TV Shows from 1988

48 Hours

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

🎭 Genre: News

📺 Network: CBS

📖 Synopsis:

This newsmagazine series investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening — and resolution — of cold cases, and changed...

American Experience

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

🎭 Genre: Documentary

📺 Network: PBS

📖 Synopsis:

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Carte Blanche

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Carte Blanche is a South African current affairs investigative series which covers a variety of current affairs topics including Mark Shuttleworth's trip to the moon to the Tsunami disaster to the biggest murder cases being tried in SA courts....

China Beach

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between...

Countryfile

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

Dear John

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in...

Découverte

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Charles Tisseyre explores the world of science and technology through real-world stories. Each episode features reports delving into technological breakthroughs and developments in scientific research, environmental issues, space exploration, as well as health and medicine....

Empty Nest

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people surrounding him: daughters Barbara and Carol; his wisecracking office assistant, nurse LaVerne Todd; and obnoxious neighborhood moo...

Fifteen To One

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

Garfield And Friends

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The animated stories of Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into. And also Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with his fellow farm animals.

Gunbuster

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: In the near future, humanity has taken its first steps towards journeying into the far reaches of the galaxy. Upon doing so they discover a huge race of insectoid aliens known as "Space Monsters." These aliens seem dedicated to the eradication of mankind as they near closer and c...

Home And Away

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children...

In The Heat Of The Night

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NB...

Kiteretsu Daihyakka

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: The main character is a scientific genius boy named Kiteretsu, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He frequently travels in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine he built. Miyoko is a girl in his neighborhood who is basically his girlfriend. Tongari i...

Legend Of The Galactic Heroes

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: War rages between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance. With two new brilliant young leaders at the helm, anything can happen in this military space opera.

Live

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

🎭 Genre: Talk-Show

📺 Network: ABC

🎬 Starring: Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Ryan Seacrest

LIVE With Kelly And Mark

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

🎭 Genre: Talk

📺 Network: Syndication

📖 Synopsis:

A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

Mashin Hero Wataru

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Mashin Hero Wataru is a comedy/adventure Super Robot multimedia franchise originally consisting of 45 episode anime series created by Sunrise first aired on April 15, 1988. Sunrise credited "Hajime Yatate" for the storyline and Shuji Iuchi directed the series. The series employs...

Monsters

📅 Years: 1988 - Present

📖 Synopsis: Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects non...

Murphy Brown

📅 Years: 1988 - 2019

🎭 Genre: DramaComedy

📺 Network: CBS

🎬 Starring: Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Grant Shaud, Jake McDorman, Nik Dodani, Tyne Daly, Adan Rocha

📖 Synopsis:

As its 30th anniversary approaches, MURPHY BROWN, the revival of the groundbreaking comedy about the eponymous broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24-hour cable, social media, "fake news" and a vastly different political climate. Amid...