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I Love 1980

Larry Hagman introduces a look back to 1980, the year when the world wondered who shot JR, The Human League were in the charts and Pac Man gobbled his way to video gaming fame.

Larry Hagman presents I Love 1980, a period in which his ten-gallon Dallas character JR Ewing was shot and set up the television story of the year in Who Shot JR?

It's the year of Fame, Diff'rent Strokes and Metal Mickey. The Human League and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark promised a brave new world of music... Liquid Gold, Kelly Marie and the Gap Band brought us back down to earth.

Girls got into jumpsuits, boys got into labels, The Face told us what we should be getting into. We stuffed our faces with the revolutionary Monster Munch, and Pac Man scoffed everything else.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Fri 10 Jul 202022:00
BBC Two

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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Atomic 

  • Blondie

    Atomic 

  • Kids From Fame 

    Fame 

    Music Arranger: Leon L Pendarvis Jr .

  • Fame 

    Hot Lunch 

  • Fame 

    Red Light 

  • Fame 

    Out Here on My Own 

  • The Gap Band

    Oops Up Side Your Head

  • Ottawan

    D.I.S.C.O.

  • Liquid Gold

    Dance Yourself Dizzy 

  • Kelly Marie

    Feels Like I'm in Love 

  • Different Strokes 

    Different Strokes 

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family 

  • Bad Manners

    Special Brew 

  • Different Strokes 

    Different Strokes 

  • Jonzun Crew

    I'm a Pac Man 

  • The Beat

    Twist And Crawl

  • Blondie

    Atomic 

  • Omd 

    Stanlow 

  • The Tourists

    I Only Want To Be With You

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Enola Gay

  • The Human League

    Being Boiled

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Enola Gay

  • The Human League

    Empire State Human 

  • The Human League

    The Sound of the Crowd 

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me 

  • David Bowie

    Ashes to Ashes

  • OMD 

    The Misunderstanding 

  • Tales of the Unexpected 

  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Geno 

  • Elvis Costello

    High Fidelity 

  • Average White Band

    Lets Go Around Again 

  • The Beat

    Click Click 

  • The Boomtown Rats

    Someone Looking At You 

  • The Jam

    Going Underground 

  • The Korgis

    Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime 

  • Madness

    My Girl 

  • Pretenders

    Talk of the Town 

  • Sheena Easton

    Modern Girl 

  • Sheena Easton

    Modern Girl 

  • Elvis Costello

    High Fidelity 

  • The Special A.K.A.

    Too Much Too Young 

  • Joy Division

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

  • Peter Gabriel

    Games Without Frontiers

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward 

  • New Musik 

    This World of Water 

  • The Tourists

    I Only Want To Be With You

  • The Beat

    Big Shot 

  • The Beat

    Big Shot 

  • The Piranhas

    Tom Hark

  • The Beat

    Big Shot 

  • Stacy Lattisaw

    Jump to the Beat 

  • Adam Ant

    Prince Charming 

Credits

PresenterLarry Hagman
DirectorChris Wilson
Executive ProducerAlan Brown

Broadcasts

  • Sat 13 Jan 200121:00
    BBC Two England
  • Sat 7 Jun 201420:30
    BBC Two HD, Northern Ireland & England only
  • Sat 7 Jun 201421:20
    BBC Two Wales
  • Sat 7 Jun 201421:30
    BBC Two Scotland
  • Mon 20 May 201922:00
    BBC Two Wales HD, Wales, England & HD only
  • Mon 10 Jun 201900:30
    BBC Two Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
  • Fri 10 Jul 202022:00
    BBC Two HD, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Wales HD & 1 more only

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