80s Television Flashback

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 1982

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Carson/Tonight Show Official Website
Johnny Carson on Wikipedia: 1, 2.

80s/90s Television Flashback

Quantum Leap (teaser with opening)

Quantum Leap was an American TV series that was broadcast on NBC from March 1989 to May 1993. The series was created by Donald Bellisario (Airwolf, JAG, NCIS, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Black Sheep Squadron and the original Battlestar Galactica), and starred Sam Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a scientist who becomes lost in time following a botched experiment. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Al, Sam's womanizing, cigar smoking sidekick and best friend. He appeared to Sam as a hologram that only Sam and a select few others could see or hear. The series features a mix of comedy, drama and melodrama, social commentary, nostalgia and science fiction, which won it a broad range of fans. It is particularly notable for the end of each episode, where Beckett leaps into his next persona (the story of the next episode), usually uttering "Oh boy!."

Links: Read more about the series.