What is Your Favorite Top Rated TV Show of the 1980's that ran for multiple seasons and aired more than 25 episodes (aka, 1 to 3 more episodes than a single American 22 to 24 episode TV season at the time)?10 of 14
Jeremy Brett as Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes series of series (1984 to 1994 ) This includes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984), The Sign of Four (1987), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991), and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994).
Qualifiers:
8 seasons (not all seasons are continuous year after year)
41 episodes