The 80s Club

Falcon Crest, USA 1981-1990: A CBS primetime soap opera about the fictional Falcon Crest winery and the family who owned it, set in the fictional Tuscany Valley of California. The series was very popular and a wine named Falcon Crest even went on the market. source wikipedia
Perhaps you purchased a bottle of Falcon Crest. Perhaps you’ve saved it for a special occasion. Why not hang on to it until the show is released on DVD, and savor a fine glass of wine with a friend and a season of Falcon Crest:
Falcon Crest is not yet available on DVD. …read more

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Ah, Scott Baio, how the girls loved thee!
Charles in Charge of our days and our nights
Charles in Charge of our wrongs and our rights
Scott’s first memorable starring movie role was as Bugsy, in Bugsy Malone (excellent movie). From that point on, he made appearances on a variety of tv shows, with recurring roles on Happy Days. 1984 brought him to our television screens as the teenaged male babysitter on Charles in Charge. Since the show ended, he has made appearances mostly on tv. Scott Baoi, an actor the girls all thought was cute, but …read more

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If Tammy’s talk of all wonderful things Star Trek is leaving you with some feelings of nostalgia, be sure to check out the 40 Years of STAR TREK: The Collection.
An extraordinary array of items from the archives of CBS Paramount Television will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York City on 5-7 October 2006.
Star Trek’s prolific 40-year history is reflected in an exciting three-day sale that offers fans and collectors a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase an exciting variety of items – from costumes, weapons, artwork and rare starship models, to original production sets, furniture, accessories and …read more

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Welcome to the Land of the Little Blue People! The Smurfs were a wonderful social collective- going about their daily lives and constantly alert to the mean plots of Gargamel and his sidekick cat “Azrael”. My brothers & I watched the Smurfs every week. One of the boys had one of the Smurf boardgames (I remember something about collecting baskets of fruit), and several of us had books and coloring books featuring Smurfs.

A little more gruesome (and if they had aired this during the years I watched The Smurfs I would have been totally traumatized), …read more

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After my previous post, I thought I’d do a little more research for my fellow Scott Bakula fans. You probably remember seeing a lot of him in the 1980s on TV shows like Designing Women where he played Dr. Theodore ‘Ted’ Shively, Mary Jo’s ex-husband. He had a recurring part for 3 seasons. Some of his other TV credits in the 80s include: “Eisenhower & Lutz” (1988) TV Series – Barnett M. ‘Bud’Lutz Jr ; Infiltrator (1987) (TV) ; The Last Fling (1987) (TV) – Drew; I-Man (1986) (TV) – Jeffrey Wilder; Gung Ho” (1986) TV Series – Hunt Stevenson.
There are fan sites …read more

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The first season of the TV show Quantum Leap began in 1989 and continued to run into 1993. It was a huge hit and told the story of Dr. Sam Beckett, who due to an experiment finds himself leaping through time. I’m a sci-fi fanatic, and who doesn’t love Scott Bakula? But along with hunky Scott B. this series handled all kinds of interesting, sometimes controversial, story lines and offered lots of unexpected twists and turns.

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Secret clubs are probably an aspect of many kid’s childhoods, regardless of the decade. My friends and I managed to be extra-dorky with ours- we had a secret M.A.S.H. 4077th club. Complete with a test you had to pass in order to be permitted to join. Luckily for our club, our parents all let us watch the tv show (how can you gossip about the plot if you don’t get to see it after all). And all of us tuned in for the final episode.
“Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” was the final episode of M*A*S*H. …read more

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Being a total geek magnet was a bit of a disappointment, that is until I met the geek who is now my husband.

In the 80s however, being a geek magnet was definitely a scourge. It was frequently employed as a plot device in the movies, especially the ones starring members of the Brat Pack (depending on your source, the list of actors on the Brat Pack roster will vary), with Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink being the most notable, in my estimation, of the “chick attracting total nerds”. I watched most of the Brat Pack …read more

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Newly released on DVD is the complete first season of “Charles in Charge” starring Scott Baio.
Just to jog your memory a bit, here’s a synopsis of the sitcom from Wikipedia:
Charles in Charge was a situation comedy television show broadcast on American network CBS which starred Scott Baio as Charles, a college student living first with the Pembroke family and then with the Powell family as a live-in babysitter. It was first broadcast from October 3, 1984 until July 24, 1985 and then syndicated from January 3, 1987 until December 8, 1990. 126 original episodes were aired in total.
As a bonus, …read more

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Guys dreamed of living his lifestyle, and gals dreamed of him. To me, he epitomised cool and handsome, and smart, and did I say handsome? Even more, Magnum P.I. wasn’t only a television action series; it was also able to stir in both comedy and drama in the plotlines.
A short intro from Wikipedia:
Magnum, P.I. was an American television show that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawai‘i. The show aired on the CBS network from 1980 to 1988.
Time to relive those good ol’ Magnum P.I. episodes! Both the first and second …read more

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