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.

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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.

Saturday
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.

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