Do you remember the season or series finales of your favorite 80's Sitcoms or Dramas? Some of them didn't have a decent burial while others made us cry....I would love to see your thoughts!  ;)

Also, Did 'Facts of life' have a series finale?

As much as I loved that show, I can't remember!

 

I liked "Alice" and "Three's Company", "Gimmie a Break"

Do you remember the season or series finales of your favorite 80's Sitcoms or Dramas? Some of them didn't have a decent burial while others made us cry....I would love to see your thoughts!  ;)

Also, Did 'Facts of life' have a series finale?

As much as I loved that show, I can't remember!

 


The last episode of Facts of Life had Blair purchasing Eastland Girls School and becoming headmistress - there had been talk of spawning a new series based on that but it never panned out.

I remember the final series of ALF.


good episode for anyone who knows it :D

It wasn't in the 80's but "Who's The Boss" season finale I was so sad that day when it left the air. It was April 11th, 1992(a saturday Night) that it was its last episode. Sam(alylissa Milano) got I think married. I can't remember what happen with Tony(Tony Danza) and Angela(Judith Light.) I remember their relationship was getting alot closer the last couple of years of the show.

I remember Different Strokes went off the air in 1986(7) but I forgot how it ended it's final show? ???

My favorite was the one used for Newhart.

my favorite was silver spoons,  punky brewster, good times,  and their is so much more... :)

It wasn't in the 80's but "Who's The Boss" season finale I was so sad that day when it left the air. It was April 11th, 1992(a saturday Night) that it was its last episode. Sam(alylissa Milano) got I think married. I can't remember what happen with Tony(Tony Danza) and Angela(Judith Light.) I remember their relationship was getting alot closer the last couple of years of the show.
I vaguely remember the finale to 'WTB', but I believe Tony and Angela were going to get married. (Correct if i'm wrong,anyone.) :-\\

The last episode of Facts of Life had Blair purchasing Eastland Girls School and becoming headmistress - there had been talk of spawning a new series based on that but it never panned out.
Thanks alot, riversidetigers, I think I remember that.

The Ironic twist was that, out of all the girls in the main cast, you woudn't have thought Blair would be the one becoming the second Ms. Garrett.  Thanks again!

I have to admit my two favorite series final season was "Family Ties" (in 1988 - 1989) -- one of the most completely done series final for a comedy show. 

My favorite drama ending had to be "St. Elsewhere", back in 1987, especially the ending of the last episode with the hospital in snow globe.

My favorite seasons for comedies in the 1980's was the first (1982 - 1983) and fourth (1985 - 1986, the last with Coach) and sixth (1986 - 1987, the last with Diane) of "Cheers"  (very funny episodes in those season, especially the hillarous Thanksgiving 1986 episode where they all dined at Carla's, still makes me LOL!  And Diane in the pilgrim outfit is just waaaaaaaay too out there for words.);  "Golden Girls" had a couple great seasons from 1985 to 1988 until the spin-off "Empty Nest" started, UGH! how they spinned that show off, was just awful for the "Girls".  "Murphy Brown"'s first season, 1988 - 1989 was one of the best seasons for any comedy show (this was before "Murphy" started dwelling into that what was going on on the show was actually "real life" -- Candice Bergen was at the top of her game in thiis season and unfortunately could never get that back -- I also have a fondness for the Valentine's Day episode, 1989, because Murphy's date on that episode {the high school teacher named of all things, Richie -- who ended up taking out Corky Sherwood instead} was played by my favorite character actor -- and also all around actor, Harley Venton -- who should have played David Addison on "Moonlighting" in my not too humble opinion (I was also told personally in 1992, by actress Valerie Harper that I favored Venton, so that's another reason why he's my favorite actor of that time period and of the last 25 years).  Mentioning Valerie reminds me that the time Harper was allowed to star in her own named show, "Valerie" was one of the best and most hillarous of times for that show!  Also "Designing Women"'s first two seasons (1986 - 1988) were very outstanding and I also loved the very little watched but having one of my favorite actress, Blair Brown star in it, "The Days & Nights Of Molly Dodd" was always outstanding!!  Also the one season (1982 - 1983) of "Square Pegs" was also very very outstanding and the fact that it brought fame to Sarah Jessica Parker gives "Pegs" even more a special place in my heart.

As for some of the best dramas of the 1980's having good seasons all-around, some that come to my mind are, "Hill Street Blues", "Cagney & Lacey", "Remington Steele" (especially the first three, 1982 - 1985), "Lou Grant" & "L.A. Law".

And one more very special series final season would definitely have to be "M*A*S*H" (1982 - 1983).

Just wanted to also make a special mention of my favorite mini-series of the 1980's, the sci-fi:  "V" & "V:  The Final Battle"; I just wish that when NBC attempted to make a series out of this show, they would have done it as well as they did the mini-series. (That one season was just awful and does no justice to the miniseries that preceded it)! 
 

Was Threes Co. ending in the 80s? Thought it was the 70s... Whichever loved the show till the last year or so..cant beat suzanne 's snort laugh!..hated the other nurse chick..But the true STAR was John Ritter..he was just the best ..the day he died I cried my eyes out...

Was Threes Co. ending in the 80s? Thought it was the 70s... Whichever loved the show till the last year or so..cant beat suzanne 's snort laugh!..hated the other nurse chick..But the true STAR was John Ritter..he was just the best ..the day he died I cried my eyes out...


"Three's Company" did indeed have it's final season in the 1980's.

"Three's Company' final season was 1983 - 1984 on ABC.  That last season was rather bad, because it was the one where it appeared that Janet and the nurse were barely or is that rarely ever seen (Jack was going to Chef's school).  That last season was really a drag if you ask me (yes, pun intended).  I did like Chrissy (Suzanne's character) cousin, Cindy who was on during the 1979 - 1981 seasons (when Suzanne checked out or was pushed out, depending on the stories you read).   

In the 1984 - 1985 season ABC tried out a spinoff entitled "Three's A Crowd" which had Jack married and dealing with an obnoxious boss (I watched the first episode and it was soooooooooooo boring it was ridiculous, although Ritter did make a valiant attempt at not making it so).  Let's just say "Three's A Crowd" didn't last that long, and was replaced in the spring of 1985 by "Moonlighting". (For good or bad).

Five other ABC comedy shows that started in the 1970's that had half way decent seasons into the 1980's (but not necessarily their last ones -- there were only two of these five that did have a really great final season) were:

"Laverne & Shirley" (the first two seasons , 1980 - 1982 {but after the 1980 actor's strike} when the girls went out to Los Angeles, in the middle of the 1960's, were still quite funny.  Don't get me started on that last and final season of 1982 - 83 when it ended up being "Laverne, Shirleyless"  (Talk about BOOOOOOOOOORING!!!)

The show "L & S" spinned off from, "Happy Days" had a few decent seasons in the early 1980's, until in 1983 the producers decided to spin off Joannie & Chiachi (one of the dumbest mistakes ever made by a TV show's producers).

"Bosom Buddies" starring future big-time movie actor, director and producer, Tom Hanks, did quite well throughout it's run (or more it stayed funny throughout it's run, it was never a big hit), it started in the 1970's last year, 1979, but continued into 1981.  And the use of Billy Joel's "My Life" as it's theme song, was really a great idea.

"Taxi" stayed really funny throughout it's run (it started in the fall of 1978), on both ABC (until the spring of 1982) and on it's one and final season on NBC (1982 - 1983).  Christopher Lloyd was outstanding as the Rev. Jim, Andy Kaufmann was as brilliant as ever, and of course Tony Danza, John Hirsch and Danny DeVito were fantastic in their roles.

And last but not least, "Too Close For Comfort" starring "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" alumni, Ted Knight was also really really funny throughout it's run into the 1980's -- although the best thing for this show is when ABC cancelled it and sent it packing in the spring of 1981 {it ran two previous seasons on ABC from 1979 to 1981} and it ended up being produced independently and seen on independent channels (I do believe this is the first live, not animiated original series {so "The Muppett Show" doesn't count on this and "Space: 1999" seemed animated to me} to do this, predates "Star Trek:  The Next Generation" by two seasons) to nearly the end of it's run I do believe until the spring of 1985.  (The show's producers did seem to run out of steam in the last season, 1984 - 1985).  The sets for this show were also very glorious to look at, I always wish I could have had a townhouse like the leads on the show lived in -- out in San Fran.