1987 in American television
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The year 1987 in television involved some significant events. This is a list of notable events in the United States.
Events
Date | Event |
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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 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. |
February 2 | PBS broadcasts the critically acclaimed series Eyes on the Prize. |
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. |
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 19 | Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as the host of The PTL Club after involvement in a sex scandal. |
March 27 | On CBS, The Price Is Right surpasses Concentration as the longest-running daytime game show in history. |
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. |
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 19 | Matt Groening's The Simpsons debuts as a series of short animated segments as part of The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox. |
May 3 | The fledgling Fox network enters the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee when independent station WETO in Greeneville begins airing their programming. |
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 15 | Pamela Ewing's car speeds out of control, crashes into a tanker, and explodes on the season finale of the CBS drama Dallas. |
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 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 31 | CBS airs the special Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns, which features the broadcast premiere of Jackson's 18 minute long music video "Bad". |
September 5 | Dick Clark's American Bandstand was broadcast for the 2,751st and last time by ABC, after 30 years on the network. (It continued in syndication 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 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 animated crossover The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones premieres in syndication. |
September 18 | DuckTales finally begins airing in the U.S. for the first time ever on syndication. |
September 19 | NBC debuts a weekday package of sitcoms for ts owned-and-operated stations called "Prime Time Begins at 7:30". The shows include 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 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. |
September 28 | The pilot episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres in syndication. |
October 12 | Valerie Harper files a lawsuit against NBC and Lorimar for breach of contract after being dismissed from her sitcom Valerie. |
October 15 | Bob Barker stops dyeing his hair brown and appears on The Price is Right for the first time with white hair. He is given a minute-long standing ovation by the audience. |
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). |
November 13 | Sonny & Cher reunite for a performance on NBC's late-night talk show Late Night with David Letterman. |
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. |
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 on syndication starting off with the first four episodes. |
Programs
Debuting this year
Resuming this year
Title | Final aired | Previous network | New title | Returning network | Date of return |
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Charles in Charge | 1985 | CBS | Same | Syndication | January 3 |
Blockbusters | 1982 | NBC | Same | January 5 | |
Concentration | 1978 | Syndication | Classic Concentration | NBC | May 4 |
We Got it Made | 1984 | NBC | Same
Same Same Same Same A&E |
Syndication | September 11 |
Snorks | 1985 | Same | September 12 | ||
High Rollers | 1980 | Syndication | September 14
October 19 Fall | ||
Truth or Consequences
The Jetsons Biography |
1978
1985 1979 |
Syndication | |||
Ending this year
Changing networks
Show | Moved from | Moved to |
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Airwolf | NBC | USA Network |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | ||
Candid Camera | CBS | |
We Got it Made | Syndication | |
High Rollers | ||
Punky Brewster | ||
Charles in Charge | CBS | |
Webster | ABC | |
American Bandstand | ||
Concentration | Syndication | NBC |
Maple Town
Biography |
Nickelodeon
A&E | |
Made-for-TV movies and miniseries
Title | Network | Premiere date |
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Amerika | ABC | February 8 |
The Facts of Life Down Under | NBC | February 15 |
LBJ: The Early Years | February 1 | |
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | November 16 | |
Roman Holiday | December 28 |
Births
Deaths
Date | Name | Age | Notability |
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January 1 | Lloyd Haynes | 52 | Actor (Room 222) |
February 22 | David Susskind | 66 | Commentator and producer (The David Susskind Show) |
February 25 | James Coco | 56 | Actor |
March 3 | Danny Kaye | 76 | Actor & comedian (The Danny Kaye Show) |
March 21 | Dean Paul Martin | 35 | Actor (Misfits of Science) |
March 28 | Patrick Troughton | 67 | Actor (the Second Doctor on Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969) |
April 17 | Dick Shawn | 63 | Actor |
April 19 | Milt Kahl | 78 | Animator |
May 4 | Cathryn Damon | 56 | Actress (Mary on Soap) |
May 14 | Rita Hayworth | 68 | Actress and singer |
May 31 | Roy Winsor | 75 | Soap opera writer (Search for Tomorrow) |
June 22 | Fred Astaire | 88 | Actor and singer |
June 24 | Jackie Gleason | 71 | Actor (The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show) |
August 11 | Clara Peller | 85 | Wendy's spokesperson (Where's the Beef? ad campaign) |
August 19 | Hayden Rorke | 76 | Actor (Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie) |
September 5 | Quinn Martin | 65 | Executive producer (The Fugitive and many others) |
September 11 | Lorne Greene | 72 | Actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) |
September 22 | Dan Rowan | 65 | Comedian (co-host of Laugh-In) |
Carman Maxwell | 84 | Voice actor (Bosko on Looney Tunes) | |
September 25 | Mary Astor | 81 | Actress[1] |
See also
References
- ↑ "Mary Astor - American actress". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
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