The 80s. Television was a family affair, and we all gathered round the set to watch our favorites. There were so many popular series, and The List Universe has come up with 30 of them – in no particular order. Some edging into the 70′s, some into the 90′s but all very well remembered from the 80′s. We hope you have as much fun watching the trailers as we did finding them. Enjoy!
30. The A-Team
29. Miami Vice
28. CHiPs
27. Who’s The Boss
26. Magnum P.I.
25. Charles In Charge
24. Sledgehammer
23. Night Court
22. That’s Incredible!
21. MacGuyver
20. Married With Children
19. 21 Jump Street
18. Knight Rider
17. Fame
16. Dallas
15. Dynasty
14. Hill Street Blues
13. Taxi
12. Family Ties
11. Diff’rent Strokes
10. Eight is Enough
9. One Day At A Time
8. The Love Boat
7. Fantasy Island
6. Mork and Mindy
5. Alice
4. The Dukes of Hazzard
3. The Incredible Hulk
2. The Greatest American Hero
1. Alf
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i live in south africa…for me this list is 30 memories of the 90s!
The video for Fantasy Island and Mork and Mindy are the same.
I don’t remember that being the case when I used to watch the programs on TV. But then again, I’ve tried to forget much of the 80′s…
This was pretty cool. You need to do a list of obscure 80′s shows: Manimal, Automan, Max Headroom, Remington Steele, Moonlighting, etc…
zubair: haha – obviously we got things sooner in NZ because it is definitely a list of 80s memories for me.
RobS: Thanks – fixed
Just give in to it! You know you want to 
Dan: Max Hedroom, Remington Steele, and Moonlighting were all very close to being on the list.
What, no Facts of Life? lol
Oh my….. I enjoyed this list. I was pointing out all my fav chars from each show to my son. He was asking me what all this was. I had to explain to him that this was my Drake and Josh.
I was flipping through getting more and more worried that there would be no ALF lol. Great list!
Actually none of this sillyness ever existed here in the United States during the eighties. Sorry to be the first to break the news to all the others elsewhere around the world (I’ll ignore the CIA knocking at my door right now to take me away and “not” torture me with a “sledgehammer”) but this was all just one big ellaborate practical joke. In fact, what most Americans fine tuned their audio/visual recievers (as we called them) to, was nothing but ourselves pausing for a moment in time from the previous generation’s birth of our parents. Now here we are!
Ah! the memories.
Why is “Manimal” not on this list?
More seriously no “Newheart”?
THUNDAH…THUNDAH…THUNDAH CATS, BIG BOOTY HOOOOOEEEESSSS!!!
Oh Sh*t! rakaka: stop it man, that’s too funny!
In the brilliant but cancelled category, how about Frank’s Place? It was only on one season but was different from other shows and had a number of memorable episodes.
No Transformers?
Hi Zubair. Same here. I also thought some were from the 90′s. I had to go to IMDB and check.
At least some good things came from the 80′s.
How about V. It was only a mini series but it was classic.
Oh my – now I remember all of those. Hart to Hart, Scarecrow and Mrs King , BJ Mckay and his best friend Bear, Silver Spoons, Benson, and the list just goes On and On. Wasnt Punky Brewster 80s???
sarahj: I forgot Hart to Hart! I did think of BJ, and Benson – I couldn’t find a clip for Benson otherwise I would have included it. I think Punk Brewster was definitely 80s because they did an episode on the Space Shuttle disaster. It was getting pretty late by the time we reached thirty so we just stopped adding.
Gryphon: I loved V – it was one of my favorite shows!
ImplosiveFire: we left off kids shows and cartoons because they would fill a whole other list in the future.
Beirne: I am not sure if I ever saw that show. I can’t find a clip on youtube either – if you know of one let me know so I can check it out
Dave: Argh! Completely forgot Newhart – thanks for mentioning it.
Shane S.: I thought I had put it on the list – I must have forgotten when I had a brainwave for another show. I loved the Facts of Life.
Wasn’t The Cosby Show from the 80s?????
What about the Prince of Bell Air ?
^90′s
No Fall Guy?
Oh my gosh my parents totally didn’t allow me to watch married with children haha. It was one of the only shows that I was forbidden to see.
Jackie: I loved that show – it was so funny and gave cause for much cringing!
Night Court was the best ever. Still need Moonlighting though. For all the people that thought Bruce willis should be on the worst actors list they should be forced to watch it.
I recently saw an old Chips rerun- Dude, that show was so stupid! But I loved it as a kid.
I downloaded the “sad piano music from the end of the Incredible Hulk” (Family Guy reference again.) and play it on repeat when the party’s over and people need to go home.
My wife says I’m a jerk.
I agree with her!
was Cheers up there on that list heh
Yarr: haha I would hate that and call you a jerk too – the party must never end!
sarahj: I think it was but there were so many shows being yelled out across the room that some got lost
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, this was great.
That was great! My family didn’t watch that much TV (I was in school for part of the ’80′s) but we did watch some, and I remember seeing most of those shows. I don’t think I ever would have thought back then that I’d miss sitting on the couch with my family watching some corny TV show, but I could go for just one night of it right now.
I was born in the 90s so I haven’t watched most of these TV shows. The only one I really watched regularly and liked was Married With Children. There was also an Argentinean remake of it last year, which was very successful because it adapted the original scripts to an Argentinean family, and Argentinean people are pretty much like the Bundys, who always try to take advantage of the situations (not all of them, at least I’m not like that, but most are).
There was also an Argentinean remake of The Nanny (it was good too), one of Who’s The Boss? and another of Bewitched (those two weren’t successful).
I remember watching Alf when I was young but I wasn’t crazy about it, and my mom and dad always talk about Fantasy Island.
Happily, I was born in 2002, so I never had to suffer all these trashy TV shows.
I wish.
dude… where’s Cheers??
Mathilda: you are so right – it was nostalgia that gave rise to this list. I would love to be back home with my parents watching these too – I can still remember the smells in the house from dinner cooking while these shows were on!
che: for a five year old you have amazing talent with typing and general use of the internet!
melissa: Cheers was great – I should have included it for sure.
Co: wow – I would love to see some of those! Fantasy Island was on when I was very young, so I have vague images of bits of it but not a lot.
My favorite show during the eighties was QUANTUM LEAP with Scott Backula as Dr. Sam Beckett and his pal Dean Stockwell as Al! Best show about time travel that isn’t DR. WHO ever! I miss that show…
Um, some of these shows were from the ’70s.
Order008: the criteria was that the show had to have been in the 80s – it doesn’t matter when it started – every show on this list ran for at least one year in the 1980s
TV will never be this good again.
wow…this took me back to my childhood and bought back good memories of me eating potato chips with my mom on the couch
srichards: I am so glad that youtube is filling up with these things – it is so good to get reminders of your youth
My 15 seconds of fame was as an extra on Webster when I was in fourth grade. I got to sit right behind him in the “classroom” so I had a lot of camera time. I wish I could find episodes online.
I thought Good Times was “Dyn-o-mite!!!”
I watched most of these growing up and loved every minute of them! Trivia: Who guest starred on Family Ties as Elyse’s brother?? Hint: Oscar winner
i once was a part of making the longest ice cream sunday in the late 1980′s. Does that count. it didnt last long… so , anyway my extra “acting” role in a movie , lasted a blink of an eye in a “staight to video release”/////Perhaps your “Webster” episode will be played on and on forever more on some cable-like station.. If t.v. extends on, or if the “full human video archivives” becomes available, then maybe we will be able to turn a knob to a specific time and place within our minds.
Although MASH was mostly a 70′s show, the most viewed show was the final episode in 82-83 season. That reason alone it should have been included.
M*A*S*H is awesome……
man, the memories;
The A Team-*****in bad ass back in the day, thats the og show right there
miami vice-gay
chips-gay
whos the boss-gay
magnum pi-decent show, not bad
charles in charge-a favorite of mine when i was a kid
sledgehammer-pretty bad ass show
night court-had a few funny episodes
thats incredible-never heard of that *****in show
macgyver-i bet he could make one hell of a bong
married with children-a *****in classic, love that show
21 jump street-gay
knight rider-another bad ass show
fame-*****in gay!
dallas-i shot jr *****
dynasty-gay
hill street blues-decent
taxi-pretty damn funny
family ties-justine bateman was fine!
differnt strokes-gay
eight is enough-gay
one day at a time-gay
the love boat-gay
fantasy island-gay
mork and mindy-robin williams made it gay
alice-pretty cool show
the dukes of hazzard-i would have given daisy duke many many many babies
the incredible hulk-gay after 13 years old
the greates american hero-never heard of it
alf-alf was the *****
by the way good times was gay and mash was bad ass
family ties and taxi my favorites
First: ‘GAY’ (in negative context) and ‘*****’ are horrible words, and your mouth should be washed out with acid if you use them.
Otherwise: I’m equally upset that ‘The Facts of Life’ wasn’t included, as well as ‘The Golden Girls’ (didn’t that start in the 80′s?)
Great list, though. The Growing Pains theme is now stuck in my head .. ACH! It WON’T GO AWAY!
.. sha-na-na-naaa.
Silver Spoons ?
i miss thos 80s live hmm wen see this 80s tv shows i miss alots……
Square Pegs, Rags to Riches and can’t forget Hunter..lol
What is it about the eighties that was so incredibly awesome? I mean come on the tv shows the music everything (well, except maybe the fashion) was great. I was born in the eighties but was to young to watch most of these when they were on, but I’ve seen just about all of these in reruns and love em (except fantasy island, the little guy kinda creeped me out).
WKRP in Cincinnati No???
Loved taxi “What does a yellow light mean?”
“Slow Down.”
“Whaat doooos a yyyeelllow liiiight mean?”
“Slow down,”
“Whaaaaaat doooooeees aaaa yyyyellllow liiiiiiight meeeeeaan?”
Funniest scene EVER.
yo the old things r ***** and hu would want 2 talk about old stuff anyway i would rather talk about games or stuff like new instead of old grannie stuff so all of
OK guys, if you are THAT into the 80′s you really should come to the I HEART THE 80′s night I’m going to at Curzon Soho (London) on Fri 25th. 2 great films (I chose ‘Breakin’) DJ’s, a free beer and 80′s karaoke! http://www.curzoncinemas.com. not sure if they’ll screen the A-Team but here’s hoping!
Wow, time warp. I’ve got so many theme songs playing in my head now.
WHERE’S M.A.S.H.????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beauty and the Beast?
Star Trek: The Next Generation?
no tj hooker or the fallguy ! what about streethawk or terrorhawks for that matter ! fragle rock/quantumn leap/star trek tng ?
was alice a robot by any chance?….i remember watching a show a long time ago about a robot who lived in a house “/…..i havent bothered watching the youtube clip!….LOL
I wish there was descriptions of these.
I’m not able to watch videos right now.
All in the Family was a great show to watch!
love who’s the boss and night court
i still watch night court on tvland lol