Sunday
| PM | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Incredible Sunday (Oct.) | Mission: Impossible (Oct.) | The ABC Sunday Night Movie | |||||
| CBS | 60 Minutes | Murder, She Wrote | The CBS Sunday Night Movies | |||||
| FOX | 21 Jump Street | America's Most Wanted | Married... with Children | It's Garry Shandling's Show | The Tracey Ullman Show | Duet | Local | |
| NBC | The Magical World of Disney (Oct.) | Family Ties | Day by Day | NBC Sunday Night at the Movies | ||||
Monday
| PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | MacGyver | Monday Night Football | ||||||
| CBS | Newhart | Coming of Age | Murphy Brown (Nov.) | Designing Women | Almost Grown (Nov.) | |||
| NBC | ALF | The Hogan Family | NBC Monday Night at the Movies | |||||
Note: CBS aired local and paid political programming Sept. and Oct.
Tuesday
| PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Who's the Boss? | Roseanne (Oct.) | Moonlighting | thirtysomething | ||
| CBS | High Risk(Oct 4, 1988 only) / Local and paid political programming (Oct 11-Nov 1) / TV 101 (Nov.) | The CBS Tuesday Night Movies | ||||
| NBC | Matlock | In the Heat of the Night | Midnight Caller (Nov.) | |||
Note: On NBC, NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies often aired 8-10 p.m. or 9-11 p.m. from September through November. Moonlighting went on hiatus in February 1989, and returned on Sundays in April.
Wednesday
| PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Growing Pains | Head of the Class | The Wonder Years | Hooperman | China Beach | |
| CBS | The Van Dyke Show (Oct.) | Annie McGuire (Oct.) | The Equalizer | Wiseguy | ||
| NBC | Unsolved Mysteries (Sep.) | Night Court | Baby Boom (Sep./Nov.) / My Two Dads(Jan.) | Tattingers (Oct.) | ||
Note: On CBS, Live! With Dick Clark aired 8-9 p.m. in September. On NBC, various specials aired 9:30-10 p.m. from September till November. Then on January 11th the second season of My Two Dads premiered. On ABC, Anything But Love premiered at 9:30 in March 1989.
Thursday
| PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Knightwatch (Nov.) | Dynasty | W5 | |||
| CBS | 48 Hours | Paradise (Oct) | Knots Landing | |||
| NBC | The Cosby Show | A Different World | Cheers | Dear John (Oct.) | L.A. Law | |
Note: On ABC, various specials and The ABC Thursday Night Movie aired 8-11 p.m. from September till early November. On CBS, CBS Special Movie aired 9-11 p.m. in September till mid-October.
Friday
| PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Perfect Strangers | Full House | Mr. Belvedere | Just the Ten of Us | 20/20 | |
| CBS | Beauty and the Beast | Dallas | Falcon Crest | |||
| NBC | Something is Out There (Oct.) | Miami Vice | Rage Hard(Apr. 1989) | |||
Saturday
| PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Murphy's Law (Dec.) | Police Story (Oct.) | ||||
| CBS | Dirty Dancing (Oct.) | Raising Miranda (Nov.) | Simon & Simon | West 57th | ||
| FOX | The Reporters | COPS | Local | |||
| NBC | 227 | Amen | The Golden Girls | Empty Nest (Oct.) | Hunter | |
Note: On ABC, the limited-run series Crime of the Century aired in October and Trackdown in November, both 8-9 p.m. On CBS, Live! With Dick Clark, retitled to Dick Clark Presents, moved from Wednesday in September to Saturday for October and aired at 8-9 p.m.
