Comments on: OTT’s chart of the decade

By: NIck H

NIck H — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:40:21 +0000

Thanks. Mind you I remember watching that very showing of ‘Live and Let Die’ all those years ago. Bond was essential viewing then…

By: Ian Jones

Ian Jones — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:30:30 +0000

The most watched TV show of the 80s was indeed the unmasking of JR’s killer, but it got 21.6m viewers, not 27m. It was the fifth most watched transmission of the decade. I did a full rundown of the most popular telly of the 1980s on the OTT blog last year: http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=6624

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:44:05 +0000

Hello Nick, I still believe the top rated television programme of the eighties to be the Dallas epispode where JR’s would be killer is revealed, which attracted 27 million viewers, and the preceding shooting of JR attracted 22 million. The 1986 Eastenders 30 million audience was split between the first showing and the omnibus, the Christmas day episode attracting around 20 million and the omnibus repeat 10 million.

By: NIck H

NIck H — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:40:55 +0000

Live and Let Die was a film though wasn’t it? What was the top televison show of the 80s? Eastenfders 1986. I’m sure this question’s been asked before actually and probably by me!!