Timeline: 1987 - Iran-Contra, The Girl In the Well and The Untouchables
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2020
- Welcome to Weird History's Timeline 1987. We're taking a look at the news, culture, sports, and entertainment during the year 1987. Going back to '87, the materialistic 80s would see a slew of corruption, from PTL to Ivan Boesky to the Iran-Contra Affair. But there would be some uplifting moments - rescuing Jessica McClure from a well, the release of "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles", as well as the signing of the Nuclear Arms Treaty. Sit back and enjoy a recap of 1987, one of the most exciting years of the 80s!
#year1987 #the80s #WeirdHistory 
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What story from 1987 would you like to see a full video on?
The bite of ‘87
Budd Dwyer
Kinda off topic but can you continue this series through the 90’s?
Isn't it obvious, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 😁
About how my ex gf was born.
Netflix should pay you tons of money to make this into a Netflix Original brought to us by Weird History. This is a gem 💪💪💪can't wait for 89' baby. I just made the best year ever!!!
They better mention how Metallica were robbed by Jethro Tull at the music awards
Go Watch VH1: I love the '80s.
@@BrettonFerguson I watched the "I love the 80s, 90s, 2000s a few years ago on YT. These Weird History vids are highly, highly inspired by those VH1 shows...still good tho and my parents loved them...It's like a Happy Meal slice of history.
@@glennt69lol Jethro Tull is the better band.
Netflix would make it into some woke crap and run it into the ground
Yeah! this series has become the highlight of my week.
Jorge Luis Davis Same
Best day of my life in 1987. The birth of my first born. It's funny I'm watching this on her birthday. She's 34 today. God, I'm old!
Vintage.
The narrator’s voice even has an 80s feel to it.
Awesome! I want people to have that attitude
He sounds kind of like Stephen Colbert
It really does LMFAO
Indeed he does
Agreed. He sounds quite a bit like the late great, Ernie Anderson. I kinda wanna hear him say, "Tonight, on the ABC Sunday Night Movie"
I'm enjoying these 80's Timeline series, bringing back memories of when I was a 80's Kid. Looking forward to 1988.
I'm enjoying them so much because of the memory damage I suffered in 2 head injuries I experienced in high school. After I awoke from a coma the spring of '86... I didn't even know how old I was! This stuff is like a great shot in the arm... A 'memory-booster supplement' for me! :-D
@Chon Connor I was only 10 to 20 yrs old myself... So, I too only have a 'youthful' perspective of it all. :-) The 80's were pretty cool... Until that darn herpes and aides came along to ruin all our fun. :-(
i was 13 in 1987... these vids are time machines juice for my brain
@@azrikhairol4941 me too!
'88 was my favorite year! I turned 14 that summer
When my time is up I want this narrator to deliver my eulogy.
I swear its Colbert........
@@jeffreywettig5302 I think he sounds more like Kevin Spacey. That's not an insult btw. The dude was an amazing actor.
Just so long as he delivers a type of linear autobiographical eulogy with the same dry humor, and open minded insight with which he tells the stories in these videos. .
That baby in the well kept me from seeing the end of an episode of a very obscure TV show called Rags to Riches. It took me 25 years to finally see the episode on DVD.
Same, lol. I loved Rags to Riches.
Great year for action movies: RoboCop, Predator, Lethal Weapon, The Running Man, Project A 2, City on Fire, etc... One of the most iconic for rock albums as well: Appetite for Destruction, The Joshua Tree, Hysteria, Whitesnake, Permanent Vacation, Tango in the Night, Kick, Document, etc... 1986's Slippery When Wet also topped the Billboard 200 for the 2nd time, and ultimately became the best-selling album of '87 in the US.
U2 and GnR were HUGE that year. I still lived close to the Pontiac Silverdome back then, missed out on the Joshua Tree tour AND Wrestlemania 3.
The Simpsons is still around and kicking all started from them shorts.
@@atariboy9084 Many believe that the show should've ended long ago though.
Aerosmith made two albums and Arnold made two movies!
@@enigma9971 Two albums?
In a decade, when Weird History does a vid on 2020, it'll just be 15 minutes of the narrator screaming and wailing into the microphone.
They'll need at least 1h for each month of 2020
doom doom doom lol
I'd rather they didn't. I wish someone would erase my memory of this whole year!
You ain't kidding!
@@MrSiriusAB I know I shouldn't laugh but I need to.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
My son was born that year. Despite this, it was a totally messed up year for me. I turned 19 in April and it was all downhill from there. My son, being the one and only positive thing to come out of that year. But the music was good.
I was born 7 years before this to a 14 year old mother. I guess they should've started advertising condoms sooner than they did lol. Tell your son I said hello whipper snapper
I was born 5 years earlier to a couple of 40 year olds. Balance.
The music was not good in 1987. I'm so sorry to break this to you. Yours truly- Rock N Roll
I was born in March 87. My mom was 35, I was her last son.
@@osodeanteojosyt me too, mum was 28.
It brings me to tears I wish I could blink my eyes and when they open be back in the 80s it was a better time
1987: "It's gonna be a bumpy ride."
2020:"Hold my beer."
I love the narrator’s dry sarcasm. It’s not overdone.
Peter Thompson.
Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" was released in 1987.
Disappointed that wasn't mentioned
Equally disappointed that there's no mention of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
It wasn’t a hit in the states until 1988. It was in the top five of that year.
Same with the debut of Street Fighter.
Song of several decades
Because it’s fucking arse and we’re trying to forget it!!
ah yes, the fabulous 80's. brings back such nostalgia!
Rosie Vela's fantastic hit "Magic Smile"! There was no song like it.
Married with children will for ever be one of the best shows to ever bank created on network 📺
Al Bundy was one of the most legendary characters to ever come threw our TV 📺
Al Bundy kind of reminds me of my father. Like Al Dad would probably insult fat women too.
Broly The Sarcastic Savage There are new TV shows that would be considered far more offensive than married with children. “It’s always sunny in Philadelphia” is incredibly popular and it’s about a group of friends that are alcoholic sociopaths and pathological liars. Networks just don’t broadcast shows like that around primetime anymore because the amount of complaints they got are more trouble than its worth.
No more people are offended now, than ever used to be. The offended now just have more platforms to voice their stupidity.
recline69 IASIP has always been far funnier than married with children. I wasn’t comparing the shows on any level other than the fact that both have the ability to offend people. Sunny more so.
I was making the point that tv shows aren’t necessarily any less offensive now than in the past. There are also no more offended people than there were when married with children first aired.
They just have the internet, so you see and hear them now.
@@numerum_bestia what separates Married with Children from Its always sunny in Philly is that Married with Children wasn't on cable TV. Married with Children was controversial at the time it came out and people wanted it off TV back then although now there would be more people wanting it removed. People even thought The Simpsons was bad for children.
WTF does Married With Children have to do with 1987...?? Nothing ..idiot comment.
This is honestly one of my most appreciated series on RUclips. I am a child of the 80s (Graduated H.S. in 1989) and the 80s were such a blurr, but I loved them in hindsight. Thanks for putting such a great set of videos together.
I graduated in 1989, too. The only thing I remember is the Iran-contra thing. Everything else was sex, alcohol, and music. I still don't know how I ever graduated.
Ya i was 16 and lost hahahaha I played a lot of d and d back then in thr high school library so I remember the satanic panic haha plus I was a slayer head back then
@@scottmowdy3856 I don't even remember the Satanic thing ' and I was living in the States then.
I was born in 68 graduation in 86 this was the year I did the best drugs, nailed the hottest girls turned 21 in October on the 2nd great times.
I absolutely love these 80s specials
I was eight years old in '87. Great time to be a kid, even when things were awful. The toys, cartoons, music, and movies were great!
1987, 7th grade and all on my mind was boys and music. Oh to go back in time. Thanks again!
I’m heartbroken that there wasn’t a mention of the greatest vampire movie ever made. . . The Lost Boys (1987!!!)
Great movie.
*greatest movie ever made
@John Barber that's awesome! Loved him in Stand By Me and Freeway. Have you met him? I have his autograph on a script from The Lost Boys.
It's ok Near Dark was better
That movie is free on RUclips. Just saw it on here again after years.
A few years ago, my stepdad was up in the attic getting the Christmas stuff and found the 1987 People Magazine Year in Pictures. Lots of the same stories. That's the year I turned 13 and it seems like yesterday.
This series is the best, looking forward to more episodes!!!
All these timeline vids are awesome. I was a kid of the 80s and couldn't comprehend a lot of the stuff on the news at the time. These timeline vids make me revisit them as an adult and with clearer understanding. Keep the vids coming!!!
When Robocop came out, my old man wanted to see that movie. So he took 6 year old me with him to go see it.
I was 12, my Greek mates dad ran a Restaurant in London and always got Pirate Video copies, Got Robocop & Red Heat on the same tape! We watched them both Twice throughout the night till morning!
My parents wouldn't let me and my brother see that movie no matter how much we begged. Too violent. We got Cheech and Chong "Get out of my Room" instead. My parents: Drug use, fine; Nudity, that's OK; Gore and violence, hell no!
I was about 8 years old when I saw it in Tahoe. My mother made me promise not to tell my Dad I saw the movie. He later found out and we all watched it again anyways. I remember my stomach being twisted in a knot when I saw that guy get deformed in the chemicals and then get splatted on one of the cars. Brutally awesome movie.
I was 18 when I saw Robocop, blew my mind...along with the drugs I was using at the time.
I feel you--my dad took me to "Platoon" in theaters when I was six
I can't believe there are still people who remember "The Girl In The Well"😊😊
I was 12 when that happened. For those who were not around during that time
let me give you an easy way to understand the type of coverage this story had,
think of the news coverage 9/11 had and that's what it was like (of course I'm referring
to news here in the states I don't think it had Worldwide coverage like 9/11 did).
Thank You for video, I just had a huge flashback 🧓🏾🧓🏾
Yes! I was 8 and I remember. I made my own comment saying there's a lot of this I don't remember but I remember the girl in the well because it was all over the TV...LOL
Yeah, and they made a movie about it later. It was my favorite movie as a kid.
I was 23 then and I remember clearly watching live when they brought her to the surface.
The improbably intense media coverage, definitely one of my earliest exposures to a "media circus," around the girl in the well made a lasting impression on my 6 year old mind.
I think I remember the Simpsons episode more than the actual event.
I was 9 yrs old - Skateboarding, Video Games & Music were my life... Kinda still are lol
I was born in 87🤙🏽 I wish I could go back in time to the 80’s as the young rascal I am now.
Same, bud.
We had a pretty good childhood in the 90s too. And we also brought in the internet, computer, and cell phone age.
I was like 3 1/2 months old. 😂
9 in 1987. In the 3rd and 4th grades.
Grew up in the 80s and 90s and consider 1970s also my decade as I was born in 78. So my childhood ran three decades between 78 and 1996, turned 18, but still young I consider 97-99 my childhood.
It’s amazing to think about how much has changed and happened since 1987.
The
The
And it really wasn’t that long ago
I'm a nurse who works with geriatric patients who suffer from dementia, and its truly amazing to talk to them and hear about how the world was when they were young. One of my patients was born in 1928, he now mostly lives with memories of serving in the military during the Korean War, but he has told me some amazing stories of growing up in the depression Era, and how our home town was mostly farms(now more of a city area), and has even taught me a lot about my great-grandfather and grandfather as they were both dead by the time I was born in the late 80s. I'm have learned so much from my patients and how the world really was all those years ago.
I'm amazed at how much things in the other decades too.
This year was Rad! Word.
Stove Cold is an awesome movie, my favorite movie when I was a kid. It doesn’t get the love it deserves. Classic 90’s 😆
The 1980s the decade of the one hit wonders. So so many of them.
Unlike today's puerile post pop scene
Spandau ballet
As in 'I wonder HOW they're a hit"
@@riley9663 - catchy and fun?... vs. 1000s of rappers who rap the same lyrics, same style, over the same computer bleeps...
@@indowithbadenglish3775 Spandau Ballet had a few hits... Chant No.1, To Cut A Long Story Short, Gold, Communication, Only When You Leave, and True... that's what i remember but there's more.
My fondest 87 memories are the movies of the summer especially The Lost Boys,Predator,and Robocop
And Fatal Attraction...psycho bitch played by Glenn Close.
La Bamba!!!
Also the year that gave us Silent Night, Deadly Night 2........Garbage Day!
I saw The Lost Boys so many times by the end of that summer, I could say the lines with them. Loved that movie.
@@breathlesshaste Same here hehehe
You should have mentioned that it was later revealed that Dwyer was totally innocent of all charges as he was framed by a codefendant in a plea deal. Unforgivable omission bruh.
I totally forgot that myself. Not an incident to teach students though, but still huge lol
I was looking to see if someone posted that before I did. Thank you!
That’s not exactly true
"bruh"
*allegedly framed
Best decade ever!! I was sophomore in college and remember many of these memories, good and bad. Thank you!! 😊
I loved the Eighties and the Seventies because I was young ' 2 of the best decades in my life ' good times and bad regardless.
I would Much rather relive any year of the 80's (especially 86-89), than any of the past 7-8 years !
Yea those years were so much fun!
My dad was one of the rescuers who helped to save Jessica McClure.
Wow that is so cool! I remember watching that on the News.
Why did it take him two whole days?
She was trapped 22 feet underground in a steel pipe 8 inches in diameter. It was complicated.
@@macmedic892 Fair enough then. I was imagining one of those wells like on TV
@@macmedic892 I'm 51 now and I remember watching this with my Parents. We cheered so loud when they pulled her out. Your Dad is a Hero ! Amazing story!
Crazy times; remembering much of this;got out of high school in 85. Life in hell cartoons were one of my favorites.
I love how this series explains the origins of jokes from old Simpson's episodes. I had no idea there was an actual long burning tire fire.
1987: you forgot the Max Headroom pirating incident hijacked 3 Chicago TV stations. You have to do a full video on that.
It was actually only two. WGN during the news broadcast showing highlights from that day's Chicago Bears game, and about an hour and a half later on WTTW during an episode of Doctor Who.
was always interested in this, really curious as to who done that
YES!! THANK YOU....I was going to post this exact comment! It's the whole reason I watched the video to begin with. 😆😆
87 I graduated High School, went from National Guard to regular Army. Talk about culture shock. 87 was fun. 88 was awesome. 89 OMG so good.
Finally, the year that I was born!
"Worked his way up to a 5 pack a day habit" that's a sentence I've never heard in my life before
I can't get enough of these. Never clicked on a notification so fast
Oh thank God for you Weird History!
Got my coffee ☕ n a bowl
Ready, Set, History
Yup. Get up, make cup of french press, have a big bong rip and watch the 80s. I was 19 in 1986 and into the Goth scene in Seattle.
And now you can crap on San Frans streets no problem.
I spent most of 87 traveling around the US skiing and hiking so I missed most of this but I'll never forget the first time I saw Married with children. The Santa Claus episode when he fell into their backyard. I was hooked.
Still a fantastic show. "Al.. we should go on vacation."
"We can't afford it, Peg.. unless I somehow mismanage my $3.25 an hour." Lmao. What a fantastic show!
Got lots cat that yr
Definitely "Planes Trains and Automobiles", my absolute favourite film of all time. Rest in peace John Candy, we miss you.
Between this video and the video for “1986”, someone listened to my comment and made the slides a little bit longer. This makes them actually readable and therefore makes the video that much more enjoyable. This series is just plain and simple ONE OF THE BEST SERIES’ on all of youtube! Keep up the great work you all!!
Dwyer's on air suicide actually inspired the song "hey man, nice shot" by filter.
You're right. I absolutely love this song! I usually play it nice and loud so my neighbors can hear it. They did take a lot of heat because people said it made suicide popular, whatever. People turn everything. But when the song was written they said we use the phrase "nice shot" all the time, like people that throw something in a garbage can.
Sorry didn't mean the history lesson there, my brother and I were teens in the 90s and we saw them live. I lost my brother to suicide 6 yrs ago.
@@lucyinthesky4682 aye you're good man I love history myself, and im really sorry about you're brother I know that feeling of losing your loved ones it a really hard thing to get carry on with but Stay strong and live on for your brother.
Jeffery beaty oh shit, I never knew what that was about
Started listening to filter last year. They took you right back to the mid/late 90's
Most people think the song is about Kurt Cobain.
let me relive my childhood and early teen years from 1980 - 1989 in an infinite loop. Things have been so bad in this godforsaken millennium
This is becoming addictive. I really love this series. I am always looking forward.
Weird History you're doing a fantastic job with this series!
Who ever thought that lazy sundays could actually get better? Thank you, Weird History!
Finally, someone else can see the truth of perfection in the movie Stone Cold.
I'm just going to say, I can't wait until Sunday to see the latest 80's Timeline! Thanks for the memories!
Man been waiting for this. Hope you run this till 2000s.
Adultery ending a run for president, eh? Wow, those were the good old days.
now, we only elect rapists.
@@donHooligan And pedophiles
@@strongersmarterandbetter And forgetting anything sexual, war criminals. Something Gary Hart never got a chance to be.
He never had a chance anyway 😆 🤣
love this series and honestly the whole channel... pleas continue the 90s!!!!!!
I can’t believe I never heard of 7-Up Gold! It sounds like something I would’ve enjoyed.
would love to see this for the 70's and the 90's. this series is why i subbed to the channel.
The fact that you guys didn't Rick Rolled us in this video is unacceptable
Agreed.
The song first came out in 1987 but the first Rick roll didn’t upload until 2007 which I think would be a more appropriate year to insert that
Paula mcdowell it was still very noteworthy in 1987, though. Everybody knows Rick Astley but most people have forgotten “Is this love”
People get Rick Rolled to one of my videos often. I don't know who did it but it was funny suddenly seeing all of the comments about getting Rick Rolled.
@@stevetrent4638 - Which people?
As someone who wasn’t born until 1990, thank you for sharing all this great history! 👍🏼
A+ video!
LOVE IT! WHAT A YEAR!
---TIMELINE ROCKS---
Thumbs up if you're gonna rewatch the whole series from the beginning when the final year airs 🥰😊
That’s my plan as well!!
Yes, for sure!!
You guys should do this series for different decades after the 80's are over, this series is fire.
Lol, fire is going to be the new "rad" or "cool", you'll be laughing about it one day!
I needed 5his channel. Thank you for the time machine...
This is the best man this shit gets you so hyped up
“1987, things would take a dark turn.”
Well, I was born that year. 🤔
Haha I said the same thing
So, now we know who to blame.
Specify, Slappy?
Same
lol
"Starbucks...must be stopped!" trurer words ever spoken on Weird History.
I have been looking forward to these, they are so well done. Can’t for the 90’s
As someone who grew up in the 80s, thank you for doing this.
We were watching Mr. Dwyer's press conference, live, in school. Civics class thought it would be a good opportunity to make the subject real for us.
Well that backfired. The sad thing is he killed himself to give his wife his pension and that she still has.
Turns out he was innocent.
Why did they skip the fact that Dwyer was innocent and that it was what inspired "Hey man nice shot" by Filter. It would have added about 15 seconds. Feels rather lazy.
It wasn't shown live. Good story though
@@nunyabizness5391 Nonsense. You are wrong.
I think we can all agree the biggest thing to happen in 1987 was of course the debut of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Simpsons were a strong competitor for a decade or so but TMNT has definitely aged better.
Umm, the Ninja Turtles debuted in 1984. In a black and white Comic.
Or the debut of Guns N’ Roses appetite for destruction
Alongside Predator and RoboCop, although I only managed to watch these movies for the first time as a kid around 1989-1990
Negative. It was the Bundy’s.
80's timeline is just amazing but please do 70's timeline as well
We need a whole series on just the music and movies of the 80s
Yesssss!!!!!!!!!
My fondest memory of 1987 is... My birth.
@Jessica Jujubean 😂
I am an 87's baby as well 😘 RUclips getting creepier with it's recommendation, I didn't even put my birthdate on my RUclips account 🤨😅
I truly enjoy these videos, thank you.
Love your timeline videos!
The year I was born. Man time flies.
So was millions and millions of other people. Big deal
Will you be doing the 90’s as well? I need more to binge watch! 🥰
I was gonna ask the same question. I hope they do 👍
We will be
Weird History totally awesome can’t wait
Ashley B I’ll second that! This series is the only one I know it’s coming on Sunday, and look for it.
@@WeirdHistory YES!!!! 101 reasons why I'm subscribed to your network.
You missed Jackson’s 3rd Album “Bad”
I got to see him in concert on the BAD tour. I was 9, it was 1988 in Chicago.
My Mom made that happen❤️ We had so much fun, I'll never forget it.
That was a HUGE highlight of '87 for me personally.
@@Nina525 9 years old? You could have gone backstage 😉😏😏😏😏
One or THE best years for movies
I love these videos! I cant wait to make it to the 90's.
The Untouchables was a great movie. One of Sean Connery's best roles.
And Robert Deniro as Capone.
I just watched it the other day and was unimpressed. I'm usually in to Mafiaesque movies but this was boring as shit.
Not even close to his best. ZARDOZ
Love this series. Hope to see 1990-1999 in the coming weeks
I have wonderful memories of 1987 wish I look back with fondness and joy. My most wonderful memory of 1987 was going on holiday to Aberdyfi in Wales with my family and my niece.
I was 10 when Jessica McClure was stuck in that well. I remember being glued tot the TV
Nice, been waiting for this one. Keep em up, absolutely great viewing (Born 76).
Went back to Canada again,for the last time. During the Christmas holiday and had a even better time than the previous one! New Order released "Substance" that year and I would go on listening to for decades. That album and "Kick" by INXS were two of my favorite albums of 1987!!👍
I graduated this year!!!!! Thank you for this!!!!!!
AH! With each video, I'm always excited for the next year!! This is such a good series!!
Your channel is the best thing to happen to RUclips since RUclips. Thank you for the incredible work!
I would love to go back. That was an awesome summer.
1987 was the peak year of my life if I look back from 1960s to 2023.
Prince released his legendary double album Sign o' the Times on March 30, 1987
Public Enemy also made their debut in Feb of 87 with the release of Yo Bum Rush The Show which they recorded in 1986 just months before the iconic drum machine EMU sp1200 was released in the summer of 87.
The Running Man hit the theaters in the latter part of the year, this time Arnie would be "bakk" for the corrupt game show host Killian. "Here's Subzero, now plain zero."
"I'll be back!" "Only in reruns..."
Thankyou for honouring my birth year. Respect to Skinny Puppy!
Love these!
Great series! Only miss here was October 19, 1987- other than that, homerun!