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All week long: Revisit the highlights and lowlights of 1987 with Popverse's Made in 87 week.

When Full House premiered on ABC in 1987, it was considered revolutionary.

At the time, family sitcoms almost exclusively focused on nuclear families. There was an occasional blended family or single parent household, but Full House explored a non-traditional household viewers weren’t used to seeing.

DJ, Stephanie, and Michelle Tanner were raised by three men. When Danny Tanner’s wife Pam died, his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and his best friend Joey Gladstone moved in to help him take care of his daughters.

In 1987, the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon debuted - and all our lives were changed. Watch this reunion of the original voice actors:

John Stamos, who played Jesse on the sitcom, believes this challenged social norms, and helped normalize non-traditional households.

“I think we were ahead of the time because we were an unconventional family,” John Stamos says during a Full House spotlight panel at Megacon 2021. “We were not a mother and father. We were sort of early on, and I think it kind of made it okay to be a single parent, or same-sex parents, or just a different looking household than what a perfect family would look like, and we’re proud of that too.”

Get your wide-shoulder blouses and your Members-Only jackets, and go back in time with Popverse's Made in 87. Highlights include:

• Marvel Comics killed the X-Men in 1987 to reset the franchise - but it didn’t stick
• The Full House cast addresses some of the series’ biggest continuity errors
• How Spider-Man’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon was saved by a fired Marvel boss — and Ronald McDonald
• How NBC panicked after Diane left Cheers — and why Kirstie Alley’s casting sparked a quiet battle inside the hit show
• How Bart Simpson was quietly toned down from being "so mean" before The Simpsons' first episode, as revealed by his long-time voice actor Nancy Cartwright
• The 1987 Justice League reboot that made superheroes weird, hilarious, and unexpectedly human
• How The Golden Girls became a staple at gay bars in the 80s