Best TV Shows of 1982

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Best TV Shows of 1982
Best TV Shows of 1982
TOP TV Shows: Cheers (1982), Family Ties (1982), St. Elsewhere (1982), The Black Adder (1982), 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), Knight Rider (1982), Newhart (1982), Police Squad! (1982), The Young Ones (1982), Faerie Tale Theatre (1982), Remington Steele (1982), Smiley's People (1982), The Comic Strip Presents (1982), Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), Not Necessarily the News (1982), Silver Spoons (1982), Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982), Fame (1982), Voyagers! (1982), T.J. Hooker (1982).
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 8.0
 62K
Cheers (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC and created by the team of James Burrows, Glen ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, realistic, feel good, not serious ...
Plot: couples, workplace, womanizer, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, opposites attract, proposal, financial problem, workplace romance, drinking problem, everyday life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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 7.3
 20K
Family Ties (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, liberal, culture clash, lifestyle, hippie, parents and children, youth, teenage life, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, ohio, columbus ohio
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St. Elsewhere (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, talky, serious, witty ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, dark humor, doctors and patients, workplace, power relations, intern, workplace situations, surgery, medicine, villain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
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The Black Adder (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
TV show
Story: Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC 1 period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, hilarious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: medieval, british history, heir, queen, parents and children, state affairs, inheritance, politics, royalty, battles, witch, war ...
Time: middle ages, 20th century, 15th century, medieval times
Place: england, britain, europe, scotland
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 8.4
 27K
'Allo 'Allo! (1982)
Genre: Comedy, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. The story is set up in a small town café in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, parody, dark comedy, double entendre ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, german army, farce, cafe, french resistance, satire, world war, soldier, cooking show, girl, lgbt, partisan ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france, europe
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 6.9
 37K
Knight Rider (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, touching, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: talking car, artificial intelligence, car, fighting crime, car chase, chases and races, working undercover, heroic mission, superhero, robot, partner, undercover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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 7.8
 8K
Newhart (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: small town, hotel, inn, writers, best friend, disorder, family relations, couples, optimism, dull life, maid, friends ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: vermont, usa, new york
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 8.4
 20K
Police Squad! (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual ...
Style: parody, spoof, sitcom, humorous, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: satire, police, partners against crime, private detective, police officer, weirdo, humour, buddies, stoner, cop, woman with a gun, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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 8.2
 16K
The Young Ones (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in Great Britain from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series. Shown on BBC2, it featured anarchic, offbeat humour which helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of ...
Style: sitcom, funny, laugh out loud, absurd, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: anarchist, college, satire, rock and roll, punk rock, humour, sketch, subculture, hippie, suicidal, friends, social relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, london, europe
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Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Style: fairy tale, anthology, mysterious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: legends and myths, mermaid, beauty and the beast, ancient, little mermaid, magical, snow white, beauty, legend, aladdin, magic, love and romance ...
Time: 1900s
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Remington Steele (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Remington Steele is an American television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. ...
Style: detective, soap opera, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: private detective, investigation, private investigator, team, 007, christmas, undercover, colleague, spy, nature, police, murder mystery ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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Smiley's People (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, british intelligence, spy, investigation, working undercover, secret mission, politics, traitor, intelligence, mysticism, spy thriller ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, hamburg germany, berlin germany
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The Comic Strip Presents (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian ...
Style: anthology, parody, sitcom, political, surreal ...
Plot: sketch, satire, comedy team
Time: 20th century, 80s
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Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed mini-series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: unemployment, social realism, working class, struggle, hoodie, family relations, layoff, realism, society, life is a bitch, down on your luck, labor union ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, northern england, europe, england, liverpool
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Not Necessarily the News (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits ...
Style: spoof
Plot: sketch, political satire, fake news report, satire, tv news, news satire
Time: 80s, 90s
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Silver Spoons (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to March 4, 1987. The series was produced by Embassy Television for the first four seasons, until ...
Style: sitcom, game show, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, rich and poor, pop culture, coming of age, dating, man child, rich, society, family relations, power relations, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
Style: entertaining
Audience: kids
Plot: aviation, medieval, spy, pilot, dark humor, man with glasses, death, dog, violence, best friend, danger, friend ...
Time: 1930s
Place: pacific ocean
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 7.0
 4K
Fame (1982)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York ...
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, serious
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, music, dancing, desire for fame, friendship, power relations, rehearsal, youth, self discovery, coming of age, teenage life, high school life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: charles dickens, adoption, single parent, family relations, boarding school, boarding school life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family in danger, rich and poor, social differences, down on your luck ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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 8.0
 2K
Voyagers! (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.
Style: exciting, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time travel, paradox, anarchist, super powers, youth, time, alternate history, righting the wronged, adventurer, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: europe, france
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 6.1
 5K
T.J. Hooker (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: T. J. Hooker is an American police drama television program starring William Shatner in the title role as a 15-year veteran police sergeant. The series premiered as a mid-season replacement on March 13, 1982, on ABC and ran on the network until May ...
Style: detective, exciting, realistic, serious, witty ...
Plot: police, police officer, car chase, investigation, intelligence agency, die hard, pretty girl, woman with a gun, agent, rookie, police investigation, female warrior ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 381 min.
TV show
Story: This movie is also in existance as a 3 part miniseries. America just before and during the Civil War, as seen through the eyes of an artist correspondent. The plot revolves around the families of two sisters; Maggie Geyser and Evelyn Hale. The ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Plot: american civil war, military, civil war, battles, working class, family life, rebellion, society, cavalry, brother brother relationship, struggle, slave ...
Time: 19th century
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The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story: When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cosy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Plot: chubby, literary, church of england, henpecked husband, cathedral, cello, bishop, costume, slapping
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain
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 6.5
 1K
Matt Houston (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, american football, police, private investigator, texan, italian restaurant, wealth, one man army, vintage car, tough guy, warrior, criminal ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, texas, california
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 8.0
 463
Harry's Game (1982)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, detective
Plot: ira, struggle, freedom, spy, anglo irish relations, terrorism, profanity, disorder, state affairs, assassination, danger, hidden identity ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: ireland, europe, belfast
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 7.7
 1K
Marco Polo (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA, Japan, China
Duration: 504 min.
TV show
Story: The life and experiences of the 13th-century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.
Style: exciting, epic, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot: explorer, medieval, historical event, sorcery, time machine, peplum, chivalry, ancient, white man asian woman relationship, islam, battles, human spirit ...
Time: medieval times, 13th century, middle ages
Place: persia, mongolia, venice, tibet, china
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The Incredible Hulk (1982)
Genre: Action, Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Incredible Hulk is an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series ran for 13 episodes on NBC in 1982, part of a combined hour with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Unlike the previous ...
Style: saga, anime, offbeat, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, hulk, danger, society, rivalry, fighting crime, superhuman powers, escapades, terrorism, heroes, espionage, imaginary ...
Time: 80s
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Whoops Apocalypse (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story: Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, apocalyptic, surreal, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, end of the world, satire, political humor, distopia, epidemic, fictional game show, absurdism, fanatic, religion ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, iran, britain, israel, middle east ...
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The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen ...
Style: anthology, dark fairy tale, detective
Plot: hercule poirot, supernatural, criminal, whodunit, murder, agatha christie
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Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Bring 'Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O'Neal. The series was shown in the United States from September 1982 to May 1983. Set in Singapore, it was one of several shows like ...
Plot: hotel, hunter, world war one, wild animal, big game hunter, smuggler, sultan, animal lover, world war two, love interest, hotel manager, adventurer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: southeast asia, asia, singapore
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