I remember explaining Knight Rider to a bunch of 19 years olds a few years back; they looked at me like I was from another planet. When I pulled up the intro on RUclips, they were in disbelief. 🤣
I miss how connected we all were before the fragmentation. GenXer's grew up on the same shows as boomers -Twilight Zone, Honeymooners, Beverly Hillbillies, etc in syndication. Without cable, internet and mobile gaming, we all watched the same things. Catchphrases from sitcoms or commercials would go viral organically and everyone knew the reference. Now, finding someone who's watching the same show as you is a needle in the haystack scenario. Everyone is an island in this ocean of options.
I've been thinking this for a while. In our house now, the family all separate for most viewing, only very occasionally coming together for a movie new release. Through the 70s, 80s, and into the 90s there was a sense of connectedness when each Sunday night the whole family had to basically agree on what movie to watch at 8:30pm. And it was that, a family decision, and we all watched whatever was chosen, rather than go off to our own little worlds. We watched a greater cross-section of genre types than most of this younger generation will never sample. And learned to enjoy and appreciate stuff that wasn't ordinarily our preference, and I think it made for more rounded adults as we grew.
I agree. There is too much choice and no centralized entertainment source anymore. It's weakened our social cohesion quite a bit. I'm with you, I REALLY miss the days of campfire television and the bonds it forged with family and fellow Americans.
One of my sons had an 8th birthday at Chuck E Cheese, with a presents table full of Transformers, GI Joes, and Legos. I guess Legos are still around...
Comparing network TV from 1982 to the streaming services of today is like comparing cutlery. We just wanted a good-quality knife and fork, but now we have a huge pile of plastic spoons. Yes, there's more choice, but no, we don't need it.
I have great news for you! Disney has decided to reduce its budget for new content but maintaining its commitment to (Woke) content that has no broad audience appeal. It sounds like this means they're going to be pumping out low-budget Woke shows (reality TV maybe?) to make sure Disney+ is still full of content. I wonder if Chato could spitball some titles for these shows?...
@@jimluebke3869 I'm not sure what woke reality TV would be like... "The World's Most Convincing Transexual"?, "The Bachelor: Lesbian Edition"? "Survivor (of being cancelled)"?
82 was a great year for movies too. Blade Runner, The Thing, First Blood, Poltergeist, ET, Gandhi, Wrath of Khan, Conan, 48 Hrs, Creepshow, Diner, Fast Times, Road Warrior
What’s really crazy is how many of these extremely well-regarded films were literally all in the theater at the exact same time and competing with each other. Also in that same time period The Secret of Nimh was released, and the Don Bluth films that competed with (and often out shown) Disney started being released.
@@jkincaid582 I remember going to the movies at least once a week all throughout the 80s. Sometimes seeing two in one day and was hardly ever disappointed. Sure I was in my formative years, but even today, pop culture has an 80s obsession with the constant remakes and reboots so I don't think it was only due to my age.
I’d watch Knight Rider long after it was off the air. Loved the hell out of it. It was so fascinating to see the filming locations in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, and Santa Clarita Valley in those times, since the areas had been built up so much since filming ended and the 90’s took off. I grew up in these areas. I remember that display at Universal Studios Hollywood.
I wish there was a streaming channel that is strictly failed shows or shows controversially cancelled after a season or 2. Then they would have a review show making fun of some of the worst of them. I love this stuff.
Ditto Square Pegs. A few years back it was released on DVD and Tracy Nelson and Claudette Wells did a little look-back. Fun to see they were still friends.
Family Ties, Newheart, Remington Steel AND Cheers all premiered in the same year. Talk about a golden age of TV. Not to mention Knight Rider. KR was a lunkhead show, but I loved it. I remember Matthew Star as well. I don't remember too much about any episodes though. Which is probably why it never lasted long. I was still sorely disappointed when it was cancelled. If only because there was so little sci-fi shows on at the time and I was always hungry to have another one. Voyagers was simply awesome. I was actually pissed when it disappeared. Like so many shows of the era it just stopped. No finale, no closure.
Wow, 1982 was quite a year for new shows. I remember almost all of them. Even the ones I didn't watch ring a bell of familiarity. A very good year for network TV.
Cheers fact: the first person Sam interacts with in the pilot was a very obvious kid trying to get served a beer, that same kid eleven years later was the last customer of the bar.
Thanks so much for these videos…. I was born in 1967 and in the 70s I was obsessed with television and I used to get so excited about all the new shows and especially Saturday morning cartoons.
I remember the show "Voyagers!" I was quite young at the time but, I remember really liking that show. What happened to the star, Jon-Erik Hexum was so tragic, I always thought this was what caused Voyagers! to be canceled, but I see now my memories were quite flawed. No matter what, it was a good show that might have become a long running classic had things been different. So sad.
What a year! Cheers, Newhart, Knight Rider, Family Ties, Remington Steele, St Elsewhere, and Silver Spoons. What an amazing year of TV! The thing that struck me the most is the amount star powered shows that failed. I can say that I watched Silver Spoons but don't remember anything about the show except Erin Gray. This has made me nostalgic. I have the sudden urge to buy some corduroy OP shorts, a shirt with a small alligator on it and pull my socks up to me knees. I had some Pac-Man sneakers to complete the look back in the day.
It's funny that you mentioned being influenced by Silver Spoons to wear clothes just like those of Ricky's because I was, too. He was my fashion role model during my mid-teens. 👍
I thought that was Rock Hudson! He was a such a handsome man! I was so busy during the early 1980s I watched nearly no TV. Our TV was a little black and white one that sat on an apple crate. I was so happy, though, my husband and I had bought a home, he had an excellent job, and I was staying home and keeping busy with all kinds of chores and project. Annoying mother came for a visit and stayed? Wow. That hits close to me. That was one of the things that kept me busy
I watched Remington Steele all the time. Mainly for hunky Pierce Brosnan and the amazing Doris Roberts. I had NO clue what the premise of the show was back then. LOL
Couple of legendary shows. I remember Hexum and his tragic death, but it was in shooting of another show, Cover Up. I think he was fooling around with a prop gun and shot himself not knowing it could still hurt him. One of my early childhood memories is watching that show, memorable for using "Holding out for a hero" from Bonnie Tyler in its opening.
I absolutely LOVED Tales of the Gold Monkey. I was so sad when it was not renewed. I would say this is ripe for a remake but would dread what today's Hollywood would make.
Glad to see Square Pegs mentioned. It started off a little slow but found it's way toward the end. Unfortunately, it was too late by then. CBS must have thought a lot of the show because MASH was it's lead-in (initially, anyway). The Bill Murray is a classic. I still have all the VHS tapes I made 40+ years ago.
The other momentous event in 1982 was my birth 🤪 A lot of iconic shows started that fall, some I was aware of, a couple I didn’t realize started that year. Silver Spoons is one of the first tv shows I remember watching as a small child. My siblings and I watched it pretty much every week, and continued doing so after it left NBC and ended up as syndicated tv for its final seasons. Knight Rider was one of those ips that influenced my early childhood, right alongside HeMan and Star Wars. One of my oldest memories was getting a rideable KIT for Christmas in 1984.
Ted Danson was so good on Cheers that I think he ended up in a strange sort of typecasting for a while. People wanted to see more Sam Malone and it took so long for him to get shows that showed his true skills. His stint on CSI probably helped tremendously but to me his finest work is “The Good Place”. An absolutely wonderful show.
I used to collect TV Guides for quite a while, and this issue stands out in my memory. I remembered the entire issue, and some of those photos brought back pleasant nostalgic memories. I still think TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY could use a reboot; it was a fun show with far more potential than was used. Roddy McDowell was superb, as he pretty much always was.
I remember so many of those shows and loved them (even some of the bad ones). Voyagers was my favorite, being young at the time, and it's a shame what happened to him.
You're up to a year that I remember well! A war that a now dear friend from Yorkshire was in as a 19 year old royal marine, two shows (Cheers and Newhart) that became appointment television for my dad and I, and a show (Knight Rider) that he never stopped reminding me was ridiculous as he never missed an episode with me. I usually end the comment with "Love these...", but this time... your delivery and light-hearted way of speaking makes me feel as though we're having a conversation, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. You have more followers than the CBC president because you're entertaining, and we genuinely like you. Can't wait for the next!
I was 10 in 1982. Plenty of good memories from that time. I remember watching the headline shows with my parents regularly. We would talk about these shows at school. That is all missing now.
Please keep doing these. For me, it's a great walk down memory lane. Some of the shows I remember, some I don't, but at the time I was pretty young, and could enjoy almost anything.
I remember 1982 as the year Cheers started. It was easily the best new sitcom at the time. I'm not sure why no one was watching it, but it became part of the power Thursday night 8-10 line up along with The Cosby Show, Family Ties and Night Court. I still like it and have the series on DVD to watch every few years.
I started watching "Cheers" a few seasons in. Recently I caught the first season on Netflix and was amazed at how good it is. This show really hit the ground running in terms of quality, if not ratings.
Cheers, now that was a show. I still remember Lilitth, every move, every hair of her raven locks. I used to watch St. Elsewhere with a certain disbelief at how good it was. Those were the days.
1982 was a great year for TV and movies . . . we finally had a new TV set (the old Magnavox caught fire one time too many and dad threw it out in the snow) . . . Santa brought us a VCR for Christmas (we were able to record TV shows AND rent movies from the only place around that rented them . . . the local real estate office). I had a VCR tape collection of 1982/83 shows (I think my folks still have that box . . . they also still have the VCR). Thanks for these Fall Previews.
Knight Rider was (and stills) very popular on TV in my country, Ecuador. Most of those series (Cheers, Remington) started here about 1984. You really now a lot about TV history! Family Ties was premiered here in... 1990!!!
Amazing era where you can have the birth of these great tv shows while a genuinely fantastic movie like Chariots of Fire gets Oscar recognition…. back when that meant something. I do my best to reconstruct a movie/tv show list for my kids… so many great shows, so little rewatch time. Thanks for these!!
Oh my gosh, I would have been 9... tv was my life! I grew up on several of these... family ties and Ripley's were favorites. My husband and I decided to watch Cheers all the way through this year (because there is not really anything on lately we like) and have LOVED it!
It's interesting that you said this Fall Preview was the best since i remember watching a lot of these shows and loving a good chunk of them. Maybe because my tastes as a kid were starting to mature, i was paying more attention to the adult themes more and more. I watched St. Elsewhere from the beginning and remember being shocked when the word "bitch" was said on network tv or when Howie Mandel's character had surgery on his own Howie. He played a prank on another patient by making it seem like his Howie exploded. Good times and a great year for tv. TV had great social currency for the time as shows like Silver Spoons and Knight Rider were talked about on the playground.
27:34 At the movies too: First Blood, ET, Star Trek II, Gandhi, Elephant Man, Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, The Thing, Dark Crystal, Tootsie... Why can't we have box office like this any more? Never mind, I know why 😖
Because our corporate overlords in film and TV industries are obsessed with strip mining they past and making it Reflect the World We Live In Today due in turn to creative bankruptcy on their part.
Imagine living in a time when you can watch brand new episodes of Cheers, Family Ties, Newhart, Remington Steele and Knight Rider. Even those Indiana Jones clones and weird time traveller show sound fun.
Strangely enough, as a young student of history, Voyagers was my favorite show of the bunch. And I hated myself for it, because the history was pathetically unreal and the melodrama hard to swallow. Still, it always managed to fire up my imagination. I never seriously wanted to go into acting, but after every episode I would daydream all the next day about stealing Meeno Peluce's job.
I can't help but wonder when Sledge Hammer came out, the series that poked fun at the raging cop Harry Callahan. I loved that show. =) Also, Knight Rider! Ja vol, Herr Chato!
Sledge Hammer was awesome! I watched that as a kid, and, as kids do, I filched a line from that show. When someone bumped into him in a bar, Hammer says, "Watch your sea legs, mutant!" So funny.
I miss Bruce Boxleitner, he was great in "Babylon 5". Also, this was before Robert Urich starred in the longer-running "Spenser for Hire", which is a pretty dang nice little crime drama co-starring the almighty Avery Brooks as Hawk. Also, is it fair to say that Lee Horsley was the backup Tom Selleck? I still can't believe that "Newhart" and "St. Elsewhere" came out in the same year as "Knight Rider". I'm also happy to report that Louis Gossett Jr. is still alive. And, as the sad example of Jon-Erik Hexum shows, we must never treat guns like toys. Thank you for this firehose of nostalgia directly into my brain. Also, the "One Punch Man" T-shirt is nice.
Splendid timing and excellent reviews, I'd been missing your TV Guide time travels. Thank you for creating, I enjoy the trips down memory lane having graduated HS in 85.
The Trans Am comment yielded a loud and sudden laugh of complete agreement into the darkness of the winter night. Thanks. St. Elsewhere was incredibly good. Great theme courtesy of Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour.
4:00 thanks for going a little more in-depth than usual on Cheers. I don't think I've ever seen better TV than the first three or four seasons of Cheers. Of special note are the ones with the Christopher Lloyd and Harry Anderson guest starring arcs. And I'll throw in that, for me at least, "Pick a Con, Any Con" might have the most satisfying ending of any mid season 30-minute TV episode I've ever seen. One of the cool little pop culture quirks of growing up in the 80s was watching Harry Anderson play a judge on Wednesday nights and a two-bit con man on Thursday nights.
I also loved cheers for its clever writing. Did you watch Frasier? I think it did really well keeping the banter and tone of cheers. I think it took a season or 2 to really break out and feel as fun as cheers did. Perhaps not ironically, some of the cheers character cameos were fantastic.
@@MurderMostFowl yes, I enjoyed that, too, but I can't say it ever blew me away the way some of the early episodes of Cheers did. Frasier worked *much* better than I originally thought it would, though. He was a bit character on Cheers. I didn't expect him to be able to carry a whole show. Which he did, without question.
Only watched Cheers, Knight Rider. and Square Pegs. Loved Knight Rider, always viewed it as a live action Speed Racer(childhood favorite). Square Pegs was very relatable to me(I was in high school) - I must investigate bad behavior you mention. I never missed Cheers, it may have been the best show made in the 80s. I love your reviews and I also am a fan of The Prisoner. I suspect it would not take much prodding to get you to do a tribute to that show - - so I am prodding...
Even though I didn't watch but a few of them, that's an astonishingly high number of shows that I remember and remember because they were around for a while. I really enjoyed Remington Steele; it was, to the best of my knowledge, Pierce Brosnan's first significant role.
This was the beginning of that period of television history when the Thursday night lineup from 8:00 to 11:00 became must-see TV. For a while it seemed like NBC could do no wrong. When Cheers ended I believe that it was replaced by Seinfeld. St. Elsewhere is also one of my all-time favourite shows and you forgot to mention that the voice of Kitt was William Daniels (Dr. Mark Craig). Do you remember him in another short lived show from 1967 called “Captain Nice”? Calling it a “three network universe” is going to get you in trouble with your former CBC overlords.
I saw William Daniels in 1776 where he played John Adams. I also saw him in A Little Night Music during the last week of its Broadway run. Great actor.
Newhart holds up really good, IMO. I caught quite a few episodes over it's long run, but we recently re-watched the whole thing. Bob's gentle humour where he basically reacts to the eccentrics around him never gets old for me. The best early changes were adding Julia Duffy and Peter Scolari that became the YUPPY trope couple. Highly recommended.
It would be a reversal. Alexandra "Alex" Keaton is a young woke girl living with her mother (since Michael J Fox is ill) who clashes with her Reagan-loving Parents.
I got me a large piece of cheese cake and a nice cup of tea - perfect to watch Chato's beautiful TV Guide series. Always a special occasion, when a new episode pops up. 1982 really was a very interesting year. I need to watch "Voyagers!" and "Tales of the Gold Monkey". Also it's finally time to delve into some of the comedy classics I haven't watched yet: "Cheers" and "Newhart", here I come! Thank you & greetings from Germany! :)
The only thing I remember about Silver spoons is that the kid has an arcade in his basement that would have been like $100k and that the dad had a weird smile lol
Did anyone else notice the New Odd Couple's comment from TV Guide? "What's new? Well, they're black. Someone in Hollywood is always thinking." Is that offensive to anyone? Anyone? I doubt it. But it does cut right to the chase. Remember when we used to do? Just call something what it was? Doesn't have to be bad. But we should recognize and be allowed to state something so clearly obvious without being attacked. Remington Steele! I've legitimately been waiting for this issue!!!! What a great Magnum PI ripoff that managed to change it up and make it work.
What a year for sci-fi and fantasy. I loved so many of those shows. Is till remember an episode of Golden Monkey with an Egyptian tomb that scared the pants off me.
Love this series where you journey back to the early days of 80s TV series and you're shouting out to my homeland Singapore. heheh.. You bring back so much TV memories for me as we are about the same age range though maybe younger as I am 60 this year. CHEERS; Where everyone knows your name.......
I just woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette...and then woke up again for real...Thanks for that and for the insightful reminiscing. It only gets better...sort of.
I loved Ripley's Believe It Or Not when I a kid. And I REALLY loved it when Holly was added to the show. 😍 I had to watch it in my mom's room because a lot of stuff they covered wigged my mom out. Tales of the Gold Monkey had a awesome first episode ( from what I can remember ) but I guess they spent all their money and effort on that because the rest of the season was kinda meh.
Have to give a special mention to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not as well. Jack Palance was absolutely perfect as the main host. He was able to take mildly interesting factoids and make them fascinating and intriguing stories. Believe it… [deep breath]
Apparently the entire theme song to "Square Pegs" still occupies space in my brain, a fact which I've been oblivious to for 4 decades until the mere mention of the title made it burst through the walls of memory like Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
Great Video! Cheers was the only show that consistently made me laugh out loud. Great year for TV. Family Ties, Knight Matt Houston Rider Newhart Remington Steele St Elsewhere Tales of the Gold Monkey Voyagers -- a great year!!! Loved it!
Omg the obligatory "repeated phrase in varying shades" backdrop is giving me early childhood flashbacks 🤣 I'm sure this is fun for all ages of people in your audience... but I feel like people my age are just getting a bit extra out of it. Bravo, sir. Love it 😆
To think that the family ties dad becomes Bert in Tremors. Lol
I remember explaining Knight Rider to a bunch of 19 years olds a few years back; they looked at me like I was from another planet.
When I pulled up the intro on RUclips, they were in disbelief. 🤣
I miss how connected we all were before the fragmentation. GenXer's grew up on the same shows as boomers -Twilight Zone, Honeymooners, Beverly Hillbillies, etc in syndication. Without cable, internet and mobile gaming, we all watched the same things. Catchphrases from sitcoms or commercials would go viral organically and everyone knew the reference. Now, finding someone who's watching the same show as you is a needle in the haystack scenario. Everyone is an island in this ocean of options.
I've been thinking this for a while. In our house now, the family all separate for most viewing, only very occasionally coming together for a movie new release. Through the 70s, 80s, and into the 90s there was a sense of connectedness when each Sunday night the whole family had to basically agree on what movie to watch at 8:30pm. And it was that, a family decision, and we all watched whatever was chosen, rather than go off to our own little worlds. We watched a greater cross-section of genre types than most of this younger generation will never sample. And learned to enjoy and appreciate stuff that wasn't ordinarily our preference, and I think it made for more rounded adults as we grew.
I agree. There is too much choice and no centralized entertainment source anymore. It's weakened our social cohesion quite a bit. I'm with you, I REALLY miss the days of campfire television and the bonds it forged with family and fellow Americans.
One of my sons had an 8th birthday at Chuck E Cheese, with a presents table full of Transformers, GI Joes, and Legos.
I guess Legos are still around...
@Jim Luebke They others are still around too. Transformers is a huge ip.
Preach on! Also we are drowning in content which means the talent pool as far as writing is very diluted.
Comparing network TV from 1982 to the streaming services of today is like comparing cutlery. We just wanted a good-quality knife and fork, but now we have a huge pile of plastic spoons. Yes, there's more choice, but no, we don't need it.
Sporks
The streaming services have excellent shows now. Much better than old network tv. Todays network tv though? I can’t even name one current show.
I have great news for you! Disney has decided to reduce its budget for new content but maintaining its commitment to (Woke) content that has no broad audience appeal.
It sounds like this means they're going to be pumping out low-budget Woke shows (reality TV maybe?) to make sure Disney+ is still full of content. I wonder if Chato could spitball some titles for these shows?...
@@jimluebke3869 I'm not sure what woke reality TV would be like... "The World's Most Convincing Transexual"?, "The Bachelor: Lesbian Edition"? "Survivor (of being cancelled)"?
@@ValentineToybox Sporks to you, too.
82 was a great year for movies too. Blade Runner, The Thing, First Blood, Poltergeist, ET, Gandhi, Wrath of Khan, Conan, 48 Hrs, Creepshow, Diner, Fast Times, Road Warrior
Did you notice how many of the TV actors of that year were in Wrath of Khan?
What’s really crazy is how many of these extremely well-regarded films were literally all in the theater at the exact same time and competing with each other. Also in that same time period The Secret of Nimh was released, and the Don Bluth films that competed with (and often out shown) Disney started being released.
@@jkincaid582 I remember going to the movies at least once a week all throughout the 80s. Sometimes seeing two in one day and was hardly ever disappointed. Sure I was in my formative years, but even today, pop culture has an 80s obsession with the constant remakes and reboots so I don't think it was only due to my age.
@@MrM-u3h As my mom always says, a few movie tickets were cheaper than an air conditioner :)
It was also the year of the Jane Fonda workout series and the book North and South which became a TV mini series.
Had Cheers, Family Ties and Newhart, one year. What a year.
This was practically one winner after another. What a season!
I’d watch Knight Rider long after it was off the air. Loved the hell out of it. It was so fascinating to see the filming locations in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, and Santa Clarita Valley in those times, since the areas had been built up so much since filming ended and the 90’s took off. I grew up in these areas. I remember that display at Universal Studios Hollywood.
I wish there was a streaming channel that is strictly failed shows or shows controversially cancelled after a season or 2. Then they would have a review show making fun of some of the worst of them. I love this stuff.
There are RUclips channels that do this right now. Some of the shows are good in comparison to the shows now. lol
1982 was such an amazing year. The entire decade was awesome
I was 11 that year - so much of that season shaped my memories of great times as a kid.
I was born in the fall of 1982. This is so fascinating to me.
Ah the opening narration for Knight Rider: "Enter the Shadowy world of a Man who does not exist". Chills, every time.
Absolutely LOVED Square Pegs and Voyagers.
Ditto Square Pegs. A few years back it was released on DVD and Tracy Nelson and Claudette Wells did a little look-back. Fun to see they were still friends.
Family Ties, Newheart, Remington Steel AND Cheers all premiered in the same year. Talk about a golden age of TV.
Not to mention Knight Rider. KR was a lunkhead show, but I loved it.
I remember Matthew Star as well. I don't remember too much about any episodes though. Which is probably why it never lasted long. I was still sorely disappointed when it was cancelled. If only because there was so little sci-fi shows on at the time and I was always hungry to have another one.
Voyagers was simply awesome. I was actually pissed when it disappeared. Like so many shows of the era it just stopped. No finale, no closure.
I graduated medical school and started my internship in 1982 working up to 90 hours a week.. St. Elsewhere really spoke to me.
Wow, 1982 was quite a year for new shows. I remember almost all of them. Even the ones I didn't watch ring a bell of familiarity. A very good year for network TV.
Fond memories of Tales of the Gold Monkey. 1982 really was a great year for TV.
'82 was just a great year in general. God, I miss the 80's. 🌩
Cheers fact: the first person Sam interacts with in the pilot was a very obvious kid trying to get served a beer, that same kid eleven years later was the last customer of the bar.
I did not know that.
Thanks so much for these videos…. I was born in 1967 and in the 70s I was obsessed with television and I used to get so excited about all the new shows and especially Saturday morning cartoons.
I was 8 years old in 1982, and I can assure you that "Knight Rider" was the GREATEST SHOW EVER TO APPEAR ON TELEVISION!!! (to me, anyway)
I was right around the same age. Trust me, you were far from alone in thinking that. 😎
I remember the show "Voyagers!" I was quite young at the time but, I remember really liking that show. What happened to the star, Jon-Erik Hexum was so tragic, I always thought this was what caused Voyagers! to be canceled, but I see now my memories were quite flawed. No matter what, it was a good show that might have become a long running classic had things been different. So sad.
The Sandbaggers! The Sandbaggers! Someone mentioned the Sandbaggers! God bless you, Chato!
Me and my siblings are all in our 60s and like my oldest brother says, we grew up in a magical time
"...because the Firebird was reliable." LOL Preach it.
Some creative juices flowing at this time between music, movies, and television. 82 was a good year for entertainment. 84 too!
Hard to believe Cheers rated so low in their first season.
You have to admit, Jack Palance's delivery of the line "Believe it..or not" is classic.
Makes you wonder how many early cancellations may have found an audience if given time
Same thing happened to MASH.
What a year! Cheers, Newhart, Knight Rider, Family Ties, Remington Steele, St Elsewhere, and Silver Spoons. What an amazing year of TV! The thing that struck me the most is the amount star powered shows that failed. I can say that I watched Silver Spoons but don't remember anything about the show except Erin Gray. This has made me nostalgic. I have the sudden urge to buy some corduroy OP shorts, a shirt with a small alligator on it and pull my socks up to me knees. I had some Pac-Man sneakers to complete the look back in the day.
Erin Grey 🥰. As Twicki would say, Hubba, hubba.
I did not like silverspoons but my tween self watched a few episodes just for Erin Grey.
It's funny that you mentioned being influenced by Silver Spoons to wear clothes just like those of Ricky's because I was, too. He was my fashion role model during my mid-teens. 👍
I thought that was Rock Hudson! He was a such a handsome man!
I was so busy during the early 1980s I watched nearly no TV. Our TV was a little black and white one that sat on an apple crate. I was so happy, though, my husband and I had bought a home, he had an excellent job, and I was staying home and keeping busy with all kinds of chores and project.
Annoying mother came for a visit and stayed? Wow. That hits close to me. That was one of the things that kept me busy
I watched Remington Steele all the time. Mainly for hunky Pierce Brosnan and the amazing Doris Roberts. I had NO clue what the premise of the show was back then. LOL
Couple of legendary shows. I remember Hexum and his tragic death, but it was in shooting of another show, Cover Up. I think he was fooling around with a prop gun and shot himself not knowing it could still hurt him. One of my early childhood memories is watching that show, memorable for using "Holding out for a hero" from Bonnie Tyler in its opening.
Oh, nice going Chato! Now I'm going to have the 'Knight Rider' theme stuck in my head all day.
I absolutely LOVED Tales of the Gold Monkey. I was so sad when it was not renewed.
I would say this is ripe for a remake but would dread what today's Hollywood would make.
Good show!
Glad to see Square Pegs mentioned. It started off a little slow but found it's way toward the end. Unfortunately, it was too late by then. CBS must have thought a lot of the show because MASH was it's lead-in (initially, anyway). The Bill Murray is a classic. I still have all the VHS tapes I made 40+ years ago.
I never watched much TV, but the nostalgia is strong in this one.
I love these. Lots of childhood memories. Please continue the series.
I remember 1982. That was a great year.
The other momentous event in 1982 was my birth 🤪
A lot of iconic shows started that fall, some I was aware of, a couple I didn’t realize started that year. Silver Spoons is one of the first tv shows I remember watching as a small child. My siblings and I watched it pretty much every week, and continued doing so after it left NBC and ended up as syndicated tv for its final seasons. Knight Rider was one of those ips that influenced my early childhood, right alongside HeMan and Star Wars. One of my oldest memories was getting a rideable KIT for Christmas in 1984.
I was born in 1982 as well. I was born the day Remington Steele premiered. 😊
Ted Danson was so good on Cheers that I think he ended up in a strange sort of typecasting for a while. People wanted to see more Sam Malone and it took so long for him to get shows that showed his true skills. His stint on CSI probably helped tremendously but to me his finest work is “The Good Place”. An absolutely wonderful show.
I think Becker was decent
His best work was that show he did with Jason Schwartzman. I can't remember the title...
I used to collect TV Guides for quite a while, and this issue stands out in my memory. I remembered the entire issue, and some of those photos brought back pleasant nostalgic memories. I still think TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY could use a reboot; it was a fun show with far more potential than was used. Roddy McDowell was superb, as he pretty much always was.
I remember so many of those shows and loved them (even some of the bad ones). Voyagers was my favorite, being young at the time, and it's a shame what happened to him.
Voyagers was my first encounter with absolute rage at my favorite show getting canceled.
When a kid from Quebec that grew up way after these were released knows a bunch of them, you know it was a good year.
You're up to a year that I remember well! A war that a now dear friend from Yorkshire was in as a 19 year old royal marine, two shows (Cheers and Newhart) that became appointment television for my dad and I, and a show (Knight Rider) that he never stopped reminding me was ridiculous as he never missed an episode with me.
I usually end the comment with "Love these...", but this time... your delivery and light-hearted way of speaking makes me feel as though we're having a conversation, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
You have more followers than the CBC president because you're entertaining, and we genuinely like you. Can't wait for the next!
I was 10 in 1982. Plenty of good memories from that time. I remember watching the headline shows with my parents regularly. We would talk about these shows at school. That is all missing now.
Please keep doing these. For me, it's a great walk down memory lane. Some of the shows I remember, some I don't, but at the time I was pretty young, and could enjoy almost anything.
I remember that Cheers episode!
I remember 1982 as the year Cheers started. It was easily the best new sitcom at the time. I'm not sure why no one was watching it, but it became part of the power Thursday night 8-10 line up along with The Cosby Show, Family Ties and Night Court. I still like it and have the series on DVD to watch every few years.
I started watching "Cheers" a few seasons in. Recently I caught the first season on Netflix and was amazed at how good it is. This show really hit the ground running in terms of quality, if not ratings.
1982.... the year the greatest movie ever made came out. John Carpenter's THE THING.
Cheers, now that was a show. I still remember Lilitth, every move, every hair of her raven locks. I used to watch St. Elsewhere with a certain disbelief at how good it was. Those were the days.
1982 was a great year for TV and movies . . . we finally had a new TV set (the old Magnavox caught fire one time too many and dad threw it out in the snow) . . . Santa brought us a VCR for Christmas (we were able to record TV shows AND rent movies from the only place around that rented them . . . the local real estate office). I had a VCR tape collection of 1982/83 shows (I think my folks still have that box . . . they also still have the VCR). Thanks for these Fall Previews.
Knight Rider was (and stills) very popular on TV in my country, Ecuador. Most of those series (Cheers, Remington) started here about 1984. You really now a lot about TV history! Family Ties was premiered here in... 1990!!!
Amazing era where you can have the birth of these great tv shows while a genuinely fantastic movie like Chariots of Fire gets Oscar recognition…. back when that meant something. I do my best to reconstruct a movie/tv show list for my kids… so many great shows, so little rewatch time. Thanks for these!!
Oh my gosh, I would have been 9... tv was my life! I grew up on several of these... family ties and Ripley's were favorites. My husband and I decided to watch Cheers all the way through this year (because there is not really anything on lately we like) and have LOVED it!
Looking forward to 83 & 84 now. Automan, Manimal etc. Keep 'em coming Mr Chato 👍😁
Manimal! Followed by the Master. What a great lineup for a young kid. Jaguars and Ninjas!
Oh God... Melody Anderson was my first crush 🥰
I'm always amazed at how many of these shows I had totally forgotten - I must have watched at least some of the ones that failed.
I love these TV guide preview videos. Of all these shows, Newhart is my stand out show. It was very well written and cast. Thank you Chato!
Newhart was a gem! "Here's my other brother Darryl!"
It's interesting that you said this Fall Preview was the best since i remember watching a lot of these shows and loving a good chunk of them. Maybe because my tastes as a kid were starting to mature, i was paying more attention to the adult themes more and more. I watched St. Elsewhere from the beginning and remember being shocked when the word "bitch" was said on network tv or when Howie Mandel's character had surgery on his own Howie. He played a prank on another patient by making it seem like his Howie exploded. Good times and a great year for tv. TV had great social currency for the time as shows like Silver Spoons and Knight Rider were talked about on the playground.
27:34 At the movies too: First Blood, ET, Star Trek II, Gandhi, Elephant Man, Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, The Thing, Dark Crystal, Tootsie... Why can't we have box office like this any more? Never mind, I know why 😖
I wrote the same thing without seeing your comment. I included Road Warrior since it came out Dec 24, 81. Close enough!
we just can't have nice things!
gas up and arm the tanks and bombers we're goin ta war boyz!!! gotta fight for your right to party right?? ugh...
Because our corporate overlords in film and TV industries are obsessed with strip mining they past and making it Reflect the World We Live In Today due in turn to creative bankruptcy on their part.
Imagine living in a time when you can watch brand new episodes of Cheers, Family Ties, Newhart, Remington Steele and Knight Rider. Even those Indiana Jones clones and weird time traveller show sound fun.
Strangely enough, as a young student of history, Voyagers was my favorite show of the bunch. And I hated myself for it, because the history was pathetically unreal and the melodrama hard to swallow. Still, it always managed to fire up my imagination. I never seriously wanted to go into acting, but after every episode I would daydream all the next day about stealing Meeno Peluce's job.
Tales of the Gold Monkey was fun, I still remember most of the episodes
I can't help but wonder when Sledge Hammer came out, the series that poked fun at the raging cop Harry Callahan. I loved that show. =) Also, Knight Rider! Ja vol, Herr Chato!
Sledge Hammer was awesome! I watched that as a kid, and, as kids do, I filched a line from that show. When someone bumped into him in a bar, Hammer says, "Watch your sea legs, mutant!" So funny.
It's a coming. 1986.
I miss Bruce Boxleitner, he was great in "Babylon 5". Also, this was before Robert Urich starred in the longer-running "Spenser for Hire", which is a pretty dang nice little crime drama co-starring the almighty Avery Brooks as Hawk. Also, is it fair to say that Lee Horsley was the backup Tom Selleck? I still can't believe that "Newhart" and "St. Elsewhere" came out in the same year as "Knight Rider". I'm also happy to report that Louis Gossett Jr. is still alive. And, as the sad example of Jon-Erik Hexum shows, we must never treat guns like toys.
Thank you for this firehose of nostalgia directly into my brain.
Also, the "One Punch Man" T-shirt is nice.
Splendid timing and excellent reviews, I'd been missing your TV Guide time travels. Thank you for creating, I enjoy the trips down memory lane having graduated HS in 85.
Ah St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues. TV at it's finest.
The Trans Am comment yielded a loud and sudden laugh of complete agreement into the darkness of the winter night. Thanks.
St. Elsewhere was incredibly good. Great theme courtesy of Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour.
4:00 thanks for going a little more in-depth than usual on Cheers. I don't think I've ever seen better TV than the first three or four seasons of Cheers. Of special note are the ones with the Christopher Lloyd and Harry Anderson guest starring arcs. And I'll throw in that, for me at least, "Pick a Con, Any Con" might have the most satisfying ending of any mid season 30-minute TV episode I've ever seen.
One of the cool little pop culture quirks of growing up in the 80s was watching Harry Anderson play a judge on Wednesday nights and a two-bit con man on Thursday nights.
I also loved cheers for its clever writing. Did you watch Frasier? I think it did really well keeping the banter and tone of cheers. I think it took a season or 2 to really break out and feel as fun as cheers did. Perhaps not ironically, some of the cheers character cameos were fantastic.
@@MurderMostFowl yes, I enjoyed that, too, but I can't say it ever blew me away the way some of the early episodes of Cheers did. Frasier worked *much* better than I originally thought it would, though. He was a bit character on Cheers. I didn't expect him to be able to carry a whole show. Which he did, without question.
Only watched Cheers, Knight Rider. and Square Pegs. Loved Knight Rider, always viewed it as a live action Speed Racer(childhood favorite). Square Pegs was very relatable to me(I was in high school) - I must investigate bad behavior you mention. I never missed Cheers, it may have been the best show made in the 80s. I love your reviews and I also am a fan of The Prisoner. I suspect it would not take much prodding to get you to do a tribute to that show - - so I am prodding...
I was 2 when these premiered. But still have fond memories of watching Cheers and Family Ties later seasons in prime time and reruns years later.
What a year!!!
That was a very good year!
Even though I didn't watch but a few of them, that's an astonishingly high number of shows that I remember and remember because they were around for a while. I really enjoyed Remington Steele; it was, to the best of my knowledge, Pierce Brosnan's first significant role.
This was the beginning of that period of television history when the Thursday night lineup from 8:00 to 11:00 became must-see TV. For a while it seemed like NBC could do no wrong. When Cheers ended I believe that it was replaced by Seinfeld. St. Elsewhere is also one of my all-time favourite shows and you forgot to mention that the voice of Kitt was William Daniels (Dr. Mark Craig). Do you remember him in another short lived show from 1967 called “Captain Nice”? Calling it a “three network universe” is going to get you in trouble with your former CBC overlords.
I saw William Daniels in 1776 where he played John Adams.
I also saw him in A Little Night Music during the last week of its Broadway run. Great actor.
Also after "Cheers" came "Fraiser" which was a darned good show in its own right.
@@toweypat One of my fave’s as well. I also rather liked Wings.
Missed this before mentioning Daniels myself.
Newhart holds up really good, IMO. I caught quite a few episodes over it's long run, but we recently re-watched the whole thing. Bob's gentle humour where he basically reacts to the eccentrics around him never gets old for me. The best early changes were adding Julia Duffy and Peter Scolari that became the YUPPY trope couple. Highly recommended.
Newhart, Cheers and St. Elsewhere were great shows. I watched a lot of the other shows and they just didn't click with me.
It holds up. And the final episode was the greatest ending of all time. It actually made the entire series better.
Square Pegs was shot at my High School, which was abandoned by this time.
100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run!
One punch man work out
Damn! Missed it by 1 sit up, but my hair did fall out. Oh well, I'll just start over.
I greatly enjoyed this episode. Thank you so much and I had a soft spot for The Powers of Matthew Star but I was only 6 at the time
That was fun, I didn't see most of those but some, like Cheers, are iconic. Love these excursions into the past like this.
I'm terrified at the prospect that Family Ties will be rebooted sometime soon.
It would be a reversal. Alexandra "Alex" Keaton is a young woke girl living with her mother (since Michael J Fox is ill) who clashes with her Reagan-loving Parents.
@@Plisken65 lol, yes.
I got me a large piece of cheese cake and a nice cup of tea - perfect to watch Chato's beautiful TV Guide series. Always a special occasion, when a new episode pops up. 1982 really was a very interesting year. I need to watch "Voyagers!" and "Tales of the Gold Monkey". Also it's finally time to delve into some of the comedy classics I haven't watched yet: "Cheers" and "Newhart", here I come!
Thank you & greetings from Germany! :)
I was ideally wondering if Bruce Boxleitner would get a mention with Scarecrow and Mrs King, and Boom!!! there he is. First Show.😂
The only thing I remember about Silver spoons is that the kid has an arcade in his basement that would have been like $100k and that the dad had a weird smile lol
So many good shows. I loved Cheers and St Elsewhere.
This brings back many memories of enjoying these great shows. Well done Chato
Did anyone else notice the New Odd Couple's comment from TV Guide? "What's new? Well, they're black. Someone in Hollywood is always thinking."
Is that offensive to anyone? Anyone? I doubt it. But it does cut right to the chase. Remember when we used to do? Just call something what it was? Doesn't have to be bad. But we should recognize and be allowed to state something so clearly obvious without being attacked.
Remington Steele! I've legitimately been waiting for this issue!!!! What a great Magnum PI ripoff that managed to change it up and make it work.
The complete Cheers series is coming out on Blu-ray April 25th this year.
What a year for sci-fi and fantasy. I loved so many of those shows. Is till remember an episode of Golden Monkey with an Egyptian tomb that scared the pants off me.
The GREATEST car-related diss of all time:
"You could tell the show was fake, because the [Pontiac] Firebird was....reliable."
-Chato
Ah, the year I was born. 😘👌🏻
A flawless year.
Love this series where you journey back to the early days of 80s TV series and you're shouting out to my homeland Singapore. heheh.. You bring back so much TV memories for me as we are about the same age range though maybe younger as I am 60 this year.
CHEERS; Where everyone knows your name.......
Chato...Love these! I grew up in the 80s, so these are nostalgic time trips for me! Maybe you could do some from the 1950s every once in awhile.
If I can find some.
I just woke up next to Suzanne Pleshette...and then woke up again for real...Thanks for that and for the insightful reminiscing. It only gets better...sort of.
I loved Ripley's Believe It Or Not when I a kid. And I REALLY loved it when Holly was added to the show. 😍 I had to watch it in my mom's room because a lot of stuff they covered wigged my mom out. Tales of the Gold Monkey had a awesome first episode ( from what I can remember ) but I guess they spent all their money and effort on that because the rest of the season was kinda meh.
Loved Ripleys also! I work at a school library and kids still love the books they make full of weird and wacky (and sometimes really gross) stuff!
Have to give a special mention to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not as well. Jack Palance was absolutely perfect as the main host. He was able to take mildly interesting factoids and make them fascinating and intriguing stories. Believe it… [deep breath]
'His horrible toupee'.... LOL!!!
Apparently the entire theme song to "Square Pegs" still occupies space in my brain, a fact which I've been oblivious to for 4 decades until the mere mention of the title made it burst through the walls of memory like Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
That Newhart finale was truly a classic!!!!
It was all a dream - lol excellent
@@lunarmodule6419 YEESS, Newhart's series finale rocked 👍
Ah. Knight Rider. My favorite TV series from the 1980s.🥰
I love these.
A Firebird shot, nice.
Sandbaggers mention, outstanding!!!
Newhart was my favourite new show from this year.
The year i was born. An auspicious year!
Great Video! Cheers was the only show that consistently made me laugh out loud. Great year for TV. Family Ties, Knight Matt Houston Rider Newhart Remington Steele St Elsewhere Tales of the Gold Monkey Voyagers -- a great year!!! Loved it!
Omg the obligatory "repeated phrase in varying shades" backdrop is giving me early childhood flashbacks 🤣
I'm sure this is fun for all ages of people in your audience... but I feel like people my age are just getting a bit extra out of it.
Bravo, sir. Love it 😆