Indiana Jones thrilled moviegoers in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Only Fools and Horses made its TV debut.
These photos take you back to the early 80s - 1981, to be specific - capturing life around Northern Ireland as it looked then.
It was the year Northern Ireland produced one of its greatest exports, the iconic DeLorean car.
While it may have been a commercial failure, the design classic, with its gull-winged doors, went on to secure legendary status a few years later as the time-travelling car in the Back to the Future films.
The first DeLoreans can be seen rolling off the production line in this retro photo gallery, which also features days out at the horses, family fun at the motorcycle trials, shoppers queuing for the sales, and much more.
The nostalgic pictures take us inside the former home of Belfast’s oldest barber shop, which counted George Best among its customers; they show a proud mum with her New Year’s Day baby; and they capture the end of an era on the railway tracks.
Do these photos bring back any memories for you of the 80s? What do you miss most about life back then?
If you enjoyed this trip down memory lane, you might like this pictorial look back at life in 1989.
17. Happy times
Hazel Farlow and Jenny Stinson, from Enniskillen, members of the Co Fermanagh team taking part in the SOS Talisman badminton Inter-League Gilbert Trophy tournament at the Polytech in Jordanstown in January 1981 | Belfast News Letter
18. Looking back
Bertie Bruce in January 1981 at the spot in Lambeg where 80 years previously, as a barefoot boy, he held the coach horses as they were changed on the journey from Belfast to Hillsborough. Behind him is the former mill shop where workers exchanged their pay tokens for wages until the Truck Acts made the practice illegal. | Belfast News Letter
19. Ready for action
Church of Ireland team members Helen Parkes and Joanne Mayes, from Belfast, ready to compete in the SOS Talisman badminton Inter-League Gilbert Trophy tournament at the Polytech in Jordanstown in January 1981 | Belfast News Letter
20. New Year's Day baby
Angela Shaw, of Belfast, with her New Year's Day baby daughter Leanne, born weighing 7lb 14oz at 11.38am on January 1, 1981, at the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald. Pictured with her are proud grandmothers, Angela's mother, Mary Smith, from Castlereagh, and her mother-in-law, Margaret Shae, from Cregagh, Belfast. | Belfast News Letter