Can You Name these 80s TV Shows from a single sentence summary?

By: J.P. Naomi

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About This Quiz

"Come and knock on our door!" Rather than answering the door, answer the questions in this quiz! The 1980s as a decade that was big on sitcoms. From Cheers to The Wonder Years, can you name these '80s TV shows from a single sentence summary?

The 1980s was a big decade for the family sitcom. Viewers everywhere were settling down to watch Family Ties, Growing Pains, and The Cosby Show. When you weren't settling down for the Keaton or Seaver family, you might've been watching a group of friends in Cheers or Three's Company. The decade also included the popular medical drama M*A*S*H and the Tom Selleck crime drama of Magnum, P.I. Not only were these some of the most iconic shows of the decade, but they're still remembered thirty years later. How well do you remember them?

After Captain Kirk, can you remember the new series that showed the continuation of a space odyssey? What about the popular TV show turned film about two cops who go undercover as high school students? Do you remember the late 1980s newcomer about six students attending Bayside High School in California? If you can remember all of these '80s TV shows, you're in luck! From the star-studded cast of Full House to the wit and laughs behind The Golden Girls, let's see if you can name these 80s TV shows from a single sentence summary.

Set in a Boston bar where everybody knows your name, regulars talk about their lives while drinking and working.

Who's the Boss?

Cheers
Night Court

Life Goes On

This show featured a Hawaii-based private investigator with a mustache.

The Equalizer

Magnum, P.I.
Knight Rider

Robin Hood

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with an Earth family after crashing into their garage.

The Twilight Zone

ALF
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Jem

After Captain Kirk's five-year mission, a new generation of officers sets off on their own mission.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Knight Rider
Voltron: Defender of the Universe

The Transformers

This is the story of four older women living together in Miami.

Empty Nest

The Golden Girls
Silver Spoons

Miami Vice

A lone crime-fighter battles the forces of evil with the help of an indestructible and artificially-intelligent super car.

The Greatest American Hero

Miami Vice
Hunter

Knight Rider

A teenager deals with everyday teenage problems, except that he's a licensed physician.

Head of the Class

My Secret Identity
Wiseguy

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Young-looking police officers specializing in youth crime go undercover as high school students.

Street hAwk

Booker
21 Jump Street

Spenser: For Hire

This was a comedy about an English housekeeper working for an American family.

Roseanne

Mr. Belvedere
Remington Steele

The Fall Guy

A scientist trapped in time uses the bodies of different people to travel to different time periods.

Knight Rider

Quantum Leap
The Equalizer

The Wonder Years

A probationary angel is sent back to earth and teams up with an ex-cop to help people.

Beauty and the Beast

Highway to Heaven
Charles in Charge

Moonlighting

Jessica Fletcher uses her smarts and charm to uncover the truth behind every crime she encounters.

Hardcastle and McCormick

Murder, She Wrote
Rosanne

Remington Steele

Corky has Down syndrome and attends an ordinary school.

The Cosby Show

The Wonder Years
Family Ties

Life Goes On

A laid back teacher provides guidance about life for a special class of exceptional students.

Punky Brewster

Head of the Class
Who's the Boss?

Saved By The Bell

This show focused on the cases and adventures of the police department in Sparta, Mississippi.

The A-Team

The Equalizer
In the Heat of the Night

Quantum Leap

In search of his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.

Airwolf

The A-Team
The Equalizer

Quantum Leap

A girl and her dog are adopted by a man named Henry Warnimont.

Who's the Boss?

Punky Brewster
Mr. Belvedere

My Two Dads

A man's cousin comes to America to live with him.

Who's the Boss?

ALF
Highway to Heaven

Perfect Strangers

This was a show about six students at Bayside High School in Palisades, California.

Saved by the Bell

Our House
The Kids in the Hall

Wiseguy

A college student works as a live-in housekeeper for a family.

Charles in Charge

Full House
Doogie Howser, MD.

Small Wonder

Two undercover detectives make their way through the streets of Miami with music, fashion and good vibes.

Jake and the Fatman

Cagney & Lacey
Miami Vice

Moonlighting

This show featured the Keatons - Steven, Elyse, Alex, Mallory and Jennifer.

The Cosby Show

A Different World
Family Ties

Growing Pains

This show followed the adventures of a secret agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.

Street Hawk

In the Heat of the Night
MacGyver

Magnum, P.I.

A group of students at a black university struggle to make it through college.

A Different World

Growing Pains
Perfect Strangers

Head of the Class

This show was set in the 60s and featured a family with two growing sons.

The Wonder Years

Family Ties
The Cosby Show

Growing Pains

Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.

Knight Rider

Matlock
The A-Team

Tour of Duty

A retired baseball player becomes the housekeeper of a New York advertising executive.

Designing Women

Family M atters
Murphy Brown

Who's the Boss?

Harry Weston is a widowed pediatrician with two daughters.

Night Court

Small Wonder
Empty Nest

Full House

Based on a Robert Parker novel series, this show featured a private investigator in Boston who tried to solve murder mysteries.

Quantum Leap

Spenser: For Hire
Magnum, P.I.

Knight Rider

A desk-bound cop fights crime as the test pilot for a prototype combat motorcycle.

Airwolf

In the Heat of the Night
Magnum, P.I.

Street Hawk

This show portrayed the adventures of the various inhabitants of an underground civilization.

The Smurfs

Fraggle Rock
Garfield and Friends

Foofur

Ted Lawson creates a robot who lives with his family.

Snorks

Full House
Doogie Howser, MD

Small Wonder

This show focused on an elite special missions force that fought against the terrorist forces of Cobra.

Voltron: Defender of the Universe

G.I. Joe
The Transformers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This show featured a family whose father owned a home-based business and a mother who was a journalist.

Perfect Strangers

Growing Pains
Charles in Charge

Empty Nest

An ex-cop is hired by the US office of a large Japanese company to investigate suspicious insurance claims.

MacGyver

Booker
Spenser: For Hire

Airwolf

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