The '80s

It was 35 years ago that Tom Cruise—wearing Ray-Bans and his skivvies—slid his way into pop culture history.

The legendary 1980s home computer could do things computers costing thousands of dollars couldn't. It sold for as low as $190.

Doc Brown really needs to have a mechanic check out the DeLorean's starter. Here are 37 things to look for in 'Back to the Future.'

The 1980s series poked fun at public figures using puppets made by the 'H.R. Pufnstuf' team of Sid and Marty Krofft.

In the fall of 1979, a group of unknown actors, a director desperate for a hit, and a special effects visionary got together in the woods of New Jersey to create the stuff of legend.

The public service announcements were originally meant to boost teacher recruitment—and NBC wasn't all that crazy about airing them.

Ronald Reagan And Mikhail Gorbachev Meet In Iceland

With its Blue Lagoon thermal spa and unrivaled views of the Northern Lights, Iceland is one of the world's top tourist destinations, drawing over 2 million visitors last year alone.

Whether you’re a fan of his films or not, there’s no denying that Tom Cruise is the epitome of a Hollywood movie star.

Not even a lineup of the world's biggest artists could save "We Are The World" from annoying listeners.

If you don't want to spend the rest of the day humming "We Built This City," "Who Let the Dogs Out," or "We Are the World," stop reading this article right now.

Sy Sperling had one reason to reinvent the toupee: He didn't want something that would fall off during sex.

Nickelodeon’s 'Double Dare', which ran from 1986 to 1993 and taped more than 500 episodes, gave its kid contestants bicycles or boom boxes in exchange for fetching giant balls of snot from oversized noses.

The two people standing over the body, Michigan State Police detective Paul Wood told the Hard Copy cameras, “had a distinctive-type uniform on.

The groundbreaking cartoon-live action hybrid was released 30 years ago. Here are some facts about Roger Rabbit.

R.L. Stine’s Fear Street novels terrified teens in the late 1980s and early '90s. Now, the Fear Street books are heading to Netflix in a three-film trilogy. Here's what you should know about the books.

Sitcoms about kids abandoned by their parents and left to fend for themselves are few and far between.

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After the massive success of the 1977 original, and the downer ending of 'The Empire Strikes Back' in 1980, space opera mastermind George Lucas returned in 1983 to produce what everyone thought would be the final installment of 'Star Wars'.

Although it doesn’t have quite the same archaeological provenance as hieroglyphs or dinosaur bones, historians believe there’s ample evidence to suggest that the mullet has been around for centuries. And it's gaining popularity once again.

While sequels can promise bigger and better things to come, sometimes they fall short ... really short.

Five years after the release of 'Return of the Jedi' (1983) and four years after 'Indiana Jones' and the 'Temple of Doom' (1984), George Lucas gave audiences the story for another film about an unlikely hero on an epic journey, but this time he had three

What you don’t know about the place where everybody knows your name, which called "closing time" for the last time 25 years ago.

In the fall of 1923, street vendors in Santa Barbara, California received an unexpected bit of attention regarding one of their more popular wares: 'The San Francisco Chronicle' wrote about the sellers' “freakish little brown seeds” that “cavorted about t