Top Rated Shows of 20 Years Ago
With the 2007 TV season being brought to a standstill by the writers strike, I thought we’d take a look back at the top rated shows of the 1987 season. What a difference 20 years has made! When was the last time you saw a made for TV movie, let alone several a week? Back then, “The CBS Sunday Night Movie”, “The NBC Monday Night Movie”, 
and the “NBC Sunday Night Movie” were top rated. Nowadays “The NBC Sunday Night Movie” has been replaced with Sunday Night Football. Primetime soaps were big back then too. Remember the shoulder pads and big hair? How about Joan Collins and Linda Evans bitch slapping each other in the pool? 1987 also marked a time when the older generation was a hot demographic-and had the hit shows (“Golden Girls”, “Murder She Wrote” and “Matlock”) to prove it. Sitcoms were also big back then, as was NBC’s “Must Watch TV” Thursdays-“The Cosby Show, “Family Ties”, “Cheers” “Night Court” and “L.A. Law.” Admit it, you never missed it!
1.The Cosby Show NBC
2.Family Ties NBC
3.Cheers NBC
4.Murder, She Wrote CBS
5.The Golden Girls NBC
6.60 Minutes CBS
7.Night Court NBC
8.Growing Pains ABC
9.Moonlighting ABC
10.Who’s the Boss? ABC
11.Dallas CBS
12.Newhart CBS
13.Amen NBC
14.227 NBC
15.Matlock NBC
16.CBS Sunday Night Movie CBS
17.NBC Monday Night Movie NBC
18.Monday Night Football ABC
19.Kate & Allie CBS
20.NBC Sunday Night Movie NBC
21.L.A. Law NBC
22.My Sister Sam CBS
23.Falcon Crest CBS
24.Highway to Heaven NBC
25.Dynasty ABC
26.Knots Landing CBS
27.Miami Vice NBC
28.Alf NBC
29.Hunter NBC
30.Head of the Class ABC
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