 This is the SF Productions podcast network 1982 with a crazy wonderful year in TV from the pop culture bunker I'm Mindy and I'm Mark you can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife three comics on iTunes or on our website SFpodcastnetwork.com We've been covering the new shows on TV guides 1982 fall preview and there were so many of them Yes, and so many hits that we had to break it up into two episodes So let's move on Going to Wednesday tales of the gold monkey ABC. We mentioned in the Anna Jones previously Here's the other half of the knockoff pair Jake Cutter Steven Collins is a cargo pilot with weekly adventures and exotic locales Mostly on backlots and sound stages Rodney McDowell Jeff McKay and Caitlyn Ohini round out the cast Inspired by the 1939 film only angels have wings This was an early Donald Belisario production who of course went on to Magnum PI and Jag and NC IS It fared slightly better than the other Jones knockoff. It got 21 episodes The next is one series that I actually watched and really really liked. I know it's silly. You're the one Seven brides for seven brothers Based loosely on the 1954 musical the show included a number each episode written by Jimmy Webb of the large cast only Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver and Peter Horton from 30-something or of note Almost cast was Michael J. Fox who picked another show that season, which we'll get to in just a minute One season and done 22 episodes, but still holds a place in my heart Mama Maloney Lila Kay a British actress plays an Italian chef who runs a TV cooking show from her apartment When the show was announced for the 1982-83 season It actually didn't air until March of 1984 Which might have something to do with the very stereotypical cast when it actually did air it only ran for 13 episodes Family ties on NBC and here's the show Michael J. Fox picked instead of Seven brides for seven brothers hippie parents Elise and Stephen who are Meredith Baxter Bernie and Michael Gross have three kids of the 80s Fox playing Reagan Republican Alex Justine Bateman playing fashionista Mallory and Tina Yeathers playing tomboy Jennifer Brian Bonzo was added in later seasons for the cousin Oliver effect. Well, at least Elise gave birth to him It was a huge hit reaching the top 10 for three seasons It also generated three Emmys in a Golden Globe and was the poster child for the very special episode Where a major dramatic event would occur? There was a revolving door of relatives and friends played by major guest stars Timothy Bustfield James Cronwell Gina Davis Joseph Gordon Levitt Tom Hanks Julia Louis Dreyfus who would later star on the spin-off series day-by-day River Phoenix Will Wheaton Recurring cast included Mark Price as nerdy neighbor Skippy Scott Valentin as Mallory's biker boyfriend Nick Tracy Poland as Alex's girlfriend Ellen and Fox would later marry her and is still married to her Courtney Cox is another of Alex's girlfriend and the show was based in our hometown of Columbus, Ohio You would see Mallory bringing in Lazarus shopping bags or Stephen would read the dispatch And I regularly watch this series. Yeah, and I actually watch day by day, which actually wasn't bad It's it the idea that series is that friends of the the the Keaton's are running a daycare and Julia we dry fist plays this very 80s woman who's like, why are you bothering to do this? You're not making enough money. I vaguely remember that Tucker's witch CBS Meet Rick and Amanda Tucker Catherine Hicks and Tim Matheson a happily married couple who own a detective agency Oh and Amanda is a psychic so heart-to-heart minus the millions plus the whole witchy thing She gets her visions by looking at the eyes of her Siamese cat It started out as a TV movie or backdoor pilot Which never aired with Kim Cattrell and Art Hindle But her racy role in porkies demanded a replacement Hindle was in porkies as well. So out they both went the first episodes villain Ted Danson Who was about to get a better gig the show ran only 12 episodes I think that might do pretty good now like on the CW with a young couple and the remake of that. Absolutely. Yeah Now we're to Thursday night and the first show we're talking about is star of the family on ABC Brian Dennehy is a fire chief with a wacky company and kids one of which is an up-and-coming teenage singer Kathy Mase Nick Michael Dudekoff and Todd Sussman round out the cast I guess someone thought Mase Nick was the next big thing and she wasn't I looked her up. She wasn't That and it's lead-in Joni loves cha-chi doomed it to 10 episodes It takes to ABC Richard Krenna plays a doctor whose wife Patty Duke Aston is a feminist assistant DA Wackiness ensues from the creators and producers of soap and benzene. It was a look at a couple with dual careers Their teenage kids were played by future stars Helen Hunt and Anthony Edwards Of course Krenna and Aston both were teenage stars in our Miss Brooks and the Patty Duke show respectively Despite all this firepower in front of and behind the camera. It was one season and out 22 episodes Duke would go on to another series by the same producers called hail to the chief The kitchen set would be recycled for another show by the same producers the golden girls So the kitchen set actually had Longer life. Yes. Oh Cheers on NBC The quintessential 80s sitcom and the bedrock of NBC's Thursday juggernaut, which I doubt needs to be discussed further But we will Incredibly the show was nearly canceled after one season due to low ratings It was 74th out of 77 shows But the Emmy wins five in its first season out of 13 nominations changed NBC president Brandon Tartikoff's mind The show would go on to an astounding 28 Emmy wins and 111 nominations Along with six golden globes out of 31 nominations Ted Danson and BB North won two Emmys Rhea Perlman got four Shelly Long here's the alley and Woody Harrelson got one each The directors and writers would basically take over the industry for a whole generation The show also introduced story arcs on a sitcom which helped fuel ratings It was in the top five for eight seasons Coach played by Nicholas Consanto died in season four and was replaced by Woody Harrelson Frazier Kelsey Grammer became Diane's Bo in the third season Diane left the show in 1987 replaced by Rebecca Which is Kirstie Alley Lilith BB. New earth started a relationship with Frazier in the fourth season Bar flies Cliff John Ratzenberger and George went we're there the whole series along with Carla who was Rhea Perlman and of course Sam Ted Danson After 11 seasons the final episode would be watched by 80 million viewers Grammer went on to be the longest-running single live action character on a TV show with Frazier The new odd couple ABC Ever since the original play slash film slash TV series the show has been recast over and over see the recent attempt on CBS In this case Sanford and sons Demond Wilson is Oscar with Barney Miller's Ron Glass as Felix Apart from the complexion. It's the same concept and jokes. In fact eight of the 18 episodes recycled old scripts We can't pay writers The powers of Matthew star on NBC We've talked about this series in our last TV guide review because it was supposed to come out in 1981 The star Peter Burton was badly burned by pyrotechnics during a stunt and the show was pushed back for months In the end it was moot and it was one and done in 22 episodes Knight rider NBC a throwback to 70s sci-fi detective action series like Gemini Man Billionaire Wilton Knight saves a police detective after a near fatal injury gives him plastic surgery and a new identity Michael Knight of course played by David Hasselhoff. Oh, and he gets an ultra high-tech talking car named Kent the night Industries 2000 the voice of William Daniels. This is the second half of his TV double-duty with st. Elsewhere Edward Mulhair leads the foundation for law and government flag and is Michael's main contact Patricia Patricia McPherson then Rebecca Holden then McPherson again plays kids technician and money penny tonight Kit was quite prickly and was constantly trying to talk Michael out of dangerous plans But then a turbo boost super pursuit mode or the bulletproof exterior would get them out of trouble At one point we get an evil twin episode with Hasselhoff and a goatee an evil car named cat It was a very silly series and quite popular it generated tons of toys and merchandise It also generated five remakes or reboots over the years None of which were hits plus various attempts to restart the franchise as late as this year for seasons 90 episodes and I do want to point out that some GPS's you can actually get the voice of Kit to tell you Where it goes. I love this show Meanwhile over on ABC. We have the quest for unrelated people photojournalist Perry King con artist Ray Vitae Retired cop Noah Berry Jr. and department store buyer Karen Austin are the heirs to a Mediterranean throne Based on TV logic who gets the throne? Whoever is the most worthy in a series of adventures set up by John Reese Davies and Michael Billington This mess from Stephen Jay Canal lasted nine episodes only five of which aired Remington steel NBC Female private eye Laura Holt Stephanie Zimbalist can't get clients So she creates fictitious frontman Remington steel to head the agency This guy shows up Pierce Brosnan announces He is steel and forces Holt to let him partner on cases He's a mysterious character a con man and has a very high opinion of himself She's the real detective and saves him from danger a lot. Can they get along? The show pulled a lot from film noir It was a genre that steel really loves and there's a lot of comedy and romance romance going on during their cases The show had actually been pitched in 1969 But it took MTM to push it to TV great tinker of MTM became chairman of NBC shortly before the series was green lit Various side characters came and went throughout the series Doris Roberts later of Everybody Loves Raymond came on as a secretary Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. Stephanie's real father was steel Steals con man mentor The show was briefly canceled after four seasons, but got a reprieve with new NBC head Warren Littlefield Unfortunately, this negatively impacted the careers of both Brosnan and Zimbalist He had been offered and accepted the role of the new James Bond But was forced to pull out replaced by Timothy Dalton. Of course Brosnan would later get the role anyway She was hired as the female lead in Robocop and had to drop out replaced by Nancy Allen That final season turned into only six hours of TV movies. So it wasn't even an actual season So five seasons and 94 episodes total So to recap in 1982 not counting the early shows We got nine hits meaning they went more than one season and 15 flops a very high success rate and NBC laid the groundwork for their 80s dominance with Silver Spoons St. Elsewhere family ties Cheers night rider and Remington Steel, which had a combined 38 seasons total So you can see that out of those nine hits six of them were NBC. Yes. Yeah Well, we'll soon see if 1983 can beat that and while you're thinking about that You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife treat comics on itunes or on our website SFpodcastnetwork.com from the pop culture bunker. I'm Mindy and I'm Mark. Thanks for watching turbo boost