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Back In… is a retrospective documentary series broadcast on the Canadian music video channel MuchMoreMusic. The series also airs on Star! and some Citytv stations. 20 episodes have been broadcast, each profiled by a different year, going from 1980 to 1999. Each episode’s title would always end with the last two digits of a year; such an example would be “Back In… ’88” or “Back In… ’99”.

About the show

The show premiered in 2004.[1] Anderson Cooper was a commentator on the series.[1]

  • Fashions
  • Fads
  • Famous people born that year
  • Top-selling albums of the year
  • One-hit wonders
  • Grammy Award winners
  • Hunks and babes
  • Hitched and ditched
  • Highest-grossing movies for that year
  • Movie award winners
  • The top television programs for the season
  • In memoriam
  • Various top news stories
  • (Occasionally) Where are they now?
  • Chinese zodiac
  • The top five best and worst videos of the year

1980s

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990s

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

Spinoff

In late August 2006, a spinoff of Back In… was created, called Back In… Love connecting celebrities to other celebrities who had alleged or confirmed sexual or romantic encounters.

Reception

CanWest News Service‘s Alex Strachan called Back In… a “fast-moving, witty nostalgia series”.[2] Strachan said that Anderson Cooper offered “ironic commentary” and that it was “a delightful, if occasionally scary, year-by-year look at pop culture in the mid-1980s and early 1990s”.[3] Brad Oswald of the Winnipeg Free Press thought the series was a “flimsy pop-culture retrospective” that is “lightweight fun”.[4]

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