Best of the 80s TV Poll Gets It Mostly Right
Last Year Rolling Stone conducted a readers’ poll where it asked people to rate the top ten shows of the 1980s. That’s a click-bait type of piece if ever there was one, but the results were actually pretty reasonable. That said, the voters got the order a bit wrong and remember one lovable alien from the planet Melmac a little more fondly than he deserves to be. Here’s a breakdown of the RS list with our thoughts and...
Is Small Wonder The Worst Sitcom Ever
While the 1980s had its share of sweet sitcom families the decade also included way too many big concept shows. These are programs where the premise fits into a one line elevator pitch or even better can be explained in the title. Think She’s the Sheriff (there was a she, played by Suzanne Somers) and she was in fact a sheriff) or Mama’s Family, a pretty awful piece of dreck where Vick Lawrence wore cheap old-age makeup to...
80s Candy: Big League Chew
When Big League Chew first hit the market in 1980 the product seemed like an odd mix of brilliance and bad idea. It’s a pretty simple concept on the surface. It’s a pouch of gum clearly designed to look like the pouches chewing tobacco comes in which were at the time very popular in Major League Baseball. The baseball tie-in was overt, with an amped up slugger appearing on the packaging (which would soon be very...
What 1980s Remakes Are Coming To Theaters and TVs?
In Hollywood, everything old is new again. That may not apply to Pamela Anderson, though some parts of her are newer than others, but it does apply to her star-making vehicle Baywatch. Though most think of the show as a 1990s phenomenon it actually debuted in 1989 on network television where it met a quick death. It was only after star David Hasselhoff brought the series into syndication that it became the global phenomenon that...
