1986–87 United States network television schedule (daytime) explained

The 1986–87 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 1986 to August 1987.

Legend

• 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

Network		6:00 am	6:30 am	7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="3"	ABC	Fall	ABC World News This Morning		Good Morning America				Local/syndicated programming				Fame, Fortune and Romance	Double Talk	Ryan's Hope	Loving	All My Children		One Life to Live		General Hospital		Local/syndicated programming					ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
Winter	Webster
Summer	Who's the Boss?	Bargain Hunters
CBS	Fall	CBS Early Morning News		The CBS Morning News				Local/syndicated programming		The $25,000 Pyramid	Card Sharks	The Price Is Right		Local/syndicated programming	The Young and the Restless		As the World Turns		Capitol	Guiding Light		Local/syndicated programming					CBS Evening News with Dan Rather	-	Winter	CBS Morning News			The Morning Program
	Spring	The Bold and the Beautiful	As the World Turns		- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="3"	NBC	Fall																					NBC News at Sunrise								Today				Local/syndicated programming		Family Ties	Sale of the Century	Wheel of Fortune	Scrabble	Super Password	Search for Tomorrow	Days of Our Lives		Another World		Santa Barbara		Local/syndicated programming					NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw	-	Winter	Sale of the Century	Blockbusters	Wordplay	-	Spring	Before Hours (15 min.) NBC News at Sunrise		Classic Concentration

Saturday

Network		7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming	Wuzzles	The Care Bears Family	The Flintstone Kids		The Real Ghostbusters	Pound Puppies	The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show	The All-New Ewoks	ABC Weekend Special	American Bandstand	College Football on ABC
	Winter	ABC Sports and/or local programming											Local news	ABC World News Saturday
CBS	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming	The Berenstain Bears	Wildfire	Jim Henson's Muppet Babies		Galaxy High	Teen Wolf	Pee-wee's Playhouse	The Puppy's Great Adventures	Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling		CBS Sports and/or local programming										Local news	CBS Evening News
	November	Pee-wee's Playhouse					Galaxy High		Richie Rich
	Winter								CBS Storybreak
	Summer						Dungeons & Dragons		Land of the Lost	Galaxy High	CBS Storybreak
NBC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Kissyfur	Adventures of the Gummi Bears	The Smurfs			Punky Brewster	Alvin and the Chipmunks	Foofur	Lazer Tag Academy	Kidd Video	NBC Sports and/or local programming										Local news	NBC Nightly News
	November								Alvin and the Chipmunks	Foofur	Punky Brewster
	June												Main Street
	August												Punky Brewster

Sunday

Network		7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC		Local and/or syndicated programming							This Week with David Brinkley		ABC Sports and/or local programming													Local news	ABC World News Sunday
CBS	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming				CBS News Sunday Morning			Face the Nation	Local and/or syndicated programming		The NFL Today	NFL on CBS and/or local programming
	Mid-winter											CBS Sports and/or local programming												Local news	CBS Evening News
NBC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming								Meet the Press	Local and/or syndicated programming		NFL '86	NFL on NBC and local programming
	Mid-winter												NBC Sports and/or local programming											Local news	NBC Nightly News

By network

ABC

Returning series

• ABC Weekend Special
• ABC World News This Morning
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
• All My Children
• American Bandstand
• The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
• Ewoks (retitled The All-New Ewoks)
• Fame, Fortune and Romance
• General Hospital
• Good Morning America
• Loving
• One Life to Live
• Ryan's Hope
• This Week with David Brinkley
• Wuzzles

New series

• Bargain Hunters
• The Care Bears Family
• Double Talk
• The Flintstone Kids
• Pound Puppies
• The Real Ghostbusters
• Webster
• Who's the Boss?

Canceled/Ended

• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• ABC Funfit
• All-Star Blitz
• Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
• The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
• Laff-A-Lympics
• The Littles
• New Love, American Style
• Pink Panther and Sons
• Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
• Three's a Crowd

CBS

Returning series

• The $25,000 Pyramid
• As the World Turns
• The Berenstain Bears
• Capitol
• Card Sharks
• CBS Evening News
• CBS Morning News
• CBS News Sunday Morning
• CBS Storybreak
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Face the Nation
• Guiding Light
• Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
• Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
• Land of the Lost
• The Price Is Right
• The Puppy's Great Adventures
• Richie Rich
• The Young and the Restless

New series

• The Bold and the Beautiful
• Galaxy High
• The Morning Program
• Pee-wee's Playhouse
• Teen Wolf
• Wildfire

Canceled/Ended

• Body Language
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
• Dungeons & Dragons
• The Get Along Gang
• In the News
• Little Muppet Monsters
• Pole Position
• Press Your Luck
• The Wuzzles (moved to ABC)

NBC

Returning series

• Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Another World
• Blockbusters
• Days of Our Lives
• Family Ties
• Kidd Video
• Meet the Press
• NBC News at Sunrise
• NBC Nightly News
• It's Punky Brewster
• Sale of the Century
• Santa Barbara
• Scrabble
• Search for Tomorrow
• The Smurfs
• Super Password
• Today
• Wheel of Fortune

New series

• Classic Concentration
• Foofur
• Kissyfur
• Lazer Tag Academy
• Main Street
• Wordplay

Canceled/Ended

• Mister T
• The Snorks
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
• Your Number's Up

See also

• 1986-87 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
• 1986-87 United States network television schedule (late night)

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html