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80s TV Ladies

著者： 134 West | Susan Lambert Hatem & Sharon Johnson
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 4-time Podcast Awards Winner! Webby nominated for Best Indie Podcast.
80s TV Ladies is dedicated to the beloved female-driven shows of the 1980s! Do you love 80s pop culture, television and fabulous women? On our show, you’ll hear a breakdown of how these shows got made, how they were influenced by the times and, in turn, how they influenced pop-culture trends to follow. We love discussing the “two-steps forward, one-step-back” lens of media-driven feminism.

Join hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson as they talk about the fabulous ladies of television: Cagney & Lacey, Designing Women, A Different World, The Golden Girls and more.

With special guests, TV creators and stars! Do these shows we hold so dear hold up? Let's find out.

Season 1: We examine three “detective duo shows” this season, with multiple episodes and awesome guests for each TV show we cover.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Remington Steele
Cagney & Lacey

Season 2: Multiple episodes per TV show exploring representation and behind-the-scenes insight in science fiction, drama and sitcoms!
Queer representation in 70s and 80s
9 to 5 television show
It's a Living
Designing Women
Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas
Star Trek Ladies
Moonlighting

Special guests: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Martha Smith, Robin Bernheim, Stephanie Zimbalist, Evan Ball, Debbie Evans, Barney Rosenzweig, Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Karen Arthur, Cynthis Beemis Abrams, Matt Baume, Jane Epsensen, Drew Greenberg, Paul Kreppel, Bryan Edward Hill, Maggie Friedman, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Stan Zimmerman, Mary Lou Belli, Nana Visitor, Glenn Gordon Caron, Shery Main and more!

We publish every other Wednesday.
Tell us: Who should we interview and what's your favorite 80s Ladies television show? https://www.80stvladies.com

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  • The Best 80s TV Halloween Episodes! Elvira, Punky Brewster, Rosanne & More

    The Best 80s TV Halloween Episodes! Elvira, Punky Brewster, Rosanne & More
    2026/10/28
    Trick or treat! The 80s TV Ladies count down their top seven Halloween and spooky episodes of 80s TV, from Elvira to Facts of Life to Roseanne, and judge each one a trick or a treat. Happy Halloween!“In a haunted house, the scariest thing is usually someone telling you that you’re imagining it.”– Susan Lambert HatemWelcome to 80s TV Ladies, where we love to grab a blanket and some hot chocolate and watch scary shows peeking through our fingers! In Season 4, Episode 25, our 110th episode, hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson and producer Melissa Roth hand out full-size candy bars. Way back in Season 1, we tacked a fun-size Halloween list onto the end of our Robin Bernheim interview. This time, it’s the good stuff.The rules are simple: the episode must be female-driven, it must be from the 1980s, and it must be spooky, silly, or both. Susan, Sharon and Melissa judge every pick a Trick or a Treat as they go chronologically, so you can watch the decade get spookier, then sillier, then really, really weird. Along the way, they share Halloween candy scares of the 70s and 80s, their own Halloween plans, and the scary movies and commercials that traumatized them as kids. Plus, Melissa has a spooky mystery for YOU to solve!THE CONVERSATION- Elvira’s Movie Macabre (1981): The Queen of Halloween herself! Cassandra Peterson’s campy horror host took the show national, built a whole brand, co-wrote the 1988 movie Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and still owns the character. The ladies also discuss her 2021 New York Times bestselling memoir, Yours Cruelly, Elvira.- Laverne & Shirley, “Ghost Story” (1983): Time for a confession: it’s a ghost story, not a Halloween story, and the ladies own up to putting it on their Season 1 list. Plus, Penny Marshall’s Hollywood history behind the camera as the director of Big, and why this episode is the lone Trick.- The Facts of Life, “The Halloween Show” (1983): Edna’s Edibles, a vanishing customer, a butcher strike, and a very big knife. It’s The Facts of Life meets Sweeney Todd, with Charlotte Rae having a blast and a shout-out to director Asaad Kelada, our Season 3 guest.- Punky Brewster, “The Perils of Punky” (1985): The two-part spooky cave adventure that traumatized a generation, plus the animated spinoff where Glomer turns everyone into pumpkins. A Treat with a warning: watch it before you show it to a child!- Murder, She Wrote, “Reflections of the Mind” (1985): Jessica Fletcher, Angela Lansbury and a haunted mansion. It aired the Sunday after Halloween, so call it a Halloween hangover, and it’s a story about gaslighting and women believing women. Plus a shout-out to our Murder, She Wrote costumer guest, Eilish Zebrasky, and her “cuppa” stories with Ms. Lansbury.- Kate & Allie, “Halloween II” (1986): Two divorced best friends and their kids go to war in a Halloween prank battle between the generations. Why is it called Halloween II when there is no Halloween I? And how did it help start a TV tradition that runs all the way to Roseanne and Brooklyn Nine-Nine?- Roseanne, “Boo!” (1989): The Conners turn their house into a haunted tunnel of terror in a blood-and-gore battle of the sexes that kicked off the show’s annual Halloween tradition.- Honorable Mentions: Hunter (Season 2, Episode 5), The Golden Girls’ “Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself” (Season 3, Episode 5), and Designing Women’s “Charlene Buys a House” (1990), a haunted house that is technically the 90s, but the rules are for ghosts, not live human beings doing podcasts about old television shows.- Halloween Plans & Spooky Confessions: Susan’s first Halloween in the new house, Sharon’s plans for a very un-spooky evening, and Melissa’s candy-stealing reputation. Plus, the childhood scares: the Magic commercial, Count Yorga, Vampire, and the Nightmare on Elm Street phone call to Mom. And can you name the 70s movie with Sasquatch and a man covered in bees? Melissa needs to know!NEXT EPISODE TEASERThe ladies are back with a new special feature! We’re starting 80s TV Movie Ladies - a look at the groundbreaking, heartbreaking and titilating 1980s, women-led, television movies and miniseries. Kicking it off with a little remembered gem, Stone Pillow (1985) starring Lucielle Ball and Daphne Zuniga! Subscribe now so you don’t miss it!📦 AUDIOGRAPHY & RECOMMENDED WATCHING - Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Watch on the Shout Studios TV channel onhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Elvira%27s+Movie+Macabre+Shout+Studios+TV. - Laverne & Shirley, “Ghost Story”: Not on YouTube, but the episode is on https://pluto.tv/.- The Facts of Life, “The Halloween Show”: Watch on https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Facts+of+Life+The+Halloween+Show.- Punky Brewster, “The Perils of Punky”: Find it onhttps://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-perils-of-punky-pt-1/umc.cmc.76v1ncz1l13t9r3a3nw7cch26 orhttps://www.primevideo.com/detail/...
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  • One Day at a Time | The 90s TV Babies Review the 1975 Sitcom!

    One Day at a Time | The 90s TV Babies Review the 1975 Sitcom!
    2026/10/14
    The 90s TV Babies take on the 1975 - 1984 One Day at a Time! Sailor and Spenser react to Ann Romano’s single-mom independence, teen sex talks, workplace harassment, proto-Kramer Schneider, and whether this Norman Lear classic is truly feminist.“The 80s were a time of great change... There wasn’t the internet, there wasn’t TikTok, there wasn’t YouTube. There was television, and television was how new ideas got spread around.” – Susan Lambert HatemWelcome to 80s TV Ladies, where we look back in order to leap forward! This week, one of our very favorite segments is back: The 90s TV Babies Take on 70s and 80s TV! Hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson hand a 1975 - 1984 sitcom to two fresh-faced viewers who have never seen it, and then sit back to hear what lands, what shocks, and what still feels radical today.Our subject is the groundbreaking Norman Lear-produced sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984), created by Whitney Blake and Allan Manings. Bonnie Franklin stars as newly divorced Ann Romano, who moves to Indianapolis with her teenage daughters Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli), with plenty of unsolicited “help” from tool-belt-wearing building superintendent Dwayne Schneider (Pat Harrington Jr.).Returning 90s TV Baby Sailor and brand-new panelist Spenser Gerber Hatem (Susan’s stepson!) watched a hand-picked list of episodes and are now reporting back on single motherhood, teen sexuality, workplace harassment, disability representation, and the world’s most creepy (and eventually course-corrected) building super. Along the way, our Hoosier baby geeks out over Indiana shout-outs, everyone debates whether the show is feminist or merely progressive, and we all learn why you should never trust a man who announces he’s going to win back his ex… and then just sits there.THE CONVERSATIONThe Assignment: The episodes our babies watched: Ann’s Decision (S1E1), All the Way (S1E8), Father David (S1E13), Ann’s Out of Town Client (S3E5), Schneider’s Helper (S4E5), Yes Sir, That’s My Baby (S4E6), plus extra credit episodes: The Runaways (S2E1), Schneider’s Pride and Joy (S2E9, with a pre-Star Wars Mark Hamill), The Older Man (S3E1), Miracle of Birth (S8E8–9), and the bonus-bonus Indianapolis Story (S6E21). Bonus clip: Julie and Barbara spoofing Elton John and Kiki Dee’s “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” Meet the Babies: Sailor and Spenser introduce themselves, plus Susan on how Smokey and the Bandit and the 1970s CB radio craze led straight to Schneider’s “Super Stud” handle.A Hoosier Reacts: Kokomo, Logansport, Fort Wayne, and a lawnmower CEO who says “Terry Hot” (it’s Terre Haute, and Sailor will defend it!), plus driving I-65 from the couch. Sharon shares the Lyft driver who waxed poetic about the Indianapolis sitcom, and the ladies explain why a show set in Indiana was filmed in Hollywood. Wait, There Was a Reboot? The 2017–2020 One Day at a Time reboot starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno with a Latina cast, and why neither baby knew it existed.First Impressions: The very 70s live studio audience, the fabulous costumes and bell bottoms, Julie’s sharp wit, Bonnie Franklin’s ever-present smile, and why they had to remind themselves that this was “the blueprint” of a sitcom, not a parody of one.David the Lawyer & the Age Gap: Ann’s younger boyfriend (who was also her divorce lawyer!), why he’s the nicest man on the show by a mile, and why actor Richard Masur left the show early in season two. Schneider’s Evolution: From creepy boundary-pusher (aka stalker?) in the early seasons to beloved goofball with a heart. The ladies and babies agree he’s a proto-Kramer, and Susan reminds us: no Schneider, no Kramer.Ann Romano’s Feminism: One of TV’s first leading divorced moms, a woman who kept her last name in 1975, and Susan’s personal story of seeing her own divorced mom and two daughters reflected on screen in Georgia circa 1977.How TV Reflected (and Led) Culture: Divorce, single parenting, and women in the workforce were changing American life, and television was the way new ideas spread. Sailor connects it to the kids she works with today.Teen Sex, Consent & Saying No: All the Way Julie’s getting pressured by boyfriend Chuck. The Babies on the great sex talk Ann gave her girls, why it’s frustrating that it takes David to get through to Chuck, and why Julie’s final “no” is the right message.Workplace Harassment, with Laughs: Ann’s Out of Town Client and how a very funny episode delivered a serious message. Ann wins by standing up for her value, though the group debates how realistic that ending was in 1977.Disability, Language & Representation: Schneider’s Helper and Jackie’s powerful line about never being allowed to try, plus the group’s honest take on outdated language and what the show missed on race.Lightning Round: Favorite characters, which character each baby is most like, ...
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  • One Day at a Time: The Top 10 Most Norman Lear Episodes | Feminist TV, Taboo Topics, and the Sex Lives of Women

    One Day at a Time: The Top 10 Most Norman Lear Episodes | Feminist TV, Taboo Topics, and the Sex Lives of Women
    2026/09/30
    Welcome to 80s TV Ladies, where we look back in order to leap forward! With our lovely producer Melissa out having some fun life stuff, hosts Sharon Johnson and Susan Lambert Hatem take the mic to break down the Top 10 Most Norman Lear-ish Episodes of One Day at a Time.Susan and Sharon explore how TV titan Norman Lear revolutionized the 1970s and 80s sitcom landscape, using One Day at a Time to tackle second-wave feminism, workplace harassment, teen sex, runaway youth, and mental health without losing the comedy.THE CONVERSATIONThe Legacy of Norman Lear: A tribute to Lear’s WWII service, 22 landmark sitcoms (including All in the Family, Maude, and The Jeffersons), and his passionate civic activism through People for the American Way and voter registration drives.What Makes an Episode "Lear-ish"? How One Day at a Time introduced the "sitcom dramedy" format—tackling taboo real-life issues with heart, humor, and authentic character conflicts.The Groundbreaking Top 10 List: Deep dives into landmark episodes and multi-part story arcs, including the unaired pilot Three to Get Ready vs. Ann's Decision (S1E1), Important conversations about teen sex in All the Way (S1E8), serialized storytelling in The Runaways (S2E1–4), workplace harassment in Ann's Out of Town Client (S3E5), teen depression in Barbara's Friend (S3E9–10), and natural childbirth in Miracle of Birth (S8E8–9).Schneider’s Evolution: How Pat Harrington Jr.’s iconic character shifted from creepy boundary-pusher to beloved family figure—plus his 1970s CB radio obsession and how he paved the way for characters like Kramer.Career Milestones & Series Arcs: Ann Romano’s journey from a newly divorced homemaker searching for independence to a successful account executive heading to London.NEXT EPISODE TEASER Stay tuned for our next episode, where the '90s TV Babies step up to give their fresh take on One Day at a Time! What will the Babies say?📦 AUDIOGRAPHY & RECOMMENDED WATCHINGWatch One Day at a Time: Stream the original series for free on Tubi or purchase episodes on Amazon and YouTube.Norman Lear Documentary: Watch Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016) streaming for free on Roku or available to purchase on Amazon and Apple.Norman Lear Memoir: Read Norman Lear’s biography, Even This I Get to Experience, onhttps://www.thriftbooks.com/w/even-this-i-get-to-experience_norman-lear/3135739/item/16656275/ COMMUNITY CONNECTConnect with 80s TV Ladies: Join our mailing list, follow 8TL on Instagram (@80sTVLadies), support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes, and discover more great shows on Weirding Way Media!PROTECT THE VOTEVote.org: Check your voter registration. Make sure you and the young adults in your life are ready to vote. Stay engaged. Let your voice be heard.DemocracyDocket.com: Learn more about protecting our right to vote.🌟 SPECIAL 8TL PROMOTIONS!COZY EARTH: Get 21% OFF awesome bamboo sheets and pajamas at CozyEarth.com using promo code: 80STVLADIES.TORRAIN BAGS: Get 15% OFF recycled bags perfect for travel and work with promo code: 80sTVLadies.All Promo Deals: See all special offers at MyDeals.Page/19wy.Visit 80sTVLadies.com for more info.Listen to 80s TV Ladies at YouTube. Subscribe and help us grow.Don’t miss out. Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list!Help us make more episodes and get ad-free episodes, video interviews, and exclusive content on PATREON.
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