Opinion: NBC 80s Thursday Night Lineup was the Best in TV History
CBs also had a great Saturday night lineup in the 70s.
Many years ago, I used to watch quite a few network TV shows. Now I watch only a handful. I do feel like the old guy that talks about how everything in the past was better. While that’s not true of everything, it was true of network TV. A couple of times in television history, a network put together an incredible evening of entertainment.
Thursday night during the 1980s was the home of a great collection of what became classic TV. I was tied up on Thursdays during the 80s, so my first DVR got a workout. Let’s take a look back at that fantastic NBC lineup.
Leading off, The Cosby Show.
While Cosby has become a pariah, and his show largely banished, at the time it was the bell cow for a great night of TV programming. The Cosby Show espoused family values and education. And did it with humor.
The Achilles heel of the program was its tendency to preach. That, and the seeming lack of real problems the Huxtables faced.
With the discovery of a long list of Bill Cosby’s victims and the ensuing losses in terms of the show’s syndication I wonder about the other people associated with the show. I wonder how much money Cosby’s conduct has caused…
