{"id":27665,"date":"2021-02-11T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:42:47","slug":"the-new-shows-of-1987-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/11\/the-new-shows-of-1987-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Shows of 1987 Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I watched a video that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/a-two-fer-quiz\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">listed the new shows of 1983<\/a> and turned it into a quiz wherein I listed the ones I remembered.<\/p>\n<p>I have done the same with the 24 New Shows of 1987 (26 if you count the two Fox shows mentioned but not depicted).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMgeM99m8qo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As then, I have bolded the shows I remember and included links to any I mentioned by name on this blog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Dolly!<\/em>, a variety show.  Come on, kids did not watch these.<\/li>\n<li><em>Women in Prison<\/em>, a sitcom?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Different World<\/em><\/strong>, which I didn&#8217;t watch.  But I didn&#8217;t watch <em>The Cosby Show<\/em>, either.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Full House<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Second Chance<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Everything&#8217;s Relative<\/em> complete with shot of the World Trade Center in the beginning of the intro.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>My Two Dads<\/strong><\/em>; I remember a single episode, where they give a party and try to engage the teens in conversation, and the daughter imagines them as really old.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>I Married Dora<\/strong><\/em>; I am pretty sure I watched this every week and was very disappointed when it was cancelled.  I remember the ending of the last show, where they break down the fourth wall and say they were cancelled and all bow.  Also, this program more than <em>Down and Out in Beverly Hills<\/em> caused my crush on Elizabeth Pe\u00f1a.<\/li>\n<li><em>Buck James<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A Year in the Life<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>thirtysomething<\/strong><\/em>; although this came on at nine, so I didn&#8217;t watch it.  Not that I would have.  Thirty-something was <em>old<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Frank&#8217;s Place<\/em>; I&#8217;d like to think I kind of remember this, but not for sure.<\/li>\n<li><em>The &#8220;Slap&#8221; Maxwell Story<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Hooperman<\/strong><\/em>; although all I remember is that John Ritter was the title character.  Good enough for trivia nights.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Beauty and the Beast<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Once a Hero<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Oldest Rookie<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Law and Harry McGraw<\/em><\/strong>; although, again, only the title and that Jerry Orbach was in it.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Jake and the Fatman<\/strong><\/em>; Joe Penny&#8217;s show after <em>Riptide<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>J.J. Starbuck<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Leg Work<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Private Eye<\/em>; I want to say I remember this, but there were so many shows (and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/how-i-got-my-first-jazz-album\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">video games<\/a> with the same or similar names.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Wiseguy<\/strong><\/em>; didn&#8217;t see it though, as I think it was a nine o&#8217;clock start.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/book-report-platoon-by-dale-a-dye-1986\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour of Duty<\/a><\/strong><\/em>; also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/02\/babylon-bee-apparently-didnt-see-juwana-mann\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/how-to-tell-what-song-just-came-on-brians-ipod-at-the-gym-x\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.  I actually have the whole series on DVD as I previously mentioned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I rmemember a bunch of them, but only watched two of them back in the day (watching the videocassettes that my father recorded with him and my brother counts).  <\/p>\n<p>Weird; I thought I had a lot of time to watch cable in the old days; however, by 1987, we were living in the trailer and we had cable, so I was watching a bunch of movies on Showtime over and over as I have previously mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I watched a video that listed the new shows of 1983 and turned it into a quiz wherein I listed the ones I remembered. I have done the same with the 24 New Shows of 1987 (26 if you count the two Fox shows mentioned but not depicted). As then, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27668,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions\/27668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}