Bowie had a cameo in Yellowbeard, a 1983 pirate comedy created by Monty Python members, and a small part as Colin, the hitman in the 1985 film Into the Night.

The Reg Grundy Organisation also created Neighbours, a suburban-based daily serial devised as a sedate family drama with some comedy and lightweight situations, for the Seven Network in 1985.

The television series Moonlighting ( 1985 – 1989 ), Married ... with Children ( 1987 – 1997 ), NewsRadio ( 1995 – 1999 ), Gilmore Girls ( 2000 – 2007 ), and Standoff ( 2006 – 2007 ) have also adapted elements of the screwball comedy genre for the small screen.

The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

The production and consumption of ramen was a large part of the 1985 Japanese comedy film Tampopo by director Juzo Itami.

During a brief hiatus, he backpacked throughout Europe before going on to play the lead character in the 1985 comedy Real Genius.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

Clue is a 1985 comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name ( Cluedo outside North America ).

Cameron was best known for his role as Mike Seaver on the television situation comedy Growing Pains from 1985 to 1992.

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia .< ref >

In 1985, Troma had a hit with the violent dark comedy superhero film The Toxic Avenger.

Safford is the setting for the 1985 Albert Brooks comedy Lost In America.

Following Rhoda, Kavner had a guest appearance on Taxi and appeared in the 1985 comedy Bad Medicine as well as the 1987 film Surrender, both of which were box office failures.

In 1985, Ross Shafer, host and a writer-performer of the late-night comedy series Almost Live!

This comedy series debuted in 1985 and took the former Till Death Us Do Part characters Alf Garnett ( Warren Mitchell ) and his wife Else ( Dandy Nichols ) from their Wapping house to a lower-class one-level flat in West Ham.

Murphy's Romance is a 1985 romantic comedy film adapted by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a 1980 novel by Max Schott and directed by Martin Ritt.

In 1985, at age 20, Downey joined the cast of the weekly television comedy show Saturday Night Live ( SNL ), but was fired in 1986 following a cast overhaul that was done in order to save the show from cancelation due to low Nielsen ratings and critics panning the show for its mediocre cast at the time.

* Men …, a 1985 West German comedy film directed by Doris Dörrie

In 1985 he appeared in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series King Street Junior, as teacher Eric Brown, but he left after only two series and was replaced by Karl Howman ( as Philip Sims ).

A re-release in 1985 gave the film a total gross of $ 238. 6 million ($ in today's dollars ) surpassing Beverly Hills Cop and making Ghostbusters the most successful comedy of the 1980s.

One of her most notable television roles is as a cast member of the sketch comedy TV show Saturday Night Live in 1985 – 86.

The film inspired the situation comedy Alice, which was broadcast by CBS from August 1976 through July 1985.

On 14 November 1985 Langham appeared as the narrator / reporter in " Roxanne ", episode five of the BBC situation comedy Happy Families, written by Ben Elton.

In addition to his serious roles, he also continued to appear in comedies including the film The Coca-Cola Kid in 1985 and in 2001, he appeared in the Australian comedy Let's Get Skase.

* Genmu Senki Leda, a 1985 Japanese animated movie

* 1923 – Harold P. Warren, American movie director ( d. 1985 )

In 1985, the movie Brazil also used tubes ( as well as other anachronistic-seeming technologies ) to evoke the stagnation of bureaucracy.

In 1985, the film Yankee Doodle Dandy became the first black-and-white movie redistributed in color after computer coloring.

In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of the 1949 Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, a role he reprised in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries.

Fox network's foundations were laid in March 1985 by News Corporation's $ 250-million purchase of 50 percent of TCF Holdings, the parent company of the 20th Century Fox movie studio.

Italian actor Luigi Montefiori portrayed this nine-foot-tall giant in Paramount's 1985 live-action movie King David as part of a flashback.

" Glenn Close, in reference to filming the 1985 movie, Jagged Edge.

In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie Perry Mason Returns.

As general manager, McFarland helped launch the classic movie channel, The Nostalgia Channel in 1985.

Both adaptations were published in 1985, and differ from the movie in that they feature a fourth ending cut from the final film.

According to the DVD extras documentary for the movie The Shooting Party ( 1985 ), in the very first shot of the very first day of filming, all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield who was playing Sir Randolph Nettleby, were to come into shot on a horse-drawn shooting brake driven by the well-known film horse-master George Mossman.

* Achish king of Gath appears in the movie King David ( film ), ( 1985 ), starring Richard Gere.

The film is also featured in the 1985 movie titled Explorers.

In 1985, Morrison also wrote the musical score for the movie, Lamb starring Liam Neeson.

The. 475 Wildey Magnum gun, later made famous in the 1985 Charles Bronson movie Death Wish 3, was developed by Wildey J. Moore in Brookfield in the early 1970s ( the factory has since moved to Warren, Connecticut ).

Subsequently, Ruck says that with Cameron Frye, Hughes gave him " the best part I ever had in a movie, and any success that I've had since 1985 is because he took a big chance on me.

He also starred in the movie The Gig ( 1985 ), alongside Cleavon Little, as a jazz musician-hobbyist whose group has an opportunity to play a Catskills resort and must confront failure.

Also in 1985 he starred opposite Barbara Eden in the televised reunion movie I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later based on the 1960s television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

However, she was credited as " Cheryl McFadden " in the Troma movie When Nature Calls ( 1985 ) and in the Season 3 episode of The Cosby Show, " Cliff's 50th Birthday ".

During 1985, he re-recorded " Blue Suede Shoes " with Lee Rocker and Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats, as part of the soundtrack for the movie, Porky's Revenge.

Since 1985, the Seattle International Film Festival has awarded the Golden Space Needle award each year to the festival's most popular movie.

Virtually ignored upon its first release, The Toxic Avenger caught on with filmgoers after a long and successful midnight movie engagement at the famed Bleecker Street Cinemas in New York City in late 1985.

The London Bridge's relocation to Arizona was the basis of a 1985 made for TV movie Bridge Across Time ( also known as Arizona Ripper or Terror at London Bridge ), directed by E. W.

Competition from a multiple-screen movie theater led to the closing of the Princess Theatre in 1985.