It seems like there were standard plot episodes that every tv series from the 80s would fall back on at some point. Let’s see how many we can think of. Ill start off with a few:
1. Evil Twin
2. Flashbacks of previous episodes
3. Giving birth when someone is trapped somewhere and normal people deliver
Are you referring to dramas? Soap Operas?
I mostly watched sitcoms, Tour of Duty, and the A-Team, but I do remember in soap operas a character's child would go off to a magic boarding school and come back six months later and was now an adult, but the parents hadn't aged.
Dramas mainly. A team ; knight rider, Macgyver etc.
share'This week, on a very special episode of Blossom...'
That show seemed to think nearly every weekly episode was 'very special'
I’ll give you a special episode of blossom
shareStop giving me flowers, it's starting to make me feel weird!
shareThey give you allergies so you’ll get nothing but flowers
shareAllergies and bullets, my only weaknesses...How did you know?!?
shareI'm going with a soap.. Young and the Restless
share- Amnesia
- Former partner of a spouse returns to make trouble
- Some minor token chracter comes out as gay and after struggling with it everyone ends up accepting them
- The maverick cop who plays by their own rules
- The group of armed villains who can't shoot a single gunman while he takes them out one by one
- Season-finale cliffhanger ("who will survive??")
Amnesia! Good one.
shareMade-for-TV movies that addressed whatever social issue was in vogue that week.
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