Best TV Shows of 1987
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Best TV Shows of 1987
TOP TV Shows: DuckTales (1987), Full House (1987), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Married... with Children (1987), Inspector Morse (1987), A Different World (1987), Unsolved Mysteries (1987), Thirtysomething (1987), Tour of Duty (1987), 21 Jump Street (1987), Blackadder III (1987), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Wiseguy (1987), The Storyteller (1987), Degrassi Junior High (1987), A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987), Friday the 13th: The Series (1987), French and Saunders (1987), The New Statesman (1987), Beauty and the Beast (1987).
List of Best TV Shows
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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The series is a dramatization of the Duck universe comic series created by Carl Barks. The viewer follows the adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his three grandnephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Important secondary characters, that often take part in ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
cartoon duck, mischievous children, treasure hunt, imaginary, heroic mission, treasure, family values, good versus evil, young heroes, friendship, adventurer, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, stone age
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Full House is an American sitcom television series. Set in San Francisco, the show chronicles widowed father Danny Tanner, who, after the death of his wife Pam, enlists his best friend Joey Gladstone and his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis to help ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, boys' night, family friendly
Plot:
father daughter relationship, single father, single parent, friends, friendship, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, childhood love, precocious child, uncle niece relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. The show is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately during the 2360s and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, epic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
space travel, star trek, space opera, space exploration, outer space, alien planet, spacecraft, space battle, captain, alien encounter, benign alien, alien contact ...
Time:
future, 24th century
Place:
space western
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, parody, hilarious, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, promiscuous daughter, family life, working class, struggle, adult humor, family problems, parents and children, misfit, social satire, stupidity, suburbs ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and ...
Style:
detective, realistic, sincere, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
crime investigation, police detective, murder, detective inspector, murderer, british police, police, investigation, whodunit, police procedural, inspector, criminal ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, future, 90s
Place:
england, europe, italy, australia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but ...
Style:
sitcom, inspirational, romantic, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
college, african american, black, black sitcom, university, college student, racism, blues, teenager, girl, education, urban ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, virginia
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Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program, hosted by Robert Stack from 1987 until 2002 and later by Dennis Farina starting in 2008. In addition, TV presenter Keely Shaye Smith and actress Virginia Madsen contributed greatly to its ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
unsolved crime, ufo, unsolved mystery, jack the ripper, paranormal activity, alien, true crime, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, supernatural ability, who done it ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in ...
Style:
serious, realistic, talky, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
yuppie, parenthood, slice of life, love, villain, parents, lgbt, women, colleague, family relations, friendship, advertising ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, arizona
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, vintage
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle warfare, battles, war, military, conflict, war trauma, struggle, revolutionary, destruction, cold war, cold war era ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focuses on a squad of ...
Style:
captivating, serious, detective, light, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
youth, police, undercover, teenage life, hidden identity, undercover agent, society, youth gang, teenager, police officer, high school, team ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, period piece, funny, controversial ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
satire, royal family, dandy, humour, robbery, stupidity, duel, assistant, owner, power relations, dark humor, disorder ...
Time:
18th century, regency period, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
britain, england, europe, london, france
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Taiwan, Hungary, Philippines, Japan, China, France, South Korea, Ireland
Duration: 23 min.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. The pilot was shown during the week of December 14, 1987 in syndication as a five-part miniseries and began its official run on October 1, ...
Style:
retro, anime, exciting, humorous, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
ninja turtle, mutant, martial arts, turtle, invasion, werewolf, pizza, mutant animal, superhero, good versus evil, master warrior, friends ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, mafia, undercover agent, organized crime, gangster, fbi, investigation, special agent, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new jersey, usa, miami, atlantic city new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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The StoryTeller is a live-action/puppet television series. It was an American/British co-production which originally aired in 1988 and was created and produced by Jim Henson.
Reruns of The StoryTeller episodes were featured in some episodes of The ...
Style:
fairy tale, anthology, feel good, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, legends and myths, ancient, storytelling, imaginary, pet owner relationship, giant, fantasy life, talking animal, escapades, monster, oldtimer ...
Time:
20th century
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Degrassi Junior High is a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that was produced from 1987-1989 as part of the Degrassi series. The show followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school. Many episodes tackled ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, high school life, looking for love, high school, friendship, family relations, dating, friends, youth, teenage life, social relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on both BBC1 and BBC2 between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series and ...
Style:
sketch comedy, humorous, witty, clever, multicultural ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sketch, satire, asexual, humour, musician, comedian, silly humor, media, artists and showbiz, yuppie, surrealism, absurdism ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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Friday the 13th: The Series is an American-Canadian horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication. The series follows Micki and Ryan, owners of an antiques store, and their ...
Style:
scary, anthology, creepy, dread, slasher ...
Plot:
curse, friday the 13th, cursed object, magic, cursed, plot twist, blood, supernatural, devil, curses spells and rituals, gory, nosy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Style:
sketch comedy, sitcom, parody, mockumentary, not serious ...
Plot:
sketch, satire, humour, everyday life, media satire, cross dressing, celebrity culture, showbiz, artists and showbiz, gender, media, promiscuity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She makes the acquaintance of a handsome, rich, bachelor, chases a cow, and wins (to her chagrin) a baking soda company's writing contest. She acts as ...
Style:
period piece, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
anne of green gables, friendship, corporal punishment, coming of age, school, adopted daughter, mentor, teachers and students, love, heartwarming, child prodigy, orphan ...
Time:
1800s, 1900s, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
canada, usa, chicago, boston, england ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
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The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor, Rik ...
Style:
sitcom, dark comedy, political, surreal, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, political satire, satire, greed, sketch, conservative, politician, parliament, british politics, campaign, media satire, workplace romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, england, europe, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
Style:
romantic comedy, sitcom, emotional, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
dating, single woman, city life, slice of life, divorce, independent woman, relationships, friendship, feminist, realism, personal growth, loneliness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, serious, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nobility, beauty and the beast, beauty, interspecies romance, werewolf, legends and myths, unlikely couple, lawyer, monster, creature, father, poetry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, hawaii, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Square One Television is an American children's television program produced by the Children's Television Workshop to teach mathematics and abstract mathematical concepts to young viewers.
Created and broadcast by PBS in the United States ...
Style:
educational, edutainment, informative, sketch comedy, parody ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
mathematics, preteen, problem solving, satire, muppets, sketch, sesame street, educational program, variety show, child, sergeant, live action
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series ...
Style:
cyber, exciting, semi serious, humorous, futuristic ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopia, computer cracker, pun, magic, love, post apocalypse, totalitarianism, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, warning, imaginary ...
Time:
20th century, future
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
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Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is an animated television space western, similar to the series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and BraveStarr. The series premiered in the United States in 1987 and had a run of 52 episodes.
The show was based ...
Style:
anime, retro, detective, mecha, vintage
Audience:
kids
Plot:
superhero, outer space, adaptation, blaster, spaceship, cyborgs, interdimensional travel, desert planet, sniper, van, bandit, transforming robot ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
space western
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles.
The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a ...
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, investigation, lawyer, private investigator, cop, team, law, intelligence agency, murder mystery, criminal, private detective, crime investigation ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
hawaii, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Following the success of the miniseries, NBC launched a drama series the following the Gardner family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, dramatic, heartfelt
Plot:
relationships, family drama, intimate, personal growth, family reunited, slice of life, homecoming, siblings, parenting, identity crisis, divorce, marriage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Out Of This World is an American fantasy sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in syndication from September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991.
During its first season, the series ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
teenage girl, stopped time, father daughter relationship, time freeze, supernatural power, friendly alien, mayor, uncle niece relationship, alien race, magic, alien, alien planet ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Miss Marple receives a most interesting request from Mr. Jason Rafiel, with whom she'd struck an acquaintance some years before. He would like her to solve a crime but, does not tell her what it might be, who might have been involved or where ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mind bending
Plot:
investigation, amateur detective, police investigation, lawyer, riddles and clues, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, law enforcement, uncover truth, private detective, suicide, newspaper ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The Jim Henson Hour is a short-lived television series that aired on NBC in 1989. It was developed as a showcase for The Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. Only nine of the twelve episodes ...
Style:
anthology, exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, adult
Plot:
puppet, muppets, sesame street, workplace, danger, escapades, buddies, ambition, heroes, friends, disorder, toys ...
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