In the late 1980s, due to the poor financial standing of many of the Victorian clubs, the VFL pursued a more national competition.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

CND's membership increased rapidly, and in the early 1980s it claimed 90, 000 national members and a further 250, 000 in local branches.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

Honduran defense spending rose throughout the 1980s until it consumed 20 to 30 percent of the national budget.

Meanwhile, the drum break from the second version of the original 1969 hit " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " ( the recording included on the compilation album In the Jungle Groove ) became so popular at hip hop dance parties ( especially for breakdance ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow called the song " the national anthem of hip hop ".

Al also called national NBA games on the USA Network during its brief tenure in the early 1980s.

These trends faltered in the 1980s as the government took a more active part in industry, deficits rose, and the national currency was generally overvalued and devalued numerous times.

Both efforts occurred in large communist countries attempting to modernize their economies, but while China's GDP has grown consistently since the late 1980s ( albeit from a much lower level ), national GDP in the USSR and in many of its successor states fell precipitously throughout the 1990s.

During the Mahaweli Program of the 1970s and 1980s in northern Sri Lanka, the government set aside four areas of land totalling as national parks.

During the Mahaweli Ganga Program of the 1970s and 1980s in northern Sri Lanka, the government set aside four areas of land totalling 1, 900 km² as national parks.

During the 1980s, the GCoC evolved from a network to a formal organization under the name The Greens, and established a national clearinghouse, national council, and annual national congress.

The city rebounded, but the slump of American manufacturing in the second half of the 20th century, along with the nationwide epidemic of white flight from cities to suburbs, led to a depressed city by the time of the 1980s national recession.

Yerevan played a key role in the Armenian national democratic movement that emerged during the Gorbachev era of the 1980s.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, national service after secondary education was necessary, but it is now voluntary and few students volunteer.

In the 1980s, India's national stations Doordarshan showed Fawlty Towers, Yes, Minister and Mind Your Language.

Since the 1980s the focus has been on developing a more diverse representation of New Zealand landscapes in the national parks.

Marcel " Marco " van Basten (, 31 October 1964 ) is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played for Ajax and Milan, as well as the Dutch national team, in the 1980s and early 1990s.

As a consequence, an official national policy of multiculturalism was adopted in the early 1980s.

Both were very much part of the national debate in Ghana in the late 1980s.

A genuine revival of Buddhism has taken place since the late 1980s as an important factor in the national consolidation and spiritual rebirth.

In Brazil, as an officially recognised platform or faction of the PT until 1992, the Trotskyist Movimento Convergência Socialista ( CS ), which founded the United Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSTU ) in 1994, saw a number of its members elected to national, state and local legislative bodies during the 1980s.

Mysore started receiving television broadcasts in early 1980s, when Doordarshan ( public service broadcaster of the Indian government ) started broadcasting its national channel all over India.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

This has been popularized by the CNN Headline News TV channel, which, during the 1980s and 1990s, used to frequently include such a fact under the heading " factoid " during newscasts.

Many 1980s 8-bit home computers feature gutterboxing display mode, because the TV screens normally used as monitors at that time tended to distort the image near the border of the screen, to such an extent that text displayed in that area became illegible.

In the 1980s Motörhead were the musical guests on the cult British TV show " The Young Ones ", episode entitled " Bambi ".

Morton Downey, Jr. ( December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001 ) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the " trash TV " format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

It is not a distinction caused by, for example, a difference between TV and film language or 1930s and 1980s language.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

Before cable-ready TV sets became common in the late 1980s, an electronic tuning device called a cable converter box was needed to receive the additional analog cable TV channels and transpose or convert the selected channel to analog radio frequency ( RF ) for viewing on a regular TV set on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4.

Cable TV, which had existed in the late 1980s, was shut down.

His friend Johnny Depp, a teen idol at the end of the 1980s due primarily to his work on the hit TV series 21 Jump Street, was cast in the title role of Edward, who was the creation of an eccentric and old-fashioned inventor ( played by Vincent Price in one of his last screen appearances ).

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

* Memories of the toys, games, TV, movies and music of the 1980s

In the 1980s The War Game was followed by such similarly themed films as The Day After ( US ABC, TV film, 1983 ) and Threads ( BBC, 1984 ), the latter of which particularly evoked Peter Watkins ' style and delivery.

Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.

After The Wicker Man, Woodward went on to receive international attention for his roles in the 1980 film Breaker Morant and the 1980s TV series The Equalizer.

The term " Britpop " had been used in the late 1980s ( in Sounds magazine by journalist, Goldblade frontman and TV pundit John Robb referring to bands such as The La's, The Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets and The Bridewell Taxis ).

She acted infrequently during the 1980s and turned down the role of Alexis Carrington in 1981 for the TV series Dynasty.

Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling the Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show (" Wojtylaccio ", meaning " Bad Wojtyla " in Italian ).

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).

It was also used at the end of roll call at the beginning of the episode of 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues.