Around the World in 80s Movies

Around the World in 80s Movies


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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) | Nicholas Meyer
January 10, 2020

With Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the series took a swing in the exact opposite direction from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, putting things on a raw emotional level. This is a sequel, not of the first film, but of an original "Star Trek" episode,

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) | Robert Wise
January 03, 2020

Fast approaching Earth is a cloudlike alien entity that has destroys all that approaches its nebulous form.  The not-quite-fully-refitted Enterprise is the closest vessel available in its approach toward Earth.

Dragnet (1987) | Tom Mankiewicz
December 27, 2019

In this semi-spoof sequel to the classic TV show, "Dragnet", Dan Aykroyd isn't playing Jack Webb's character, Joe Friday, in this film, but rather, his nephew, with the same name and personality.  He's assigned a roguish new partner named Pep Streebeck...

Get Smart, Again! (1989) | Gary Nelson
December 20, 2019

In this "Get Smart" sequel movie made for network television, KAOS makes a comeback in a world that hasn't been terrorized by them since CONTROL took them down and put themselves out of the international terror business.

The Nude Bomb / The Return of Maxwell Smart (1980) | Clive Donner
December 13, 2019

Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), the dimwitted super-spy from the hit TV series from the 1960s, "Get Smart" returned in 1980 for a brand new, racier adventure.  Entitled The Nude Bomb, it has lost that title over the years in favor of the more TV-programming...

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988) | David Zucker
December 06, 2019

The comedy writing team of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker brought this first of a trilogy, based on their short-lived 1982 TV show "Police Squad", of zany screwball comedies to Hollywood in 1988, offering plenty of sight gags,

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) | Blake Edwards
November 29, 2019

Ted Wass stars as New York City police sergeant Clifton Sleigh, who ends up getting selected by an Interpol computer that is choosing the second-best sleuth in the world to use to find the missing best sleuth, Inspector Clouseau.

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) | Blake Edwards
November 22, 2019

Trail of the Pink Panther is a film done nearly two years after the death of Pink Panther franchise star Peter Sellers, compiling the best clips and unused outtakes from prior films, along with new material to hang together a plot around the.

Who’s Harry Crumb? | Paul Flaherty
November 15, 2019

John Candy plays Harry Crumb, the bumbling son who never quite lived up to the reputation of his sleuthing father and grandfather in his family's long-standing detective agency. Instead of running the company,

Fletch Lives (1989) | Michael Ritchie
November 08, 2019

Fletch (Chevy Chase) quits his job as an investigative reporter when he learns he has inherited his aunt's expansive plantation estate in Louisiana called Belle Isle.  Unfortunately, he arrives to find that the property is completely run down through m...