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1980’s Television

1980’s Television. Premieres in 1980. Magnum P.I. Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters Nightline Too Close for Comfort. Magnum PI.

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1980’s Television

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  1. 1980’s Television

  2. Premieres in 1980 • Magnum P.I. • Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters • Nightline • Too Close for Comfort

  3. Magnum PI • Magnum was a private investigator with an interesting living arrangement. In return for helping with the securityarrangements for guarding the estate of wealthy writerRobin Masters (never seen on the show),

  4. he was providedwith free living quarters at the rambling beachfrontproperty on Oahu's north shore. Masters was always away,leaving his stuffy British manservant, Higgins, to runthe estate.

  5. The laid-back life-style of Magnum was indirect opposition to the strict military dicpiline thatruled Higgins' life, and there was constant bickeringbetween them, though there was clearly adeep-seated mutual affection.

  6. Top Ten 1980 • Dallas • M*A*S*H • The Dukes of Hazzard • 60 Minutes • Three’s Company

  7. Private Benjamin • Diff’rent Strokes • House Calls • The Jeffersons • Too Close for Comfort

  8. Emmy Awards • Hill Street Blues- drama • Taxi- comedy

  9. Premieres 1981 • Dynasty • Falcon Crest • Hill Street Blues • Private Benjamin • The Fall Guy • Gimme a Break • Simon & Simon

  10. Simon & Simon: Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency.

  11. Top Ten 1981 • Dallas • 60 Minutes • M*A*S*H • The Dukes of Hazzard • Three’s Company • Private Benjamin

  12. Diff’rent Strokes • House Calls • Archie Bunker’s Place • Too Close for Comfort

  13. The show starred Ted Knight and Nancy Dussault as Henry and Muriel Rush, owners of a duplex in San Francisco. Henry was a cartoonist who authored a comic strip called Cosmic Cow.

  14. Muriel was a freelance photographer, having been a band singer in her earlier days. They had two grown daughters. Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) worked for a bank, while the younger Sara (Lydia Cornell) was attending college

  15. Emmy Awards 1981 • Hill Street Blues- drama • Barney Miller- comedy

  16. Walter Cronkite retires as CBS anchor, and is replaced by Dan Rather this year

  17. Premieres 1982 • Cagney & Lacey • T.J. Hooker • St. Elsewhere • Matt Houston • Cheers • Remington Steele • Newhart

  18. The show is set in the Cheers bar (itself named for the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink and generally have fun.

  19. 1982 Top Ten • Dallas • 60 Minutes • Three’s Company • The Jeffersons • One Day at a Time • The Dukes of Hazzard

  20. Too Close for Comfort • Alice • The ABC Monday Night Movie • M*A*S*H

  21. Emmy Awards 1982 • Hill Street Blues- drama • Cheers- comedy

  22. Top evening shows are soaps (Dallas, Knot’s Landing, Dynasty, Flamingo Road, Falcon Crest) • General William Westmoreland sues CBS for $120 million for accusing him of conspiring to falsify information about enemy forces in Vietnam (on 60 Minutes)

  23. Premieres 1983 • The A-Team • Wheel of Fortune • Hardcastle and McCormick • Scarecrow and Mrs. King • Hotel • Night Court • Webster

  24. A-Team • fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who work as soldiers of fortune while being on the run from the military for a "crime they didn't commit".

  25. Top Ten 1983 • 60 Minutes • Dallas • M*A*S*H • Magnum P.I • Dynasty • Three’s Company

  26. Simon & Simon • Archie Bunker’s Place • Newhart • Falcon Crest

  27. Emmy Awards 1983 • Hill Street Blues- drama • Cheers- comedy • Tom Selleck- actor, Magnum P.I • John Ritter- comedy • Tyne Daly- actress, Cagney & Lacey • Jane Curtain- comedy actress, Kate & Allie

  28. The largest T.V. audience of the year watches the last episode (251st) of M*A*S*H which began during the Vietnam War (1972)

  29. Premieres 1984 • Kate and Allie • Miami Vice • Hunter • The Cosby Show • Murder, She Wrote • Highway to Heaven

  30. 1984 Top Ten • Dallas • 60 Minutes • The A-Team • Simon & Simon • Falcon Crest • Magnum P.I.

  31. Dynasty • Hotel • Knot’s Landing • Newhart

  32. 1984 Emmy Awards • Cagney & Lacey- drama • The Cosby Show- comedy • Robert Guillaume- comedy actor in Benson • Tyne Daly- actress in Cagney & Lacey • Jane Curtain- comedy actress in Kate and Allie

  33. The Cosby Show is the first sitcom about a professional upper middle class black family • The National Coalition on TV Violence reports a 75% increase in TV violence since 1980 (V and The A-Team)

  34. 1985 • The Golden Girls • Dynasty II: The Colbys • The Equalizer • Spenser for Hire • The Oprah Winfrey Show

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