies: heard that song in walmart a few days ago. now i remember where else i heard it. 9 to 5: thats NOT Dolly Parton. wtf?!?

[@spiff2268]

Probably a case of someone else owned the rights to the song and Dolly wanting too much money to use her version.

[@chaseroush6503]

Phoebe Snow

[@jamiemacdonald9085]

We've had horrid reality shows since the 90s, and I think the equivalent then was the comedy hour.🤩 Much better.

[@EvansSt83]

I wonder if any cast members of Hill Street Blues ever guest starred on any of the Law and Order shows or Chicago P.D.?

[@paulbaranofsky4995]

Bosom buddies was actually a good show

[@LancePie]

I heard the Meg Foster was replaced in "Cagney & Lacey" because she was too butch... don't know if that's the reason.

[@robertslydell6990]

Has any successful sitcom ever been borne from a successful movie?

[@sha11235]

Alice and MASH.

[@akronkeith]

Yep. M*A*S*H*.

[@Logan_Baron]

The Odd Couple.

[@RDASoccer]

I always laugh at Tom Hanks when he pretends to be this sophisticated know it all remembering him on Bosom Buddies. He should be more humble with that crap on his resume.

[@cityhawk]

He’s made fun of himself being on Bosom Buddies on Adult Swim. As a matter of fact, him and Peter are still very good friends. It’s safe to say that he hasn’t forgotten his comedic roots.

[@FingerBreakerWu]

Tyne Daly was one of the greatest leading men in 80s TV!

[@chinfuzzchet3616]

About $400 million ago for Hanks...

[@cromartie1984]

wow carl lumbly always looked old?

[@opinionday0079]

whatever happened to Tracy and Lacy.

[@ferociousgumby]

Who the hell is MEG FOSTER?? Where's Sharon Gless?

[@danbenwil]

Sharon Gless replaced Meg Foster in the fall of 1982, I believe.

[@yaywhewclips242]

Meg Foster is a character actress who I found FOXY!

[@mollylea2643]

The only reason Sharon Gless wasn't on the show to begin with was because she wasn't available. She was actually the writers' first choice!

[@lelandframe6927]

The CBS brass wanted her replaced with Sharon Gless because they believed the audience would think she was a lesbian!

[@TimBoyd2012]

Sharon Gless was on House Calls at the time (she had just replaced Lynn Redgrave). She became available after House Calls was cancelled.

[@DNSKansas]

Wrong Hill Street Blues introduction. Missing Ed Marinaro.

[@myweightloss11928]

I think that was the first season. I think he joined later.

[@demetriusdillard2863]

@@myweightloss11928, Ed Marinaro (Officer Joe Coffey) joined the cast of "Hill Street Blues" at the tail end of its inaugural season in the spring of '81, though he wasn't added to the opening credits until its sophomore season that autumn.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

Shows that didn't make it: Police Squad 9 to 5 Fame

[@demetriusdillard2863]

Both "9 To 5" and "Fame" were renewed for a second season before being canceled by their respective networks (ABC and NBC) in 1983 before being resurrected in first-round syndication.

[@j.d.schultzsr.9215]

I'm sorry I mised Police Squad, but otherwise just realised how lucky I was to be working afternoons in ER, so I could miss the rest of these turkeys.

[@kewrock]

Hill Street Blues. What a bleak show. Even the opening credits a dark, gloomy rainy day in ugly Chicago with a sad piano playing. It even had the suicide of a lead character. Dismal and depressing show.