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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1987

TV shows/series in chronological context: 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade. ()

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Star Trek: The Next Generation(1987-1994)

TV-PG
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 381 votes)

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, ...
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Married... with Children(1987-1997)

TV-PG
| 22min per episode | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 248 votes)

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

With Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Amanda Bearse, Ted McGinley, Katey Sagal, David Faustino, ...

Full House(1987-1995)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 222 votes)

After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

With John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Lori Loughlin, ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1987-1996)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 188 votes)

Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow which transforms the four turtles into human-like creatures. Hamato (now Master Splinter) changes into a giant rat from the green glow and teaches the turtles the skills of the ninja as they team up with news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.

DuckTales(1987-1990)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 135 votes)

Scrooge McDuck finds his hands full at home when nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie move to Duckburg. Joined by their loyal pals Launchpad McQuack, Gyro Gearloose and Mrs. Beakley, the DuckTales gang never fails to deliver a wealth of adventure. Get ready for a fortune of fun with DuckTales!

Friday the 13th: The Series(1987-1990)

45min per episode | Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 52 votes)

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

With Louise Robey, John D. LeMay, Steve Monarque, Chris Wiggins

The Bold and the Beautiful(1987-)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama
2.5/5 (with 34 votes)

Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.

Directed by Michael Stich - With John McCook, Susan Flannery, Jim Storm, Darin Brooks, Alley Mills, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, ...

Inspector Morse(1987-1993)

TV-14
| 1h 40min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 31 votes)

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

With John Thaw, Kevin Whately, James Grout

Beauty and the Beast(1987-1990)

47min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York; and a secret Utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.

With Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Roy Dotrice, Jay Acovone, Stephen McHattie, Renn Woods, ...

21 Jump Street(1987-1991)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

With Johnny Depp, Shawn Levy

Once Upon a Time... Life(1987-1988)

26min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Documentary
4.1/5 (with 24 votes)

The animated story of the human body.

Directed by Albert Barillé

Unsolved Mysteries(1987-2010)

1h per episode | Mystery, Drama
3.9/5 (with 18 votes)

Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to call in with tips to help solve the cases.

With Robert Stack
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Tour of Duty(1987-1990)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 13 votes)

The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.

With Ramón Franco, Lee Majors, Rosalind Chao, Melora Hardin, Betsy Brantley, Tia Carrere, ...

A Different World(1987-1993)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World would typically address issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers. One episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

With Glynn Turman, Marisa Tomei, Lisa Bonet, Loretta Devine, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Cree Summer, ...

My Two Dads(1987-1990)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

My Two Dads is an American sitcom that starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan. It aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990 and was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions in association with Tri-Star Television and distributed by TeleVentures.

With Paul Reiser, Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan, Chad Allen, Giovanni Ribisi, Florence Stanley, ...

The New Statesman(1987-1992)

30min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 10 votes)

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

With Rik Mayall, Lady Marcia Fitzalan-Howard, Michael Troughton, Terence Alexander, Hugh Laurie, Paul O'Grady, ...

Biography(1987-)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel. Initially, most of the episodes featured the life stories of historical figures or present political or social leaders. People such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Enrico Caruso, and Eva Peron were profiled. After a few years, however, the show began producing episodes on figures from pop culture, including Britney Spears, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson. This move away from purely intellectual subject matter has been criticized by some.

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel(1987)

Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

There's a murder at the elegant hotel where Miss Marple is staying and international adventurer Bess Sedgwick is the prime suspect.

Jake and the Fatman(1987-1992)

1h per episode | Drama
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.

With William Conrad

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder(1987)

55min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

French & Saunders(1987-2004)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.

With Dawn French

Max Headroom(1987-1997)

1h per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. The series is often mistaken as an American-produced show due to the setting and its use of an almost entirely US cast along with being broadcast in the USA on the ABC network. Cinemax aired the UK pilot followed by a six-week run of highlights from The Max Headroom Show, a music video show where Headroom appears between music videos. ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis/Lakeside to produce the series for US audiences. The show went into production in late 1986 and ran for six episodes in the first season with eight being produced in season two.

With Matt Frewer

BraveStarr(1987-1988)

25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

BraveStarr is an American Space Western animated television series. The original episodes aired from September 1987 to February 1988 in syndication. It was created simultaneously with a collection of action figures. BraveStarr was the last animated series produced by Filmation and Group W Productions to be broadcast. Bravo!, a spin-off series was in production along with Bugzburg when the studio closed down. Reruns of the show aired on Qubo Night Owl from 2010 to 2013, and reruns air on the Retro Television Network from 2010 to Present.

Miss Marple: Nemesis(1987)

1h 42min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Mr. Jason Rafiel asks Miss Marple to solve a crime but, he does gives her any details. In fact, he can't be sure that a crime was committed at all.

Filthy Rich & Catflap(1987)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

BBC sitcom starring former The Young Ones stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as its three title characters respectively. It was written by Ben Elton with additional material credited to Mayall. One series of six half-hour episodes was produced (although the notion of a second series is played upon in the final episode, and the continuity announcer on the last installment says "...and Filthy, Rich and Catflap will return next year." They didn't.)

With Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson

Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series(1987-1985)

30min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the original live action version of the same name created by Jim Henson. NBC aired this spin-off program on Saturday mornings for one season during 1987.

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs(1987-1988)

22min per episode | Animation
4.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is an animated television space western, similar to the series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and BraveStarr. The series premiered in the United States in 1987 and had a run of 52 episodes. The show was based on Star Musketeer Bismarck, a Japanese anime series created by Studio Pierrot that achieved moderate success in Japan. The English language rights to the series was purchased by World Events Productions, the same company behind the English-language version of Voltron, in 1986. WEP reorganized and rewrote the series, incorporating the original episodes and creating 6 new ones, before releasing it under the name Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs.

City Hunter(1987-1991)

25min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.

A Little Princess(1987)

30min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door. Based upon the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Degrassi Junior High(1987-1989)

30min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Degrassi Junior High is a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that was produced from 1987-1989 as part of the Degrassi series. The show followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school. Many episodes tackled difficult topics such as drug use, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, homophobia, racism, and divorce, and the series was acclaimed for its sensitive and realistic portrayal of the challenges of teenage life. The cast comprised mainly non-professional actors, which added to the show's sense of realism. The series featured many of the same actors who had starred on The Kids of Degrassi Street a few years earlier, including Stacie Mistysyn, Neil Hope, Anais Granofsky, Sarah Charlesworth and others. However, their character names and family situations had been changed, so Degrassi Junior High cannot, therefore, be considered a direct spinoff. The legal counsel for all the episodes was Stephen Stohn who later became the executive producer of Degrassi: The Next Generation. The series was filmed at the unused Vincent Massey Public School in Etobicoke, Ontario.

With Maureen McKay, Anais Granofsky, Amanda Stepto, Neil Hope, Dayo Ade, Siluck Saysanasy, ...
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