I'm not sure where they said Scarecrow Mrs King wasn't a hit show. They said of the shows that premiered only six made it to a second season. They did not say that there weren't any hits or any series did not go more than two seasons
Webster, Hardcastle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Hotel are 4 of the 6 that went on to be successful. I would have to go look up the others, to see which other 2 got past 1 season.
0:18 It's not Easy 1:29 We Got it Made 2:10 Oh Madeline 2:59 After MASH 3:57 Jennifer Slept Here 4:48 Just our Luck 5:52 Webster 6:51 Mr. Smith 8:01 Manimal 9:01 Hardcastle and McCormick 10:33 Scarecrow and Mrs. King 11:45 Whiz Kids 12:58 Boone 14:11 The Rousters 15:40 Yellow Rose 16:20 Cutter to Houston 17:34 Trauma Center 18:54 Bay City Blues 20:22 For Love and Honor 21:41 Emerald Point N.A.S. 22:55 Lottery $ 23:54 Arthur Hailey's Hotel
These r the shows I never heard of or never watched It's not easy Oh Madeline Jennifer slept here Just our luck Mr. Smith Manimal Yellow Rose Cutter to Houston Trauma Center Bay city blues For love & honor Emerald Point NAS
Yeah, it was a really good show. It came out when I was a sophomore in high school. That and Scarecrow and Mrs. King were my favorites. The 80s were the pinnacle of great tv shows. Miami Vice came out the very next year. It don't get any better than that. That's why I mostly watch streaming services now. With the exception of The Orville, everything else on tv now SUCKS!!!!!
It's great to revisit these to see the long list of bit players that have been forgotten by time as well as the ones that went on to become famous. Thanks so much.
Fun cooincidence...there was Sharon Stone in Bay City Blues and immediately after was Rachel Ticotin in For Love and Honor. Both accresses had a fantastic fight scene togfether in Total Recall.
Good to see the theme from Scarecrow and Mrs. King again. The theme was great, and the show was fun. It's amazing how long that theme was though. They'd never do anything like that now.
My first computer, a Compaq in 1990, had a 40 MB _hard drive_ instead of just measly floppy drives. Huge step up. Now we routinely take a single photograph or send an email that takes up that much room.
some great memories here. These were my formative tv watching years. I loved Whiz Kids! Family always watched Scarecrow and Mrs King. Hardcastle & McCormick was lots of fun too. TV wasn't necessarily better or worse than it is now, but just different. 80's had far fewer serialized, or long story arc type shows. Most of your hourly shows back then didn't require you to watch every week to fully understand the story. Instead you watch weekly just because you enjoyed it. You also had far fewer channels back then too, so shows were broader but you still had interesting idea/niche shows like Manimal or Jennifer Slept Here. Now if you'll excuse me I want to find some episodes of Scarecrow & Mrs. King to veg out to!
boat6float I always tell people that nostalgia it what makes people think media was better “back then”. Nope; there was a lot of clunkers back then and some new gems now.
"playing the 'Look! It's him/her!' game" Of course--that's the only reason why these flashbacks to crappy shows from 30-40 years ago is interesting. Well that, and perhaps being reminded of the 1 or 2 shows (out of all of them) that were actually halfway decent.
To us, many are bad shows. But to actors, it's their resume. Many have been able to parlay these experiences to more successful shows because of exposure and connections they make.
The real issue is that an eagle's talons are not either feet or hands... there's no direct correlation for a human's. Stan Winston did the transformation effects, I think.
Did anyone else watch the intro to "Hotel" and thought that the entire cast looked like they were bored and just trying to look busy? Thank God they changed it after the pilot.
God I loved Whiz Kidz. It was only on for a season or two, but it was good and covered a crazy subject back in the early days of home computers and no internet... hacking. It and War Games inspired my love for computers and programming. Such awesome times! I think about that show a lot.
i was 10 when it was on TV for the one season, but I remember it absolutely driving me to get that Commordore 64 for Christmas and continue on to a lifetime in IT.
17:21 Shelley Hack was gorgeous. Too bad I never heard of "Cutter to Houston", although honestly I never watched dramas too much (in this case, a medical drama).
I sometimes tell kids and young adults that TV networks once had "specials" that showcased their new shows that would be on (for a while) next fall so we could go to school or work and talk about which ones we were most excited about. Television was a different thing back then.
You have to remember. Satellite TV was with the big satellite dishes on top of your house. That was expensive. Cable TV was starting up & *YOU HAD TO HAVE A CABLE BOX.* Meaning one channel at a time. Home video was new (VHS / Betamax). Where you could tape *(over the air)* one program & watch another. TV's were expensive for big screen. Besides, *TV's back then had picture tubes with solid state electronics.* *Different times.*
I swear I saw one as recently as the summer of 17... - when i found the first one of these, (this is #5 today) that's what I thought it was and i know for sure in the mid 00's some networks would stick a DVD of said "promo-reel" (or what ever you call it) inside the Box sets of of the past year's Seasons of certain shows
I remember most of these shows failing, but I've honestly never heard of "The Rousters"....How in the WORLD was this not a hit???? Carnies fighting, trucks jumping, guns shooting. Chad FREAKING Everett, Hoyt FREAKING Axton, Jim FREAKING Varney! I'm ready to buy the DVD set now!!!!!
I’m so proud of little Emmanuel Lewis that he grow up to be the mayor of Chicago, it’s so good to see a child actor become a success in their adulthood! Way to go Emmanuel👍
I think the "Scarecrow and Mrs King" and "Hotel" were the only of these shows I watched. Anne Baxter as "Victoria Cabot" taught me to treat everyone in the workplace with the same level of respect, regardless of their position. I went on to eventually become a Catering Sales Manager at a similar luxury hotel in Boston and that was a tidbit I held on to forever! I had a HUGE crush on Bruce Boxleitner, back in the day. Possibly still do...
@@janetstrayer698 Me too. I am actually friends with Brandon Maggart, who played the dad. And I reminded him that Georgia Engel had passed away. She had this stupid voice on the show, drove me crazy.
the music for that theme song at 11:48 to 12:58 is an electronic version of parts of the 1st movement of Mozart's piano concerto 21. The parts are spliced together.
Good God. The running time of some of these intros! Precious minutes of airtime that have since been relegated to pharmaceutical ads. Thanks for so many unmemorable memories!
I will admit that I enjoyed both Manimal and Lottery; but most of the others I don't remember. 1983 may have been the year where my old TI-99/4a computer and the Atari 2600 took up the greater share of my indoor amusement. Of course, TV in the 80s also had to compete with the real world even harder to keep kids indoors or otherwise away from other more productive yet still fun activities.
I really liked as a kid (I was 11) Jennifer Slept Here, We Got It Made, Lottery, and Hardcastle & McCormick. I remember Oh Madeline. I swear I have never heard of Boone or The Rousters. I miss intros and theme songs!
I didn't watch a lot of TV except some on the weekends. I worked a lot, and had a toddler. I saw The scarecrow and Mrs King a few times. I wish I'd seen the Madilyn Kahn show, I liked her!
Wow, I totally remember Hardcastile and McCormick intro; especially when he snatches the money and the car jumps. Did it last? I feel like it did otherwise I wouldn’t have remembered it...hotel, I remember being a tiny kid and thinking Connie Sellica was beautiful before I even knew what beautiful was. If I remember correctly, Mission Imposssible was either before or after that Hotel. For some reason I relate the Mission Impossible intro to Hotel.
C'mon, no WAY is it better than the "Whiz Kids" theme! (11:47) I could listen to that all day (gag, cough, losing consciousness...THUD) Actually, the Just Our Luck theme (4:48) sounded like a bad disco-era song--i.e., bad even by disco standards (for those who hated disco).
I was a single, professional young adult in 1983. I must have been working and playing hard back then since I don't remember very many of these shows. I think I only watched "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" regularly. Maybe "Hardcastle and McCormick" once in a while. Of course, I watched "Cheers" and "Remington Steele" religiously, but I believe they premiered in '82.
With so many cable channels how do we not have a channel with these 80s shows. Have a few long running shows and mix in lot of other short run shows. Better then the garbage on tv today.
I never really got into the detective couple or duo action adventure genre back in the day. Tempted to try getting into some of them now; same with the just as popular, "Don't You Wish You Had Our First World Problems? useless uppercrust elite melodramas" like Falcon Crest, Dallas, and Dynasty.
I definitely saw more than a few seasons of "Webster" as a kid! Emmanuel Lewis seems to have escaped the child star curse by being a super success as an adult, outside the entertainment industry. I heard he's a lawyer or something.
83 that 70's hangover was still in effect...the music intro styles , the format the fashions especially the hair had not overly changed ...to me the REAL 80s started in 84/85..like most decades in the late 20th Century there always seemed to be carry over of about 3or 4 yrs into the next decade ..since 2010 not so much anymore ...most distinctions now all seem tech based
Not only don’t remember much of these, but never heard of them. 17 years old, we didn’t watch much tv. We were out having too much fun or listening to our music 😁 Did love Manimal though as goofy as it was. Bet it would b a super hero hit these days.
That seems to be a common theme with people I’ve talked to. No matter when you were 16 or 17, you probably didn’t watch a lot of TV. I have almost no memory of TV from when I was that age.
You reminded me, other than Hardcastle and McCormick and a couple other show, just how bad TV really was for the fall of 1983. It topped most of the 1970s clinker years.
Mr. Smith may have been panned by critics and Manimal didn't last long, but I have to give credit to NBC for picking them up. At least they were shows with unique premises, giving viewers the chance to watch something different.
Say what you will, at least the bulk of these shows were creative and attempted to be original and do something. I would take any one of these over the average 'reality show' on today.
Exactly. We can sit here and say "this was crap, that was crap" but they were trying to be original and air something that was entertaining, not just trying to fill 3 hours every night as cheaply as possible.
Chris McWilliams but...sitcoms still exist currently. What a dumb comparison. Reality TV was the best comparison and not you know actual sitcoms now? Also many of these are cheap attempts to capitalize on the sitcom and cable craze that was happening at the time. The exact same thing that reality shows do today. Take off the nostalgia glasses.
"AfterMASH" actually had one very successful season, either in the top-10 or narrowly missing it in 1983-84. It was when they moved it to Tuesday night up against "The A-Team" for season 2 that "AfterMASH" came apart.
I can understand and forgive MASH for taking 11 Seasons to portray a 4 year war, and being another "20-years later" show (Happy Days, Wonder Years, That 70s show, Goldbergs, etc) but where is the logic in doing a 30-years later post-war spin off?
It still makes me cringe. Seeing the intro of "Cutter to Houston" makes me think that was a considerably less stereotype-crammed show. (Also whoa, Alec Baldwin!)
Ouch, but I REMEMBER "We got it Made," theme song and everything. It was a Thursday night entry the same time they had Cheers. NBC would soon have "Must See Thursday," but not this year. Now, I do not remember the Ken Howard one at all and I was a BIG TV watcher back then. He must have really needed the money.
Hardcastle and McCormick and Scarecrow and Mrs. King were efing awesome, the rest were stupid! Oh, and Hotel was fun esp. after they replaced Betty Davis with Anne Baxter!
After "Hotel" she didn't need to try to be in any new shows, though! Oh man, that theme song still gives me goosebumps after all these years! And I almost forgot they had Bette Davis as the star in the earlier episodes!
Prior to "Hotel", Connie Sellecca was on "The Greatest American Hero" as attorney Pam Davidson, which lasted for three seasons, so this was actually her second successful show.
Actually Scarecrow and Mrs. King was a hit show! And it was good! I watched it EVERY week. I was 16 years old that year.
One of my favorite shows.
This is Kate Jackson's fourth hit show.
I'm not sure where they said Scarecrow Mrs King wasn't a hit show. They said of the shows that premiered only six made it to a second season. They did not say that there weren't any hits or any series did not go more than two seasons
Who said it wasn't
Webster, Hardcastle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Hotel are 4 of the 6 that went on to be successful. I would have to go look up the others, to see which other 2 got past 1 season.
hardcastle and mccormick was just an absolute phenomenal show!
Stephen J Cannel made some awesome shows in the 80s
I liked it. Brian Keith.
0:18 It's not Easy
1:29 We Got it Made
2:10 Oh Madeline
2:59 After MASH
3:57 Jennifer Slept Here
4:48 Just our Luck
5:52 Webster
6:51 Mr. Smith
8:01 Manimal
9:01 Hardcastle and McCormick
10:33 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
11:45 Whiz Kids
12:58 Boone
14:11 The Rousters
15:40 Yellow Rose
16:20 Cutter to Houston
17:34 Trauma Center
18:54 Bay City Blues
20:22 For Love and Honor
21:41 Emerald Point N.A.S.
22:55 Lottery $
23:54 Arthur Hailey's Hotel
I was 5 years old at the time. Some of these shows I never watched or heard of
Spoiler alert...😂
@@alfonsogreen2722good reason for that. They were...not good.
@@Mike-ke4ypas a kid I loved MASH. I wanted to love that show but it was awful.
These r the shows I never heard of or never watched
It's not easy
Oh Madeline
Jennifer slept here
Just our luck
Mr. Smith
Manimal
Yellow Rose
Cutter to Houston
Trauma Center
Bay city blues
For love & honor
Emerald Point NAS
Damn, forgot how much I liked Hardcasle and Mcormick. Soon as music started I remembered it . Brian Keith reminded me of my grandpa. Tough and cool.
Hardcastle and McCormick was actually fun.
Was a junior in high school. These videos are like time machines. These shows are triggering all kinds of memories.
The other theme tune was better though...
Yeah, it was a really good show. It came out when I was a sophomore in high school. That and Scarecrow and Mrs. King were my favorites. The 80s were the pinnacle of great tv shows. Miami Vice came out the very next year. It don't get any better than that. That's why I mostly watch streaming services now. With the exception of The Orville, everything else on tv now SUCKS!!!!!
I'll admit I was intrigued when I saw Stephen j cannell was a creator. I still watch 21 jump street, that was a fun show.
It's great to revisit these to see the long list of bit players that have been forgotten by time as well as the ones that went on to become famous. Thanks so much.
I loved Madeline Kahn!
"Is that a 10 gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?"--Blazing Saddles
Kahn was also a major Disco artist- 'Forbidden Love'.
Yeah she was good,enjoyed her in Clue
I loved the episode of Oh Madeline when she tried to teach Johnny Mathis how to sing. Such a funny lady gone too soon.
I adored that show! She was so brilliant and funny.
Fun cooincidence...there was Sharon Stone in Bay City Blues and immediately after was Rachel Ticotin in For Love and Honor. Both accresses had a fantastic fight scene togfether in Total Recall.
I don't care what anyone says...i loved "Scarecrow & Mrs. King". great theme song too.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is still my favorite show of all time.
+Psychokinetic2k He's now on Hallmark's Cedar Cove. His character is married to Barbara Niven.
Great successful show
Hated it
Cutter to Houston and Trauma Center must of on lasted a few episodes
Good to see the theme from Scarecrow and Mrs. King again. The theme was great, and the show was fun. It's amazing how long that theme was though. They'd never do anything like that now.
My grandmother used to love that "Hardcastle and McCormick" show. I remember it as a little kid that she would watch that all the time.
Man, look at all those amazing computers in "Whiz Kids"! I bet they had at least 64 kilobytes of RAM!
Which was powered by a couple of hamsters running on wheels in cages.
My first computer, a Compaq in 1990, had a 40 MB _hard drive_ instead of just measly floppy drives. Huge step up. Now we routinely take a single photograph or send an email that takes up that much room.
I wrote a report on Scarecrow and Mrs. King being my favorite show in the 6th grade. We used to watch Lottery, Webster, and Hotel too... great shows!
some great memories here. These were my formative tv watching years. I loved Whiz Kids! Family always watched Scarecrow and Mrs King. Hardcastle & McCormick was lots of fun too. TV wasn't necessarily better or worse than it is now, but just different. 80's had far fewer serialized, or long story arc type shows. Most of your hourly shows back then didn't require you to watch every week to fully understand the story. Instead you watch weekly just because you enjoyed it. You also had far fewer channels back then too, so shows were broader but you still had interesting idea/niche shows like Manimal or Jennifer Slept Here. Now if you'll excuse me I want to find some episodes of Scarecrow & Mrs. King to veg out to!
"ALbert" from LHOTPraire. I liked Whiz Kids too. I recall an ep where the black kid took control the city traffic control system.
I remember many of these too. Whiz Kids was just right for my age...we knew we were on the cusp of something our parents didn't quite understand.
LOL out loud if watching this garbage helped form you.
Just watched the whole series of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" on DVD. Great show!
Bruce and Kate! So awesome together!
""Hardcastle and McCormick"" !!! ( Rock'in Theme Song .Loved It !)
My favorite thing about these old intros is playing the "Look! It's him/her!" game. Incidentally many of these are just awful.
It's somewhat relieving that TV was as bad 32 years ago as it is now.
boat6float I always tell people that nostalgia it what makes people think media was better “back then”. Nope; there was a lot of clunkers back then and some new gems now.
Before they were stars meets after they were stars meets "who?"
"playing the 'Look! It's him/her!' game" Of course--that's the only reason why these flashbacks to crappy shows from 30-40 years ago is interesting. Well that, and perhaps being reminded of the 1 or 2 shows (out of all of them) that were actually halfway decent.
To us, many are bad shows. But to actors, it's their resume. Many have been able to parlay these experiences to more successful shows because of exposure and connections they make.
I hated Manimal when the guy turned into an eagle and his hands became claws. claws are eagles feet. his hands should have been wings dammit!
bahahahahaha
I never gave that much thought, but yeah, that is maddening.
jodejack and the lead guy from Manimal, Simon McCorkindale, died of Cancer about 10 years ago.
The real issue is that an eagle's talons are not either feet or hands... there's no direct correlation for a human's. Stan Winston did the transformation effects, I think.
I was the only kid in my class who raved about Hardcastle & McCormick, felt punched in the face when the show ended after 3 years.
It was one of my favorite shows at the time
PreApocalypseJitters I was crushed too. Loved the dynamic between Brian and Daniel.
I watched it.
The Coyote X was the real star of the show.
Did anyone else watch the intro to "Hotel" and thought that the entire cast looked like they were bored and just trying to look busy? Thank God they changed it after the pilot.
The 70s still had a firm grip in 83.
That intro to Hardcastle & McCormick though..VROooooom.
That Mr. Smith thing was one of the craziest things to put on TV.
Couldn’t wait to see that train wreck. Can you recommend any episodes?
I love this stuff! Thank you so much for posting it!
God I loved Whiz Kidz. It was only on for a season or two, but it was good and covered a crazy subject back in the early days of home computers and no internet... hacking. It and War Games inspired my love for computers and programming. Such awesome times! I think about that show a lot.
It was a pretty good time to be a kid (especially a vid kid)
i was 10 when it was on TV for the one season, but I remember it absolutely driving me to get that Commordore 64 for Christmas and continue on to a lifetime in IT.
It appears I picked a perfect time to be stationed overseas.
Wall to wall garbage.
17:21 Shelley Hack was gorgeous. Too bad I never heard of "Cutter to Houston", although honestly I never watched dramas too much (in this case, a medical drama).
I sometimes tell kids and young adults that TV networks once had "specials" that showcased their new shows that would be on (for a while) next fall so we could go to school or work and talk about which ones we were most excited about. Television was a different thing back then.
Yes it did I also remember that!!
I watched those specials too.
Remember Saturday Cartoon preview shows? You knew it was Fall then...
You have to remember. Satellite TV was with the big satellite dishes on top of your house. That was expensive. Cable TV was starting up & *YOU HAD TO HAVE A CABLE BOX.* Meaning one channel at a time. Home video was new (VHS / Betamax). Where you could tape *(over the air)* one program & watch another.
TV's were expensive for big screen. Besides, *TV's back then had picture tubes with solid state electronics.*
*Different times.*
I swear I saw one as recently as the summer of 17...
- when i found the first one of these, (this is #5 today) that's what I thought it was
and i know for sure in the mid 00's some networks would stick a DVD of said "promo-reel" (or what ever you call it) inside the Box sets of of the past year's Seasons of certain shows
Thank you very much !! Love all the vids you put out on the shows for that year !!
I remember most of these shows failing, but I've honestly never heard of "The Rousters"....How in the WORLD was this not a hit???? Carnies fighting, trucks jumping, guns shooting. Chad FREAKING Everett, Hoyt FREAKING Axton, Jim FREAKING Varney!
I'm ready to buy the DVD set now!!!!!
MegaCrowdaddy it kind of sounds like a similar show that once aired on CBS on Friday nights
Jim Varney the carny.
It wasn't all that bad
@@mapolloni73 Wasn't he a carny on the Simpsons too?
Yeah you're right, he was Cooder on the Simpsons.
The people who make intros REALLY fell in love with the use of still photos in the 80s!
I was thinking the same. Every intro seemed to be the same.
i only remember 5 shows. webster, manimal, hardcastel & mccormick, scarecrow and mrs king, lottery.
Ive never heard of most of these, but I was working a lot and raising a family. Great video collection!!!
I got married in November of 1983, so I missed most of these. Hubby and I worked most evenings and not much of our time off was spent watching TV.
I’m so proud of little Emmanuel Lewis that he grow up to be the mayor of Chicago, it’s so good to see a child actor become a success in their adulthood! Way to go Emmanuel👍
lol
I think the "Scarecrow and Mrs King" and "Hotel" were the only of these shows I watched. Anne Baxter as "Victoria Cabot" taught me to treat everyone in the workplace with the same level of respect, regardless of their position. I went on to eventually become a Catering Sales Manager at a similar luxury hotel in Boston and that was a tidbit I held on to forever! I had a HUGE crush on Bruce Boxleitner, back in the day. Possibly still do...
I had been wracking my brains for years trying to remember the name of the sitcom with Shabu the Genie. Thanks!
OMG ... "Jennifer Slept Here".
Complete with Glenn Scarpelli!
80's Girl The show might’ve lasted an extra season if Ann Julian didn’t get sick
I remember this show. It was pretty bad and the theme song was horrid. My grandma didn't like it either
I barely remember but I so watched this
@@janetstrayer698 Me too. I am actually friends with Brandon Maggart, who played the dad. And I reminded him that Georgia Engel had passed away. She had this stupid voice on the show, drove me crazy.
Holy crap! I'll have whatever the networks were smoking that year.
the music for that theme song at 11:48 to 12:58 is an electronic version of parts of the 1st movement of Mozart's piano concerto 21. The parts are spliced together.
OMG, they should've left the parts "un-spliced"!
Hardcastle and McCormick was a good show.
Good God. The running time of some of these intros! Precious minutes of airtime that have since been relegated to pharmaceutical ads. Thanks for so many unmemorable memories!
After being reminded of the crap that was on tv at the time, I now remember why I watched MTV, lol.
I will admit that I enjoyed both Manimal and Lottery; but most of the others I don't remember. 1983 may have been the year where my old TI-99/4a computer and the Atari 2600 took up the greater share of my indoor amusement. Of course, TV in the 80s also had to compete with the real world even harder to keep kids indoors or otherwise away from other more productive yet still fun activities.
Oh, my god. I was IN the 82d Airborne when "For Love and Honor" aired. We'd all watch it in the rec room. We never laughed so hard.
*Just think; this was the highlight of some folks careers!*
Mr. Smith looks amazing!
wow, this brought back some memories. I've seen probably over 1/2 of these shows. loved the 80s.
NBC's "Duck Factory" as well as CBS' "Domestic Life" were also 2 more eggs that were laid during the 1983-84 season.
Hardcastle and McCormick had one of the best theme songs ever! I've always loved Brian Keith. My dad used to watch this show.
I was 10 in 1983 so I pretty much remember all of these shows. My top ones were Hardcastle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Manimal and Hotel.
My mom loved "Lottery!" A running gag was one of the guys could not miss his favorite soap opera.
14:53 Hey Verne, it’s Ernest!
Whiz Kidz was my favorite show. They had the craziest concept that they could use computers to solve crimes..😂🤣😂🤣
Madeline Kahn one of my favourite female comedic actors.
Definitely remember that Scarecrow and Mrs King theme.
I loved that show as a kid
good work awesome
Wow, the "Yellow Rose" had an all-star cast for a television show if I've ever seen one. I'd actually watch that.
a lot of 'before they were stars'
I loved the show Hunter growing up. I didn't realize Stephanie Kramer was in We got it made.
She probably hoped nobody remembered her being in We Git It Made.
I loved Webster and scarecrow and Mrs king! I was 5 in 1983 but I remember
Manimal was so underrated. I loved that show back in 83.
Oh, God. Manimal was Cop Rock bad.
@@Rockhound6165No, it was awesome.
I would love to go back to 1983 for about 6 months
WOW...WHIZ KIDS, I used to love this show, when it stopped coming on I was like "wasn't whiz kids supposed to come on tonight?"
Hardcastle and McCormick has the greatest TV theme ever !
I really liked as a kid (I was 11) Jennifer Slept Here, We Got It Made, Lottery, and Hardcastle & McCormick. I remember Oh Madeline.
I swear I have never heard of Boone or The Rousters.
I miss intros and theme songs!
I didn't watch a lot of TV except some on the weekends. I worked a lot, and had a toddler. I saw The scarecrow and Mrs King a few times. I wish I'd seen the Madilyn Kahn show, I liked her!
Wow, I totally remember Hardcastile and McCormick intro; especially when he snatches the money and the car jumps. Did it last? I feel like it did otherwise I wouldn’t have remembered it...hotel, I remember being a tiny kid and thinking Connie Sellica was beautiful before I even knew what beautiful was. If I remember correctly, Mission Imposssible was either before or after that Hotel. For some reason I relate the Mission Impossible intro to Hotel.
The theme to the T.K. Carter show "Just Our Luck" was very fun.It could have easily been a hit song back in the day.
C'mon, no WAY is it better than the "Whiz Kids" theme! (11:47) I could listen to that all day (gag, cough, losing consciousness...THUD) Actually, the Just Our Luck theme (4:48) sounded like a bad disco-era song--i.e., bad even by disco standards (for those who hated disco).
I wonder who sang it
A lot of these shows were the result of an enourmous amount of cocaine back in the 80s.
We got it made.. YEAH!
I was a single, professional young adult in 1983. I must have been working and playing hard back then since I don't remember very many of these shows. I think I only watched "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" regularly. Maybe "Hardcastle and McCormick" once in a while. Of course, I watched "Cheers" and "Remington Steele" religiously, but I believe they premiered in '82.
Hardcastle and Mc cormick was a great show
With so many cable channels how do we not have a channel with these 80s shows. Have a few long running shows and mix in lot of other short run shows. Better then the garbage on tv today.
Wow. I remember so many of these.
Hardcastle and McCormick ran for 3 seasons...not one. I'm also certain Webster was more than a one season filler too.
Hardcastle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Webster, and Hotel all had more then one season. And if I'm right Webster was the longest.
Ron Lanham Webster was a phenomenon, very popular.
AfterMASH made it to a second season.
I never really got into the detective couple or duo action adventure genre back in the day. Tempted to try getting into some of them now; same with the just as popular, "Don't You Wish You Had Our First World Problems? useless uppercrust elite melodramas" like Falcon Crest, Dallas, and Dynasty.
I definitely saw more than a few seasons of "Webster" as a kid! Emmanuel Lewis seems to have escaped the child star curse by being a super success as an adult, outside the entertainment industry. I heard he's a lawyer or something.
I remember a whole bunch of these!
I would love to see Bay City Blues now. I'm a huge sports junkie and they actually looked to have a decent cast.
Excellent cast
It still looked a lot like the late 70's in many ways...
I haven't seen some of these intros since i was 9. LOL Jennifer Slept Here & We've Got It Made.
83 that 70's hangover was still in effect...the music intro styles , the format the fashions especially the hair had not overly changed ...to me the REAL 80s started in 84/85..like most decades in the late 20th Century there always seemed to be carry over of about 3or 4 yrs into the next decade ..since 2010 not so much anymore ...most distinctions now all seem tech based
I remember almost of these. Loved Hardcastle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Also funny how many future “stars” starred in some real bombs
Not only don’t remember much of these, but never heard of them. 17 years old, we didn’t watch much tv. We were out having too much fun or listening to our music 😁 Did love Manimal though as goofy as it was. Bet it would b a super hero hit these days.
That seems to be a common theme with people I’ve talked to. No matter when you were 16 or 17, you probably didn’t watch a lot of TV. I have almost no memory of TV from when I was that age.
You reminded me, other than Hardcastle and McCormick and a couple other show, just how bad TV really was for the fall of 1983. It topped most of the 1970s clinker years.
So evidently 1983 owes us an apology.
Mr. Smith may have been panned by critics and Manimal didn't last long, but I have to give credit to NBC for picking them up. At least they were shows with unique premises, giving viewers the chance to watch something different.
Amazing to see some future stars in these series or the people who had been in hit shows in another show.
Say what you will, at least the bulk of these shows were creative and attempted to be original and do something. I would take any one of these over the average 'reality show' on today.
Exactly. We can sit here and say "this was crap, that was crap" but they were trying to be original and air something that was entertaining, not just trying to fill 3 hours every night as cheaply as possible.
I agree with all the above comments.
Chris McWilliams but...sitcoms still exist currently. What a dumb comparison. Reality TV was the best comparison and not you know actual sitcoms now? Also many of these are cheap attempts to capitalize on the sitcom and cable craze that was happening at the time. The exact same thing that reality shows do today. Take off the nostalgia glasses.
No theme song better conveys the boredom within as the one for AfterMASH.
I say that as someone who ranks MASH as one of the five best shows ever.
Webster and after mash are two of the six that had more than one season.
The others are Hotel, Hardcastle and McCormick, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and We Got It Made. What a dismal season of TV.
I can barely make out the credits...Just how I remember good ole tv being...lol. Fun stuff.
wow aftermash is as distant now as the korean war was in '83
Crazy, uh?
"AfterMASH" actually had one very successful season, either in the top-10 or narrowly missing it in 1983-84. It was when they moved it to Tuesday night up against "The A-Team" for season 2 that "AfterMASH" came apart.
I can understand and forgive MASH for taking 11 Seasons to portray a 4 year war, and being another "20-years later" show (Happy Days, Wonder Years, That 70s show, Goldbergs, etc) but where is the logic in doing a 30-years later post-war spin off?
The Yellow Rose had an all star cast.
It still makes me cringe. Seeing the intro of "Cutter to Houston" makes me think that was a considerably less stereotype-crammed show. (Also whoa, Alec Baldwin!)
@@ladyi7609 Seems all the young hunky men get their start as Dr.s lol
Sam Ellliot!
My goodness, I dont see how some of these made it past the 1st commercial break !!!
Ouch, but I REMEMBER "We got it Made," theme song and everything. It was a Thursday night entry the same time they had Cheers. NBC would soon have "Must See Thursday," but not this year.
Now, I do not remember the Ken Howard one at all and I was a BIG TV watcher back then. He must have really needed the money.
Laceykat66 Ken Howard wind up being Diane Carol’s love interest in dynasty anyway
My grandmother watched a lot of these programs and my only memories are the theme songs being played
Trauma Center:Oh my God! It's Victoria Chase! Wendie Malik in hr earliest role and so young looking here.
Hardcastle and McCormick and Scarecrow and Mrs. King were efing awesome, the rest were stupid! Oh, and Hotel was fun esp. after they replaced Betty Davis with Anne Baxter!
How many shows did Connie Selleca premier in that year?
After "Hotel" she didn't need to try to be in any new shows, though! Oh man, that theme song still gives me goosebumps after all these years! And I almost forgot they had Bette Davis as the star in the earlier episodes!
Prior to "Hotel", Connie Sellecca was on "The Greatest American Hero" as attorney Pam Davidson, which lasted for three seasons, so this was actually her second successful show.
I loved some of these shows
Just for spotting some pretty famous names in the credits, totally worth it!