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Hill Street Blues (NBC, 1981-87). Though it grew stale and self-important, Steven Bochco's gritty, rambunctious, richly textured look at a big-city police precinct set new standards for TV drama...
Late Night with David Letterman (NBC, 1982- ). While waiting for Johnny Carson to retire, Dave went out and reinvented the talk show. After nearly eight years of NBC jokes, stupid pet tricks and Larry ("Bud") Melman, his video fun house is as inventive and fiercely funny as ever...
Jeopardy! (syndicated, 1984- ). TV's most challenging game show was too smart for the '70s: NBC canceled it in 1975 after a decade on the air. But it reappeared triumphantly in a new syndicated version in the '80s. Who says TV is getting dumber...
...Burning Bed (NBC, 1984). Farrah Fawcett, as a battered wife who kills her husband, made everyone forget Charlie's Angels, and director Robert Greenwald gave this TV movie -- a model for scores of ripped-from-the-headlines dramas to follow -- haunting force...
Crime Story (NBC, 1986-88). Producer Michael Mann brought a flashy film-noir style to TV in Miami Vice, then perfected it in this brooding, operatic underworld drama. And Anthony Denison, as gangster Ray Luca, created the TV villain who, along with J.R. Ewing, loomed as the decade's most memorable...