1986–87 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1986–87 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 1986 to August 1987.

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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.

ABC
Returning series New series
 * ABC Weekend Special
 * ABC World News This Morning
 * ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
 * All My Children
 * American Bandstand
 * The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
 * Ewoks (retitled The All-New Ewoks)
 * Fame, Fortune and Romance
 * General Hospital
 * Good Morning America
 * Loving
 * One Life to Live
 * Ryan's Hope
 * This Week with David Brinkley
 * Wuzzles (reruns) (moved from CBS)
 * Bargain Hunters
 * The Care Bears Family
 * Double Talk
 * The Flintstone Kids
 * Pound Puppies
 * The Real Ghostbusters
 * Webster (reruns)
 * Who's the Boss? (reruns)

Canceled/Ended
 * The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
 * ABC Funfit
 * All-Star Blitz
 * Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
 * The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
 * Laff-A-Lympics (reruns)
 * The Littles
 * New Love, American Style
 * Pink Panther and Sons (reruns)
 * Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
 * Star Wars: Droids
 * The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
 * Three's a Crowd (reruns)

CBS
Returning series
 * The $25,000 Pyramid
 * As the World Turns
 * The Berenstain Bears
 * Capitol
 * Card Sharks
 * CBS Evening News
 * CBS Morning News
 * CBS News Sunday Morning
 * CBS Storybreak
 * Dungeons & Dragons (reruns)
 * Face the Nation
 * Guiding Light
 * Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
 * Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
 * Land of the Lost (reruns)
 * The Price Is Right
 * The Puppy's Great Adventures (reruns)
 * Richie Rich (reruns)
 * The Young and the Restless

New series
 * The Bold and the Beautiful
 * Galaxy High
 * The Morning Program
 * Pee-wee's Playhouse
 * Teen Wolf
 * Wildfire

Canceled/Ended
 * Body Language
 * The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
 * Dungeons & Dragons
 * The Get Along Gang
 * In the News
 * Little Muppet Monsters
 * Pole Position (reruns)
 * Press Your Luck
 * The Wuzzles (moved to ABC)

NBC
Returning series
 * Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks
 * Another World
 * Blockbusters
 * Days of Our Lives
 * Family Ties (reruns)
 * Kidd Video (reruns)
 * Meet the Press
 * NBC News at Sunrise
 * NBC Nightly News
 * It's Punky Brewster
 * Sale of the Century
 * Santa Barbara
 * Scrabble
 * Search for Tomorrow
 * The Smurfs
 * Super Password
 * Today
 * Wheel of Fortune

New series
 * Classic Concentration
 * Foofur
 * Kissyfur
 * Lazer Tag Academy
 * Main Street
 * Wordplay

Canceled/Ended
 * Mister T
 * The Snorks
 * Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (reruns)
 * Your Number's Up