His lengthiest interview was featured as the cover story in The Comics Journal # 127 in the late 1980s.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

In the 1980s, Japanese personal computers such as the NEC PC-88 came installed with FM synthesis sound chips and featured audio programming languages such as Music Macro Language ( MML ) and MIDI interfaces, which were most often used to produce video game music, or chiptunes.

Enya is featured in featurettes included with the 2003 BBC Video DVD release of The Celts, including performances of several songs videotaped in the late 1980s.

* JerryRalphRVBobBeavis: This is a skit that appeared mostly in the 1980s and it featured Gailord Sartain as the owner of a small store / flea market attempting to sell junk.

Irish band Clannad featured the harp heavily in their music during the 1970s and 1980s.

Iceman has been featured in two self-titled limited comic book miniseries, one in the 1980s by J. M. DeMatteis and another in the 2000s by Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett, art by Karl Kerschl.

* Playboy frequently featured in its late 1970s-early 1980s " Playboy Funnies " pages a spoof of the Katzenjammer Kids called " The Krautzenbummer Kids " with adult style gags.

Mecha have been featured in video games since the 1980s, particularly in vehicular combat and shooter games, including Sesame Japan's side-scrolling shooter game Vastar in 1983, various Gundam games such as the first-person shooters Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting in 1984 and Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble in 1986, the run and gun shooters Hover Attack in 1984 and Thexder in 1985, and Arsys Software's 3D role-playing shooters WiBArm in 1986 and Star Cruiser in 1988.

Early minivans featured one rear side sliding door on the passenger's side, similar to full-sized passenger vans in the early 1980s.

The DAICON III and IV Opening Animations from the early 1980s are also featured in this OVA.

Quetzalcoatlus has been featured in documentaries, both in cinemas and on television, since the 1980s.

A revival in Burbank, California during the early 1980s featured Matthew Faison as Guildenstern and Lane Davies as Rosencrantz.

In the 1980s, US television featured the light espionage programmes Airwolf ( 1984 – 87 ) and MacGyver ( 1985 – 92 ), each rooted in the Cold War yet reflecting American citizens ' distrust of their government, after the crimes of the Nixon Government ( the internal, political espionage of the Watergate Scandal and the Vietnam War ) were exposed.

This Super Bowl featured two clubs that were considered losing teams for much of the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s, the Stranglers regularly featured a 3-piece brass section in their live line-up.

As the 1980s began, he made the jump to action films, which occasionally featured straight heroes and a few who would ponder and dare fate itself.

The album featured the US and UK hit tunes " Dear Madam Barnum " and " The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead ", the latter bringing the band perhaps its greatest success after the early 1980s.

In the 1980s, the comic featured a plot involving the fictional island nation of Genosha, where mutants were segregated and enslaved by an apartheid state.

The 1980s and 1990s were also a time when tabloid talk shows came to rise, many of which featured the same types of unusual or dysfunctional guests that would later become popular as cast members of reality shows.

Alongside the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, Amazing Friends was later re-aired in the late 1980s as part of the 90 minute Marvel Action Universe ( not to be confused with 1977's The Marvel Action Universe ), a syndicated series that was used as a platform for old and new Marvel-produced animated fare ( the newer programming featured RoboCop: The Animated Series, Dino-Riders and on occasion “ X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men ”, which was intended to serve as a pilot for a potential X-Men animated series ).

Fonda continued to act into the early 1980s, though all but one of the productions he was featured in before his death were for television.

In addition to lesser-known videos such as A Night at the Revuebar ( 1983 ), the 1980s also featured mainstream films involving stripping.

Later in the 20th century, the falls was a featured location in 1980s movie Superman II, and was itself the subject of a popular IMAX movie, Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic.

Because the series ran for such a long time and featured young performers, Young Talent Time made an indelible mark on the psyche of several generations of Australian children, leading them to believe that if they tried hard enough, they too could be a ' star ' like the kids they saw on television ( Johnny Young launched talent schools in his own name in early 1980s ).

GOTO telescopes have become more popular since the 1980s as technology has improved and prices have been reduced.

Amber DRPG was created in the 1980s, and is much more focused on relationships and roleplaying than most of the roleplaying games of that era.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

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

For those more nostalgic for the true BBS experience, one can use NetSerial ( Windows ) or DOSBox ( Windows /* nix ) to redirect DOS COM port software to telnet, allowing them to connect to Telnet BBSes using 1980s and 1990s era modem terminal emulation software, like Telix, Terminate, Qmodem and Procomm Plus.

The 1980s saw severe cuts in government funding and above-inflation increases in fares and the service became more cost-effective.

The SDP favoured some Thatcherite reforms during the 1980s, such as legislation aimed at reforming the trade unions ( although the parliamentary SDP actually split three ways on Norman Tebbit's 1982 Industrial Relations bill, most voting for, some against, and others abstaining ), but took a more welfarist position than the Conservative Party, being more sceptical of Conservative welfare reforms ( particularly regarding the Health Service ).

However, in more recent years, since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, with the increasing influence of Monetarist schools of thought in the 1980s, and particularly in the face of large sustained trade imbalances, these concerns — and particularly concerns about the destabilising effects of large trade surpluses — have largely disappeared from mainstream economics discourse and Keynes ' insights have slipped from view.

The team won two more Formula One drivers ' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet.

In the early 1980s, Tod Whittemore started the first Saturday dance in the Peterborough Town House, which remains one of the more popular regional dances.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Chile's " sound economic policies ," maintained consistently since the 1980s, " have contributed to steady economic growth in Chile and have more than halved poverty rates.

There are process and product guidelines in Europe that date to the early 1980s ( Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland ) and only more recently in the UK and the US.

Since the 1980s, the more difficult problems of implementing valence bond theory into computer programs have been solved largely, and valence bond theory has seen a resurgence.

The " minicomics " form, an extremely informal version of self-publishing, arose in the 1980s and became increasingly popular among artists in the 1990s, despite reaching an even more limited audience than the small press.

Further student protests, including hunger strike and more barricades of Hamilton Hall and the Business School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, were aimed at convincing the university trustees to divest all of the university's investments in companies that were seen as active or tacit supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

There were more bright spots in the 1980s.

The 1980s saw the onset of modern cheerleading with more difficult stunt sequences and gymnastics being incorporated into routines.

A sudden transition to democracy, these experts contend, would result in the economic and political upheaval that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that by focusing on economic growth, China is setting the stage for a more gradual but sustainable transition to a more politically liberal system.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

Throughout the 1980s and ' 90s, Young promised fans a follow-up to the original Decade collection, provisionally titled Decade II ; eventually, this idea was scrapped in favor of a much more comprehensive anthology to be titled Archives, spanning his entire career and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and / or video releases.

The Fairlight CMI and the Synclavier were both expensive systems, retailing for more than $ 20, 000 in the early 1980s.

Other more pop inspired bands like Hall & Oates began incorporating the digital synthesizer into their sound in the 1980s.

The semi-theatrical music and comedy troupe transformed into a ska-influenced new wave band in 1979, and then changed again towards a more guitar-oriented rock sound, in the late 1980s.