Flashback to 1982 - Growing Up in America 

I turned 10 in 1982 and I remember everything from that year especially Olivia, she is still one of my favorites of all time.

Dave, 1982 was the year I graduated from High School, only in Michigan. I now feel I am in good company.

1982 was a great year I was 17 and holding down a full time job , speaking of the 49ers Jerry Rice he is the only wide receiver I ever sacked he came in the store I was working at.🏈🏟️ Keep Up The Good Work...

I was 11 😢😢 I want the 80"s back. It was all good then. Movies, music, fashion was fun. Hi Dave ♥️

I was a junior in high school. Thanks for the memories!!!!!😀😀😀😀

I'm still living in the 80's! I was born in 1969, the 80's were my favorite part of growing up (I'm still not grown up yet though.) That Super 🏈 Bowl was the best ever! I remember it so well!

Class of 82 here. Good times captured, thanks Dave!

1982 is probably the pinnacle year of my memories of watching television nightly with my family. Friday nights in and around that year were incredibly special to me. We’d all watch The Dukes of Hazzard at 8 P.M., and then the parents would send us kids to sleep and watch Dallas at 9 P.M.

In April of '82 I turned 17, and my parents got expanded basic cable.HBO,Cinemax and MTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So nostalgic😍. I was a sophomore in high school in 82 - grew a mullet, Started dating, In the band, Playing D&D and going to the movies with the arcade attached to it every Friday night🤩. You know - all the good stuff🤗

I graduated in 1982 as well! Remember all of this.

Tell me about it Dave. Life was good ............30, 40 years ago. Now, I don't want to even get started.

Class of '84 checking in. Even though I remember all of this, whenever someone mentions 1982, I can't help but think of Uncle Rico. "Do you ever wish you could go back?"

Dave thanks for the memories. I graduated in 1983. And I really miss those times. Great times and great tv and movies at that time.

tv, movies and music were just amazing. I was 10 years old in 1982, and I remember nothing but good things!

I graduated high school in 1982 too! 🙂

Awww great times

The 80s was the best, love this video!

Great memories. Thanks!

I was 8 in 1982. ST2 was the first movie I saw in an indoor theater not drive in. It blew me away and made me a Star Trek fan! Also got Duran Durans Rio album. A great year indeed!

Took the first vacation I remember in my life in 1982. Went to Texas with my family and watched “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” I love the movie. It was the first movie I ever watched in a movie theater.

In 1982, I was a sophomore in HS. I was very much into the nighttime soap operas like Dynasty and Dallas. I wasn’t much of a Shelley Long fan, but loved when Kirstie Alley joined the cast of Cheers. In 1985, I moved clear across the country from NJ to Utah. It was all about snow skiing for me back then. 🎿 ⛷ I still snow ski occasionally, but it’s outrageously expensive these days. Thanks for another trip down memory lane. 😊

Oh man! Soo many memories. I graduated in '81 so all these shows were so awesome! Yes Tron! Oh my! yes the music too! OH one of my favorite years1 Thanks Dave! This was great!

i was 4 but my sis was 14 used to watch tv with her and feel so grown up you are right a lot of things going on in 1982

Dave you do it like a BOSS... WHAT A STELLAR VIDEO.

Great 👍 video one of my favorite years

1982 I was 6 that year. Just starting my schoool journey. Remembering the Hunter was Space Age.

I loved the 80's (though I always say it's the best decade I can't remember lol)

Thanks for the Video (and the memories)😀

I graduated in '82 as well! Saw Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan in the theater, one of my favorite Star Trek movies and spent all my time in an arcade playing video games.

Thanks for the ride down memory lane Dave. The highlights for me that year was watching “The Catch” live on tv, Montana to Dwight Clark. I graduated 8th grade in 1982. I also remember me & a couple of friends walking from my house to the movie theater, about 3 miles away to see Stark Trek Wrath of Khan. The good ole days.

The same year I graduated The End of Innocence, darn. I didn't appreciate my innocence until I lost it😩

I spent most of 1982 first in basic training and then AIT in the Army and I missed many milestones in TV, movies and music that year. I managed to catch up slowly but it wasn't the same as when you miss something today. Back then we did not have the technology we have today- I would have loved RU-vid back in the day or even a VCR( I missed many episodes of Days of Our Lives)! As Bob Hope would say-Thanks for the memories Dave!

I had my horse riding lessons changed from thursday nights to another day because of Cheers. I had just started middle school and In band we learned to play the theme song along with the theme song to Greatest American Hero. Fun, fun times!

OMG 1982 what a year! Graduated and had a summer job that I made so much money! I could hit up the Arcade with $20 in quarters and play my heart out! I could buy 8 tracks for my stereo! I remember running home to watch the video premiere of "Thriller" on "Video Hits!" , the Canadian tv show! Who can forget Olivia "Neutron" Bomb! OMG so many great movies too! Poltergeist and Tron! and of course Wrath Of Khan! Thanks Dave!

What a great year! So many historic moments in tv and movies as well as real life. I'm a 90's baby myself so I have specific love for that decade and even the 2000's and the historic moments of those periods. The sad thing now is that the kids today won't be able to say the same decades from now. Who wants to remember this era? Especially 2020? Lol

This was a good year! I was a junior going into my senior year. Miss those awesome years of the 80s. Thank you

its like you know whats in my heart.. i graduated hs and started community college in 82. also dropped out took me a while to go back. i have the same tastes and memories

1982...An interesting year. Alot of good movies, music & tv. Not to mention the general goings-on in the world. I was 12 and still remember some events; the plane crashing in the Potomac, commercials ( even the musical jingle ) for the 1982 World Fair, Michael Jacksons THRILLER , the Falkland islands invasion and my mom dying from an aneurysm. It feels like it was all a long time ago most of the time, but sometimes, for a very brief time, some of it feels like it happened last month.

In 1982, I graduated from junior high school in Hacienda heights CA in the Los Angeles county back then. I had my first computer video game and watching Tron. Cyanide in Tylenol made everyone in America scared to death. ☠️🇺🇲

Remember 82" so well. Was 17 that year. Skipping school to dump quarters in the video games at the huge arcade next town over. Watching MTV when it was still playing actual music and all the great New Wave band videos. The great movies out that year, Tron, Bladerunner, Wrath of Khan, Officer and a Gentleman among others. Remember playing the Tron video game in the theater lobby when the movie came out. Really wish I could stuff myself in a time machine and go back. Much better times on many levels.

I was 14 years old that year.My second year at Louis Armstrong middle school.Such memories....and I do mean MEMORIES.almost every girl at my junior high school at the time looked like either Joan Jett,Pat Benatar or Olivia Newton John ( mainly because of the song "physical" like I said "such MEMORIES". Anyway,bless you for reminiscing I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking about the Eighties.

Great video!!! Lot's of memories.

I'm a 1984 girl (really dating myself now), but I just wanted you to know that 1982 is my all time favorite year in music, BY FAR (with 1984 being a close second)!!! :D From 1982, I think my favorite movie was Cat People and Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn. So amazing!!!

Dave thanks for bringing back some great memories!!! :)

Lol. On my birthday my wife got me a 24 pack of RPBC. One of my all time favorites too!

A great year that I mostly remember for my favorite tv show at the time, Voyagers!

You sound like my eldest cousins! 😜 I was turning 5 in late September 1982. I had a Pac-Man birthday cake my mom designed. And that Christmas I got soooo much ET stuff!! (I wish I could share a picture, but that perished in our house fire.) T-shirts, tote bags, books, a bike!, and the LP of ET, narrated by the (at the time) mythic god himself--Micheal Jackson! What a crazy year that was! I think, looking back, that is THE year that the 80's defined itself. Sometimes new decades take a year or two to come into their own. Thanks for all the fun videos!! 😄

Another great episode! I loved every year of the 80s!

Right on Dave!! I graduated in "81. Or should I say, would have. Thank you proficiency test! And spell-check. Saw Montana play multiple times.

I was 16. WOW getting my Lerner permit and ready to fly down the interstate. You sparked some awesome memories. Thanks Dave.

Awesome decade e.T. And knight rider tron classics 🤗

Could you do an episode on Angela Cartwright?

Man, what a great decade. I was in my second year of college. The movies, tv shows...great times. I had a 1970 Cuda I bought in 1980 for 2k. Sold in 1989 for 3k. Now would be worth 90k. Still loved the 80s...

I graduated grammar school 88-89. I do remember all this. AWESOME CHANNEL 💯. CHICAGO ILLINOIS HERE....

The 80s was the best era for music pop rock you can't beat 80s rock music the tv shows were great as well in the 80s shows were better they don't make good music and shows anymore like they did in the 80s even movies were great in the 80s you had some of the best franchises and classic movies from that era the 80s was the best for everything in my opinion all the above Dave they just lost something after the 80s thanks Dave 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Good, good stuff! Thanks for all the great memories Dave. Like a pleasant stroll down memory lane.

Was Khan's command chair upholstered in rich Corinthian leather?

1982 had the 2nd fewest number of #1 songs because so many songs spent multiple weeks lodged in the top spot. Physical, Eye of the Tiger, Jack & Diane, Ebony & Ivory, I Love Rock and Roll, Centerfold, Don't You Want Me, and Up Where We Belong all spent three weeks or longer at #1.

The 80's was such a great decade. if only the politicians could be stuck in the 80's the world would be a lot better place today...

Thanks for another great video! I was 16-17 years old at the time and remember a lot of this.

I missed this video I guess so I'm a year late to comment. Yes 1982 was a great year, you know, the good stuff! Love your channel. Very soothing. A feel good channel.

The 80's were the best decade ever! Loved this upload, Dave!! 😊 Back when MTV actually played music. 😊 Duran Duran was all over my bedroom walls! 😂

Yikes!!! I remember that Reesie peanut butter cups commercial!!! I forgot all about that one.

1982 was a great year, Mr. Dave! I graduated in 1983 - SET FREE IN 83'!! Was that first commercial an ad for a Peanut Butter Cup or a Walkman! The 49ers next victim would be my Dolphins! Marino vs Montana / Shula vs Walsh!! The Doobie Brothers Farewell Tour (LIVE), The Eye In The Sky (The Alan Parsons Project), American Fool (John Cougar)!! Hart To Hart, One Day At A Time, Newhart!! Rocky lll, poltergeist, 48 Hrs.!! It really was a great year!🎉🎓🎊🥜📲🏈📻🎶🎤🎸📺🎥🎬🥊👻🚨🇺🇸

I was 5 at the time. According to my Mom, when The Incredible Hulk came on, I would get rather excited.

Anybody remember Summit candy bar?..i loved them and nobody I talk to seems to remember them.

I agree!!! Ricardo is excellent in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I’ll confess that I am not a classic Star Trek fan. Very very light fan of the entire franchise. But, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is very very good. William, Leonard, and Ricardo are brilliant in the movie.

82 I think was the year we got cable in my town, Something like 35 channels with HBO, Showtime and Cinemax included. There was always a great TV show or movie on, As Archie and Edith would sing Those were the days

I make s'mores with Reese's peanutbutter cups. Oh, and Conan the Barbarian and Fast Times were great movies from that year.

Norm! KAHHHHHHHN! The Thing! Plus, a local channel had 5 nights a week of star trek followed by twilight zone. Local radio would do Beatles a to z, Doors a to z---What a summer that was!

I graduated in 82. Back then I wanted a Atari 2600. I got a motorcycle instead. I had to go to my friends place to play video games and watch MTV. Joined the army that year, too. 1982, not a bad year overall.

This was a fun walk down memory lane! No, they never caught the original Tylenol poisoner, but because of them we have all of the “tamper proof” packaging we have now. All those seals, wraps, etc. are because of them. We didn’t have them before.

i graduated the same year - everyone i knew would sit for hours watching M-TV. I had too much energy and could not sit that long watching television. But i did like th songs and the videos.

I had pretty much given up on television and pop music in '82, but I _did_ go to the movies a lot. In addition to the films that you menioned, I also greatly enjoyed _Conan the Barbarian, Creepshow, Poltergeist_ and _The Road Warrior._ Plus two delightful off-beat films came out that year, the black comedy _Eating Raoul_ and the French crime drama _Diva_ , as well as the all but forgotten martial arts film _The Challenge._ And of course Stallone gave us _First Blood_ and _Rocky III_ introducing Mister T. Really a fun year at the movie houses.

1982 saw the cancellation of the following tv shows: WKRP in Cincinnati, The Incredible Hulk, Lou Grant, Barney Miller, Mork & Mindy, Strike Force, Code Red, and a show called Fridays.

I was born January 4, 1982. So you know what that means, dun dun DUN... 40 😱😱😱😱

Dave you and I probably would have been friends, everything you said in this video felt like it came out of my mouth. I also graduated High School in "82" it was a great time for music and movies.

Ah....1982, I remember it well! Spent a lot of time in the neighborhood arcade, in the long gone A & W drive in burger joint. Went to a few drive in movies in the city north of my small town. Also, played football, worked at one of the town's grocery stores and had my first driver's license. Remember all the movies you referenced, although, never saw ET, just aware it was released and that it waa a huge hit.

You mentioned Xanadu and the one part of that movie I remember the most was combining the bands with an actual split stage. To me, it was the best example of why music said SO much to so many people. Such a great year that I look back on with a lot of nostalgia.

i had no idea you were that much my elder dave....i was born in 78 i knew you had a few years on me but i had no idea another whole person's worth of years lol...you have aged well and dont act your age friend i remember when you channel was a tiny little thing myself and a few hundred others enjoyed because of like mindedness now look at it ...proud of you man it's a direct reflection on your personality and your content ''you know the good stuff'' congrats buddy hope you tield 115k more just seems like yesterday we were talkin about 3s company and some other favorites and here you are today

Aah the Vic 20! Whenever I get those scam callers asking me about my computer, I always ask them "Which one? My Apple 2c or my Vic 20?". They always hang up!

Love these types of videos you can easily do a 3 hour retrospective on a any year

Am I the only one that realized August 1st was MTV's 40th Anniversary? Anybody remember the rocket launching and the astronaut standing on the moon with the MTV flag with the narrator saying "Ladies and Gentleman, Rock and Roll." First video was Video Killed The Radio Star. Has this been overlooked?

I love the way you put together your videos, Dave. Like you, I ditched college and went back five years later. Best thing I ever did. We were so lucky to have spent the 80s in our younger years. The younger generations will sadly never know how good it really was.

The biggest soundtrack hit from a movie in 1982 was "Eye of the Tiger." It spent 6 weeks at #1. "Rocky 3," "The Thing," "Star Trek 2," "E.T,", "On Golden Pond," "Poltergeist," "Officer and a Gentleman," "The Road Warrior," "Tron," "Conan the Barbarian," "Blade Runner," "Firefox,"....... I saw them all that summer. I even saw "Friday the 13th Part 3" with those worthless 3D glasses.

In 1982 I was 8, so I was all about Muppets, Scooby Doo & Lego. Not much has changed for me. :p

Great episode, Dave. 1982 was my second sophomore year of high school. It was so much better than my first sophomore year! I didn't watch much TV in the 80's, but I had a second-run, 99-cent movie theater on block and another cheap theater a mile away. Movies were also my refuge, like Star Trek II, Conan the Barbarian, The Road Warrior, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Thing and Cat People. I also wasted a lot of time watching eMpTy Vee and got a scar on my neck from some "urban exploration." Yes, I also had the hots for Olivia Newton-John and saw her at The Hartford Civic Center that year, too!

Khaaaaaannn!!!!

KHHAAANNNN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1982 can stake a claim to best year in movies: Rocky III, E.T., The Thing, Poltergeist, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, Tron, etc.

Lol Dave your 7 years older than me from the info you have shared. But you forgot to mention how we used to have to get up to turn the TV channel. Remotes weren't a thing yet. But you and your brother bring back great memories from our youth. As far as I'm concerned best programming ever was 70s and 80s. Pretty sure your brother Stephen and I are the same age if I remember correctly. I was born in 71.

While I enjoy all types of music in 1982 the best album to me was Creatures of the Night from KISS. KISS Army 4 Life.

In my opinion, the album cover for Thriller was the best photo Michael Jackson ever posed for. Michael Jackson ruled MTV at that point. Up until then, very few African American artists appeared on the channel.

That’s the year I graduated from high school

Hey Dave how are you doing I was 12 in 1982 yikes see you wed ok 😁😁😁

I remember the vj Nina something. Then there was the cool college guy. The black guy. The younger sister. Colonel Mustard in the library with a candelabra.

My favorite memory from 1982 is when Nickelodeon debuted The Tomorrow People in October of that year. It became my favorite show on that channel, and I watched it faithfully until they took it off the air a few years later. The show had originally aired on ITV in England from 1973 to 1979 and was their counter to the BBC’s Doctor Who. Since Nickelodeon was still such a new channel at the time, they brought in a lot of shows from other countries and The Tomorrow People was one of them. Thankfully I found, not only the channel, but the amazing programs they offered back then. (It was a completely different network back then, if you can believe it the shows were actually good!)

Trivia: Kahn was the maiden name of William Shatner's maternal grandmother.

I graduated in ‘83. Remember when Thriller premiered on MTV? That was a big deal back then! Do you still have the VIC-20?