1980s Miniseries Were Must See TV -- PART TWO
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In my first video about TV Miniseries from the 1980s, I missed a few titles. Some I had forgotten about, others I had never seen before. But, the comments section set me straight. Here is my list of the OTHER 10 best 1980s TV Miniseries.
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The Blue and the Gray is no longer available on Apple TV. It is only available to purchase on DVD via Amazon.
Lace IS available for free on RUclips! I finally found it! Links are in the description.
Yes I was going to say Lace I and II are there.
Good job. Celebrity deserves an honorable mention.
Glad to see you put Winds of War back in there. Your correction is noted. Well done. But having it at #2, is too low. That was #1.
I rewatched Lace via RUclips about 10 years ago. Glad to hear it’s still lurking on the platform.
The “Anne of Green Gables” films are superb. They aren’t campy at all. Just great literary adaptations.
So much better than Anne With an E.
Apparently the longest running musical in Canada is Anne of Green Gables!
I think it super bad @kaylahensley1581
As a teen I adored Anne of Green Gables. I had just graduated HS, and could relate to Anne and her college worries. I met the late Jon Crombie who played Gil in 2008. I have read a few of the books, and I am currently reading Rilla of Ingleside, which focuses on Anne's daughter. I saw many of these mini series back in the day.
Same! I absolutely adored the entire series and devoured the books. It’s been a long time, though. Making this video made me realize it’s time to do it again.
I was shocked when I learned that Jon Crombie died back in 2015, at the age of 48.
Anne of Green Gables is a classic - so, so good. Perfectly cast, beautiful cinematography, wholesome , but not cloying. A must see for the whole family - girl and boy alike.
It is litteraly the BEST!
Well said yes!
Megan Follows was born to play Anne. Colleen Dewhurst was excellent as Marilla. I didn't think the guy that played Matthew looked like what I envisioned.
That line from Lace rocked pop culture. My mother loved it so much that she would ad-lib it in different situations at home; “Which one of you bitches is avoiding homework?” 🤨
That is awesome! I love it.
Cool mom.
That is hilarious, I LOVE A GOOD CATCHPHRASE...Tell your Mom, a nice lady from Jersey is stealing this...respectfully LMAO
@@JerzCe73 she died a long time ago, but she bequeathed to me her sly humor and the imperative to question authority, and she’d love to know that she made people laugh after all this time. 😁
@@epluribusunum1460 May she rest in peace and her memory bring you constant joy, I feel honored to get to experience your Mother's humor...A gift, indeed.
Saved this so I could refer back and find the ones I don't have. lol Story about Anne of Green Gables, several years ago PBS played the whole series during one of their membership telethons. I didn't ask anyone to join me, my husband and daughter were busy doing their own things, so I got some popcorn and settled in. Twenty minutes in, my daughter sat down, a few minutes later my husband came in. It absolutely draws people in. We had the best weekend watching it, and my daughter (she was around 11) asked me to take her to the library so she could check out the entire book series. I swear, Anne's story is timeless.
The author once said that if she knew she was going to write so many books, she wouldn't have killed off Matthew so soon. Points for honesty.
Oh gosh Sydney Sheldon's mini series!! Now those were strong female characters! Loved them all.
I can't believe you missed Scruples with Lindsey Wagner, and The Burning Bed with Farrah Fawcet!
Burning Bed was one night. Scruples would have been a good addition, just ran out of spots!
@@mysocalledgenxlife I didn't know that it was only one part! Believe it or not, I watched the Burning Bed in high school, I think health class, specifically. Since we watched it over a couple days, I just always assumed it was a miniseries. The more you know 🌠
Completely agree. Young me and old me would never watch war or historical series😂😂😂 Scruples....i wanted to live like that😂😂😂😂😂
Scruples had one of the most amazing casts ever for a movie or TV program. I'll have to watch that one again. 😆
Lindsay Wagner became queen of the TV movie -- I wonder who were in more her or Farrah
I can remember the first time I saw Anne of green gables air on PBS. It changed my life and I still say it's my favorite movie ever.
In my area PBS dedicated whole weekends to Anne of Green Gables by playing all the movies non-stop Saturday thru Sunday.
Queenie is loosely based on the life of the actress Merle Oberon.
Princess Daisy is another great gem- from the Judith Krantz novel-
Airing in 1983- The orphan (Merete Van Kamp) of an American actress (Lindsay Wagner) and a Russian prince (Stacy Keach) goes on to fame as a New York model.
One thing I wish you had addressed with both of these videos is the incredible impact these miniseries had at the time. 120 million+ people watched The Thorn Birds. I worked in fast food in high school and co-workers brough tiny televisions to work so they could watch it under the counter while we manned the registers! Shogun was watched by 145 million people. Those numbers are unheard of today.
Remember there was no streaming in the 80s, no net, only movies and tv .. in my country in the 80s we only had two Chanel’s, until end of 89 which we we got a third, so mini series were huge in nz . Massive viewers
If you missed a movie or special you might have to wait 6 months or more before they aired again! I oughta know, I missed that famous Jackson Five 25th Anniversary Special where he did the moonwalk for the first time. It wasnt until half a year later CBS re-ran it!! I was the only kid in my class who didn't see it! haahaa
The best Anne of Green Gables adaption in my opinion (and boy did I have a crush on Gilbert) ❤
Same!
Have you seen the series Anne With an E? My daughter is obsessed with it.
Shogun was amazing. Stayed up on school nights to watch it. Bought the dvd set. Such a wonderful series.
I am curious, did your parents allow you to? My brother and I would get passes for "historical" fiction. I guess they thought history could be learned from any medium...
Richard Chamberlain, again!
@@JerzCe73 I usually would stay with my Mamaw and could easily persuade her
to let me stay up. lol
One of my favorites is the 1989 Australian mini series Bangkok Hilton with a pre fame Nicole Kidman. It follows a woman unfairly sent to Thai prison.
Love those mini series, but they rarely show up on Netflix or other online platforms, not even for rentals. Glad a few are here.
The 1983 Return to Eden is very good too.
Yay! Lace made the list this time around! I was a sophomore in high school when it came out. It was my all-time favorite that I recorded and watched over and over again.
North And South was an epic.
Limited series on the streaming services are nice, but the old school miniseries felt like an event.
Yep, at a time when if there was a mini-series on TV you could guarantee that everyone was watching it that night and talking about it the next day.
I still love LACE. I have it in my dvd collection to this day.
Shaka zulu....my parénts were hooked on that one
Every year, right along with Zulu Dawn (Also a great film)
Great series
Oh yeah... What year was that..?
Shaka Zulu was required viewing by our Sophmore year history teacher. First (and last!) time network television allowed nudity!
@@juniorjames7076 first...?? which came out first? SZ or Roots..?
cos, i'm pretty sure they also did show some boobs in Roots.
i dunno....
I had a crush on Meagan Follows... Don't tell anyone.
Who didn't? I was 14 when that came out, and to say I was in love with her was a massive understatement.
@@peteg475 I was 13... She was also great in Stephen King's Silver Bullet.
Oh please do a 70s edition! I remember as a preteen watching all those series you talked about. My friends and I also watched Scruples with Lindsay Wagner because of the fashion. So you have to do 70s and look at the quality mini-series that were made during that time.
Roots is my favorite, the 70s have their gems too.
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" has to make that list. Absolutely phenomenal TV. Sir Alec Guinness is the greatest George Smiley.
I’ll Take Manhattan is my all time favorite mini-series then came The Thorne Birds, then Anne of Green Gables, then Lace! And you can’t leave out Mistral’s Daughter!
Another informative and fun video. Don't let any negativity bother you. Great job and keep up the great work 👍
The 1980's were truly the heyday of the tv miniseries. Glad you included 2 of my favorites - "The Blue & The Gray" & "Winds of War / War & Remembrance".
I also loved Paper Dolls and Celebrity. Nothing beats your number 1 on the previous list The Thorn Birds. 😊
MUCH Better job- BUT_ you still missed the incredible "Brideshead Revisted'!!!! You should take a trip back to the 70s- the one's you mentioned are definite must watches- along with "I, Claudius' "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and "Elizabeth R".
The Bastard was epic
All were incredible! So enjoyable and you can see them many times over and still enjoy them
@@barbarapaige4587 I watch each maybe once a year or at least every other year.
Mini-series is not a technical format, it was an American marketing term that wasn't used for the UK and European productions. Similarly, we didn't have "seasons", it was just series 1, series 2 etc.
@@nrgphaze4367 fully aware of that- but back in 70s/80s/90s- ANY thing shown on American TV with 3-,4,5,6 etc. episodes was a mini series- regardless of where it came from. Our 'series' back then had 20+ episodes a year- anything under 10 was a mini "series' (where the term comes from). and they didn't come back the next year. If a series didn't come back- it was because it was cancelled/not renewed.Today- many so called 'series' only have 8-10 episodes- like "Game of Thrones' etc.
Can attest: Gen X grew up watching Anne. Love her sass.
Winds of War and War and Remembrance should be on top, in my opinion. They both tell exceptional stories, the latter portraying much of the Holocaust. The director of War and Remembrance told ABC execs his plan for telling the story, and how explicit he would be. They said okay. It was a real punch to the gut, much as 'Holocaust' was the decade before. 80's TV at it's best.
I totally agree. They would’ve been my number one and two.
I remember enjoying Winds of War very much, but War and Remembrance was so much more difficult to watch (in a good way). Stellar television!
I would say from living through the 80s, the biggest mini series from the 1980s was the north and south, and the thorn birds.
Mininseries were big deals. I remember some mini series would air on a sunday night and then make you wait till the next sunday to see the second half.
When a woman named jackie aired it wasnt the 80s but it was i think 90 or 91..I didnt get to watch the entire second half because my mom made me go to bed and i was so mad. I wanted to see the whole second half so bad, and it wasn't until 2002 that it aired on a cable channel, and i was able to record it. Now i can watch it anytime i want here on youtube. How easy things are accessed now, which makes me happy..but there was something about waiting.
I remember anytime a danielle steele made for t.v movie would come on it was also a big deal. My favorite danielle steele was jewels. I wasnt into romance novels but i read the book and still have a copy because i loved the movie.
There was a made for t.v movie called murder in the heartland i liked Charles starkweather. I also read poor little rich girl after watching the movie with farrah fawcette.
Another favorite of mine was the two part series elvis and me. It was based off of priscilla presleys memoir and i loved that movie. I still watch that movie and think it was better in many ways then the recent movie priscilla. I also read the book after watching the movie. I was a reader when i was a kid and teenager.
We didnt have a vcr until i was in my teens so in the 80s and early 90s if i wanted to watch a show on t.v i had to be there to see it and also i only had the one chance to see it.
Donald sutherland passed away recently. It made me think of watching the last living Confederate widow tells all.
This is such a long post but it brought back so many memories. Thank you for that.
The Winds of War and War and Remembrance RULED. I still get chills to remember the scenes at the train station in WoW.
Oh yes .....I totally agree. Can't believe she forgot to include in her first part.
I remember watching The Deliberate Stranger and it scared me so much I couldn't sleep at night for a week! On the flip side, Anne of Green Gables was pure perfection.
When you whizzed past the names of the miniseries of the 70's and mentioned Cenntenial, I had to chuckle. At its initial airing, I loved it, years later, I couldn't stomach it, the acting and make up were so bad...lol! Also in the 70's and available to stream on youtube was Eleanor and Franklin the true story of the Roosevelt's based on her diaries. If you haven't seen it, it holds up even today as remarkable. Edward Hermann of Gilmore Girls fame played Franklin. I'd love to see a 1970's list!
I loved Eleanor and Franklin and just watched it again on RUclips, both parts. Still great.
I would add A Woman of substance. Barbara Taylor Bradford.
YES
The first one yes. The sequel Hold The Dream,meh, maybe. The third one with Lindsay Wagner, and Anthony Hopkins,no. That one was trash.
"Chiefs" was outstanding. And I doubt you could find a woman who grew up in the 1980's who won't tell you that "Anne of Green Gables" still lives in her heart.
Born in 1980, never seen a single Anne of Green Gables. Or Dirty Dancing.
I was 12 when Chiefs came out, and I loved it!
As a Canadian I love Anne of Green Gables but my all time favorite is Shogun.
I think it’s hard to watch them now and judge them based on then. You see in the early 80’s most didn’t have cable. Just a few channels. It was Cosby and Cheers. The miniseries were the best way to show a movie and still allow for commercials and the 10pm news. You had to commit to a few days in a row, or a week. News was only on a few times a day. IT WAS GLORIOUS. Programming got interrupted for a hijacking and it was just the facts. You youngsters do not know what you are missing. Ha.
I think the strangest things for kids to wrap their heads around is that TV stations stopped broadcasting at night. Just static. I’ve had to explain that part of the movie Poltergeist to my nieces and nephews. “If there’s no signal, why isn’t the screen blue? What’s that stuff on the screen?”
Seeing that NBC and CBS mini series logo come up brings back a lotta memories watching them with my Mom.
I loved Lace! I can still watch and enjoy it on a sleepy afternoon. I was going to see if someone already mentioned that Maxine Pascal was played by Arielle Dombasle, but that's a lot of scrolling so yes, she was. 😁
Such wonderful memories! All the Rivers Run was a memorable fav of mine tho it was on HBO.
I had forgotten some of these, but saw them back in the day. There was another called ‘Masada’, starring Peter O’Toole, but it ran at the same time as ‘Shogun’ on another network. which meant I was the only person watching it. It got lousy ratings thanks to the competition, but it was good. I would watch Peter O’Toole read the phonebook.
Masada was incredible! I have it on DVD and watch it regularly.
Loved Masada
I would reduce The Atlanta Child Murders to Honorable Mention and move East of Eden into its position. It was far superior, and worth watching to see Jane Seymour and to see the tremendous performance by Lloyd Bridges.
A miniseries containing both Jane Seymour and Lloyd Bridges needs to be higher on the list.
I liked "Anne of Green Gables" which aired on PBS here in the U.S as part of their"Wonderworks" series in 1985 and "Anne of Avonlea" that aired later on in the U.S. on the Disney Channel. There was a third mini-series that aired on PBS in 2000 but I didn't much care for that one.
The only critique I remembered was that Meghan Follows was too pretty to play gawky young Anne. However when I saw Anne of Avonleigh I understood the casting. She had to play a pretty young woman in the entire project. I still like that series the best of the three film attempts I recall.
There was a Hollywood movie in the 30s starring Anne Shirley (yes same name) that is a 90 minute digest from orphanage to engagement.
The 21st century one was too gritty, sexual and deuer for a subject that should be a teen girls coming of age series...like Little House.
The memories! I’ve rewatched the Anne series a few years ago and it STILL holds up!
Would love to see a 70s top ten mini-series. Although I wouldn't envy anyone trying to decide between Roots and The Holocaust for top spot!
WOW. To think Navyman Gibbs was a serial killer back in the day!
Also - glad to see Anne on this list. Still one of my favorites; Megan Follows is *MY* Anne. That new series is trash and didn't even center Anne in her own story! :o
I loved LACE. I even read the book, which was even more bananas. Back when Oxygen was a channel for women, they played it fairly often.
Sidney Sheldon was the Mary Higgins Clark prototype. He had deep ties to entertainment anyway. I always wanted The Stars Shine Down to be an 90s miniseries. It had that Lucky feel to it.
Where is the Women of Brewster Place with Oprah Winfrey and A Woman called Moses with Cicely Tyson. Outstanding as well.
Thank you for including Kane and Abel, a very powerful miniseries with Sam Neill and Peter Strauss at their zenith. I also highly recommend Princess Daisy, which has an amazing cast and an interesting storyline.
Anne of Green Gables! Brilliant cast and timeless classic.
Master of the game was so good, but of course the book is fantastic! If you haven’t read it’s a must.
Thank you for this, I remember some and forgot others. I just want to share that your local library has a good amount of these...Especially, Shogun, Anne of Green Gables and The Thornbirds for FREE....Supporting local libraries AND dip into nostalgia, ain't that so GEN X
That brings back memories. I completely forgot about The last Days of Pompeji. Shogun was so great. You are going to hate me, but I just remembered Shaka Zulu, which I think was created a year later. Thanks for the list. Lots to watch and rewatch!
Oh wow! Yes! Shaka Zulu with that boss theme song!
I forgot about Shaka Zulu! Amazing series to watch.
What about "A Woman of Substances"?
Ah, Anne of Green Gables! So many iconic shows from the 80s came from the States-so neat to see a Canadian show make the list! I always thought Megan Follows was cute anyway. But I have already read Anne by that point, so it was nice to see her on the screen. There was a British show from the 70s, but besides that, the only other one I recalled seeing at that point was the old movie (again from the States) from the 30s or 40s
It’s crazy how miniseries were such huge events back in the 80s, with huge, big-name casts and budgets. But now… nothing.
They’re all on Netflix and Hulu now.
Ahh the blue and the grey, the mini series that got me into the civil war. While North and South gets all the attention when it comes to 80s civil war mini series, this one, in my opinion, is the better of the two. Sure, they took some historical liberties in regards to Jonah being around Lincoln for all those historical moments (the sharps rifle testing for example), but the actors in this were great, a lot of big names of the times. I was in 4th grade at the time I saw this , about 4 years after it came out. I watched it over and over again, because blockbuster had it on 2 vhs tapes, about 6 hrs total. I treated it like a movie, I would sit down and just watch it, the whole thing. I even remember my father dubbing it on a blank vhs tape, you could do that with 2 vcrs
, so he wouldn’t have to keep spending the $2 to rent it for me. That theme song will get stuck in your head too, it’s a moving piece of music. The scene in Vicksburg, where Jon talks with his brother Mathew on the battlefield, during a pause in the fighting, makes me think of me and my brother, and it gets me every time. ❤ Thanks for making a part 2 and including the blue and the grey, Makes my gen x heart smile😊
Master of the Game is my favorite Sidney Sheldon book. I've actually been rereading all of his books this year. And I'm having a lovely time! 😊
Excellent Second video... I think lace and lace too should've been number one.. Other than that total redemption. Bravo
Great follow-up video! So glad to see “The Winds of War” so close to the top of the list! ❤
The Blue And The Gray is very underrated IMO...
Nice list, but you really need to check out Masada from 1981. Peter O’Toole and Peter Strauss are the headliners
Yeah I was surprised this did not make the list.
I think you might need a part 3
Could you do Top 10 Mini-Series of the 1990's?
You should’ve added the Elvis and me mini series. As a fellow gen xer born in 1980 this is awesome what you do to remember all the old things that we grew up on. Keep up the good work
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Those mini-series look amazing!
If tomorrow cones is such an excellent show, and the book is even better.
As someone who is old enough to have watched all of these when they first aired, The Blue and The Gray is MUCH better than The North and The South.
The latter got more attention because it came out during the peak of the Patrick Swayze craze
I think you might be right about that.
I liked them both.
Was The Carpetbaggers a tv series or a movie, I can't remember.. Thanks for these trips down memory lane, I've watched almost all of them when I was in high school, and read the books if they had them!
I need more of these from the 80’s please!
Celebrity was another good one in 1983. I loved Mistrials Daughter.
Subscribed. Don't know if you're limiting yourself to North America, but I'd definitely add in "Smiley's People" from 1982. Absolutely fantastic - there are roles people were born to play, and George Smiley is Sir Alec Guinness'.
As an Aussie, I'd add in "Anzacs". A pre-Crocodile Dundee Paul Hogan features.
Thanks for the follow-up! Born in '77 here and so many on this list are the ones I remember most.... Chiefs' big twist at the end, Anne of Green Gables on PBS and Shogun's cool factor are my favorites.
Shōgun had two related productions, Tai-Pan, a movie from 1986 and Noble House, a miniseries from 1988.
Though I believe not related, there was also Return to Eden, an Australian miniseries from 1986 I believe.
I remember watching many of these with my Mom, growing up. I specially remember watching Chiefs and the Jim Jones one. Good times.
First I want to say what a wonderful job you have done with this. I do have a couple to mention though. Masada was a really amazing big story type mini-series starring Peter Otoole. And The Murder of Mary Phagen was a brilliant social commentary type mini-series starring Jack Lemmon. Check them out for what I am sure will be your third video. Which I am sure I will enjoy as much as I have enjoyed these two.
I remember that mini-series, hard to watch just like the one about John Walsh's kid. Still like George Washington mini-series, plus its sequel, and Peter the Great 1986.
I think we might have been assigned to watch Masada as homework, same as The Day After. I also remember a miniseries called World War III. The end of the world was a big thing.
Did Shaka Zulu not make the list because it was not on one of the 3 major (NBC ABC CBS or PBS?) networks? It did become a widely recognized- watched Mini series in multiple countries much like Ann of Green Gables. Just asking.
Anyways, I need to take a look at Kane and Abel. Peter Strauss had a great run as a major movie on tv star with The Jericho Mile (not a Mini series) and, of course the classic Rich Man, Poor Man ... which has some of the same story line as Kane and Abel, hmmm.
Anyways, I'm a big fan of Elia Kazan's East of Eden with rebel rouser James Dean; and why I never made the time to watch the mini series with Jane Seymour ... I can't explain. I liked Steinbeck. I read the book (Not just for high school). I always knew the Kazan-Dean movie skipped a major portion of East of Eden. Did I mention I love Jane Seymour. What's not to like? Plus, it caused some TV 'Sadism' controversy. (By the way: Is it kind of an interesting coincidence Kane and Abel ... East of Eden ... is a symbolic modern take on Cain and Abel(Sp?)...)
Good to see the sometimes shocking tv portrayal, true story re-enactments of Fatal Vision, The Deliberate Stranger, The Atlanta Child Murders, and Jim Jones The Guyana Tragedy on the list.
Great video again by My So-Called Gen X Life. I have only seen these two Mini series videos by MS-CGXLife. I now have a mini series or three I have to watch. We thank you for the reminders. And remember: Don't drink the kool-aid!
I didn't see Blue & the Grey until later in the decade in school, but found I enjoyed it much more than North & South. My wife was a huge Anne of Greene Gables fan. Thanks again for the memories.
Yeah, THE BLUE & THE GREY was miles better than NORTH & SOUTH.
I liked both
I agree
I cried watching 'Kane and Abel'. Also had a crush on Sam Neill from then.
So did I.😁
I hope you can do another video for 1990s miniseries. Starting with 1990's Lucky Chances, adapted from the 2 Jackie Collins novels.
No A.D. from 1985?
I kept thinking there *must* have been some Biblical mini-series in the 80's... I just couldn't remember any of the names.
Brotherhood of the Rose.
Chiefs was filmed in Chester, SC. My dad accidentally drove onto the movie set because the road wasn't closed. He got an autographed book.
There was a mini series called CELEBRITY that was really good!
I love a good list. As a Canadian I LOVE that the 1985 version of Anne of Green Gables is on this list. It's my favourite version (as long as you don't count the sequel as they inappropriately aged her kids). Another mini series that we loved that hasn't appeared on either list is A Woman Of Substance. It's based on a book by Barbara Taylor Bradford. We LOVED the book and the miniseries did a good just of adapting it.
Not sure if you covered Australian series like Return To Eden (1983) and The Last Frontier (1986) which stared Linda Evans.
If you do a video on 90's miniseries at some point, I thoroughly recommend A&E's Hornblower.
I'd forgotten about mistrals daughter. Peak bbc1 fair. If only the drama channel would add these to their rotation along with there Catherine Cookson ones.
Still no mention of Brideshead Revisited? SMH.
Is it a UK series? I’ve had a couple people mention it, but I’ve never heard of it.
A few years ago I rewashed Brideshead Revisited right here on RUclips.
Great videos, thanks for comprising! Fun to revisit. Lace was a good one, and I forgot about the Blue and the Gray. Also liked A.D. and Celebrity
Watched North & South 💗💕 thanks for the memories 😁 Watch Master Chef to see Gen x win 😁
A 1984 TV mini series called Celebrity was pretty good and I remember seeing that one with my mom.
I told her about Celebrity in her last video. I thought that was a great one.
Winds of War was a biggie. I read the book first. Shogun was my favorite. Read that book too.
Princess Daisy
Lace is on RUclips. I just re-watched it a couple of weeks ago.
Still no Woman of Substance!!! And the sequels!! Love thesevids, some great memories :)
Gonna have to make another one!
The original is one of my favorites!
Yes! The book was also excellent!
Lots of good ones on this list . My favorites are Master of the Game …Lace …I’ll take Manhattan and the Last Days of Pompeii . The Winds of War was well made but it seemed like it went on forever ..almost as long as WWII lol . 😎😎😎
Core memory unlocked. The moment you said Lace... A series I haven't watched or thought of since the 80s... Yet I instantly remembered that iconic line 😊😊😊
Fresno parodied a lot of popular genres of evening soaps, but I remember it for its parody of Lace, and the catch line was when the woman searching for her dad said "Which one of you clowns is my father? They were all in clown costumes at the time.
I was surprised how many mini series I had missed back in the 80's A bi9g part of that was starting Basic training in January of that year, and being overseas in Germany- Armed forced network had only one channel available to us. Second half of the decade was spent in California and VA mostly, and that was when I saw the ones I was familiar with.
Now how about doing this for the 70's, pretty please?
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Sins, starting Joan Collins . It’s really good and pretty lengthy. It’s on RUclips
Also playing against Sins was another great mini-series I watched with my grandma, and my mom, and that was Peter The Great.
Yes, I too loved Anne of Green Gables as well. Myself like many young women just loved Gil too. Played by the late Jonathan Crombie. So disappointed to find out after he died he was gay, but sadly many handsome actors are.