80s TV Ladies

By: 134 West | Susan Lambert Hatem & Sharon Johnson
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  • Summary

  • 3-time Podcast Awards Winner. Webby nominated for Best Indie Podcast.
    80s TV Ladies is dedicated to the beloved female-driven shows of the 1980s! Do you love 80s pop culture, television and fabulous women? On our show, you’ll hear a breakdown of how these shows got made, how they were influenced by the times and, in turn, how they influenced pop-culture trends to follow. We love discussing the “two-steps forward, one-step-back” lens of media-driven feminism.

    Join hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson as they talk about the fabulous ladies of television: Cagney & Lacey, Designing Women, A Different World, The Golden Girls and more.

    With special guests, TV creators and stars! Do these shows we hold so dear hold up? Let's find out.

    Season 1: We examine three “detective duo shows” this season, with multiple episodes and awesome guests for each TV show we cover.
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King
    Remington Steele
    Cagney & Lacey

    Season 2: Multiple episodes per TV show exploring representation and behind-the-scenes insight in science fiction, drama and sitcoms!
    Queer representation in 70s and 80s
    9 to 5 television show
    It's a Living
    Designing Women
    Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas
    Star Trek Ladies
    Moonlighting

    Special guests: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Martha Smith, Robin Bernheim, Stephanie Zimbalist, Evan Ball, Debbie Evans, Barney Rosenzweig, Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Karen Arthur, Cynthis Beemis Abrams, Matt Baume, Jane Epsensen, Drew Greenberg, Paul Kreppel, Bryan Edward Hill, Maggie Friedman, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Stan Zimmerman, Mary Lou Belli, Nana Visitor, Glenn Gordon Caron, Shery Main and more!

    We publish every other Wednesday.
    Tell us: Who should we interview and what's your favorite 80s Ladies television show? https://www.80stvladies.com
    Susan Lambert and 134 West
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Episodes
  • SNEAK PEEK: Susan and Sharon Spill Secrets for Season 3

    SNEAK PEEK: Susan and Sharon Spill Secrets for Season 3
    Sep 4 2024
    In this special bonus episode, Susan, Sharon and Melissa spill a few secrets about our upcoming season and fun guests coming soon to 80s TV Ladies. Can you guess what female-driven television shows from the 1980s we’ll be covering in our upcoming season?

    THE CONVERSATION
    • Do we know what we did this summer? How was your summer?
    • What is that feeling in the air? Is it hope?!! Are you ready to Vote?
    • Does Melissa even want to talk about her summer?
    • Okay, for real: what shows are we gonna cover in Season THREE?!
    • Can you guess the shows?
      • The Vickie Lawrence-starring, Carol Burnett Show spin-off sitcom, Mama’s Family.
      • You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have… The Facts of Life.
      • Yes! And finally yes: The Golden Girls!
    • What are the recurring themes we are discovering through Season 1 and 2 interviews?
    • Yes, there will be more special series guests this season: More Director Ladies, Star Trek Ladies, Stunt Ladies and more surprises!
    So join us as we spill Season Three secrets about what guests we will for sure be talking to: like Mama’s Family’s Dorothy Lyman and Eric Brown, women in television expert and pop-culture author, Jennifer Keishan Armstrong. And can you guess who will be our very special guest from The Golden Girls?

    AUDIO-OGRAPHY
    Read about our first guest for Season 3: Jennifer Keishan Armstrong at jenniferkarmstrong.com
    Get info on Jennifer’s books and prep for episode 301:
    • Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic at Jennifer's website.
    • When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishan Armstrong at Bookshop. At Barnes & Noble. At Amazon.
    CONNECT
    Visit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.
    Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.
    Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON.

    VOTE
    We're NOMINATED for Best Entertainment Podcast. Please VOTE for 80s TV Ladies in the Entertainment category at Women in Podcasting Awards.

    REMEMBER: Register or Check your US Election Registration at Vote.org
    This year is the 45th anniversary of President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech. Get Susan’s new play about it: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.
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    39 mins
  • ENCORE: Revisit Stephanie Zimbalist Talks Remington Steele, Part 2

    ENCORE: Revisit Stephanie Zimbalist Talks Remington Steele, Part 2
    Aug 28 2024
    BONUS: Check out this exciting encore episode from Season 1: Part TWO of our interview with true show business icon and classic 8os TV Lady -- “Remington Steele’s” one-and-only Laura Holt -- Stephanie Zimbalist.

    In a career spanning six decades, Stephanie has performed on stage and screen with everyone: Alec Baldwin, Walter Matthau, Jessica Tandy, Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, Patricia Neal, Alfred Molina, Tommy Tune, Jimmy Stewart AND her own father, the legendary Efrem Zimbalist Jr.


    Steele Talking: Susan and Sharon continue their interview with the award-winning stage, TV and film actress…

    THE CONVERSATION

    - Working with her real-life dad – showbiz legend Efrem Zimbalist Jr – How he became a father figure for co-star Pierce Brosnan. (And how he taught Stephanie the secret to “playing drunk”…!)
    - Her decades-long friendship with Alec Baldwin.
    - When James Stewart was almost on Remington!
    - The Amazing Remington Steele Guest Stars, including…
    - Paul Reiser – and how Pierce broke up every time he said a line.
    - Louie Anderson – and that horse…
    - And Beverly Garland – Laura’s mom! (Wait -- were Laura Holt and Amanda King sisters??)

    - How she was cast in – but had to quit – ROBOCOP.
    - Why she has never gone back to rewatch “Remington Steele.”
    - Why “the blood isn’t real on “Remington Steele” -- and how humor on TV has changed…
    - How curiosity leads to love.
    - New York, noodles – and a “rude awakening” in the theater…

    Listen in as Susan, Sharon and Stephanie talk “Moonlighting”, memories and Mary Tyler Moore!

    AUDIO-OGRAPHY
    Stephanie Zimbalist on Facebook/StephanieZimbalistFanPage.
    Steele Watching Podcast w/ Kerry Carlock.

    CONNECT
    Visit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.
    Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.
    Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON.

    VOTE
    We're NOMINATED for Best Film & TV Podcast.
    Please VOTE for 80s TV Ladies at Women in Podcasting Awards.
    Register or Check your Registration at Vote.org

    This is the 45th anniversary of President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech. Get Susan’s new play about it: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • ENCORE: Revisit Stephanie Zimbalist Talks Remington Steele, Part 1

    ENCORE: Revisit Stephanie Zimbalist Talks Remington Steele, Part 1
    Aug 14 2024
    It's more Summer Reruns. Check out this cool encore episode from Season 1:
    Susan and Sharon sit down with a true show business icon and classic 8os TV Lady -- “Remington Steele’s” one-and-only Laura Holt -- Stephanie Zimbalist.

    In a career spanning six decades, Stephanie has performed on stage and screen with everyone: Alec Baldwin, Walter Matthau, Jessica Tandy, Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, Patricia Neal, Alfred Molina, Tommy Tune, Jimmy Stewart AND her own father, the legendary Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

    THE CONVERSATION
    • Growing up Zimbalist: what it’s like to be born into a true show business dynasty.
    • How Stephanie started writing, directing and producing – at the age of seven.
    • How she attended Julliard with friends and classmates Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve -- and then got kicked out!
    • Winning – or not winning – an “Enema” (oh wait -- “Emmy”)
    • A Life in the Theater: performing award-winning roles in classic plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and more.
    • The gift of making “big choices” on stage – and screen. And the pleasure of refining and reinventing a performance over a long run.
    • Playing Katherine Hepburn in “Tea at Five” – and how she discovered they’re cousins!
    • Turning down the role of Laura Holt three times before finally taking it on.
    • “Backwards and in High Heels” – on water skis! Stephanie takes us through doing her own stunts on “Remington Steele” -- and working with legendary stuntwoman Debbie Evans.
    Join Susan and Sharon (and Stephanie) as we talk fame, fedoras – and wet-biking in France with Pierce. PLUS -- MORE listener mail!!

    AUDIO-OGRAPHY
    Stephanie Zimbalist on Facebook/StephanieZimbalistFanPage.
    Steele Watching Podcast w/ Kerry Carlock.
    Native Land Digital at Native-Land.ca
    Read about Land Acknowledgment at LAist.

    CONNECT
    Visit 80sTVLadies.com for transcripts.
    Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.
    Support us and get ad-free episodes on PATREON.

    VOTE
    We're NOMINATED for Best Film & TV Podcast. Please VOTE for 80s TV Ladies at Women in Podcasting Awards.
    Suppport Kamala Harris for President - KamalaHarris.com
    Register or Check your Registration at Vote.org

    This is the 45th anniversary of President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech. Get Susan’s new play about it: Confidence (and the Speech) at Broadway Licensing.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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