{"id":27809,"date":"2021-03-05T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27809"},"modified":"2021-03-05T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:07:40","slug":"the-new-shows-of-1982-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/the-new-shows-of-1982-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Shows of 1982 Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ace <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/392597.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">posts again<\/a> a link to a New Shows of 1980-something&#8217;s title credits, and again, I feel the need to watch the whole video and annotate which ones I remember or, heaven forbid, <em>refer to in my daily life almost forty years later<\/em> (I&#8217;m not stuck in amber&#8211;you&#8217;re loose in the aether).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRtCTPQaeXU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Again, I&#8217;ve bolded the ones I remember and linked to any referred to on this blog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Square Pegs<\/strong><\/em>, the <em>Freaks and Geeks<\/em> for our parents&#8217; generation.  Ace calls it &#8220;a show that everyone remembers, but I&#8217;m not sure anyone actually watched it.&#8221;  Which is true for me.<\/li>\n<li><em>Gloria<\/em>, a <em>All in the Family<\/em> spin-off.  Not one of the successful ones.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Silver Spoons<\/strong><\/em>.  Referred to in passing <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/the-wayback-machine-is-on\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">for the Jason Bateman connection<\/a>; I am surprised that I did not refer to it on the blog as my inspiration for having full sized video games in my home.  I know I&#8217;ve mentioned that on Facebook anyway.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Family Ties<\/strong><\/em>.  I called Michael J. Fox Alex P. Keaton <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/where-have-you-gone-alex-p-keaton\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>; I have a tie-in children&#8217;s book somewhere on the shelves here.  Perhaps I should read it among the movie paperbacks.<\/li>\n<li><em>Star in the Family<\/em>.  Starring Brian Dennehy and Michael Dudikoff.  In a <em>sitcom<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>It Takes Two<\/em>.  I want to say I remember it, but probably I remember the song (which is not the theme song for the show).<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Cheers<\/em><\/strong>  C&#8217;mon, man.  Although I don&#8217;t see a reference to it on this blog, I did refer to it in real life recently as an example of how 80s sitcoms were crass and sexual at times because I remember Rhea Perlman&#8217;s character telling someone to announce that she has the thigh sweats for a man.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Newhart<\/strong><\/em>.  I saw this a bunch for some reason back in the day.  And although I don&#8217;t seem to have used the &#8220;I&#8217;m Larry.  This is my brother Daryl.  And this is my other brother Daryl.&#8221; bit on the blog, I have used it in real life within the last decade (or as I like to say now, &#8220;Recently.&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Odd Couple<\/em>.  Ron Glass&#8217;s other show before <em>Firefly<\/em>.  Although I think he had a couple back then, ainna?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Ripley&#8217;s Believe It Or Not!<\/strong><\/em>.  C&#8217;mon, man.  You can still hear Jack Palance saying, &#8220;Believe it.  Or not,&#8221; can&#8217;t you?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>St. Elsewhere<\/strong><\/em>.  I can even remember the real name of the hospital without prompting.  It was like <em>E.R.<\/em> for your parents, but with the voice of KITT.  But it was a nine o&#8217;clock show, so I never saw it as it was past my bedtime.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bring Em Back Alive<\/em>.  Which is apparently an 80s show based on the life of trapper Frank Buck, who played himself in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/on-africa-screams-1949\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Screams<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/em><\/strong>.  I thought I had mentioned this somewhere, but a quick search says no.  I wish I had seen this when I was younger.<\/li>\n<li><em>Voyagers!<\/em>  I might remember this, but I never watched it.  Basically, it&#8217;s like a <em>Sliders<\/em> for your grandparents.  Because <em>Sliders<\/em> isn&#8217;t for kids today.  Come to think of it, maybe <em>Sliders<\/em> is for your grandparents now.  Time flies even without a portal.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Powers of Matthew Star<\/em>.  You know, I would have been right in the target audience for this one.  But I missed it.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Knight Rider<\/em><\/strong>.  You know I saw this.  I corrected trivia about it in the book report for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/03\/book-report-super-incredible-trivia-by-fred-l-worth-1984\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Incredible Trivia<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Tucker&#8217;s Witch<\/em>.  Never heard of it.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Remington Steele<\/em><\/strong>.  Mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/putting-too-fine-a-point-on-it\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> when I listed a set of television private investigators who were actually private investigators.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devlin Connection<\/em>.  Featuring computers and 80s tech fonts which look like Comic Sans to us in the 21st century.  I missed it, though.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Matt Houston<\/em><\/strong> whose star Lee Horsley, as you might remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/tonight-my-children-learn-life-lessons-from-1980s-television\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">made my aunt&#8217;s toes curl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Gavilan<\/strong><\/em>.  This was Robert Urich&#8217;s show before <em>Spenser: For Hire<\/em> and after <em>Vega$<\/em>.  I never saw it, but I remember the bit from the promos, also in the titles, where he punches a guy in the face and shakes his hand because it hurt.  I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m a Robert Urich fan, per se, but I did create a test user named Dan Tanna on my job just this week.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Quest<\/em>.  What is that all about?  But it illustrates that certain actors had their runs in different programs through the 1980s: Robert Urich, Perry King, Stephen Collins&#8211;these guys always seemed to be leading a television series, even though many of them were pretty short-lived.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Seven Brides for Seven Brothers<\/strong><\/em>.  I didn&#8217;t watch it, though, as I was not into Westerns.  Also, Richard Dean Anderson was one of those guys, although he hit it big with <em>MacGyver<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was thinking I did really well on this particular quiz, but it&#8217;s only 13 of 23.  But I think that&#8217;s all of the ones that ran for more than one season and one or two others.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that was a peak year for television for me: My parents were separated, we were on welfare, and my mother could not drive, so she could not take us to the library, so it lent itself to a lot of television.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in 1982, look at the two <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em> tag-alongs: <em>Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/em> and <em>Bring Em Back Alive<\/em>.  And a science fiction bit with <em>Star Wars<\/em> sound effects in the titles (<em>The Powers of Matthew Star<\/em>) and a <em>Time Bandits<\/em> tag-along (<em>Voyagers!<\/em>).  Very derivative stuff, and the television-sized budgets didn&#8217;t hold anyone, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Still, better than I&#8217;ll do in another forty years.  Or even this year looking back to 1990-something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ace posts again a link to a New Shows of 1980-something&#8217;s title credits, and again, I feel the need to watch the whole video and annotate which ones I remember or, heaven forbid, refer to in my daily life almost forty years later (I&#8217;m not stuck in amber&#8211;you&#8217;re loose in the aether). 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