80s TV Ladies
by 134 West | Susan Lambert Hatem & Sharon Johnson
The Best 80s TV Halloween Episodes! Elvira, Punky Brewster, Rosanne…
About this podcast
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.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 130 episodes
- The Best 80s TV Halloween Episodes! Elvira, Punky Brewster, Rosanne & More · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 25Trick 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…
- One Day at a Time | The 90s TV Babies Review the 1975 Sitcom! · 1 h 12 min · Season 4 Episode 24The 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…
- One Day at a Time: The Top 10 Most Norman Lear Episodes | Feminist TV, Taboo Topics, and the Sex Lives of Women · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 23Welcome 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…
- 25 Surprising Facts About One Day at a Time | Whitney Blake, Valerie Bertinelli & Schneider Secrets · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 22Welcome to 80s TV Ladies, where we hold on tight and muddle through one day at a time! In this episode, hosts Sharon Johnson and Susan Lambert Hatem kick off a multi-part deep…
- Adrienne Barbeau on Maude, Creating Rizzo in Grease, Cult Horror and Return to Fantasy Island · 1 h 19 min · Season 4 Episode 21"Norman kept saying, 'If you don't trust yourself to know that you're good, trust me because I know you're good. This is what you're meant to be doing.'" — Adrienne Barbeau, on…
- 1980s Fall TV Previews: TV Guide, Crazy Network Specials, and Saturday Morning Nostalgia · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 20"As a TV junkie, the Fall TV Preview was the best time of the year. The network specials highlighted their new shows—they were always informative, joyful, and optimistic because…
- REWIND: Neema Barnette | Directing A Different World, Making TV History, and Strategies for Revolution · 1 h 22 min · Season 4"A lot of production companies who decide to do stories about people of color are not used to having the people of color they hire coming in with an opinion. Coming in…
- REWIND: Susan Fales-Hill | Showrunning A Different World, Resisting Industry Bias, and Making TV History · 1 h 7 min · Season 4"We have to look back, not in anger, but in amazement and in hope over how much had changed... We're sending the message that all of our blackness is good." — Susan Fales-Hill…
- REWIND: A Different World | Looking Back at the 80s Hit with Writer Niceole Levy · 1 h 12 min · Season 4"It was the first time that the idea of an HBCU was even a thought to me of a thing I could do... it was so eye-opening to me that there was this whole other part of life in…
- Jennifer Jones: Precision, Resilience, and Breaking Barriers on the Line · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 19"When someone came at me or was very mean to me or made it clear that I was not welcome on the line, I still had my love for dance. I leaned into my dream as a child, and I was…
- Ch-ch-ch-changes: The 20 Most Revolutionary 80s Music Videos, Part 2 · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 18"Music videos were an avenue for women to break into directing, which was really important at the time. A lot of women basically got their start directing music videos because…
- Ch-ch-ch-changes: The 20 Most Revolutionary 80s Music Videos, Part 1 · 60 min · Season 4 Episode 17"The more that things change, the more they stay the same... Nevertheless, we have to keep pushing forward. We have to keep moving that line forward in order to make a better…
- RERUN: Bruce Boxleitner | The Scarecrow And Mrs. King Years, Part 2 · 1 h 6 min · Season 4“Katie and I, our relationship could be a little exciting -- I had to watch my step, I had to toe the line. I had to behave myself or I’d get taken to the principal’s office…
- RERUN: Bruce Boxleitner: The Scarecrow and Ms. King Years, Part 1 · 41 min“Kate was able to go off script. Then I found I could go with her. Pretty soon we’re doing stuff that is not on the written page. That’s where we found the little ‘in-between’…
- 80s TV Legends: Stefanie Powers on Acting, Activism, and the Hart to Hart Legacy · 1 h 11 min · Season 4 Episode 16"It was very dangerous to be a friend of the Harts because... yes, they were always getting killed." -- Stefanie Powers Get ready for a masterclass in sophisticated glamour! In…
- Writing 80s Icons: Dallas, Fame, and One Day at a Time | Linda Elstad · 1 h 9 min · Season 4 Episode 15“We asked her daughter, our friend Karin, to come on and talk with us about her mom, Linda, and what it was like to grow up the daughter of an eighties TV lady.” - Susan Lambert…
- Morgan Fairchild: Too Sexy for TV, Pee-Wee Herman, and Hollywood's Golden Era · 1 h 6 min · Season 4 Episode 14"I said, John, you know, it's a visual art. You don't give me something to do, at least I'm gonna be something to look at." - Morgan Fairchild To celebrate the 100th episode of…
- Writing Fearless Women: Cagney & Lacey, China Beach, and Sisters | Georgia Jeffries · 1 h 23 min · Season 4 Episode 13“ Barney and I were interviewed about that episode on Entertainment Tonight because the word “condom” had never been used on television before.” - Georgia Jeffries, Cagney &…
- 90s TV Babies Meet The Golden Girls: Uncovering Timeless Comedy | 80s TV Podcast · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 1290s TV Babies Meet The Golden Girls: Uncovering Timeless Comedy | 80s TV Podcast Join co-hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson as they welcome back the “’90s TV…
- Inside Scoop with Patrick Hinds: Golden Girls, True Crime, and TV Magic · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 11"Golden Girls is just so good. It's been with me my entire life, and there were opportunities to do more than just a rewatch podcast. We could bring in historical stuff and the…
