80's Recommended (The 80's stuff you can't afford to miss seeing!)

[Gridfan]

If you have suggestions, reply with your suggestions and I'll update this post.

Rules are simple, the movie/series/cartoons must have been released or originally aired during the 80's. (it's ok if a series started in the 70's and continued into the 80's or if they started in the 80's and continued into the 90's.)

Movies (live action)

• Airplane! (and sequel)
• Amadeus
• Back To The Future (trilogy)
• Beastmaster (and sequels)
• Better off Dead
• Bladerunner
• Cloak and Dagger
• Conan (and sequels)
• Critters (and sequels)
• D.A.R.Y.L
• Dark Crystal
• Das Boot
• Dirty Dancing
• E.T
• Enemy Mine
• Evil Dead (and sequels)
• Flight of the Navigator
• Full Metal Jacket
• Goonies
• Gremlins
• Indiana Jones (and sequels)
• Karate Kid (and sequels)
• Krull
• Labyrinth
• Legend
• Logan's Run
• Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior)
• Major League
• One Crazy Summer
• Platoon
• Pretty in Pink
• Raging Bull
• Red Dawn
• Red Sonja
• Rustler's Rhapsody
• Scanners
• Short Circut (and sequel)
• Sixteen Candles
• Spaceballs
• Star Wars (original trilogy)
• The Breakfast Club
• The Last Starfighter
• The Last Unicorn
• The Lost Boys
• The Princess Bride
• The Terminator
• This is Spinal Tap
• Top Gun
• Top Secret
• TRON
• War Games
• Willow

Movies (cartoons/anime)

• Akira

TV-Series (live action)

• Airwolf
• ALF
• Battlestar Galactica (original series)
• Captain Power
• Cheers
• Dr. Who
• Family Ties
• Forever Knight
• Knight Rider
• Red Dwarf
• Superforce
• The A-Team
• Wonder Years

TV-series (cartoons/anime)

• Battle of the Planets
• Cities of Gold
• Dangermouse!
• GI Joe
• He-Man and the Master's of the Universe
• Inhumanoids
• Jayce and the wheeled Warriors
• Lonestar
• M.A.S.K.
• Madballs
• Silverhawks
• Thundercats
• Transformers
• Ulysses 31
• Voltron

[Shigy]

For the movies section Back To The Future trilogy (Yeah I know the third one was 1990 but meh)

[Vallikat]

Movies: agreed with Breakfast Club and Back to the Future.

I'd also add pretty much anything John Cusack or Molly Ringwald to that list. (Better of Dead, One Crazy Summer, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles). Oh and absolutely must have Red Dawn and Dirty Dancing.

TV Series:

Family Ties
Wonder Years
Cheers

Cartoons

Thundercats!!!

I can't think of any others 80's cartoons that I really used to watch. I more or less fell out of cartoons with the exception of the old classics. Except I'm not sure when Ren and Stimpy or Pinky and the Brain came out. I was a big fan of those as well.

[Talidro]

He-Man and the Master's of the Universe!!!


I have the Powah!!!!

[Mivat]

Movies: Critters-series
Series: Captain Power
Cartoons: M.A.S.K., GI Joe, Jayce and the wheeled Warriors, Thundercats

[Innari]

Movies: The Last Starfighter, Gremlins

[Acushla]

Movies: Karate Kid (all three)
War Games
Short Circuit

[Demongirl]

Movies:
Airplane!
The Lost Boys
Top Secret

animated series:
Voltron

[Kyrros]

TV: Red Dwarf, Dr Who (both still active in the 80's), ALF

Movies: Goonies, TRON, D.A.R.Y.L, Cloak and Dagger, Flight of the Navigator, WarGames, Short Circut (series), Evil Dead (series) and I'll put this here cause it's more of a movie set than a TV show.. Mystery Science Theather 3000.

That's off the top of my head, I'm sure I'll think more up later.

[Kyrros]

Oo! Thought up some more.

TV: Battlestar Galactica (original)

Movies: Red Sonja, Conan (series, related to Red Sonja), Beastmaster (series), Logan's Run (Ok, late 70's but aired on TV in the 80's), Dark Crystal, Legend(yay Tim Curry!), The Last Unicorn, Willow, Labyrinth, Krull, Enemy Mine, Scanners, Indiana Jones (series), Major League, Rustler's Rhapsody (One of the damn funniest Western parody movies ever), Spaceballs(Only one man would dare give me the raspberry..).. uh.. I'm done for now. ;D

[Kyrros]

+ Top Gun. Before Tom Cruise went crazy. Yeah!

Ok, I'm really done now.

[fixaboo]

i would have to say et

[Dynamiks]

So many movies not on that list!

ET, Bladerunner, This is Spinal Tap, The Terminator, The Princess Bride, Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior), Das Boot, Empire Strikes Back, Aliens (unfortunately Alien was 1979).. I could go on and on... Raging Bull, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Amadeus....okay enough.. maybe its because the 80's was my favourite decade

Oh, and if anyone lists Return of the Jedi, I'll hunt you down with a tyre iron... The only thing worse than those teddy bear ewoks was Jaja...

[Gimpeline]

No one rememberd Spinal tap????
The greatest music movie of all times.

Who can forget this scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d54UU-fPIsY

[Dithyramb]

Tv Series, live action:

The A-Team
Airwolf
Superforce
Knight Rider


Cartoons:

Silverhawks
Lonestar
Inhumanoids
Madballs

[Gridfan]

So many movies not on that list!
ET

I added it after fixaboo posted actually.

Empire Strikes Back, Aliens (unfortunately Alien was 1979)

Those are there actually due to the rule: Rules are simple, the movie/series/cartoons must have been released or originally aired during the 80's. (it's ok if a series started in the 70's and continued into the 80's or if they started in the 80's and continued into the 90's.) So the classic Star Wars Trilogy and the Alien Quadrilogy (sorry A4 haters) as well. Only reason the Star Wars prequels are not listed is due to them being separate from the classic trilogy. (not a continuation)

Oh, and if anyone lists Return of the Jedi, I'll hunt you down with a tyre iron... The only thing worse than those teddy bear ewoks was Jaja...

*indirect cough*

Personally I love the era from 75'ish to 95'ish.

[Myz_Lilith]

Cities of Gold
Ulysses 31
Battle of the Planets
Dangermouse!
(All cartoons...)

(And always remember, when they first appeared the Ewoks were cannibalistic little bastards who were planning to spit roast Han Solo for supper... they'd make fishsticks out of Jaja before he could even blink those stupid googly eyes!)