Me too for the sports as well

me to but idve been 23 yrs old instead of 6. lol

I was uniquely innocent as far as moral compass goes then in 1981 and intently wanted to stay good in society . I knew I did right , but only falling short in not getting high grades in school until graduation . But I sought to , but I was kind of slow . But I knew what mattered then morally . My parents did instill right things in us . My sibs got into drugs later because rural neighbors that had meth . Is when that area started going down hill and meth was picking up in the southern Mojave desert areas nearby . What happened how it was tolerated this way I can't figure ? The town went down hill slowly and felons got sent to it to live like they're dumped here and that led to serious crimes in town . But in the 80s you wouldn't have to lock any doors .

GAH is on that h& I channel on the weekends. Fall guy needs to B that channel or cosi. I loved the theme.

I love GAH and used to tie a towel around my neck and try to fly around the living room but kept crashing into the couch and knocking holes in the walls

Me too! Had such a crush on Lee Majors.

Local Chicago station ran a Greatest American Hero marathon a couple weekends ago...had that theme song in my head for days..”Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air...”

I remember vividly Dynasty theme song especially when in high school going to bed on school nights my parents watching it doen the hall in den room . Fell asleep almost while hearing it . Sometimes I saw the shows whenever that was in the weeks . 1981 Fall was a senior in HS already ,but we by then lived 10 miles east of a rural town by then moving to it that year . Moving from LA county in CA . Had to catch school bus at rural firestation 2 miles away off county road there . Now living another location as adult of course.

To this day, whenever I hear that song I picture George Costanza pantomiming to his answering machine message.

And the song charted on Billboard. Back then, TV themes were also hit records.

They cannot shorten the intros for those older shows per the original contractual arrangements. There's no doubt they would like to shorten them but a contract is a contract.

@@greg6363 I think I'd ant to see sources on this claim. (Mainly because I HAVE seen this on some networks that have shortened it to just the one verse.) I mean, it isn't as if The Greatest American Hero's owners are holding all the cards in any syndication deal. They are just happy to get anything they can. So they are not going to risk a deal falling through completely, or the syndicator offering MUCH less for this.

@@rucksackzen I was very young when that show was airing but I remembered the song instantly and even though it's not something I would listen to I have to say it's probably one of the best theme songs I've heard written specifically for a show.

@@dickJohnsonpeter Follow closely by the Cheers theme song-which also charted I believe.

As myself similar to yourself though I was 18 then still in HS in 1981 . The year we moved from Glendora CA to rural desert town 200 miles away ! Gotten tired of that town and can miss my old house I grew up in in LA county .

Same here. 1981 was a good year. Time sure goes by fast huh...

.....with most of those ("Fantasy Island", "Dynasty", "The Fall Guy", etc) still being rerun on a weekday or weekend basis on our local channels and their alternate digital free-to-air services as of tonight with great acclaim and praise. Greetings.

As far as I'm concerned...The Greatest American Hero...was the best of the new shows that year!!! I really wish they would reboot that, after all, William Katt and Connie Selleca are still alive and well!

And Sun Cream!

I couldn't agree more...back then we had sincerity, our culture had somewhat of a moral compass, we weren't entitled. I think people spout the "offended" rhetoric when they want to show how deep and cool they are...

What happened to us? We stopped putting up as much bullshit. TV shows have always had an agenda.

Yes it was that all that later crap had not been thought up yet . Some of the agendas and ways people whined of being offended subtly got going in the 90s . Then soon smoking was banned inside certain places. By 1990 shoes got more trendy with Nikes and such . Making it a kind of reference standard . Rap just barely going .When a 1993 president eventually had sexual issue withba lady by 97 or 96. In the 90s tv show the Simpsons was then raunchy like . TV shows devolved morally when it is okay they had been better clean . This got the down hill move going . TV then impacted society somewhat since people kept watching down hill ideas . The 90s was the bigger first turning point . The 2000s hardened some of it and by 2005 major social and political things came like a gradual tsumami . Then we started towards what we got now . There is more details but this is a useful outline or summary . I have a good memory is the source .

don,t look at her now, then

thanks!.....my life can be complete now

#FlyEaglesFly!!

New England lost to Miami at the Orange Bowl the night Lennon was shot.

Indeed! ABC's Tuesday night lineup was still going strong!

Thank God.

Trying to watch something like Three's Company now is absolute agony.

me too...it was thrilling

That's a good thing, millennial! That's a very good thing! P.S.: If you're not a "millennial", I apologize. However, your comment seems to reflect that kind of an attitude. I happen to be a member of what some call the "Buster" generation (1965-83, born in the late '70's) and others call by other names. Oh, if we only knew at the time how good we had it!

@@thomash.schwed3662 I was born in 1985 so technically a millennial, but I really think the classification is stupid because I didn’t have good internet access or a cell phone until I was well into high school and had a drivers license. I grew up entirely differently than “ millenials” born in the mid 90s.

Absolutely. The early 80’s (80-82) were almost their own mini-era with their own feel. They had a lot of the style and look of the 70’s (just a bit more polished). The popular music was very much a holdover from the 70’s, just in adult contemporary form (it would later be known as yacht rock). Despite the glitz of disco, the 70’s could be a little gritty and the country was going through a down, awkward phase. The late 70’s had an almost melancholy feel. When the 80’s began, there was a lot of new optimism and a fresh feeling as society tried to figure itself out in this new decade. You hit it on the head. It wasn’t until 1983 that the “80’s” really began. Music, fashion, design, and popular culture transformed almost overnight. By 1984, it was like we were in a new world.

He fell off the radar, everyone said Peter Scolari was going to be the star anyway....Poor Tom....all those flops..."Forrest Gump", "Saving Private Ryan", "Philadelphia", "Big", "Punchline" all relegated to the dollar bin at Recycled Records....lol. Ok I know "Punchline" was bad but I love it for some unknown psych reason...

Yup, just another one-and-done actor. Shame, because I thought the dude really had potential...

He's running the fryer at KFC. He's next in line to be assistant manager though. Cross your fingers!

He’s leeching off his son Chet, who’s spittin’ 🔥 bars and killing in tha rap game

IIRC he moved to the Burbs, had a Bonfire on a Volcano, Tried his hand at Baseball which was Peachy, Battled insomnia in Seattle, had a Bad time in Philadelphia. He took up running, went to the Moon (almost), found a Snake in his Boot , saved some kid named Ryan, walked a Green Mile on the Road to Perdition to get Mail from a Desert Island... hw spent some time in the Vatican, and learned about Water Landings and his having a Beautiful day.

Khannnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!

Also, Benson starred Neelix and Odo.

Ricardo Montalban did nothing wrong.

De plane, boss...de plane, de plane”

@@chrisw6164 Rich Corinthian leather.

Nice to see one about my generation age as I was going into my senior year Fall 81 . I wonder what we have in common in relating to then and now ?! Since that time I been eventually feeling stuck in the town I live seeking to move away from and because it's hot desert in summer , too hot from the sun in sky with decades of walking in it to go out of my place . That is boring .

In with that one thing I ponder in memory of school in the 70s and early 80s IS that if I knew I would enjoy studying from books on oddities of ancient history and cultures liking it personally , I would of given more attention young to learn better how to study things I read about to did deep into curious things. I do best I know seek information of discovery of such matters . Example is Genesis 10 how it parallels Sumerian lines of sentence and phrase on tablets and also backs up or elaborates on Gen 10:5. Is uncanny to me . Not to disprove scripture since it's assumed is why I do that .

It was a predecessor to today's "shock & awe" Reality TV shows.

@@luisreyes1963 Yep I watched it all the time as a kid. I just meant I really wanted to watch that specific episode.

It's not particularly surprising that ABC would occasionally make moves similar to NBC, considering the fact that what is now ABC actually started out as the NBC Blue Network on radio. What is now just NBC was the Red Network. That's right, NBC operated two radio networks until the mid-to-late '40's when they were forced to break up due to antitrust laws. Regrettably, nowadays, for the most part, the only thing all three networks (plus Columbia Warner and the F-word network) do is make the same mistake with virtually their entire lineup. Granted, there are a relatively few exceptions since the '90's with certain programs which lasted several years (and should easily still be on today). However, there have been other programs I would have pulled off the air before even the first commercial break but, for whatever reason (and it couldn't have been ratings, because who in their right mind would have watched these programs week after week for years on end?), the network executives decided to keeping plodding along with them. For instance, I seem to remember that, sometime during the '90's, NBC had on its Thursday evening lineup a program about a group of twenty-somethings in New York city. To be sure, the cast had some decent talent, but the characters they played were each varying degrees of stupid (despite one of the characters ostensibly being a teacher). I wouldn't even have included that program in that particular lineup (home, as it was, to good, solid programs such as "Cheers", "Hill Street Blues", "L. A. Law" and, later, "E. R."), but NBC decided to keep it right there for something on the order of a decade. Oh well, I suppose the cast had to start somewhere! A few of them have at least been able to find better work since then. For my part, that program never appealed to me, although my younger sister, for reasons I leave to her, was a regular viewer both on NBC and in syndication. The situation on television has only become even worse, fraught as it now is with "reality" programs, falsely so-called, and other mindless dribble. Indeed, as has been observed by others, the television landscape today is a veritable wasteland.

Love it!

I always thought that was hilarious. An egotist who thought he could sing... and then Walker Texas Ranger came out. Lee Majors and Chuck Norris should put an album out together. But I still know all the words to both intros so they must have done something right.

And the rest of the show followed up. They had a collection of some of the funkiest character actor roles ever on tv. The show dealt with all sorts of taboo subjects like homosexuality, cross dressing, addiction and racism and did it hilariously. One of the top 10 comedies of all time.

‘The ABC [insert name of day here] Night Movie’ theme music + animation was so stirring and spectacular. I always got excited when it came on… even when the movie sucked. LOL! 😛 I was 11 in 1981. 😁

I think the CBS late movie had a theme.

Just another throwaway amateur sleuth TV show.

it still gets airplay on Cozi & GetTV (Free OTA Digital Sub Channels) if you have access

I used to love that show when i was 9.

Barrie Youngfellow was yummy!

I miss the show to be honest though

Never heard of it. Sitting through the rest of the video to see if self harm is necessary.

It reminds me of an animaniacs musical number

I"m thinking the theme song was the stake in the heart of the show

Guess nobody found a sitcom about a 24-hour convenience store the least bit funny. 🏪

And Sean Connery starred in Outland plus Time Bandits that year.

I watched that show when i was a kid. Damn shame it didn't last long.

He was a starship commander in Battlestar Galactica.

the 'Reasonable Authority Figure' Trope could almost be named after him

You must be low IQ

You're out of your mind. With a few exceptions most of these shows are horrible. You would have to be pretty low IQ to be able to sit through this crap today.

I only knew it as that in Late 80s Syndication* (not that I knew what that was at the time) Never knew it started back in 81 on ABC * the Local Station that would eventually become our Fox Affiliate would run a lot of syndicated Fare around the time they were getting the actual Fox programs so my then pre-teen mind had a lot of stuff jumbled about what was what... I'm learning new stuff all the time

Was this SPRING 1986 NBC SHOWS video blocked?

Happy Days aired till July 1984 and Laverne and Shirley aired till May 1983.