There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones

who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade

one month at a time.

The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went

down.

Turn back the calendar with us.

It's the 80s all over. The A daily syndicated game show broadcast its first episode this month and has been on TV ever since.

What is Jeopardy?

Meanwhile on NBC, Miami Vice made its premiere, pushing network TV style forward, whether it wanted it or not,

and the Cosby show also premiered, turning stand-up star Bill Cosby into the single biggest sitcom star of the decade and changing the way black families were portrayed on television

forever.

By the Cars was the big winner at the first annual MTV music video awards, and President

Reagan refused to impose sanctions against South Africa,

vetoing strong measures that had already been approved by Congress despite growing support

for the idea that something had to be done about apartheid.

Things were definitely heating up around the world in September of 1984.

I'm Drew McQueenie and I'm joined as always by my co-host Scott Weinberg after a brief break

so we can talk about the month where I almost quit the show. Welcome, Scott. Thank you for being patient with us while

we took a week off. Yeah, I don't know about you, but I needed a little breather as we geared up for this

episode. This is a tough month. It's a tough year. We've had some stress. When you're doing 24 in a month, it gets a little dense. And I think it's hard when the lineup is not great.

And when you have a mediocre month, sometimes our like mission statement gets lost because it sounds like, oh, we're just trashing six obscure movies from 1984.

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