Title: Child's Play
Tagline: No one believes the truth...or lives to tell it.
Genre: Horror
Director: Tom Holland
Cast: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff, Tommy Swerdlow, Jack Colvin, Neil Giuntoli, Juan Ramírez, Alan Wilder, Richard Baird, Ray Oliver, Ed Gale, Aaron Osborne, Tyler Hard, Ted Liss
Release: 1988-11-08
Runtime: 87
Plot: A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
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We Love The 80's
The 80's were gnarly to the max!
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Title: It's Punky Brewster
Genre: Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: R.J. Williams, Ed Gilbert, Neil Ross, Terence McGovern, Russi Taylor, Frank Welker, George Gaynes, Cherie Johnson, Ami Foster, Soleil Moon Frye, Lilly Moon
First aired: 1985-09-14
Overview: It's Punky Brewster is an animated spin off of the live action television show Punky Brewster. The show was animated by Ruby-Spears Productions.
Title: Diff'rent Strokes
Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama
Creator: Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris
Cast: Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Danny Cooksey, Mary Jo Catlett, Mary Ann Mobley
First aired: 1978-11-03
Overview: The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
Title: Heartbeeps
Tagline: Meet a modern nuclear family unlike any other.
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Family
Director: Allan Arkush
Cast: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Richard B. Shull, Dick Miller, Kathleen Freeman, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Irene Cagen, Jack Carter, Ron Gans
Release: 1981-12-18
Runtime: 79
Plot: Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Title: The Six Million Dollar Man
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
Creator: Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin
Cast: Lee Majors, Martin E. Brooks, Richard Anderson
First aired: 1974-01-18
Overview: Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
Title: T. and T.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Cast: Mr. T, David Nerman, Kristina Nicoll
First aired: 1988-01-11
Overview: T. and T. is a Canadian-produced television series, in production from 1987 to 1990. The series premiered in first-run syndication in January 1988, later moving to new episodes on the Family Channel in 1990. It was a starring vehicle for Mr. T, after the cancellation of The A-Team in 1986.
The series’ theme song was performed by Merry Clayton.
The opening voice-over set-up the premise:
Title: The Fall Guy
Genre: Action & Adventure
First aired: 1981-11-04
Creator: Glen A. Larson
Cast: Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas, Markie Post
Overview: Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.