1987 in American television#Programs
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{{USTV year|1987}}
The year 1987 in television involved some significant events. This is a list of notable events in the United States.
Events
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{{nowrap|January 3{{spaces|10}}}}
|After being canceled by CBS at the end of the 1984–85 season, Charles in Charge resurfaces in first-run syndication, where it would run for an additional four seasons. |
January 5
|Remington Steele is resumed by NBC after a six-month hiatus. During the hiatus, the series' main actor Pierce Brosnan won the film role of James Bond, only to lose the role when NBC unexpectedly renewed the television series. Remington Steele adopts a TV-movie length format but only runs for a few installments before being canceled permanently. |
January 17
|NBC announces purchase of CBS affiliate WTVJ, and stripped off WSVN, thus the switch did not take effect until two years later. |
January 22
|R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a televised press conference. The decision by some companies to broadcast the footage results in a debate concerning journalistic ethics. |
January 23
|After being dropped by CBS following its third season, Airwolf is resurfaces on the USA Network, who funded the fourth season, to be produced in Canada by Atlantis and The Arthur Company (owned by Arthur L. Annecharico) in association with MCA. This was intended to increase the number of episodes to make the show eligible for broadcast syndication. The principal cast is deemed too expensive to hire, so entirely new cast is created. Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke) however, appears in the first transitional episode. This particular iteration of Airwolf would last for a single, 24 episode long season, concluding on August 7, 1987. |
January 25
|CBS' broadcast of Super Bowl XXI becomes the first NFL game to be broadcast in Dolby Surround sound and in stereo.{{cite web|title=Small-format video technology pictured for 1987|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1987/BC-1987-01-05.pdf|work=Broadcasting Magazine|access-date=April 5, 2017|pages=178–180|date=January 5, 1987}} CBS also debuted the theme music (composed by Lloyd Landesman) that would later be used for their college football coverage during this game, as well as its open that was used through 1990. |
February 2
|PBS broadcasts the critically acclaimed series Eyes on the Prize. |
February 7
|In the very special episode of Valerie titled "Bad Timing", David and a former girlfriend debate whether to have sex.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/nyregion/albany-tv-station-cancels-nbc-show-over-condom-issue.html | title= Albany TV station cancels NBC show over condom issue | work=The New York Times| agency=Associated Press | date=February 8, 1987 | access-date=August 14, 2008}}{{cite news | author=Lewin, Tamar | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/arts/new-sex-mores-are-chilling-tv-ardor.html | title= New sex mores are chilling TV ardor | work=The New York Times | date=March 8, 1987 | access-date=August 14, 2008}} The episode featured the first use of the word condom on a prime time television program.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7esYC1LNM4C&q=%22hogan+family%22+condom&pg=PT21|title=Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade|first=Matthew|last=Rettenmund|date=October 15, 1996|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312144364|via=Google Books}} Parental advisory warnings were issued in ads for the episode and NBC placed an advisory warning before the episode aired stating that parents may want to watch the episode with their children. Because of the episode's subject matter, some of NBC's affiliates either aired the show outside of prime time or refused to air it at all. The episode was later released to home video, especially for teachers and health educators to use as a tool to promote safe sex. |
February 14
|Pee-wee Herman guest stars on the NBC sitcom 227. |
February 15
|Amerika, the science-fiction drama miniseries, showing life ten years after the United States is defeated and occupied by the USSR, was broadcast on ABC. |
February 20
|David Hartman anchors ABC's Good Morning America for the final time. He would be succeeded by Charles Gibson, who would anchor the program alongside Joan Lunden. |
February 24
|James Coco makes his final recurring appearance as Tony Micelli's father–in–law, Nick Milano on the ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? Just one day later, Coco would die of a heart attack at the age of 56. The Season 4 episode "A Farewell to Nick" would later be produced in Coco's honor. |
February 25
|On CBS, Frank Sinatra makes a guest appearance on Magnum P.I., in what would be his last credited screen performance. |
March 9
|KETK-TV in Jacksonville, Texas signs on the air, giving the Tyler market its first full-time NBC affiliate. (NBC had previously been shared on KLTV with CBS (until KLMG-TV signed on in 1984), and later ABC which KLTV retains as a full-time affiliate.) |
March 12
|"A, My Name is Alex", a special hour-long episode of Family Ties is broadcast on NBC. The second half-hour was broadcast without commercials. The episode would win numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Humanitas Prize and a Writers Guild of America Award for writing as well as a DGA Award. |
March 19
|Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as the host of The PTL Club after involvement in a sex scandal. |
rowspan="2"|March 23
|The first ever Soul Train Music Awards is broadcast in syndication. |
The soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful debuts on CBS. |
March 27
|On CBS, The Price Is Right surpasses Concentration as the longest-running daytime game show in history. |
March 28
|The forerunner to the Kids' Choice Awards, dubbed 'The Big Ballot', airs on Nickelodeon. The Big Ballot was actually aired over four consecutive weeks (with the movie winners, TV winners, music winners, and finally sports winners being announced for each week) as part of the movie review program Rated K: For Kids by Kids. |
March 29
|In front of 93,173 fans Hulk Hogan retains the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 3 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan defeating his former friend André The Giant. |
March 30
|CBS Sports uses the song "One Shining Moment" for the first time during the highlight package at the end of their coverage of NCAA men's basketball tournament final. |
March 31
|On ABC's Moonlighting, Maddie and David consummate their relationship after two and a half years of romantic tension. |
April 5
|The Fox TV network makes its prime-time debut, marking the first time since 1955 that there were four U.S. networks with prime-time programming. The network debuted two shows, Married... with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show, which are broadcast three times each during the night so that viewers watching other networks can switch over and sample the shows. |
April 6
|During an episode of the ABC late-night news program Nightline devoted to the upcoming 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut in Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Al Campanis makes racially insensitive comments when asked about the scarcity of black field or general managers in MLB. Campanis would be fired two days later. |
April 17
|Bill Murray announces a Chicago Cubs-Montreal Expos game at Wrigley Field on WGN. Working alongside Steve Stone, Murray was filling in while broadcaster Harry Caray was recovering from a stroke. Caray would eventually return to the booth on May 19. |
April 19
|Matt Groening's The Simpsons debuts as a series of short animated segments as part of The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox. |
April 29
|Independent station in New York City, WOR-TV changes its call sign to WWOR-TV. |
May 4
|Valerie Harper makes her final appearance as Valerie Hogan on what was initially called Valerie. After Harper was fired from the series following contractual disputes, the NBC series was renamed Valerie's Family and finally, The Hogan Family come the fourth season. |
May 6
|Mr. Belvedere is canceled after three seasons; however criticism causes ABC executives to rethink the decision and renew the series for a fourth season. (Since the fall programming schedules were already set, Mr. Belvedere would not premiere until late October.) |
May 7
|Shelley Long makes her final regular appearance as Diane Chambers on the NBC sitcom Cheers. She would appear once more in the series finale in 1993. |
rowspan="2"|May 15
|Pamela Ewing's car speeds out of control, crashes into a tanker, and explodes on the season finale of the CBS drama Dallas. |
Joan Rivers makes her final appearance as host of Fox's talk show The Late Show following her recent firing by the network. For the final show, the set is vandalized with toilet paper, slime, and shaving cream. Her guests are Howie Mandel, Pee-Wee Herman, then-fledgling comedian Chris Rock, Wendy O. Williams, and show stage manager Michelle Aller as her alter-ego Mavis Vegas Davis.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-05-17-8702060610-story.html|title=Rivers Says Goodbye Not A Minute Too Soon|work=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=10 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/1993-01-15/entertainment/25958839_1_dark-ages-black-music-berry-gordy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220160414/http://articles.philly.com/1993-01-15/entertainment/25958839_1_dark-ages-black-music-berry-gordy|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 20, 2014|title=Name Is Fake But The Songs Are Her Own|work=Philly.com|accessdate=10 December 2014}} Soon afterward, the program is renamed The Late Show and features rotating guest hosts including Suzanne Somers, Richard Belzer, and Robert Townsend. After firing prospective guest host Frank Zappa, producer John Scura replaces him with Arsenio Hall, who would make his debut as a talk show host. Eventually, Hall is named the permanent replacement host in mid-1987. |
May 17
|The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, which features Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reprising their roles as Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers respectively, airs on NBC. This would be followed by two more television movies, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994). |
June 4
|CBS becomes the last American network to cease a chime intonation at the beginning of telecasts; satellite feeds have made the tones obsolete (their function was to signal to the affiliates to start broadcasting the network feed in synchronization with the others). |
June 30
|U.S. daytime television was interrupted for the Iran-Contra hearings. |
July 15
|Genie Francis, of General Hospital fame, starts a new soap opera role as Diana Colville on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, which she will play until 1989. |
July 17
|The initial pilot for Good Morning, Miss Bliss airs on NBC. One year later, the series proper would air on the Disney Channel, becoming the first program to be produced by a major television network for cable TV. After one season on Disney Channel, Good Morning, Miss Bliss would be retooled into Saved by the Bell, which would air as part of NBC's Saturday morning line-up. |
July 28
|Actor Crispin Glover appears on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman to promote River's Edge.{{cite magazine|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2009/02/13/top-10-disastrous-letterman-interviews/slide/crispin-glover-goes-back-to-the-crazy/|title=Crispin Glover Goes Back to the Crazy – Top 10 Disastrous Letterman Interviews|date=February 13, 2009|magazine=Time|access-date=May 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413194926/http://entertainment.time.com/2009/02/13/top-10-disastrous-letterman-interviews/slide/crispin-glover-goes-back-to-the-crazy/|archive-date=April 13, 2013|url-status=live}} To the surprise of Letterman and the audience, Glover appears wearing platform shoes and a wig. During the interview, Glover behaves erratically and nearly kicks Letterman in the face, causing Letterman to walk off the set.{{cite web|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-letterman-late-night-moments/|title=David Letterman's Most Memorable Late-Night Moments|last=Reed|first=Ryan|date=20 May 2021|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|access-date=29 May 2021}} Four years later, the film Rubin & Ed premiered, in which Glover has a starring role as titular character Rubin Farr. After the release of Rubin & Ed, some speculated that Glover was acting in-character as Rubin Farr during his appearance on Late Night.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Lory|date=1999|title=Party in a Box: The Story of the Sundance Film Festival|publisher=Gibbs Smith|page=3|isbn=978-0879058616|quote=The movie starred Crispin Glover as Rubin - he was actually in the Rubin character the infamous night he nearly karate-kicked off David Letterman's nose.}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/bill-hader-beaver-trilogy-part-iv-sundance-trent-harris-1201354077/|title=Bill Hader To Narrate Cult Film Documentary 'Beaver Trilogy Part IV' – Sundance|last=Yamato|first=Jen|date=20 January 2015|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=29 May 2021}} |
July 31
|Movietime, forerunner to E!, goes on the air. |
August 1
|ABC affiliate KRCR-TV in Redding, California launches full-time satellite KAEF-TV in Arcata, California, giving the Eureka market its first full-time ABC affiliate. |
August 19
|During the 4 p.m. edition of KNBC's Channel 4 News, a gun-wielding man named Gary Stollman gets into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of an employee and takes consumer reporter David Horowitz hostage live on the air. With the gun pressed on his side, Horowitz calmly reads the gunman's statements on camera but unbeknownst to the gunman, the news feed has been taken off the air. The unidentified man reveals at the end of his statement that the gun is an empty BB gun and sets the gun down on the news desk, at which point anchorman John Beard quickly confiscates it. The incident leads Horowitz to start a campaign to ban realistic toy guns.{{cite book |last=Carter |first=Gregg Lee |title=Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law, Volume 3 |year=2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-38670-1 |page=832 |edition=2nd |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QeGJH48PT0kC&q=horowitz |chapter=Toy Guns}} |
rowspan="2"|August 31
|CBS airs the special Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns, which features the broadcast premiere of Jackson's 18 minute long music video "Bad". |
Columbus independent station WWAT-TV goes in the air. |
September 5
|Dick Clark's American Bandstand is broadcast for the 2,751st and last time by ABC, after 30 years on the network. (It continued in syndication, then on cable for 2 more years.) |
September 7
|The original series of Disney's well known animated series DuckTales begins airing on ITV in the UK before being shown in its normal country. |
September 7
|CBS begins broadcasting its prime time programs with stereo sound dubbed CBS StereoSound. |
September 11
|Dan Rather of the CBS Evening News leaves the newscast when a televised tennis match runs two minutes over. He is missing for six minutes. |
September 12
|The final episode of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, an adaptation of the 1986 film of the same name, airs on Fox. It has the distinction of being the first ever show to be cancelled by Fox; 5 of the 13 produced episodes did not air.[http://www.tv.com/down-and-out-in-beverly-hills/show/2863/episode_listings.html "Down and out in Beverly Hills: 13 episodes"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930082806/http://www.tv.com/down-and-out-in-beverly-hills/show/2863/episode_listings.html |date=September 30, 2007 }}, TV.com |
September 14
|Filmation's final animated series BraveStarr has its broadcast premiere in syndication. |
September 18
|DuckTales finally begins airing in the U.S. for the first time ever in syndication. |
September 19
|NBC debuts a weekday package of sitcoms for its owned-and-operated stations called "Prime Time Begins at 7:30". The shows included are Marblehead Manor (airing Mondays), She's the Sheriff (airing Tuesdays), a series adapted from the George S. Kaufman play You Can't Take It with You (airing Wednesdays), Out of This World (airing Thursdays), and a revival of the short-lived 1983 NBC series We Got It Made closing out the week on Fridays. |
September 21
|Following its cancellation by ABC after four seasons, the sitcom Webster is relaunched in first-run syndication, where it would run for two additional seasons. |
September 22
|Long-running sitcom Full House created by Jeff Franklin debuts on ABC. |
September 24
|Kirstie Alley makes her debut as Rebecca Howe in the sixth-season premiere of Cheers on NBC. |
September 26
|The pilot episode for the sitcom Second Chance airs on Fox. In the opening scene, as a throwaway joke, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is shown being judged after his death, with the date given as July 29, 2011. In the year after the Berlin discotheque bombing and the U.S. response, the 1987 pilot was playing off Gaddafi's prominent negative perception by the American public. Twenty-four years later, by coincidence, Gaddafi's death (on October 20, 2011) occurred within three months of the "predicted" date and was from the same cause (multiple gunshot wounds).{{cite web|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2011/10/20/matthew-perry-sitcom-second-chance-predicted-gaddafi-die-2011/ |title=Matthew Perry Sitcom 'Second Chance' Predicted Gaddafi Would Die in 2011 |first=Alex |last=Moaba |date=October 20, 2011 |publisher=AOL TV |accessdate=2011-10-20 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021030432/http://www.aoltv.com/2011/10/20/matthew-perry-sitcom-second-chance-predicted-gaddafi-die-2011/ |archivedate=October 21, 2014 }} |
September 28
|The pilot episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres in syndication. |
October 3
|Once a Hero, the show's lowest rated program of the season holds its last aired episode on ABC. The following week, specials replaced it until the debut of Sable in its time period on November 7. |
October 4
|On the final day of the Major League Baseball season, the Detroit Tigers clinch the American League East title against their divisional rivals the Toronto Blue Jays. The game was broadcast on Sunday afternoon on ABC with Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver on the call. |
October 12
|Valerie Harper files a lawsuit against NBC and Lorimar for breach of contract after being dismissed from her sitcom Valerie. |
October 14
|CNN quickly reports on the story of 18-month-old toddler Jessica McClure falling down a well in Midland, Texas, and the event helped make its name. |
October 15
|Bob Barker stops dyeing his hair brown and appears on the CBS game show The Price is Right for the first time with white hair. He is given a minute-long standing ovation by the audience. |
October 16
|Max Headroom makes its final airing on its Friday night timeslot on ABC. The previously unaired episodes will later burn off in its Thursday night time slot during the 1988 WGA strike on ABC, replacing Probe. The fourth season opener of Mr. Belvedere and the premiere of Pursuit of Happiness will replace Headroom two weeks later, on October 30 on its Friday night time period. |
October 24
|ABC allows Game 6 of the World Series between the Minnesota Twins and St. Louis Cardinals to be played at 3 p.m. CT (4 p.m. ET) on Saturday afternoon – the only day game of the series, and the last World Series game to date to be played in the daytime (although as the game was played in the Metrodome, the game took place under artificial illumination all the same). |
October 26
|ABC airs a special, secondary edition of Monday Night Football for the Minneapolis and Denver markets. The game between the Vikings and Broncos was moved from Sunday, October 25 to the following Monday night because the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was being used for Game 7 of the World Series. Gary Bender and Lynn Swann would call this special contest from Minnesota while the rest of the nation sees the Los Angeles Rams face off against the Cleveland Browns. |
October 30
|The third season of Punky Brewster begins after the series was off the air for over a year and a half. After NBC cancelled it at the end of the 1985–86 season, the show would continue production throughout the 1986–87 season leading up to its return to the air via first-run syndication. |
November 8
|ESPN broadcasts its first ever Sunday night National Football League game, a contest between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. It marked the first time that a cable television outlet broadcast an NFL game. |
November 9
|Fox's Salt Lake City affiliate KSTU moves its channel allocation from UHF channel 20 to VHF channel 13.{{Cite news|date=1987-06-29|title=In Brief|work=Broadcasting|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/87-OCR/BC-1987-06-29-OCR-Page-0080.pdf|access-date=2021-12-17}} |
November 13
|Sonny & Cher reunite for a performance on NBC's late-night talk show Late Night with David Letterman. |
November 15
|The animated crossover The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones premieres in syndication. |
rowspan="2"|November 22
|During a showing of the Doctor Who story "Horror of Fang Rock", PBS member station WTTW-TV Channel 11 in Chicago is interrupted for 88 seconds by a pirate television transmitter overriding the station's transmission signal to broadcast a video of himself in a Max Headroom mask being spanked. The similar incident (for 15–20 seconds) occurred during WGN-TV's newscast when it showed the mask moving up and downwards. |
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back makes its network broadcast television premiere on NBC. |
November 26
|The very first Survivor Series professional wrestling event is broadcast on pay-per-view. That same night, the World Wrestling Federation's competitor, Jim Crockett Promotions held their fifth annual Starrcade supercard event. Jim Crockett Promotions had previously aired Starrcade only on closed-circuit television. To compete with Starrcade, the WWF introduced the Survivor Series event, and held it on the same night as Starrcade. The WWF also limited the amount of pay-per-view providers that would carry Starrcade by not allowing providers to carry WrestleMania IV if they did not carry Survivor Series exclusively. Only a small amount of providers carried Starrcade, and it drew a 3.30 buy rate while Survivor Series drew a 7.0 buy rate. |
December 7
|Remote Control, MTV's first original non-musical program and first game show makes its debut. |
rowspan="2"|December 16
|San Antonio television station KABB goes on the air. |
SuperStation WTBS airs the 1983 film A Christmas Story{{cite news|title=Tonight On Television|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-roanoke-times/161071901/|newspaper=The Roanoke Times|page=22|via=Newspapers.com|date=December 16, 1987|access-date=December 17, 2024}}{{Open access}}{{cite news|title=Wednesday Movies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-press/161072217/|newspaper=News-Press|page=178|via=Newspapers.com|date=December 13, 1987|access-date=December 17, 2024}}{{Open access}}{{cite news|title=Christmas Specials on Cablevision|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-eagle/161072281/|newspaper=The Wichita Eagle|page=103|via=Newspapers.com|date=December 13, 1987|access-date=December 17, 2024}}{{Open access}} for the very first time. Turner Broadcasting (as both an independent company and, from 1996 onward, as a subsidiary of the company presently operating as Warner Bros. Discovery) would maintain ownership of the broadcast rights to A Christmas Story. Beginning in the mid-1990s, they would air the film increasingly on both TBS and TNT throughout the holiday season annually. |
December 27
|Through a short stint with NBC Sports, Gayle Sierens became the first woman to do play-by-play for an NFL regular season football game when she called a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs. |
December 28
|The first ever Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series premieres in syndication starting off with the first four episodes. |
Programs
=Debuting this year=
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Date
! Title ! Network | |
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January 3
|NBC | |
January 8
|CBS | |
January 17
| Ohara |ABC | |
January 22
|NBC | |
January 25
| Hard Copy{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97653809/hard-copy-doesnt-get-the-facts-straig/ |title='Hard Copy' doesn't get the facts straight |first=Tom |last=Jicha |agency=Cox News Service |newspaper=Dayton Daily News |location=Dayton, Ohio |page=2-D |date=January 25, 1987 |accessdate=March 14, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}} |CBS | |
January 26
|rowspan="2"|PBS | |
February 2 | |
March 4
| Harry |ABC | |
March 9
|NBC | |
March 11
|CBS | |
rowspan="2"|March 19
|rowspan="2"|NBC | |
Roomies | |
March 20
|ABC | |
rowspan="2"|March 23
|rowspan="2"|CBS | |
The Popcorn Kid | |
March 31
|rowspan="2"|ABC | |
rowspan="3"|April 1
| Mariah | |
Roxie
|rowspan="2"|CBS | |
Take Five | |
April 2
|NBC | |
rowspan="2"| April 5
|rowspan="3"|Fox | |
The Tracey Ullman Show | |
April 12 | |
April 18
|NBC | |
rowspan="2"| April 19 | |
Duet | Fox |
April 20 | |
April 26
| Down and Out in Beverly Hills |rowspan="2"| Fox | |
May 3 | |
May 21
| The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd |NBC | |
June 1 | |
June 12
|CBS | |
June 15
| Home Shopping Game | |
rowspan="2"| July 11 | |
Werewolf
|rowspan="3"|Fox | |
rowspan="2"| July 18 | |
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter | |
August 8
|ABC | |
August 27
| CBS | |
August 30
| Crossbow | |
September | |
rowspan="4"| September 12
|ABC | |
I'm Telling!
|rowspan="2"|NBC | |
The New Archies | |
Popeye and Son
|CBS | |
September 13
|NBC | |
rowspan="6"| September 14
|rowspan="5"|Syndication | |
BraveStarr | |
Maxie's World | |
New Monkees | |
The Wil Shriner Show | |
Frank's Place
|rowspan="3"|CBS | |
rowspan="2"| September 16 | |
Wiseguy | |
September 17
|rowspan="5"|Syndication | |
September 18
| DuckTales (Original series) | |
rowspan="5"| September 19 | |
Marblehead Manor | |
She's the Sheriff | |
Once a Hero
|ABC | |
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
|CBS | |
rowspan="3"| September 20
|rowspan="2"|NBC | |
My Two Dads | |
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light | |
rowspan="2"| September 21
|rowspan="2"|Syndication | |
Spiral Zone | |
rowspan="2"| September 22
|rowspan="4"|ABC | |
I Married Dora | |
rowspan="2"| September 23 | |
The Slap Maxwell Story | |
rowspan="2"| September 24
|NBC | |
Tour of Duty
|rowspan="3"|CBS | |
September 25 | |
rowspan="5"| September 26 | |
ALF: The Animated Series
|rowspan="2"|NBC | |
J.J. Starbuck | |
Second Chance (aka Boys Will Be Boys)
|Fox | |
You Can't Take It With You | |
rowspan="2"| September 27
| Dolly |ABC | |
The Law & Harry McGraw
|CBS | |
rowspan="2"| September 28
| Lingo |rowspan="2"|Syndication | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation | |
September 29
|ABC | |
rowspan="3"| October 3
|rowspan="2"|CBS | |
Leg Work | |
Friday the 13th: The Series | |
October 11
|Fox | |
November 2 | |
November 5
|NBC | |
November 7
| Sable |ABC | |
November 30
|CBS | |
December 7
|MTV | |
December 11
|Fox | |
December 14 |
=Resuming this year=
class="wikitable" | |||||
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! Title | Final aired | Previous network | New title | Returning network | Date of return |
Charles in Charge
|1985 |CBS |rowspan="2"|Same |January 3 | |||||
Blockbusters
|1982 |NBC |Same |January 5 | |||||
Concentration
|1978 |Syndication |NBC |May 4 | |||||
We Got it Made
|1984 |rowspan="3"|NBC |rowspan="5"|Same |Syndication |September 11 | |||||
Snorks
|1985 |Same |September 12 | |||||
High Rollers
|1980 |rowspan="3"|Syndication |rowspan="2"|September 14 | |||||
Truth or Consequences
|1978 |Syndication | |||||
The Jetsons
|1963 |ABC |October 19 |
=Ending this year=
class="wikitable sortable" |
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! Date ! Title ! Debut |
January 10
|rowspan="3"|1986 |
February 6
|Dads |
February 9 |
February 7
|1980 |
February 27
|1977 |
March 1
|The New Adventures of Jonny Quest |1986 |
March 3
|1982 |
March 7
|1985 |
March 8
|1983 |
March 12
|1986 |
March 20
|1982 |
March 25
|1987 |
March 26
|1985 |
March 27
|rowspan="2"|1986 |
rowspan="2"|March 30 |
Fraggle Rock
|1983 |
April 8
|1987 |
April 10
|1985 |
April 17
|1982 |
April 24
|rowspan="2"|1986 |
April 29 |
May 1
|1980 |
May 2
|1986 |
May 8
|1985 |
rowspan="2"|May 12
|1981 |
The Tortellis
|1987 |
May 13
|1984 |
May 15
|1987 |
May 18
|Fame |1982 |
May 19
|1981 |
rowspan="2"|May 28
|1983 |
Our World
|rowspan="2"|1986 |
May 30 |
June 3
|1987 |
June 13
|rowspan="3"|1986 |
June 19 |
June 27 |
July 8
|1987 |
August 7
|1984 |
September 7
|1986 |
September 11
|1972 |
rowspan="2"|September 12
|Down and Out in Beverly Hills |rowspan="2"|1987 |
Karen's Song |
September 14
|1986 |
September 23
|1984 |
October 1
|rowspan="5"|1987 |
October 3 |
October 25 |
rowspan="3"|November 7 |
Leg Work |
Teen Wolf
|1986 |
November 11
|1984 |
November 12
|1962 |
November 28
|The New Adventures of Beans Baxter |rowspan="4"|1987 |
December 7 |
December 11 |
rowspan="2"|December 12 |
The P.T.L. Club
|1976 |
rowspan="2"|December 18
|rowspan="3"|1987 |
Spiral Zone |
rowspan="2"|December 19 |
Pound Puppies
|1986 |
=Changing networks=
class="wikitable sortable" |
Show
! Moved from ! Moved to |
---|
Airwolf
| CBS |rowspan="2"|USA Network |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
|rowspan="5"|NBC |
Candid Camera
|CBS |
We Got it Made
|rowspan="6"|Syndication |
High Rollers |
Punky Brewster |
Charles in Charge
|CBS |
Webster
|rowspan="2"|ABC |
American Bandstand |
Concentration
|rowspan="2"|Syndication |NBC |
Inspector Gadget |
=Made-for-TV movies and miniseries=
class="wikitable" |
Title || Network || Premiere date |
---|
Amerika
|ABC |February 8 |
The Facts of Life Down Under
|rowspan=4|NBC |February 15 |
LBJ: The Early Years
|February 1 |
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
|November 16 |
Roman Holiday
|December 28 |
Networks and services
=Launches=
class="wikitable sortable"
! Network ! Type ! Launch date ! Notes ! Source |
The Travel Channel
| Cable television | February 8 | | |
Fox
| Broadcast television | April 5 | Previously had a "soft launch" on October 9, 1986 | |
Movietime
| Cable television | July 31 | | |
Harmony Premiere Network
| Cable television | Unknown | | |
=Conversions and rebrandings=
class="wikitable" |
Old network name
! New network name ! Type ! Conversion Date ! Notes ! Source |
---|
NetSpan
|Cable television |Unknown | | |
Spanish International Network
|Cable and satellite |Unknown | | |
SuperStation WTBS
| Cable television | Unknown | | |
=Closures=
class="wikitable sortable"
! Network ! Type ! Closure date ! Notes ! Source |
Home Theater Network
| Cable television | January 31 | | |
Operation Prime Time
| Cable television | Unknown | | |
Television stations
=Station launches=
class="wikitable sortable"
! Date ! Station ! Channel ! Affiliation ! Notes/Ref. |
January 11
| Bartlesville/Tulsa, Oklahoma | KDOR-TV | 17 | TBN | |
February
| Hattiesburg/Laurel, Mississippi | WHLT | 22 | CBS |
February 2
| Marshalltown/Des Moines, Iowa | K39AS | 39 | | |
February 7
| WLSY | 43 | Independent | |
February 9
| KDTX-TV | 58 | |
February 13
| W39BT | 39 | TBN | |
February 14
| Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi | WXXV-TV | 25 | Fox | |
February 15
| WSJN-TV | 24 | |
rowspan=2| March 9
| WJZY | 46 | Independent | |
Tyler, Texas
| KETK | 56 | NBC | |
March 23
| W48AP | 48 | Independent | |
April
| KRWF | 43 | ABC | Semi-satellite of KSTP-TV |
April 7
| WFGX | 35 | Independent | |
April 18
| WNGM-TV | 34 | Independent | |
May
| KDDE | 68 | Educational independent | |
May 6
| W11BT | 11 | Independent | |
May 13
| WNEQ-TV | 23 | PBS | |
May 22
| W65BK | 65 | TBN | |
May 25
| Cleveland/Chattanooga, Tennessee | WFLI-TV | 53 | |
May 29
| KTTW | 7 | Fox | |
June 18
| WRES | 68 | Educational independent | |
June 30
| Kalamazoo/Battle Creek/Grand Rapids, Michigan | WLLA | 64 | Christian independent |
July 1
| KXON-TV | 35 | Educational independent | |
July 2
| W33BS | 33 | Audio-only independent | Pulse 87 |
July 4
| Frederick, Maryland | WFPT | 62 | PBS | Part of the Maryland Public Television network |
July 16
| KETH | 14 | TBN (O&O) | |
August 1
| KREQ | 23 | Fox | |
August 5
| W49KG | 49 | Independent | |
August 10
| Rochester, Minnesota | KXLT-TV | 47 | Independent | Originally a satellite of KXLI/Minneapolis |
August 14
| Merrimack/Manchester, New Hampshire | WGOT | 60 | Independent | |
August 15
| Barstow/Los Angeles, California | KVVT | 64 | Independent | |
August 24
| WOCB-CD | 39 | Religious independent | |
August 27
| WCLJ-TV | 42 | TBN | |
August 28
| KKTU | 39 | NBC | |
August 31
| WWAT | 53 | Independent | |
September
| WNYB-TV | 49 | Independent | |
September
| KOVT | 10 | ABC | Satellite of KOAT-TV/Albuquerque |
September 1
| KCTZ | 7 | ABC | |
September 2
| KUBD | 59 | Independent | |
September 5
| KLUZ | 41 | |
September 18
| KXLN | 45 | Univision | |
September 21
| K59DG | 59 | Daystar | |
September 28
| Bridgeport, Connecticut | WBCT-TV | 43 | Independent | |
October 12
| Albuquerque, New Mexico | KAZQ | 34 | Religious independent | |
October 18
| KTNW | 31 | PBS |
rowspan=2|October 19
| KTGM | 14 | ABC (primary) | |
Indianapolis, Indiana
| WMCC | 23 | Independent | |
rowspan=2| October 28
| rowspan=2| Chicago, Illinois | W54AP | 54 | rowspan=2| Independent | |
W54AP
| 54 | |
October 29
| W57BA | 57 | |
November 12
| Stockton, California | KFTL | 64 | Independent | |
November 15
| Gary, Indiana | WYIN | 56 | PBS | |
December 2
| W12BK (original) | 12 | Independent |
December 7
| KTMD | 47 | |
rowspan=2| December 8
| W46AO | 46 | TBN | |
Lenoir City/Knoxville, Tennessee
| W38AQ | 38 | |
December 14
| WOCD | 55 | Independent | |
rowspan=2| December 15
| W24AI | 24 | rowspan=2| TBN | |
Hopkinsville, Kentucky {{small|(Clarksville, Tennessee)}} | W22CH | 22 | |
December 16
| KABB | 29 | Independent | |
rowspan=4| Unknown date
| rowspan=2| Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands | WAIG | 43 | rowspan=2| Independent | |
WVGI
| 17 | |
Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
| WMEG | 15 | Religious independent | |
Panama City, Florida
| W46AN | 46 | Tourist information | |
=Network affiliation changes=
Births
class="wikitable" | ||
"
! Date | Name | Notability |
rowspan="2"|January 2
|Actress (Flight 29 Down) | ||
Shelley Hennig
|Actress (Days of Our Lives, The Secret Circle, Teen Wolf) | ||
January 5
|Actress (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Hills) | ||
January 7
|Actress (The Young and the Restless, How I Met Your Mother, Nikita, Agent Carter, Turner & Hooch) | ||
January 8
|Actor | ||
January 9
|Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson) (d. 2006) | ||
January 12
|Actress (The Royal Family, The Bernie Mac Show, Glee) (d. 2020) | ||
January 17
|American media personality | ||
January 18
|Canadian actor (Make It or Break It, From Dusk till Dawn: The Series) and model | ||
rowspan="3"|January 20
|Actor (Phil of the Future, American Horror Story) | ||
Mark Wright
|TV personality | ||
Pete Ploszek
|Actor (Teen Wolf) | ||
January 24
|Irish actress (Humans) | ||
January 27
|Kylie Sparks |Actress (Squaresville) | ||
rowspan="3"|January 28
|British actor (The Lying Game) | ||
Chelsea Brummet
|Actress (All That) | ||
Katie Nolan
|American sports television host | ||
January 29
|Actress (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County) | ||
rowspan="2" |February 1
|Actress (Glee) and singer | ||
Ronda Rousey
|Actress and martial artist (Total Divas, UFC, WWE, 9-1-1){{Cite web |title=Ronda Rousey Actress, Producer, Writer |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3313925/ |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}} | ||
February 2
|Actor (8 Simple Rules, Good Luck Charlie) | ||
rowspan="2"|February 5
|Actor (Glee, A Very Potter Musical, Transformers: Robots in Disguise) and singer | ||
Alex Brightman
|Actor | ||
rowspan="2" |February 9 | ||
Rose Leslie
|Scottish actress (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) | ||
February 11
|Actor | ||
February 12
|Actor (The Cosby Show, Even Stevens, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Rocket Power, The Fairly OddParents, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?) | ||
February 19
|Actor | ||
February 20
|Actor | ||
rowspan="2"|February 21
|Actor (Pit Pony, hosted Saturday Night Live, 2008) | ||
Ashley Greene
|Actress | ||
February 24
|Voice actor (Rocket Power, Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Zeta Project) | ||
February 25
|Actress (Rita Rocks) | ||
February 28
|Actress | ||
March 1
|American singer | ||
March 9
|Rapper (host of 106 & Park) | ||
March 10
|Actor | ||
rowspan="2"|March 17
|Actor (Keeping Up with the Kardashians) | ||
Zach Villa
|Actor | ||
March 19
|Actress | ||
March 23
|Actress | ||
March 28
|Actress (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Squaresville) and singer | ||
March 29
|Actress | ||
April 1
|Actress (Halt and Catch Fire) | ||
April 2
|Actress | ||
rowspan="2"|April 3
|British actor (The Nine Lives of Chloe King) | ||
Rachel Bloom
|Actress and singer (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) | ||
April 4
|Canadian actress (My Dad the Rock Star, Ruby Gloom, Friends and Heroes, Total Drama) | ||
April 7
|American meteorologist | ||
April 9
|Actor (All My Children, Summerland, Young & Hungry, Young Justice), and singer | ||
rowspan="2"|April 10
|Actress (Ask Harriet) | ||
Shay Mitchell
|Canadian actress (Pretty Little Liars) | ||
rowspan="4"|April 12
|Actress (Friends with Better Lives, Grace and Frankie) and model | ||
Mike Manning
|Actor (The Real World: D.C.) | ||
Brendon Urie
|Singer | ||
Ilana Glazer
|Actress | ||
April 15
|Actress (Orange is the New Black) | ||
April 16
|Actor | ||
April 17
|Actress (The Bold and the Beautiful) | ||
rowspan="2"|April 18
|English actress | ||
Ellen Woglom
|American actress | ||
April 19
|Actor (Kirk, Nightmare Ned, Recess, Lloyd in Space) | ||
April 20
|Actor | ||
April 26
|Actress (Lonelygirl15, Sorority Forever, Hooking Up) | ||
April 27
|English actor (The Royals) | ||
May 2 | ||
rowspan="2"|May 7
|Actress and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Danger & Eggs) | ||
Maya Erskine
|Actress and writer | ||
May 10
|Actress (South of Nowhere, Greek) | ||
May 12
|Television producer | ||
May 13
|Actress (The Vampire Diaries) and singer | ||
May 15
|Baseball player | ||
May 19
|Irish actress (6Degrees) | ||
May 21
|Ashlie Brillault |Actress (Lizzie McGuire) | ||
May 23
|Pro wrestler (WWE) (died 2023) | ||
May 24
|American fitness and lifestyle entrepreneur | ||
May 26
|Actress (Hannah Montana, Cyrus vs. Cyrus: Design and Conquer) | ||
May 27
|Australian actress (Neighbours) | ||
rowspan="2"|May 29
|Canadian actor (Pippi Longstocking, Franklin, Rolie Polie Olie) | ||
Joseph Haro
|American actor | ||
May 30
|Actress | ||
rowspan="3"|May 31
|Curtis Williams |Actor (The Parent 'Hood) | ||
Shaun Fleming
|Voice actor (Teacher's Pet, Kim Possible, Fillmore!, Lilo & Stitch: The Series) | ||
Meredith Hagner
|Actress (As the World Turns, Men at Work) | ||
rowspan="2"|June 3
|Actress (Lizzie McGuire) | ||
Michelle Keegan
|Actress | ||
June 9
|Actress | ||
June 12
|Chris Galya |Actor (Jessie) | ||
rowspan="3"|June 16
|Actress (The Young and the Restless) | ||
Kelly Blatz
|Actor (Aaron Stone, Glory Daze) | ||
Abby Elliott
|Actress (Saturday Night Live, Odd Mom Out) and daughter of Chris Elliott | ||
June 17
|Australian actress (The Originals) | ||
June 18
|French-Canadian actor | ||
June 19
|Chelsea J. Wilson |Actress (Lizzie McGuire) | ||
rowspan="2"|June 22
|English actor (Skins, Game of Thrones) | ||
Jerrod Carmichael
|Comedian | ||
June 23
|Actress (Wendell & Vinnie) | ||
rowspan="2"|June 27
|Actress | ||
Ed Westwick
|English actor (Gossip Girl) | ||
July 3
|Actor (South of Nowhere) | ||
July 5
|Actor | ||
July 6
|Actor (Spy Kids) | ||
July 7
|Actress (My Alibi, Glory Daze, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce) | ||
July 11
|Voice actress (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Sailor Moon) | ||
July 12
|Singer | ||
rowspan="3" |July 14
|Sports broadcaster and TV personality (WWE, ESPN, Fox News) | ||
Sara Canning
|Canadian actress (The Vampire Diaries) | ||
Dan Reynolds
|Singer | ||
rowspan="2"|July 16
|Actress (American Heiress, 90210) | ||
Kate Berlant
|Actress | ||
July 19
|Mixed martial artist{{Cite web |title=Jon Jones Biography |url=https://www.espn.com/mma/fighter/bio/_/id/2335639/jon-jones |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=ESPN |language=en}} | ||
July 21
|TV journalist | ||
July 22
|Actress | ||
July 24
|Actress | ||
July 25
|Actor | ||
July 28
|Actor | ||
July 29
|Actress (Dame Chocolate, Big Hero 6: The Series) | ||
July 31
|Australian actress (H2O: Just Add Water) | ||
August 4
|Actor | ||
rowspan="2"|August 8
|Actress | ||
Jenn Proske
|Actress | ||
August 10
|New Zealand actor (Power Rangers RPM) | ||
August 11
|Anglo-American actress (15/Love, Maison Close, Indian Summers) | ||
August 14
|Actor | ||
August 17
|Actor | ||
August 18
|Actress (The Tom Show) | ||
August 21
|Actor (Desperate Housewives) | ||
August 25
|Actress (Gossip Girl) | ||
August 26
|Argentine journalist | ||
August 27
|Actress | ||
August 30
|Actress (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Greek, Video Game High School, UnREAL, Quantico) | ||
September 2
|Actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation, Stoked) | ||
September 3
|Writer | ||
rowspan="2"|September 5
|Player | ||
Jenny Taft
|American sports television personality | ||
rowspan="2"|September 7
|Actress (Once and Again, Westworld) and singer | ||
Lily Cowles
|Actress | ||
September 8
|Actor and rapper | ||
rowspan="2"|September 9
|Actor (Lizzie McGuire) | ||
Taylor Bagley
|Actress | ||
September 10
|Actor (The Fosters, Finding Carter, Nancy Drew) | ||
rowspan="2"|September 11
|Actress (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) | ||
Tyler Hoechlin
|Actor (7th Heaven, Teen Wolf) | ||
September 13
|Actress (I Heart Vampires, Alphas) | ||
September 16 | ||
September 17
|English actor (Prison Break) | ||
September 19 | ||
September 20
|Voice actress (Ash Ketchum on Pokémon) | ||
September 22
|Actress (Mad Men, WandaVision) | ||
September 23
|Actor (Ground Floor, Graves, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!) | ||
rowspan="2"|September 24
|Actor (Friday Night Lights, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Twisted, Star-Crossed, Aquarius) | ||
Spencer Treat Clark
|Actor (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Animal Kingdom) | ||
September 28
|Actress (Lizzie McGuire, Gossip Girl, Younger, How I Met Your Father) and singer | ||
September 29
|Actor (The Troop) | ||
October 1
|Actor (Shadowhunters) | ||
rowspan="2"|October 2
|Actor (The 100) | ||
Erika Lauren Wasilewski
|Actress (The Real World: D.C.) | ||
October 8
|Actor (Grounded for Life) | ||
October 9
|Actress (Saturday Night Live) | ||
October 10
|Mixed martial artist{{Cite web |title=Carla Esparza (Women's Strawweight) MMA Profile |url=https://www.espn.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2559934/carla-esparza |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=ESPN |language=en}} | ||
October 13
|Actress (Privileged) | ||
October 14
|Actor (Saturday Night Live) | ||
October 15
|Canadian voice actress (Dragon Tales, Sabrina: The Animated Series, Pucca) | ||
October 18
|Actor (Summerland, High School Musical, Down to Earth with Zac Efron) | ||
October 23
|Pro wrestler (WWE, Total Divas){{Cite web |title=Carmella WWE (Corey Graves' Wife) {{!}} News, Latest Updates & More @ Sportskeeda |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/player/carmella |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=www.sportskeeda.com}} | ||
October 29
|Australian actress (The Last Man on Earth) | ||
November 5
|Actor (Jonas, Married to Jonas) and singer (Jonas Brothers) | ||
November 7
|Actress | ||
November 9
|Actress | ||
November 10
|Australian actress (Home and Away) | ||
November 11
|British-Australian actor (True Blood, Once Upon a Time) | ||
rowspan="2"|November 19
|Actor | ||
Jared Abrahamson
|Actor | ||
November 20
|Actress (True Blood, Blue Bloods) | ||
November 23
|American reality television personality | ||
November 25
|American rapper (d. 2009) | ||
November 28
|Scottish actress (Doctor Who) | ||
rowspan="3"|November 30
|Pro Wrestler (Total Divas){{Cite web |date=2022-04-04 |title=WWE Profile - Naomi |url=https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/17173369/wwe-profile-page-naomi |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}} | ||
Christel Khalil
|Actress (The Young and the Restless) | ||
Lauren Zima
|American television personality | ||
December 1
|Actress | ||
rowspan="2"|December 3
|Actor (Cover Me, Will & Grace) | ||
Dree Hemingway
|Actress | ||
December 4
|Actor (Family Matters, Two of a Kind, That's So Raven, Waynehead, The Proud Family, Fillmore!, Clifford's Puppy Days) and rapper | ||
December 6
|Actor (All That, 100 Things to Do Before High School, Avatar: The Last Airbender) | ||
December 7
|Actor (House of Carters), singer and brother of Nick Carter (died 2022) | ||
December 11
|Australian actor | ||
December 12
|Canadian actress | ||
December 13
|English actor (Once Upon a Time) | ||
December 16
|Actress (ER, Flight 29 Down) | ||
rowspan="4"|December 28
|Actor (Still Standing) | ||
Hannah Tointon
|English actress (Kerching!, Dream Team, Hollyoaks) and sister of Kara Tointon | ||
Thomas Dekker
|Actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Secret Circle, Backstrom) | ||
Adam Gregory
|Actor (90210, Winx Club, The Bold and the Beautiful) | ||
December 29
|Actor (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) |
Deaths
class="wikitable sortable" | |||
style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Date | Name | Age | class="unsortable" |Notability |
January 1
| style="text-align:center;"|52 |Actor (Room 222) | |||
February 4
| style="text-align:center;"|67 |American pianist, singer and actor | |||
February 22
| style="text-align:center;"|66 |Commentator and producer (The David Susskind Show) | |||
February 25
| style="text-align:center;"|56 |Actor | |||
March 3
| style="text-align:center;"|76 |Actor & comedian (The Danny Kaye Show) | |||
March 21
| style="text-align:center;"|35 |Actor (Misfits of Science) and singer (Dino, Desi & Billy) | |||
March 28
| style="text-align:center;"|67 |Actor (the Second Doctor on Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969) | |||
April 17
| style="text-align:center;"|63 |Actor | |||
April 19
| style="text-align:center;"|78 |Animator | |||
May 4
| style="text-align:center;"|56 |Actress (Mary on Soap) | |||
May 14
| style="text-align:center;"|68 |Actress and singer | |||
May 31
| style="text-align:center;"|75 |Soap opera writer (Search for Tomorrow) | |||
June 22
| style="text-align:center;"|88 |Actor and singer | |||
June 24
| style="text-align:center;"|71 |Actor (The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show) | |||
August 11
| style="text-align:center;"|85 |Wendy's spokesperson (Where's the Beef? ad campaign) | |||
August 19
| style="text-align:center;"|76 |Actor (Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie) | |||
September 5
| style="text-align:center;"|65 |Executive producer (The Fugitive and many others) | |||
September 11
| style="text-align:center;"|72 |Actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) | |||
rowspan="2"|September 22
| style="text-align:center;"|65 |Comedian (co-host of Laugh-In) | |||
Carman Maxwell
| style="text-align:center;"|84 |Voice actor (Bosko on Looney Tunes) | |||
September 25
| style="text-align:center;"|81 |
Television debuts
- Patricia Arquette – Daddy
- Billy Crudup – General College
- Chris Elliott – Miami Vice
- Juliette Lewis – Home Fires
- Brad Pitt – Another World
- Joely Richardson – Kin of the Castle
- Chris Rock – Miami Vice
See also
References
{{Reflist|2}}
External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_series&release_date=1987-01-01,1987-12-31&countries=us&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1987 American television series] at IMDb
{{Years in TV by country|1987}}
{{Years in television}}