1980's

  1. THeaven

    Marvels Prime time TV universe (reuploaded)

    In early 1977, Frank Price, head of Universal television offered producer and writer Kenneth Johnson a deal to develop a TV show based on any of several characters they had licensed from the Marvel Comics Johnson turned down the offer at first, but then, while reading the novel Les Misrebele he...
  2. THeaven

    Christopher Reeve in Supergirl (reloaded)

    After the failure that was Superman III Alexander & Ilya Salkind went to work on a Spinoff movie based on Superman's cousin Supergirl but for the movie to work they would need Christopher Reeve to pass the Torch. Reeve feeling typecast but getting the Directors bug goes to Warner Media &...
  3. WI: Gary Hart Doesn't Get Caught?

    I just saw the trailer for Hugh Jackman's new movie "The Frontrunner." It tells of popular US Senator Gary Hart's rise and fall from grace as a presidential candidate in 1988. It got me thinking, what if Gary Hart's fling with Donna Rice hadn't been discovered by the press? Would he have won the...
  4. WI: Successful Reykjavik Summit

    At the 1986 Reykjavik Summit, Reagan and Gorbachev tried and failied to finalize an agreement that would have banned all ballistic missiles within 10 years. Reagan came close to taking up Gorbachev's final offer but he refused to compromise on his "Star Wars" program and the agreement collapsed...
  5. WI: New York Mayor Mario Cuomo

    In 1977, Democratic heavyweights Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo fought a bitter, bruising contest for the Democratic nomination in the election to determine New York's next Mayor. Koch's supporters attacked Cuomo's principled opposition to the death penalty, while Cuomo supporters smeared Koch for...
  6. Make the Soviet Union collapse 10 years earlier

    Alright, I'm trying to make this alternate scenario for what if the Soviet Union collapsed in late 70's or early 80's, but I can't come up with good one. What are the most realistic causes for it to happen? How would it affect the whole world if it were to collapse say in 1981? Who would be the...
  7. Make the Soviet Union collapse 10 years earlier

    Alright, I made post saying what if the Soviet Union collapsed in 1981 but people kept saying how the events I mentioned would've not made it collapse. What events could've happened that caused the Soviet Union to collapse in around 1980? What would've happen and how would've it affected our...
  8. Service to Country

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was Ronald Reagan's night. He had finally done it. 4 decades of making crappy films and less crappy speeches had been worth it. He was finally the Republican nominee for...
  9. Time Enough

    Brad Bird's The Spirit? Discussion

    In 1980 whilst at Cal Art's Brad Bird and a few friends created script for a Spirit film alongside a pencil test trailer made to help pitch the film. To quote ‘The Spirit’ movie that could have been "But if the world had turned a little differently, if fate had been a little kinder, a “Spirit”...
  10. Terror attack on multiple shuttles (Launch Complex 39), mid-1980's?

    This is sort of an AHC/WI/PC combination, or a more general discussion. How plausible would it be for at least two and possibly even three space shuttles to be irreparably damaged in some sort of covert terror attack (I don't know much about bombs, but some sort of planted firebombing, or...
  11. KuboCaskett

    Possible Weapon Innovations and Inventions from a 1980's Conventional WWIII?

    For my TL which will feature events set after a WWIII in the first half of the 1980's (that stayed mostly conventional mind you so the total nuclear exchange is off the table), one thing that needs to be addressed are the possible innovations and inventions that spawned from the conflict so they...
  12. War Games

    (I posted this in the test forum and received no replies, so I thought I'd have a better chance here) I've recently had growing interest in Cold War era history, and I've started to read up on some events I found striking during that period, namely the martial law over Poland, and the...
  13. KuboCaskett

    AHC: Have Tech stay in the 1980's/1990's Level by 2030

    Inspired by this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-have-2020s-2030s-level-technology-available-by-the-late-1980s.413867/. So with a POD no earlier than 1900, how can technology stay at a late 20th century level by the year 2030 (barring minor advances of course). Bonus...
  14. Gentleman Biaggi

    The Mondale Presidency A collaborative TL

    May 5 1979 President Jimmy Carter is shot by Raymond Lee Harvey while making a speech in Los Angeles. Walter Mondale is sworn in to replace the deceased president.
  15. Wes Craven's New New Nightmare (A pop culture TL)

    Intro: So recently, I watched a fantastic documentary on the Nightmare On Elm Street series called Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of the series or movie making in general. What interested me the most about the documentary was the writing of New...
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