The 80s was a great time in popular culture: the hair, the spandex, the music…and the movies. The mood of films changed over the course of the decade; 70s movies were more gritty and complex, whereas in the 80s films started becoming more simplistic and easier to understand: it was more about fun. Concepts aimed to please crowds; big summer…
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80’s Film And TV
If you have watched movies in the mid-1980s then you may be familiar with the movie trilogy: Back To The Future. Biff Tannen was the antagonist in the first movie and in the sequel he also played Biffs’ grandson Griff as well as keeping the role of Biff. He also was Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen in the third Back To…
When it comes to 80s films, the best robot movies from the 80s are hilariously entertaining. For a popular science fiction film in the 1980s, you couldn’t go wrong with some robots. Every blockbuster movie from Back To The Future to Aliens relied on them. The Best Robot Movies Of The 80s For just about every kid, robots symbolized our…
Remembering the great onscreen chemistry she had with Fred Savage in “The Wonder Years”, we all want to know what happened to Danica McKellar? Well we can tell you that she has not given up acting, in fact she still does work quite a bit. However she has also dedicated her life to putting her prodigious mind to use in…
The show, “Matlock,” was one of America’s favorite TV shows in the 1980s. The show starred Andy Griffith as Ben Matlock, a criminal defense attorney who wore a light colored suit and tie to work every day. He would solve crimes with his wit and charming southern accent while delivering justice for those he represented. Although it has been more…
The Dynasty television show, which premiered on January 12, 1981, held a special allure for American audiences throughout the 80s decade. Considered one of the most popular soap operas of the 1980s (and the best to many fans), Aaron Spelling’s hit prime time soap opera kept its viewers on the edge of their seats for nine seasons, but unless you…
The 80s were a decade of change. America was in the midst of what seemed to be an unending war on drugs, two oil crises, and an economic recession. The country needed something lighthearted to take their minds off the troubles at home and abroad, so they tuned into Murder, She Wrote each week for just that. The series starred…
Miami Vice was a popular crime drama that aired on American television for five seasons during the mid 1980s to 1990. The series revolved around a pair of Metro-Dade undercover police detectives from Miami whose mission it was to take on the hazardous, seedy underworld of narcotics based crimes and trafficking. James “Sonny” Crockett and Ricardo “Ricco” Tubbs defied many…
When it comes to iconic 1980’s TV shows, nothing comes close to the notoriety of “Roseanne”. Roseanne is a comedy and drama sitcom that aired under the ABC network. The program had a long impressive run of ten seasons. Achieving such success one would ask, why did America love the 80s TV show “Roseanne” so much? Why Roseanne Was A…
Doogie Howser, MD was a show that aired in the last year of the 1980s (1989) and ran for four seasons until it was canceled in 1993 on the channel ABC. During its runtime, it had a glorious 97 episodes. The show also starred popular actor Neil Patrick Harris in the starring role as a child prodigy who plays the…