Television 


The following were on the air in 1988.

  • 21 Jump Street
  • ALF
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Cagney and Lacey
  • Charles in Charge
  • Cheers
  • China Beach
  • Dallas
  • Designing Women
  • Dynasty
  • Facts of Life
  • Falcon Crest
  • Family Ties
  • Full House
  • Growing Pains
  • Knots Landing
  • MacGyver
  • Magnum P.I.
  • Married With Children
  • Miami Vice
  • Moonlighting
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Roseanne
  • Saturday Night Live
  • Spenser: For Hire
  • St. Elsewhere
  • The Cosby Show
  • The Golden Girls
  • The Wonder Years
  • Thirty Something
  • Unsolved Mysteries




  • 1988 News
      Recall what was making news in 1988?   Find out here!


    Here are a few stories to get you started.

    1) Iran and Iraq accept a United Nations-sponsored cease-fire in their 8-year-old war.
    2) George Bush becomes the first vice president to win the White House since Martin Van Buren in 1836.
    3) Evan Mecham of Arizona becomes the first governor in a half-century to be impeached and removed from office.
    4) The last Playboy Club in America, in Lansing, Mich., closes its doors.