TV Shows from 1986

ALF

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

American Masters

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

🎭 Genre: Documentary

📺 Network: PBS

📖 Synopsis:

In the acclaimed documentary series, "American Masters," viewers embark on a captivating journey through the lives and legacies of America's most influential artists, writers, and cultural figures. Each episode serves as a profound exploration of their creative processes, per...

Casualty

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

🎭 Genre: Drama

📺 Network: BBC One

🎬 Starring: William Beck, Elinor Lawless, Neet Mohan, Charles Venn, Di Botcher, Michael Stevenson, Anna Chell, Sarah Seggari, Adesuwa Oni, Melanie Hill

📖 Synopsis:

Since its debut in 1986, the long-running drama series Casualty has captivated audiences with its compelling portrayal of life in a busy emergency department. Airing on BBC One, this series has amassed an impressive 45 seasons, showcasing the challenges and triumphs faced...

City Japes July 1987

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: "City Japes July 1987" is a classic sitcom set in a building in the Garden City. The story revolves around three families - the Xus, the Leungs, and the Sus - who live in the same building and interact with each other. Despite occasional conflicts, the families are close-knit and...

Crime Story

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

Designing Women

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as J...

Großstadtrevier

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Journey To The West

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on CCTV in China on 1 October 1986. The series became an instant classic in China and is still being praised as the best and most authentic interp...

KVN Major League

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broad...

L.A. Law

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, s...

Lovejoy

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique f...

Maison Ikkoku

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Godai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the mysterious Yotsuya. The others are given to having wild parties which m...

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The year is Universal Century 0088. Directly after the end of the Gryps War, Haman Karn and her army of Zeon remnants on the asteroid Axis begin their quest of reviving the lost empire of the Zabi's, and proclaim themselves as the Neo-Zeon. With the Earth Federation as haples...

Our House

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in the same house....

Perfect Strangers

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The chronicles of the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous.

Saint Seiya

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus. He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fi...

Sledge Hammer!

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on th...

Spaceship Sagittarius

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Uch?sen Sagittarius is a 77-episode Japanese science fiction anime series directed by Kazuyoshi Yokota and created by Nippon Animation and TV Asahi. It aired from January 10, 1986 to October 3, 1987. The series is based on Altri Mondi, an Italian comic book drawn by physicist An...

The Flying Doctors

📅 Years: 1986 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossi...

The Oprah Winfrey Show

📅 Years: 1986 - 2011

🎭 Genre: Talk-Show

📺 Network: Syndication

🎬 Starring: Oprah Winfrey

📖 Synopsis:

A syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. It is currently the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, having run since September 8, 1986, for over 22...