Just a personal selection… I have no pretention to be exhaustive. Some series are “mangas” or “anime”. During the 80’s, Japan was a major economic power, and its cultural production (at least the pieces adapted to an occidental audience) was everywhere.
- 21 Jump Street / Teen sitcom / Starring Johny Depp as a policeman pretending to be a young badboy
- Albator / Pirate, animated / Space pirate with a big heart, Albator fights E.T. who want to take the Earth
- City Hunter / P.I., animated / An handsome invetigator works only for (beautiful) female clients
- Columbo / Police / The question here is not who killed, but how will Columbo catch him/her
- Dallas / Sitcom, oil / A family owns a ranch and an oil business company.
- Doragon Boru / then Boru Zetto / Fantastic, animated / The story of Goku (then his son), looking for 7 crystal balls to invoke the gold dragon
- Mac Gyver / Adventure / Mac does all sorts of missions for the government, using all resources
- Magnum / P.I. / A veteran from Viet Nam, Magnum is now a P.I. in Hawai
- Miami Vice / Police / Two detectives work undercover for the police in Miami
- Moonlighting / Rom Com / Starring Bruce Willis as a P.I. with his beautiful partner
- Poirot / P.I. / The famous Belgian detective, in a brilliant adaptation
- Quantum leap / Time travel / Sam jumps back in time and repairs the mistakes of the past
- Tayiou no Ko Esteban / Adventure, animated / 1530, south America. Three children may open the lost golden cities
- The A-team / Adventure / A team of mercenaries (veterans from Viet Nam) fights injustices in L.A.
- The Cosby show / Sitcom / The life of the Huxtable wealthy afro-american family in Brooklyn
- The Simpson / Sitcom, animated / The life of the Simpson’s family, somewhere in “Springfield”
- Ulysses 31 / Space opera, animated / The odyssey as a space opera, with Telemaque traveling with his father