The 1983 Cubs had finished 71 – 91 under Lee Elia, who was fired before the season ended by Green.

After the 1983 season, Earnhardt returned to Richard Childress Racing, replacing Ricky Rudd in the # 3.

Defenseman Brad Park, acquired from the Boston Bruins in the 1983 free-agent market, also helped the Wings reach the postseason and ended up winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy the same season.

Media fans, have, on occasion, organized on behalf of canceled television series, with notable success in cases such as Star Trek in 1968, Cagney & Lacey in 1983, Xena: Warrior Princess, in 1995, Roswell in 2000 and 2001 ( it was canceled with finality at the end of the 2002 season ), Farscape in 2002, Firefly in 2002, and Jericho in 2007.

Before the 1983 season, the Astros traded Danny Heep to the Mets for pitcher Mike Scott, a 28-year-old who had struggled with New York.

Art Howe sat out the 1983 season with an injury, forcing Phil Garner to third and Ray Knight to first.

Further disappointment followed in the 1983 – 1984 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the return match against defending Serie A champions Roma.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

Despite this incident, the 1983 season was also notable for some transitional changes.

In 1983, a third revision of fares was undertaken, and a new inter-modal Travelcard season ticket was launched covering five new numbered zones ; representing an overall cut in prices of around 25 %.

His role in The A-Team led to him making an appearance in the long-running sit-com Diff ' rent Strokes in the sixth season opener " Mr T. and mr. t " ( 1983 ), in which an episode of The A-Team is supposedly filmed in the family's penthouse apartment.

In 2006, the team returned to black shoes for first time since the 1983 season.

Ace closer Rollie Fingers missed the playoffs due to a torn muscle in his throwing arm that not only kept him out for the entire playoffs but also would have him miss the entire 1983 season.

The Brewers were in contention to repeat in 1983, but the team fell on a rough September to finish in 4th place with an 87 – 75 record, their last winning season until 1987.

Rollie Fingers was lost for the whole season with a torn muscle in his throwing arm, beloved slugger Gorman Thomas struggled badly offensively and was traded to the Cleveland Indians, and their ace, Pete Vuckovich, was revealed to have had a torn rotator cuff that had been plaguing him since 1981 and only pitched in 5 games in 1983.

During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.

Super Bowl XVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Los Angeles Raiders to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1983 season.

The Redskins entered the game as the defending Super Bowl XVII champions, and finished the 1983 regular season with a league-best 14-2 record, and led the league in the fewest rushing yards allowed.

The Raiders were in their second season in Los Angeles since moving from Oakland in 1982, and posted a 12-4 regular season record in 1983.

Allen won the 1985 NFL MVP Award and rushing title while being named Super Bowl XVIII MVP at the conclusion of the 1983 season.

Image: Tyrrell 011 1983. jpg | The 1983 season Tyrrell 011, showing the company's logo at the time.

This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

After leaving Asylum for Island Records, Waits released Swordfishtrombones in 1983, a record that marked a sharp turn in his musical direction.

The launch of the new SWATCH brand in 1983, was marked by bold new styling, design and marketing.

One biographer reported that the actual problem was that Wilson, who had been prescribed massive amounts of psychotropic drugs by Landy's staff since 1983, had developed tardive dyskinesia, a neurological condition marked by involuntary, repetitive movements, that develops in about 20 % of patients treated with anti-psychotic drugs for a long period of time.

The launch of the new " Swatch " brand watch in 1983, by the then ETA SA CEO Ernst Thomke and his young team of engineers, was marked by bold new styling and design.

It also marked Alex Ferguson matching Cruyff's feat in 1989, having also led Aberdeen to victory in the 1983 tournament.

At the end of 1983 there was a marked change in Douglas ’ s thinking.

A final volume IX on spectral theory ( Théories spectrales ) from 1983 marked the presumed end of the publishing project ; but a further commutative algebra fascicle was produced in 1998.

The reunion resulted in Conflicting Emotions ( November 1983 ), an album which marked the beginning of the end for the band.

The Holy Prepuce of Calcata is worthy of special mention, as the reliquary containing the Holy Foreskin was paraded through the streets of this Italian village as recently as 1983 on the Feast of the Circumcision, which was formerly marked by the Roman Catholic Church around the world on January 1 each year.

The revival was marked by the appearance of a new generation of Black British musicians, including members of the influential groups Loose Tubes ( formed 1983 ): Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Julian Argüelles and Jazz Warriors ( formed 1986 ): Courtney Pine, Gary Crosby, Julian Joseph, and later Soweto Kinch and Jason Yarde.

Clark's running to the center marked the start of a split within the Libertarian Party between a moderate faction led by Ed Crane and a radical faction led by Rothbard that eventually came to a head in 1983, with the moderate faction walking out of the party convention after the nomination for the 1984 presidential race went to David Bergland.

This generation marked the end of the North American video game crash of 1983, a shift in the dominance of home video games from the United States to Japan, and the transition from single-screen or flip-screen graphics to scrolling graphics, which was a pivotal leap in game design.

The paper " Extension set and incompatible problem ", published in 1983, marked the birth of the new science of Extenics ( originally Matter-element analysis ).

1983 also marked the end of the LJ series, as the LE model would be added in 1984.

Some minor changes and revisions marked the 1984 Grand Prix, including a new octangular Pontiac hood ornament, gauges with orange needles and red markings ( previous 1978 – 1983 Grand Prix gauges had white needles ), a T-shaped console shifter, an updated bucket seat design, as well as a woodgrain plate above the glove box ( previous 1978 – 1983 Grand Prixs used a black plate ).

In 1983 she starred in Andha Kanoon which marked the debut of Tamil actor Rajinikanth in Bollywood.

The Braves slipped to second place in 1983, but their 88-74 record was just one game off the previous season, and marked the first consecutive winning seasons for the organization since moving from Milwaukee in 1966.

Their 1983 record Tornado was marked by controversy, with the band's American label M. C. A.

1983 marked an appearance in Street Hero.

Norman followed these with her début at the Metropolitan Opera in 1983, appearing in Berlioz's Les Troyens as both Cassandra and Dido, a production which marked the company's 100th anniversary season.