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 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.

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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.

Major successes include Absurd Person Singular ( 1975 ), The Norman Conquests trilogy ( 1973 ), Bedroom Farce ( 1975 ), Just Between Ourselves ( 1976 ), A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ), Woman in Mind ( 1985 ), A Small Family Business ( 1987 ), Man Of The Moment ( 1988 ), House & Garden ( 1999 ) and Private Fears in Public Places ( 2004 ).

After the death of his second wife in 1984, he married a third time, in 1985 to Iris Hilda Waters ( d. 1994 ) and moved to the Isle of Man.

By 1985 the privatised British Telecom had inherited the telephone operations of the GPO, including those on the Isle of Man.

documentary about Lindow Man broadcast by the BBC in 1985 attracted 10 million viewers.

* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )

Other post offices such as the Isle of Man Philatelic Bureau also create special pictorial cancellations as they did in 1985 to mark the anniversary of the aircraft Douglas DC-3.

Sunrise is especially known for their mecha anime series ( including Gundam ) such as Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 ( 1978 ), Fang of the Sun Dougram ( 1981 ), the Armored Trooper Votoms and Aura Battler Dunbine series ( 1983 ), Blue Comet SPT Layzner ( 1985 ), Patlabor ( 1989 ), The Vision of Escaflowne ( 1996 ), The Big O ( 1999 / 2003 ), Overman King Gainer ( 2002 ), Zegapain ( 2007 ), and Code Geass ( 2006 / 2008 ).

In 1985, writer Alan Moore gave a somewhat darker glimpse into the world of Krypton in his story " For the Man Who Has Everything " ( in Superman Annual # 11 ), the premise being an elaborate dream of Superman's in which Krypton had not exploded and he'd grown to adulthood there.

Hansen, who first considered circumnavigating the globe in his wheelchair in 1974, began the Man in Motion World Tour in 1985 with the goal of raising $ 10 million towards research into spinal cord injuries.

Their 1985 album produced the singles " There's No Way ", " 40 Hour Week ( For a Livin ')", and " Can't Keep a Good Man Down ".

* 1985: "( There's A ) Fire in the Night "; " There's No Way "; " 40 Hour Week ( For a Livin ')"; " Can't Keep a Good Man Down "

Khan teamed with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ in 1985, with Canadian musician Michael Brook on the albums Mustt Mustt ( 1990 ) and Night Song ( 1996 ), and with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder in 1995 on two songs for the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking.

McKean quickly became a recognizable name in film and television, with appearances in films such as Used Cars ( 1980 ), Clue ( 1985 ), Planes, Trains and Automobiles ( 1987 ), Earth Girls Are Easy ( 1988 ), the film adaptation of Memoirs of an Invisible Man ( 1992 ), Coneheads ( 1993 ), and Radioland Murders ( 1994 ).

In 1985, the North Nodaway High School which is located in Hopkins won the Girl's State Softball Championship and in 1989 the boy's won the State Eight Man Football Championship.

* Wetherell, W. D., The Man Who Loved Levittown, University of Pittsburgh Press ( 1985 ), ISBN 0-8229-3520-1 ( fiction, winner of the 1985 Drue Heinz Literature Prize )

* The Blue Man ( 1985 )

" Through the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s Townshend would again experiment with the rock opera and related formats, releasing several story-based albums including White City: A Novel ( 1985 ), The Iron Man: A Musical ( 1989 ), and Psychoderelict ( 1993 ).

In a letter of 31 January 1985 to Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, regarding the book Poem of the Man God, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( then Prefect of the Congregation, who later became Pope Benedict XVI ), referred to the 1966 notification of the Congregation as follows: " After the dissolution of the Index, when some people thought the printing and distribution of the work was permitted, people were reminded again in L ' Osservatore Romano ( 15 June 1966 ) that, as was published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis ( 1966 ), the Index retains its moral force despite its dissolution.

The Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta was forbidden by the Holy Office under Pope John XXIII in 1959, a condemnation upheld in Cardinal Ratzinger's above-mentioned 1985 letter, almost two decades after the abolition of the Index ; but in 2001 Catholic Bishop Roman Danylak, by then a canon of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and no longer in charge of an eparchy, granted, in his own words, " a letter of commendation, a Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur and a testimonial to this website of a Catholic monk on the writings of Maria Valtorta " ( the website in question being one with the title "— A Contemporary Mystic — acclaimed one of the greatest: Maria Valtorta and her masterwork: The Poem of the Man-God " and in another letter stated that The Poem of the Man-God is, with the other writings of Valtorta, " in perfect consonance with the canonical Gospels, with the traditions and magisterium of the Catholic Church ".

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

The record label had contended that Fogerty's 1985 comeback hit " The Old Man Down the Road " was too similar to his 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival song, " Run Through the Jungle ".

His TV career saw him measure with Inside the Third Reich ( 1982 ), where he played Hitler ; Mr Pye ( 1985 ); and Little Dorrit ( 1987 ), from Charles Dickens's book ; The Tenth Man ( 1988 ) with Anthony Hopkins and Kristin Scott Thomas.

* The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ( 1985 )