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The 80s brought around a new era of television broadcasts, featuring more action, flashier cars, and more comedy than television shows before the 80s or even the 70s. Television networks saw the need for a variety of different entertainment genres, unlike the 50s and 60s where most television shows were family oriented.

Among some of the most popular television series during the 1980s were “Miami Vice,” “Punky Brewster,” “The Cosby Show,” “Airwolf,” “The A-Team,” and “ Married with Children.” “The Simpsons” also cropped up in the late 1980s and game shows were largely popular during the decade.

“The A-Team” brought action, attitude, and moral together into one show, a combination that was not largely popular during the early part of the decade.Confused? Here ‘s a little help . “Airwolf” offered a similar stance. “Miami Vice” brought hot cars and sharped dressed men to the living room of every woman in America with heartthrob Don Johnson as Det. Sonny Crockett. “Knight Rider” was another popular series that featured hunky men with loner attitudes, a cool car, and technology that was unheard of -at the time.

“Punky Brewster” was a popular comedy-drama series about an orphaned girl with memorable pig-tails and mismatched clothing. “The Cosby Show” brought around family oriented comedy and moral. In the late 80s, adult humor began to overtake the airwaves with the tongue-in-cheek humor on “Married with Children” and one of the first animated tv series for adults, “The Simpsons.”