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Obscure -Long Gone TV Series Gems PART II
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These are the TV shows that were misplaced - ended too soon - Should STILL be going -just out right overlooked! (Will be always adding and please remember these are my opinions) PART II~~ Please be sure to check out my other playlists - Thanks For looking!~~


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TV Show: The Good Life ( 1994 )
When a Chicago warehouse supervisor, John Bowman, and his wife, Maureen, attempt to teach their three children, Paul, 15, Melissa, 12, and Bob, 6, the value of hard work, they get conflicting signals from their father's best friend, Drew Clark, a single and carefree bachelor.
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TV Show: Grace Under Fire ( 1993 )
After divorcing her abusive, alcoholic husband and recovering from her own alcoholism, Grace tries to rebuild her life and protect her children from making the same mistakes.
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TV Show: Café Americain ( 1993 )
Holly Aldrige is a young American living on her own in France. Although she doesn't speak any of the language (which causes trouble for her frequently) she finds a job working as a waitress in a small cafe. At the cafe she meets a strange assortment of characters from around the world. She gradually comes to be friends with them and starts to find her place in her new home.
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TV Show: The Mommies ( 1993 )
Two typical moms, Marilyn and Caryl, live a suburban life with husbands Jack and Paul plus assorted children. Their neighborhood is shook up by perfect Barb, house dad Tom, and Marilyn's divorce from Jack.
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TV Show: Phenom ( 1993 )
A young tennis pro struggles with the challenges of life, family and an overbearing coach.
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TV Show: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ( 1993 )
A sleek, sexy, Emmy-nominated 1990s take on the enduring superhero, culled from DC Comics, which has spawned numerous successful film and TV versions of him as boy and man. All of which further demonstrated that while Kryptonite can kill the Man of Steel, changing times can't. Here, leads Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher have the looks and the chemistry, and the timeless question (seriously, how can Lois NOT know Clark is Superman?) plays itself out until they find true love.
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TV Show: Running the Halls ( 1993 )
Running the Halls follows the exploits of a group of teens attending Middlefield Academy, an East Coast boarding school, and the on-going hijinks that occur as they experience life away from home.
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TV Show: The Second Half ( 1993 )
John Palermo, a newly-divorced Chicago sportswriter, tries to adjust to being a weekday bachelor with his office buddies, Robert Piccolo and David Keller, and weekend father with his two daughters, Ruth, 9 and Cathy, 15.
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TV Show: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ( 1993 )
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. follows a man seeking vengeance against the man who murdered his father. He becomes a bounty hunter although he was trained as a lawyer. Unfortunately his father's killer, John Bly, has his own criminal gang to keep Brisco at bay. But Brisco is aided by his own gang of sorts: dance hall girl extraordinaire Dixie Cousins, rival bounty hunter Lord Bowler, fellow lawyer Socrates Poole and scientist Professor Wickwire. Although the series was set in the Old West, Brisco had an assortment of nifty modern gadgets and then there were the mysterious Orbs scattered about which almost seemed to have supernatural powers.
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TV Show: Getting By ( 1993 )
Getting By is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 5, 1993 until May 21, 1993, and on NBC from September 21, 1993 until June 18, 1994. The series was created by William Bickley and Michael Warren, who also served as executive producers with Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett. The final Miller-Boyett series to begin its run under parent studio Lorimar Television, Getting By was folded into Warner Bros. Television for its second season, following Warner Bros.' absorption of Lorimar.
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TV Show: Matrix ( 1993 )
Steven Matrix is a freelance hitman who will kill anyone for a price. But when another assassin puts a bullet through his head, Matrix finds himself waiting to enter the Other Place for his sins. However, an elderly man sees something in Matrix and sends him back to Earth. Now Matrix must redeem his sins by using his formerly murderous skills to help others. Helping him are representatives of the City In Between, who can appear as anything from skateboarders to nuns to accountants.
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TV Show: Homicide: Life on the Street ( 1993 )
One of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history, Homicide: Life on the Street reinvigorated a tired genre by focusing on the grueling work of solving murders instead of an endless succession of bloody crimes and car chases. Inspired by David Simon's Edgar Award-winning account of Baltimore homicide detectives and brought to television by writer Paul Attanasio and director Barry Levinson, Homicide boasted a powerhouse ensemble cast featuring Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Belzer, and breakout star Andre Braugher.
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TV Show: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ( 1993 )
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues was the continuation of the popular '70s drama Kung Fu. While Kung Fu was set back in the early 1900s, This version is set in modern day. It features David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine's grandson, also named Kwai Chang Caine who is a Shaolin priest. The show also featured Chris Potter as Peter Caine a police officer. The show usually dealt with mystical shaolin dealings but at times had events such as kidnappings and stopping robbers.
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TV Show: Rhythm & Blues ( 1992 )
Disc jockey Bobby Soul is hired sight unseen to work at an urban radio station run by recently widowed owner Veronica Washington. When she meets her new employee, she's shocked to discover that he's not black, and that's enough to make her want to fire him.
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TV Show: Here and Now ( 1992 )
While Alexander "AJ" James is pursuing his graduate degree in psychology at Columbia University he fulfills his volunteer requirement as a youth counselor at a Manhattan Youth Center. Under his charge are Randall, William and T. Meanwhile, at home A.J. must contend with "Uncle" Sydney, the hotel doorman, and his beautiful daughter Danielle who is off limits.
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TV Show: The Round Table ( 1992 )
A drama series focusing on a diverse group of young professionals who socialize together at a Georgetown nightspot named The Round Table while they pursue their careers in lawmaking and law enforcement in Washington, D.C. Characters include: Rhea, a former reporter who leaves the family owned newspaper to become an FBI agent; Jennifer, a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's office; Danny, her bartender boyfriend; Devereaux, an agent for the Secret Service; Wade, a rookie police officer; and Mitchell, a Justice Department attorney.
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TV Show: Camp Wilder ( 1992 )
Camp Wilder is the story of Ricky Wilder, a young woman raising her daughter after a bad marriage. When her parents die, she moves back home to be the guardian for her two younger siblings and ends up being a type of counselor for them and their friends.
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TV Show: California Dreams ( 1992 )
California Dreams is a show about a group of high school teens that form their own band, The California Dreams. The show follows the group through their problems in high school as well as their problems in trying to score a record deal. The theme song to California Dreams is an original song performed by the season's current bandmates.
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TV Show: The Larry Sanders Show ( 1992 )
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.
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TV Show: Forever Knight ( 1992 )
Nick Knight is a 13th-century vampire living in modern-day Toronto. In an effort to regain his mortality, Knight atones for 700 years of evil by fighting crime as a homicide detective for the Toronto police.
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TV Show: Mann & Machine ( 1992 )
Futuristic crime story in which an L.A. cop is partnered with a cyborg partner, who has the sparkle of Data from `Star Trek' combined with the body of Julie Newmar from `My Living Doll.' Plus, as her partner puts it, `She's never had the experience of being wrong.'
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TV Show: The Powers That Be ( 1992 )
A comedy series about Democratic Senator William Powers and his maladjusted family and staff, including wife Margaret, daughter Caitlyn Van Horne, son-in-law Representative Theodore Van Horne, grandson Pierce Van Horne, illegitimate daughter Sophie Lipkin, administrative assistant/mistress Jordan Miller, press secretary Bradley Grist and maid Charlotte.
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TV Show: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1992 )
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was based on the Indiana Jones series of films. The series follows the Indiana Jones character (as a young boy and as a young man) as he was growing up and experiencing his early adventures, where he gets into trouble, learns life lessons and encounters various historical figures along the way. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was filmed on location all over the world ~ including England, Russia, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, France, India, China, Austria, Egypt, the United States, Morocco, Ireland, Italy, Africa, Turkey, Greece and Thailand.
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TV Show: Nightmare Cafe ( 1992 )
Frank Nolan and Fay Peronivic find themselves in a mysterious all-night cafe following a brush with death - but they soon learn that they did, in fact, die, and have been brought back to life by the cafe. Frank and Fay are given the opportunity to correct something in their lives that went wrong the first time, and upon their success, they stay on as the cafe's new cook and waitress. With the aid of Blackie, the enigmatic owner of the cafe, Frank and Fay find themselves dispensing hot coffee, daily specials, justice and second chances to the many imperiled and troubled souls that the cafe is somehow able to attract as it travels from place to place.
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TV Show: Silk Stalkings ( 1991 )
In Palm Beach Florida, crimes of passion are a frequent occurrence among the rich and beautiful. Enter Sgt. Rita Lance and Sgt. Chris Lorenzo the attractive young homicide detectives whose job it is to investigate these high-class murders--or Silk Stalkings, as they call them. Pulsing with illicit affairs, kinky encounters, cold-blooded murders, and their own dark secrets, these are the deadly days and steamy nights of two sexiest cop partners.
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TV Show: I'll Fly Away ( 1991 )
Forrest Bedford is a Southern lawyer in the late 1950s, generally content with his privileged life. But the winds of change are blowing, and he becomes increasingly involved with civil rights cases. Mean- while, Lilly Harper, who cares for his children, is on her own journey of political and personal awareness.
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TV Show: Reasonable Doubts ( 1991 )
Reasonable Doubts follows the working relationship between Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman and Detective Dicky Cobb.
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TV Show: Almost Home ( 1991 )
The Torkelsons are a family of six -- mother, Millicent and her five children -- living in Pyramid Corners, Oklahoma and struggling to make ends meet. The central plot device is the narration, provided by 14-year-old Dorothy Jane Torkelson, as she sits in the window-seat of her upstairs bedroom and talks to her confidante, the Man in the Moon, usually at the opening and closing of each episode. Unlike many television comedies, situations in this show are secondary to the philosophy of life developed by Dorothy Jane, a sensitive reader of poetry; Millicent, a very wise, tolerant mother who, despite her flexibility and humility, has very high standards for how her children view life and treat other people; and the boarder they take in to help pay the bills, Wesley Hodges, whose wisdom in knowing when to get involved in Torkelson family matters -- and when to "butt out" -- gives the show a depth and tenderness usually found only in well-written independent films and shorts.
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TV Show: Step by Step ( 1991 )
Frank Lambert is a construction worker and a single father of 3 kids: J.T., Alicia "Al", and Brendan. Carol Foster, a beautician, also has 3 children: Dana, Karen, and Mark. After Frank and Carol run into each other on vacation and spontaneously get married, they and their children (who appeared to have known and hated each other) have to learn to live together and love each other. It's not easy, but they are trying to do this step by step.
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TV Show: Flesh 'n' Blood ( 1991 )
An assistant district attorney in Baltimore finds herself with a new family when a man claiming to be her brother appears on the scene with his two children.
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TV Show: Pacific Station ( 1991 )
A by-the-book detective tries to cope with his eccentric partner, who has just come off psychiatric leave; and his captain, who gained his rank through connections.
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TV Show: Man of the People ( 1991 )
A man replaces his wife in city council, however his past is very dubious. He is a savvy person and becomes loved amongst his people which endangers the plans of other politicians in town, especially the devious mayor.
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TV Show: Sisters ( 1991 )
The men in your life may leave you, children grow up, parents pass away. The only ones who are there for you, from cradle to grave, are your sisters.
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TV Show: The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage ( 1991 )
The series followed the story of Black Jack Savage, the ghost of a legendary 17th-century Caribbean pirate who teams up with Barry Tarberry, a crooked Wall Street con artist who has escaped trial by coming to the Caribbean. Facing eternal damnation, both of them discover that they need to save 100 lives to compensate for the damage done by their sinful lives, and thus save their own souls.
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TV Show: Dark Shadows ( 1991 )
Dark Shadows is a Remake of the 1966 soap opera of the same name. It starrs Ben Cross as Barnabas Collins.
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TV Show: Cop Rock ( 1990 )
Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) brings you another bold take on the police procedural genre with the provocative and notorious Cop Rock. Combining the gritty, character-driven drama Bochco fans expect with the pulsating rock and show-stopping grandeur of musical theatre (including songs composed by Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar winner Randy Newman), Cop Rock followed the lives of detectives and officers who didn't just walk the beat… but had the slick moves to keep the beat as well!
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TV Show: American Dreamer ( 1990 )
A comedy series about a former network news writer and a widower with two children who moves to a small Wisconsin town and writes a weekly human-interest column for a Chicago newspaper.
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TV Show: Uncle Buck ( 1990 )
Buck, a slob who drinks beer, smokes cigars, etc., becomes the guardian of his brother's three kids when his brother and wife are called out of town. Mrs. Hogoboom is the kids grandmother and Skank and Rafer are Buck's poker-playing buddies.
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TV Show: The Fanelli Boys ( 1990 )
A comedy series about the relationship of a widowed matriarch of a Brooklyn-based, Italian-American family with the four adult sons with whom she lives.
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TV Show: Ferris Bueller ( 1990 )
Based on the popular feature film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," this half hour situation comedy followed the high school adventures of Ferris Bueller and his friends.
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TV Show: Working It Out ( 1990 )
Working It Out is the story of two single parents, Sarah Marshall and David Stuart, who had never seriously contemplated remarriage until they met each other. Given their past histories, both had considerable trepidation, and this was reinforced by their friends' attitudes.
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TV Show: Parenthood ( 1990 )
A comedy series based on the film "Parenthood", centering on the characters and conflicts of an extended family of four diverse households and generations.
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TV Show: Swamp Thing ( 1990 )
When an attempt on Dr. Alec Holland's life leaves him consumed by deadly chemicals and fire, the swamps of Louisiana transform him into a superhuman creature hell-bent on ridding the swamp--and the world--of the evil that men do.
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TV Show: Northern Exposure ( 1990 )
Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, cocky young Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. Upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish-out-of-water as he's instead assigned to a tiny Alaskan village where the offbeat locals would love him to stay forever.
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TV Show: Counterstrike ( 1990 )
Counterstrike is a Canadian action series that first aired on the USA Network in 1990. The series follows Alexander Addington and his privately financed trio of multifaceted operatives under the leadership of Peter Sinclair, a former Scotland Yard inspector, with the single goal of hunting down criminals.
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TV Show: Shannon's Deal ( 1990 )
Based on the made-for-television movie "Shannon's Deal," this series involves the gritty world of a once-important Philadelphia lawyer who now is forced to practice storefront law as a result of his gambling debts.
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TV Show: Down Home ( 1990 )
A series about a successful career woman who leaves New York City with her teenage son and returns to the small Texas-coast fishing town where she was raised.
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TV Show: Carol & Company ( 1990 )
A comedy series starring Carol Burnett. Burnett portrays a different comedic character each week. A special guest star is featured on each show along with featured repertory players.
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TV Show: Grand ( 1990 )
A semi-serialized comedy series centering on the interaction between three families from differing social strata in the fictional town of Grand, Pennsylvania, a city struggling to regain its former glory as the capital of grand piano-manufacturing in America.
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TV Show: Ann Jillian ( 1989 )
Ann McNeil is a widow who moves from New York to California with her teenage daughter. After the death of her firefighter husband, Ann McNeil and her teenage daughter, Lucy move from New York to the northern California village of Marvel, where Ann and her husband went for their honeymoon. Lucy is reluctant to her new surroundings in a new town, but she begins to adjust and makes new friends. Ann is also learning to adjust as well as she starts a new job at a gift shop run by Mrs. Hufnagel. 
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TV Show: Mancuso, FBI ( 1989 )
Mancuso, FBI tells the story of Nick Mancuso, a veteran of the Bureau now assigned to the Washington D.C.. He is regarded as a maverick, something that forces him sometimes to oppose elements of his own government.The character was described by the NBC as having "a passionate love affair with the United States Constitution" and an overwhelming desire to see genuine justice rather than the mere appearance of it.The show was based on Loggia's portrayal of the character in the NBC political miniseries "Favorite Son".
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TV Show: Brand New Life ( 1989 )
Brand New Life centered on a millionaire father of three who fell in love with and married a sweet blue-collar waitress with three kids of her own. They combined families in Murray's Bel Air mansion in this Disney TV movie which led to a one-hour comedy series. Murray's kids had been brought up free-spirited and liberal, while Eden's kids were used to a close-knit, conservative upbringing. Hijinks ensue.
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TV Show: Booker ( 1989 )
Dennis Booker, an ex-cop, is hired by the US office of a large Japanese company to investigate some suspect insurance claims. He is very anti-authority, resents being told what to do, and seems to spend most of his time investigating cases related to his family, friends and colleagues rather than his employers.
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TV Show: Free Spirit ( 1989 )
Free Spirit follows Winnie Goodwinn, a witch who moves in with a recently divorced lawyer as a live-in housekeeper to help care for his three children.
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TV Show: Hardball ( 1989 )
John Ashton and Richard Tyson star as two cops with radically different methods of law enforcement, who are paired together in Hardball.
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TV Show: The Nutt House ( 1989 )
A comedy series about an irresponsible, young bon vivant who is persuaded by his eccentric grandmother to halt his spendthrift lifestyle and assume control of the family hotel, which is populated by a host of off-beat characters.
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TV Show: The Young Riders ( 1989 )
The Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders (some of whom are young versions of legendary figures in Old West history) based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War.
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TV Show: Sister Kate ( 1989 )
Sister Kate Lambert is assigned to take charge of a group home whose residents are seven unruly orphans
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TV Show: FM ( 1989 )
FM is a workplace comedy set at a small public radio station.
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TV Show: One of the Boys ( 1989 )
Former waitress Maria Navarro settles in as an office manager of Lukowski Construction and builds a relationship with its owner.
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TV Show: Quantum Leap ( 1989 )
Get ready to join Dr. Sam Beckett on the adventure of many lifetimes! Who will he be this time? Mafia hit man. Air Force test pilot. Professional boxer. Sam Beckett is a time traveler who never knows whose body he is going to "leap" into next and at what moment in history he may find himself. Sam is joined by a helpful but easily distracted holographic guide Al, who assists him on his missions and aids Sam in his ultimate goal of returning to his own life in the present.
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TV Show: Live-In ( 1989 )
Sitcom about a family that takes in an Australian nanny, Lisa. Danny, the oldest in the family, has a crush on Lisa and takes every chance he can get to come on to her.
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TV Show: Murphy Brown ( 1988 )
Murphy Brown is the star reporter on a news magazine show called FYI. She lives in a townhouse that she is having repainted; Eldin the painter may never finish the job. Jim Dial is the uptight senior anchor, a seasoned veteran. Frank is a single guy and constantly looking for a girlfriend, he is also Murphy's best friend. Corky is a former Miss America turned newsperson, she covers all the "hard" news. 
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TV Show: Tattinger's ( 1988 )
A dramatic series about an Upper West Side, New York, restaurant named Tattinger's, populated by customers and staff who represent a wide cross-section of New Yorkers.
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TV Show: Midnight Caller ( 1988 )
Midnight Caller is the moody drama starring Gary Cole as Jack Killian, a San Francisco cop who accidentally killed his partner. After leaving the police force, he ended up the host of a late-night radio talk show--with a penchant for getting involved with the problems of his listeners.
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TV Show: My Secret Identity ( 1988 )
Teenager Andrew Clements gains superpowers after accidentally getting in the way of Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoate's scientific experiment. Andrew uses his superpowers to help people, but must hide them from his family and friends.
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TV Show: Empty Nest ( 1988 )
In Empty Nest, the two adult daughters of the recently widowed pediatrician Dr. Harry Weston return to live in the same house.
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TV Show: Dear John... ( 1988 )
John Lacey joins a support group for divorced and widowed people.
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TV Show: Baby Boom ( 1988 )
A comedy series based on the feature film of the same title. Kate Jackson portrays J.C. Wiatt, a high-powered executive who suddenly becomes a mother to a child left in her care by a relative who has died.
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TV Show: Eisenhower & Lutz ( 1988 )
The series follows Bud Lutz, Jr., an ambulance-chasing lawyer who sets up a practice near a high-accident intersection in Palm Springs.
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TV Show: Aaron's Way ( 1988 )
Aaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series stars Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family that moves to California. The series follows the attempts of family members to adapt to Californian culture while retaining their personal values. Also appearing on the series were Samantha Mathis and Belinda Montgomery. Aaron Miller's eldest son, Noah, has left the Amish community for the world, but Aaron kept in touch using a post office box. Aaron then learns that Noah died in a surfing accident, and goes to California for the funeral. While there, he learns that Noah had been living with a woman, Susanna Lo Verde, who owns an orchard and is pregnant by Noah.
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TV Show: Day by Day ( 1988 )
A comedy series about a stockbroker and his wife, a lawyer, who give up their careers to run a day-care center in their home.
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TV Show: Sonny Spoon ( 1988 )
The story of an unorthodox but savvy detective who solves cases in highly original ways.
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TV Show: Everything's Relative ( 1987 )
A comedy series about two bachelor brothers who share an apartment in New York City. The older brother, Julian, is a divorced businessman who is shy and a workaholic while the younger brother, Scott, is a rugged, handsome extrovert who is naturally attractive to women. Their mother, Rae, offers constant criticism and encouragement.
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TV Show: thirtysomething ( 1987 )
thirtysomething is an American television drama about American baby boomers (in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) who are now in their thirties. The series examines how this group of friends learns to negotiate their prior involvement with the early 1970s counterculture as young adults, in contrast to the yuppie lifestyle which dominated American culture during the 1980s.
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TV Show: Jake and the Fatman ( 1987 )
Veteran district attorney J.L. "Fatman" McCabe solves cases with the help of his easygoing private investigator partner Jake Styles.
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TV Show: Beauty and the Beast ( 1987 )
Beauty and the Beast is a story that tells just how powerful love is. The show takes place in New York. Catherine Chandler is a wealthy woman who thinks that her life has no meaning beyond anything superficial. She longs for something more. Vincent is from a different world. He lives below the city in tunnels that have been forgotten. He must stay hidden because of his appearance. Though his appearance is different he has the heart of a man. He and Catherine share a bond that is stronger than friendship or love. Somehow they want to make their love work. Neither one of them knows how, but they are determined and refuse to give up.
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TV Show: Tour of Duty ( 1987 )
As the first television drama series about the Vietnam War, Tour of Duty focuses on a single platoon of young U.S. soldiers through their one-year tour of combat duty in Vietnam during the late 1960's. While their own country is rocked by a massive anti-war movement, these young men find themselves thrown into combat in Southeast Asia, where they face enemy troops they can not see and sometimes can not kill. They also face their own fears, as they struggle in a hostile environment just to keep themselves and their fellow soldiers alive.
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TV Show: Hooperman ( 1987 )
Free-wheeling San Francisco cop Harry Hooperman inherits a run down apartment building, and the building owner's mean, hateful and just plain annoying dog Bijoux. Not having the time to maintain the building and tend to his police work, Hooperman hires feisty aspiring writer Susan Smith as his superintendent/maintenance person. He and Smith soon begin a relationship, and the series chronicles the ups and downs of the relationship, along with Hooperman's efforts as a policeman.
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TV Show: Wiseguy ( 1987 )
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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TV Show: A Year in the Life ( 1987 )
A dramatic series, based on the NBC miniseries that aired in December 1986, chronicling the lives and relationships of the Gardners, a middle-class suburban American family headed by widower Joe Gardner.
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TV Show: Private Eye ( 1987 )
An action drama set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, focusing on Jack Cleary, a gritty private detective who forms an unlikely partnership with Johnny Betts, a streetwise rock-'n'-roller.
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TV Show: Crossbow ( 1987 )
Crossbow follows the adventures of William Tell (Will Lyman) and takes place in the 14th-century in Switzerland. William Tell and his son Matthew are imprisoned by the tyrannical Gessler (Jeremy Clyde). As Governor of Austria, Gessler plans to stop the Swiss uprising. Having split the apple on his son's head with his crossbow, much to Gessler's chagrin, there is no stopping William Tell's legendary strength and skill.
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TV Show: Hard Knocks ( 1987 )
Hard Knocks brings together two private detectives with completely different styles, searching for bad guys in Los Angeles. The level-headed Gower (Bill Maher) and his tough-guy best friend Nick (Tommy Hinkley) open a private detective agency in Beverley Hills, trying to tap into the city's rich clientele. What they find each week is a town full of wackos with many problems that need solving.
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TV Show: 21 Jump Street ( 1987 )
A group of young cops are used for their youthful appearance in order to go undercover at high schools. These young officers solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults, most often involving drugs, but also issues such as alcoholism, hate crimes, drug abuse, homophobia, AIDS, child abuse, and sexual promiscuity.
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TV Show: Gung Ho ( 1986 )
Gung Ho was a sitcom following the exploits of Hunt Stevenson, a laid-back employee of a Japanese car company in Pennsylvania.
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TV Show: My Sister Sam ( 1986 )
Samantha "Sam" Russell is a photographer living alone in San Fransisco, whose life gets turned upside down when her younger sister moves in with her.
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TV Show: Throb ( 1986 )
Sandy Beatty, a divorced mother moves from Buffalo to New York City and takes a job at Throb Records, a small label specializing in punk rock. She lives with her 12-year-old son Jeremy. The sitcom shows the crazy situations happening at the world of music business.
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TV Show: Crime Story ( 1986 )
The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime.
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TV Show: Easy Street ( 1986 )
A comedy series about a former Las Vegas showgirl who inherits a Beverly Hills estate after becoming a widow, and must share it with her blue-blooded in-laws.
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TV Show: It's Garry Shandling's Show ( 1986 )
A unique comedy series which began on Showtime cable channel, and then was moved to FOX where the next two seasons continued. The series revolved around Garry Shandling and his friends, who all are a part of his imaginary TV series which takes place in his home. Garry's platonic friend, Nancy, lives in the same building complex, as well as his friend Pete Schumaker and his family, wife Jackie and son Grant. Garry's mom also makes occasional appearances and refers to him as Bubba. The final season saw Garry marry Phoebe, who has to get used to being in front of the cameras.
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TV Show: Stingray ( 1986 )
Ray is an enigmatic adventurer, a former CIA operative, with no traceable past who travels from place to place helping people in trouble, usually due to something illegal. He doesn't take money, but instead demands a favor from the person he helps, to be collected sometimes in the future. Often the favor is used to help someone else who needs Ray's services. Ray's real name isn't known, and it may or may not be an alias taken from the vintage Corvette Stingray that he drives.
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TV Show: The Hogan Family ( 1986 )
The Hogan Family was originally titled Valerie, and was about Valerie Hogan and her husband Michael, an airline pilot. His job took him away from home quite regularly so Valerie was left to raise their three sons, David, and the fraternal twins, Mark and Willie. David was the oldest and girl crazy, Mark was the brain and a perfectionist and Willie was the carefree clown who seemed to always be in trouble.At the beginning of the third season, the Valerie Hogan character was written out of the show and replaced by the boys' aunt, Sandy Hogan, acting as the surrogate mom. The show's title was changed to Valerie's Family, then The Hogans, and finally The Hogan Family.
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TV Show: You Again? ( 1986 )
Ever since his bitter divorce years earlier, Henry Willows had been leading a quiet, peaceful life -- and he'd become set in his ways. But when his 17 year-old son, Matt, whom he'd not seen since the divorce, came knocking on the door, Henry found his life being turned upside-down. Matt's girl-chasing, rock-n-roll ways didn't bode well with his conservative father... leading to a lot of fights. Enid was Henry's wisecracking housekeeper.You Again? was the American version of the English sitcom Home to Roost.
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TV Show: Misfits of Science ( 1985 )
In this short-run series, doctors Billy Hayes and Elvin "El" Lincoln run a scientific think tank dedicated to studying the strange and the unusual mutations in the human body. The overly tall El develops a way to shrink himself to six inches, and the scientists recruit rocker "Johnny B" Bukowski (who can absorb and fire electricity) and young runaway Gloria Dinallo (a telekinetic) to help them. Together, the four of them go on wacky adventures, fight spies, and capture crooks.
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TV Show: Amazing Stories ( 1985 )
As one experience ends, another adventure begins… in the extraordinary worlds of Amazing Stories! From acclaimed director-producer Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment comes the Emmy Award-winning TV series. Join a roster of cinema's most illustrious stars, including Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Robbins, John Lithgow, Kevin Costner and more, as well as some of Hollywood's greatest directorial talents. Relive all the mesmerizing magic, mystery and suspense in these unique episodes from some of filmmaking's finest storytellers!
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TV Show: The Twilight Zone ( 1985 )
Travel into the fifth dimension once again with The Twilight Zone, testing the limits of reality and exploring the mysteries of the universe. Airing from 1985 to 1989, this critically acclaimed anthology series carried on the legacy of the original Rod Serling program and attracted a brand new audience of fans.
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TV Show: The Insiders ( 1985 )
Escapades of two investigative reporters for a national magazine, Nick Fox and James Mackey, whose shady and chequered pasts provide them with the contacts to get inside various criminal enterprises.
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TV Show: Mr. Belvedere ( 1985 )
Very loosely based on a 1940s movie character created by Clifton Webb, this family sitcom is set in the suburban Pittsburgh home of the Owens family, where dapper English housekeeper Lynn Belvedere draws on a history of service to such distinguished figures as Winston Churchill to keep things running smoothly. With father George Owens, a busy sports columnist, and mom Marsha trying to juggle challenging schedules as both a homemaker and law student, it falls to Mr. Belvedere to serve as adviser to their three kids: teenagers Kevin and Heather, plus 8-year-old Wesley.
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TV Show: Otherworld ( 1985 )
Thrown into another dimension, a family must keep ahead of a tyrannical state's hunters while searching for a way home.