Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In “Table by the Window” an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion…
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom…
It’s the year 2484 and the Earth is threatened by a rogue comet which could fatally change its orbit. The solution is surprising – Adam Bernau, the greatest genius of…
Dombey and Son is a television mini-series produced by the BBC in 1983. It was based on the book Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It was adapted by James…
Lottery! is an American drama series that premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean…
Mister T is an animated series that aired on NBC on Saturday morning from 1983 to 1986. A total of 30 episodes were produced during the first two seasons, with…
Auf Wiedersehen Pet is a British comedy-drama series about seven British migrant construction workers who leave the UK to search for employment overseas. In the first series, they live and…
Space Sheriff Sharivan is the second installment in Toei’s Metal Hero Series and aired on the TV Asahi network from 4 March 1983 through 24 February 1984. It served as…
Bay City Blues is an American comedy-drama series that aired on NBC from October 1983 to November 1983. The series stars Michael Nouri, Dennis Franz, and Pat Corley, and was…
Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
The Return of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha’s novel of the same title. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade from 31…
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery — who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the…
Jane Eyre is a 1983 British television serial adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Julian Amyes. The serial stars Zelah Clarke…
Genesis Climber MOSPEADA is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan. MOSPEADA…
Kennedy is a five-hour miniseries written by Reg Gadney and directed by Jim Goddard. The miniseries was produced by Central Independent Television and originally aired in the United States starting…
Reading Rainbow was an American children’s television series that aired on PBS from June 6, 1983, until November 10, 2006, that encouraged reading by children. The public television series garnered…
Whiz Kids is an American science-fiction adventure television series that aired on CBS in the United States. The 60-minute series was created by Philip DeGuere and Bob Shayne and originally…
The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show is the sixth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 10, 1983, and ran for one season on…
The Wind in the Willows is a TV series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1987, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame’s classic story The Wind in the Willows…
Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during…
The Littles is an animated television series based on The Littles characters in a series of children’s novels by American author John Peterson, the first of which was published in…
A young girl named Alice follows a white rabbit into a hole, only to find herself in Wonderland, where she meets many interesting characters, including the mysterious Cheshire Cat and…
Your favorite Peanuts stories come to life in this animated television series. With short sketches featuring these classic and much-loved characters, it’s easy to, as the opening song suggests, “have…
Georgie! is a manga series, written by Mann Izawa and illustrated by Yumiko Igarashi. It was serialized from 1982 in the Shōjo Comic manga magazine. The series was adapted in…
Two doctors, estranged from their spouses, become roommates…but they also happen to be father and son! Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy? No, but they do…
Cat’s Eye is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1981 to 1985, and collected into 18 tankōbon by…
Jonathan Chase was a British college professor at New York University who had the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal. He used his powers to battle crime…
The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Ross could complete a painting in…
The show features a competition in which contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel.
Automan is an American science fiction superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes on ABC between 1983 and 1984.
The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with…