I Love the 80s

I Love the 80s is a television program that was produced by BBC in the United Kingdom and later for American TV audiences by VH1. I Love 1980 premiered on 13 January 2001 in the UK, with the final part I Love 1989 premiering on 24 April 2001. In the United States, the series premiered on December 16, 2002.

Partial list of featured ideas and happenings of the 80s

• 9 to 5
• Airplane!
• Arthur
• Back to the Future
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• The Blue Lagoon
• The Breakfast Club
• Caddyshack
• Child's Play
• Cocoon
• Crocodile Dundee
• Dirty Dancing
• Do the Right Thing
• '
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Fatal Attraction
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Flashdance
• Fletch
• Footloose
• The Goonies
• Heathers
• Hollywood Shuffle
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Poltergeist
• Porky's
• Pretty in Pink
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Rain Man
• Rocky III
• '
• Say Anything
• Scarface
• Sixteen Candles
• Stand by Me
• St. Elmo's Fire
• Stripes
• The Terminator
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Top Gun
• Urban Cowboy
• Wall Street
• WarGames
• Xanadu
• Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator"
• Air Supply's "All Out of Love"
• The B-52s' "Love Shack"
• The Bears Shufflin' Crew's "Superbowl Shuffle"
• The Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right"
• Blondie
• Bobby Brown
• Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
• Bruce Springsteen
• Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69"
• Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time"
• Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night"
• The Cure
• Cyndi Lauper
• Deborah Gibson/Tiffany
• Def Leppard
• Depeche Mode
• Dexy's Midnight Runners' "Come on Eileen"
• Duran Duran
• Erasure's "Chains of Love"
• A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)"
• George Michael
• The Go-Go's
• Grandmaster Flash's "The Message"
• The Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey"
• Guns n' Roses
• Hair metal
• Hall and Oates' "Private Eyes"
• Hip hop music
• Huey Lewis and the News
• INXS
• Janet Jackson
• Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'N Roll"
• Kenny Rogers
• Kool & the Gang's "Celebration"
• Lionel Richie's "Hello"
• Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam
• Michael Jackson
• Madonna
• Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach"
• Milli Vanilli
• Morrissey
• Mötley Crüe's "Home Sweet Home"
• New Kids on the Block
• Pat Benatar
• Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield"
• The Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket"
• Prince
• Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust"
• REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
• Rick Springfield
• Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love"
• Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith's "Walk This Way"
• Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It"
• Styx's "Mr. Roboto"
• The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"
• Terence Trent D'Arby
• 'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry"
• Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny"
• Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina"
• U2
• USA for Africa's "We Are the World"
• The Vapors' "Turning Japanese"
• Wham!
• Whitney Houston
• ALF
• The Arsenio Hall Show
• The A-Team
• Baywatch
• Bosom Buddies
• Cable television
• Cheers
• COPS
• The Cosby Show
• Diff'rent Strokes
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• Eddie Murphy Delirious
• The Facts of Life
• Family Ties
• The fledgling Fox network: Married... with Children, The Tracey Ullman Show, 21 Jump Street
• Fridays
• General Hospital
• The Greatest American Hero
• He-Man
• The Jeffersons
• Joanie Loves Chachi
• Knight Rider
• The Love Boat
• MacGyver
• Miami Vice
• MTV
• Perfect Strangers
• Punky Brewster
• Roseanne
• Saved by the Bell
• Silver Spoons
• Square Pegs
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• That's Incredible!
• Webster
• Wheel of Fortune
• Who Shot J.R.?
• Who's the Boss?
• Win, Lose or Draw
• The Wonder Years
• The WWF
• Afrocentric clothing
• Calvin Klein/Gloria Vanderbilt jeans
• Hair crimping
• Members Only jackets
• The mullet
• Preppie fashion
• Punk fashions/The mohawk
• Swatch watches
• Atari
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• Care Bears
• Pac-Man
• Pictionary
• Pound Puppies
• The Rubik's cube
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Teddy Ruxpin
• Tetris
• Transformers
• Trivial Pursuit
• Wacky Wall Walkers
• Bill Buckner/1986 World Series
• John McEnroe
• Mary Lou Retton
• Mike Tyson
• The Miracle on Ice
• The attempted assassinations of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan
• The fall of the Berlin Wall
• Celebrity marriages: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal, Tommy Lee and Heather Locklear
• Jerry Falwell sues Larry Flynt
• Hands Across America
• The Like a Prayer/Pepsi controversy
• Live Aid
• Michael Jackson gets his head set on fire during a Pepsi commercial
• Scandals: Oliver North and Fawn Hall, Gary Hart and Donna Rice, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Jessica Hahn
• The wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer
• Bartles and Jaymes
• Breakdancing
• The California Raisins
• Comic Relief
• Corey Haim and Corey Feldman
• The De Lorean
• Eddie Murphy
• The keytar
• The neo-hippie movement
• Rob Lowe sex video
• Valley girls
• Where's the beef?