The 3rd installment from producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of THE SEVENTIES along with critically-acclaimed series THE SIXTIES, tackles 10 years shaped excess and by exceptionalism. Like its predecessors, THE EIGHTIES intersperses interviews, rare archival newsreel footage, and comments from politicians, journalists, historians, celebrities and others . Episodes analyze this of the most evolving television Reagan, the AIDS catastrophe Wall Street corruption and music scene, and everything in between.