For starters, Sirota observes how TV’s ‘Family Ties’ was the perfect example of the 1980s making fun of the 1960s ethos. Parts are based on Sirota’s book ‘Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now,’ which similarly described the profound effects of the seemingly silly, flashy, big-hair era. Fox, Nina Blackwood, Linda Evans and Denver author David Sirota. Narrated by former brat pack member Rob Lowe, it aims to be ‘the defining biography of a decade,’ as told through interviews with Fonda, Larry Hagman, DMC, Danny DeVito, Oliver Stone, Calvin Klein, David Hasselhoff, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Michael J. National Geographic Channel’s three-part easy-listening history, ‘The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us,’ premiering Sunday-Monday-Tuesday at 6 p.m., purports to be more than nostalgia. Dig a little deeper and you can see the beginnings of the social/cultural/techno revolutions that shaped today’s world. Flashback to Rubik’s cubes, ‘The Cosby Show’, Jane Fonda workout videos, Pac Man, Ronald Reagan and ‘Back to the Future’ and what do you get? Besides the musical headache (‘Another One Bites the Dust’?), you get a kinda fun, kinda icky dose of the 1980s.
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