The Cosby Show, Punky Brewster and another NBC comedy that I never heard of--it's not the name, the show was news to me. That's not the name either.

Do the know it's Christmas? I forgot how cute some of those British stars from the 80s looked.

ABC News covers the inaugural launch of Discovery: STS-41-D

In 1985 the wreckage of the Titanic was discovered.

The story of what they were really looking for and how it turned out is much more interesting!

In 1986, Vice President Bush announced that he didn't like broccoli.

The Oprah Winfrey show premieres.

Her she is on her first appearance on The Tonight Show.

It was in the 80's when I first visited this famous theater in NYC. No, that's not me in the picture!

Hands Across America: I forget what it was all about.

http://youtu.be/STo5h8T_j1k

"Baby Jessica" was rescued from a well; she's now 28 years old.

Gary Hart, Monkey Business, and the end of a political career.

The Robert Bork confirmation hearings changed how nominees approach the confirmation hearing process.

Jimmy Bakker and the Jessica Hahn affair broke in 1987.

Now you got me hooked!

So to speak

"Three Men and a Baby" was the top grossing movie in 1987.

Released in 1987, "The Ladt Emperor" won nine Oscars in 1988.

http://youtu.be/YdYV4gJcb5o

Here's a complete list of US movies released in 1987. It was a great year t the box office.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1987&p=.htm

In one of the more interesting stories of 1987, Matthias Rust lands a small plane on Red Square. A truly bizarre story.

The Herald of Free Enterprise ferry sank off Seebrugge, Belgium with the loss of 193 lives.

The Wall Street "crash" of 1987. I have a few posts on this event. Here's how Nightly Business Report covered it.

In my opinion, one of the best shows on PBS, or on any other network, was Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser. Here he is, at his best, on the Friday after the crash. If you can't watch the whole thing, fast forward to about 1:45 as he puts things into perspective.

I'll post the next two parts--it was a really good show,--then look for the program before the crash: it was very prophetic.

http://youtu.be/XFn1G2goDQw

Here's part 2 with his guest Mr Templeton

Finally, part 3, the final clip of this show.

The Friday before what became Black Monday, Marty Zweig was (not surprisingly) bearish and talking about a crash.

In 1988 Jimmy Swaggart admitted that he'd been with a prostitute with his "I have sinned speech."