TV shows debuting back in 1984. 40 years ago. Somehow doesn't feel quite right.

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  • Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2024

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  • @Rainsnow05
    @Rainsnow05 Месяц назад +70

    Can't believe they're 40. The best shows from my childhood

    • @stephj9378
      @stephj9378 Месяц назад +4

      Night Court!

    • @masjuggalo
      @masjuggalo Месяц назад

      It's not surprising to me, but that's also because my childhood was started 41 years ago😂

    • @MrZilvis78
      @MrZilvis78 Месяц назад

      Yup I was 6 when these came.out I remember watching most if these with my mom or alone and most I have gone back and watched in the last 15 years though . 84 was a great TV year

  • @maryg9482
    @maryg9482 Месяц назад +77

    V. WAS. AWESOME! That miniseries freaked me out so hard.

    • @TenmaFN
      @TenmaFN Месяц назад +9

      They tried to renew it about 6-7 years ago but it flopped. The original with Robert Englund(Freddie) was best.

    • @maryg9482
      @maryg9482 Месяц назад +5

      @@TenmaFN yeah....some things need to be left alone. :)

    • @f.a.a.f.o....genx1977
      @f.a.a.f.o....genx1977 Месяц назад +4

      I've been watching it on prime.

    • @mattkmoch2895
      @mattkmoch2895 Месяц назад +6

      When she ate the mouse…..chills

    • @shasan73
      @shasan73 Месяц назад +6

      You know I missed the last episode cos my family and 1 went on a holiday… My 11 yr old self was moody and upset the whole time we were on the trip… 😂

  • @dunsparce4prez560
    @dunsparce4prez560 Месяц назад +34

    I loved Night Court so much

    • @kareyannefoster
      @kareyannefoster Месяц назад +2

      I do, too.The original Night Court is just amazing. The new Night Court....not so much....I really wanted to like it, but you can not bottle lightning in a jar twice.

    • @kareyannefoster
      @kareyannefoster Месяц назад +1

      I, too, loved Night Court. The new version, not so much, it doesn't have the same heart, and it tries too hard. The joke's fall flat. The original Night Court from the eighties is just something you can not copy or remake. It was perfect.

    • @danamoore1788
      @danamoore1788 Месяц назад

      I think the best part of Night Court was in the pilot.
      Harry: "I may have been the bottom of the list. But I was on the list."
      It says alot.

  • @PennySnapp-mm2zo
    @PennySnapp-mm2zo Месяц назад +146

    An all of these "old" shows are still 100 times better than the dumbshit on TV now!!!

    • @ashlavanadis
      @ashlavanadis Месяц назад +6

      So say we all

    • @cmsmith1973
      @cmsmith1973 Месяц назад +2

      I approve of this message

    • @misspiggy7336
      @misspiggy7336 Месяц назад +3

      @@PennySnapp-mm2zo Totally

    • @YvonneHoerde
      @YvonneHoerde Месяц назад +1

      Why do they not make such quality any more.....

    • @Mr-Mystery
      @Mr-Mystery Месяц назад +1

      The more you know.

  • @Lulu-bell1973
    @Lulu-bell1973 Месяц назад +25

    Hearing all those theme songs again make me happy and extremely sad at the same time. The best times ever!!

  • @Schmoodawg33
    @Schmoodawg33 Месяц назад +28

    I just turned 50. This is when tv was tv. Thanks for this i needed a pick me up today... 😅

  • @6thn5th
    @6thn5th Месяц назад +3

    I was 15 in 1980, and today I still think it was 20 yrs ago.
    .💙💙 🐐

    • @georgekidwell9409
      @georgekidwell9409 Месяц назад

      Damn, you were one of the original Gen X-ers.
      I was born around the middle of the Gen X era (1972).

  • @robviousobviously5757
    @robviousobviously5757 Месяц назад +15

    at a time when we couldn't talk on the phone AND watch tv because the phone chord didn't reach from the kitchen... now we watch ON our phone..

    • @janus4002
      @janus4002 Месяц назад +2

      What!? You didn't have that twisted up 20 foot cord on your phone?

  • @cynthia9557
    @cynthia9557 Месяц назад +8

    Loved loved loved Miami Vice. The music, the energy. The actors, the stories, the different cast members from Phil Collins to Glenn Frey and on snd on. Every Friday night, 9 p.m. belonged to Miami Vice. I was 14 when it started in 1984.

  • @coyoteartist
    @coyoteartist Месяц назад +19

    Thanks for adding The Cosby Show. Still a lot to love about that regardless of the world outside.

    • @Justin-fl1nv
      @Justin-fl1nv Месяц назад +7

      You know despite Bill Cosby turning out to be a complete monster when he was on that show he tried to do a lot for the black community. He pushed hard to employ black writers, directors, cameramen, and all sorts of other behind the scenes people. But all this was tarnished by his behavior.

    • @unacceptablesisterpeter3431
      @unacceptablesisterpeter3431 Месяц назад +7

      Besides there are plenty of monsters in Hollywood. They just stopped protecting him.

    • @Justin-fl1nv
      @Justin-fl1nv Месяц назад +3

      @unacceptablesisterpeter3431 yes.

    • @genxjono
      @genxjono  Месяц назад +10

      All the bad doesn't ever erase all the good. He proved himself to be a monster but Picture Pages, Fat Albert, his comedy, The Cosby Show ... I don't think we throw out the good because of the bad. Can fully acknowledge both.

    • @coyoteartist
      @coyoteartist Месяц назад +3

      @@genxjono Exactly.

  • @almanediligence9505
    @almanediligence9505 Месяц назад +18

    I'm crying for no reason 😭. It was all soooo good!
    Before the internet, Google, and apps, we had our imaginations.

  • @Leslie-w3c
    @Leslie-w3c Месяц назад +4

    I think the only actor still working is Don Johnson. Everyone else died or gave up. You just made me happy and made me feel very old

  • @smallhandsrobia
    @smallhandsrobia Месяц назад +2

    Again, thank you for reminding us of the wonderment of our happier times.

  • @A.Cas.
    @A.Cas. Месяц назад +3

    We lived our weekdays watching evening TV with the family. A way different time using the TV guide.

  • @kris1428
    @kris1428 Месяц назад +6

    Sure makes me feel old!!! Still watching the reruns!!

  • @jeannebotes9547
    @jeannebotes9547 Месяц назад +10

    Still feels like yesterday!

  • @Bobbyboom413
    @Bobbyboom413 Месяц назад +6

    I was seven years old in 1984. I remember ALL of these. 1984 had some of the best movies ever made as well.

  • @dawnganaha9792
    @dawnganaha9792 Месяц назад +13

    Such memories!!!

  • @johnbarton41
    @johnbarton41 Месяц назад +23

    As a kid I was completely obsessed with V it was and still is one of my favorite things from the 80's. Just one more reason I'm so glad I'm a Gen X. 75 baby in the house

    • @mollyrose295
      @mollyrose295 Месяц назад +1

      Same '75

    • @GenXfrom75
      @GenXfrom75 Месяц назад +1

      Same!!

    • @williamdesmarais4931
      @williamdesmarais4931 Месяц назад +2

      75. We got to experience the late 70s-90s as kids. From Saturday night fever to Alice in Chains 😂

    • @johnbarton41
      @johnbarton41 Месяц назад

      @@williamdesmarais4931 Funny you mentioned Alice they are in my opinion they were the top of the list for grunge. RIP Lane you are missed

  • @kellyread3322
    @kellyread3322 Месяц назад +18

    I used to watch these in my bedroom on my little black and white with rabbit ears. I felt blessed! 💕 Can't believe it's been 40 years! I graduated in '84.

    • @dabullzfan25
      @dabullzfan25 Месяц назад

      Rabbit ears? Suspect it a brand new set. (Wire coat hanger for the hand-me-down TV.)

    • @sswans9664
      @sswans9664 Месяц назад

      ​@@dabullzfan25They were rich 😂

  • @Sm19743
    @Sm19743 Месяц назад +1

    I still watch most of these shows today . They are better than whats out now.

  • @OG-GenX065
    @OG-GenX065 Месяц назад +10

    I loved Who’s the Boss. Tony Danna was easy on the eyes 😊

  • @RobertHaines-k1o
    @RobertHaines-k1o Месяц назад +6

    Still watch Miami vice love that show was 12 years old in 84 miss them days 😢

  • @almanediligence9505
    @almanediligence9505 Месяц назад +2

    We had the BEST THEME SONGS!
    I miss shows with great theme songs!

  • @KeweenawPatriot
    @KeweenawPatriot Месяц назад +14

    Best time to grow up. I watched all of these. Some of my favorite memories.

  • @rst.charles3908
    @rst.charles3908 Месяц назад +3

    V, Riptide, Airwolf, Blue Thunder ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @hollydatsopoulos7998
    @hollydatsopoulos7998 Месяц назад +1

    Man, now I really feel old! I remember watching most of those shows. I was 14.

  • @melaniejanssen6090
    @melaniejanssen6090 Месяц назад +1

    We didn't have all these shows in The Netherlands, but those we had, we awesome! ❤

    • @lindapostema8867
      @lindapostema8867 Месяц назад

      Exactly...we had V, miami vice, who's the boss, murder she wrote, the cosby show and airwolf 😊

  • @scottwatson1686
    @scottwatson1686 Месяц назад +1

    Damn! Now I feel old! I remember watching them with my parent's.

  • @RayAndrewsDev
    @RayAndrewsDev Месяц назад +3

    I'm 58, but watching this suddenly made me think I was forgetting to do my homework :)

  • @angelalinderman9985
    @angelalinderman9985 Месяц назад +1

    Great year for TV and also music 🎶 the best!!!! 😎 Awesome theme songs! " V " was pretty cool. I don't remember " Blue Thunder" I was 11/12 in 84' 👍🥰💜💕

  • @jamesmoconnell
    @jamesmoconnell Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for including "Riptide" along with "Airwolf" and "Blue Thunder". Everyone usually forgets *The Screaming Mimi* in their lists of 'cool TV Helicopters'.

  • @Maeglin7936
    @Maeglin7936 Месяц назад +4

    Wow, just wow! Seems like yesterday I was watching these shows. 😢😢😢

  • @shanascalamity
    @shanascalamity Месяц назад +2

    Miami Vice, Night Court, Airwolf, and Hunter! I never missed an episode. 😊

  • @Krisstofers
    @Krisstofers Месяц назад +2

    😳. That actually gave me traumatic feels😢... I didn't know weather to laugh from good memories or cry from painful memories!!!

  • @DanniB76
    @DanniB76 Месяц назад +1

    I cannot believe that was 40 years ago. The wonderful shows from my youth lol

  • @Duality_of_Man
    @Duality_of_Man Месяц назад +4

    Been watching Hunter with my mum on the daily, glad she raised me on the classics man haha

  • @ashlavanadis
    @ashlavanadis Месяц назад +2

    Riptide and Airwolf were amazing

  • @blueeyedgirlS
    @blueeyedgirlS Месяц назад +1

    I was in kindergarten in 1984. Some of those shows I don't remember, but I loved punky Brewster! I wanted to have her bedroom and cubby house so bad!

  • @knucklesupperstudios572
    @knucklesupperstudios572 Месяц назад +1

    Damn, that's a strong list! RIP JB Fletcher ❤

  • @misspiggy7336
    @misspiggy7336 Месяц назад +2

    I still remember the theme songs.

  • @jocelyndaley523
    @jocelyndaley523 Месяц назад +2

    Yup...I was 7! I turn 47 next month! Doesn't seem possible that was 40 years ago!!! 😮

    • @TheChoochooboy99
      @TheChoochooboy99 Месяц назад

      I just turned 47 yesterday and I still look back and ask myself where did the years go? There are times I kinda wish I was stuck in a loop where I relived the 80’s and 90’s over and over.

  • @taiperry3554
    @taiperry3554 19 дней назад

    Hearing the music from these shows did something to me .... Wow. I was so happy to watch most of these!

  • @lisabarnetson1362
    @lisabarnetson1362 Месяц назад +1

    Riptide! I'd forgotten.

    • @rickyallen7176
      @rickyallen7176 Месяц назад

      I forgot Blue Thunder was also a tv show. I remember the movie

  • @Briansgate
    @Briansgate Месяц назад +1

    AIRWOLF! that was my jam!

  • @davidbrianfaulkner
    @davidbrianfaulkner Месяц назад +3

    What a year!

  • @GenXfrom75
    @GenXfrom75 Месяц назад +1

    Man…. Great shows!

  • @homelandfreedom
    @homelandfreedom Месяц назад +1

    Saw them all

  • @mrsteve4313
    @mrsteve4313 Месяц назад +1

    I remember them all being born in 1972. Couldn't watch a couple of them at that time, only had CBS and PBS at that time, so watched the others later. Airwolf and Riptide were the best, and V.

  • @spicydragon3881
    @spicydragon3881 Месяц назад

    OMG thank you for this. I have a flood of memories from my childhood, those shows were so much better than whats on today.

  • @thatHaughtchic
    @thatHaughtchic Месяц назад +1

    Dang menopause, 😢that flashback got me cryin!!

    • @karinberonius8799
      @karinberonius8799 Месяц назад +1

      I know what you mean. It's ridiculous what makes you cry! Menopause. The gift that keeps on giving.😂

    • @thatHaughtchic
      @thatHaughtchic Месяц назад +1

      @@karinberonius8799 lol right!

    • @karinberonius8799
      @karinberonius8799 Месяц назад

      @@thatHaughtchic Yep.😄

  • @widewillie1250
    @widewillie1250 Месяц назад

    Wow! Those shows all debuted in 1984... that's crazy.
    '84 was also an amazing year for music -- one of the best in my lifetime.
    Woo hoo 1984!

  • @scottsmartky
    @scottsmartky Месяц назад +2

    Okay, who saw the Murder, She Wrote intro and heard Pat Summerall's voice? "Coming up 60 Minutes then Murder, She Wrote."

  • @kwamechisholm9749
    @kwamechisholm9749 Месяц назад +1

    I have made my daughter watch all of these with me lol

  • @lunsy9420
    @lunsy9420 Месяц назад +1

    That had to be the greatest year for debuts. Hunter was my favorite

  • @kawannahardy2924
    @kawannahardy2924 Месяц назад +1

    I Loved all but one of those shows, and Still watch quite a few of them 😅😁

  • @mattkmoch2895
    @mattkmoch2895 Месяц назад +1

    Stringfellow Hawke is still one of the best character names of all time.

  • @shannonedwards4471
    @shannonedwards4471 Месяц назад +1

    And i watched them all when i was a kid then... 7 years old. But some of them i watched as re- runs, too over the years. Im 47 now.... man time has flown by so quickly. My brother who is about 4 and a half years younger than me, still watches Highway to Heaven on his box set he has of that show. And funny thing is back then my parents had the exact same car that they drove in the opening lol

  • @newdawn7586
    @newdawn7586 Месяц назад

    Wow already. We had cool shows. I LOVED Tony Danza he was my tv crush.

  • @SamA-yf7up
    @SamA-yf7up Месяц назад

    I watched all these shows over and over

  • @Tabatha-x9o
    @Tabatha-x9o Месяц назад +1

    I remember them all great shows

  • @tinglelingaling6
    @tinglelingaling6 Месяц назад

    I was 17 in 84. Everyone I knew was glued to the TV for V.

  • @EricB-dm2xz
    @EricB-dm2xz Месяц назад

    Thanks for your time and videos Jon 🙂

  • @Goofyfan32
    @Goofyfan32 Месяц назад

    I was 14 in 84. I didn't watch much TV. But I did watch some of these shows

  • @Helen247
    @Helen247 Месяц назад +1

    I own the DVD for Blue Thunder the movie JAFO and the stopwatch... I still think of that each time I come down from a parking garage 😅
    Airwolf, 240 Robert, Blue Thunder, Magnum PI, A Team, Riptide, MASH, China Beach.... Even WKRP in Cincinnati had one 😅
    Did the studios get a mass discount on helicopters at the time??? 😂.
    Loved most of them, know all of them!

  • @georgiedagreek2734
    @georgiedagreek2734 Месяц назад +1

    All great shows that I remember vividly, but you forgot the best 1 😊😊😊😊😊
    Transform and role out ❤❤❤❤

  • @Memaw74
    @Memaw74 Месяц назад

    Wow!! Loved those shows when I was 10 years old.

  • @F5bearingguys
    @F5bearingguys Месяц назад +2

    I thought i was the only one that ever heard of riptide

    • @rickyallen7176
      @rickyallen7176 Месяц назад +1

      That's like nobody remembers Courtney Cox being on a show in 1985 called Misfits of Science or FOX had a show in 1987 called WereWolf that had Chuck Connors in it.

  • @tracyaprn1550
    @tracyaprn1550 Месяц назад

    Did not watch all of them but man such nostalgia. And some of those were fantastic!

  • @DrawMorQuest
    @DrawMorQuest Месяц назад

    Thanks.... Now I really feel old. I love just about all of these. I still remembered all of them just from the first couple of notes of the music. I refuse to admit that I'm older than these shows. You must have the date wrong 😂😂😂

  • @absolutmauser
    @absolutmauser Месяц назад

    Some absolute bangers in there. The Airwold theme is seared into my brain permanently.

  • @racheljohnson3375
    @racheljohnson3375 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for the great memories

  • @string_fellow_hawk
    @string_fellow_hawk Месяц назад +1

    My hip just popped out of socket .
    Thanks for reminding me I am older then V .
    Airwolf > Blue Thunder

    • @rickyallen7176
      @rickyallen7176 Месяц назад

      I remember Blue Thunder was a movie. I forgot about the TV show

  • @kjvonly2451
    @kjvonly2451 Месяц назад

    Thank you! Oh the memories!

  • @bigjimmy2997
    @bigjimmy2997 Месяц назад

    I was 14.......lol
    Great times and definitely better times.

  • @AMD9510
    @AMD9510 Месяц назад

    A good and sad year for me. I was 15 years old when my father passed away at 42.. if he lived he would've been 82 in December. The shows were my escape.❤❤❤❤❤

    • @dianeatpeace337
      @dianeatpeace337 Месяц назад

      So sorry you had to deal with that so young -- 42 is far too young to die.

  • @lyndaweich6340
    @lyndaweich6340 Месяц назад

    I was 10 and loved all of these

  • @peternegron9447
    @peternegron9447 Месяц назад

    Great shows all of them

  • @lanaparedes6460
    @lanaparedes6460 Месяц назад

    You know the old saying, you’re only as old as… a tv show makes you feel!!! I can’t believe I was only 10 when these came out! 😮

  • @metalprincess9442
    @metalprincess9442 Месяц назад

    OMG Hunter! I was just watching old episodes just a few days ago!

  • @nobodyspecial6981
    @nobodyspecial6981 Месяц назад

    Thanks. I didn't feel old enough already...lol😅😅😅

  • @ravennunamaker9084
    @ravennunamaker9084 Месяц назад

    I've probably seen all of these shows. My mom was obsessed with tv.

  • @doreenbierens
    @doreenbierens Месяц назад

    Don’t know all of them but the ones I know are still awesome

  • @kelykel
    @kelykel Месяц назад

    This reminds me how much I wasn’t home to watch the shows! Yearbook, swim team and working at the mall. GenX worked hard and played harder 😊 I wouldn’t trade any of it and got to catch up during summer reruns 😁

  • @mntaylor77
    @mntaylor77 Месяц назад

    Thanks. I'm 40 next week! But need a UK version of this 😊

  • @theknickerbocker5808
    @theknickerbocker5808 Месяц назад

    Miami Vice and Night Court, two of my favorites growing up.

  • @lynnfiegl4953
    @lynnfiegl4953 Месяц назад

    All great shows!!

  • @shanejsgable
    @shanejsgable Месяц назад

    '84 was an amazing year for TV!!

  • @opiegonebad58
    @opiegonebad58 Месяц назад

    Sigh, and to think I was 21 when they first came out. Ugh, I feel old!

  • @ecmc6197
    @ecmc6197 Месяц назад

    👈👈👈👈 This is what 40 years old looks like. 1984 baby🥳👏

  • @60sbaby608
    @60sbaby608 Месяц назад

    Still have a crush on Tony Danza and Woody Harrelson and probably a bunch more ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @carmenfowlkes2837
    @carmenfowlkes2837 Месяц назад

    OMG highway to heaven!!! I forgot about that one!!!❤❤

  • @tblewis419
    @tblewis419 Месяц назад

    That's crazy, some of the most iconic t.V shows all Debute in eighty four

  • @kevinn4038
    @kevinn4038 Месяц назад

    80s and 90s were the golden era of TV.

  • @FLEABONE
    @FLEABONE Месяц назад

    My eldest son was born on April 30th 1992. I was in labor from 4am to 6:33pm, I cried all day watching the Los Angeles riots and then watched the very last episode of the Cosby show.

  • @941books2
    @941books2 Месяц назад

    Amazing how those shows survived so long.

  • @FEARMENOT1975
    @FEARMENOT1975 Месяц назад

    Oh man.
    What a blast from the past

  • @michaelpanacci7843
    @michaelpanacci7843 Месяц назад

    I miss these shows

  • @realworkoutsforrealpeople5041
    @realworkoutsforrealpeople5041 Месяц назад

    That...hit me in the feels.

  • @gordielachance2659
    @gordielachance2659 Месяц назад +1

    Great times 👍