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21 Jump Street (1987)
Miami Vice For Generation X
A briefly cool show that helped make Johnny Depp a star, it was moralistic but not preachy. Unlike most other cop shows of the time kids weren't treated as the enemy by these younger cops. The show dealt with sensitive topics such as AIDS and minor abuse. It lost steam in its later years after Depp and Peter DeLuise left the show.
Star Trek: Errand of Mercy (1967)
"We have the right..." "To wage war, captain?"
Probably the best antiwar episode of the original series which often preached peace but didn't live up to its words. With the Federation and the Klingon Empire on the verge of war, the enterprise is sent to the seemingly primitive planet of Organia to try and convince the inhabitants to be on their side. Kirk and Spock (particularly Kirk) find themselves stymied and frustrated by the Organians, as does Kirk's rival and Klingon counterpart Kor. The episode, made at a time when the Vietnam conflict was escalating, makes an important point as to whether humans can really achieve peace with other species that aren't like them, or still want war on some level.
Moonraker (1979)
James Bond In Space
This is, literally, the theme of the movie as Bond goes where presumably no spy has gone before. We get lush location settings, some decent sci fi effects, and realistic looks at how the Space Shuttle was going to be launched (it hadn't yet at the time). Jaws is back, and changes sides, and Michael Lonsdale offers a cool, calculating villain in Hugo Drax. The movie's outer-space settings are apparently a response to the success of Star Wars, and there are musical gag references to other sci fi movies in the film.