1989-90 United States network television schedule

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United States Network Television Schedule

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This was the broadcast television schedule on all four United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1989. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.

New series highlighted in bold.

The highest-rated shows for the year (The Cosby Show and Roseanne) are highlighted in lime. The top 10 rated programs are highlighted in yellow. The top 20 rated programs are highlighted in cyan. Rankings determined by Nielsen Media Research^[1]

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation but the schedule was set by each local station.

1 Sunday
2 Monday
3 Tuesday
4 Wednesday
5 Thursday
6 Friday
7 Saturday
8 References

[edit] Sunday

PM	7:00	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Life Goes On	Free Spirit	Homeroom	The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS	60 Minutes	Murder, She Wrote		CBS Sunday Night Movie
FOX	Booker	America's Most Wanted	Totally Hidden Video	Married... with Children	Open House	The Tracey Ullman Show	It's Garry Shandling's Show
NBC	The Magical World of Disney	Sister Kate	My Two Dads	NBC Sunday Night Movie

Note: On ABC, America's Funniest Home Videos premiered as a series at 8:00 on January 14, 1990.

On FOX, The Simpsons premiered as a series at 8:30 on January 14, 1990 after airing its Christmas special on December 17, 1989 in the same timeslot.

[edit] Monday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	MacGyver		Monday Night Football
CBS	Major Dad	The People Next Door	Murphy Brown	The Famous Teddy Z	Designing Women	Newhart
FOX	21 Jump Street		Alien Nation		Local
NBC	ALF	The Hogan Family	NBC Monday Night at the Movies

[edit] Tuesday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Who's the Boss?	The Wonder Years	Roseanne	Chicken Soup	thirtysomething
CBS	Rescue 911		Wolf		Island Son
NBC	Matlock		In the Heat of the Night		Midnight Caller

Note: On ABC, Coach aired its second season at 9:30 beginning November 21, 1989, as a replacement for Chicken Soup, which declined in audience numbers each week and lost much of the lead-in audience of the #1 hit, Roseanne.

[edit] Wednesday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Growing Pains	Head of the Class	Anything but Love	Doogie Howser, M.D.	China Beach
CBS	Peaceable Kingdom		Jake and the Fatman		Wiseguy
NBC	Unsolved Mysteries		Night Court	The Nutt House	Quantum Leap

[edit] Thursday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Mission: Impossible		The Young Riders		Primetime Live
CBS	48 Hours		Top of the Hill		Knots Landing
NBC	The Cosby Show	A Different World	Cheers	Dear John	L.A. Law

Note: On NBC, the sitcom Grand premiered at 9:30 on January 18, 1990.

[edit] Friday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Full House	Family Matters	Perfect Strangers	Just the Ten of Us	20/20
CBS	Snoops		Dallas		Falcon Crest
NBC	Baywatch		Hardball		Mancuso, F.B.I.

[edit] Saturday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Mr. Belvedere	Living Dolls	The ABC Saturday Mystery: B. L. Stryker, Columbo, Kojak, Christine Cromwell
CBS	Paradise		Tour of Duty		Saturday Night with Connie Chung
FOX	COPS	The Reporters		Beyond Tomorrow	Local
NBC	227	Amen	The Golden Girls	Empty Nest	Hunter