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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#OnThisDay 1980: Here’s Boomer debuted on NBC. Peak late-70s/early-80s TV trend: the wandering miracle dog. 🐕 A stray shows up, helps people solve their problems, then trots off before the credits. Benji did it. The Littlest Hobo did it. Boomer did it. Did this ever happen to you? 😄

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

#OnThisDay 1989: NBC aired “A Very Brady Episode” on Day By Day—a full-on Brady Bunch dream parody with original cast members, recreated credits, and tons of inside jokes. Peak late-’80s nostalgia and a preview of the Brady revival to come. 📺

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

On this day in 1986, the Challenger disaster became one of the most sobering moments of the 1980s. A decade of optimism paused as millions watched live. It shattered the illusion that spaceflight was routine and left a lasting mark on culture, media, and a generation that never forgot.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Laverne & Shirley premiered 50 years ago today! Airing from January 27, 1976 – May 10, 1983. The show starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in the title roles.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

And then came The Master: Lee Van Cleef as an aging ninja roaming America in a van with his young student, tossing shuriken and Zen wisdom while hunted by Sho Kosugi. Totally ridiculous, totally ’80s, and undeniably cool—even if Dallas killed it.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

NBC’s Friday nights kicked off with Legmen; college roommates paying rent by doing bail-bond legwork in sunny SoCal. Rock theme, stolen cars, and beautiful distractions. It only lasted 8 eps, but it set the tone: don’t take this night too seriously.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#OnThisDay in 1987: OHARA debuted on ABC. For a moment, it was Mr. Miyagi as a cop: Yes, Pat Morita playing a meditative, martial-arts-using LAPD detective. Then came the dreaded NETWORK RETOOLING, stripping away everything cool because reasons. Classic ’80s TV whiplash.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Pure late-’80s first-run syndication excess: T & T. 🎶 mmmmm I put my faith in himmmmmmmmm 🎵 Weekends glued to syndicated action hour after action hour...pure 80s energy!

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 10/01/2026

Rest in peace to T.K. Carter (69), who was found Friday at his home in Duarte, CA. An 80s screen icon, he is best remembered for his roles in The Thing, Punky Brewster, and Doctor Detroit. From Runaway Train to voicing The Transformers, he left an indelible mark on the decade.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The man...the machine...Street Hawwwwkkkkk. A jet-powered motorcycle, neon visuals, and a Tangerine Dream theme that screamed 80s excess...

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

B.A.D. Cats mashed together muscle cars, loose-cannon policing, and pure early-’80s excess...right down to a real production car accidentally pulling people over on LA streets.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A Stephen J. Cannell fever dream that mashed Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon, and early hacker culture into one sun-drenched package! Riptide is a perfect time capsule of the decade’s optimism about tech, adventure, and living on a boat in SoCal. Also: Roboz!!!

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Backed by a Lee Greenwood theme that sounded more like a national anthem than a TV intro, this was peak 80s TV. Mountain rescues, call signs, and real-life Conrad family members on screen on location in the wild.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

#OnThisDay 1982: E.T. and Friends aired on CBS. Hosted by Robin Williams, it’s a clip-heavy sci-fi riff-fest—made by the SAME team as It Came From Hollywood and feels like proto-MST3K years before 1988. Pure 80s pop culture.

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 14/12/2025

#OnThisDay 1981: 🎄🐿️ A Chipmunk Christmas debuted on NBC. The holiday special that cemented the modern voices of Alvin, Simon, Theodore & Dave (Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman) and turned Alvin’s selfless gift into a Christmas classic.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#OnThisDay in 1984: The Cabbage Patch Kids’ First Christmas hit ABC! 🎄🧸 At the peak of Cabbage Patch mania, the Kids got their own animated holiday adventure. Voices by Peter Cullen & music by Joe Raposo. Peak 80s toy-craze energy. #Retroblast #80sKids #Nostalgia

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#OnThisDay in 1981: You Can’t Do That on Television hit Nickelodeon & the 80s were never the same. 💚 Real kids, sketch comedy, Barth’s Burgers, locker jokes = early Nick in a nutshell. And SLIME? This show INVENTED it. Whatever you do… don’t say “I don’t know.” 😆💚

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🎄 80s Retroblast: Remember Pinocchio’s Christmas (ABC, 1980)? Rankin/Bass gave us a non-Disney Pinocchio in full Animagic glory. AND it was Todd Porter’s national TV debut before he became Ham on Whiz Kids. A weird, wonderful holiday deep cut! 🪵✨🎁

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

#OnThisDay in 1980: 𝘽𝙊𝙎𝙊𝙈 𝘽𝙐𝘿𝘿𝙄𝙀𝙎 hits ABC! 👠📺 Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari disguise themselves as “Buffy & Hildegarde” to live in a women-only hotel. Strike-delayed debut, messy S2 revamp, canceled ’82… then resurrected in reruns once Hanks blew up in Splash. Pure, glorious, early-80s weirdness. 💄📺

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

#OnThisDay in 1989, AFV debuted...arriving right as camcorders + VCRs took over American living rooms. 📼🔥 A blizzard boosted the “one-shot” special to 32.8M viewers, launching a phenomenon of dads being hit in the nads. Bob Saget. Ernie Anderson. VHS chaos. America, this was YOU.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#OnThisDay in 1985, EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR dropped on ABC...and traumatized an entire generation of 80s kids. Instead of just cute Ewoks, this sequel goes FULL DARK: Marauder raids, sorcery, monsters, Wilford Brimley grumping through Endor. Pure chaotic Lucasfilm energy.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

📺⚡ #OnThisDay in 1987, Chicago TV got hacked by a Max Headroom knockoff. WGN’s signal cut out → creepy Max mask bobbing in front of spinning metal. Later on PBS → he returned, ranting nonsense… then got swatted on the bare butt with a flyswatter. FCC + FBI = NO clues. Pure 80s chaos.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🎶 80s Retroblast: On this week in 1985, Starship’s “We Built This City” hit #1 in America! 🏙️✨ Love it or love to poke fun at it, this glossy, high-energy anthem became one of the decade’s most iconic (and most debated!) hits. Pure 80s. 💥 #Starship #WeBuiltThisCity #80sMusic

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

☄️ 1984: Night of the Comet blazed into theaters! Two Valley Girls, a comet apocalypse, and one of the coolest cult films of the 80s. 💄🔫 #80sRetroblast #NightOfTheComet #CultClassic

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🎬 1981: 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙮'𝙨 hit theaters! The outrageous teen comedy that launched a decade of raunchy laughs and box-office gold. “You’ll be glad you came!” 😉 #80sRetroblast #Porkys #80sMovies #TeenComedy

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Rewatching Murphy Brown reminds you just how razor-sharp ‘80s TV could be. Candice Bergen was unstoppable, the FYI crew was iconic, and the show literally sparked a national debate! This was peak retro TV energy! Bold, smart, and way ahead of its time. 📺⚡️

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🎬 1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street premiered in theaters! Wes Craven’s dream demon Freddy Krueger made horror history...and haunted every sleepover after. 🔪💤 #80sRetroblast #NightmareOnElmStreet #FreddyKrueger #80sHorror

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🎶 #OnThisDay in 1985: Jan Hammer’s Miami Vice Theme hit #1! The neon pulse of the 80s. 🌴🎹 #MiamiVice #80sMusic #JanHammer #Retroblast

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#OnThisDay in 1982: "𝗨𝗽 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 Became the #1 Song in America! The soaring power ballad was recorded for the hit film 𝘼𝙣 𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣!

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

💥 #OnThisDay 1981: THE FALL GUY made stuntmen heroes! Lee Majors sang “The Unknown Stuntman” & starred as Colt Seavers: Hollywood stuntman and bounty hunter with style, a GMC truck & ’80s swagger. 5 seasons, 113 eps, pure pop-culture gold. #Retroblast #80sTV #TheFallGuy

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 03/11/2025

From haunted radio waves to the glow of the TV screen... horror evolved. 🎧 Step back into the shadows with 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢, the new Forgotten TV podcast uncovering ABC’s chilling 1981 anthology. 🔗 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

👓 #OnThisDay in 1988 — John Carpenter’s 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚 hit theaters! Roddy Piper’s shades reveal aliens, propaganda & the ultimate truth: “I’m all out of bubblegum.” 💥 #TheyLive #80sMovies #JohnCarpenter #CultClassic

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🎶 #OnThisDay in 1989 — Roxette’s “Listen to Your Heart” hit #1 in America! ❤️ The Swedish duo took over the airwaves with their epic power ballad from Look Sharp! — a perfect blend of emotion, synths & guitar glory. #Roxette #80sMusic

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 03/11/2025

🌾 #OnThisDay 1981: 𝙁𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙮 debuted on NBC. From Michael Landon, starring Merlin Olsen as a frontier man posing as a priest to protect orphans. 34 eps, pure prairie heart. #ForgottenTV #80sTV #RetroTV

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

1984: Billy Ocean’s “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” 🌴💃 hit #1 in America! Originally “European Queen”, the track was remixed for U.S. audiences — and became a Grammy-winning smash. 👑 Still the reigning queen of the 80s airwaves! #BillyOcean #80sMusic

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

“This Halloween don’t be just another face in the crowd.” Showtime Adult Make-up promised to turn anyone into the life (or death) of the party back in 1984. #80sRetroBlast #VintageAd #80sHalloween #RetroMakeup #ShowtimeMakeup #80sAdvertising #VintageVibes #RetroHalloween #1980sNostalgia #ThrowbackAd

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 27/10/2025

📺 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝟳𝟬𝘀/𝟴𝟬𝘀 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘-𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗩 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗦 — 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟮𝟲 📺 🧥 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙮𝙠𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙬 (CBS, 1988) 👩‍👩‍👦 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙈𝙘𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚 (CBS, 1988) 🍸 𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙎 (NBC, 1988)

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 27/10/2025

📺 𝟳𝟬𝘀/𝟴𝟬𝘀 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘-𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗩 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗦 — 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟮𝟲 📺 𝙎𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙂𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙎𝙩. 𝙀𝙡𝙨𝙚𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙑: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

🚀 #OnThisDay in 1984, NBC unleashed 𝙑: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨! It was spaceships, shootouts, and pure 80s sci-fi chaos. Kenneth Johnson’s allegory? Gone. Recycled FX & campy drama? Absolutely. #VTheSeries #80sSciFi

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Forgotten TV @forgotten.tv · 25/10/2025

📺 Remembering June Lockhart (1925–2025) — the beloved TV mom from Lassie, Lost in Space, & Petticoat Junction. A 90-year career, Tony winner, 2x Emmy nominee, 2 Walk of Fame stars, & NASA honoree. A timeless icon of warmth & strength. 💫 #JuneLockhart #ForgottenTV

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🎙️ “This is Jack Killian on KJCM-FM… The Nighthawk.” #OnThisDay 1988: 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 hit NBC. Gary Cole was a haunted ex-cop turned late-night talk host in SF. Smooth jazz, dark stories & moral dilemmas, and let's not get started on the music rights. "Good night, America...wherever you are."

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Imagine dropping $2,999 on a computer… and still needing floppy disks to save your work. 💾 In 1982, the TRS-80 Model II was the ultimate “power move.” Today, it’s pure nostalgia. #80sRetroblast #RetroTech #RadioShack #VintageAd #80sComputers #TechThrowback #NostalgiaTrip

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🎶 80s Retroblast: 1987 “Bad” by Michael Jackson hits #1! MJ’s edgier era begins — with the Scorsese-directed music video, killer choreography, and one unforgettable question: “Who’s bad?” 👑🔥 #80sRetroblast #MichaelJackson #Bad #80sMusic #KingOfPop

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

On this day in 1988, “𝗔 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘃𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲” by Phil Collins hit #1 in America! 💕 Originally a 1966 hit for The Mindbenders, Collins’ remake was recorded for the film Buster, in which he also starred, and was slower and more emotional than the original.

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

#OnThisDay in 1988, 𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙎 crawled onto U.S. TV screens in first-run syndication! 🧟‍♂️ Its iconic intro (a monster family gathering for dessert & TV) reminded viewers that horror could be creepy, fun and done on a budget. 👁️ #80sHorror

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙛𝙛 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟯) 🚀 Based on Tom Wolfe’s book, the epic chronicles America’s first astronauts — the Mercury 7 — and the fearless test pilots who paved the way for spaceflight. 🌌 Starring Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid & Scott Glenn. #80sMovies #TheRightStuff

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80sRetroBlast @80sretroblast.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🎬𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟯) Tom Cruise stars as Stef Djordjevic, a small-town PA football player fighting to escape a life in the steel mills. Filmed in Johnstown, PA, the gritty drama co-stars Lea Thompson & Craig T. Nelson. 🏈

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