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Famous People of the 80s: On the Small Screen
Chock Full 'O Dreamy Teen Heartthrobs
In the early 80s, while John Ritter was Jack Trippering his way into the
hall of sitcom fame, other small-screen stars like Alan Alda and Erik
Estrada were slowly tumbling down the charts after a wild ride in the late
70s. And even though Henry Winkler literally jumped the
shark in 1977,
Happy Days continued to ride the top 10 for several seasons into the 80s,
then spun off the infamous Joanie Loves Chachi, catapulting Scott Baio
into heartthrob heaven for millions of side-ponytailed teenage girls.
It wasn't only Scott Baio sending the pubescent into hormonal hissies, though. Teenage boys of the 80s had bodacious blondes to lust after, like Heather Locklear, Christina Applegate, and every single woman to ever appear on Miami Vice. While that was going on, the wholesome sitcom world was busy giving teenage girls role models in the form of Justine Bateman on Family Ties and the Facts of Life girls, teaching us all to take the good and the bad.
And then we have the 80s TV stars who made it big and held on tenaciously,
trying to ride their fame into the new millennium. After a successful run
on Growing Pains from 1985-1992, Kirk Cameron took the slightly
alternative route to staying in the stream, starring in the recent
apocalyptic, ultra-Christian Left Behind movies, and even his own
televangelist show. Growing Pains also ignited the fuse to another
mega-star's rocket - Leonardo DiCaprio - who is as famous today as he is
infamous. And sweet little Raven-Symone, one of the Cosby Show's last
additions, is now a superstar in her own right - a hip-hop musician and
diva deluxe in her own Disney TV show, That's So Raven. But taking the
small screen stature to box office billions to a whole new level, Bruce
Willis went from Moonlighting on the side to assuring the world he wasn't
just going to Die Hard, his career wasn't going to die at all- or at least
for another 30 years.
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