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Your daily hit of nostalgia, celebrating the movies, TV, music, and pop culture that defined a generation. 🕹️🎶📼

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#OnThisDay 1982: E.T. and Friends aired on CBS. Hosted by Robin Williams, it’s a clip-heavy sci-fi riff-fest—made by the SAME team as It Came From Hollywood and feels like proto-MST3K years before 1988. Pure 80s pop culture.
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#OnThisDay 1981: 🎄🐿️ A Chipmunk Christmas debuted on NBC.
The holiday special that cemented the modern voices of Alvin, Simon, Theodore & Dave (Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman) and turned Alvin’s selfless gift into a Christmas classic.
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#OnThisDay in 1984: The Cabbage Patch Kids’ First Christmas hit ABC! 🎄🧸 At the peak of Cabbage Patch mania, the Kids got their own animated holiday adventure. Voices by Peter Cullen & music by Joe Raposo. Peak 80s toy-craze energy. #Retroblast #80sKids #Nostalgia
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#OnThisDay in 1981: You Can’t Do That on Television hit Nickelodeon & the 80s were never the same. 💚
Real kids, sketch comedy, Barth’s Burgers, locker jokes = early Nick in a nutshell.
And SLIME? This show INVENTED it.
Whatever you do… don’t say “I don’t know.” 😆💚
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
1987 Ray Ban Sun Glasses Print Ad

#80sRetroBlast #80s #1980s #RayBan #Sunglasses #Fashion
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
🎄 80s Retroblast: Remember Pinocchio’s Christmas (ABC, 1980)? Rankin/Bass gave us a non-Disney Pinocchio in full Animagic glory. AND it was Todd Porter’s national TV debut before he became Ham on Whiz Kids. A weird, wonderful holiday deep cut! 🪵✨🎁
#OnThisDay in 1980, Rankin/Bass’ Pinocchio’s Christmas premiered on ABC! A non-Disney take on Collodi’s tale featuring the national TV debut of Todd Porter (later “Ham” on Whiz Kids). 🎄
Pinocchio faces his first Christmas, the Fox & Cat, a puppet show, and a lesson about the real meaning of giving.
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#OnThisDay in 1980: 𝘽𝙊𝙎𝙊𝙈 𝘽𝙐𝘿𝘿𝙄𝙀𝙎 hits ABC! 👠📺
Tom Hanks & Peter Scolari disguise themselves as “Buffy & Hildegarde” to live in a women-only hotel.

Strike-delayed debut, messy S2 revamp, canceled ’82… then resurrected in reruns once Hanks blew up in Splash.

Pure, glorious, early-80s weirdness. 💄📺
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#OnThisDay in 1989, AFV debuted...arriving right as camcorders + VCRs took over American living rooms. 📼🔥
A blizzard boosted the “one-shot” special to 32.8M viewers, launching a phenomenon of dads being hit in the nads.
Bob Saget. Ernie Anderson. VHS chaos.
America, this was YOU.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#OnThisDay in 1985, EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR dropped on ABC...and traumatized an entire generation of 80s kids.

Instead of just cute Ewoks, this sequel goes FULL DARK: Marauder raids, sorcery, monsters, Wilford Brimley grumping through Endor. Pure chaotic Lucasfilm energy.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
📺⚡ #OnThisDay in 1987, Chicago TV got hacked by a Max Headroom knockoff.

WGN’s signal cut out → creepy Max mask bobbing in front of spinning metal.
Later on PBS → he returned, ranting nonsense… then got swatted on the bare butt with a flyswatter.

FCC + FBI = NO clues.
Pure 80s chaos.
#OnThisDay in 1987, Chicago TV was hit by the infamous Max Headroom signal hijacking.
A masked figure cut into WGN’s news, then Doctor Who on WTTW—rambling, distorted, ending with a bizarre flyswatter gag.
FCC/FBI investigations went nowhere.
The hijackers were never found. 📡👀
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
🎶 80s Retroblast: On this week in 1985, Starship’s “We Built This City” hit #1 in America! 🏙️✨

Love it or love to poke fun at it, this glossy, high-energy anthem became one of the decade’s most iconic (and most debated!) hits. Pure 80s. 💥

#Starship #WeBuiltThisCity #80sMusic
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
☄️ 1984: Night of the Comet blazed into theaters!
Two Valley Girls, a comet apocalypse, and one of the coolest cult films of the 80s. 💄🔫
#80sRetroblast #NightOfTheComet #CultClassic
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🎬 1981: 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙮'𝙨 hit theaters!
The outrageous teen comedy that launched a decade of raunchy laughs and box-office gold.
“You’ll be glad you came!” 😉
#80sRetroblast #Porkys #80sMovies #TeenComedy
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Rewatching Murphy Brown reminds you just how razor-sharp ‘80s TV could be. Candice Bergen was unstoppable, the FYI crew was iconic, and the show literally sparked a national debate! This was peak retro TV energy! Bold, smart, and way ahead of its time. 📺⚡️
#OnThisDay in 1988, 𝙈𝙐𝙍𝙋𝙃𝙔 𝘽𝙍𝙊𝙒𝙉 premiered on CBS!
Candice Bergen’s reporter led the FYI team through sharp comedy + social commentary, sparking national debate when Murphy became a single mom and VP Dan Quayle called it out, with Murphy responding on the show.
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🎬 1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street premiered in theaters!
Wes Craven’s dream demon Freddy Krueger made horror history...and haunted every sleepover after. 🔪💤
#80sRetroblast #NightmareOnElmStreet #FreddyKrueger #80sHorror
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🎶 #OnThisDay in 1985: Jan Hammer’s Miami Vice Theme hit #1!
The neon pulse of the 80s. 🌴🎹
#MiamiVice #80sMusic #JanHammer #Retroblast
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
#OnThisDay in 1982: "𝗨𝗽 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 Became the #1 Song in America!
The soaring power ballad was recorded for the hit film 𝘼𝙣 𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣!
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
💥 #OnThisDay 1981: THE FALL GUY made stuntmen heroes!
Lee Majors sang “The Unknown Stuntman” & starred as Colt Seavers: Hollywood stuntman and bounty hunter with style, a GMC truck & ’80s swagger.
5 seasons, 113 eps, pure pop-culture gold.

#Retroblast #80sTV #TheFallGuy
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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From haunted radio waves to the glow of the TV screen... horror evolved.

🎧 Step back into the shadows with 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢, the new Forgotten TV podcast uncovering ABC’s chilling 1981 anthology.
🔗 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
👓 #OnThisDay in 1988 — John Carpenter’s 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚 hit theaters!
Roddy Piper’s shades reveal aliens, propaganda & the ultimate truth: “I’m all out of bubblegum.” 💥
#TheyLive #80sMovies #JohnCarpenter #CultClassic
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🎶 #OnThisDay in 1989 — Roxette’s “Listen to Your Heart” hit #1 in America! ❤️
The Swedish duo took over the airwaves with their epic power ballad from Look Sharp! — a perfect blend of emotion, synths & guitar glory. #Roxette #80sMusic
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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🌾 #OnThisDay 1981: 𝙁𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙮 debuted on NBC.
From Michael Landon, starring Merlin Olsen as a frontier man posing as a priest to protect orphans.
34 eps, pure prairie heart.

#ForgottenTV #80sTV #RetroTV
November 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
1984: Billy Ocean’s “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” 🌴💃 hit #1 in America!

Originally “European Queen”, the track was remixed for U.S. audiences — and became a Grammy-winning smash.

👑 Still the reigning queen of the 80s airwaves! #BillyOcean #80sMusic
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“This Halloween don’t be just another face in the crowd.” Showtime Adult Make-up promised to turn anyone into the life (or death) of the party back in 1984.
#80sRetroBlast #VintageAd #80sHalloween #RetroMakeup #ShowtimeMakeup #80sAdvertising #VintageVibes #RetroHalloween #1980sNostalgia #ThrowbackAd
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM