River has his first appearance on a TV show Fantasy singing with his sister Rain. The year of the IBM PC and the Charles and Diana wedding. The year of the Falkland Islands Invasion. The year of the Ethiopian Famine. The pilot episode of It's Your Move airs.
River has just one line of dialogue.
The year Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power. February 1985 Production finishes on Explorers . A Family in Crisis with River cast as Philip Brogan airs on television. Filming takes two months. The year of Chernobyl.