1989 in television

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This is a list of television-related events in 1989.

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For the United States network television schedule, please see 1989-90 United States network television schedule.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Television shows 3.1 1940s 3.2 1950s 3.3 1960s 3.4 1970s 3.5 1980s 4 Ending this year 5 Changes of network affiliation 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 5 - The world's first commercial DBS system, Sky Television, goes on air in the United Kingdom.
• February 23 - Leslie Grantham makes his last appearance in EastEnders as Den Watts for fourteen years.
• May - Donna Mills makes her final regular appearance as villainess Abby on Knots Landing.
• May 19 - Sue Ellen plans to reveal a tell-all movie on J.R. Ewing, and hopes to make him "the laughingstock of Texas," in the season finale of Dallas.
• June 22 - John Craven signs off for the last time on the UK children's news programme John Craven's Newsround. The show continues under the name Newsround.
• July 31 - Canadian cable television network CBC Newsworld is launched.
• September 29 - Susan Sullivan's character, Maggie Gioberti Channing, is killed off on the season premiere of Falcon Crest.
• October 4 - Jeremy Paxman makes his first appearance as presenter of BBC2's Newsnight.
• November 5 - Mini-series Bankok Hilton debuts.
• December 6 - The last episode of the original run of Doctor Who, 'Survival' (part three) is broadcast on BBC1. This marks the end of Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor.
• December 8 - Alan Bradley is run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street, getting the programme's biggest ever audience at 26.93 million viewers, a record that remains to this day.
• December 18 - A seldom-seen 1956 Christmas special episode of I Love Lucy re-airs on CBS.
• December 29 - Deirdre Barlow confronts her husband Ken on Coronation Street before infamously throwing him out, ending their decade-long television marriage.
• David Spade, and Mike Myers join the cast of Saturday Night Live.
• Cliff and Nina Warner marry one another for the fourth (and seemingly final) time on All My Children, a record that has not been matched in the soap world.
• The ABT (Australian Broadcasting Tribunal) declares Nine Network executive Alan Bond "not a fit and proper person to own a television licence."

[edit] Debuts

• January - The newsmagazine series Inside Edition premieres in syndication.
• January 3 - The Arsenio Hall Show (1989–1994) premieres on CBS. His first musical guest is Luther Vandross.
• January 16 - Press Gang, a comedy/drama aimed at teenagers, begins its run on the ITV network in the UK (1989–1993).
• February 25 - Kousoku Sentai Turboranger premieres on TV-Asahi (1989-1990).
• March 11 - Cops premieres on FOX, which shows footage shot in real life situations with US police officers (1989—present)
• April 12 - Fast Forward premieres on commercial television in Australia (1989–1992).
• April 18 - Dragonball Z premieres on Fuji TV in Japan

(1989–1995).

• April 24 - The New Mickey Mouse Club premieres on Disney Channel (1989-1994)
• June - That's Showbusiness premieres on BBC1 (1989–1996).
• June 10 - Tales from the Crypt premieres on HBO (1989–1996).
• July 5 - The Seinfeld Chronicles premieres on NBC. The show would later be retitled Seinfeld and become one of the most popular sitcoms in television history (1989–1998).
• August 16 - Acropolis Now premieres on the Seven Network in Australia (1989–1992).
• September 8 - Challenge Anneka premieres on BBC1 (1989–1995)
• September 12 - Life Goes On premieres on ABC (1989–1993).
• September 22 - Baywatch premieres on NBC (1989–2001).
  • Family Matters premieres on ABC (1989–1998).
• November 6 - About Face premieres on ITV (1989–1991).
• November 16 - Maid Marian and her Merry Men premieres on BBC1 (1989–1994).
• November 26 - America's Funniest Home Videos premieres on ABC with Full House host Bob Saget.
• December 17 - The Simpsons premieres on FOX with a special Christmas episode (1989— ). The characters had first appeared two years earlier as a segment on The Tracey Ullman Show. The regular run begins January 14, 1990.
• The Big Gig premieres on the ABC in Australia (1989–1992).

[edit] Television shows

[edit] 1940s

• Meet the Press (1947— )
• Candid Camera (1948— )
• Bozo the Clown (1949— )
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995)

[edit] 1950s

• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951— )
• Guiding Light (1952— )
• The Today Show (1952— )
• Panorama (UK) (1953— )
• Face the Nation (1954— )
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992)
• This Is Your Life (UK) (1955–2003)
• As the World Turns (1956— )
• What the Papers Say (UK) (1956— )
• The Sky at Night (UK) (1957— )
• Blue Peter (UK) (1958— )
• Grandstand (UK) (1958— )

[edit] 1960s

• Coronation Street (UK) (1960— )
• Four Corners (Australia) (1961— )
• It's Academic (1961— )
• The Late Late Show (Ireland) (1962— )
• Doctor Who (UK) (1963–1989, 1996, 2005— )
• General Hospital (1963— )
• Another World (1964–1999)
• Top of the Pops (UK) (1964— )
• Days of Our Lives (1965— )
• Play School (1966— )
• The Money Programme (UK) (1966— )
• 60 Minutes (1968— )
• One Life to Live (1968— )
• Hee Haw (1969–1993)
• Sesame Street (1969— )

[edit] 1970s

• All My Children (1970— )
• Monday Night Football (1970— )
• Masterpiece Theatre (1971— )
• Soul Train (1971— )
• Emmerdale (UK) (1972— )
• Newsround (UK) (1972— )
• The Price Is Right (1972— )
• Last of the Summer Wine (UK) (1973— )
• The Young and the Restless (1973— )
• Derrick (1974–1998)
• Wish You Were Here...? (UK) (1974— )
• Arena (UK) (1975— )
• Good Morning America (1975— )
• Jim'll Fix It (UK) (1975–1994)
• Saturday Night Live (1975— )
• the fifth estate (Canada) (1975— )
• Wheel of Fortune (1975— )
• 20/20 (1978— )
• Dallas (1978–1991)
• Grange Hill (UK) (1978— )
• Knots Landing (1979–1993)
• You Can't Do That on Television (Canada) (1979–1990)
• Antiques Roadshow (UK) (1979— )
• Nightline (1979— )
• This Old House (1979— )

[edit] 1980s

• Entertainment Tonight (1981— )
• Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
• What Now (1982— )
• Timewatch (UK) (1982— )
• Cheers (1982–1993)
• Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993)
• Newhart (1982–1990)
• The Journal (Canada) (1982–1992)
• Loving (1983–1995)
• Jeopardy! (1964–1975, 1984— )
• Mother and Son (Australia) (1984–1994)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
• Night Court (1984–1992)
• Santa Barbara (1984–1993)
• The Bill (UK) (1984— )
• The Cosby Show (1984–1992)
• Who's the Boss? (1984–1992)
• 227 (1985–1990)
• EastEnders (UK) (1985— )
• Growing Pains (1985–1992)
• MacGyver (1985–1992)
• Mr. Belvedere (1985–1990)
• Neighbours (Australia) (1985— )
• Only Fools and Horses (UK) (1981–1983, 1985–1993, 1996–1997, 2001–2003)
• Sally (1985–2002)
• T-Bag and the Revenge of the T-Set and T-Bag's Christmas Carol (There were various T-Bag series between 1985 and 1992)
• The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
• ALF (1986–1990)
• Amen (1986–1991)
• Casualty (UK) (1986— )
• Comic Relief (UK) (1986— )
• Designing Women (1986–1993)
• Double Dare (1986–1993)
• Hey Dad...! (Australia) (1986–1994)
• L.A. Law (1986–1994)
• Mama's Family (1983–1984, 1986–1990)
• Matlock (1986–1995)
• Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986–1991)
• Perfect Strangers (1986–1993)
• The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986— )
• A Different World (1987–1993)
• Beadle's About (UK) (1987–1996)
• ChuckleVision (UK) (1987— )
• Full House (1987–1995)
• Going Live! (1987–1993)
• Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
• Knightmare (UK) (1987–1994)
• Married... with Children (1987–1997)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996)
• The Bold and the Beautiful (1987— )
• The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1990)
• thirtysomething (1987–1991)
• America's Most Wanted (1988— )
• The American Experience (1988— )
• Red Dwarf (UK) (1988–1999)
• Fair City (1988— )
• Home and Away (1988— )
• This Morning (1988— )
• 48 Hours (1988— )
• The Adventures of Superboy (1988–1992)
• Children's Ward (UK) (1988–2000)
• Empty Nest (1988–1995)
• Family Feud (1976–1985, 1988–1995, 1999— )
• Garfield and Friends (1988–1995)
• Murphy Brown (1988–1998)
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
• Roseanne (1988–1997)
• The Comedy Company (Australia) (1988–1990)
• T. and T. (1988–1990)
• The Magical World of Disney (1988–1990)
• The Wonder Years (1988–1993)
• Electric Circus (1988–2003)
• Juke Box Jury (1959–1967, 1979, 1989–1990)
• Lonesome Dove (miniseries on CBS)

[edit] Ending this year

• January 13 - The last episode of the soap opera Ryan's Hope airs on ABC; in the final scene, matriarch Maeve Ryan (Helen Gallagher) sings Danny Boy at Ryan's Bar for the last time (1975–1989).
• March 9 - Webster (1983–1989)
• March 18 - It's a Living (1980–1982, 1985–1989)
• March 24 - $ale of the Century (1983–1989)
  • Super Password (1984–1989)
• March 31 - Card Sharks (1978–1981, 1986–1989, 1986-1987, 2001-2002)
• May 1 - The Benny Hill Show (UK) (1955–1989)
• May 10 - Dynasty (1981–1989)
• May 14 - Family Ties (1982–1989)
  • Moonlighting (1985–1989)
• May 21 - Miami Vice (1984–1989)
• May 22 - Kate and Allie (1984–1989)
• August 4 - Highway to Heaven (1984–1989)
• October 7 - American Bandstand (1952–1989)
• October 9 - Major League Baseball on NBC (1947–1989)
• November 3 - The Phone Home Game (1983-1989) from The Price Is Right
• December 6 - After 26 seasons, the original run of Doctor Who comes to an end on BBC1 with the broadcasting of episode three of the final serial, Survival. Following a one-off television movie in 1996, the show resumed in spring 2005 (1963–1989, 1996, 2005— )
• Pinwheel (1979–1989)

[edit] Changes of network affiliation

• July 17 - Wheel of Fortune moves from NBC's daytime lineup to CBS's daytime schedule.
• September 9 - The Gummi Bears moves from NBC to ABC and is combined in a one-hour block with The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. This arrangement lasts one year before the shows go their separate ways.

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Alex D. Linz, American actor
• March 25 - Alyson Michalka, American actress
• April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
• June 18 - Renee Olstead, American actress
• October 1 - Brie Larson, American actress
• October 23 - Trevor and Travis Gruhot, twin actors
• December 2 - Cassie Steele, Canadian actress
• December 7 - Basia A'Hern, Anglo-Australian actress
• December 28 - Mackenzie Rosman, American actress

[edit] Deaths

• April 26 - Lucille Ball, 77, actress, comedian
• May 1 - Douglass Watson, 68, soap opera actor (Mac on Another World)
• May 20 - Gilda Radner, 42, actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
• July 3 - Jim Backus, 76, actor (Thurston Howell on Gilligan's Island and voice of Mr. Magoo)
• July 10 - Mel Blanc, 81, voice actor who voiced Bugs Bunny and countless other characters
• July 18 - Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, actress (My Sister Sam)
• September 17 - Jay Stewart, 71, announcer of Let's Make a Deal and other game shows
• October 4 - Graham Chapman, 48, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus), one day before the 20th anniversary of that show's premiere.