Nostalgia: Television in 1988

What TV shows do you remember watching?

Most Watched 1987-1988 Season

1. The Cosby Show
   
2. Family Ties
   
3. Cheers
   
4. Murder, She Wrote
   
5. The Golden Girls
   
6. 60 Minutes
   
7. Night Court
   
8. Growing Pains
   
9. Moonlighting
   
10. Who's the Boss?
    
11. Dallas
12. Newhart
    
13. Amen
    
14. 227
    
15. Matlock
    
16. CBS Sunday Night Movie
17. NBC Monday Night Movie
    
18. Monday Night Football
    
19. Kate & Allie
    
20. NBC Sunday Night Movie
    
21. L.A. Law
22. My Sister Sam
    
23. Falcon Crest
    
24. Highway to Heaven
    
25. Dynasty
    
26. Knots Landing
    
27. Miami Vice
    
28. Alf
    
29. Hunter
    
30. Head of the Class
    

Television Series That Debuted In 1988

The Wonder Years (1988-1993)
America's Most Wanted (1988- )
Yo! MTV Raps (1988-1995)
Roseanne (1988-1997)
Murphy Brown (1988-1998)
COPS (1988- )

Television Series that Ended in 1988

Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988)
The Facts of Life (1979-1988)
Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988)
St. Elsewhere (1982-1988)
Punky Brewster (1984-1988)
Solid Gold (1980-1988)




Other Entertainment Milestones in 1988

• Ninety-eight percent of U.S. households have at least one television set.
  
• CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time. (What was the first CD you remember buying?)
  
• Ted Turner starts Turner Network Television (TNT) and buys MGM's film library.

Awards

• Pulitzer Prizes -- Fiction: Beloved, Toni Morrison; Drama: Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry
  
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
  
• Tony Awards – Play: M. Butterfly; Musical: The Phantom of the Opera
  
• Caldecott: Owl Moon, written by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr
  
• Newbery: Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
  
• Grammys -- Record of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin, Album of the Year: Faith, George Michael, Song of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin, songwriter
  
• Miss America: Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (MI)