There was NO better time for television than the early thru the mid 1980s....I get 297 channels and I spend 4-5 hours a day now when I am home flipping thru channels. I am finding ALL my favorites from when I was a teenager and TV was good:

Hill Street Blues
St Elsewhere (almost made me want to go to Med School...anyone remember Cynthia Sikes? :bananaturnandcough:)

Cheers
Family Ties (Everyone of my friends used to pop boners to Justine Bateman, but I was into Meredith Baxter (sometimes) Birney before MILF was ever conceived)

Miami Vice
Crime Story
LA Law

And 80s Cartoons. You forgot to mention 80s cartoons man!

This was my main shit in the early 80's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9A9jLHjD3c

In the later 80's it was Pee Wee's Playhouse.

i also really dug Newhart and Murphy Brown in the evening.

Thundering across the stars to save the universe from the Monster Minds

They dont make cartoons like they used to.