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Private Benjamin: Season 3 (1982)
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(1981) (United States) (TV)
Based loosely on the 1980 film of the same name, this series follows Private Judy Benjamin, a spoiled socialite, as she struggles through army life. Though she becomes popular with her fellow recruits, her lack of discipline earns the wrath of her superiors. Most of the...
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Trapper John, M.D.: Season 4 (1982)
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(1979) (United States) (TV)
This series brought the character of "Trapper John" from M*A*S*H in as the Chief of Surgery at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. Joining him on the surgical staff was a brilliant young surgeon, G. Alonzo "Gonzo" Gates, who had also served in a MASH unit - in Vietnam. The show...
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The Jeffersons: Season 9 (1982)
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(all media)
George Jefferson has become successful and wealthy in the dry-cleaning business. This affords him the opportunity to move into a ritzy high-rise in New York City. George is stingy, but means well, while his wife Louise (Weezie) is kind and generous. The show also features...
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The Dukes Of Hazzard: Season 5 (1982)
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(1979-1985) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
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Gilligan's Planet: Season 1 (1982)
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(1982) (United States) (TV)
An animated re-make of the famous TV series "Gilligan's Island." The gang of castaways, using the palm trees, coconuts and bananas from their island, build a spaceship and leave planet Earth behind. Of course, they get marooned on an uncharted planet, where they encounter...
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Q (1982)
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(1988) (USA) (TV) (network television)
New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, which they assume to be bogus until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work, ex-con piano player is the only person who knows the...
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
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(1984) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
A look at the lives and loves of a group of high school students. It's the final year of high school for Brad Hamilton who decides he should break up with his longtime girlfriend to play the field. He's at a loss however when she breaks up with him first. Jeff Spicoli...
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Night Shift (1982)
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(1985) (USA) (TV)
A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.
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TRON (1982)
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(1992) (USA) (TV)
Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense...
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The Thing (1982)
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(1986) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team...
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Rocky III (1982)
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(1985) (USA) (TV)
Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including pinball machines. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to...
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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(1991) (USA) (TV)
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister,...
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Just Before Dawn (1981)
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(1988) (United States) (broadcast premiere) (TV)
Five young people venture into the backwoods of Oregon to claim a property, and find themselves being stalked by a hulking, machete-wielding psychopath.
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Saturday The 14th (1981)
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(1985) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their...
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M*A*S*H: Season 10 (1981)
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(1972) (United States) (original airing) (TV)
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean War. With little help from the circumstance in which they find themselves, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and...
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Dark Night Of The Scarecrow (1981)
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(1981) (USA) (TV)
An intellectually-disabled man is unjustly accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he then hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by vigilantes. Later, after it is revealed that he had saved the girl from a vicious dog attack, members of...
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Private Benjamin: Season 2 (1981)
Distributor
(1981) (United States) (TV)
Based loosely on the 1980 film of the same name, this series follows Private Judy Benjamin, a spoiled socialite, as she struggles through army life. Though she becomes popular with her fellow recruits, her lack of discipline earns the wrath of her superiors. Most of the...
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The Dukes Of Hazzard: Season 4 (1981)
Distributor
(1979-1985) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
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Trapper John, M.D.: Season 3 (1981)
Distributor
(1979) (United States) (TV)
This series brought the character of "Trapper John" from M*A*S*H in as the Chief of Surgery at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. Joining him on the surgical staff was a brilliant young surgeon, G. Alonzo "Gonzo" Gates, who had also served in a MASH unit - in Vietnam. The show...
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The Jeffersons: Season 8 (1981)
Distributor
(all media)
George Jefferson has become successful and wealthy in the dry-cleaning business. This affords him the opportunity to move into a ritzy high-rise in New York City. George is stingy, but means well, while his wife Louise (Weezie) is kind and generous. The show also features...
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