| Day | Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | |
| Sunday | ABC | Incredible Sunday | Mission Impossible | Movie | |||||
| CBS | 60 Minutes | Murder, She Wrote | Movie | ||||||
| FOX | 21 Jump Street[1] | America's Most Wanted | Married... with Children | It's Garry Shandling's Show | The Tracey Ullman Show | Duet / News | |||
| NBC | Magical World of Disney | Family Ties | Day by Day | Movie | |||||
| Monday | ABC | MacGyver | N.F.L. Monday Night Football | ||||||
| CBS | Newhart | Coming of Age | Murphy Brown | Designing Women | Almost Grown | ||||
| NBC | ALF | The Hogan Family | Movie | ||||||
| Tuesday | ABC | Who's The Boss | Roseanne | Moonlighting | thirtysomething | ||||
| CBS | TV 101 | Movie | |||||||
| NBC | Matlock | In the Heat of the Night | Midnight Caller | ||||||
| Wednesday | ABC | Growing Pains | Head of the Class | The Wonder Years[2] | Hooperman | China Beach | |||
| CBS | The Van Dyke Show | Annie McGuire | Equalizer | Wiseguy | |||||
| NBC | Unsolved Mysteries | Night Court | Baby Boom | Tattinger's (Nick and Hillary) | |||||
| Thursday | ABC | Knightwatch | Dynasty | Heartbeat | |||||
| CBS | 48 Hours | Paradise | Knot's Landing | ||||||
| NBC | The Cosby Show | A Different World | Cheers | Dear John... | L.A. Law | ||||
| Friday | ABC | Perfect Strangers | Full House | Mr. Belvedere | Just the Ten of Us | 20/20 | |||
| CBS | Beauty and the Beast | Dallas | Falcon Crest | ||||||
| NBC | Sonny Spoon | Something is Out There | Miami Vice | ||||||
| Saturday | ABC | Murphy's Law | Movie | ||||||
| CBS | Dirty Dancing | Raising Miranda | Tour of Duty | West 57th | |||||
| FOX | The Reporters | Beyond Tomorrow | News | ||||||
| NBC | 227 | Amen | The Golden Girls | Empty Nest | Hunter | ||||