Sisko! Servalan! Five! Ah, the crush I had on Peter Davison when I was a wean. And so much did I hate Colin Baker for slagging off his outfit the minute he regenerated that I refused to watch one moment more.

It's sad that every time I see a cop-buddy picture I instantly think "Bet there's a lot of slash of *them* lying around'. CHiPs especially. You can even tell which one gets the weepy-trauma backstory.

Richard Hatch was in 'Battlestar Galactica', and because he didn't bitch about the remake like Dirk Benedict he got a good long-lasting part in it, where he was much coolth.
Glynis Barber was in one of those detective shows, for some reason I always thought it was 'Remington Steele' but no. She is currently in 'Eastenders' and looking very well.

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I was the same way with Davison as a kid. Didn't know behind the scenes Eric Seward was trying to character assassinate Colin Baker at that time, alas.

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Love love love! Great way to start off the morning!

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So much Boxleitner *____* *dies and is dead*

Thank you for all the awesome 80s-ness, Pui!!!!! <3<3<3

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Especially Bruce Boxleitner from the miniseries "How the West was Won." My sister's best friend's dad directed that, so my whole family got an earful from my sister's friend about how good looking he was. Of course we watched the entire show!

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Damn, your sister's best friend wasn't kidding. I've seen the photos! I never thought any man could fondle a gun quite so obscenely before. :P

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BOXLEITNER OVERLOAD! *GLOMP* ILU, PUI! <3

I almost feel guilty for bringing this song.

In the guess-the-show section (without resorting to IMDB or picking on pics I've pimped), I spy Joe Penny & Perry King = Riptide; Liam Neeson = guest starred on Miami Vice; Lee Majors = The Fall Guy and Jan Michael Vincent = Airwolf. \o/

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SO MUCH AWESOME! And SO MUCH HAIR! AND OMG THE SHOULDER PADS!

Amazing post. <3

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I'm sorry boys and girls, but my heart belongs to KITT.

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omg omg so much Six and Seven MY HEART ♥♥♥♥

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Totally worth the wait.

THANK YOU ♥

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This picspam is AWESOME! I've been waiting a long time for the '80s to win (still wish '80s musicians would!) and it was totally worth it.

I think every single one of my girlcrushes from my childhood is somewhere on this post. ♥ ♥ ♥

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This picspam is so full of awesomeness it's not even funny.

Certainly well worth the wait.

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Eee, this is so awesome it's making gigantic shoulder pads awesome by association. I blame you, Joan Collins!

And I was born just a little too late to catch Buck Rogers, but it has exactly the shiny fashion aesthetic I dream of for the future.

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Oh, Pui! You have truly out-done yourself! Thank you for including Michael J. Fox - I'll admit it, he's one of my crushes of shame. xD This is a good post and you should feel good. THANK YOU!!!

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There is no shame in crushing on Michael J. Fox. I love him more now than I did then, even.

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\o/

You gotta love the puffy vest thing he had going on in Back to the Future.

I didn't really learn much about his personal struggles until I watched The Frighteners director's cut and fell in love with the behind the scenes footage of him talking to some little kids on a school trip who were visiting the set one day. He was just so gentle and respectful of every question they asked. He even poked fun at himself telling the kids that the reason why they had to re-shoot scenes most of the time was because he messed up his lines. He got right down to their level (which isn't much of a challenge considering his height *is shot*) and talked to them not as kids but as equals.

Then I got reading about how he battled alcoholism after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 and how he managed to finally pull himself out of his depression and founded The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.

Sorry for the gushing. LOL Any ways, he's hot in The Frighteners because he purposely went against his usual look for his part and it's amazing.

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This is going to be even longer than most of my rambling summaries, as the 80s were my teen years, and so I have a lot of memories.

Bill was a handsome guy back in the day, yes. And I like that tie.
But Heather Locklear... *sigh*

You're right about Joan Collins, of course.

*cracks up at the Ted McGinley sighting* Eighties Man, indeed. "Your Ship's Photographer".

80s Who, oh dear. An unfortunate time, with the Beeb trying to kill it and all.
I remember the first time I saw Peri, after a whole summer immersed in PBS reruns of Davison et al; I couldn't figure out what her accent was supposed to be. @.@;; (Nicola's a lovely girl, but whenever she opened her mouth...)
My memories of McCoy and Aldred as Seven and Ace are much fonder, and Liz Sladen is evergreen as Sarah Jane.

also timeless: Ricardo Montalban.
"You still remember... I cannot help but be touched."

Guilty secret: I watched a LOT of CHiPs and Knight Rider back in the day. Miami Vice, on the other hand... I think I've actually seen more of that in random reruns than I ever did during the original run. (What, no young Edward James Olmos? Tsk.) Nor was I much of a Remington Steele fan, alas.

Dwight Schultz looks rather unnervingly (if appropriately) like Jeffrey Combs in that one pic of him with hair.

AHAHAHAHA 21 JUMP STREET. The show that somehow became one of FOX's first hits and propelled Johnny Depp to a stardom he quickly disavowed, not wanting to be typecast as a prettyboy. Yes, I remember it well. (Also: Steven Williams is a very underrated, and very hot, actor.)

Steve Guttenberg looks... surprisingly not-goofy in that pic with the van dyke. And there's Heather Thomas, "the other Heather" (with Locklear) from those days.

Michael J, quintessential mid-80s teen. Between Marty and Alex P., he had it sewn up. Never quite lost those boyish looks, either.

"And my wife, Morgan Fairchild!" Still an icon for me.

There's Rex Smith, astride Street Hawk - I expect Jan-Michael Vincent will be somewhere below, completing the "80s Super Vehicles" trifecta started by Michael and KITT. (Yup, there he is.)

And you're also right about Tom Selleck not aging. While RDA has, but very nicely. (I suspect some here just spontaneously combusted at that pic of him young and shirtless, leaning back against the tree.)

THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO OMG I LOVED THAT SHOW ahem

Bruce and Kate were so damn cute together. (There's that smile of his I mentioned before.)

Oh, V. Guiltiest of pop sci-fi pleasures. I went to a local con back in '85 which had a couple of Visitor cosplayers, a female officer and her stormtroopers. Good costumes, stayed in character.
Jane Badler with big hair and ridiculous "uniforms", vamping it up and swallowing mice. I was more into Faye (some carryover from GAH, maybe).
In my mind, Michael Ironside has always been old, but it's neat to see him not so old.

Buck Rogers? Okay, I think this might beat out V. But hey, I still love that show, and not (just) for Erin Grey in shiny spandex. Did you know they had Jerry Orbach in one episode, as an eeevil record producer, and Richard Moll as his goon?

and now the "classic Galactica" portion of our program. Forget Athena and Cassiopeia and even Lady Jane as Serena - it'll always be Anne Lockhart as Sheba for me.

Almost didn't recognize Tom Wopat and John Schneider in there. (I watched Dukes when I was twelve, I'm excused.)

That is a ridiculous outfit Melody Anderson is wearing. That would be Ming's Empress of the Hour, yes? I see the late Simon McCorkindale in there also... as for "Manimal", I plead the same as above.

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guest stars? Oh, right. Well, Brad Pitt was on Growing Pains, and George Clooney was semi-regular on The Facts of Life.

But this is really to cover a couple of unfortunate omissions: I totally meant to acknowledge Cindy Morgan (Yori looks great with her hair down), and Stephen Collins, and the inimitable John Steed Patrick MacNee.

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It was a crime what all happened to WHO in the 80's. I wish I'd known them all back then, my little teenage heart would've exploded. (Especially over Davison, damn.) But I had the A-Team (Murdoch) the Dukes of Hazzard (Bo AND Luke) and The Incredible Chest (where's Lou Ferrigno?)

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