Tuesday, March 17, 2009

What Was On The Tube [and we mean YOUR tube, not youtube]...

TV Programs That Debut in 1989:
January - The newsmagazine series Inside Edition premieres in syndication.
January 3 - The Arsenio Hall Show (1989–1994) premieres in syndication. His first musical guest is Luther Vandross.
January 8 - Agatha Christie's Poirot premieres on ITV in the UK.
January 9 - The Pat Sajak Show (1989-1990) debuts on CBS.
January 29 - Shining Time Station premieres on PBS (1989-1993)
March 5 - Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers premieres on Disney Channel,
later to move into first-run syndication (1989-1993).
March 11 - Cops premieres on FOX, which shows footage shot in
real life situations with US police officers (1989—2009)
March 26 - Quantum Leap premieres on NBC (1989-1993).
March 27 - Generations premieres on NBC.
April 24 - The New Mickey Mouse Club premieres on Disney Channel (1989-1994)
June 10 - Tales from the Crypt premieres on HBO (1989–1996).
July 5 - The Seinfeld Chronicles premieres on NBC. The show would later be
retitled Seinfeld and become one of the most popular sitcoms in
television history (1989–1998).
August 20 - Saved By The Bell premieres on NBC in prime time.
The show was moved to Saturday mornings after three episodes,
where it became perhaps the most popular teen sitcom of all-time.
(1989-1993)
September 12 - Life Goes On premieres on ABC (1989–1993).
September 16 - American Gladiators premieres in syndication (1989-1996)
September 19 - Doogie Howser, M.D. premieres on ABC (1989-1993).
September 22 - Baywatch premieres on NBC (1989–1990, 1991-2001).
September 22 - Family Matters premieres on ABC (1989–1998).
October 30 - That's Entertainment premieres on TVB Pearl
November 26 - America's Funniest Home Videos premieres on ABC
with Full House star Bob Saget as host.
December 17 - The Simpsons premieres on FOX with a special Christmas episode
(1989— ). The characters had first appeared two years earlier as a
segment on The Tracey Ullman Show.
Dink,the Little Dinosaur premiers on CBS.

TV Programs Ending this year - 1989:
January 21 - Simon & Simon (1981–1989).
March 9 - Webster (1983–1989).
March 18 - It's a Living (1980–1982, 1985–1989).
March 24 -
$ale of the Century (1983–1989).
Super Password (1984–1989).
March 31 - Card Sharks (1978–1981, 1986–1989, 1986-1987, 2001-2002).
May 1 - The Benny Hill Show (1955–1989).
May 10 - Dynasty (1981–1989).
May 14 - Family Ties (1982–1989).
May 14 - Moonlighting (1985–1989).
May 21 - Miami Vice (1984–1989).
May 22 - Kate and Allie (1984–1989).
August 4 - Highway to Heaven (1984–1989). On every week of your high school years...
October 5 - Sonda (Poland) (1977-1989).
October 7 - American Bandstand (1952–1989).
October 9 - Major League Baseball on NBC (1947–1989).
October 28 - The Sharon Cuneta Show (1983-1989).
November 3 - The Phone Home Game (1983-1989) from The Price Is Right.
Pinwheel (1977–1989)

Deaths
February 5 - Joe Raposo, 51, composer (various songs from Sesame Street and The Electric Company, as well as the Three's Company theme song)
April 26 - Lucille Ball, 77, actress, comedian (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy)
May 1 - Douglass Watson, 68, soap opera actor (Mac on Another World)
May 20 - Gilda Radner, 42, actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
July 3 - Jim Backus, 76, actor (Thurston Howell on Gilligan's Island and voice of Mr. Magoo)
July 10 - Mel Blanc, 81, voice actor who voiced Bugs Bunny and countless other characters
July 18 - Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, actress (My Sister Sam)
September 17 - Jay Stewart, 71, announcer of Let's Make a Deal and other game shows, (suicide)
October 4 - Graham Chapman, 48, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus), one day before the 20th anniversary of that show's premiere.


The Year on TV - 1988 [September 1 1988 was the beginning of our Senior Year]

1988 TV-related Events:
February 26 - Tom Hardy marries Simone Ravelle on General Hospital. It is a milestone for the genre as it is the first interracial wedding between two characters on American daytime television.
April - The Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West go on strike. The strike lasted until August and delays the beginning of the fall season by a month.
May 1 One of the most popular detective shows in the 1980s was set in Hawaii. Magnum, P.I. came to an end with a two-parter. Tom Selleck drove-off in the distance with his red Ferrrai for the last time on CBS.
May 13 - J. R. Ewing pushes Nicholas Pierce over the railing of his high-rise office building and Sue Ellen is so enraged that she fires three shots at him on the season finale of Dallas.
July 4 - The hit game show Family Feud returns to the air after a 3-year hiatus. Ray Combs is the new host, replacing original host Richard Dawson.
July 19 - The Bill broadcasts the first episode of its fourth season and switches to a year-round serial format.
September 1 - Children's cable network YTV launches in Canada.
October 4 - Following in Cher's footsteps, actress Shirley MacLaine calls David Letterman an "a**hole", on the air during a taping of Late Night.
October 27 - The last of Harding Lemay's "comeback" episodes air on Another World. In the final minutes of the episode, Australian actress Carmen Duncan took over the role of the legendary nasty lady Iris Cory Wheeler, after the role had been vacated for many years by Beverlee McKinsey.
November 3 - Talk show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken during a taping of his show, when a fight erupts on the set between guests. The theme of the episode was "Young Hate Mongers" and the fight originated between white supremacist Tom Metzger and civil rights activist Roy Innis.
The song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at #84 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is the focus of a sex scandal and later admits to being with prostitutes and steps down from his television ministry.
The Young and the Restless tops the daytime ratings (deposing longtime winner General Hospital) starting an unbeaten streak of #1 victories that still continue to this day.
Ana Alicia's character, Melissa Agretti, dies in a house fire on Falcon Crest.
After rejecting an offer to join CBS News, Peter Mansbridge replaces Knowlton Nash as anchor of CBC's The National.
A young Countess Vaughn joins the cast of 227 as Alexandria DeWitt, a young 11-year old talented college student, whom the Jenkins' have as a houseguest for a year.
Future Grammy Award-winning recording artist Lauryn Hill (The Fugees frontwoman) makes her television debut on Showtime at the Apollo as a contestant on Amateur Night, where a 13-year-old Hill sung "Who's Lovin' You" by Motown star Smokey Robinson and gets booed by the audience.

TV Shows that Debut in 1988:
January 16 - Home and Away airs its pilot episode
January 17 - the series proper began the following night
January 19 - 48 Hours (1988— ).
January 31 - The Wonder Years premieres (1988–1993).
February 7 - America's Most Wanted debuts (1988— ).
March 6 - In the Heat of the Night - a 1967 movie, premieres on NBC (1988-1994).
April 26 - China Beach premieres on ABC (1988-1991)
July 4 - Family Feud makes a comeback on CBS at 10:00 am EDT with host Ray Combs and announcer Gene Wood following its cancellation from ABC daytime 3 years earlier (1988-1993). A syndicated version (1988-1995) premieres in the fall.
August 6 - Yo! MTV Raps premieres on MTV (1988-1995).
September 6 - Count Duckula premieres on ITV in the UK (1988-1993).
September 10 - A Pup Named Scooby Doo premieres on ABC (1988-1991)
September 10 - The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh premieres on ABC (1988-1991)
September 16 - The popular Canadian dance music series Electric Circus debuts on MuchMusic (1988–2003).
September 17 - Garfield and Friends, a Saturday morning cartoon series based on the popular comic strip character, debuts on CBS (1988–1995).
October 8 - Empty Nest, a spinoff of The Golden Girls, premieres on NBC (1988–1995).
October 16 - The Kids in the Hall premieres on CBC Television.
October 17 - Playbus premieres on BBC (1988-1997)
October 18 - Roseanne premieres (1988–1997).
October 27 - Paradise premieres on CBS (1988-1991).
November 14 - Murphy Brown premieres (1988–1998).
November 24 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 has its TV premiere on KTMA TV 23 (1988–1999). The show moved to the Comedy Channel in 1989.
The American Experience (1988— ).
COPS (1988— ).
This Morning debuts (1988— ).
The Adventures of Superboy (1988–1992).
T. and T. (1988–1990).
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988).

1988 Miniseries
Dadah is Death
War and Remembrance

TV Shows that started in the 1960's
It's Academic (1961–present)
Wide World of Sports (1961–1997)
General Hospital (1963–present)
Another World (1964–1999)
Days of our Lives (1965–present)
Play School (1966–present)
60 Minutes (1968–present)
One Life to Live (1968–present)
Hee Haw (1969–1993)
Sesame Street (1969–present)
The Benny Hill Show (1969–1989)

TV Shows that started in the 1970's
All My Children (1970— )
Monday Night Football (1970— )
Masterpiece Theatre (1971— )
Soul Train (1971— )
Emmerdale Farm (UK) (1972— )
The Price Is Right (1972— )
The Young and the Restless (1973— )
Derrick (1974–1998)
Good Morning America (1975— )
Ryan's Hope (1975–1989)
Saturday Night Live (1975— )
the fifth estate (Canada) (1975— )
Wheel of Fortune (1975— )
This Week in Baseball (1977–1998, 2000–present)
20/20 (1978— )
Dallas (1978–1991)
Knots Landing (1979–1993)
Nightline (1979–present)
SportsCenter (1979–present)
This Old House (1979–present)

TV Shows that started in the 1980's
Moneyline (1980–present; known as Lou Dobbs Moneyline 2001–2003 and Lou Dobbs Tonight since 2003)
Dynasty (1981–1989)
Entertainment Tonight (1981— )
Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
What Now (1982— )
Cheers (1982–1993)
Family Ties (1982–1989)
Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993)
Newhart (1982–1990)
Loving (1983–1995)
Webster (1983–1989)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (UK) (1984–1988, 1991–1994)
Highway to Heaven (1984–1989) It was on through your entire High School experience
Michael Landon, Ma, the girls, nasty Nellie Olsen and her mercantile Mom...
Jeopardy! (1964–1975, 1984— )
Kate and Allie (1984–1989)
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Night Court (1984–1992)
Santa Barbara (1984–1993)
The Cosby Show (1984–1992)
Who's the Boss? (1984–1992)
227 (1985–1990)
Growing Pains (1985–1992)
It's a Living (1980–1982, 1985–1989)
MacGyver (1985–1992)
Moonlighting (1985–1989)
Mr. Belvedere (1985–1990)
Sally (1985–2002)
Turn on to T-Bag and T-Bag's Christmas Cracker
The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964, 1985–1988, 2002)
ALF (1986–1990) remember Wise Cracking ALF
[That Fluffy, he's quick, I'll give him that.]
Amen (1986–1991)
Designing Women (1986–1993)
Double Dare (1986–1993)
Hey Dad...! (1986–1994)
L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Mama's Family (1983–1984, 1986–1990)
Matlock (1986–1996)
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986–1991)
Perfect Strangers (1986–1993)
The Disney Sunday Movie (1986–1988)
ends on September 11 to resume as
The Magical World of Disney (1988–1990) on October 9
The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986— )
A Different World (1987–1993)
Full House (1987–1995)
Going Live! (1987–1993)
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Married... with Children (1987–1997)
Star Trek: The Next Generation TNG (1987–1994)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996)
The Bold and the Beautiful (1987— )
The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1990)
thirtysomething (1987–1991)
Unsolved Mysteries (1987-1998, 2001-2002, 2008-present).
Family Feud (1976–1985, 1988–1995, 1999— )

TV Shows Ending this year - 1988
Button Moon (1980–1988)
February 12 - Sledge Hammer! (1986–1988)
May 1 - Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988)
May 3 - Hotel (1983-1988)
May 7 - The Facts of Life (1979–1988)
May 13 - Tales of the Unexpected (UK) (1979–1985, 1987–1988)
May 16 - Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988)
May 25 - St. Elsewhere (1982–1988)
May 27 - Punky Brewster (1984–1988)
July 23 - Tales from the Darkside (1984–1988)
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963–1988, 2002–present)
Solid Gold (1980–1988)
Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
What's Happening Now!! (1985–1988)

1988 Entertainers/Producers Births
February 20 - Rihanna, singer
March 28 - Lacey Turner, actor
April 10 - Haley Joel Osment, actor
May 5 - Brooke Hogan, actress
June 28 - Ryan Waring
August 26 - Evan Ross, actor
August 27 - Alexa Vega, actress
September 24 - Kyle Sullivan, actor
November 15 - Zena Grey, actress

1988 Entertainers/Producers Deaths
February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, actress from Poltergeist and Happy Days, age 12
March 10 - Andy Gibb, 30, actor/songwriter of the Bee-Gees
April 5 - Alf Kjellin, 68, actor, director.
May 15 - Andrew Duggan, 64, character actor.
May 18 - Daws Butler, prolific voice actor whose work included The Jetsons and several animated TV commercials.
May 27 - Florida Friebus, 78, actress (The Bob Newhart Show).
July 9 - Barbara Woodhouse, 78, dog trainer (Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way)
July 21 - Jack Clark, 67, game show announcer.
July 25 - Judith Barsi, 10, American child actress
July 31 - Trinidad Silva, 38, actor (Jesus Martinez on Hill Street Blues), in a car accident
September 11 - John Sylvester White, 78, actor (Welcome Back, Kotter).
September 20 - Roy Kinnear, 54, actor/comedian.
September 29 - Charles Addams, 76, cartoonist whose macabre drawings inspired The Addams Family.
October 11 - Wayland Flowers, 58, puppeteer (Madame's Place), from AIDS.
October 31 - John Houseman, 86, actor (The Paper Chase, Silver Spoons)
December 6 - Timothy Patrick Murphy, 29, actor (Dallas), from AIDS
December 12 - Dick Clair, television comedy writer, who asked to be cryogenically frozen
December 20 - Max Robinson, ABC News correspondent, from AIDS
December 27 - Jess Oppenheimer, comedy writer who created I Love Lucy

CCHS Class of '89 Reunion - Ebensburg Country Club




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Monday, March 16, 2009

1989 at the movies...

The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
All Dogs Go To Heaven
All's Fair
Always
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
Apartment Zero
Babar: The Movie
Back to the Future Part II
Batman
The Bear
Bert Rigby, You're A Fool
Best of the Best
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Black Rain
Blaze
Blood Red
Born on the Fourth of July
Breaking In
The 'burbs
Buy & Cell
Caged Fury
Camille Claudel
Castle in the Sky
Casualties of War
Chances Are
Checking Out
Cheetah
A Chorus of Disapproval
Christmas Vacation
Cold Feet
Cookie
Cousins
Crack House
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Curfew
Cyborg
Dad
Dance to Win
Dead Bang
Dead Calm
Dead Poets Society
Demonstone
Disorganized Crime
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Do the Right Thing
Domino
Dream a Little Dream
The Dream Team
The Dressmaker
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy
A Dry White Season
Earth Girls Are Easy
Easy Wheels
Eat a Bowl of Tea
Enemies: A Love Story
Eversmile, New Jersey
The Experts
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Family Business
Farewell to the King
Fast Food
Fat Man and Little Boy
Field of Dreams
Field of Honor
Fletch Lives
The Fly II
Friday the 13th Part VIII
Fright Night Part II
Getting it Right
Ghostbusters II
The Girl in a Swing
Gleaming the Cube
Glory
Great Balls of Fire!
Gross Anatomy
Halloween 5
Harlem Nights
Haunted Summer
Heart of Dixie
Heart of Midnight
Heathers
Heavy Petting
Henry V
Her Alibi
High Hopes
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
The Horror Show
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
I, Madman
Immediate Family
In Country
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
An Innocent Man
Jacknife
The January Man
Johnny Handsome
K-9
The Karate Kid Part III
Kickboxer
Kill Me Again
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Lean on Me
Let it Ride
Lethal Weapon 2
Leviathan
License to Kill
Listen to Me
The Little Mermaid
Little Monsters
The Little Thief
Lock Up
Look Who's Talking
Lost Angels
Loverboy
Major League
Major League
Manifesto
The Mighty Quinn
Millennium
Miracle Mile
Miss Firecracker
Music Box
The Music Teacher
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
New York Stories
Next of Kin
Night Game
Night Visitor
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
976-evil
1969
No Holds Barred
Old Gringo
Outback aka Wrangler
The Package
Paperhouse
Parenthood
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Pet Sematary
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
Phantom of the Opera
Physical Evidence
Pink Cadillac
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Prancer
The Rachel Papers
The Rainbow
Red Scorpion
Relentless
Renegades
Return from the River Kwai
The Return of the Musketeers
River of Death
Road House
Roger & Me
Rooftops
Rude Awakening
Savage Beach
say anything
Scandal
the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Sea of Love
Second Sight
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
See You in the Morning
sex, lies, and videotape
Shag: The Movie
She-Devil
She's Out of Control
Shirley Valentine
Shocker
Sing
Skin Deep
Slaves of New York
Speed Zone
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Staying Together
Steel Magnolias
The Story of Women
Survival Quest
Tango & Cash
Tap
Three Fugitives
To Kill a Priest
Torrents of Spring
Triumph of the Spirit
Troop Beverly Hills
True Believer
True Love
Turner & Hooch
Twilight of the Cockroaches
UHF
Uncle Buck
Valmont
Vampire's Kiss
The War of the Roses
War Party
Warlock
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Weekend at Bernie's
Welcome Home
We're No Angels
When Harry Met Sally�
When the Whales Came
Who's Harry Crumb
Winter People
Wired
Worth Winning
Young Einstein

Back to the Future/2 - 1989


This was released on November 17th, 1989 well after our graduation in late May, but I'll bet you still saw it with some classmates...

The Little Mermaid - with Jodi Benson


See comments below for the original Disney animated film entitled The Little Mermaid. It was released was released about 6 months after we graduated, November 17, 1989, just in time for the Holiday Season. This poster was done for the re-release on November 14, 1997.

Jodi Benson (born October 10, 1961) is an American voice actress and soprano singer. She is known for providing both the singing and the speaking voice of Disney's Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequels.

The Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen Denmark harbor


The statue of The Little Mermaid (Den lille havfrue in Danish) sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour at Langelinie. This small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist attraction.

The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre and asked the primaballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913.

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with its first release on November 17, 1989. This was the twenty-eighth animated feature of the Disney animated features. The film is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid." During its initial release, it grossed over $84 million in the United States and an additional $99 million internationally. Mass merchandising exceeded the film's gross by many times.

1989 - Hot Then - Hot Now - 2009