Literally my childhood. I miss the days before all this technology. We played outside till the lights came on. Say on the porch and talked till late in the evening. Talked on the phone to our friends for hours. Called into radio stations to dedicate songs to our crush. Best days ever.
Yes, and didn't watch a fraction of the TV/online streaming that teens watch today. I recognized names of actors and show titles in above video, but never watched one episode of these shows.
Same here. The facts of life was the show for me. I could recite half the dialogue to this day. The golden girls intro here is definitely different than what originally was shown. Loved 227 as well.
@@kingovharts You got that right, hey, abc Thursday Nights couldn't compete with CBS during the early 80's nor could it compete with NBC during the 2nd half of the 80's and abc and CBS definitely couldn't couldn't compete with NBC Saturday Nights in the 80's with The Facts of Life, 227, Amen, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest or HUNTER NBC was Da Bomb and it was OUR Saturday Night in the 80's
That NBC lineup was killer. I hadn't heard of some of those shows on ABC or CBS, though seeing Christina Applegate before Married with Children and Freddy freaking Kreuger (!) was a surprise
I was 11 years old and a 6th grader. I was definitely watching NBC must see TV on Sat Nights. Loved the entire line up. I remember i would make pizza and sometimes had a friend over and stay up watching all night and wait for WWF Saturday Nights Main Event on some occasions. And At some point American Gladiators and GLOW...........AH YES GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES
S.S. MUZE Projects I was 12 at the time I remember it was either the rollerskating rink or stay home and watch the lineup. While calling the radio station to dedicate songs to our crushes 😂😂
Gripit L I live in a small town it wasn't much to do on Saturday night's so I stayed home and just watch the lineup. The only show I didn't watch was Hunter. 227 and Amen were my favorites. But I definitely watched all four of the comedies.
I love everything about the "Heart of the City" intro. "Spencer for Hire," another great intro. Robert Eurich had a residence in my town near Boston during the filming of the show, and I was actually in Cub Scouts with his son. Got to go over to his house a couple of times (Dad wasn't home). I was too young to be interested in the show at that time, but I should go back and watch it.
It always takes me a couple of hours watching these "Stay Tuned....." vids because by the time I look up various stars in wikipedia to see what they've done that I missed, or see if they're still alive while pausing the "Stay Tuned", and many times that leads to other videos and thus 2 or 3 hours have passed. Kind of my own "Where Are They Now?"
Golden girls stands out as one that was unquestionably destined for success due to its all star, veteran, cast that had proven on-screen chemistry from other top rated shows. I don't know too many other shows that were started from the get-go in that way.
I was definitely watching NBC Fall 86. As were most I assume.That Sat night block was unstoppable. Though my family was always a CBS heavy family, Spenser For Hire was the only show I remembered at all from the other networks.
Me too, NBC all the way that year. I don't even remember any of the others except for Spencer for Hire. I think that show moved to another night possibly. I remember my mom watching that sometimes but I was into facts of life, etc.
We would have got some of these shows a little bit later in Ireland, maybe 6 months after the US. I loved Spenser for hire, Twilight Zone, the golden girls and the new Mike Hammer.
I used to watch 227 too. My granddaughter and I still watch the Golden Girls. She loves to watch Full House when she finds it on. He mother loved the Sonny and Cher show. I remember Amen too. I was so in love with Hunter. Loved that show.
You might want to take note that Warner archive released all three seasons of Spenser For Hire on DVD a few years ago. The original pressing was glassmaster, because they got enough call for it, though whether currently ordered discs would be that or custom manufactured I couldn't tell you. Worth noting, too, of course, that this was not the 86 show open, because Barbara Stock is back on it, this had to be the 87 - which I also believed because of the choice of theme music. I cannot think right now of the name of the redheaded actress who played lawyer Rita Fiore in 86 when she replaced Barbara for a year.
Tina Caspary was the original Kelly Bundy on the first pilot episode before the producers felt her and the actor that played the original Bud (Hunter Carson) lacked what they felt was needed and so recasted, refilmed, the segments. There are clips that can searched to compare the two.
It *was* a disappointing show. Ball's sense of humor/slapstick, which had worked for her in her three previous series, was sorrowfully dated by this fourth show.
NBC had the best Saturday night line up. I'm instantly transported back to having a baked chicken and mashed potatoes dinner, followed by doing my hair for church the next day. I can smell the Aquamarine conditioner! Great memories
My family was definitely watching NBC on Saturday nights back in '86, although we alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC in the 10/9Central time slot: I remember watching Spencer For Hire, the new Twilight Zone, and Hunter.
Yeah, yeah, and back then parents whined about shows not being as wholesome as the 50s. "Parental discretion" has never really done anything anyway. My parents wouldn't let me watch Three's Company because it was "too sexual" back in the late 70s/early 80s, but a TV in my room and afternoon syndication meant I could watch it all I wanted.
Rather obvious in the first season... but it found it's own 'legs' thereafter... But the timing (Sudden Impact ; the 4th Dirty Harry hit theaters December 83... Hunter was Fall of 84) is fairly obvious as well
Great stuff! You obviously must know someone that is/was affiliated with the major t.v. networks to get all this footage. Nobody has this just laying around on old VHS lol, and the quality is good as well. Thanks for sharing all this!
The majority of the intros are from other RUclips uploaders. All a matter of searching them out (using precise keywords helps), collecting them and then piecing them all together into videos.
Lol we had all 3 but our tv stayed on nbc. My grandma watched days of our lives, another world and Santa Barbara during the day, so we just never changed the channel at night 😁
The only one of these shows I watched on the regular was Amen, 227 and the twilight zone. The rest was fox or cable(which at the time a millions times better than broadcast tv).
A couple of things: 10:02 Put a mustache on Mackenzie Astin and you'd never be able to tell him apart from his dad, the great John Astin. He's the spitting image. 12:21 Ahhh, those glory days before every car had remote locking:-)
Downtown, featuring a show with THREE supporting cast members more famous (Blair Underwood, Mariska Hargitay, and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund) than the lead. Can't say I've ever seen that before. But as everyone has rightfully said, Saturday Night's were NBC night.
I remember as a kid having one tv in the house and Saturday night I got to watch wrestling then whatever my parents were watching after that...great times
Not to mention that this was when NBC got a new "golden cast" beginning for Saturday Night Live (Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman joined while Kevin Nealon was a featured cast member, and we only began to get accustomed to seeing Dennis Miller on Weekend Update). I know you're focused on the Prime Time Saturday Night lineup, but I think it's interesting to note that this was the year SNL got its footing back, too, telling you how strong Saturday nights were for NBC that season.
My favorite shows from that line up was Hunter, The Facts of Life, 227, The Golden Girls, The Twilight Zone, & Amen. NBC clearly had the better slate of shows for Saturday evenings. The only one that I even heard of on ABC was Spencer For Hire.
So Megan Mullally had a short gig on Ellen Burstyn show before joining up with Will & Grace... It's always fun to watch where some celebrities started off from.
I think later on 227 Pearl Martin's name was added on later. Also I think when The facts of life got cancelled everyone went up a hr hour earlier and Empty Nest took over Amen's time slot. Later on Nurses was added. Simpler times then.
NBC was the obvious winner that season. I remember that lineup of shows, whereas the shows on CBS and ABC we’re mostly forgotten (aside from Spencer For Hire and Twilight Zone).
I have absolutely no memory of Lucy having a television show in 1986. My first reaction was that this was a mistake in dating. And the Ellen Burstyn show is using the Woody Allen credits font.
Mike hammer, Spencer for Hire, Facts of Life yes indeed! I was definitely watching 227 and Amen on a good Saturday night followed by Showtime at The Apollo when Sinbad was the host. And oh yeah the good Hunter intro! Fa sho!
If you were around in 1986 it was NBC on Saturday Night...It dominated both ABC & CBS...Lucille Ball was an icon & why didn't ABC put her show on a better night instead? At 10pm Eastern Hunter was another good show...Idk how I watched that show as a kid when probably shouldn't have, but it was a good ass show....great tv in those days....
If I had to guess this show was either granted out of Pity or Obligation... 1986 was well past the point that Lucy should have been allowed/encouraged to do her old 'Lucy-shtick'... so my guess is it was stuck as Saturday Opener to get it done with... that said Saturday did not equal 'death' (like it does today) until the mid-late 90s
'Downtown' had a young Blair Underwood , Mariska Hargitay, Robert Englund and Robert Nouri. Wow ! Must have been decent but I don't remember it. I do remember Stacey Keach as Mike Hammer. New Twighlight Zone is my favorite. Mid 80's I think NBC was all me and friends ever watched. The Thursday night line up was the best if I remember
My high school senior year. Didn't do too much T.V. viewing on Saturday nights around that time(usually going out to football games, dances, movies, hanging out with friends or if we had a tough assignment finishing up a term paper) but NBC was my choice if I had a rare free night at home and record "Spencer For Hire" because I dig the character Hawk. Ah, good times.
Is the front porch set from the 227 intro the same front porch from Sesame Street? I know Alaina Reed was on both shows so it wouldn't surprise me if they used some of the same sets.
"The Facts of Life" is (rightfully) the only show still readily available in syndication today. "Spenser for Hire" and "Mike Hammer" occasionally pop up here and there, but that's it. Most of the other shows had "stinkeroo" written all over them---that Michael Nouri show, with its cheesy rendition of "Money," is notable only for its supporting players who went on to bigger things. And I remember watching "Life with Lucy" just once, and feeling very sorry for Lucille Ball. There's a lot to be said for quitting while you're ahead. On Saturdays in '86, my dial was set on Tootie, Natalie, Jo and Blair.
"Heart of the City" is actually listed on the Lost Media Wiki, though a few complete (or mostly complete) episodes have turned up on RUclips. "Life With Lucy" was a legendary disaster. Outside of "Who's The Boss," "Growing Pains" and "Moonlighting" on Tuesday night, this was a dreadful season for ABC.
Lucille Ball and Bob Newhart: the only two TV stars to have four shows each of which had their name in the title in some form or other (I LOVE LUCY, THE LUCY SHOW, HERE'S LUCY, LIFE WITH LUCY; THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (variety), THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (sitcom), NEWHART, BOB). That said, didn't watch THIS Lucy...or much of any of the others.
Literally my childhood. I miss the days before all this technology. We played outside till the lights came on. Say on the porch and talked till late in the evening. Talked on the phone to our friends for hours. Called into radio stations to dedicate songs to our crush. Best days ever.
Yes, and didn't watch a fraction of the TV/online streaming that teens watch today. I recognized names of actors and show titles in above video, but never watched one episode of these shows.
I can't be the only one who gets a nice almost warm feeling while watching this. Makes me feel good. 😊
I was only a couple months old but I remember these shows.
227, golden girls, Amen! oh the memories are flooding back
Same here. The facts of life was the show for me. I could recite half the dialogue to this day.
The golden girls intro here is definitely different than what originally was shown. Loved 227 as well.
Briar Bear that was my childhood right there. Good times back then.
NBC was dominating the 80s. Thurdays and Saturdays were owned by NBC. Them other networks could only go for second place.
@@kingovharts You got that right, hey, abc Thursday Nights couldn't compete with CBS during the early 80's nor could it compete with NBC during the 2nd half of the 80's and abc and CBS definitely couldn't couldn't compete with NBC Saturday Nights in the 80's with The Facts of Life, 227, Amen, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest or HUNTER
NBC was Da Bomb and it was OUR Saturday Night in the 80's
Based on this, I must've watched a whole lot of NBC Saturday nights as a child.
That NBC lineup was killer. I hadn't heard of some of those shows on ABC or CBS, though seeing Christina Applegate before Married with Children and Freddy freaking Kreuger (!) was a surprise
Karen from Will and Grace was on the Ellen Burstyn Show, which was another surprise.
Yup! NBC had Saturday night on lockdown, I barely remember most of those shows on other networks.
I was about to say the same damn thing, NBC had that on lock, nothing but classics
Yasmin88 Saturdays and Thursdays belonged to NBC by far!
Mostly the same for me. I watched Twilight Zone, not Hunter, but the rest of it was that killer NBC sitcom block.
I watched NBC for sure that year. Facts of Life and Golden Girls!
When Megan Mullaly was co-starring on The Ellen Burstyn Show, Nick Offerman was in high school.
Wow! Fall of 1986 was my freshman year of college. I spent Saturday nights working at McDonald's, but NBC clearly ruled the night!
Same here, but I worked at Ross.
I used to love the facts of life. Had to watch it every week.
Steven J. Cannell was an absolute genius. I loved all his shows.
True. He was excellent
I was 11 years old and a 6th grader. I was definitely watching NBC must see TV on Sat Nights. Loved the entire line up. I remember i would make pizza and sometimes had a friend over and stay up watching all night and wait for WWF Saturday Nights Main Event on some occasions. And At some point American Gladiators and GLOW...........AH YES GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES
S.S. MUZE Projects I was 12 at the time I remember it was either the rollerskating rink or stay home and watch the lineup. While calling the radio station to dedicate songs to our crushes 😂😂
Yea, good times. I was 11 as well.
Is it allowed to be nostalgic over shows you never watched or didn't like, but you still remember their promos every day?
Sure it is
I was always looking forward to Saturday nights on NBC what a lineup I had just graduated high school
Chris Hinnant I watched it every week. I remember I was 12 going on 13. So it’s pretty much the rollerskating rink or stay home and watch the lineup.
Gripit L I live in a small town it wasn't much to do on Saturday night's so I stayed home and just watch the lineup. The only show I didn't watch was Hunter. 227 and Amen were my favorites. But I definitely watched all four of the comedies.
I believe NBC had the best lineup for Saturday night back then. I remember those shows on the other networks to much except for Spencer For Hire.
I love HUNTER.. I watched it Saturday nights on NBC.
I love everything about the "Heart of the City" intro. "Spencer for Hire," another great intro. Robert Eurich had a residence in my town near Boston during the filming of the show, and I was actually in Cub Scouts with his son. Got to go over to his house a couple of times (Dad wasn't home). I was too young to be interested in the show at that time, but I should go back and watch it.
It always takes me a couple of hours watching these "Stay Tuned....." vids because by the time I look up various stars in wikipedia to see what they've done that I missed, or see if they're still alive while pausing the "Stay Tuned", and many times that leads to other videos and thus 2 or 3 hours have passed. Kind of my own "Where Are They Now?"
bodybuilder slave I thought I was the only one doing that lol
I thought I was the only one that done this. Currently on FOX 1ST FALL PRIME TIME TV LINEUP 1987
I sure do miss all the over-the-top saxophone playing. It stayed hip into the 90s as well.
Golden girls stands out as one that was unquestionably destined for success due to its all star, veteran, cast that had proven on-screen chemistry from other top rated shows. I don't know too many other shows that were started from the get-go in that way.
Awesome : these are classic.program..wonderful job thank you so much
I was definitely watching NBC Fall 86. As were most I assume.That Sat night block was unstoppable. Though my family was always a CBS heavy family, Spenser For Hire was the only show I remembered at all from the other networks.
Me too, NBC all the way that year. I don't even remember any of the others except for Spencer for Hire. I think that show moved to another night possibly. I remember my mom watching that sometimes but I was into facts of life, etc.
jason3fc I’d watch it on the phone with my best friend. The good old days.
i did too.even though i watched Spenser For Hire sometimes and The New Twilight Zone also
We would have got some of these shows a little bit later in Ireland, maybe 6 months after the US. I loved Spenser for hire, Twilight Zone, the golden girls and the new Mike Hammer.
I used to watch 227 too. My granddaughter and I still watch the Golden Girls. She loves to watch Full House when she finds it on. He mother loved the Sonny and Cher show. I remember Amen too. I was so in love with Hunter. Loved that show.
What about Family Matters
God I miss Spenser For Hire......
That was a good show. Robert Urich was the best.
You might want to take note that Warner archive released all three seasons of Spenser For Hire on DVD a few years ago. The original pressing was glassmaster, because they got enough call for it, though whether currently ordered discs would be that or custom manufactured I couldn't tell you.
Worth noting, too, of course, that this was not the 86 show open, because Barbara Stock is back on it, this had to be the 87 - which I also believed because of the choice of theme music.
I cannot think right now of the name of the redheaded actress who played lawyer Rita Fiore in 86 when she replaced Barbara for a year.
I was only 6 years old but I remember half of these because my grandmother watched them.
NBC was where it was at for Saturday nights in the mid-late 80's
Oh wow...was I the only 10 yr old boy watching that Lucy show...then it disappeared. I was a strange kid.
If "Heart of the City" was a hit, we may never have had the "Married with Children" we know and love.
If that was the case, I could picture Juliette Lewis playing the role of Kelly Bundy.
Tina Caspary was the original Kelly Bundy on the first pilot episode before the producers felt her and the actor that played the original Bud (Hunter Carson) lacked what they felt was needed and so recasted, refilmed, the segments. There are clips that can searched to compare the two.
I was an NBC person on Thurs and Sat when I was 11 remembering this Line-up, great shows!!
you and i must be the same age because i was 11 back then too and i also watched most of these shows
even though thursdays i watched Knots Landing on CBS
So glad my life in 1986 didn't include Life With Lucy.
lol!
It *was* a disappointing show. Ball's sense of humor/slapstick, which had worked for her in her three previous series, was sorrowfully dated by this fourth show.
I love watching all of these show at least once because we just got our first VCR, but if I was home them it was all about NBC.
Golden girls, Cheers, WKRP in Cincinnati, Good times, Bosom buddies..... top five best intro music ever, prove me wrong
NBC had me on lock on Saturdays during that time. I never heard of those other shows except Spencer for Hire.
Me too. I was in college and we would watch those shows before hitting the clubs lol
I should look up to see if there are any episodes of Downtown just because of Mariska Hargitay! She is an awesome actress! Looooove her!
So this is what my parents were watching when I was out having fun on Saturday nights.
Yep. At 16 I was not home watching TV on a Saturday night. lol
Me too lol
So what is your old ass doing now lmao
john coctoasten I was 13. My best friend and I would watch on the phone together. Good old days.
This is what me and my friend would watch while my parents were out having a good time. I was in 8th Grade.
NBC had the best Saturday night line up. I'm instantly transported back to having a baked chicken and mashed potatoes dinner, followed by doing my hair for church the next day. I can smell the Aquamarine conditioner! Great memories
My family was definitely watching NBC on Saturday nights back in '86, although we alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC in the 10/9Central time slot: I remember watching Spencer For Hire, the new Twilight Zone, and Hunter.
omg the golden girls,,
me and my mom always watched them
I don't remember any of these, but then it was my family's habit to watch movies on the VCR on Saturday nights. War Games, etc.!
Still remember Saturday night line up on NBC 227 amen golden girls empty nest
Spencer for Hire was a favorite show! All these great shows made staying home on Saturday a treat!
Golden Girls still holds up to this day.
No it doesn’t ☹️
Thank you for showing this good old days
Jason Windrow Makes me a little bit sad. That was my childhood
That’s when you can let your children watch tv without parental discretion. Quality shows
Yeah, yeah, and back then parents whined about shows not being as wholesome as the 50s. "Parental discretion" has never really done anything anyway. My parents wouldn't let me watch Three's Company because it was "too sexual" back in the late 70s/early 80s, but a TV in my room and afternoon syndication meant I could watch it all I wanted.
Man all the saxophone 🎷 lol
Loved the guide at the end. Very helpful
The theme song to Life with Lucy was probably the best thing that show had.
NBC killing it. Amen was great.
0:43. When Night Court's Harry Anderson isn't available, you end up settling for his non-union Mexican equivalent Larry Anderson.
+birdmantd RIP Harry Anderson.
hunter was basically dirty harry as a tv show
Rather obvious in the first season... but it found it's own 'legs' thereafter...
But the timing (Sudden Impact ; the 4th Dirty Harry hit theaters December 83... Hunter was Fall of 84) is fairly obvious as well
I love HUNTER
Fred Dryer was actually considered for the role of Sam Malone on Cheers!
Great stuff! You obviously must know someone that is/was affiliated with the major t.v. networks to get all this footage. Nobody has this just laying around on old VHS lol, and the quality is good as well. Thanks for sharing all this!
The majority of the intros are from other RUclips uploaders. All a matter of searching them out (using precise keywords helps), collecting them and then piecing them all together into videos.
Apparently we only had NBC back then
Lol we had all 3 but our tv stayed on nbc. My grandma watched days of our lives, another world and Santa Barbara during the day, so we just never changed the channel at night 😁
I was in love with Christina Applegate even back then.
she's still classy today trust me
That intro to Downtown was of course a cover of "Money (That's What I Want)."
The only one of these shows I watched on the regular was Amen, 227 and the twilight zone. The rest was fox or cable(which at the time a millions times better than broadcast tv).
5:55 Wow. Hell, the whole cast of that show is amazing.
A couple of things: 10:02 Put a mustache on Mackenzie Astin and you'd never be able to tell him apart from his dad, the great John Astin. He's the spitting image.
12:21 Ahhh, those glory days before every car had remote locking:-)
Downtown, featuring a show with THREE supporting cast members more famous (Blair Underwood, Mariska Hargitay, and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund) than the lead. Can't say I've ever seen that before. But as everyone has rightfully said, Saturday Night's were NBC night.
Now we are talking. Spenser for Hire was shown on AFN. I remember watching it.
you mean ABC
Loved Spencer for Hire aand Dect Benson and Freddy Krueger on the same show, and a younger Christina Applegate wow
Man I was a big Facts of Life fan.
That s when tv was worth watching ! Thats why I watch Cable tv not local tv !
Stepfanie Kramer... underrated beauty
I couldn't help but notice how pretty she is when I watched that Hunter intro.
And her beauty is still hot today, although reprised by others.
I LOVED Hunter.
When I was little, I would always get her and Susan Lucci confused with each other.
@@EvansSt83 lol!
NBC just dominated in that era of network television.
I remember as a kid having one tv in the house and Saturday night I got to watch wrestling then whatever my parents were watching after that...great times
Was I the only one that was waiting for BIG BIRD to walk up to Alaina Reed when she was sitting on the stoop on 227??
Not to mention that this was when NBC got a new "golden cast" beginning for Saturday Night Live (Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman joined while Kevin Nealon was a featured cast member, and we only began to get accustomed to seeing Dennis Miller on Weekend Update). I know you're focused on the Prime Time Saturday Night lineup, but I think it's interesting to note that this was the year SNL got its footing back, too, telling you how strong Saturday nights were for NBC that season.
Geez i must have never been on in high school.. Ive forgotten most of these.. Except for the nbc lineup
Best shows facts of life and golden girls...... what #nohomo
My favorite shows from that line up was Hunter, The Facts of Life, 227, The Golden Girls, The Twilight Zone, & Amen. NBC clearly had the better slate of shows for Saturday evenings. The only one that I even heard of on ABC was Spencer For Hire.
I loved Hunter, watched it every week, I wish I owned a vcr then
H&I has a 3? hour block of Hunter on Saturdays now
Downtown looks interesting... at least cast-wise.
Outside The Golden Girls, numbers-wise, had the most talented cast. The writing must have been dreadful with a cast like Downtown.
"Amen" and "227" were awesome!
So Megan Mullally had a short gig on Ellen Burstyn show before joining up with Will & Grace...
It's always fun to watch where some celebrities started off from.
I think later on 227 Pearl Martin's name was added on later. Also I think when The facts of life got cancelled everyone went up a hr hour earlier and Empty Nest took over Amen's time slot. Later on Nurses was added. Simpler times then.
OHHHHHHHH Yeahhhhhhhh Tv Must See!
I think Facts of Life & Golden Girls shared the same wardrobe in some cases, which is just very wrong.
It was the 80s
Never heard of Downtown before, surprised to see a very young Mariska Hargitay.
NBC was the obvious winner that season. I remember that lineup of shows, whereas the shows on CBS and ABC we’re mostly forgotten (aside from Spencer For Hire and Twilight Zone).
Was that oliva benson wit the lettersmen jacket...DOWNTOWN...
Theme songs TV so good back in 80s
NBC dominated television during the 80's.
The good ole days
I have absolutely no memory of Lucy having a television show in 1986. My first reaction was that this was a mistake in dating.
And the Ellen Burstyn show is using the Woody Allen credits font.
Mike hammer, Spencer for Hire, Facts of Life yes indeed! I was definitely watching 227 and Amen on a good Saturday night followed by Showtime at The Apollo when Sinbad was the host. And oh yeah the good Hunter intro! Fa sho!
Was there ever a TV series Robert Urich WASN'T in?
have you ever seen Invitation to hell with him & susan Lucci? crazy abc movie he was in everything RIP
S1500 He was so hot even at 12 years old had the biggest crush on him.
Great job!
I never knew Downtown was actually a Nightmare on Elm Street Prequel.
I remember two of the CBS shows, none of the ABC shows, and all of the NBC shows.
you dont remember Spenser For Hire on ABC?
Do shows have opening theme songs anymore?
Stranger things has an awesome one. Game of Thrones has a good one too.
The Ellen Burstyn show was actually very good!!!!
If you were around in 1986 it was NBC on Saturday Night...It dominated both ABC & CBS...Lucille Ball was an icon & why didn't ABC put her show on a better night instead? At 10pm Eastern Hunter was another good show...Idk how I watched that show as a kid when probably shouldn't have, but it was a good ass show....great tv in those days....
If I had to guess this show was either granted out of Pity or Obligation... 1986 was well past the point that Lucy should have been allowed/encouraged to do her old 'Lucy-shtick'... so my guess is it was stuck as Saturday Opener to get it done with...
that said Saturday did not equal 'death' (like it does today) until the mid-late 90s
'Downtown' had a young Blair Underwood , Mariska Hargitay, Robert Englund and Robert Nouri. Wow ! Must have been decent but I don't remember it. I do remember Stacey Keach as Mike Hammer. New Twighlight Zone is my favorite. Mid 80's I think NBC was all me and friends ever watched. The Thursday night line up was the best if I remember
My high school senior year. Didn't do too much T.V. viewing on Saturday nights around that time(usually going out to football games, dances, movies, hanging out with friends or if we had a tough assignment finishing up a term paper) but NBC was my choice if I had a rare free night at home and record "Spencer For Hire" because I dig the character Hawk. Ah, good times.
Is the front porch set from the 227 intro the same front porch from Sesame Street? I know Alaina Reed was on both shows so it wouldn't surprise me if they used some of the same sets.
"The Facts of Life" is (rightfully) the only show still readily available in syndication today. "Spenser for Hire" and "Mike Hammer" occasionally pop up here and there, but that's it. Most of the other shows had "stinkeroo" written all over them---that Michael Nouri show, with its cheesy rendition of "Money," is notable only for its supporting players who went on to bigger things. And I remember watching "Life with Lucy" just once, and feeling very sorry for Lucille Ball. There's a lot to be said for quitting while you're ahead. On Saturdays in '86, my dial was set on Tootie, Natalie, Jo and Blair.
Oh, sorry. "227," "The Golden Girls" and "Hunter" are still around too.
@@sneezepal Hunter is on H&I... 227 on Antenna TV
"Heart of the City" is actually listed on the Lost Media Wiki, though a few complete (or mostly complete) episodes have turned up on RUclips.
"Life With Lucy" was a legendary disaster. Outside of "Who's The Boss," "Growing Pains" and "Moonlighting" on Tuesday night, this was a dreadful season for ABC.
Lucille Ball and Bob Newhart: the only two TV stars to have four shows each of which had their name in the title in some form or other (I LOVE LUCY, THE LUCY SHOW, HERE'S LUCY, LIFE WITH LUCY; THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (variety), THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (sitcom), NEWHART, BOB). That said, didn't watch THIS Lucy...or much of any of the others.
Really fun to see. Can you do one for 1987 "Prime Time Begins at 7:30" Line up? I think NBC?
Shows like, She's the Sheriff and Out of this World.
Great idea love those shows.
the 80's Twilight Zone was awesome.
*That's what i waaaaaaa huuuuh huuuuh huuuuuuh hunt that's what i want" 🎶.*