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The Eighties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on March 31, 2016. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's studio Playtone, it serves as a follow-up to the predecessors The Sixties and The Seventies with a 7-part series chronicling events and popular culture of the United States during the 1980s. In May 2016, CNN greenlit an 8-part follow-up titled The Nineties, which premiered in 2017.
Original Release
03/31/2016
US Release
03/31/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tom Brokaw | Self - NBC News |
Peter Jennings | Self - ABC News |
Dan Rather | Self - CBS News |
Sam Donaldson | Self - ABC News |
Jane Pauley | Self - The Today Show |
Walter Cronkite | Self - CBS News |
Ted Koppel | Self - ABC News |
John Chancellor | Self - NBC News |
Barry Petersen | Self - CBS News |
Mike Jensen | Self - NBC News |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Raised on Television | Thursday, 31 March 2016 |
2 | The Reagan Revolution | Thursday, 07 April 2016 |
3 | The Fight Against AIDS | Thursday, 09 June 2016 |
4 | Tear Down This Wall | Thursday, 28 April 2016 |
5 | Technology Gets Personal | Thursday, 30 June 2016 |
6 | Greed Is Good | Thursday, 12 May 2016 |
7 | Video Killed the Radio Star | Thursday, 19 May 2016 |
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tom Brokaw | Self - NBC News |
Peter Jennings | Self - ABC News |
Dan Rather | Self - CBS News |
Sam Donaldson | Self - ABC News |
Jane Pauley | Self - The Today Show |
Walter Cronkite | Self - CBS News |
Ted Koppel | Self - ABC News |
John Chancellor | Self - NBC News |
Barry Petersen | Self - CBS News |
Mike Jensen | Self - NBC News |
James Baker III | Self - Fmr White House Chief of Staff |
Chris Wallace | Self - NBC News |
Don Miller | Self - CNN |
John Palmer | Self - NBC News |
Tom Hanks | Self - Actor |
Ronald Reagan | Self |
Garrick Utley | Self - NBC News |
Charles Gibson | Self - Good Morning America |
Roger Mudd | Self - NBC News |
Bryant Gumbel | Self - The Today Show |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Gary Goetzman | Executive Producer |
Tom Hanks | Executive Producer |
Mark Herzog | Executive Producer |
Christopher G. Cowen | Executive Producer |
Kirk Saduski | Executive Producer |
P.G. Morgan | Producer |
Nicholas Ward | Producer |
Katie A. King | Producer |
Sarah Umbach | Producer |
Simon Brown | Producer |
Jane E. Russell | Producer |
Elizabeth Goetzman | Producer |
David Rivera | Producer |
Stephen J. Morrison | Producer |
Collie Witt | Producer |
Patrick Roscoe | Producer |
Alex Fleming | Producer |
Mike Goetzman | Producer |
Erik Adolphson | Producer |
Evan Gore | Producer |
Blake Bruns | Producer |
Editors
Inbal B. Lessner, Natalie De Diego, Chris A. Peterson, Jason Hardwick, Yaffa Lerea