1987–88 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1987–88 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1987 to August 1988.

Legend

•   Light yellow indicates talk shows.
•   Green indicates soap operas.
•   Pink indicates game shows.
•   Gold indicates news and public affairs programming.
•   Light teal indicates sporting events.
•   White indicates local programming.
•   Light purple indicates children's programming.
•   Gray indicates encore programming (e.g., reruns of prime-time programming).

• New series are highlighted in bold.

Schedule

• All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
• Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to later timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.

Monday–Friday

Network		6:00 am	6:30 am	7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	Fall	ABC World News This Morning		Good Morning America				Local/syndicated programming				Who's the Boss?	Mr. Belvedere	Ryan's Hope	Loving	All My Children		One Life to Live		General Hospital		Local/syndicated programming					ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
	Winter												The Home Show
	Summer											Growing Pains
CBS	Fall	CBS Morning News			The Morning Program			Local/syndicated programming		The $25,000 Pyramid	Card Sharks	The Price Is Right		Local/syndicated programming	The Young and the Restless		The Bold and the Beautiful	As the World Turns		Guiding Light		Local/syndicated programming					CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
	Winter	CBS Morning News		CBS This Morning						Blackout
	Spring									The $25,000 Pyramid
	Summer									Family Feud
NBC		Before Hours	NBC News at Sunrise	Today				Local/syndicated programming		Sale of the Century	Classic Concentration	Wheel of Fortune	Win, Lose or Draw	Super Password	Scrabble	Days of Our Lives		Another World		Santa Barbara		Local/syndicated programming					NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

Saturday

Network		7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		The Care Bears Family	Little Clowns of Happytown	My Pet Monster	All New Pound Puppies	Little Wizards	The Real Ghostbusters	The Flintstone Kids	The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show	Animal Crack-Ups	ABC Weekend Special	College Football on ABC
	Winter			Little Clowns of Happytown	All New Pound Puppies		Little Wizards	The Real Ghostbusters		The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show	The Flintstone Kids			ABC Sports and/or local programming										Local news	ABC World News Saturday
	Summer			Little Wizards			The Flintstone Kids			The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
CBS	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater	Jim Henson's Muppet Babies			Pee-wee's Playhouse	Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures	Popeye and Son	Teen Wolf	CBS Storybreak	Kidd Video (R)	CBS Sports and/or local programming										Local news	CBS Evening News
	Winter										Dennis the Menace	Teen Wolf	Galaxy High (R)
NBC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Adventures of the Gummi Bears	The Smurfs			Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock	Alvin and the Chipmunks	ALF	The New Archies	Foofur	I'm Telling!	NBC Sports and/or local programming										Local news	NBC Nightly News
	November							ALF		Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock

CBS note: Muppet Babies expanded to 90 minutes for this season to take the spot that would have been filled by Garbage Pail Kids; which had been pulled shortly before the season began due to criticisms from groups such as Action for Children's Television and American Family Association.

Sunday

Network		7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC		Local and/or syndicated programming							This Week with David Brinkley		ABC Sports and/or local programming													Local news	ABC World News Sunday
CBS	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming				CBS News Sunday Morning			Face the Nation	Local and/or syndicated programming		The NFL Today	NFL on CBS and/or local programming
	Mid-winter											CBS Sports and/or local programming												Local news	CBS Evening News
NBC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Sunday Today			Meet the Press	Local and/or syndicated programming				NFL Live!	NFL on NBC
	Mid-winter											NBC Sports and/or local programming												Local news	NBC Nightly News

By network

ABC

Returning series

• ABC Weekend Special
• ABC World News This Morning
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
• All My Children
• The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
• The Care Bears Family
• The Flintstone Kids
• General Hospital
• Good Morning America
• Loving
• One Life to Live
• All New Pound Puppies
• The Real Ghostbusters
• Ryan's Hope
• This Week with David Brinkley
• Who's the Boss? (reruns)

New series

• Animal Crack-Ups (moving from primetime)
• Growing Pains (reruns)
• The Home Show
• Little Clowns of Happytown
• Little Wizards
• Mr. Belvedere (reruns)
• My Pet Monster

Not returning from 1986–87

• American Bandstand (continued in syndication)
• Bargain Hunters
• Double Talk
• Ewoks
• Fame, Fortune and Romance
• Webster (reruns)
• The Wuzzles (reruns)

CBS

Returning series

• The $25,000 Pyramid
• As the World Turns
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• Card Sharks
• CBS Evening News
• CBS Morning News
• CBS News Sunday Morning
• CBS Storybreak
• Dennis the Menace
• Face the Nation
• Family Feud
• Galaxy High (reruns)
• Guiding Light
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
• Kidd Video (reruns) (moved from NBC)
• The Morning Program
• Pee-wee's Playhouse
• The Price Is Right
• Teen Wolf
• The Young and the Restless

New series

• Blackout
• CBS This Morning
• Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
• Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
• Popeye and Son

Not returning from 1986–87

• The Berenstain Bears
• Capitol
• Dungeons & Dragons (reruns)
• Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
• Land of the Lost (reruns)
• The Puppy's Further Adventures (reruns)
• Richie Rich (reruns)
• Wildfire

NBC

Returning series

• Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Another World
• Classic Concentration (reruns)
• Days of Our Lives
• Foofur
• Kissyfur
• Meet the Press
• NBC News at Sunrise
• NBC Nightly News
• It's Punky Brewster (reruns)
• Sale of the Century
• Santa Barbara
• Scrabble
• The Smurfs
• Super Password
• Today
• Wheel of Fortune

New series

• ALF
• Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock
• I'm Telling!
• The New Archies
• Win, Lose or Draw

Not returning from 1986–87

• Blockbusters
• Family Ties (reruns)
• It's Punky Brewster
• Kidd Video (reruns) (moved to CBS)
• Lazer Tag Academy
• Main Street
• Search for Tomorrow
• Wordplay

See also

• 1987-88 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
• 1987-88 United States network television schedule (late night)

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html