Historical events in 1982. See what famous, scandalous and important events happened in 1982 or search by date or keyword. 1982 was a year of hard rock that saw many bands making artistic transitions, as well as strong releases from some of the biggest names in heavy metal. From The Cure's gothic rock milestone to The Clash's 'sell-out record' and the first Aerosmith album of the 80s, here we compile the 20 albums which shaped 1982's musical landscape.
TV-PG|22 min|Comedy, Drama
The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Stars:Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt
Votes:42,985
TV-G|30 min|Comedy, Family
Chronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Stars:Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Justine Bateman
Votes:14,332
TV-PG|46 min|Action, Crime, Drama
A lone crimefighter battles the forces of evil with the help of a virtually indestructible and artificially intelligent supercar.
Stars:David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Richard Basehart, Patricia McPherson
Votes:26,740
45 min|Comedy, History, War
In France during World War II, Rene Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating Rene.
Stars:Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Vicki Michelle, Richard Marner
Votes:22,059
TV-PG|60 min|Drama
The lives and work of the staff of St. Eligius Hospital, an old and disrespected Boston teaching hospital.
Stars:Ed Begley Jr., Howie Mandel, David Morse, Christina Pickles
Votes:3,145
TV-PG|60 min|Action, Crime, Drama
The weekly adventures of tough-as-nails veteran police officer Sgt. T.J. Hooker, who rides the beat with his rookie partner Vince Romano.
Stars:William Shatner, Heather Locklear, Adrian Zmed, James Darren
Votes:3,276
TV-PG|195 min|Comedy
In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.
Stars:Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny
Votes:32,514
TV-G|30 min|Comedy
The misadventures of an author turned innkeeper in rural Vermont and his friends.
Stars:Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, Julia Duffy
Votes:4,958
60 min|Drama, Music, Musical
The stories of the students and faculty of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts.
Stars:Carlo Imperato, Gene Anthony Ray, Debbie Allen, Albert Hague
Votes:2,770
410 min|Comedy
The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.
Stars:Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan
Votes:12,285
TV-G|30 min|Comedy, Family
Ricky Stratton is a spoiled rich kid who lives the life that many kids dream of, but he still suffers from the problems that many teens do.
Stars:Ricky Schroder, Erin Gray, Joel Higgins, Franklyn Seales
Votes:3,209
TV-PG|60 min|Action, Adventure, Comedy
The cases of a female private detective partnered with a former thief who assumes the role of a fictitious detective in the business.
Stars:Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, James Read
Votes:6,472
30 min|Drama
The everyday life and times of the residents, friends and enemies who live in a suburban street in the city of Liverpool in the north of England.
Stars:Alexandra Fletcher, Diane Burke, Steven Pinder, Vince Earl
Votes:564
TV-PG|24 min|Comedy, Crime
Sight gags and non-sequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The six episodes formed the basis for the very successful 'Naked Gun' film franchise.
Stars:Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, Ed Williams
Votes:14,074
50 min|Adventure, Comedy, Family
Inspired by an earlier children's series, Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), Shelley Duvall hosted this series featuring some of the best known actors in Hollywood performing adaptations of... See full summary »
Stars:Shelley Duvall, John Achorn, Patrick DeSantis, David McCharen
Votes:1,738
60 min|Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The adventures of a 1930's Pacific Islands bush pilot and his companions.
Stars:Stephen Collins, Jeff MacKay, Marta DuBois, John Calvin
Votes:1,275
TV-G|30 min|Comedy
Patty Greene and Lauren Hutchinson, two awkward teenage girls, are desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School.
Stars:Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Linker, Merritt Butrick, John Femia
Votes:885
90 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Matt Houston is a wealthy Texan who moves to California to oversee his family's offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby.
Stars:Lee Horsley, Pamela Hensley, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Cis Rundle
Votes:846
60 min|Adventure, Sci-Fi
The adventures of high-school student Matthew Star, who is actually a superpowered alien Prince from another world.
Stars:Peter Barton, Louis Gossett Jr., Amy Steel, James Karen
Votes:272
60 min|Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.
Stars:Jon-Erik Hexum, Meeno Peluce, Stephen Liska, Gregory Itzin
Votes:1,189
52 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.
Stars:Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling, Christopher Wren, Michael Aldridge
Votes:182
Comedy
An offbeat look at current events, often by dubbing over news video with farcical commentary.
Stars:Anne Bloom, Danny Breen, Lucy Webb, Mitchell Laurance
Votes:364
60 min|Adventure
A drama series, based on the classic musical film of the same name.
Stars:Richard Dean Anderson, Roger Wilson, Peter Horton, Drake Hogestyn
Votes:235
Comedy
A series of self contained TV films starring performers from London's 'Comic Strip' comedy club and their friends. Noted for a high sense of parody of previous films, literature, and generally everyone in sight.
Stars:Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Nigel Planer
Votes:1,055
30 min|Comedy
The sitcom takes us into the further adventures of the characters from the movie of the same name.
Stars:Rachel Dennison, Valerie Curtin, Sally Struthers, Edward Winter
Votes:290
45 min|Game-Show
The long-running words and numbers game.
Stars:Carol Vorderman, Richard Whiteley, Susie Dent, Rachel Riley
Votes:980
30 min|Drama, Romance
Dramatic incidents in the lives of the wealthy Hamilton family and working class Palmer family, linked by the long-ago secret affair of David Palmer and Patricia Hamilton and the offspring ... See full summary »
Stars:Brian Blain, Pat McDonald, Leila Hayes, Ian Rawlings
Votes:199
60 min|Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Popular late-night comedy/talk-show with host David Letterman, interviewing famous guests.
Stars:David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, Bill Wendell, Calvert DeForest
Votes:3,662
60 min|Adventure
Pith-helmeted Buck is a Great White Hunter who here (unlike the real one from the 1940s) works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting all kinds of bad guys in pre-war Malaya.
Stars:Bruce Boxleitner, Clyde Kusatsu, Ron O'Neal, Cindy Morgan
Votes:327
30 min|Comedy
This spin-off of 'All in the Family' features the further adventures of Gloria Stivic and her son Joey. She and Mike are separated and she's gotten a job in a veterinarian's office.
Stars:Sally Struthers, Burgess Meredith, Jo de Winter, Christian Jacobs
Votes:135
TV-Y7|28 min|Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A trio of kids must search throughout 16th Century South America for personal answers linked to the legendary El Dorado.
Stars:Janice Chaikelson, Adrian Knight, Michael Rudder, Terrence Labrosse
Votes:3,174
60 min|Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Rick and Amanda Tucker are a married couple who own and operate their own private-detective agency. Her powers are a tremendous asset in solving cases, although they also have a tendency to... See full summary »
Stars:Tim Matheson, Catherine Hicks, Bill Morey, Alfre Woodard
Votes:91
30 min|Comedy, Romance, Music
The romantic adventures of Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola as they pursue music careers in Chicago.
Stars:Scott Baio, Erin Moran, Al Molinaro, Derrel Maury
Votes:422
60 min|Comedy, Drama
Upon being demobbed, RAF serviceman Harvey Moon returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in ... See full summary »
Stars:Elizabeth Spriggs, Maggie Steed, Linda Robson, Lee Whitlock
Votes:133
30 min|Comedy
When Big Guy Beck dies, the heirs to his estate are given a stipulation (via a pre-recorded video will) before they inherit his wealth. They have to live with Big Guy's illegitimate son, ... See full summary »
Stars:Dixie Carter, Charles Frank, Jerry Hardin, Michael Lombard
Votes:83
30 min|Drama, Romance
This daytime serial dramatized the power struggles and personal machinations between two feuding political families the wealthy Cleggs and middle-class McCandlesses. Storylines developed ... See full summary »
Stars:Constance Towers, Debrah Farentino, Rory Calhoun, Carolyn Jones
Votes:94
Family
Saturday morning magazine show based around a busy house in Maidstone, Kent - No. 73 - featuring star guests, music, cartoons and fun. The twist to the show was that its presenters played ... See full summary »
Stars:Andrea Arnold, Nick Staverson, Neil Buchanan, Sandi Toksvig
Votes:92
50 min|Documentary, History
BBC investigative documentary series noted for its new perspectives on historical events.
Stars:Michael Praed, Sean Barrett, Samuel West, John Tusa
Votes:122
TV-PG|25 min|Animation, Action, Adventure
An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and her secrets lead to a desperate war against an alien enemy sent to retrieve the ship.
Stars:Arihiro Hase, Mari Iijima, Vic Mignogna, Monica Rial
Votes:1,594
30 min|Comedy
Sam and Molly Quinn are two hard working career people just too busy with their careers (he a doctor and she a lawyer) to pay attention to each other or their teenage children.
Stars:Richard Crenna, Patty Duke, Billie Bird, Helen Hunt
Votes:62
60 min|Documentary, Family
Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored.
Stars:Jack Palance, Holly Palance, Cathie Shirriff, Marie Osmond
Votes:336
60 min|Documentary, Family
Documentary series exploring various global wildlife issues and subjects.
Stars:F. Murray Abraham, Chris Morgan, George Page, David Attenborough
Votes:490
60 min|Drama
Brian Devlin was a military intelligence agent. Years ago he had an affair with a woman named Nicole Corsello. He was unaware that she was pregnant with his child. 28 years later, his son, ... See full summary »
Stars:Rock Hudson, Jack Scalia, Leigh Taylor-Young, Louis Giambalvo
Votes:59
TV-Y7|24 min|Action, Animation, Adventure
A research scientist is cursed with the tendency to turn into a giant green brute under stress.
Stars:Michael Bell, Susan Blu, William Callaway, Hamilton Camp
Votes:1,319
30 min|Family, Comedy
The Edison kids are a pair of sibling prodigies who have many adventures where their vast knowledge of science comes in very handy.
Stars:Andrew Sabiston, Marnie McPhail, Sunny Besen Thrasher, Elva Mai Hoover
Votes:246
30 min|Animation, Family, Comedy
The same passengers that got shipwrecked in the tv series get space-ship-wrecked on distant planet.
Stars:Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes:122
30 min|Comedy
An African American remake of the television series inspired by the Neil Simon play about two friends living together despite their completely disparate attitudes to life.
Stars:Ron Glass, Demond Wilson, John Schuck, Bart Braverman
Votes:92
60 min|Comedy, Family
Jim Douglas and his partner Bo ran a small driving school with a very 'human' Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie, who could think for 'himself' and frequently got Jim into some sticky comic ... See full summary »
Stars:Dean Jones, Patricia Harty, Richard Paul, Claudia Wells
Votes:407
60 min|Adventure
Robert Gavilan is a former CIA agent. who is now working for Oceanographic Institute headed by Marion Jaworski. Now was in awhile someone from his past as a spy comes to him asking for his ... See full summary »
Stars:Robert Urich, Patrick Macnee, Kate Reid, Tadashi Yamashita
Votes:23
TV-G|30 min|Animation, Comedy, Family
The adventures of the video game character and his family.
Stars:Marty Ingels, Barry Gordon, Barbara Minkus, Chuck McCann
Votes:370