The Best TV Shows from 1983

Below is our top ten list of the best TV shows which first started broadcasting in 1983.

First Aired: 23 January, 1983

The A-Team is a TV series starring George Peppard, Mr. T, and Dwight Schultz. Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn’t commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.

First Aired: 12 September, 1983

Inspector Gadget is a TV series starring Don Adams, Holly Berger, and Frank Welker. A bumbling bionic police inspector stumbles about on his cases, while his niece and dog secretly do the real investigative work.

First Aired: 05 September, 1983

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is a TV series starring John Erwin, Alan Oppenheimer, and Linda Gary. The most powerful man in the universe, He-Man, goes against the evil forces of Skeletor to save the planet Eternia and to…

First Aired: 01 May, 1983

V is a TV mini-series starring Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, and Faye Grant. When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist.

First Aired: 22 January, 1983

Mama’s Family is a TV series starring Vicki Lawrence, Beverly Archer, and Ken Berry. Mama’s Family originated with Thelma “Mama” Harper, and her younger sister Fran living together in Mama’s House.

First Aired: 29 October, 1983

Tales from the Darkside is a TV series starring Paul Sparer, Catherine Battistone, and John Marzilli. A horror anthology series where the viewer is taken through ghost stories, science fiction adventures, and creepy, unexplained…

First Aired: 27 March, 1983

The Thorn Birds is a TV mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, and Christopher Plummer. In the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful granddaughter of a vast sheep station owner stand…

First Aired: 10 January, 1983

Fraggle Rock is a TV series starring Karen Prell, Gerard Parkes, and Kathryn Mullen. The adventures of the various inhabitants of an underground civilization.

First Aired: 13 October, 1983

Kyaputen Tsubasa is a TV series starring Arihiro Hase, Kôichi Hashimoto, and Akari Hibino. Tsubasa Oozora is an 11-year-old elementary school student who is deeply in love with football and dreams of one day winning the FIFA World…

First Aired: 17 September, 1983

Dungeons & Dragons is a TV series starring Katie Leigh, Frank Welker, and Willie Aames. A group of kids are thrown into a fantasy world where they must search for a way home, armed with magic weapons that an evil tyrant wants.