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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1983

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The A-Team(1983-1987)

TV-PG
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.8/5 (with 487 votes)

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

With George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr. T, Melinda Culea, Marla Heasley, ...

Captain Tsubasa(1983-1986)

NR
| 24min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Animation
3.9/5 (with 389 votes)

Tsubasa Ozora loves playing football since he was a little child. After moving to the japanese town of Nankatsu together with his mother, the 11-year-old boy quickly finds friends and joins the local football team of his elementary school. Together with his newly made friends and Brazilian mentor Roberto, Tsubasa starts his exciting journey to chase after his most desired dream - one day winning the FIFA World Cup.

Blackadder(1983-1989)

TV-PG
| 32min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 230 votes)

Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.

Directed by Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson - With Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, ...

Inspector Gadget(1983-1985)

TV-Y
| 22min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 190 votes)

Inspector Gadget is a clumsy, dim-witted human cyborg detective with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget stumbles around working the cases while his niece and dog do most of the investigating. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organisation, known as "M.A.D."

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe(1983-1984)

TV-PG
| 22min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 178 votes)

When Adam, Prince of the planet Eternia, raises his magic sword he transforms into He-Man (the most powerful man in the universe). With his allies and friends, he battles the evil Skeletor and his minions to protect the secrets of Castle Greyskull.

Directed by Gwen Wetzler, Hal Sutherland

Dungeons & Dragons(1983-1985)

TV-G
| 24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 122 votes)

Six friends are transported into the Dungeons & Dragons realm and must try to find a way home with the help of their guide 'Dungeon Master'.

Automan(1983-1984)

50min per episode | Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 89 votes)

Automan is an American science fiction superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes on ABC between 1983 and 1984.

With Desi Arnaz, Jr., Chuck Wagner, Heather McNair, Robert Lansing, Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Fraggle Rock(1983-1987)

TV-G
| 30min per episode | Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 85 votes)

The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves.

Directed by Nick Abson, Norman Campbell, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Martin Lavut, Eric Till, ... - With Jerry Nelson, Gerard Parkes, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, ...

The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show(1983-1984)

TV-G
| 11min per episode | Animation, Mystery, Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family
4.1/5 (with 70 votes)

The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show is the sixth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 10, 1983, and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program made up of two eleven-minute short cartoons. The show is a return to the mystery solving format and reintroduces Daphne after a four-year absence. The plots of each episode feature her, Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo solving supernatural mysteries under the cover of being reporters for a teen magazine.

Directed by Ray Patterson

The Thorn Birds(1983)

2h 1min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 59 votes)

The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.

Directed by Daryl Duke - With Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Jean Simmons, Ken Howard, ...

Alvin and the Chipmunks(1983-1990)

TV-G
| 30min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

Three chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are adopted by human, Dave.

Wheel of Fortune(1983-)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Kids & Family, Reality-TV
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

This game show sees contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel.

With Jim Thornton
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero(1983-1992)

30min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 34 votes)

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a regular series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. Ron Friedman created the G.I. Joe animated series for television, and wrote all four miniseries. The fourth mini-series was intended to be a feature film, but due to production difficulties was released as a television mini-series.

Around the World With Willy Fog(1983)

26min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 33 votes)

Willy Fog is a British millionaire who bets that he will be able to go around the world in only eighty days.

Cat's Eye(1983-1985)

NR
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Cat's Eye is the most notorious group of art thieves in Japan. No one knows their identities, but for most of Tokyo, the mystery only heightens their allure.

The Joy of Painting(1983-1994)

NR
| 30min per episode | Kids & Family, Documentary
4.2/5 (with 25 votes)

The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Ross could complete a painting in half an hour, the intent of the show was not to teach viewers "speed painting". Rather, he intended for viewers to learn certain techniques within the time that the show was allotted. The show began on January 11, 1983, and lasted until May 17, 1994, a year before Ross' death.

With Bob Ross

Mama's Family(1983-1990)

25min per episode | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.

Directed by Harvey Korman, Dick Martin - With Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry, Dorothy Lyman, Rue McClanahan, Allan Kayser, Beverly Archer, ...

Frontline(1983-)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

Scarecrow and Mrs. King(1983-1987)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

With Kate Jackson, Bruce Boxleitner, Beverly Garland, Mel Stewart, Martha Smith

The Winds of War(1983)

NR
| 1h 33min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.

Directed by Dan Curtis - With Robert Mitchum

Hardcastle and McCormick(1983-1986)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

With Brian Keith, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Mary Jackson, John Hancock, Ed Bernard, Joe Santos, ...

Reading Rainbow(1983-2006)

TV-Y
| 30min per episode | Kids & Family
4.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

Webster(1983-1989)

22min per episode | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

Webster is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 until May 8, 1987, and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 until March 10, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver. The show stars Emmanuel Lewis in the title role as a young boy who, after losing his parents, is adopted by his NFL-pro godfather, portrayed by Alex Karras, and his new socialite wife, played by Susan Clark. The focus was largely on how this impulsively married couple had to adjust to their new lives and sudden parenthood, but it was the congenial Webster himself who drove much of the plot. The series was produced by Georgian Bay Ltd., Emmanuel Lewis Entertainment Enterprises, Inc. and Paramount Television. Like NBC's earlier hit Diff'rent Strokes, Webster featured a young African-American boy adopted by a white family.

Directed by Joel Zwick - With Emmanuel Lewis, Alex Karras, Susan Clark, Henry Polic II, Eugene Roche, Cathryn Damon, ...

Kinnikuman(1983-1992)

25min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 17 votes)

Kinnikuman (real name Suguru Kinniku), is a clumsy, foolish, comical superhero who discovers that he is the missing prince of the planet Kinniku (known for producing the greatest superheroes in the universe). Since he is a clumsy fool, however, he must prove himself worthy of the throne. To do so he enters wrestling competitions and battles evil Chojin.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet(1983-2004)

50min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.

With Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Timothy Spall, Pat Roach, ...

G.I. Joe(1983-1992)

Animation, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a regular series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. Ron Friedman created the G.I. Joe animated series for television, and wrote all four miniseries. The fourth mini-series was intended to be a feature film, but due to production difficulties was released as a television mini-series.

The Hitchhiker(1983-1991)

30min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

With Page Fletcher, Nicholas Campbell

SuperTed(1983-1986)

10min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

SuperTed is a Welsh fictional anthropomorphic bear character created by Mike Young. Originally created by Young as a series of stories to help his son overcome his fear of the dark, SuperTed became a popular series of books and led to an animated series produced from 1982 to 1986.

Jane Eyre(1983)

30min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

A young governess falls in love with her mysterious employer, but a terrible secret puts their happiness at risk.

Directed by Julian Amyes - With Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton

Natural World(1983-)

TV-G
| 1h per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

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