1988–89 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1988–89 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 1988 to August 1989.

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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.

Monday–Friday
ABC note: From September 19–30, 1988, Home aired for one hour, commandeering reruns of Growing Pains.

NBC note: NBC returned the 12:00 noon time slot to its affiliates beginning March 27, 1989, after Super Password finished its run three days earlier. Many NBC affiliates did not air the show in this timeslot, instead opting to air local news. The new soap Generations was available to affiliates at noon/11:00 CT or 12:30/11:30 CT.

ABC
Returning series
 * ABC Weekend Special
 * ABC World News This Morning
 * ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
 * All My Children
 * Animal Crack-Ups
 * The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
 * The Flintstone Kids (reruns)
 * General Hospital
 * Good Morning America
 * Growing Pains (reruns)
 * The Home Show
 * Loving
 * One Life to Live
 * Ryan's Hope
 * Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
 * This Week with David Brinkley

New series
 * The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil
 * The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
 * A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

Not returning from 1987–88
 * The Care Bears Family (moved to syndication)
 * Little Clowns of Happytown
 * Little Wizards
 * Mr. Belvedere (reruns)
 * My Pet Monster
 * Pound Puppies
 * Who's the Boss? (reruns)

CBS
Returning series
 * As the World Turns
 * The Bold and the Beautiful
 * Card Sharks
 * CBS Evening News
 * CBS Morning News
 * CBS News Sunday Morning
 * CBS Storybreak
 * CBS This Morning
 * Face the Nation
 * Family Feud
 * Guiding Light
 * Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
 * Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
 * Pee-wee's Playhouse
 * The Price Is Right
 * Teen Wolf (reruns)
 * The Young and the Restless

New series
 * The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy
 * Flip!
 * Garfield and Friends
 * Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
 * Now You See It!
 * Superman
 * Wheel of Fortune

Not returning from 1987–88
 * Blackout
 * Dennis the Menace
 * Galaxy High (reruns)
 * Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
 * Kidd Video (reruns)
 * Popeye and Son
 * The $25,000 Pyramid

NBC
Returning series
 * Adventures of the Gummi Bears
 * ALF
 * The Chipmunks
 * Another World
 * Classic Concentration
 * Days of Our Lives
 * Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (reruns)
 * Kissyfur
 * Meet the Press
 * NBC News at Sunrise
 * NBC Nightly News
 * The New Archies (reruns)
 * Punky Brewster (reruns)
 * Sale of the Century
 * Santa Barbara
 * Scrabble
 * The Smurfs
 * Super Password
 * Today
 * Wheel of Fortune
 * Win, Lose or Draw

New series
 * 2 Hip 4 TV
 * ALF Tales
 * The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
 * Generations
 * The Golden Girls (reruns)

Not returning from 1987–88
 * Foofur
 * Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock
 * I'm Telling!