80s TV Ladies is a new podcast devoted to the beloved, female-driven TV shows of the 80s (with some nods to the 70s and 90s)!
80s TV Ladies, hosted by Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson, is about the female-driven television shows of the 80s. You'll hear a breakdown of how the shows got made, how they were influenced by the times and, in turn, how they influenced pop-culture trends to follow. If you're interested in hearing more about 80s pop-culture, viewing media through a feminist lens, or you just love those 80s TV Ladies, we've got it all here for you. New episodes are released every two weeks!
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I watch Cagney and Lacey every day. I have to get my fill of the show. I love the accent that Mary Beth has and Cagney’s spit fireisms. They need to put them back together again one more time. Brenda Evans
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As to what Lacey says to the flasher "Put that thing away, you don't know where it's been!" TV show here in the UK asked the production team whilst the show was still on air and that's what they came back with.
For what I understand the show decided to film several episodes in Europe because the 1984 Olympics were in LA.. making location filming around LA difficult.
I recently started watching Remington on Prime video. I originally watched it, but this time I've binged at least 5 times. I never get tired of it. Thanks for making it.
I have been binge-watching "It's a Living." I am 54, it was one of my favorite shows in my teenage years. I discovered this interview when I was searching for the real composer of the Beautiful Lady Near Me song that character Sonny Mann wrote. It was a beautiful song. It was first used in the show where the record producer offered Sonny a record deal because of that song, but it turned out to be a mistake because he was drunk.
I finally got the chance to sit back and listen to your show, and I have to say that I love it. This episode was great, and I enjoyed the insight. But, out of all the shows, characters, and actors discussed, I have this weird urge to watch Remington Steele.😆 Happy to be a new subscriber! 👏
She was a fabulous selection for the show. First season was the best. She looked best in her business suit.However her understanding of the show, that she was the Star, he would play a minor role as comic relief and appear in the last 2 mins of each show. When they filmed “License to Steal” it was clear both were going to be the Stars. Then they dropped the first season intro, a very provocative opening by her explaining the premise of the show. She was not happy when the second season intro it was no longer about her. Clearly the NBC executives wanted both to be Stars. It was promised to her that this was “her show.” This was the beginning of the feminism movement, she doesn’t need a big strong man. Hence her hat, I can fill that role.
No Mildred’s character was a mistake. If you wanted to attract older viewers that’s the ticket. I would have kept season one characters. Ms Fox was often very skeptical of him.
A couple of notes. I talked about divergence in my previous comment on part one, how life became vastly different for Hungarian Americans and those who stayed, which is why Casablanca is partially built on a factual error. Keeping in line with the “let's give exotic characters Hungarian names, nobody will notice” trend, Lazlo per the story, flees to Casablanca to avoid Nazi occupation. All fair and good for a Czech or a Slovak, the polar opposite for an ethnic Hungarian. A small war and the First Vienna Accords awarded much of Slovakia to the Kingdom of Hungary, and after 2 decades of being considered a 5th column in their country, many were welcoming. So why would he flee? He couldn't have been a communist, they either stayed behind or somehow managed to flee to the USSR. That leaves one unspoken conclusion never spelled out (since yeah the Nazis were bad, but America was still not keen on Jews), namely that Lazlo was assimilated by name but remained Jewish, and once evident what happened he fled. If one binges or watches the show in installments, looking back, maybe there's one thing Miss Zimbalist forgot that Steele even mentions in Season 5 while visiting the Soviet embassy, to see how the other side lives. RS is a time capsule of the Western world. In fact, before owning the show on DVD, I've first seen it in German dubbed in the 90s. Where Moonlighting was bought shortly after the Cold War because Bruce Willis became a big hit, RS flew under the radar for a long time. By the time RS was dubbed into Hungarian, I knew Mr. Brosnan as Bond and Miss Zimbalist as a movie actress. Speaking of division, a couple of years ago, Patrick Duffy narrated a Romanian movie on how Dallas directly contributed to the downfall of Ceausescu. Despite mixed marriages, Hungarians in Romania did not tattle to us on what happened in Dallas, so while they got to enjoy it when it originally aired, it was almost over by the time we started. Speaking of Romania, driving a stick, well… there's a “certain charm” to learning to drive on badly maintained roads in cars intentionally designed not to be comfortable.
It was only touched upon as a fleeting remark regarding family history, Zimbalist as a name isn't that widespread in Hungary. Her grandfather left for America in 1911, shortly before the inevitable collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which became a massive point of divergence for any Americans who traces their heritage to the monarchy. One giant linchpin was the process of forced Magyarization, assimilation where cultural identity was forged into the majority by way of pressuring non-Hungarians into choosing between keeping their social status and/or land at the price of abandoning identity, or keeping it but losing the former. After the war, the cimbalom returned to the Romani community, and started to be associated with them. Gheorgheni is a city in Transylvania, which is said to be the origin of the name. That said as her grandfather was Jewish Russian who was born at a time when pogroms were still a thing I wouldn't be surprised he adopted the name as a vocation.
This is so interesting! I googled Eilish because I'm sitting here watching "Murder She Wrote" & noticed her name as the costume designer. So I googled it & found this. This is so interesting & I'm really enjoying this interview & hearing from Eilish.
So glad you found us and enjoyed listening to our conversation with Eilish. We love her! Check out Stunts of Steele with Debbie Evans Levitt. She is so cool !!! :: ttru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3jgKdwPvQXE.html
TV and music, this was the ultimate episode for me. My favorite montages were "Starsky and Hutch", "Vega$", "I Spy", "Mission Impossible", "Barney Miller", "The Monkees" and "Friends". "Hill Street Blues" is one of my favorite Mike Post themes (along with "The Rockford Files" and "The White Shadow"), and it did make the Billboard top 40. I love that "Breaking Bad" brought "Baby Blue" by Badfinger back to the charts. I also watched an episode that used "Goin' Down" by The Monkees. That was so cool. Thanks for another great show ladies. BTW Susan, you are so not Rose.
Great interview ladies. Mr. Kreppel seems like a lovely fellow, glad he seems to be doing well.PS If you take requests, any chance of getting the Landers Sisters on your podcast? I'd especially like to hear from Judy. She must have so many stories about her time on Vega$, BJ and the Bear, Madame's Place and many other shows of the era.
Fred Neil wrote "Everybody's Talking". Harry Nilsson wrote "Cuddly Toy" and "Daddy's Song" for The Monkees and "One" by Three Dog Night. His self penned hits included "Lime In The Coconut" and "Me and My Arrow". Funnily enough, his two biggest hits were cover versions, the aforementioned "Everybody's Talking" and "Without You" written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. Love your podcasts, looking forward to a very special episode of 80's TV Ladies.
Say the name Miss Sharon Gless and you instantly connect to the SUPERB cop series Cagney and Lacey my favourite cop series of all time which made miss Sharon Gless ( Detective- Sargent Christine Cagney ) not just a household name but an Emmy award winner with her incredible talent. Miss Sharon Gless shows with perseverance you gain ultimate success and how very successful she is with her unforgettable roles she has portrayed including Detective Christine Cagney. Bless her what a wonderful classy incredibly talented powerful Hollywood star with a down to earth persona. What a wonderful interview, may miss Sharon Gless continue to be very SUCCESSFUL. ♥
I Love Tyne Daly and grew up watching Cagney and Lacey at 12 years old in the early eighties. I am rewatching episodes on RU-vid and other content with Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly which is endlessly fascinating and moving. I think that if Tyne Daly wanted to watch herself in Cagney and Lacey she would be made aware of both their loveliness and accomplishments in every scene and each story, as I do, even as i am now 55 and a want to be poet. Love Dan
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Huge fan of Remington Steele! Thought Stephanie Zimbalist was extraordinary as Laura Holt. A very talented actress! So, I was so very disappointed by this interview (both parts). She came off as unkind, self important and just generally unpleasant. I was never a fan of her father's (he couldn't act worth a damn), but the way she describes her relationship with him was just creepy. It just goes to show that actors in real life can be so very disappointing.
I'm glad you wrote this comment, because I thought maybe Stephanie was having a bad day, but I remember an interview several years ago, where she came off pretty much the same. I think she may have been spoiled and is self important. I didn't continue to listen, so I didn't hear the part about her relationship with her father. Now I'm curious. She is a very gifted actor. One of my favorite movie of hers is called "Caroline". She was extraordinary. I am a big fan of Remington Steele, also. I loved the character of Laura Holt. And nobody could wear a Fidora, like Laura Holt.
@@deedeegreen8338 Loved Caroline too. I have it on DVD. She is a brilliant actress, no doubt. She is also fun in "The Man in the Brown Suit", an Agatha Christie mystery. I wonder if she is a little bitter that she didn't get her just due as an actress because she is so good and knows it. If that is it, I feel bad for her because she does deserve to be more recognized. However, life is a popularity contest, unfortunately, and many fall through the cracks. I guess, overall, she comes off as entitled which may be the result of her Hollywood upbringing? Too bad, as I so much wanted to like her on a personal level. There is sexism at play too. It must have been frustrating to play against a break out phenom like Pierce Brosnan. Reminds me of Cybil Shepherd having to cope against Bruce Willis in "Moonlighting", but Cybill certainly fared better than Stephanie.
@@s.tupper4159 I didn't get that vibe of her being self-important but I can see how her talking and name dropping might come off that way. She's a nepo baby. Pre-Remington Steele, she probably thought she was a rising star. She was considered for the role of LH of the show and RS was going to be a minor character. Came along nobody Pierce Brosnan opposite Efrem Zimbalist's daughter. But when he was getting more attention and apparently it was obvious in the writing as well, it must have been weird. There is a significant shift from S1 to S5. As said in the interview, the best actors on the show had come from theater. She seemed to have gone that route to improve her craft. There is an 80s interview post RS and it gave the impression that her father probably didn't approve of her theater work having done a popular TV series and almost having done Robocop.
Coming back to the Podcast bc I rewatched S4 & S5. S4 had a lot of good episodes including all that you mentioned in this podcast. I loved "Surburban Steele", "Steele at your Service", and loved Mr. Steele in "Coffee, Tea or Steele" where he bounces and tests the bed while Laura is talking to Mildred on the phone. But it didn't touch too much on their relationship besides "Forged Steele" and "Sensitive Steele." But S5... Micheal Gleason seemed to want to save the show by introducing another man for Laura. Laura and Remington agreed to finally sleep together but the more the season progressed, the less they were on screen together. Was it on purpose if Stephanie and Pierce weren't getting along at the time? I wish we actually got a conversation between Remington and Laura about how they felt about it each other. Idk She kisses Tony and then gets annoyed with Mr. Steele for ratting him out to the police. Mr. Steele loses his father. And Yet they find a way to get together again? I think creator Micheal Gleason really thought changing the show would convince the network but it didn't.
Loved SMK because it has action in it, Romance, comedy, spy & espionage its exciting..it surprised me..❤ loved Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner in this..they really shined in this!
80s TV Ladies, I have a question. The way that Mr. Steele and Laura spoke, was it more to imitate how character spoke in classic films? Even rewatching the show, i'm getting a feeling that people in the 80s didn't talk that way. They were in their late 20s/early 30s and yet talked as if they were closer to 40.
