1988 in American television

Television-related events in the USA during 1988

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List of years in American television:

* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991

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1987–88 United States network television schedule
1988–89 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

The year 1988 in television involved some significant events. This is a list of notable events in the United States.

## Events

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Date | Event

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January 1  | The season finale of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series airs in syndication with "Shredder & Splintered". The series will return for a second season in fall.
Australia Live, a 4-hour TV special about Australia's Bicentennial, airs on A&E.
NBC broadcasts the Rose Bowl Game for the final time, ending a 37-year partnership. ABC Sports picked up rights to broadcast the game the following year.
January 3  | WFYF in Watertown, New York begins broadcasting, giving the Watertown market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
January 4  | Nick Jr. begins as a block of Nickelodeon programming for younger children.
Blackout, hosted by Bob Goen, premieres on CBS. The game show runs for only thirteen weeks, after which The $25,000 Pyramid, the show it replaced, returns to the air on April 4 while CBS develops a revival of Family Feud.
January 8  | The ABC sitcom I Married Dora had low ratings and was canceled halfway into its only season. The final episode ended with a scene, known as "breaking the fourth wall," that ranked number 49 on TV Land's list of The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments. The cameras pulled back to show the entire stage as the cast and crew waved goodbye and performed curtain calls.
January 16  | Due to comments he made about breeding practices during slavery leading to blacks becoming superior athletes, CBS fires Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, who had been a regular on NFL Today since 1976.
January 22  | KYMA in Yuma, Arizona signs-on the air, returning ABC programming to the Yuma market for the first time since KECY-TV dropped its affiliation to rejoin CBS in 1985.
January 24  | The inaugural Royal Rumble event airs live on the USA Network. The main event saw The Islanders defeat The Young Stallions in a 2 out of 3 falls match. The titular match was won by "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan.
January 25  | During that night's edition of the CBS Evening News; anchor Dan Rather enters a nearly 10-minute confrontation with Vice President George H. W. Bush over what Bush knew about the Iran-Contra scandal.
January 29  | The Peanuts musical television special Snoopy! The Musical, based on the musical comedy of the same name, premiered on CBS.
January 31  | The pilot for The Wonder Years airs following ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.
February 5  | Wrestlers Hulk Hogan and André the Giant compete on The Main Event on NBC, marking the return of professional wrestling to network prime-time for the first time since 1955.
February 6  | UK animated television series for children Count Duckula (a spinoff of Danger Mouse) begins on Nickelodeon prior to airing in its homeland which will start on September 6 of the same year.
The writers of The Facts of Life create a controversial storyline in which Natalie (Mindy Cohn) becomes the first of the girls to lose her virginity. Lisa Whelchel (Blair) refused this particular storyline that would have made her character, not Natalie, the first among the four young women in the show to lose her virginity. Having become a Christian when she was 10, Whelchel refused because of her religious convictions. Whelchel appeared in every episode but asked to be written out of "The First Time".[1] The episode ran a parental advisory before starting and placed 22nd in the ratings for the week.[2]
February 13  | ABC broadcasts the Opening Ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games from Calgary. This is ABC's tenth and final Olympic Games that they would broadcast to date.
February 21  | Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, involved with a sex scandal, admits to being with prostitutes and temporarily ends his television ministry.
February 22  | The Nickelodeon game show Double Dare begins its third season, airing simultaneously on Nickelodeon and Fox affiliates. Besides the presence of a new network, another big change was the stage left team now wearing blue (the stage right team would continue to wear red) so viewers and crew members could tell the teams apart more easily. Previously, both teams wore red.
February 23  | Future Grammy Award-winning recording artist Lauryn Hill (The Fugees frontwoman) makes her television debut on Showtime at the Apollo as a contestant of Amateur Night, where the 13-year-old Hill performed "Who's Lovin' You" by Motown Records singer Smokey Robinson, and gets booed by the audience.
February 25  | Totally Minnie, a 45-minute live-action/animated special, premiers on NBC. This marks the first time Russi Taylor voiced Minnie Mouse.
February 26  | Tom Hardy marries Simone Ravelle on the ABC soap opera General Hospital, the first interracial wedding on American daytime television.
March 2  | Michael Jackson performs a live, extended version of the song "Man in the Mirror" at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS, having Siedah Garrett, the Winans, and the Andraé Crouch choir perform with him.
March 18  | In what would turn out to be her final television appearance, Gilda Radner guest stars on Showtime's It's Garry Shandling's Show.
March 19  | "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge of popularity caused by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures. The California Raisins' version of the song peaks at No. 84 on the Billboard Hot 100.
March 20  | Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, the fifth installment of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 telefilm series, is broadcast in syndication.
March 27  | The first edition of Clash of the Champions airs on TBS opposite WrestleMania IV on pay-per-view. The main event would be Ric Flair and Sting wrestling to a time limit draw.
April 3  | In Jacksonville, Florida, NBC affiliate WJKS (now CW affiliate WCWJ) and ABC affiliate WTLV swap affiliations, reversing a swap that took place in 1980. NBC will later dub this swap one of its most successful affiliation switches ever.
April 4  | James Brown appears on CNN after allegedly assaulting his wife with a lead pipe and shooting at her car. During the interview with Sonya Friedman, Brown shouted song titles of his own songs instead of answering questions.
April 8  | Ana Alicia's character, Melissa Agretti, dies in a house fire on the CBS drama Falcon Crest.
April 11  | WYED-TV, an independent station, serving both Goldsboro, Raleigh, Durham and Fayetteville launches.
Fox affiliate WVAH-TV moves to channel 11, one of the last remaining channel allocations in the U.S., from UHF channel 23.[3]
April 13  | Geraldo Rivera's live special Murder: Live from Death Row is broadcast in syndication; a highlight is Rivera's pre-taped interview with Charles Manson.
April 18  | The Disney Channel celebrates its fifth anniversary.
Nickelodeon debuts the first Kids Choice Awards ceremony.
April 25  | Lieutenant Tasha Yar is killed off in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation after actress Denise Crosby asked to be released from her contract.
May 1  | Magnum, P.I. broadcasts its 2-hour series finale on CBS.
May 6  | The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, the sixth installment of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 telefilm series, is broadcast in syndication as part of the 30th anniversary of the character Huckleberry Hound. This film marks the final time Daws Butler voiced Huck, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, Snagglepuss, Hokey Wolf, and Peter Potamus, as he died two and a half weeks after its telecast from a heart attack.
May 7  | The series finale of The Facts of Life airs on NBC. In the two-part episode, Blair buys Eastland to prevent its closing. Blair finds that the school is in such dire financial straits that she is forced to make the school co-ed. Blair then essentially adopts the Mrs. Garrett role as she presides over the school and is forced to deal with the trouble-making students in a plot line that is highly reminiscent of the season two premiere. The new Eastland students included Seth Green, Mayim Bialik, future Oscar-nominee Juliette Lewis, and Meredith Scott Lynn.
May 13  | In the season finale of the CBS drama Dallas, character J.R. Ewing pushes over the railing of his high-rise office building the character Nicholas Pierce, and Sue Ellen is so enraged that she fires three shots at Ewing.
May 15  | Beverly Hills Cop makes its broadcast network television debut on ABC.
May 18  | The Late Show on Fox hosts a reunion of the entire cast of Gilligan's Island. This would prove to be the last time that all of the regular cast members appeared together as Jim Backus, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease at the time, died the following year.
May 18–26  | The Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and Boston Bruins is broadcast on ESPN. This was the final year under ESPN national three-year deal with the National Hockey League. Under the U.S. TV contracts that would take effect beginning next season, SportsChannel America would take over as the NHL's American television partner. ESPN's coverage of the 1988 Cup Finals is blacked out locally in the Boston area due to WSBK and NESN's local rights to Bruins games.
May 22  | NBC broadcasts The Incredible Hulk Returns, a continuation of the TV series that aired on CBS from 1978 to 1982. The film also serves as a backdoor pilot for a potential series centering on the Marvel Comics superhero Thor.
May 24  | CBS wins the broadcasting rights to the 1992 Winter Olympics after bidding around $243 million.
May 28  | The series finale of NBC's St. Elsewhere reveals that the entire series was the product of an autistic boy's imagination.
May 30  | After rejecting an offer to join CBS News, Peter Mansbridge replaces Knowlton Nash as anchorman of CBC Television's series The National.
June 4  | The Universal Pictures Debut Network broadcasts a special edition of the 1984 film Dune[4] as a two-night event, with additional footage not included in the film's original release.[5] This version totalled at 186 minutes, including a "What happened last night" recap and second credit roll. Director David Lynch disavowed this version and had his name removed from the credits, Alan Smithee being credited instead.
June 14  | The CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless tops the daytime ratings (deposing longtime winner General Hospital).[6]
June 21  | Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Detroit Pistons airs on CBS. With a 21.2 rating / 37 share, it would prove to be the highest-rated NBA game in the 17 years that CBS broadcast the NBA (1973-1990). It's also the only NBA game that scored more than 20 ratings points for the network.
July 4  | Three years after its cancellation by ABC, CBS resurrects Family Feud for its daytime lineup, featuring new host Ray Combs. A syndicated nighttime version would premiere later in the autumn.
July 11  | The day before the Major League Baseball All-Star Game from Cincinnati, TBS televised the annual All-Star Gala[7] from the Cincinnati Zoo. Larry King hosted the broadcast with Craig Sager and Pete Van Wieren handling interviews. The broadcast's big draw would've been the Home Run Derby, which TBS intended on taping during the afternoon, and later airing it in prime time during the Gala coverage. The Gala coverage also had some canned features such as highlights from previous All-Star Games, a segment on Cincinnati's baseball history, a video recap of the season's first half and, a slow-motion highlight montage set to "This Is the Time" by Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung. Unfortunately, the derby and a skills competition were canceled due to rain. As a result, TBS scrambled to try to fill nearly an hour of now-open airtime. For example, the Gatlin Brothers, the event's musical guests, who had already played a full concert, were asked to come back out and play some more.
July 12  | The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is broadcast on ABC. This would be the last time that ABC would televise the Midsummer's Classic until the 1995 game from Arlington, Texas.
July 14  | The first ever edition of "Shark Week" airs on Discovery Channel.
August 1  | The word "Family" is incorporated into the CBN Cable Network's name to better reflect its programming format, rebranding as The CBN Family Channel; shortly after the new name was adopted, however, references to CBN within its name began to be excised in on-air continuity announcements and print promotions for its programs (with the exception of the initialized reference to its parent ministry featured within its logo), referring to it as simply "The Family Channel".
August 9  | As a special prime time edition of the Game of the Week, NBC broadcasts the first official night game at Chicago's Wrigley Field between the Cubs and New York Mets.
August 27  | Fox affiliate WWPC-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania (a satellite of WWCP-TV in Johnstown) breaks from its simulcast with WWCP-TV to become an ABC affiliate, returning ABC to Altoona/State College (and giving Johnstown its first full-time ABC affiliate) after Altoona/State College's previous ABC affiliate WOPC-TV went dark in 1982.
August 29  | Some of the stations in markets WAXA in Greenville, South Carolina, WTOG in Tampa Bay, Florida, KMSP in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and KPTV in Portland, Oregon left Fox due to disappointments with the weak network's offerings. The replacement affiliates were WHNS in Greenville, South Carolina, WFTS in Tampa Bay, Florida, WFTC in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and KPDX in Portland, Oregon.
August 29  | The World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) telecasts the inaugural SummerSlam event on pay-per-view.
September 2  | Dick Clark hosts his final episode of the game show Pyramid, ending his 15-year run as host of the program. Clark would make guest appearances on both the 1991 revival hosted by John Davidson and the 2002 revival hosted by Donny Osmond.
September 5  | WABC's The Morning Show makes its national syndication debut under its new title Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.
September 10  | In Knoxville, Tennessee, CBS affiliate WBIR-TV swaps affiliations with NBC affiliate WTVK in time for NBC Sports' coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games. Shortly after the switch, WTVK moves to channel 8, one of the last remaining VHF channel allocations in the U.S., and becomes WKXT-TV (now WVLT-TV).[8]
September 18  | Rockin' with Judy Jetson, the seventh installment of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series, is broadcast in syndication. This film marks the final time Daws Butler voiced Elroy Jetson, as it was telecast posthumously.
September 25  | George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis participate in the first of the 1988 presidential debates.[9]
October 3  | TNT, the fourth cable network owned by Turner Broadcasting, commences programming with a broadcast of the movie Gone with the Wind.
The Bonus Round in Wheel of Fortune now adopts a Three-and-a-vowel format, which was used till this day, with letters "R", "S", "T", "L", "N" and "E" provided immediately, and the time limit was reduced from 15 seconds to 10.
October 4  | As did Cher, actress Shirley MacLaine calls David Letterman an "asshole" during a taping of the NBC talk show Late Night.
As part of a television special hosted by Patrick Stewart, called The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next, the first pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, called "The Cage" is broadcast in its entirety for the first time. In some markets, the airing of this special was delayed until October 15, 1988. Prior to this, footage of "The Cage" was incorporated into the Season 1 two-parter episode "The Menagerie".
ABC under the guidance of new executive producer Geoffrey Mason,[10] debuts fatter and wider graphics that gave off a cleaner, sharper look complete with a black border for their Major League Baseball coverage. ABC also debuts a new energetic, symphonic-pop styled musical theme,[11][12] composed by Kurt Bestor,[13] which would become an all-compassing theme of sorts for ABC Sports during this time period.
October 5  | Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen participate in the 1988 vice presidential debate with the line "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" becoming popular.[14]
Game 2 of the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets is broadcast on ABC. The scheduled start time is approximately 10 p.m. Eastern Time. This is due to ABC's prior commitment to broadcasting the vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen. This is the latest ever scheduled start for a League Championship Series baseball game.
October 8  | A young Countess Vaughn (winner of Star Search) joins the cast of the NBC comedy 227 as Alexandria DeWitt, a young 11-year-old talented college student, whom the Jenkins' have as a houseguest for a year.
October 11  | Turner Broadcasting purchases Jim Crockett Promotions and subsequently rebrands it as World Championship Wrestling. The sale would be completed on November 2, 1988. Three days later, on NWA World Championship Wrestling, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair cut a promo and pointed out a large group of Turner executives in the crowd. This was a subtle nod to Ted Turner purchasing Jim Crockett Promotions.
October 13  | Bernard Shaw of CNN asks Michael Dukakis during the second presidential debate a question about his wife and the death penalty that garners controversy.[15]
October 15  | Kirk Gibson hits his now iconic walk-off home run off of Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics. Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola are in the broadcast booth for NBC Sports. During the same game at the second inning, NBC affiliate WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia is hijacked for 10 seconds replacing parts of the second inning with an adult movie. The technician was later fired, and Production Manager L. A. Sturdivant reported to The Atlanta Constitution at the incident was an accident.[16]
CBS airs a highly anticipated college football game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Miami Hurricanes, colloquially known as "Catholics vs. Convicts".
October 16  | Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, the eighth installment of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 telefilm series, is broadcast in syndication. It is also part of the Scooby-Doo animated film series.
October 18  | The pilot episode for Roseanne is broadcast on ABC.
October 21  | Lori Loughlin makes her first appearance as Rebecca Donaldson on ABC's Full House.
October 27  | The last of Harding Lemay's "comeback" episodes are broadcast on the NBC soap opera Another World. In the final minutes of the episode, Australian actress Carmen Duncan assumed the role of the legendary bitch Iris Cory Wheeler, after the role had been vacated for many years by Beverlee McKinsey.
November 3  | Talk show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken during a taping of his show when a fight begins on the set between guests. The theme of the episode was "Young Hate Mongers," and the fight originated between white supremacist Tom Metzger and liberal activist Roy Innis.
Australian-made 1986 cartoon television movie of King Solomon's Mines by Warwick Gilbert debuts on American television after multiple weeks of promotion and is one of the most-watched children's television shows of the year.[17]
November 10  | Milwaukee television station WDJT-TV goes on the air.
November 12  | Australian-made 1986 cartoon television movie of King Solomon's Mines by Warwick Gilbert airs for a second time and is the most watched program for children for the second Saturday in a row.[18]
November 13  | Mickey's 60th Birthday, which as the title suggests, was a television special produced for the 60th anniversary of the Mickey Mouse character, airs on NBC.
Back to the Future makes its broadcast network television premiere on NBC.
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, the ninth installment of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 telefilm series, is broadcast in syndication. It is also part of the Scooby-Doo animated film series. This is also the last Scooby-Doo production to feature Scrappy-Doo (who debuted as a character in 1979's Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo) as a main protagonist.
November 20  | Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears, the tenth and final installment of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series, is broadcast in syndication. This film marks the final time Daws Butler voiced Yogi Bear, as it was telecast posthumously.
November 21  | CBS broadcasts Inside the Sexes, a documentary produced by The Body Human's Alfred R. Kelman that features explicit content about human sexuality (including detailed visuals inside human reproductive organs), which prompts several CBS affiliates to broadcast the program with a parental warning at the beginning of the program, at a later time of the day. Some affiliates canceled their broadcast of the program.
November 24  | Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs for the first time on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
December 2  | NBC wins the rights to broadcast the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona, Spain, bidding over $401 million.
December 8  | Tichina Arnold (later of Martin and Everybody Hates Chris fame) joins the cast of the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope for what will prove to be its final season.
December 11  | Roots: The Gift, the third installment of the Roots series is broadcast on ABC.
December 13  | The American Wrestling Association airs its first and only pay-per-view card, SuperClash III.
December 14  | CBS pays Major League Baseball approximately US$1.8 billion[19] for exclusive over-the-air television rights for over four years (beginning in 1990). CBS paid about $265 million each year[20] for the World Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the Saturday Game of the Week. CBS replaces ABC (which had broadcast Monday and later Thursday night baseball games from 1976 to 1989) and NBC (which had broadcast Major League Baseball in some shape or form since 1947 and the Game of the Week exclusively since 1966) as the national broadcast network television home of Major League Baseball.[21] It was one of the largest agreements[22] (to date) between the sport of baseball and the business of broadcasting. The cost of the deal between CBS and Major League Baseball was about 25% more[23] than in the previous television contract with ABC and NBC.[24] The deal with CBS was also intended to pay each team (26 in 1990 and then, 28 by 1993) $10 million a year.
December 18  | A Very Brady Christmas airs on CBS and with a 25.1 rating and a 39 share, becomes the second highest rated television film of the year. Its success would soon lead to the creation of a new Brady Bunch series called The Bradys, which only lasts for six episodes.
December 26  | CBS' The Young and the Restless becomes the number 1 daytime drama on television, where it remains to this very day.[25]

## Programs

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### Debuting this year

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The following is a list of shows that premiered in 1988.

Date  | Title  | Network

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January 2  | High Mountain Rangers | CBS
January 4  | Blackout
The World of David the Gnome | Nick Jr.
January 11  | T. and T. | Syndication
January 15  | The Thorns | ABC
January 17  | The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | The Disney Channel and ABC
January 18  | Home | ABC
January 19  | 48 Hours | CBS
January 31  | The Wonder Years | ABC
February 6  | Count Duckula | Nickelodeon
February 7  | America's Most Wanted | Fox
February 29  | Day by Day | NBC
March 6  | In the Heat of the Night
Supercarrier | ABC
March 7  | Probe
March 9  | Aaron's Way | NBC
March 14  | Eisenhower and Lutz | CBS
March 15  | Coming of Age
Trial and Error
March 23  | HeartBeat | ABC
April 1  | Denver, the Last Dinosaur | Syndication
April 6  | Just in Time | ABC
April 26  | China Beach
Just the Ten of Us
May 8  | Something Is Out There | NBC
June 13  | Blue Skies | CBS
July 1  | Don't Just Sit There | Nickelodeon
August 6  | Yo! MTV Raps | MTV
August 22  | Later with Bob Costas | NBC
August 27  | Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers | Disney Channel
September 3  | Kids' Court | Nickelodeon
September 5  | Fun House | Syndication
Relatively Speaking
September 10  | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | ABC
The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil
ALF Tales | NBC
Baby Boom
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
Beyond Tomorrow | Fox
Police Academy | Syndication
September 12  | Sweethearts
USA Today: The Television Series
Wipeout
September 17  | Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop | CBN Family Channel
Garfield and Friends | CBS
Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
Superman
Fantastic Max | Syndication
September 19  | C.O.P.S. | Syndication
October 1  | Monsters
October 2  | Marvel Action Universe
October 4  | The American Experience | PBS
High Risk | CBS
October 6  | Dear John | NBC
October 8  | Empty Nest
Freddy's Nightmares | Syndication
The Munsters Today
Superboy
October 10  | War of the Worlds
October 15  | Capital Gang | CNN
October 18  | Roseanne | ABC
October 23  | Mission: Impossible | ABC
October 25  | Midnight Caller | NBC
October 26  | Tattingers
Annie McGuire | CBS
The Van Dyke Show
October 27  | Paradise
October 29  | Dirty Dancing
November 2  | Murphy's Law | ABC
November 5  | Raising Miranda | CBS
November 11  | Knightwatch | ABC
November 14  | Murphy Brown | CBS
November 24  | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | KTMA-TV
November 27  | Almost Grown | CBS
November 29  | TV 101
November 30  | Good Morning, Miss Bliss | Disney Channel

### Resuming this year

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Title | Final aired | Previous network | Returning network | Date of return

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Family Feud | 1985  | ABC | CBS | July 4
The Gong Show | 1980  | Syndication | Same  | September 12
Gumby | 1968  | NBC | Syndication | Fall 1988

### Changing networks

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Show | Moved from | Moved to

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Family Feud | ABC | CBS
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | Disney Channel | ABC
Double Dare | Nickelodeon | Fox/Syndication
Finders Keepers | First-run syndication
Snorks | NBC | USA Network / First-run syndication
Heathcliff | Syndication  | Nickelodeon

### Entering syndication

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A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (3 or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.

Show | Seasons

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The Cosby Show | 4
Kate & Allie | 4
Night Court | 4

### Ending this year

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Date | Title | Debut

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January 2  | Sable | 1987
January 8  | I Married Dora
January 15  | Rags to Riches
February 10  | The Law & Harry McGraw
February 11  | The Charmings
February 12  | Sledge Hammer! | 1986
February 13  | Mr. President | 1987
February 20  | Women in Prison
March 8  | I'm Telling!
March 22  | Frank's Place
March 25  | Lingo (returned in 2002)
March 26  | 9 to 5 | 1982
Dennis the Menace | 1986
What's Happening Now!! | 1985
March 28  | Yogi's Treasure Hunt
March 29  | Trial and Error | 1988
March 30  | We Got It Made | 1983
April 1  | Blackout | 1988
April 9  | High Mountain Rangers
April 12  | My Sister Sam | 1986
April 14  | Probe | 1988
April 22  | Beverly Hills Buntz | 1987
May 1  | Magnum, P.I. (original series) (Rebooted in 2018)  | 1980
Truth or Consequences | 1950
May 2  | Jem | 1985
May 3  | Hotel | 1983
May 7  | The Facts of Life | 1979
Spenser: For Hire | 1985
Ohara | 1987
May 6  | The Highwayman
May 8  | Our House | 1986
May 10  | Crime Story
Dolly | 1987
May 12  | Max Headroom
May 14  | Second Chance (aka Boys Will Be Boys)
May 16  | Cagney and Lacey | 1982
May 25  | St. Elsewhere
Aaron's Way | 1988
May 27  | Punky Brewster (returned in 2021)  | 1984
May 28  | Marblehead Manor | 1987
June 8  | The Slap Maxwell Story
June 10  | Houston Knights
June 20  | Eisenhower and Lutz | 1988
June 28  | J.J. Starbuck | 1987
June 29  | The Bronx Zoo
July 16  | Little Clowns of Happytown
July 23  | Solid Gold | 1980
July 24  | Tales from the Darkside | 1984
August 21  | Werewolf | 1987
September 2  | Pyramid (returned in 1991)  | 1973
September 3  | Dennis the Menace | 1986
The Flintstone Kids
September 9  | High Rollers | 1974
October 22  | Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures | 1987
October 28  | The Late Show | 1986
November 18  | 3-2-1 Contact | 1980
November 22  | Denver, the Last Dinosaur | 1988
December 3  | The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
December 7  | The Van Dyke Show
December 9  | Something Is Out There
December 17  | Superman
December 24  | Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
December 25  | The Care Bears | 1985
December 28  | Annie McGuire | 1988
December 31  | Raising Miranda

### Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

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Title | Network | Premiere date | Notes

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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | CBS  | April 17  |
Case Closed | CBS  | April 9  |
David | ABC  | October 28  |
Goddess of Love | NBC  | November 20  |
Inherit the Wind | NBC  | March 20  | Emmy Award winner
Internal Affairs | CBS  | November 6  |
Jack the Ripper | CBS  | October 21  |
Lincoln | NBC  | March 27  | Miniseries, based on Gore Vidal's novel
The Murder of Mary Phagan | NBC  | January 24  | Emmy Award winner
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story | NBC  | May 2  |
War and Remembrance | ABC  | November 13  | Miniseries; sequel to The Winds of War

## Networks and services

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### Launches

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Network  | Type  | Launch date  | Notes  | Source

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Channel America | Cable and satellite  | Unknown  |  |
The Prayer Channel | Cable television  | Unknown  |  |
Vision Interfaith Satellite Network | Cable television  | July 1  |  |
Turner Network Television | Cable television  | October 3  |  |

### Conversions and rebrandings

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Old network name  | New network name  | Type  | Conversion Date  | Notes  | Source

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CBN Cable Network  | CBN Family Channel | Cable television  | August 1  |  |

### Closures

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Network  | Type  | Closure date  | Notes  | Source

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Festival | Cable television  | December 31  |  |
Harmony Premiere Network  | Cable television  | Unknown  |  |

## Television stations

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### Station launches

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Date  | Market  | Station  | Channel  | Affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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January  | Owensboro, Kentucky | WROZ-TV  | 61  | Independent
January 1  | Murray/Paducah, Kentucky | W46BE | 46
Tequesta/West Palm Beach, Florida | WPBF | 25  | ABC
Utica, New York | W11BS | 11  | Independent
January 4  | New York City | W57BC  | 57  | Independent  | LPTV translator of WLIG
January 6  | Burlington, Iowa
(Quad Cities, Illinois-Iowa) | KJMH | 26  | Fox
January 11  | Lebanon/Nashville, Tennessee | WJFB | 66  | Independent
January 15  | Fort Smith, Arkansas | K46BZ | 46  | Fox
January 22  | Yuma, Arizona
(El Centro, California) | KYMA-DT | 11  | ABC
January 27  | Tuscaloosa/Birmingham, Alabama | W52AI | 52  | TBN
January 29  | Indianapolis, Indiana | W11BV | 11  | Independent
February 1  | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KOCR-TV | 28  | Fox Broadcasting Company
February 8  | Honolulu, Hawaii | KFVE | 9  | Independent
Jamestown/Valley City, North Dakota | KJRR | 7  | Fox
Orlando, Florida | WCEU | 15  | PBS
February 13  | Kansas City, Missouri | KMCI-TV | 38  | HSN
February 22  | Kingman, Arizona | KMOH-TV | 6  | Independent
March  | Heiskell/Knoxville, Tennessee | W12BU | 12  | Independent | [26]
March 1  | Brainerd, Minnesota | KAWB | 22  | PBS
March 7  | Greensboro, North Carolina | W14AU | 14  | Independent
March 11  | Charlotte, North Carolina | W53AO | 53
March 13  | Waco, Texas | KXXV | 25  | NBC
March 28  | Indianapolis, Indiana | W27AR | 27  | Independent
April 3  | Wichita, Kansas | KAAS-TV | 17  | Fox
April 11  | Raleigh, North Carolina | WYED | 17  | Independent
April 29  | Arecibo, Puerto Rico | WATX-TV | 54  | Religious ind.
May  | Steamboat Springs, Colorado | KSBS-TV | 10  | Telemundo
May 18  | Houston, Texas | KUYA | 22  | TBN
May 20  | Panama City, Florida | WPGX | 28  | Fox
May 25  | Washington, D.C. | W14AA | 14  | Univision
June 1  | Kenosha/Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WHKE |  | Religious ind.
June 8  | Indianapolis, Indiana | WBUU | 69  | Educational ind.
July 22  | Panama City, Florida | WFSG-TV | 56  | PBS
South Bend, Indiana | W12BK | 12  | Independent | LPTV translator of WCIU-TV
August 19  | Phoenix, Arizona | K69HJ | 69  | Independent
August 20  | Denver, Colorado | KWBI-TV | 41  | Religious ind.  |
August 29  | Amarillo, Texas | KACV-TV | 2  | PBS |
September 1  | Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas | KFWD | 52  | Telemundo
Denton, Texas
(Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas) | KDTN | 2  | PBS
September 24  | Buffalo, New York | WTJA-TV | 26  | Independent[a]
October 3  | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KSBI | 52  | Independent
October 15  | Lexington, Kentucky | WLKT-TV | 62
October 18  | Odessa/Midland, Texas | KMLM-TV | 42  | Gods Learning Channel
November 1  | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WDJT-TV |  | Independent
November 28  | Rapid City, South Dakota | K15AC | 15  | CBS
December  | Orlando, Florida | WKCF | 18  | Independent
Washington, D.C. | W42AJ | 43  | Telemundo
December 1  | Denver, Colorado | KTVD | 20  | Independent
Pine Bluff/Little Rock, Arkansas | KVTN-TV | 25  | Religious ind.
December 9  | Brooklyn/New York City, New York | W54AY | 54  | unknown  |
December 17  | Riverside, California (Los Angeles)  | KSLD | 62  | Asian independent
December 23  | Cheyenne, Wyoming | KLWY | 27  | Fox
December 27  | Bloomington, Indiana | WIIB | 63  | HSN
December 30  | Williamsport, Pennsylvania
(Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) | WDZA | 53  | Fox
December 31  | Lebanon, Kentucky | K06AY | 6  | Independent  |
Unknown date  | Buffalo, New York | W58AV | 58  | Channel America |
Key West, Florida | WETV | 13  | Educational independent  |
Kona, Hawaii | KSHQ | 6  | Independent
Manchester, New Hampshire | W13BG | 13  | FamilyNet |
Morehead City, North Carolina | WFXI | 8  | Fox
Springfield, Massachusetts | W42AU | 42  | TBN
Tampa, Florida | WBHS | 62  | Home Shopping Network
West Palm Beach, Florida | W19AQ | 19  | Independent
Wichita Falls, Texas | K35BO | 35

### Stations changing network affiliation

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Columbia, South Carolina | June 11 | WACH | 57 | Independent | Fox
Concord, New Hampshire | February 1 | WNHT | 21 | Independent | CBS
Davenport, Iowa | January 6 | KLJB-TV | 18 | Fox | Independent
Erie, Pennsylvania | May 23 | WETG | 66 | Independent | Fox
Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina
(Anderson, South Carolina) | August 29 | WHNS | 21
WAXA | 40 | Fox | Independent
Jacksonville, Florida | April 3 | WTLV | 12 | ABC | NBC
WJKS-TV | 17 | NBC | ABC
Johnstown/Altoona, Pennsylvania | August 27 | WATM-TV | 23 | Fox | ABC
Omaha, Nebraska | August 28 | KPTM | 42 | Independent | Fox
Knoxville, Tennessee | September 10 | WBIR-TV | 10 | CBS | NBC
WTVK | 26 | NBC | CBS
Laredo, Texas | October 31 | KLDO-TV | 27 | ABC | Univision
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota | August 29 | KMSP-TV | 9 | Fox | Independent
KITN-TV | 29 | Independent | Fox
Portland, Oregon
(Vancouver, Washington) | KPTV | 12 | Fox | Independent
KPDX | 49 | Independent | Fox
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida | WFTS-TV | 28 | Independent | Fox
WTOG | 44 | Fox | Independent

### Station closures

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April 8  | Natchez, Mississippi | WNTZ-TV | 33  | Independent  | November 16, 1985  | Would return to the air in 1991 as a Fox affiliate
May 31  | Hot Springs, Arkansas | KRZB-TV | 26  | Independent  | February 7, 1986  |

### Notes

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1. ^ WTJA was previously on the air from 1966 to 1969 as WNYP-TV.

## Births

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Date | Name | Notability

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January 3  | Karl Glusman | Actor
January 7  | Haley Bennett | Actress and singer
Robert Sheehan | Actor
January 8  | Lily Nicksay | Actress (Boy Meets World)
January 12  | Andrew Lawrence | Actor (Brotherly Love, Oliver Beene, Hawaii Five-0, voice of T.J. Detweiler on Recess (1998–2001))
January 18  | Ashleigh Murray | Actress (Riverdale)
January 21  | John Early | Actor
January 22  | Nick Palatas | Actor
January 28  | Alexandra Krosney | Actress (Last Man Standing)
January 30  | Rob Pinkston | Actor (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide)
February 2  | Zosia Mamet | Actress
February 4  | Charlie Barnett | Actor (Chicago Fire)
February 6  | Bailey Hanks | Actress and singer
David Boyd | Singer
Anna Diop | Senegalese-American actress (Titans)
February 8  | Ryan Pinkston | Actor (Quintuplets, Tower Prep)
February 11  | Jazz Raycole | Actress (My Wife and Kids)
February 15  | Jessica De Gouw | Australian actress (Dracula)
February 18  | Maiara Walsh | Actress (Desperate Housewives, Cory in the House)
Sarah Sutherland | Actress (Veep)
Shane Lyons | Actor (All That)
February 19  | Stacie Chan | Voice actress (Jackie Chan Adventures)
February 20  | Rihanna | Singer and actress (Bates Motel)
Tracy Spiridakos | Actress
February 22  | Marieve Herington | Actress
February 24  | Alexander Koch | Actor (Under the Dome)
February 29  | Reilly Dolman | Actor
Joel Kim Booster | Actor
March 1  | Katija Pevec | Actress (Just for Kicks)
March 3  | Josh Duggar | Actor (19 Kids and Counting) and television personality
March 8  | Kendrick Sampson | Actor
March 10  | Ego Nwodim | Actress
March 22  | Tania Raymonde | Actress (Lost, Death Valley)
March 24  | Finn Jones | English actor (Game of Thrones)
Nick Lashaway | American actor (died 2016)
March 25  | Ryan Lewis | Rapper
Erik Knudsen | Actor
March 27  | Brenda Song | Actress (100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Scandal, New Girl, Dads, Pure Genius), voice actress (American Dragon: Jake Long, Miles from Tomorrowland, Amphibia)
Holliday Grainger | English actress (Where the Heart Is, The Borgias)
April 2  | Francesca Catalano  | Actress (Just for Kicks)
Jesse Plemons | Actor
April 4  | Maggie Geha | Actress (Gotham)
April 7  | Ed Speleers | Actor
April 10  | Haley Joel Osment | Actor (Thunder Alley, The Jeff Foxworthy Show)
Molly Bernard | Actress
April 13  | Allison Williams | Actress (Girls) and singer
Katie Lucas | Actress
April 14  | Chris Wood | Actor (The Vampire Diaries, Containment)
April 15  | Benedict Samuel | Actor
April 18  | Kayleigh McEnany | Political commentator and former White House Press Secretary (CNN, Fox News)
Nicolette Robinson | Actress
April 21  | Christoph Sanders | Actor (Ghost Whisperer, Last Man Standing)
Robbie Amell | Canadian actor (True Jackson, VP, The Tomorrow People, The Flash)
April 23  | Carla Quevedo | Argentine actress (Show Me a Hero)
April 25  | Sara Paxton | Actress (SpongeBob SquarePants, Greetings from Tucson, Summerland, Darcy's Wild Life) and singer
April 27  | Austin Amelio | Actor
April 30  | Ana de Armas | Cuban actress (The Boarding School)
May 1  | Nicholas Braun | Actor (10 Things I Hate About You)
May 4  | LaRoyce Hawkins | Actor
May 5  | Brooke Hogan | Actress (Hogan Knows Best)
Adele | Singer
May 8  | Trisha Paytas | Singer
May 11  | Danielle Pinnock | Actress
May 16  | Behati Prinsloo | Model
May 17  | Nikki Reed | Actress
May 19  | Zack Pearlman | Actor
May 22  | Heida Reed | Actress
May 24  | Kimberley Crossman | New Zealand-born actress
Callie Hernandez | Actress
June 2  | Amber Marshall | Canadian actress
Zuri Hall | Actress
June 6  | Kristen Gutoskie | Canadian actress
June 7  | Michael Cera | Canadian actor (Arrested Development)
June 9  | Mae Whitman | Actress (Arrested Development, Parenthood, Good Girls), voice actress (Johnny Bravo, Teacher's Pet, American Dragon: Jake Long, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Family Guy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DC Super Hero Girls)
June 11  | Claire Holt | Actress (H2O: Just Add Water, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Aquarius)
June 12  | Cody Horn | Actress
June 13  | Cody Walker | Actor
June 14  | Kara Kilmer | Actress (Chicago Fire)
Kevin McHale | Actor (Glee) and singer
June 20  | Shefali Chowdhury | Actress (Harry Potter)
June 22  | Portia Doubleday | Actress (Mr. Sunshine, Mr. Robot)
Karla Crome | Actress
June 24  | Candice Patton | Actress (The Game, The Flash)
June 27  | Alanna Masterson | Actress (The Young and the Restless, First Day, The Walking Dead)
June 30  | Sean Marquette | Actor (Titus, The Goldbergs), voice actor (Johnny Bravo, Rocket Power, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
July 1  | Evan Ellingson  | Actor (Complete Savages CSI: Miami)
July 6  | Brittany Underwood | Actress (One Life to Live, Hollywood Heights) and singer
Cody Fern | Actor
July 10  | Heather Hemmens | Actress
Katie Pavlich | American conservative commentator
July 12  | Ta'Rhonda Jones | Actress (Empire) and rapper
July 13  | Colton Haynes | Actor (Teen Wolf, Arrow)
Steven R. McQueen | Actor (The Vampire Diaries, Chicago Fire)
July 14  | Conor McGregor | Irish mixed martial artist and actor[27]
July 15  | Aimee Carrero | Dominican actress (Level Up, Young & Hungry, Elena of Avalor, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
July 20  | Julianne Hough | Singer and actress (Dancing with the Stars)
Chloe Fineman | Actress
July 24  | Joe Pera | Actor
July 26  | Francia Raisa | Actress (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
July 30  | Nico Tortorella | Actor (Make It or Break It, Younger)
July 31  | Charlie Carver | Actor (Teen Wolf)
August 1  | Max Carver | Actor (Desperate Housewives, Teen Wolf)
Sasha Jackson | British actress
August 3  | Christine Ko | Actress
August 12  | Leah Pipes | Actress (Life is Wild, The Deep End, The Originals) and singer
August 16  | Kevin Schmidt | Actor (The Young and the Restless, Unnatural History)
Rumer Willis | Actress (Dancing with the Stars season 20 [winner]) and daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
Parker Young | Actor
August 17  | Brady Corbet | Actor
August 19  | Cody Ross Pitts  | Actor
August 23  | Kim Matula | Actress (The Bold and the Beautiful)
August 26  | Danielle Savre | Actress (Summerland, Heroes, Kaya, Too Close to Home)
Evan Ross | Actor
August 27  | Alexa PenaVega | Actress (Life's Work, Ladies Man, Ruby & The Rockits) and singer
August 28  | Shalita Grant | Actress (NCIS: New Orleans, Mercy Street)
September 1  | Angus McLaren | Australian actress (H2O: Just Add Water)
Vaneza Pitynski | Actress (The Brothers García)
September 6  | Max George | British actor (The Wanted) and singer
September 15  | Chloe Dykstra | Actress
Chelsea Kane | Actress (Jonas, Fish Hooks, Baby Daddy) and singer
September 19  | Katrina Bowden | Actress (30 Rock, Public Morals)
September 20  | Clark James Gable | Actor (died 2019)
September 23  | Bryan Hearne  | Actor (All That)
September 24  | Kyle Sullivan | Actor (Malcolm in the Middle, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?, Fillmore!, All That, The War at Home)
September 26  | James Blake | Singer
September 28  | Olivia Jordan | Actress, model, television host, Miss USA 2015
Hana Mae Lee | Actress
October 1  | Cariba Heine | Actress (H2O: Just Add Water)
October 2  | Laura Rutledge | Reporter and host for ESPN
October 3  | Alicia Vikander | Actress (Second Avenue)
October 4  | Melissa Benoist | Actress (Glee, Supergirl) and singer
October 5  | Bobby Edner | Actor
October 10  | Rose McIver | Actress (iZombie)
October 14  | MacKenzie Mauzy | Actress (Guiding Light, The Bold and the Beautiful, Forever)
Max Thieriot | Actor
October 17  | Dee Jay Daniels | Actor (The Hughleys)
October 19  | Parveen Kaur | Actress
October 21  | Glen Powell | Actor (Scream Queens)
Mark Rendall | Canadian voice actor (Arthur, The Save-Ums!, Time Warp Trio, Wayside)
October 28  | Devon Murray | Actor (Harry Potter)
October 29  | Cherilyn Wilson  | Actress (I Heart Vampires, Greetings from Home)
October 30  | Janel Parrish | Actress (Pretty Little Liars)
November 2  | Lindze Letherman | Actress (General Hospital)
November 3  | Angus McLaren | Australian actor (Neighbours, H2O: Just Add Water)
November 6  | Emma Stone | Actress (Drive)
November 7  | Reid Ewing | Actor (Modern Family)
November 8  | Jessica Lowndes | Actress (90210) and singer
November 9  | Nikki Blonsky | Actress (Huge) and singer
November 11  | Alexandra Kyle | Actress
November 22  | Jamie Campbell Bower | Actor
November 25  | Abby Phillip | American journalist
November 26  | Tamsin Egerton | English actress (Camelot)
November 28  | Scarlett Pomers | Actress (Reba)
November 29  | Russell Wilson | Football quarterback
November 30  | Rebecca Rittenhouse | Actress (Red Band Society, Blood & Oil)
December 1  | Ashley Monique Clark | Actress (The Hughleys)
Zoë Kravitz | Actress
Nadia Hilker | Actress
December 2  | Alfred Enoch | Actor (Harry Potter, How to Get Away With Murder)
December 3  | Jamie Erdahl | Reporter
December 5  | Ross Bagley | Actor
December 8  | Tru Valentino | Actor
December 11  | Ashley Hinshaw | Actress and model
Allie LaForce | Model
December 14  | Vanessa Hudgens | Actress (High School Musical, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody) and singer
December 15  | Emily Head | English actress (The Inbetweeners)
December 16  | Anna Popplewell | English actress (Reign)
December 21  | Teresa Ruiz | Actress
Shelley Regner | Actress

## Deaths

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Date | Name | Age | Notability

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January 3  | William Cagney | 82  | Actor
February 1  | Heather O'Rourke | 12  | Actress (Poltergeist, Happy Days)
February 17  | Alexander Bashlachev | 27  | Soviet singer
March 10  | Andy Gibb | 30  | Singer (Solid Gold)
April 5  | Alf Kjellin | 68  | Actor and director
April 25  | Carolyn Franklin | 43  | Singer
April 27  | David Scarboro | 20  | English actor (EastEnders)
May 15  | Andrew Duggan | 64  | Character actor (Lancer)
May 21  | Sammy Davis Sr. | 87  | Dancer
May 18  | Daws Butler | 71  | Voice actor (The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons, several animated commercials)
May 27  | Florida Friebus | 78  | Actress (The Bob Newhart Show, Dobie Gillis)
June 25  | Hillel Slovak | 26  | Israeli-American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
July 21  | Jack Clark | 62  | Game show announcer (Wheel of Fortune)
July 25  | Judith Barsi | 10  | Child actress
July 31  | Trinidad Silva | 38  | Actor (Jesus Martinez on Hill Street Blues), in a car accident
September 11  | John Sylvester White | 68  | Actor (Welcome Back, Kotter)
September 29  | Charles Addams | 76  | Cartoonist whose drawings inspired (The Addams Family)
October 11  | Wayland Flowers | 48  | Puppeteer (Madame's Place)
October 31  | John Houseman | 86  | Actor (The Paper Chase, Silver Spoons)
December 6  | Timothy Patrick Murphy | 29  | Actor (Dallas)
December 12  | Dick Clair | 57  | Comedy writer (The Carol Burnett Show, The Facts of Life)
December 20  | Max Robinson | 49  | ABC World News correspondent
December 27  | Jess Oppenheimer | 75  | Comedy writer who created (I Love Lucy)

## See also

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* 1988 in the United States
* List of American films of 1988

## References

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1. ^ Whelchel, Lisa (2001). The Facts of Life: And Other Lessons My Father Taught Me. Multnomah Books. pp. 35–37\. ISBN 1-576-73858-2.
2. ^ "Facts of Life Site: Ratings History".
3. ^ "Print ad promoting the move to channel 11" (PDF). Broadcasting. 1988-04-11. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
4. ^ Willman, Chris (June 5, 1988). "'Dune II: The Re-edit'". Los Angeles Times.
5. ^ Erica Davison; Annette Sheen (2004). The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions. Wallflower Press. p. 207\. ISBN 190336485X. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
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8. ^ "About WBIR in Knoxville". wbir.com.
9. ^ "Wait Chapel event a homecoming for the debate commission - October 12, 2000". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
10. ^ Nidetz, Steve (September 23, 1988). "ABC SPORTS HONCHO IS IN PURSUIT OF GRAPHIC CHANGES". Chicago Tribune.
11. ^ The ABC baseball theme, 1988-'89 on YouTube
12. ^ Foster, Jason (September 19, 2015). "The 9 best network baseball theme songs of all time, ranked". Sporting News.
13. ^ Robinson, Doug (October 28, 2002). "Kurt Bestor: Private discord, public acclaim". Deseret News.
14. ^ Boyd, Gerald M.; Times, Special To the New York (1988-10-05). "Quayle Getting His Big Chance To Clear Doubts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
15. ^ Tribune, Chicago (1988-10-15). "`OUTRAGEOUS` DEBATE QUESTION ANGERS KITTY DUKAKIS". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
16. ^ "WMGT-41's World Series hijacking incident". The Atlanta Constitution. October 15, 1988. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
17. ^ "King Solomon's Mines". IMDb.
18. ^ "King Solomon's Mines". IMDb.
19. ^ "A Billion-Dollar Bid By CBS Wins Rights To Baseball Games". The New York Times. December 15, 1988.
20. ^ Downey, Kevin (18 April 2002). "Waning days of big $ TV sports". Media Life. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015.
21. ^ "Baseball to CBS; NBC Strikes Out : ABC Also Falls Short as 4-Year Package Goes for $1 Billion". Los Angeles Times. December 15, 1988.
22. ^ Shames, Laurence (23 July 1989). "CBS HAS WON THE WORLD SERIES......NOW IT COULD LOSE ITS SHIRT". The New York Times.
23. ^ Erardi, John; Luckhaupt, Joel (29 September 2010). The Wire-to-Wire Reds: Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World ... Clerisy Press. p. 40\. ISBN 9781578604661.
24. ^ Ernest Cashmore (1994). And There Was Television. Taylor & Francis. p. 146\. ISBN 9780415091305.
25. ^ "Y&R Celebrates 27 Consecutive Years As Daytime's No. 1 Drama". CBS.com.
26. ^ 1992 Television Factbook, page B-91.
27. ^ Skudder, Jake (2023-11-03). "Conor McGregor Net Worth 2023: What Is The UFC Megastar Worth?". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved 2024-07-22.

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