PM | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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ABC | Life Goes On | Free Spirit | Homeroom | The ABC Sunday Night Movie | ||||
CBS | 60 Minutes | Murder, She Wrote | The CBS Sunday Night Movies | |||||
FOX | Booker | America's Most Wanted | Totally Hidden Video | Married... with Children | Open House | The Tracey Ullman Show | It's Garry Shandling's Show | |
NBC | The Magical World of Disney | Sister Kate | My Two Dads | NBC Sunday Night Movie |
Note: On ABC,America's Funniest Home Videos premiered as a series at 8:00 on January 14, 1990.
On FOX, The Simpsons premiered as a series at 8:30 on January 14, 1990 after airing its Christmas special on December 17, 1989 in the same timeslot.
Monday
PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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ABC | MacGyver | Monday Night Football | ||||
CBS | Major Dad | The People Next Door | Murphy Brown | The Famous Teddy Z | Designing Women | Newhart |
FOX | 21 Jump Street | Alien Nation | Local | |||
NBC | ALF | The Hogan Family | NBC Monday Night at the Movies |
Tuesday
PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABC | Who's the Boss? | The Wonder Years | Roseanne | Chicken Soup | thirtysomething | |
CBS | Rescue 911 | Wolf | Island Son | |||
NBC | Matlock | In the Heat of the Night | Midnight Caller |
Note: On ABC, Coach aired its second season at 9:30 beginning November 21, 1989, as a replacement for Chicken Soup, which declined in audience numbers each week and lost much of the lead-in audience of the #1 hit, Roseanne.
Wednesday
PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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ABC | Growing Pains | Head of the Class | Anything but Love | Doogie Howser, M.D. | China Beach | |
CBS | A Peaceable Kingdom | Jake and the Fatman | Wiseguy | |||
NBC | Unsolved Mysteries | Night Court | Nutt House / Dear John Jan.) | Quantum Leap |
Note: On NBC, the sitcom Dear John moved to 9:30 on January 17, 1990.
Thursday
PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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ABC | Mission: Impossible | The Young Riders | Primetime Live | |||
CBS | 48 Hours | Top of the Hill | Knots Landing | |||
NBC | The Cosby Show | A Different World | Cheers | Dear John / Grand (Jan) | L.A. Law |
Note: On NBC, the sitcom Grand premiered at 9:30 on January 18, 1990.
FridayPM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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ABC | Full House | Family Matters | Perfect Strangers | Just the Ten of Us | 20/20 | |
CBS | Snoops | Dallas | Falcon Crest | |||
NBC | Baywatch | Hardball | Mancuso, F.B.I. |
PM | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABC | Mr. Belvedere | Living Dolls | The ABC Saturday Mystery: B.L. Stryker, Columbo, Kojak, Christine Cromwell | |||
CBS | Paradise | Tour of Duty | Saturday Night with Connie Chung | |||
FOX | COPS | The Reporters | Beyond Tomorrow | Local | ||
NBC | 227 | Amen | The Golden Girls | Empty Nest | Hunter |